Native American Name Generator

Real. Given names are dictionary words or attested personal names from specific languages (Lakota, Dakota, Navajo, Hopi, Cherokee, Ojibwe, Choctaw, Apache, Pawnee), historical names are documented leaders and figures, and the surnames are family names recorded in Native communities. Names that appear on baby-name websites with no traceable language source were deliberately left out.

For fiction, yes if you do it carefully: choose a specific nation, use names from that language, and avoid turning a famous leader's name into a character. For yourself, be cautious. Many nations give names through ceremony or family, and adopting one because it sounds nice can read as appropriation. Nicknames, usernames and pets are a poor fit for historical and ceremonial names.

Surnames vary by nation. Navajo families often carry Begay, Yazzie, Tsosie, Benally and Manygoats; Cherokee families include Sixkiller, Walkingstick and Bushyhead; Lakota families include Red Owl, Brings Plenty, Two Bulls and Iron Cloud; Crow families include Yellowtail, Real Bird and Not Afraid; Muscogee Creek families include Harjo, Fixico and Yahola; Comanche families include Tahmahkera and Pewewardy. Many others are ordinary English or Spanish surnames adopted during the 1800s.

Government agents, traders and newspapers translated or transliterated names when they wrote them down, so many historical figures are known by an English rendering alongside their name in their own language. Showing both lets you see how the original is built and which form your setting would use; a 19th-century newspaper says Sitting Bull, a Lakota speaker says Tatanka Iyotake.