Asian Male Name Generator

Authentic men's names from across Asia

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Generate realistic Asian male names from more than twenty cultures: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Indonesian, Indian, Pakistani, Mongolian and more, each written in the name order and romanization that culture actually uses.

About Asian male names

'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 covers Chinese (mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepali, Mongolian, Tibetan, Central Asian, Burmese, Khmer, Lao and Hmong names.

How to choose Asian male names

  • Decide the character's exact country or community first. A Korean surname on a Thai given name, or a Cantonese surname on a Mandarin given name, reads as an error to anyone from those cultures.
  • Keep native order and spelling: surname first for Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese (Zhang Jun, Park Ji-ho, Trần Minh Quân), given name first for Japanese, Thai, Filipino and South Asian names, and keep the Vietnamese diacritics.
  • Match the name to a generation. Li Jianguo, Kim Young-soo and Tadashi Okamoto sound like men in their sixties; Li Haoran, Kim Do-yun and Haruto Sato sound like boys born after 2010.
  • For a diaspora character, a Western given name plus the family surname (Kevin Patel, Brandon Lee, Lucas Nguyen) is how most Asian American and British Asian men are actually named.
  • Hong Kong and Taiwanese names use different romanization from the mainland (Wong Ka-fai, Chen Chien-hung versus Wang Wei). Pick the system that matches where the character is from.

Frequently asked questions

Which Asian cultures does this male name generator cover?

East Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan), Southeast Asia (Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian, Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Hmong), South Asia (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepali, Bhutanese) and Central Asia (Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkmen). Each name follows its own culture's order and romanization.

Why are some names surname first and others given name first?

Because that is how each culture writes them. Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese names are family name first (Liu Qiang, Choi Do-yun, Lê Hoàng Long). Japanese names are customarily flipped to given name first in English, and Thai, Filipino, Indian, Indonesian and Pakistani names are given name first natively.

Are these names of real people?

They are common, culturally accurate combinations of real surnames and given names, not the names of specific living people. A couple of traditional placeholder names such as Hong Gil-dong and Chan Tai-man are included because they are how Korean and Hong Kong forms show an example name. Everything here is safe for characters, sample data and placeholders.

Can I use these for a novel, game or D&D character?

Yes. Choose names from the culture that fits the character, then check the generation and region notes in the tips above. For a fully original name, swap a given name and a surname from within the same culture rather than across cultures.

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All 500 Asian male names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 34 names

  • Aarav Patel
  • Abdul Rehman Khan
  • Abhishek Mishra
  • Aditya Verma
  • Agus Setiawan
  • Ahmad Faiz bin Abdullah
  • Ahmed Raza
  • Ahn Jae-hyun
  • Ahn Ji-han
  • Aibek Sadykov
  • Akira Ota
  • Amirul Hakim bin Roslan
  • Amitabh Chatterjee
  • Anand Deshpande
  • Andi Saputra
  • Anil Das
  • Anil Maharjan
  • Anucha Chaiyasit
  • Aoi Kato
  • Apichart Tangthong
  • Arief Rahman
  • Arif Uddin
  • Arjun Mehta
  • Arman Zhaksybekov
  • Arnel Dizon
  • Arsalan Baig
  • Arun Kumar
  • Arvin Pascual
  • Asad Chaudhry
  • Asahi Inoue
  • Ashan Weerasinghe
  • Ashok Pillai
  • Aung Ko Ko
  • Azamat Toktogulov

B: 13 names

  • Baek Hyun-seok
  • Bakyt Abdyldaev
  • Balaji Raman
  • Bambang Sutrisno
  • Batbayar Dorj
  • Bekzod Yusupov
  • Benjie Tolentino
  • Bikash Gurung
  • Bilal Hussain
  • Bold Nyamdorj
  • Bounmy Phommachanh
  • Budi Santoso
  • Bùi Anh Khoa

C: 21 names

  • Cai Haoxuan
  • Cao Hoàng Nam
  • Cao Jun
  • Cao Thanh Bình
  • Chaiwat Sirichoke
  • Chaminda Silva
  • Chan Sovann
  • Chan Tai-man
  • Chang Chia-hao
  • Chen Chien-hung
  • Chen Jianjun
  • Chen Wenjie
  • Cheng Yuxuan
  • Cheung Ka-ming
  • Cho Ji-hoon
  • Cho Kyung-ho
  • Choi Do-yun
  • Choi Dong-wook
  • Chow Kin-lok
  • Christian Dimagiba
  • Cui Jingyu

