Earth Kingdom Name Generator

The Earth Kingdom in Avatar: The Last Airbender is modelled on imperial China, and its names follow suit: Toph, Bumi, Haru, Long Feng, Kuei, Jin, Song, Kyoshi, Kuvira. Most characters go by a single one- or two-syllable given name; surnames appear only for prominent families such as the Beifongs of Gaoling. The writers took names from Mandarin and Cantonese, sometimes with a slight twist (Toph is a nod to "tough", Bumi comes from the Sanskrit for earth), and mixed in a few Japanese-influenced names for Kyoshi Island (Suki, Oyaji).

Character names also track social class and region. Ba Sing Se's Upper Ring bureaucrats and royalty carry formal titles: Earth King Kuei, Grand Secretariat Long Feng, Queen Hou-Ting. Villagers, farmers and Freedom Fighters have blunt nicknames such as Jet, Longshot, Smellerbee, Pipsqueak and The Duke, and the Earth Rumble wrestlers use stage names like The Boulder and The Hippo. Sandbenders of the Si Wong desert lean toward harsher sounds (Ghashiun, Sha-Mo).

The list above pairs canonical characters with new names built from real Chinese syllables and the show's clipped, earthy feel, so an OC earthbender named Wen Shu, Kang Dai or Zhen Rong reads as though they walked out of Omashu.