Palestinian Name Generator

Palestinian names are Levantine Arabic names, but the family name is what makes them unmistakably Palestinian. Most surnames are tied to a hometown and have been for centuries: Barghouti, Rimawi and Ajlouni around Ramallah; Natsheh, Qawasmi, Ja'bari and Abu Sneineh in Hebron; Masri, Tuqan and Shaka'a in Nablus; Husseini, Nashashibi, Dajani, Khalidi and Nusseibeh among the old Jerusalem families; Shawa, Sourani and Shurrab in Gaza City; Zoabi, Masalha and Jabarin in the Galilee and the Triangle. A very large group begins with Abu ('father of'), such as Abu Sitta, Abu Rahma, Abu Khdeir and Abu Hadid, which started as a nickname for an ancestor and hardened into a surname.

Given names follow the wider Arab pattern with a local accent. Muslim families use Mahmoud, Ahmad, Khaled, Ibrahim, Fatima, Aisha, Amal and Reem, plus a newer generation of Yazan, Laith, Rayan, Tala, Leen and Jumana. Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Ramallah, Nazareth and Haifa carry Issa, Elias, Hanna, Jiries, George, Rita, Mary and Nadine alongside surnames such as Khoury, Qumsiyeh, Bannoura, Canawati, Giacaman and Tarazi. Adults are commonly addressed by a kunya (Abu Khalil, Umm Yousef), which is why the list includes a few of those forms too.

Every name here is a believable combination rather than a copy of a public figure, ready for fiction, games or placeholder data.