Inca Name Generator

Inca names are Quechua (and sometimes Aymara) words that were later written down by Spanish chroniclers, so the same ruler appears as Túpac Inca Yupanqui in colonial spelling and Tupaq Yupanki in modern Quechua. Royal names were built from a small set of meaningful elements: Qhapaq (mighty), Yupanki (honoured, memorable), Tupaq (royal, shining), Wayna (young), Inti (sun), Amaru (serpent), Waman (falcon) and Puma. Pachacútec means "he who overturns the world" and was a title the ninth Inca earned, not a birth name. Queens took the honorific Mama (Mama Ocllo, Mama Anahuarque), royal daughters were called ñusta, and noble youths auqui.

Commoners' names were drawn from nature, colours and virtues rather than lineage: Killa (moon), Chaska (morning star), Kusi (joy), Sumaq (beautiful), Illari (dawn), Urpi (dove), Kuntur (condor), Rumi (stone), Wayra (wind), Qori (gold). Children got a permanent name at the rutuchikuy hair-cutting ceremony around age two. There were no inherited surnames; after the conquest these given names and place words were frozen into family names, which is why Quispe (crystal), Mamani (falcon, Aymara), Huamán, Condori, Choque (gold) and Puma are among the most common surnames in Peru and Bolivia today.

This generator mixes historical rulers, generals and deities, stand-alone Quechua given names, and modern full names pairing a Quechua or Spanish first name with an Andean surname.