Forgotten Realms Name Generator

The Forgotten Realms has fifty years of published naming conventions, and using them is the fastest way to make a character feel native to Faerûn instead of generic fantasy. Humans are the trickiest because the setting has distinct ethnic groups with their own sounds: Chondathans and Tethyrians of the Heartlands and Sword Coast carry plain Anglo names with compound surnames (Darvin Ilvastarr, Jhessail Amblecrown); Calishites use Arabic-flavored names with yn and el (Haseid yn Memnon); Damarans sound Slavic (Kosef Bersk); Illuskans of the North sound Norse (Geth Stormwind); Mulan of Thay and Mulhorand sound Egyptian (Aoth Fezim); Rashemi have long, rolling names (Borivik Chergoba); Shou are surname-first (Chen Huang); and Turami names sound Italian (Romero Marivaldi).

Non-human names follow the setting's own sources too. Drow carry a given name plus a House name from Menzoberranzan's hierarchy (Baenre, Xorlarrin, Mizzrym, Hunzrin), with apostrophes and doubled consonants. Sun and moon elves use flowing Espruar names with family names like Moonflower, Starym and Craulnober. Shield dwarves of Delzoun use clan names such as Battlehammer and Brawnanvil, dragonborn of Tymanther put a long clan name first, and Waterdeep's nobles are known by their House (Cassalanter, Margaster, Thann).

This list mixes original names built on those rules with famous canon figures so you can see the conventions in action.