Random Halfling Name Generator

Halfling names come from two closely related traditions. Tolkien's hobbits carry short, rustic English first names, many of them old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon or Frankish (Bilbo, Drogo, Hamfast, Bungo, Odo), while hobbit women are named for flowers and jewels (Rosie, Primula, Belladonna, Pearl, Pervinca). Surnames describe a home, a trade, or a physical quirk with a wink: Baggins, Took, Brandybuck, Proudfoot, Hornblower, Sackville. Tolkien even gave the great families genealogies, which is why names like Isengrim, Ferumbras, and Bandobras Took feel like actual ancestors rather than inventions.

D&D halflings follow the same instinct with a slightly different palette. The 5e Player's Handbook lists first names like Alton, Cade, Merric, Milo, Roscoe, Wellby, Lidda, Kithri, Merla, and Verna, and family names built from two homely words: Goodbarrel, Tealeaf, Underbough, Tosscobble, Thorngage, Brushgather. Halfling families are large and their names travel with them, so a good D&D halfling name usually pairs a plain, friendly first name with a surname you could imagine over the door of an inn.

What both traditions share is comfort. Halfling names should sound like a warm kitchen, not a battlefield: soft consonants, two syllables in the first name, and a surname that mentions food, plants, hills, or homely objects. This list keeps the canonical D&D and Tolkien names, adds many new pairs in the same spirit, and offers standalone first names and surnames so you can build your own.