Fantasy Planet Name Generator

Science fiction names its planets in a handful of recognizable styles, and matching the style to the world tells your reader what to expect before they land. Latin and Greek endings - Veloria, Tarsis, Meridia, Hyperion - are the default for civilized homeworlds and old colonies because they echo how real astronomers named the solar system. Harsh consonant clusters (Kraghar, Vorkath, Tuchanka) signal a hostile or warlike world, and apostrophes and clipped syllables (Vek'tar, Th'ren, Ix) suggest an alien tongue. Catalog designations such as Kepler-442c, LV-426, or Tau Ceti IV are what real exoplanets get and what a survey ship would log before anyone lives there, so they suit hard SF and newly discovered worlds. Colonists then rename them - New Terra, Landfall, Providence, Far Haven - and those hopeful names carry the whole history of a settlement.

The great fictional planets show how far a name can go: Arrakis (Dune) is dry and Arabic-flavored like its deserts, Gethen (Le Guin) is short and cold, Trantor (Asimov) sounds like a machine, and Pandora warns you. Single evocative English words - Verdance, Emberfall, Longnight, Requiem - are a newer style that works especially well for moons and minor worlds.

Aim for a name that a pilot could say once over the radio and a poet could put in a title.