Real names from the world's naming traditions - Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, Russian, Greek, Vietnamese, Turkish, Persian and more - with the conventions of each explained.
Authentic Japanese names — a real family name (Sato, Suzuki, Takahashi) with a real given name, in the correct…
Open generator ›Real Chinese names — one of the great surnames (Wang, Li, Zhang, Chen) with a genuine given name, in the tradi…
Open generator ›Real Korean names — a family name from the big three (Kim, Lee, Park) plus a genuine two-syllable given name, …
Open generator ›Real French surnames on demand — Martin, Bernard, Dubois, Moreau — drawn from the most common family names in …
Open generator ›Real Italian surnames — Rossi, Russo, Ferrari, Esposito — the family names that actually top Italy's records.…
Open generator ›Real German names - a common given name with one of the surnames that actually top Germany's frequency tables:…
Open generator ›Real Russian names with the gender agreement Russian actually uses: Dmitri Smirnov, but Anna Smirnova. The sur…
Open generator ›Viking Age Norse names with the authentic patronymic: Erik Haraldsson, Astrid Haraldsdottir. Norse people had …
Open generator ›African names drawn from several of the continent's major naming traditions - Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Akan, Swahi…
Open generator ›Real Greek names with the surname form that matches the given name: Papadopoulos for a man, Papadopoulou for a…
Open generator ›Real Mexican names - the surnames Mexico actually uses most (Hernández, García, Martínez, López) paired with c…
Open generator ›Real Dutch names, including the particles - de Jong, van Dijk, van den Berg - that define how Dutch surnames a…
Open generator ›Real Portuguese names - Silva, Santos, Ferreira, Pereira - the surnames topping Portugal's frequency lists, pa…
Open generator ›Real Brazilian names - the Silva and Santos surname pattern Brazil shares with Portugal, matched to the given …
Open generator ›Real Norwegian names - Hansen, Johansen, Olsen, Larsen - the -sen surnames that dominate Norway, with given na…
Open generator ›Real Turkish names - Yılmaz, Kaya, Demir, Şahin - the surnames topping Turkey's lists, with the dotted-i spell…
Open generator ›Real Romanian names - Popescu, Ionescu, Popa, Radu - with the -escu ending that marks so many of them as patro…
Open generator ›Real Vietnamese names - Nguyen, Tran, Le, Pham - in the surname-first order Vietnamese uses, with a genuine gi…
Open generator ›Real Persian names - Hosseini, Ahmadi, Mohammadi - with given names drawn from Iran's top popularity lists, fr…
Open generator ›Real Danish names - Nielsen, Jensen, Hansen, Pedersen - the -sen surnames that dominate Denmark, with popular …
Open generator ›Real Nigerian names from the country's three largest naming traditions - Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa - with the mea…
Open generator ›Real Welsh names - Jones, Williams, Davies, Evans - and the Welsh-language given names parents are choosing to…
Open generator ›Real Filipino names - Santos, Reyes, Cruz, Bautista - with the Spanish and English layers that make Philippine…
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