Megacorp Name Generator

The megacorp is one of science fiction's most durable villains, and its names follow patterns you can learn from the classics. Weyland-Yutani (Alien) and Shinra (Final Fantasy VII) use surnames, often hyphenated to suggest a merger between Western and Japanese firms. Arasaka and Militech (Cyberpunk 2077) show the two ends of the spectrum: an old family zaibatsu versus a blunt compound of function words. Tyrell Corporation (Blade Runner), Omni Consumer Products (RoboCop), and Umbrella (Resident Evil) show how a single innocuous word can become sinister once the audience knows what the company does. Then there is the bland-bureaucratic style, Consolidated, Amalgamated, General, Universal, which reads as a company so large it no longer needs a real name.

The list above pulls from all of these lanes: hyphenated founder mergers, mythological names implying hubris (Prometheus, Icarus, Cerberus, Talos), pseudo-official concerns and directorates, blunt -corp and -tech compounds, and deliberately warm names (Providence Corporation, White Dove Munitions) that are far more unsettling because of the contrast.

For a setting to feel real, mix tones. A world where every company is called Shadow Dominion Corp reads as parody. Give your arms maker a family name, your data broker a mythological one, and your surveillance state contractor something like HomeSafe Systems, and readers will fill in the menace themselves.