Hunger Games Name Generator

Suzanne Collins gave every part of Panem its own naming logic, which is why a Hunger Games name tells you where a character is from before they open their mouth. District 12, the coal district, uses plant and herb names for its girls (Katniss, Primrose, Rue's cousin Maysilee, Lucy Gray) and short, working-class English names for boys (Gale, Peeta, Haymitch, Rory). District 11's agricultural tributes are named for crops and harvest work: Rue, Thresh, Chaff, Seeder. District 4 leans on the sea with Finnick, Annie Cresta and Mags. District 7's lumber families produce names like Johanna Mason and Blight. District 3's technicians get Beetee and Wiress.

The Careers and the Capitol are the mirror image. District 1 tributes wear luxury-goods names such as Glimmer, Marvel, Cashmere and Gloss. District 2, the Capitol's enforcer, uses hard Roman names: Cato, Clove, Brutus, Enobaria. Capitol citizens go fully classical, often with an absurd surname attached: Coriolanus Snow, Seneca Crane, Plutarch Heavensbee, Caesar Flickerman, Effie Trinket, Volumnia Gaul. The Roman echo is deliberate; Panem itself comes from panem et circenses, bread and circuses.

The list above keeps the canon cast from all five books and adds original names built district by district, so a new tribute for a fan story or SYOT will sound native to Panem rather than generic dystopia.