D: 29 names

  • Daiki Sasaki
  • Daisuke Morita
  • Đặng Hữu Phước
  • Đặng Ngọc Duy
  • Danial Haziq bin Azman
  • Danilo Magbanua
  • Danish Ansari
  • Daniyar Tulegenov
  • Dawa Namgyal
  • Debashish Mukherjee
  • Decha Lertsiri
  • Dedi Kurniawan
  • Deepak Choudhary
  • Deng Chao
  • Dennis Ocampo
  • Dhruv Chauhan
  • Dimas Anggara
  • Dinesh Jayasuriya
  • Ding Haotian
  • Đinh Công Sơn
  • Đinh Văn Tài
  • Dipesh Karki
  • Đỗ Hoàng Phúc
  • Đỗ Trung Hiếu
  • Dong Zeyu
  • Du Tianyou
  • Dương Hoàng Lâm
  • Dương Thế Vinh
  • Dwi Hartono

E: 5 names

  • Eduardo Mendoza
  • Ekkachai Suwannarat
  • Eko Prasetyo
  • Enkhbat Battulga
  • Ernesto Pangilinan

F: 10 names

  • Fahad Mirza
  • Faisal Qureshi
  • Fajar Nugroho
  • Fan Jingheng
  • Farhan Nasir
  • Farrukh Mirzaev
  • Feng Xiaolong
  • Francis Torres
  • Fumiya Kudo
  • Fung Tak-wah

G: 8 names

  • Ganbold Tsend
  • Ganesh Kulkarni
  • Gao Peng
  • Gilang Permadi
  • Goro Fujiwara
  • Guo Dong
  • Guo Ruilin
  • Gurpreet Sandhu

H: 32 names

  • Hamza Malik
  • Han Bo
  • Han Ki-tae
  • Han Seung-min
  • Harpreet Singh Gill
  • Haru Ozaki
  • Haruki Ishikawa
  • Haruto Sato
  • Hayato Arai
  • He Ping
  • Hendra Wijaya
  • Heo Yong
  • Hideo Maeda
  • Hinata Yoshida
  • Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Ho Chun-kit
  • Hồ Văn Thành
  • Hoàng Gia Bảo
  • Hoàng Việt Hùng
  • Hong Gil-dong
  • Hong Sung-min
  • Hou Qingsong
  • Hsu Kuan-ting
  • Hu Gang
  • Hu Xuefeng
  • Huang Jinlong
  • Huang Wen-hsiung
  • Huang Zhiqiang
  • Hui Pak-ho
  • Huỳnh Tuấn Kiệt
  • Hwang Jun-seo
  • Hwang Min-ho

I: 11 names

  • I Ketut Suardika
  • I Made Sudarma
  • I Wayan Gede Putra
  • Ibuki Nomura
  • Ichiro Wada
  • Imran Sarker
  • Imran Siddiqui
  • Irfan Danish
  • Isao Nakajima
  • Ishaan Bhatia
  • Itsuki Matsumoto

J: 21 names

  • Jang Woo-jin
  • Jang Ye-jun
  • Jasur Rashidov
  • Jeon Hyeok-jin
  • Jericho Macaraeg
  • Jerome Villanueva
  • Jiang Wentao
  • Jiang Zixuan
  • Jigme Dorji
  • Jin Yanbin
  • Joel Manalo
  • John Paul Cruz
  • Joko Susilo
  • Jomar Navarro
  • Jose Miguel Santos
  • Joshua Dimaculangan
  • Juan Carlos Reyes
  • Jun Nishimura
  • Junaid Iqbal
  • Jung Byung-chul
  • Jung Ha-joon

K: 34 names

  • Kabir Kapoor
  • Kaito Yamaguchi
  • Kamran Javed
  • Kang Dae-sung
  • Kang Si-woo
  • Karma Tashi
  • Karthik Iyer
  • Kasem Chanthanakorn
  • Kasun Fernando
  • Kazuki Saito
  • Keisuke Fukuda
  • Kenji Nakamura
  • Kenshin Takagi
  • Kenta Endo
  • Kevin Castillo
  • Khangai Bayarsaikhan
  • Kim Min-jun
  • Kim Young-soo
  • Kinley Wangdi
  • Kiran Magar
  • Kittisak Boonmee
  • Kiyoshi Ono
  • Koji Takeuchi
  • Koki Ikeda
  • Kong Xianlin
  • Kosuke Ishii
  • Kriangsak Worapong
  • Krishna Murthy
  • Kumar Ratnayake
  • Kuo Yen-ting
  • Kwok Chi-keung
  • Kwon Min-seok
  • Kwon Tae-hyung
  • Kyaw Zin Htet

