Jane Austen Name Generator
Regency Names Worthy of a Drawing Room
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Generate names straight out of a Jane Austen novel: canon characters from Pride and Prejudice to Persuasion, plus original Regency-era gentlemen, ladies, clergymen, naval captains and titled relations for fan fiction, period roleplay and historical stories.
About jane austen names
Jane Austen named her characters with a very particular ear. Given names are drawn from a small, respectable pool that real English gentry used between 1790 and 1820: Elizabeth, Jane, Anne, Mary, Catherine, Charlotte, Emma, Fanny and Harriet for women; Charles, Edward, Henry, George, William, Thomas, James and Frederick for men. Exotic or showy first names are reserved for people Austen wants you to distrust, which is why Augusta Elton and Lady Susan Vernon sound grander than the heroines.
Surnames do most of the social work. Old landed families carry place-like names such as Darcy, Knightley, Bertram and Wentworth; trade money shows up in plainer names like Bingley and Cole; the clergy and navy get solid, unfussy surnames like Collins, Tilney and Harville. Titles matter too. "Sir Walter" is a baronet, "Lady Catherine" is the daughter of an earl, and "Miss Bennet" with no first name always means the eldest unmarried daughter.
This generator mixes canon names from all six novels, Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons with new names built the same way, so an invented Miss Theodosia Greville or Captain Gilbert Lindsay fits on the same ballroom card as Mr Darcy.
Tips for choosing a name
- For a heroine, pick an ordinary, well-worn given name (Anne, Elinor, Catherine) and let the surname carry the flavour; Austen saves flashy first names for rivals and schemers.
- Match the title to the rank: Sir plus first name for a baronet or knight, Lady plus first name only for an earl's daughter, Lady plus surname for a knight's or baronet's wife.
- Naval and army characters should sound brisk and plain (Captain Wentworth, Colonel Brandon); clergymen can carry slightly longer, softer surnames (Mr Collins, Mr Elton, Mr Tilney).
- In dialogue, the eldest daughter is Miss Lucas and her younger sisters are Miss Maria Lucas and so on; getting this right instantly makes a scene feel period-accurate.
- Double-barrelled surnames (Wentworth-Grey, Vane-Tempest) signal an inheritance or a marriage of two estates, and read as newer money than a single old name like Darcy.
Frequently asked questions
Where did Jane Austen get her character names?
Mostly from her own world. Austen borrowed surnames from neighbours, landowners and families in the Hampshire and Kent gentry (Bennet, Bingley, Wentworth and Dashwood were all real local names), and given names from the short list of Christian names in use among her class. The effect is realism rather than invention.
Which names in this list are canon and which are original?
The list opens with canon characters from Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons. After that come original names that follow the same Regency conventions, so they suit fan fiction, original characters and period roleplay without clashing with the books.
How do Regency titles and forms of address work?
A baronet or knight is Sir plus first name (Sir Walter Elliot); his wife is Lady plus surname (Lady Elliot). The daughter of a duke, marquess or earl is Lady plus first name (Lady Catherine). Untitled gentlemen are Mr, and the eldest unmarried daughter of a family is simply Miss plus surname.
Can I use these names for a novel or a Regency RPG?
Yes. The original names are free to use in fiction, tabletop games and roleplay. Canon Austen characters are long out of copyright, though using Elizabeth Bennet or Mr Darcy as your own protagonist will read as a retelling rather than an original story.
