Outer Worlds Name Generator
Colonist, captain and crew names for Halcyon
Generate character names that fit The Outer Worlds and The Outer Worlds 2: quaint, slightly old-fashioned colonist names like Parvati Holcomb and Felix Millstone for your captain, crew, NPCs and corporate staff across Halcyon and Arcadia.
About Outer Worlds names
The Outer Worlds names its people like a 1900s company town that got launched into space. Companions and colonists carry plain, slightly antique first names (Parvati, Felix, Ellie, Maximillian, Nyoka, Phineas, Hortense, Udom, Percival) attached to surnames that sound like they belong on a factory gate or a ledger: Holcomb, Millstone, Fenhill, DeSoto, Welles, Tobson, Culkelly, Ingalsbee. Nothing is futuristic or cyberpunk. The joke of Halcyon is that the corporations are the only thing that ever advanced, so the naming is Edwardian, Depression-era and small-town, drawn from every background the colony ships carried.
The setting reinforces it. Brands are possessive and folksy (Spacer's Choice, Auntie Cleo's) or stiffly bureaucratic (Universal Defense Logistics), towns are named like mining camps (Edgewater, Fallbrook, Stellar Bay), and the ship is the Unreliable, so a character called Wendell Oakes or Beatrix Pemberton fits right in. The Outer Worlds 2 keeps this tone in Arcadia, adding Protectorate and Order of the Ascendant flavor but the same sort of people.
The list opens with canon companions and NPCs for reference, then moves to original captain, crew and colonist names: soldiers, scientists, vicars, foremen and corporate clerks from every background the colony ships carried.
How to choose Outer Worlds names
- Pair an old-fashioned or uncommon first name with a sturdy, workaday surname; Gladys Culkelly and Reed Tobson sound right, while Nova Blaze or Jaxx Steel sound like a different game.
- The colony is multi-ethnic, so mix surname origins freely (Nandi, Akande, DeSoto, Ramnarim-Wentworth) and keep the spelling ordinary rather than exotic.
- For your captain, remember the game calls you the Unplanned Variable and others use Captain as a title, so choose a surname that works after it: Captain Pemberton, Captain Okonjo.
- Give the character a job before you name them. A Spacer's Choice clerk, a Monarch hunter and a Board scientist all use the same plain register, but a Board name can lean a little stiffer (Cornelius Vance) and a frontier name a little rougher (Jeb Tolliver).
- If you are writing fan fiction, hang a company or town on the name the way the game does (Velma Ballard of Edgewater, Lilya Hagen of Sub Light) rather than inventing a heroic epithet; nobody in Halcyon gets a cool title.
Frequently asked questions
What kind of names are used in The Outer Worlds?
Mostly plain, slightly dated first names from many cultures paired with solid English-sounding surnames, reflecting a colony founded by corporations with an early-20th-century aesthetic. Companions like Parvati Holcomb, Felix Millstone, Ellie Fenhill and Nyoka Ramnarim-Wentworth III are the template.
Does this work for The Outer Worlds 2?
Yes. The sequel moves to the Arcadia colony and adds the Protectorate and the Order of the Ascendant, but the naming style for colonists, soldiers and corporate staff is the same retro-corporate register, so every name here fits either game.
Can I name my captain anything in the game?
Yes; the character creator accepts any name. NPCs will still mostly call you Captain, so the surname is what you will actually hear. Pick something that sounds natural after that title.
Are canon Outer Worlds characters included?
Yes, a few. Companions and well-known NPCs such as Parvati Holcomb, Felix Millstone, Ellie Fenhill, Phineas Welles and Sophia Akande appear near the top for reference; everything after them is original, written in the same style for homebrew stories, mods and tabletop adaptations.
