D&D Gnome Name Generator

In Dungeons & Dragons, gnomes collect names the way they collect gadgets. The Player's Handbook explains that a gnome may have half a dozen names given by parents, clan elders, aunts, and friends, and will settle on the ones that feel right. In practice a 5e gnome character uses three parts: a personal name, a clan name, and often a nickname. Male names in the book include Alston, Boddynock, Dimble, Fonkin, Gimble, Namfoodle, Orryn, Seebo, and Zook; female names include Bimpnottin, Caramip, Ellywick, Loopmottin, Nissa, Roywyn, and Waywocket.

Clan names are shorter and sturdier: Beren, Daergel, Folkor, Garrick, Nackle, Murnig, Ningel, Raulnor, Scheppen, Timbers, and Turen. Nicknames are earned and often funny, such as Aleslosh, Doublelock, Filchbatter, Fnipper, Oneshoe, Pock, Sparklegem, and Stumbleduck. Put them together and you get Boddynock Nackle Oneshoe or Ellywick Timbers Sparklegem, which is exactly the rhythm a Dungeon Master expects at the table.

Subrace flavor helps too. Rock gnomes suit tinker-ish nicknames like Gearloose or Brasswhistle, forest gnomes fit woodland nicknames like Fernwhistle or Foxwhisper, and deep gnomes (svirfneblin) tend toward harsher names like Belwar Dissengulp or Durrik.