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- Elizabeth Bennet
- Fitzwilliam Darcy
- Jane Bennet
- Charles Bingley
- Lydia Bennet
- Kitty Bennet
- Mary Bennet
- George Wickham
- William Collins
- Charlotte Lucas
- Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- Anne de Bourgh
- Georgiana Darcy
- Caroline Bingley
- Louisa Hurst
- Colonel Fitzwilliam
- Sir William Lucas
- Maria Lucas
- Edward Gardiner
- Madeline Gardiner
- Captain Carter
- Colonel Forster
- Harriet Forster
- Mary King
- Elinor Dashwood
- Marianne Dashwood
- Margaret Dashwood
- Edward Ferrars
- Colonel Brandon
- John Willoughby
- Lucy Steele
- Anne Steele
- Fanny Dashwood
- Robert Ferrars
- Sir John Middleton
- Lady Middleton
- Charlotte Palmer
- Thomas Palmer
- Sophia Grey
- Eliza Williams
- Emma Woodhouse
- George Knightley
- Harriet Smith
- Frank Churchill
- Jane Fairfax
- Philip Elton
- Augusta Elton
- Hetty Bates
- Robert Martin
- Henry Woodhouse
- Isabella Knightley
- John Knightley
- Anne Taylor
- Colonel Campbell
- William Larkins
- Fanny Price
- Edmund Bertram
- Sir Thomas Bertram
- Tom Bertram
- Maria Bertram
- Julia Bertram
- Henry Crawford
- Mary Crawford
- James Rushworth
- William Price
- Susan Price
- John Yates
- Catherine Morland
- Henry Tilney
- Eleanor Tilney
- General Tilney
- Captain Frederick Tilney
- Isabella Thorpe
- John Thorpe
- James Morland
- Anne Elliot
- Captain Frederick Wentworth
- Sir Walter Elliot
- Elizabeth Elliot
- Mary Musgrove
- Charles Musgrove
- Louisa Musgrove
- Henrietta Musgrove
- Lady Russell
- William Walter Elliot
- Penelope Clay
- Admiral Croft
- Sophia Croft
- Captain Harville
- Captain Benwick
- Charles Hayter
- Lady Dalrymple
- Lady Susan Vernon
- Frederica Vernon
- Reginald De Courcy
- Catherine Vernon
- Alicia Johnson
- Sir James Martin
- Charlotte Heywood
- Sidney Parker
- Lady Denham
- Sir Edward Denham
- Esther Denham
- Clara Brereton
- Diana Parker
- Arthur Parker
- Georgiana Lambe
- Emma Watson
- Tom Musgrave
- Lord Osborne
- Arabella Pemberton
- Lucius Ashcombe
- Harriet Fanshawe
- Theodosia Greville
- Ambrose Hawtrey
- Selina Ingram
- Percival Jermyn
- Cecilia Kingsley
- Horatio Lascelles
- Philadelphia Merriweather
- Nathaniel Northcote
- Honoria Ormsby
- Jasper Pelham
- Letitia Quenby
- Everard Radcliffe
- Dorothea Sedgwick
- Giles Thornbury
- Rosamund Upton
- Augustus Villiers
- Lavinia Wyndham
- Reginald Yelverton
- Amelia Beaumont
- Humphrey Courtenay
- Prudence Delafield
- Rupert Egerton
- Hester Farleigh
- Lionel Gresham
- Matilda Haverstock
- Gilbert Lindsay
- Eugenia Marchmont
- Cuthbert Neville
- Sophy Ossington
- Bartholomew Prentice
- Clementina Rowley
- Algernon Stanhope
- Emmeline Tremayne
- Marmaduke Vavasour
- Georgina Whitcombe
- Peregrine Abbotsley
- Octavia Blanchard
- Anselm Chetwynd
- Olivia Dorrington
- Lancelot Esmond
- Cordelia Faulkner
- Ferdinand Godolphin
- Constance Harcourt
- Septimus Ingleby
- Felicity Kemble
- Valentine Langford
- Lucinda Molyneux
- Roderick Nethercott
- Alethea Otway
- Hugh Pendarves
- Philippa Rokeby
- Miles Saville
- Almeria Talbot
- Ralph Umfraville
- Camilla Verney
- Samuel Wilmot
- Belinda Aldridge
- Benjamin Bramwell
- Evelina Chichester
- Jonathan Dacre
- Cecily Ellesmere
