Asian Name Generator

There is no single Asian naming system, so a believable Asian name starts with choosing a country. Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese names put the family name first: Wang Xiuying, Kim Min-jun, Nguyễn Văn An and Sato Haruto all lead with the surname. Chinese given names are usually two syllables written together in pinyin (Zihan), Korean ones are hyphenated (Seo-yeon), and Hong Kong and Taiwanese names use older romanizations such as Cheung Ka-ming and Hsu Ya-wen. Vietnamese names carry a middle element, traditionally Văn for men and Thị for women, and keep their diacritics.

South and Southeast Asia mostly follow given-name-first order. Thai people have long formal surnames like Rattanakul but go by short nicknames; Filipinos combine Spanish given names with Tagalog or Spanish surnames; Malays use bin or binti (son or daughter of) instead of a family name; Balinese names such as Wayan and Made mark birth order; Indian names vary by region, from Sharma and Patel in the north to Subramanian and Krishnan in the south, with Sikh Singh and Kaur.

This generator reflects all of that: mainland and overseas Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepali, Indonesian, Malay, Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Mongolian, Tibetan and Hmong names, plus a few Asian-American combinations, each in its own natural form.