![]() ![]() Way back when, I rewrote the name generator in Common Lisp. census data) that are strikingly pleasing. But usually after looking through a page or two of results, I can find examples of novel names (i.e., that do not occur anywhere in the U.S. Some are just real-world names being spit back out. Census data from 19 to produce my datasets.Īs you can see if you look at the results, some of the names are unpronounceable. In the same way, Random Name Generator observes the occurrences of letters in actual, real-world names in order to produce what it thinks are plausible lookalikes. These are techniques normally used to generate artificial text from a corpus of representative documents. Random Name Generator uses an approach based on natural language processing (NLP). I wanted to generate names that actually sounded like names. In real names, certain sounds are more likely to flow together than others. Second, randomly strung together syllables don’t actually make good sounding names. First, the syllables still have to be hard-coded, which means the tool won’t ever generate a syllable that you didn’t specifically program it to. This is certainly a more generative approach, but it has a couple of issues. It’s more of a random name chooser than a random name generator.Īnother approach I saw was to take random syllables and string them together to form a name. But this means no new names are actually generated. One approach I saw was to randomly pick from a preselected list of names. ![]() Why Another Name Generator?Īt the time I wrote this (circa 2010 or earlier), there were a couple of name generators out there, but they were all dissatisfying. All yours, I don’t play elf.Random Name Generator is what it says on the tin: it generates random last and first ( female and male) names. Hope that helped! I will also give you one more name for free that you can use if Blizzard ever allows ’ in character names, as they should because way too many NPC names are like that. If your roleplay backstory is you’re a sad elf, Depresthia, because Depressia would be too obvious and elf names kinda need to have th whenever possible. If you were to go with something other than farts, like let’s say a lamp, Illampia would be the perfect name. ![]() ![]() Male elves could f.ex go with Malfartion. How do you elf Farts, you may ask? Farthlythria, for instance, evokes a very flatulent female elf vibe, while also annoying me immensely. Elf names are usually very long and annoying. You seem to be an elf player, because as we all know elf players only play elves, and players who don’t play elves don’t play elves. For this exercise I’ll have already tried the name Farts, which is unfortunately always taken. Furniture, a feeling, bodily function, disease, whatever. Would something along the lines of any of the following work? If one knows how I often name my characters, it is also not that difficult to guess that Umro and Unewa are undead, Sharria and Oshana shaman, Neprionus a night elf priest or that Grimtrella and Grimona are based on Grim Batol, etc.Īs I do not know what sort of name you are looking for, it is a bit difficult to give advice, but you COULD try something less common created from or inspired by say… Latin, which most people do not use. Several of my trolls have names that begin with Tr, gnomes have Gn, Go, Ge, several hunters have names that start with Hu or hr. One of my rogues is called Remdur (murder). One method, which can produce names I find nice is using anagrams of existing words. Of course, Silvermoon being so big, it DOES have 100 000s of taken names, but I am sure there are still free ones. In fact, quite a few of my characters have unique or almost unique names. Please bring back the random name generator, i dont want to spend 40 minutes trying desperately to comb the internet for a name generator that makes an available name for my While some people likely find my style of naming boring, it is extremely rare that I need to try multiple times to find available names. I try every name i used in the past on other games, taken, fantasy name generators, all taken, scifi name generators, all taken.Įvery name under the sun that isnt generated by blizzard to be available is taken. Seriously, i’ve been trying to create some alts ready to level in the prepatch and i can barely find a name. ![]()
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