- Matthew Fitzroy
- Thomasina Grantham
- Stephen Holroyd
- Euphemia Kerridge
- Nicholas Leveson
- Jemima Mortimer
- Andrew Norbury
- Keziah Penrose
- Anthony Rivers
- Dinah Strickland
- Alexander Throckmorton
- Bridget Wakefield
- Lewis Wrexham
- Joanna Ardingly
- Oliver Brackenbury
- Lettice Calloway
- Cecil Dunstan
- Adelaide Eastlake
- Clement Fenwick
- Wilhelmina Garland
- Edwin Hetherington
- Priscilla Jekyll
- Elias Kingscote
- Rebecca Lovell
- Barnaby Marlowe
- Hannah Nugent
- Gervase Oakes
- Sarah Pulteney
- Jocelyn Ravenscroft
- Martha Sotheby
- Montague Tennant
- Agnes Underhill
- Osbert Waverley
- Dorothy Winslow
- Randolph Ashworth
- Laetitia Bellingham
- Tristram Carteret
- Frances Danvers
- Wilfred Everleigh
- Lady Honoria Ashcombe
- Colonel Ambrose Greville
- Admiral Jasper Ingram
- Doctor Everard Sedgwick
- Reverend Anthony Norbury
- Sir Alexander Rivers
- Doctor Lewis Throckmorton
- Lord Oliver Wrexham
- Captain Cecil Brackenbury
- Sir Clement Dunstan
- Colonel Edwin Fenwick
- Reverend Elias Hetherington
- Sir Barnaby Kingscote
- Captain Gervase Marlowe
- Doctor Jocelyn Oakes
- Sir Montague Ravenscroft
- Lord Osbert Tennant
- Colonel Randolph Waverley
- Reverend Tristram Ashworth
- Captain Wilfred Carteret
- Sir Gervase Everleigh
- Eliza Brandreth
- Frederick Ashby
- Harriot Wentmore
- Theophilus Crane
- Sophia Willoughby-Grey
- Edmund Ferrars-Pole
- Caroline Ashbury
- Henry Fairleigh
- Jane Winterbourne
- Charles Allingham
- Mary Thistlewood
- William Sotheron
- Anne Calverley
- George Hambledon
- Louisa Pennington
- Thomas Wroughton
- Catherine Fairholme
- Richard Bransby
- Isabella Oakover
- Francis Tredgold
- Elizabeth Harrowby
- Walter Cheveley
- Susan Axminster
- James Ravensworth
- Charlotte Downe
- Robert Kingsmill
- Emma Ferncliffe
- Edward Musgrave-Hale
- Fanny Barrington
- Christopher Lisle
- Marianne Ellwood
- Arthur Stapleton
- Julia Copleston
- Philip Maunsell
- Henrietta Lumley
- Sidney Atherton
- Eleanor Brandling
- Hugh Dacre-Holt
- Augusta Sandys
- Frederick Meynell
- Anna Caldecott
- Thomas Eversham
- Margaret Fitzhugh
- Reginald Bowes
- Penelope Tarrant
- John Ashurst
- Kitty Falconer
- Selina Brightwell
- Nathaniel Parfitt
- Louisa Ayscough
- Colonel Jervis Hatherley
- Harriet Wickersham
- Tom Bellamy
- Miss Amelia Carew
- Sir Walter Pendlebury
- Charlotte Mowbray
- Reverend Edmund Cheyne
- Lucy Farrant
- Captain George Lanyon
- Maria Stowell
- James Huntingdon
- Isabella Darnell
- Frederick Seton
- Fanny Whitlock
- Robert Verulam
- Catherine Ashdown
- Edward Fenimore
- Augusta Sherringham
- Charles Daubeny
- Harriet Rowntree
- Henry Castleton
- Anne Frobisher
- William Desborough
- Georgiana Trelawney
- Sir Lionel Brandling
- Jane Ferrand
- Lydia Pembridge
- John Heathcote
- Sophia Dimsdale
- Edmund Trefusis
- Mary Chudleigh
- George Laurance
- Elizabeth Ingoldsby
- Frederick Pyncombe
- Margaret Wexford
- Arthur Coverdale
- Caroline Tresham
- Philip Enderby
- Elinor Whitfield
- Captain James Clavering
- Julia Hawksworth
- Thomas Merivale
- Harriet Lacey
- Richard Woolcombe
- Isabella Fernhurst
- Walter Beresford
- Anne Mayhew
- Mrs Honora Pellew
- Sir Hugh Marchant
- Letitia Bosanquet
- Edward Carnaby
- Amelia Delmonte
