Dornish Name Generator

Dorne is the hot, arid southernmost kingdom of Westeros, and its names sound different from the rest of the Seven Kingdoms because of the Rhoynar. When Nymeria led ten thousand ships up the Greenblood a thousand years before the series, her people married into the Dornish nobility and left behind names with a Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ring: Oberyn, Doran, Arianne, Nymeria, Obara, Tyene, Sarella, Ellaria, Quentyn, Trystane, Elia. Vowels are open, stresses fall on the middle syllable, and letters like Q, Y and doubled L show up far more than in northern names such as Eddard or Robb.

Dornish surnames are house names, and the great houses map onto the region's geography. House Martell of Sunspear rules from the coast; the salty Dornishmen of the shore include Dayne of Starfall, Gargalen, Toland and Jordayne. The sandy Dornishmen of the deep desert are Uller of Hellholt, Qorgyle of Sandstone and Vaith. The stony Dornishmen of the Red Mountains, closest to the Reach in blood and custom, are Yronwood, Fowler, Manwoody, Blackmont, Wyl and Dayne. Bastards born in Dorne take the surname Sand rather than Snow or Rivers, and Dorne is the one kingdom where being a bastard carries little shame, which is why the Sand Snakes wear the name proudly.

The names above mix canon Martells, Daynes, Yronwoods and Sand Snakes with new Rhoynish-style given names attached to real Dornish houses, so an original character can slot straight into a Game of Thrones roleplay, an ASOIAF fan fiction or a Westeros-inspired fantasy setting.