Dwarven 5e Name Generator

Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition gives dwarves a simple two-part naming pattern. Every dwarf receives a personal name from a clan elder, and by tradition it is a name that has been used by the clan before, so given names like Adrik, Bruenor, Eldeth and Vistra recur across generations. That name is followed by a clan name such as Battlehammer, Fireforge, Rumnaheim or Ungart. The Player's Handbook lists roughly thirty male names, twenty-five female names and fifteen clan names, and the entries above start with every one of those combinations before expanding into Forgotten Realms characters and original names built to the same pattern.

The flavor is deliberately Norse-adjacent but a little more guttural than Tolkien: given names lean on -ik, -ek, -rim and -unn endings, while clan names are either two English nouns fused together (Ironfist, Frostbeard, Brawnanvil) or a chunk of Dwarvish (Balderk, Holderhek, Lutgehr, Strakeln). Duergar, the grey dwarves of the Underdark, use the same shapes but with harsher, darker compounds like Sunblight or Blackforge.

In play, a dwarf's clan name matters more than the given name. It signals allegiance, feuds and where their ancestral hold lies, and a dwarf who has been cast out is often introduced simply as 'no clan'. Choose the clan first, then the individual.