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Generate names in the style of The Expanse for fan fiction and tabletop play: cross-heritage Belters like Anneke Okafor and Dmitri Nakamura, crew nicknames like Otso "Rivets" Banerjee, Martian marines, UN Earthers, and ships such as Sancho's Dapple and MCRN Harmattan.

About the Expanse names

The Expanse is set a few centuries from now, and its names say so quietly. People carry ordinary given names and surnames from Earth, but the two halves often come from different parts of the old world: Naomi Nagata, Camina Drummer and Klaes Ashford in the Belt, Bobbie Draper and Alex Kamal on Mars, Chrisjen Avasarala on Earth. Generations in shared habitats have mixed every heritage, and a name is the record of it.

This list follows that habit with new names and leaves the canon cast to the examples above. Belters take the largest share: full names such as Ifeoma Kowalski and Javier Yamamoto, crew nicknames set in quotation marks, dockside bynames and a handful of OPA cells. Martians draw on the South Asian, Chinese and Texan settlers of the Mariner Valley and on Polynesian families like Bobbie Draper's, and many carry an MCRN rank. Earthers get longer, more formal names and UN titles.

Ships close the list. The setting names them from literature and history (the Rocinante is Don Quixote's horse) or with a dry joke (the Weeping Somnambulist), so you will find Sancho's Dapple and Patient Creditor beside MCRN Zheng He and UNN Dag Hammarskjold. Belter Creole appears only as the title Bosmang, the word for boss.

How to choose the Expanse names

  • For a Belter, take the given name and the surname from different continents and do not explain it. In this setting nobody remarks on a Thandiwe Ferrara or a Stellan Garza.
  • Give a working Belter a nickname earned on the job. Rivets, Tether, Half-G and Kibble come from ship life, and crewmates use them more often than the name on the contract.
  • Put a rank on Martians who serve. Gunnery Sergeant, Lieutenant or Admiral before a name places a character in the MCRN at once.
  • Name a Belter ship after an uprising, a book or a grumble (Peterloo, Queequeg, Rent Due) and give a navy ship its prefix: MCRN for Mars, UNN for Earth.
  • Treat every entry as a name for your own character or ship. They were written as new names in the setting's patterns, so do not present one as part of the published story; if one happens to match a minor character, that is a coincidence.

Frequently asked questions

How are Belter names built in The Expanse?

Belters carry real-world given names and surnames, often from two different heritages, because their families have shared stations and ships for generations. Naomi Nagata and Anderson Dawes set the pattern. The list follows it with new names such as Anneke Okafor, Dmitri Nakamura and Marisol Takahashi, and many Belters also go by a crew nickname.

Are these names from the books or the show?

They were written as new names in the patterns of the setting, for fan fiction and tabletop characters, not copied from the cast. The names are built from real given names and surnames, so one may happen to match a minor character; that is a coincidence. The main characters and ships of the books and the series appear only as examples in the text of this page.

What do MCRN and UNN mean in the ship names?

MCRN stands for Martian Congressional Republic Navy and UNN for United Nations Navy, the fleets of Mars and Earth. In this list the MCRN ships take Martian landmarks, desert winds and historical figures (MCRN Tharsis, MCRN Khamsin, MCRN Ashoka), and the UNN ships are named for people (UNN Grace Hopper). Belter ships carry no prefix.

Does the list use Belter Creole?

Very little. The only creole word in the names is Bosmang, the word for boss, used as a form of address in a few entries such as Bosmang Castillo. Making up new creole words would not suit the setting, so the Belter flavor comes from nicknames, bynames and ship names.

