Name generators for writers
Names for characters, fantasy people, villains, places and towns, twelve at a time, from lists we wrote and read through in full, with no sign-up. Every name is yours to use.
Character name generator
First and last names for the people in a present-day or recent story: twelve at a time, as many times as you like.
Andre Baptiste · Rosalind Hearn · Elias Brandvold
Fantasy name generator
Names for people in an invented world, from lists we wrote and read through name by name. Pick a feel and generate as many as you need.
Tirelle · Aelindra · Faelorin
Villain name generator
A name a reader will remember and be a little afraid of. Fantasy gives titles and epithets; present day gives the quiet, ordinary names real antagonists tend to have.
Ilvessa, the Widow Queen · Mother Grevaine · High Inquisitor Bracewin
Place name generator
Names for the map of an invented world: realms and kingdoms, and the wild lands between them.
Talmerane · Drevanis · Lanmorra
Town name generator
A town that sounds as if it has been on the map for centuries, for a cosy mystery, a small-town romance or the place a character left.
Sagebrush Bend · Winnowford · Linnetby
In Author Sweets
Every character and place in an Author Sweets book has its own page in Planning, with the facts you keep about them and, under Also known as, the nicknames and titles the text uses, so Appears in finds every scene they are in whichever name is on the page.
Stuck on the scene rather than the name? Try one of the writing prompts.