L: 34 names

  • Lai Chung-yin
  • Lakshman Hegde
  • Lam Wai-kin
  • Lasith Wickramasinghe
  • Lau Wing-hong
  • Lê Anh Tuấn
  • Lê Hoàng Long
  • Lê Quang Huy
  • Lee Chee Keong
  • Lee Chi-wai
  • Lee Jung-ho
  • Lee Seo-jun
  • Lei Zonghan
  • Leung Siu-fai
  • Li Jianguo
  • Li Qiangsheng
  • Liang Wenbo
  • Lim Hyun-joon
  • Lim Ju-won
  • Lim Jun Hao
  • Lin Chih-ming
  • Lin Chun-hao
  • Lin Feng
  • Liu Chih-hao
  • Liu Qiang
  • Liu Zhenhua
  • Lobsang Dorje
  • Lorenzo Abad
  • Lu Chengyu
  • Lu Hongwei
  • Lu Shaoyu
  • Luo Yong
  • Lý Gia Huy
  • Lý Tuấn Anh

M: 25 names

  • Ma Chao
  • Ma Shengli
  • Mahela Dissanayake
  • Mahmudul Hasan
  • Mai Tấn Phát
  • Mai Xuân Trường
  • Mak Kin-sang
  • Makoto Murakami
  • Manoj Desai
  • Mark Anthony Bautista
  • Marlon Flores
  • Masaru Matsuda
  • Masato Okada
  • Mehedi Hossain
  • Minato Ito
  • Mo Yanrui
  • Mohd Hafiz bin Ismail
  • Mohit Saxena
  • Moon Seong-ho
  • Muhammad Aiman bin Zulkifli
  • Muhammad Ali Khan
  • Muhammad Fauzan
  • Munkhbat Sukhbaatar
  • Murat Orazov
  • Mushfiqur Chowdhury

N: 20 names

  • Nabin Limbu
  • Nam Kyung-min
  • Naoki Hasegawa
  • Naranbaatar Purev
  • Narong Sae-lim
  • Nattapong Sukkasem
  • Natthaphon Meesuk
  • Nazmul Haque
  • Neeraj Pandey
  • Nestor Ramos
  • Ng Ka-ho
  • Ngô Bá Khang
  • Ngô Quang Vinh
  • Nguyễn Hải Đăng
  • Nguyễn Thái Sơn
  • Nguyễn Văn An
  • Nikhil Bhatt
  • Noboru Fujii
  • Nursultan Bekov
  • Nuwan Perera

O: 7 names

  • Oh Ji-woo
  • Oh Seung-hwan
  • Omar Farooqui
  • Ong Kah Seng
  • Osamu Miura
  • Otgonbayar Ganzorig
  • Ou Wenxuan

P: 17 names

  • Pan Junjie
  • Paolo Salvador
  • Park Ji-ho
  • Park Sang-hoon
  • Patrick Gonzales
  • Pema Gyaltsen
  • Peng Yuhao
  • Phạm Đức Anh
  • Phạm Minh Đức
  • Phan Đăng Khoa
  • Phan Thanh Tùng
  • Piyawat Kulsiri
  • Pongsak Chaiprasit
  • Prakash Adhikari
  • Prakash Menon
  • Prasert Wongsawat
  • Praveen Shetty

Q: 2 names

  • Qian Sihan
  • Qin Bolin

R: 31 names

  • Rafi Maulana
  • Rafiqul Islam
  • Rahul Sharma
  • Rajiv Thakur
  • Rakesh Yadav
  • Ramesh Shrestha
  • Ramon Dela Cruz
  • Rashed Kabir
  • Ravi Shankar Pillai
  • Ravindran Muthusamy
  • Ren Kobayashi
  • Ren Yifan
  • Rento Kawaguchi
  • Reyansh Jain
  • Reza Firmansyah
  • Ricardo Lacson
  • Riku Watanabe
  • Rizky Ramadhan
  • Rodrigo Aquino
  • Rohan Gupta
  • Rolando Ilagan
  • Rommel Fernandez
  • Rustam Saidov
  • Ruwan Gunawardena
  • Ryan Christopher Garcia
  • Ryo Sugiyama
  • Ryoma Ishida
  • Ryota Kimura
  • Ryu Jae-won
  • Ryu Seung-woo
  • Ryusei Hashimoto

