Brotherhood of Steel Name Generator

The Brotherhood of Steel is Fallout's quasi-religious military order, descended from the U.S. Army soldiers who fled Mariposa Military Base under Captain Roger Maxson. Its members hoard pre-war technology, wear T-series power armor, and address one another almost exclusively by rank and surname. That is why a Brotherhood name almost never sounds like "John Smith" and almost always sounds like "Paladin Danse", "Scribe Haylen" or "Elder Maxson".

The rank ladder gives the names their structure. Newcomers are Initiates (or Aspirants and Squires in the Fallout TV series), then Knights, Knight-Sergeants, Knight-Captains and Knight-Commanders. Paladins and Star Paladins lead in the field, Sentinels are exceptionally rare, and an Elder commands each chapter. Scribes, Senior Scribes, Proctors and Head Scribes run the research and archives, while Lancers fly the vertibirds and the Prydwen. The surnames themselves are ordinary American and European names with a slightly hard, clipped sound: Lyons, Rhys, Kells, Quinlan, Ingram, Teagan, Rahmani, Taggerdy.

A good Brotherhood name therefore does two things: it places the character in the hierarchy and it stays plausible for someone born in a bunker two centuries after the Great War. Below you'll find a mix of canonical Fallout names and new ones built to the same pattern.