Half-Orc Name Generator

Half-orc names in D&D follow the rules laid out in the Player's Handbook: those raised among orcs get orcish names, and those raised among humans get human ones. Orcish names are short, blunt, and consonant-heavy, usually one or two syllables with a hard stop at the end. The 5e examples (Krusk, Dench, Thokk, Shautha, Yevelda, Ovak) are the template, and you can hear the pattern in K, G, R, and guttural clusters like -rsk, -ukk, and -gash. Orcs rarely use family names, so a half-orc from a tribe often has only a given name plus an earned epithet: Ront Bonebreaker, Ovak One-Eye.

City-raised half-orcs are different. Many carry a human given name and a human surname (Bram Ironhide, Anna Greyhide) or the reverse, an orcish name with an adopted human family name (Mhurren Barlow, Kansif Marsh). That combination is a quick way to signal a character who lives between two worlds, which is what most half-orc backstories are about.

When picking, decide what the character was called as a child and what they call themselves now; the gap between the two is often the most interesting thing about them.