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All 500 Outer Worlds names
A: 38 names
- Abigail Edwards
- Abner Dooley
- Absalom Cray
- Ada Brightmore
- Adelaide Farrow
- Adelaide McDevitt
- Adelia Sorensen
- Adeline Sparks
- Agatha Mbeki-Rowe
- Agatha Pruitt
- Agnes Needham
- Agnes Winterbourne
- Aldous Pennington
- Alex Hawthorne
- Alfred Duggan
- Algernon Price
- Alistair Crane
- Alma Kessler
- Alonso Redfern
- Alonzo Birchwood
- Alvin Drummond
- Ambrose Kettering
- Ambrose Quayside
- Ambrose Tilly
- Amelia Stoat
- Amos Quigley
- Annis Kellerman
- Ansel Whitlock
- Anselm Rook
- Antoinette Goodnight
- Anton Crane
- Arabella Hatch
- Archibald Mott
- Arlo Weatherby
- Augusta Wilde
- Augustin Peabody
- Augustus Pell
- Aurelia Pike
B: 22 names
- Balthazar Quint
- Barnabas Hoyt
- Barnaby Stroud
- Barnard Witherspoon
- Bartholomew Sykes
- Basil Pettigrew
- Bea Lockhart
- Beatrice Okoro
- Beatrix Pemberton
- Benedict Osei
- Bernadette Lowry
- Bertie Okafor
- Bertram Oyelaran
- Beryl Tomkins
- Bessie Fairweather
- Bette Calloway
- Bettina Krauss
- Beulah Cartwright
- Boyd Kessler
- Bram Tolliver
- Burt Castellanos
- Byron Fairchild
C: 37 names
- Calvin Thrupp
- Caspian Oduya
- Cassandra O'Malley
- Cassius Drew
- Catherine Malin
- Cecil Hargreave
- Cecily Harcourt
- Cedric Mallory
- Celeste Arden
- Celia Robbins
- Charles Rockwell
- Cicely Oyekan
- Clara Whitfield
- Clarence Mbeki
- Clarice Wendt
- Clement Osgood
- Clement Udofia
- Clementine Vasko
- Clifford Stoat
- Clyde Loveless
- Clyde Ravenhall
- Conrad Mueller
- Conrad Sadik
- Constance Albright
- Constance Mbatha
- Cora Lindstrom
- Cordelia Tannen
- Cormac Haddon
- Cornelius Abbott
- Cornelius Vance
- Cornell Baptiste
- Cosmo Lindgren
- Cressida Moon
- Crispin Mbeki
- Cuthbert Rowe
- Cyril Banerjee
- Cyrus Bellweather
D: 17 names
- Daisy Mwangi
- Darius Achebe
- Dashiell Mornay
- Della Vanterpool
- Delphine Arquette
- Desmond Ashgrove
- Desmond Farquhar
- Digby Okoro
- Dinah Caldwell
- Dolores Ashworth
- Dominic Farrier
- Doris Whitlow
- Dorothea Finch
- Dorothy Kwan
- Dot Villanueva
- Dudley Farnsworth
- Dulcie Obiang
E: 36 names
- Ebenezer Holt
- Edgar Macredd
- Edith Marchbanks
- Edmund Oyekan
- Edna Varga
- Edwin Falkner
- Edwina Carver
- Effie Adegoke
- Eleanor Huxley
- Elias Thorncastle
- Ellie Fenhill
- Ellsworth Hamm
- Elmer Stroud
- Eloise Brandt
- Elsie Montgomery
- Elspeth Varga
- Emery Lockhart
- Emmett Caskey
- Enid Marlowe
- Enoch Stillwater
- Erasmus Vail
- Ernest Villiers
- Errol Nakashima
- Estelle Dubois
- Esther Kowalczyk
- Ethel Nakagawa
- Eudora Vance
- Eugenia Sato
- Eunice Trotter
- Eustace Pemberly
- Eva Chartrand
- Evangeline Moss
- Everard Toombs
- Everett Colquhoun
- Ezekiel Barlow
- Ezra Nakashima
F: 18 names
- Fabian Teixeira
- Faye Delgado
- Felipe Estrada
- Felix Millstone
- Felix Oyinlola
- Fenton Abercrombie
- Ferdinand Oyelaran
- Fergus Varga
- Ferris Wakefield
- Fidelia Osgood
- Fitzgerald Maas
- Fletcher Dunmore
- Flora Dunleavy
