D&D Dwarf Name Generator

D&D dwarf names follow a specific recipe laid out in the Player's Handbook: a short given name with hard consonants and Norse or Germanic bones – Adrik, Baern, Tordek, Vondal for men, Audhild, Dagnal, Helja, Vistra for women – followed by a clan name in Dwarvish that describes a deed, a trade or a place: Battlehammer, Brawnanvil, Fireforge, Frostbeard, Ironfist, Rumnaheim, Ungart. Dwarves receive their names from clan elders, use the clan name in every introduction, and treat losing it as the worst punishment short of death. That is why the surname carries more weight than the first name, and why the Forgotten Realms' most famous dwarf is simply 'Bruenor Battlehammer, King of Mithral Hall'.

The list has three tiers. First, exact PHB and Forgotten Realms names – the sample names, the Battlehammer and Brawnanvil clans, the Rockseeker brothers from Lost Mine of Phandelver, and the dwarven pantheon (Moradin, Berronar Truesilver, Clangeddin Silverbeard, Dumathoin) for clerics and oaths. Second, original names built on the same Norse-Germanic base with fresh clan names like Runeshield, Coalbrand and Deepgrudge. Third, duergar names for the gray dwarves of the Underdark, which keep the structure but turn darker – Zharrik Voidmantle, Ilzhara Deepgloom, Kazrina Duskhammer.

Mix a given name from one entry with a clan name from another whenever your table already has a Fireforge – dwarven clans are large, and two unrelated Ironfists at the same tavern is a plot hook, not a problem.