Half-Giant Name Generator

A half-giant name has to do two things at once: carry the weight of the giant parent and the familiarity of the human one. The most convincing names put a heavy, Norse-flavored given name (Hadrek, Brunna, Tormund, Yrsa) next to a plain surname or an earned epithet (Farrow, Lowhill, Ninefoot, Doorbreaker). That contrast is the whole character in two words: someone too big for the village and too soft for the mountain. Patronymics that point straight at a giant parent (Thrymsdottir, Hrungnirsson) work for settings where giants are named after the Norse jotnar.

Human cultures shape the other half. A half-giant raised in a rural English or Welsh village reads best with a homely surname (Bramblewick, Polgreen, Winterbottom), which is the register used for gentle, shaggy groundskeeper types in wizarding-school stories. Gaelic and Welsh first names with descriptive second names (Gwilym Lowsky, Niamh Tallwood) suit hill-country settings, while single blunt names like Grulda, Thrumm or Hobb fit Dark Sun-style slave pits and frontier towns.

Nicknames are the most human touch: Big Ansel, Two-Ox Tamsin, Lintel Lou. They say how the neighbors see the character, which for a half-giant is usually the point. Mix these with formal names for NPCs who go by one thing at home and another on the road.