- Florence Nakamura
- Flossie Blackstock
- Frances Oyelowo
- Franklin Oduya
- Frederick Anand
G: 22 names
- Garland Fisk
- Genevieve Ortiz
- Georgette Lumb
- Georgia Ravel
- Georgina Ashdown
- Gertrude Villanueva
- Gideon Marsh
- Gilbert Osei
- Gladys Culkelly
- Gloria Castellanos
- Gordon Abernethy
- Grace Romero
- Graham Bryant
- Greer Halvorsen
- Gregor Ashworth
- Greta Lindqvist
- Grover Pinsent
- Guinevere Tash
- Gus Hollander
- Gus Tremaine
- Gwen Achebe
- Gwendolyn Hatch
H: 30 names
- Hal Drummond
- Hamish Tolliver
- Harlan Pryce
- Harmony Stroud
- Harold Bassey
- Harriet Okonjo
- Harriet Quimby
- Harriet Spindlow
- Harriet Thistlewood
- Hattie Lowell
- Hazel Pruett
- Hector Brightwater
- Henrietta Voss
- Herbert Oyedepo
- Hester Cavendish
- Hester Vigo
- Hettie Marsh
- Hilda Nakagawa
- Hiram Acheson
- Hiram Blythe
- Hollis Ravel
- Honora Blake
- Horace Adebayo
- Horace Linden
- Horatio Spurling
- Hortense Ingalsbee
- Hortensia Quist
- Hubert Grayling
- Humphrey Dace
- Hyacinth Pryce
I: 16 names
- Ida Brightmore
- Ignatius Balogun
- Ignatius Bramble
- Ignatius Crowl
- Ike Caldwell
- Imelda Barclay
- Imogen Hale
- Ines Barrow
- Ingrid Osei
- Irene Pettigrew
- Iris Pennywhistle
- Irving Matsuda
- Isadora Wren
- Isolde Bramwell
- Ivy Lutterworth
- Ivy Thackeray
J: 17 names
- Jarvis Okoye
- Jasper Achterberg
- Jasper Wendt
- Jeb Tolliver
- Jedediah Crump
- Jemima Roux
- Jeremy Rafferty
- Jerome Castellan
- Jethro Huxley
- Jocasta Teague
- Jock Haugh
- Jonah Ridley
- Josephine Delacroix
- Josie Lindqvist
- Jules Achterberg
- Juniper Vasquez
- Junlei Tennyson
K: 5 names
- Katrin Hoffmeyer
- Kenneth Oyelaran
- Kezia Ferrante
- Kirby Anand
- Kitty Fenwick
L: 36 names
- Lambert Okezie
- Lavender Hollis
- Lavinia Strand
- Leander Whitlow
- Leland Haverford
- Lemuel Strickland
- Lena Hargrove
- Lenore Padgett
- Leonard Chukwu
- Leopold Whitcombe
- Lester Pinkerton
- Lester Pomfrey
- Lilian Haverford
- Lilya Hagen
- Linus Okonedo
- Lionel Baptiste
- Lionel Fenwick
- Lloyd Matsuda
- Loretta Bingham
- Lorna Meredith
- Lorne Haskett
- Lottie Ambergris
- Loveday Birchwood
- Lucas Pemberly
- Lucian Moreau
- Lucille Bannerman
- Lucinda Battersby
- Lucius Fairweather
- Lucius Farrow
- Lucius Okwuosa
- Lucky Montoya
- Ludwig Miller
- Lula Brackenridge
- Lydia Bramwell
- Lyle Pennock
- Lysander Okwuosa
M: 34 names
- Mabel Quint
- Madeline Roux
- Maeve Thackeray
- Magnolia Shoemaker
- Maisie Hargrove
- Marcus Dunleavy
- Margaret Thorne
- Margery Thrupp
- Marguerite Fonseca
- Marguerite Oyelaran
- Marianne Coyle
- Maribel Santos
- Marjorie Tallow
- Marjory Culpepper
- Marlena Ostrowski
- Martin Callahan
- Matilda Frey
- Matilda Rourke
- Maud Fellowes
- Maude Ferrier
- Mavis Longfellow
- Maximillian DeSoto
- Mervyn Oduya
- Mildred Tully
- Millicent Hsu
- Milton Crabbe
- Minerva Lasko
- Minnie Ambrose
- Montgomery Lusk
- Morris Adeyemi
- Mortimer Ashe
- Mortimer Quayle
- Muriel Stanhope
- Myrtle Osgood
N: 15 names
- Nadia Verhoeven
- Nan Whitcombe