- Reginald Hartopp
- Constance Ferrier
- Henry Grenville
- Lucy Wyvill
- William Ashe
- Hester Kennaway
- Charles Vane-Tempest
- Eleanor Ridley
- Miss Augusta Pole
- Captain Philip Maitland
- Fanny Brocklehurst
- George Hotham
- Catherine Loveday
- John Fortescue
- Mary Ann Sedley
- Robert Langrishe
- Selina Crofton
- Francis Dutton
- Henrietta Wardell
- James Elphinstone
- Maria Thorold
- Edmund Wycherley
- Jane Purefoy
- Frederick Amory
- Arabella Cholmondeley
- Thomas Wentworth-Grey
- Lydia Stracey
- Lady Matilda Fitzgerald
- Sir Roger Tempest
- Susan Molesworth
- Henry Bagot
- Charlotte Somerville
- Captain Charles Digby
- Emma Ponsonby
- William Cavendish-Lee
- Dorothea Pleydell
- Edward Lyttelton
- Sophia Herbert
- George Annesley
- Anne Wyndham-Ross
- Richard Lumsden
- Eliza Drewe
- Hugh Tollemache
- Margaret Popham
- Elizabeth Heathcote-Pryce
- Augustus Whitaker
- Mary Dalby
- Frederick Fielding
- Charlotte Ashenden
- Philip Godwin
- Jane Marlborough
- Sidney Thrale
- Harriet Pyne
- Edmund Strangeways
- Louisa Fairbrother
- Robert Tichborne
- Anne Curzon
- Walter Gage
- Cecilia Rolleston
- Henry Hervey
- Maria Halliday
- Charles Ormerod
- Julia Meadowes
- Thomas Wyke
- Miss Kitty Farrow
- Captain William Harcourt-Vere
- Lady Eleanor Swinburne
- Sir Edward Mallory
- Fanny Thornhill
- George Danby
- Susan Calthorpe
- Richard Aubrey
- Elizabeth Rainsford
- Henry Brocas
- Harriet Cawthorne
- John Pevensey
- Lucy Blount
- Edmund Ravenhill
- Caroline Standish
- Frederick Wolseley
- Anne Mauleverer
- James Whitmore
- Mary Ashbourne
- Charles Penryn
- Lydia Farquhar
- Arthur Bentinck
- Emma Hawtree
- Robert Allerton
- Georgiana Lisle
- Thomas Brayfield
- Isabella Cranmer
- Philip Hazlewood
- Eleanor Dyce
- Walter Pinkney
- Sophia Lumsdaine
- William Ettrick
- Letitia Peyton
- Colonel Francis Ryder
- Jane Wilbraham
- Henry Fairfield
- Selina Hartwell
- Edward Tanfield
- Harriet Wooler
- George Ingham
- Margaret Carbery
- Captain Thomas Eden
- Augusta Beauclerk
- Frederick Hanbury
- Catherine Welby
- John Radnor
- Mrs Jennings
- Mrs Norris
- Lady Bertram
- Mr Weston
- Dr Grant
- Mrs Allen
- Mrs Philips
- Mrs Reynolds
- Mr Shepherd
- Mrs Smith
- Mr Perry
- Captain Edmund Haldane
- Lady Sophia Lisburne
- Miss Charlotte Pelham-Ross
- Reverend Walter Cornwallis
- Sir Giles Faringdon
- Mrs Eleanor Pakington
- Colonel Hugh Dunmore
- Miss Lavinia Quarles
- Admiral Thomas Kinnaird
- Lady Margaret Tiverton
- Mr Henry Osgood
- Miss Harriet Ormond
- Captain John Raikes
- Lady Caroline Welbeck
- Reverend Samuel Crewe
- Sir Frederick Bagshot
- Mrs Isabella Verinder
- Miss Anne Gorringe
- Mr George Blackwood
- Miss Susan Tregonwell
- Doctor Matthew Pryor
- Lady Jane Hungerford
- Mr Edward Lucan
- Miss Mary Trollope
- Captain Robert Pelly
- Miss Eliza Wakeham
- Mr William Scrope
- Miss Catherine Dunsany
- Sir Walter Dymoke
- Mrs Lydia Corbett
- Colonel Arthur Pakenham
- Miss Fanny Drury
- Mr Charles Treherne
- Miss Louisa Bidwell
- Reverend Edmund Ambler
- Lady Sarah Clive
- Mr James Medlicott
- Miss Maria Conyngham
- Captain Francis Marsham
- Miss Julia Tyrwhitt
- Mr Richard Dampier
- Miss Elinor Prideaux
- Sir Anthony Lechmere
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