Catalan Name Generator

Catalan names look Spanish at a glance but follow their own rules. Given names come from the Catalan language rather than Castilian: Jordi instead of Jorge, Pau not Pablo, Joan not Juan, Núria, Laia, Montserrat and Meritxell instead of their Spanish equivalents. Many are tied to local patron saints and shrines (Montserrat, Núria, Queralt, Meritxell are all Marian sanctuaries), and a modern wave of short, soft names such as Ona, Aina, Biel, Nil, Pol, Bruna and Arlet now tops the birth registers in Barcelona and Girona. Accents matter: Núria, Martí, Èlia, Glòria and Lluís are spelled with them, and the ela geminada in names like Marcel·lí and Gal·la is distinctively Catalan.

Surnames are mostly toponymic or occupational and carry sounds that Spanish rarely does: final consonant clusters (Puig, Bosch, Llach, Vendrell), the initial double L (Llobet, Llorens, Llull), the ny digraph (Vinyes, Sunyer, Canyelles) and the ch/tx spellings of older orthography (Bosch, Guasch). Like Spanish, Catalans carry two surnames, one from each parent, and formal usage joins them with "i": Pompeu Fabra i Poch, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet. A handful of names here use that double form; most are single-surname so they read easily in a story or game.

The list mixes men and women, traditional names (Ramon, Josep, Dolors, Mercè), medieval revival names (Galceran, Aurembiaix, Ermessenda) and current favourites.