- Nathaniel Grubb
- Ned Bannerman
- Nell Tremaine
- Nellie Achterberg
- Nestor Pallis
- Nettie Cobbold
- Nettie Halloran
- Nicodemus Frayne
- Nigel Akintola
- Nora Castellanos
- Norbert Espinoza
- Norma Petrakis
- Nyoka Ramnarim-Wentworth III
O: 18 names
- Obadiah Wick
- Octavia Reyes
- Odalys Brennaman
- Odette Wainwright
- Olive Grayling
- Oliver Brisk
- Olivia Ambrose
- Opal Fairbanks
- Ophelia Sandoval
- Orla Fitzwilliam
- Orville Jessup
- Oscar Lindgren
- Osgood Tremaine
- Oswald Kemper
- Otis Ravensbourne
- Ottilie Kincaid
- Otto Brandt
- Ottoline Parr
P: 21 names
- Parvati Holcomb
- Patrick Oyelowo
- Pearl Chaudhary
- Pearlie Szabo
- Penelope Vickers
- Percival Anand
- Percival Platt
- Percy Hadlow
- Peregrine Haines
- Persephone Diallo
- Philippa Dunmore
- Philomena Gage
- Phineas Teague
- Phineas Welles
- Phoebe Crane
- Phyllis Ng
- Pip Longfellow
- Polly Tannen
- Priscilla Tate
- Prudence Ashby
- Prudence Okoro
Q: 3 names
- Quentin Ashby
- Quincy Offerman
- Quinlan Ashe
R: 25 names
- Rafe Okonkwo
- Ramona Vickery
- Reed Tobson
- Reginald Tate
- Reuben Okoye
- Rex Whitcombe
- Rhoda Castellan
- Roderick Pym
- Roland Bexley
- Rolf Abernethy
- Ronald Mackleby
- Rory Blackstock
- Rosa Espinoza
- Rosalee Vantage
- Rosalie Tannen
- Rosalind Cheung
- Rosamund Teague
- Roscoe Halvard
- Rosetta Mwangi
- Rowena Dimmock
- Royce Halvorsen
- Ruby Abernathy
- Rufus Tanager
- Rupert Kessling
- Rutherford Pike
S: 22 names
- Sabina Ferrante
- Sadie Marchetti
- Sally Brightwater
- Samuel Thistlewood
- Sanjar Nandi
- Sebastian Oyelaran
- Seraphina Blount
- Sherman Abiodun
- Sherwood Pryce
- Sidney Lowell
- Silas Pemberton
- Silvester Haugh
- Simeon Garroway
- Solomon Adeyemi
- Sophia Akande
- Sophie Halloway
- Stanford Vail
- Stanley Mbatha
- Stella Matsuda
- Susannah Pike
- Sybil Greaves
- Sylvester Moon
T: 20 names
- Tabby Mortenson
- Tabitha Crowder
- Tabitha Lyle
- Tamsin Hollander
- Teddy Halloran
- Temperance Holloway
- Tessa Oakum
- Thaddeus Grange
- Thelma Ocampo
- Theo Ashcombe
- Theodora Brisk
- Thomas Kemp
- Thora Lindqvist
- Thornton Blaise
- Tilda Ravenscroft
- Tilly Abernathy
- Titus Redfern
- Tobias Ravenscroft
- Trudy Okafor
- Tucker Needham
U: 8 names
- Udom Bedford
- Ulric Adebayo
- Ulric Tanager
- Ulysses Hatch
- Ulysses Pardoe
- Una Farquhar
- Uriah Pennock
- Ursula Chukwu
V: 13 names
- Vance Kettering
- Velma Ballard
- Vera Hollingsworth
- Verity Slocum
- Vernon Ledbetter
- Vesta Marlowe
- Victor Ambergris
- Vincent Haggerty
- Viola Kessling
- Violet Mbeki
- Violet Okafor
- Virgil Haddock
- Vivian Oakhurst
W: 19 names
- Wallace Truitt
- Walt Pinsent
- Walter Abara
- Walter Okonkwo
- Wendell Kincaid
- Wendell Oakes
- Wilbert Fanshawe
- Wilbur Tanaka
- Wilfred Ocampo
- Wilhelmina Ambrose
- Wilhelmina Drew
- Willa Stone
- Wilma Sørensen
- Winifred Cobb
- Winnie Abara
- Winnifred Gage
- Winona Stirling
- Winston Oyinlola
- Wren Farrier
X: 1 name
- Xavier Pomfrey
Y: 3 names
- Yolanda Mbatha
- Yusuf Pemberly
- Yvette Crabbe