Na'vi Name Generator

Na'vi names come from a real constructed language. Paul Frommer built Na'vi for James Cameron's Avatar with a specific sound system, and names that follow it feel right on the ear even to fans who couldn't say why. The signature features are the ejective consonants written px, tx and kx (Rotxo, Txewì), the glottal stop written as an apostrophe (Mo'at, Tsu'tey, Lo'ak), the vowels ì and ä (Txewì, Sänrr), the ng and ts sounds (Aonung, Tsireya) and syllabic rr and ll (Lrrtok). Syllables end in a vowel or a limited set of consonants, so a name like Neytiri or Tonowari flows while Rotxo or Payakan hits harder.

Full Na'vi names add lineage. The formal pattern is name + te + family + parent's name + 'itan (son of) or 'ite (daughter of), as in Neytiri te Tskaha Mo'at'ite and Jake's Na'vi rendering Tsyeyk te Suli Tsyeyk'itan. Clan names such as Omatikaya, Metkayina and Ta'unui can also stand as identifiers. Forest-clan names in the first film tend to be soft and multi-syllabic; The Way of Water introduced shorter, punchier reef names like Ronal, Rotxo and Aonung, and Frontiers of Pandora added Western Frontier names like So'lek and Ri'nela.

The list above blends canon characters, phonologically correct originals, formal lineage names, clan names and titles like Tsahìk and Olo'eyktan.