Dragon Rider Name Generator

Dragon rider names come from a handful of traditions, and each has a distinct sound. Christopher Paolini's Riders (Eragon, Brom, Murtagh, Arya, Oromis, Galbatorix) use short, hard-edged names with Old Norse and Old English bones. Anne McCaffrey's Pern honors riders by contracting their birth names with an apostrophe, so Fallarnon becomes F'lar and Lessa's weyr is full of F'nor, T'ron and K'van. Rebecca Yarros's Fourth Wing cadets carry ordinary modern first names with invented surnames (Violet Sorrengail, Xaden Riorson), while George R. R. Martin's Valyrian dragonlords double their vowels and end in -ys, -ar and -on (Daenerys, Aemond, Rhaenyra). How to Train Your Dragon goes the other way, with Viking nicknames like Hiccup and Astrid Hofferson.

What these have in common is that the rider is named like a person first and a legend second. The most convincing rider names are a believable given name plus either a family name or an earned epithet, and the epithet should say something about the bond, the dragon or a famous flight: Stormwright, Skyborne, Wyrmfriend, of the Red Wing.

Pick the tradition that matches your setting, then keep the dragon's name a different shape so the pair is easy to tell apart on the page.