Our Writer's Character Name Generator Collection
We have a series of different character generators that produce personality descriptions and names from different countries, including European American, African American, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native American. Click through on any link or open the menu above to see the whole list. If you pick the US pages, you can narrow your selection by ethnicity and decade of birth, to create historically and socially accurate names. We have taken the data for our English and American names from US census data for popular first and last names throughout the last century, from the 1880s onwards to the 2000s, and from British birth record data for popular English names for the last century. We also cover many international names such as German, and Japanese
This series of generators are mainly aimed at writers and creators who are looking to make appropriate and convincing characters. Whether you're having your first go at NanoWriMo, or you're an experienced writer in need of a quick name for that minor player you've just thought up, we aim to bring some inspiration.
Especially when writing a novel or a series of stories, coming up with a fitting name for each member of your cast can be surprisingly difficult and time consuming. We hope to make things easier by giving you the opportunity to craft an immense number of convincing potential characters with whom to populate your stories.
We also provide a random personality type character generator on each page. The data for this is based on the Big Five personality model, which scores users on a five-factor scale abbreviated to OCEAN – openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The Big Five data is the "gold standard" of psychological research, and more up to date than other models.