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A: 40 names

  • Abena Ricci
  • Abilene Shah
  • Adaeze Moreau
  • Adebola Fairbanks
  • Admiral Bao Yu Whitaker
  • Admiral Roderick Nwankwo
  • Admiral Thaddeus Yuan
  • Admiral Yewande Stroud
  • Afonso Brandt
  • Agnes Tembo
  • Aiko Bhattacharya
  • Airlock Amadou
  • Aisling Pereira
  • Akash Penitani
  • Alma Petrakis
  • Alonso Bjornstad
  • Amara Kozlov
  • Ambassador Haruka Penhaligon
  • Ambassador Prudence Ikeda
  • Amina Schreiber
  • Amit Lefiti
  • Ana Malia Dutta
  • Anand Castellanos-Reid
  • Anders "Burner" Mokgadi
  • Anderson Station Remembrance
  • Andrés Holmberg
  • Anika Faleolo
  • Anjali Petrov
  • Annalise Gopalan
  • Anneke Okafor
  • Anselm Otieno
  • Antonella Gyasi
  • Arjun Sigurdsson
  • Aroha Brennan
  • Arvid Contreras
  • Asha Novak
  • Ashok Montgomery
  • Augustin Chowdhury
  • Auntie Pallas
  • Austin Seumalo

B: 26 names

  • Babieca
  • Baltasar Niemi
  • Bartek "Gasket" Nnamdi
  • Bashir Thornbury
  • Beatrice Asamoah-Pryce
  • Beatrix "Half-G" Munyao
  • Beatriz Hakala
  • Beau Raghavan
  • Bernard Ogundipe
  • Big Yevgeny
  • Birgit Okpara
  • Björn Adeyemi
  • Blackheath
  • Bongani Ritter
  • Bonnie Pillai
  • Borrowed Air
  • Bosmang Ayesha Thorne
  • Bosmang Castillo
  • Bosmang Katri Pacheco
  • Bosmang Okonkwo-Reyes
  • Bosmang Olufemi Strand
  • Boudica
  • Bowie Kapoor
  • Branka Oliveira
  • Britta Mokoena
  • Bucephalus

C: 40 names

  • Callisto Kate
  • Callisto Shipwrights' Guild
  • Camila Stoica
  • Captain Damilare Finch
  • Captain Indira Maddox
  • Captain Ingeborg Chaudhuri
  • Captain Nobody
  • Captain Rhett Nanda
  • Carmela Diallo
  • Carson Bhatt
  • Carys Medina
  • Casimir Afolabi
  • Catalina Hoekstra
  • Cedric Oyelade
  • Ceres Dockside Nan
  • Ceres Longshore Cell
  • Chandrika Holloway
  • Charlotte Oyinlola
  • Cheikh "Reclaim" Hedlund
  • Chiara Nwosu
  • Chidi Marchetti
  • Chief Petty Officer Solomona Jain
  • Chinedu Vogel
  • Ciro Balogun
  • Clarice Rahman
  • Clavileno
  • Clayton Iyer
  • Cody Mahajan
  • Colonel Mateo Okello
  • Colonel Shabnam Driscoll
  • Colton Lin
  • Commander Annabeth Qiu
  • Commander Eun-ji Lockhart
  • Commander Ritu Salanoa
  • Company Scrip
  • Consuelo Haugen
  • Cordelia Mbanefo
  • Cormac Moyo
  • Corporal Dwayne Peng
  • Corporal Lily Anne Sharma

D: 20 names

  • Dagny Sithole
  • Dallas Krishnan
  • Dario Engstrom
  • Deepa Jovanovic
  • Deepika Latu
  • Deputy Undersecretary Lorcan Bhatnagar
  • Deseret
  • Desmond Ruiz
  • Director Salman Everhart
  • Director Tomoko Vance
  • Dmitri Nakamura
  • Dockmaster Soo
  • Dolores Szabo
  • Dominic Eze-Laurent
  • Dr. Aditi Wolcott
  • Dr. Ferdinand Obiora
  • Dr. Winifred Asare
  • Dragan Amoah
  • Drinking Gourd
  • Dulcinea

