Random Name Generator

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When Randomly Generated Levels are big enough, they include cities, planets, or other objects that need names. Even if not, other content can be random, and what content is more common and is in need to be varied more than names? Tabletop RPG often do the same, mainly for the sake of the setting atmosphere - both on computer and in tabletop pulling "Hello, Insert Name Here" on the players without relevant experience ends in self-inserts or loonie names more often than not. And eventually the designers figured out that once you have a list of names, you can turn it into a ready tool simply by printing it as a table with corresponding column of numbers (or number ranges).

Examples of Random Name Generator include:

Part of the work

Tabletop Games

• All lines of Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay have character name tables in several different styles.

Video Games

• Battle for Wesnoth, unusually for a strategy game, includes names in new unit randomization.
• The Dwarf Fortress world generator has to name everyone and everything, of course; the game also has a random name generator for things other than individual creatures, peoples and places - such as Named Weapons. Sometimes the results are awesome, sometimes laughably bad. Among the player settlements, Boatmurdered is far from the weirdest.
• Neverwinter Nights has the naming script. Since NPC are pre-made or generic, it's mostly for PCs and user-created content.
• The Elder Scrolls: Arena and The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall name all unimportant NPCs using one. It works simply by combing a random beginning and end from ~15 options (as well as a random middle for Imperial NPCS). Stores are also named in this way, with multiple words randomly combined
• The X-Com series generates named soldiers simply by selecting random "<First name> <Last Name>" from the lists. EU2012 and successors also generate mission names, which became a meme in itself, in part due to inevitable cases of tautology or Dwarf Fortress grade unintentional hilarity.

Standalone

Web

• "Name Generator Central" GeneratorLand.com is dedicated to random text generators, mainly name-generators.
  • For example: Pirate Name Generator gives "<Name> [the] <Nickname>" and has the start button labeled "Arrrrrrh!", so that there can't be much confusion as to what it's about.
• Seventh Sanctum has a Name Generators section.
• Behind the Name: Random Name Generator. It also tries to generate non-English names, but isn't good at this.
• The Original Gangsta Name Generator. Again, pirates are second on the list.
• The Fantasy Name Generator by Samuel Stoddard.
• Deviant ART has some fandom-specific ones.
• The official Dungeons & Dragons Character Name Generator, found here.
• Alien Random Name Generator by Todd Zircher. There are 10 pre-made types (e.g. "The Lizards" preset is munificent with the letter "S") and more user-defined forms.
• Fantasy Name Generator - also includes English (modern) names, Lovecraftian names (e.g. "Chaugq'ythgoth"), Superhero/supervillain names (e.g. "Doctor Apparition"), Military Operation names (e.g. "Operation Legal Bireme") and Names for a rock band (e.g. "Kian and the Chestnuts"), and you can choose short/medium/long names.
• Name Generator Fun ("cool names, fantasy names, random names, fake names, elf names, vampire names, fairy names") - including "Steampunk" (i.e. Victorian British).
• Name Generator .org.uk (Quick Name, Character Name, Pen Name, Band Name, Baby Name, First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Nickname, Rapper Name (e.g. "Inspectah Fluffy"), Fantasy Name, Username)
• NameGenerator.biz: Baby Name Generators, Screen Name Generators, Random Name Generators (Random, Last, Middle, Boat, Pseudonym Generator, Medieval, Japanese, Scene), Game Name Generators (Game, Xbox GamerTag, WoW, D&D, Star Wars), Fantasy Name Generators (Fantasy, Elf, Vampire), Place Name Generators (Place, Kingdom), Team Name Generators (Team, Clan).
• Chaotic Shiny has name generators section (Modern, Fantasy-Style, Place, Name Mixer, Name Jumbler).
• Band Name Maker.
• Name Generator.
• Baby Name Generator.
• random-generator.com (a random generator collection hosted on a wiki) has an entire Name Generators section -- from real names and Motorcycle Gang to B-Movie Title generator and Orc Tribe Name.
• Elf Name Generator. (All types of elf names generator like, Dark Elf, Blood elf, DND Elf Names, wood Elf Names, Void Elf Names, Orc Names, high elf names and half elf names).
• Codename Generator, which can also be used for codewords or project names generator.
  • The site is explicitly mentioned in Full Frontal Nerdity. ("Operation: Fuchsia Tiger Asteroid")

Software

• Everchanging Book of Names by Sami Pyörre.
• A few Forgotten Realms specific ones by Ron Pearsall can be found on the fan site.
• namegen.js
• AI Weirdness demonstrates new and hilarious uses for neural network.
  • This includes superhero names, 80′s action figures (part 2), Star Wars characters and planets, Halloween costumes, cat names, guinea pig names, more guinea pig names, New My Little Ponies, Pokemon, D&D spells (next attempt) , Pokemon and Harry Potter fanfics.
  • As well as story titles, Doctor Who episode titles, Irish Tune names, Terrible Broadway musicals, Metal band names, more random band names -- and band names for all genres, really. And effects pedals.
  • Diseases, insect species, fish species, bird species, fruits.
  • Computer algorithms, video game titles, sports teams, English pubs, beers , pies and paint colors (Part 1 -- with such pearls as Ghastly Pink, Homestar Brown, Bunflow, Bank Butt, Caring Tan Stoner Blue, Turdly; Part 2 -- Queen Slime, Poser Cans, Hathole Gray, Lime Pink, Rose Violet, Toes Brown, Pester Pink, Sugar Green, Gray Candy, Frosty Stone, Bright Beach, Dorky Brown, Dry Custard).
  • Cars and boats. Some are good: "Sky-Shark", "Sun Princess", "Windsprite", "Sandy Bear", etc. Some are not so good: "Saily Sea", "Blue Of The Wind", "Merry Biggles", "The Fun".

Discussed in the works

Web Comics

• Does Not Play Well With Others has the cast trying to play an improvised My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic tabletop RPG. Bill mixed up the random name generators.