Fantasy Planet Name Generator

A fantasy planet name has to do more work than a city or kingdom name: it labels the whole setting, appears on the map cover, and often becomes shorthand for the story itself. Look at the names that stuck. Arrakis, Krynn, Toril, Athas, Golarion, Roshar, Thedas, Nirn and Azeroth are all two or three syllables, end in a strong vowel or a hard consonant, and contain no words the reader can immediately decode. They feel ancient because they are opaque, in the same way that Earth, Mars and Terra are opaque.

There are three broad approaches. Invented names (Roshar, Eberron, Vaelora) work best for a primary world where the name should carry no baggage. Mythic borrowings (Asgard, Avalon, Hyperborea, Lemuria, Shambhala) work when you want the reader to feel a half-remembered legend, and are especially useful for lost worlds and planes. Descriptive names (The Shattered World, Wyrm's Rest, The Ninth World) suit worlds seen from outside, as ruins, colonies or the setting of a single doomed expedition. Science-fantasy settings such as Dune and Star Wars often combine an invented word with a Latinate tag: Giedi Prime, Salusa Secundus.

The list below mixes all three so you can name the setting of a novel, a D&D or Pathfinder campaign, a video-game world or a space-fantasy planet, and see how your candidate sounds beside the classics.