E: 14 names

  • Efua "Patch" Dragomir
  • Eirik Maalouf
  • Eleanor Nwachukwu
  • Elke Zamora
  • Emeka Johansson
  • Emil Carvalho
  • Emmett Cao
  • Ensign Hana Li Beckett
  • Ensign Varun Masina
  • Envoy Tsering Aldridge
  • Esperanza Nyberg
  • Esteban Ilves
  • Etienne Kimathi
  • Ewan Gutierrez

F: 9 names

  • Fair Share
  • Farah Kensington
  • Fatima Kessler
  • Felipe Horvath
  • Femi Castellanos
  • Fergus Adebayo
  • Fight for the Living
  • Folasade Brandt-Ueda
  • Freya Ndlovu

G: 14 names

  • Galloping Insomniac
  • Garrett Subramanian
  • Genevieve Adeyinka
  • Glastonbury
  • Goran Salazar
  • Graciela Toivonen
  • Greta Sandoval
  • Grievance
  • Guillermo Achieng
  • Gunnar "Sealant" Akintola
  • Gunnery Sergeant Talia Bhandari
  • Gunnery Sergeant Tiare Chopra
  • Gustavo Thorsen
  • Gutter Saint

H: 17 names

  • Half-Ration Hemi
  • Halima Varga
  • Hamid Callahan
  • Hanne Morales
  • Harlan Xie
  • Haruto Benitez
  • Hassan "Coolant" Ostrowski
  • Haymarket
  • Henrik Ayodele
  • Hilda Group Irregulars
  • Hilde Okoro
  • Hiroshi Valdez-Moreno
  • Hispaniola
  • Hugo Babatunde
  • Hui Min Garrison
  • Hygiea Red
  • Hyun-woo Steinberg

I: 13 names

  • Iapetus Reclamation League
  • Ibrahim Prescott
  • Ifeoma Kowalski
  • Ignacio Wekesa
  • Imani Kovacs
  • Ines Danso
  • Inez "Flip" Tanimoto
  • Ingrid Matsumoto
  • Inspector Zubair Lindley
  • Ioane Chen
  • Isadora Koroma
  • Ishaan Vaifale
  • Ismael Kjeldsen

J: 12 names

  • Jae-won Abernathy
  • Javelina
  • Javier Yamamoto
  • Jelena "Drift" Owusu-Ansah
  • Jesse Ranganathan
  • Jian Travers
  • Joaquim Solberg
  • Joaquin Aalto
  • Jomo "Low-G" Castellani
  • Jonas Mahlangu
  • Julius Yamada-Osei
  • Jun Hao Masoe

K: 12 names

  • Kalani Joshi
  • Katarzyna "Torch" Amadi
  • Katya Mwangi
  • Kavya Whitlock
  • Kehinde Lindgren
  • Kelechi Dubois
  • Kenji Abimbola
  • Khadija Wentworth
  • Kimo Agarwal
  • Kirkwood Gap
  • Kwabena Whitfield
  • Kwame Petrovic

L: 29 names

  • Lakshmi Bergman
  • Lapu-Lapu
  • Laughing Undertaker
  • Laurel Reddy
  • Lei Pritchard
  • Leilani Rao
  • Lena Abubakar
  • Leopold Nakashima
  • Liesel Banda
  • Lieutenant Camille Osagie
  • Lieutenant Cheng Wei Satele
  • Lieutenant Commander Neha Broussard
  • Lieutenant Jing Fei Tanner
  • Lieutenant Sunil Fuimaono
  • Lin Alofaituli
  • Lindisfarne
  • Linh Bianchi
  • Longhaul Okonkwo
  • Lorenzo Chukwu
  • Loretta Nair
  • Losa Chatterjee
  • Lourdes Virtanen
  • Low Ration
  • Lowdeck Lucho
  • Lucía Bergström
  • Ludd's Hammer
  • Ludvik Boateng
  • Luis "Ballast" Nakagawa
  • Lupe Thakur

