Deep Gnome Name Generator

Deep gnomes, or svirfneblin, are the wary, stone-grey gnomes of the Underdark in Dungeons & Dragons, best known from Blingdenstone and from Belwar Dissengulp, the burrow warden who befriended Drizzt Do'Urden. Their names keep the short, bouncy shape of surface gnome names but lose the whimsy: think Schnicktick, Krieps, Firble, Seldig, Jimjar, Dorbo and Senni rather than Fizzlewink or Nackle. Given names are usually one or two syllables, heavy on k, b, z and double consonants, and female names often soften the ending with -a or -i (Yantha, Kezzi, Brilla).

Like other gnomes, a svirfneblin carries a family name after the given name, and those surnames read like a miner's toolkit: Diggermattock, Pickshine, Tapfinger, Coaxrock, Goldwhisker, Saltbaron, Stonesinger. Invented family names sound right when they pair a mining verb or mineral with a body part or tool, and when they favour quartz, shale, mica, salt and fungus over the gold and gems that drow and duergar would fight over. Titles such as Burrow Warden, Stonespeaker or Lantern Keeper are earned civic offices rather than noble ranks.

This generator mixes canon svirfneblin from Out of the Abyss and the Drizzt novels with original given names, surnames, full names and burrow names, so you can build a Blingdenstone refugee, a tunnel scout NPC or a playable deep gnome rogue in one pass.