Call of Cthulhu Name Generator

Period-appropriate full names with a title that signals occupation: Dr. Theodore Vance (physician), Professor Amelia Haverford (Miskatonic academic), Detective Frank Castellano (police), Lady Honoria Fenwick (British dilettante), Ruby Valentine (entertainer), Jack Halloway (private eye). Pick a given name common for someone born around 1880-1900 and a surname that fits the character's hometown and class.

Lovecraft's characters such as Henry Armitage, Wilbur Whateley, Obed Marsh, Richard Upton Pickman, Herbert West, Charles Dexter Ward, Randolph Carter and Asenath Waite; Masks of Nyarlathotep figures like Jackson Elias, Roger Carlyle, Edward Gavigan and Omar Shakti; and the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods (Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Hastur, Dagon and others). Use them for references and in-world texts, and the original names for your own investigators and NPCs.

Use Puritan given names that survived in isolated Massachusetts towns (Jedediah, Mehitabel, Ezekiel, Mercy, Zebulon, Hepzibah) with the families Lovecraft established: Whateley in Dunwich, Marsh, Gilman, Waite and Eliot in Innsmouth, Sargent and Babson around Kingsport. Add Old or Deacon as an honorific for the elders.

Yes. The 1920s investigator and NPC names work directly in Pulp Cthulhu and Arkham Horror; for Delta Green or a modern campaign keep the surnames and swap the given names for ones common today, or use the international entries (Ivan Volkov, Nadia Hassan, Hideo Nakamura) as-is.