M: 55 names

  • Madhuri Fontaine
  • Magnus Abara
  • Mahnaz Sterling
  • Major Callum Oduro
  • Major Kiri Bhatia
  • Makena Vukovic
  • Malia Mukherjee
  • Malik Svensson
  • Manaia Desai
  • Manuela Koskinen
  • Marek Okeke
  • Marengo
  • Margarethe Sokolov
  • Marguerite Sato
  • Marisela "Vac" Petrenko
  • Marisol Takahashi
  • Marit Campos
  • Marja "Spinward" Kovalenko
  • Marta Owusu
  • Matamba
  • Mateus Rasmussen
  • Matteo Onyango
  • Maximilian Oyedepo
  • MCRN Arsia
  • MCRN Ascraeus
  • MCRN Ashoka
  • MCRN Chandragupta

M, continued

  • MCRN Harmattan
  • MCRN Hellas
  • MCRN Hua Mulan
  • MCRN Khamsin
  • MCRN Kupe
  • MCRN Lin Zexu
  • MCRN Noctis
  • MCRN Pavonis
  • MCRN Rani Lakshmibai
  • MCRN Sam Houston
  • MCRN San Jacinto
  • MCRN Simoom
  • MCRN Syrtis
  • MCRN Taklamakan
  • MCRN Tharsis
  • MCRN Tipu Sultan
  • MCRN Valles
  • MCRN Zheng He
  • Medina Mack
  • Meera Sopoaga
  • Mei-Lin Crockett
  • Melancholy Tinker
  • Mele Zhang
  • Mercedes Lindahl
  • Milena "Slingshot" Onyeama
  • Min-jun Acheampong
  • Mireille Ogunleye
  • Moana Patel

N: 15 names

  • Nadia Eriksen
  • Naledi Wojcik
  • Naoko Appiah
  • Nasser Winthrop
  • Ngozi Whitcombe
  • Nikolai Sesay
  • Nisha Taufa
  • Nkechi Sorensen
  • No Fixed Address
  • No-Tether Noor
  • Nobody's Flag
  • Noelani Fischer
  • Nomvula Esposito
  • Noura Blackwood
  • Nuno "Kibble" Rautio

O: 11 names

  • Obinna Strand
  • Olbers' Paradox
  • Old Man Halvard
  • Oleg Baptiste
  • Olumide Falk
  • Oluwaseun "Seun" Berggren
  • Oluwaseyi Hargreaves
  • Omar Fairchild
  • Otso "Rivets" Banerjee
  • Ottilie Mendoza
  • Outer Planets Relief Committee

P: 21 names

  • Pallas Dockworkers' Union
  • Palmares
  • Paloma Jankowski
  • Paolo Achterberg
  • Parvati Sinclair
  • Patient Creditor
  • Patna
  • Pearl Luo
  • Pedro "Slag" Iwasaki
  • Percival Adomako
  • Peterloo
  • Pia Ferreira
  • Pie in the Sky
  • Piotr Kamara
  • Polite Refusal
  • Pradeep Lindenbaum
  • Private First Class Yong Tuala
  • Private Lopaka Sandhu
  • Private Mahina Goswami
  • Priya Tuilagi
  • Priyanka Stojanovic

Q: 2 names

  • Queequeg
  • Quiet Oksana

R: 21 names

  • Raelynn Guo
  • Rafael Oduya
  • Ragnar Osei
  • Rajesh Beaumont
  • Ravi "Scrubber" Thorsdottir
  • Ravindra Ashworth
  • Rekha Toleafoa
  • Renata Keita
  • Rent Due
  • Rocio Madsen
  • Rock Tax
  • Rockhopper Salim
  • Rodrigo Kallio
  • Rohan McAllister
  • Rolf Figueroa
  • Rosalind Bekele
  • Rosamund Ekwensi
  • Rosario "Hard Burn" Szymanski
  • Rukmini Hale
  • Rustam Delgado
  • Ryo Ogunyemi

