Asian Male Name Generator

'Asian' covers dozens of naming systems, so a believable male name starts with picking one. East Asian names put the family name first: Wang Wei, Kim Min-jun and Nguyễn Văn An lead with the surname. Chinese given names are one or two characters (Jianguo for a man born in the 1960s, Haoran for one born after 2005). Korean given names are two hyphenated syllables (Seo-jun), and Japanese names are flipped to given name first in English, with modern Haruto alongside older Hiroshi.

South and Southeast Asian men are named differently again. Thai men carry long given names and surnames (Thanakorn Rattanakul) but answer to a one-syllable nickname. Filipino names pair Spanish surnames with stacked first names like Jose Miguel. Indonesian and Malay names often lack a family name, using Balinese birth-order markers (I Made, I Wayan) or a patronymic bin. Indian surnames announce region and community: Iyer and Nair are southern, Banerjee is Bengali, Singh and Gill are Punjabi. Pakistani and Bangladeshi names use Arabic and Persian vocabulary such as Bilal and Rafiqul.

This list is grouped by culture, from Chinese (mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan) through Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepali, Mongolian, Tibetan, Central Asian, Burmese, Khmer, Lao and Hmong names.