Ancient Japanese Name Generator

Old Japanese names do not look like modern ones, and the clearest marker is the particle "no". Before roughly 1200, aristocrats were named Clan no Given: Fujiwara no Michinaga, Taira no Kiyomori, Ono no Komachi. The first element is the uji, a great clan name such as Fujiwara, Minamoto, Taira, Tachibana, Sugawara, Otomo or Soga, and the second is the personal name. Men's names of the Nara period often end in -maro (Hitomaro, Nakamaro), while Heian courtiers favoured two-character names ending in -naga, -michi, -yori, -mori, -zane, -hira or -tsune.

Aristocratic women of the Heian court were rarely recorded by personal name. Writers like Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon are known by nicknames built from a father's office, and empresses by -ko names (Teishi, Shoshi) or by retirement titles ending in -mon-in. From the Kamakura period onward, warrior families dropped the particle and used house names as modern surnames do: Hojo Tokimasa, Kusunoki Masashige, Takeda Shingen. Sengoku women appear as Lady Oichi or Nohime, and Edo commoners carried short names like Gonbei, Tokubei, Okiku and Ofuku.

The list below covers all of these layers, romanized without macrons and ordered surname first, as the sources write them.