S: 44 names

  • Saad Farooq
  • Sachin Kadam
  • Sanath Bandara
  • Sanjay Joshi
  • Santosh Rai
  • Sarawut Jantaro
  • Satoshi Fujita
  • Seiya Iwasaki
  • Senthil Kumaran
  • Seo Hyun-woo
  • Seo Jin-woo
  • Shahid Nawaz
  • Shakib Rahman
  • Shen Bowen
  • Shi Zhenyu
  • Shigeru Harada
  • Shin Dong-hyun
  • Shin Tae-yang
  • Shinji Goto
  • Sho Abe
  • Shota Hayashi
  • Siddharth Rao
  • Sohel Mia
  • Sok Chea
  • Soma Kikuchi
  • Somchai Jaidee
  • Somsak Srisuwan
  • Sonam Norbu
  • Song Ki-yong
  • Song Yang
  • Song Yeon-woo
  • Sora Hirano
  • Sota Suzuki
  • Sourav Banerjee
  • Su Junyi
  • Sujan Tamang
  • Suman Thapa
  • Sun Jianmin
  • Sun Tao
  • Surachai Thongchai
  • Suresh Gopal
  • Suresh Nair
  • Surya Atmaja
  • Syafiq bin Othman

T: 39 names

  • Tadashi Okamoto
  • Taiga Yamashita
  • Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Takumi Kondo
  • Tam Chi-hang
  • Tamim Khan
  • Tan Jiaxin
  • Tan Wei Jie
  • Tang Rui
  • Tanvir Ahmed
  • Tariq Mahmood
  • Tarun Malhotra
  • Tashi Phuntsho
  • Tatsuya Ogawa
  • Teerapat Saengdao
  • Temuulen Altangerel
  • Tengku Azlan
  • Tenzin Wangchuk
  • Tetsuya Kaneko
  • Teuku Rizal
  • Thanakorn Rattanakul
  • Thanawat Promsri
  • Tharindu Rajapaksa
  • Thilina Herath
  • Tian Haoran
  • Timur Nazarov
  • Tomoya Sakamoto
  • Toshio Nakano
  • Tou Vang
  • Trần Bảo Khánh
  • Trần Đức Thịnh
  • Trần Minh Quân
  • Trương Đình Phúc
  • Trương Minh Nhật
  • Tsai Cheng-en
  • Tsang Man-kit
  • Tse Ho-yin
  • Tsogtbaatar Erdene
  • Tsubasa Mori

U: 3 names

  • Ugyen Tshering
  • Ulugbek Karimov
  • Usman Ghani

V: 7 names

  • Venkatesh Subramanian
  • Vihaan Reddy
  • Vikram Singh
  • Vivek Agarwal
  • Võ Nhật Minh
  • Vũ Quốc Bảo
  • Vũ Thành Đạt

W: 13 names

  • Wahyu Hidayat
  • Wang Dawei
  • Wang Po-yu
  • Wang Wei
  • Waqas Butt
  • Watcharapong Kaewsri
  • Wei Jiahao
  • Wichai Phongsathorn
  • Wong Ka-fai
  • Worawit Intharak
  • Wu Jianhua
  • Wu Yu-hsiang
  • Wu Zhiming

X: 4 names

  • Xiao Hanyu
  • Xie Kai
  • Xu Bin
  • Xu Weidong

Y: 23 names

  • Yamato Sakurai
  • Yan Jixiang
  • Yang Lei
  • Yang Xiaoming
  • Yao Kaixin
  • Yash Tiwari
  • Ye Zirui
  • Yeh Shao-hua
  • Yip Hok-yin
  • Yoga Pradana
  • Yoo Beom-seok
  • Yoon Eun-woo
  • Yoon Sang-chul
  • Yoshio Ueda
  • Yu Yichen
  • Yuan Mingze
  • Yudi Pratama
  • Yuen Kwok-wing
  • Yuki Shimizu
  • Yuma Yamada
  • Yusuke Aoki
  • Yuto Takahashi
  • Yuttana Phetcharat

Z: 13 names

  • Zain Sheikh
  • Zeng Zihao
  • Zhang Guohua
  • Zhang Jun
  • Zhao Guoqiang
  • Zhao Lihua
  • Zheng Hao
  • Zhong Yiming
  • Zhou Jianping
  • Zhou Ming
  • Zhu Jie
  • Zhu Yongjun
  • Zubair Shah