New World Name Generator

New World drops every character onto Aeternum the same way: shipwrecked, in the early 1600s, from somewhere in the Old World. That framing is the easiest guide to a name that fits. Puritan and Stuart-era English names (Obadiah, Temperance, Hezekiah, Mercy), Spanish and Portuguese names from the age of the treasure fleets (Rodrigo, Catalina, Duarte, Beatriz), Dutch merchant names (Anneke, Joost, Hendrick) and French and Italian names (Etienne, Madeleine, Lucrezia, Cosimo) all read like people who could have stepped off a galleon at First Light. Matching the in-game NPCs, who include an Isabella, a Captain Thorpe and Grace O'Malley, they feel native rather than imported from a high-fantasy setting.

Character names in New World are one word, letters only, roughly 3 to 16 characters, and unique on your world set, so short real names vanish fast. The usual fix is a compound: a settlement, resource or enemy turned into a handle. Everfall, Windsward, Brimstone Sands, Reekwater, Azoth, Starmetal, Wyrdwood, the Corrupted, the Lost, the Angry Earth and the Ancients all give you pieces (Azothbound, Reekwatcher, Thornwake, Tendrilborn), and faction flavor works too: Syndicate names lean scholarly and alchemical, Marauder names blunt and martial, Covenant names bright and zealous.

The final block is company names, for anyone founding a guild: settlement references, expedition jokes, faction banners and war-and-territory puns.