S: 36 names

  • Sakura Omondi
  • Salome Dragovic
  • Sancho Panza
  • Sancho's Dapple
  • Sandeep Rousseau
  • Sanjay Boudreaux
  • Santiago Eze
  • Sarita Tago
  • Savannah Liu
  • Seamus Dlamini
  • Sebastian Njoku
  • Second Mortgage
  • Sefa Menon
  • Sekou Romano
  • Sergeant Major Ofa Mehta
  • Sergeant Rangi Kulkarni
  • Shelby Wang
  • Shirin Pemberton
  • Shreya Aumua
  • Signe "Tether" Oyebanji
  • Simone Chakrabarti
  • Sina Varma
  • Siobhan Reyes
  • Sione Chaudhary
  • Sipho Andersson
  • Sleepwalking Accountant
  • Soledad Ibrahim
  • Soraya Backman
  • Spin Sick
  • Spin-Sick Saul
  • Staff Sergeant Malakai Bose
  • Stefan "Mag Boots" Olanrewaju
  • Stellan Garza
  • Sung-min Archambault
  • Sunita Kowalczuk
  • Svetlana Obi

T: 36 names

  • Tadeusz Ochieng
  • Tae-yang Carmichael
  • Takeshi Nkosi
  • Takumi Rosenthal
  • Tama Gupta
  • Tanvi Ledbetter
  • Tariq O'Sullivan
  • Tavita Huang
  • Tendai Larsen
  • Teodora Quaye
  • Tevita "Anchor" Lindstrom
  • Thandiwe Ferrara
  • The Free Trojans
  • The Hygiea Accord
  • The Ration Line
  • The Thin Air Collective
  • The Water Debt
  • Theodora Onyekachi
  • Third-Shift Tamsin
  • Thirsty Work
  • Thuli Navarro
  • Tierra y Libertad
  • Tin Lung
  • Tithe of Ice
  • Titilayo Crane
  • Tobenna Marchand
  • Tobias Okonjo
  • Tomás Lindqvist
  • Tomasz Igwe
  • Travis Venkataraman
  • Tucker Feng
  • Tui Malhotra
  • Tunde Hartmann
  • Two-Tanks Varga
  • Tycho Tomas
  • Tycho's Nose

U: 23 names

  • Ulrika Domingo
  • Undersecretary Amaka Rothwell
  • Undersecretary Gaspard Mehrotra
  • UNN Ada Lovelace
  • UNN Benito Juarez
  • UNN Dag Hammarskjold
  • UNN Fridtjof Nansen
  • UNN Grace Hopper
  • UNN Hypatia
  • UNN Ibn Battuta
  • UNN Katherine Johnson
  • UNN Lise Meitner
  • UNN Mary Seacole
  • UNN Miriam Makeba
  • UNN Rabindranath Tagore
  • UNN Ralph Bunche
  • UNN Simon Bolivar
  • UNN Sojourner Truth
  • UNN Tenzing Norgay
  • UNN U Thant
  • UNN Wangari Maathai
  • UNN Yi Sun-sin
  • Unpaid Overtime

V: 7 names

  • Valentina Asante
  • Vesta Free Haulers
  • Vesta Joe
  • Victoria Rahimi
  • Vikram Thorvaldsen
  • Vikrant Leota
  • Vivienne Adeleke

W: 12 names

  • Walsingham
  • Wambui "Docker" Salo
  • Wanjiru Costa
  • Warrant Officer Ezekiel Tan
  • Water Rights
  • Waylon Deng
  • Wei Tupuola
  • Whistling Pallbearer
  • Wilhelm Conteh
  • Wolfgang Adjei
  • Wrench Pilar
  • Wyatt Zhou

X: 2 names

  • Ximena Haddad
  • Xiu Ying Hollis

Y: 9 names

  • Y Entonces
  • Yan Ting Fonoti
  • Yara Lundgren
  • Yasmin Hollingsworth
  • Yelena Cisse
  • Yolanda Kruger
  • Yoshiro Bellamy
  • Yuki Salcedo
  • Yusuf Halloran

Z: 4 names

  • Zainab Fitzgerald
  • Zofia Mensah
  • Zola Andrade
  • Zuri Popescu