Red Dead Redemption Name Generator

Outlaw, lawman, gang and horse names for the frontier

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Generate period-accurate Red Dead Redemption names for outlaws, lawmen, gang members, townsfolk and horses, covering the 1899 world of RDR2 and the 1911 border country of the original game.

About Red Dead Redemption names

Red Dead Redemption's world runs from the 1899 of RDR2 to the 1911 of the first game, and its names sound right because Rockstar pulled them from real census pages of the period. Men carry Old Testament and Puritan given names (Josiah, Amos, Ezekiel, Hiram) or clipped country ones (Clem, Zeb, Rafe, Hoyt) over Anglo, Irish, Scots and German surnames. Women range from sturdy farm names like Mattie and Hattie to the ornate Victorian register of Theodosia and Philomena. Lemoyne adds Cajun French (Aurèle Breaux, Odilon Fontenot), New Austin and Nuevo Paraíso add Mexican names of the Porfiriato era (Porfirio Encinas, Soledad Arredondo), and Saint Denis brings immigrants from everywhere.

Nicknames matter as much as surnames. Wanted posters, newspapers and dime novels turned people into Three-Fingered Jack or the Blackwater Kid, and a handle tied to a place (Cholla Springs Charlie, Roanoke Ridge Rose) or a weapon (Buckshot Bess, Bowie Knife Jim) is an instant backstory. Gangs tend to be named for a family, a leader or a stretch of country, which is why the Dunmore Gang, Hask's Raiders or the Cumberland Cutthroats all sound plausible beside the canon outfits.

The list mixes plain character names, nicknamed outlaws, titled townsfolk, gang names and period horse names, so you can name a whole camp, posse or stable here.

How to choose Red Dead Redemption names

Match the name to the region: Scots-Irish and German for the Heartlands and Roanoke Ridge, French for Lemoyne bayou country, Spanish for New Austin and across the San Luis, and anything at all in Saint Denis.
For a roleplay character, pick a plain census-style name first and let the nickname emerge from play; a handle you earn (Lefty, Widowmaker) lands better than one you assign yourself.
Gang names work best when tied to a leader, a family or a landmark, so swap in your own posse leader's surname or a real map location like Cumberland Forest or Bluewater Marsh.
Say the name aloud in an accent; frontier names were shouted across camps and saloons, and Hollis Van Meter or Tallulah Reece survive that test better than anything with three syllables in every word.
Avoid copying story characters like Arthur Morgan or John Marston; borrowing the style (biblical first name, hard surname) gives you the same feel without the immersion break.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between this and the Red Dead Online name generator?

This page covers the whole franchise, including RDR1's 1911 border country and Mexico, gang names and horse names, while the Red Dead Online generator focuses on character and posse names for online play. Both use the same 1890s-1910s naming conventions.

Are these names accurate to the 1899-1911 setting?

Yes. The given names and surnames are drawn from what was actually common in the United States, Mexico and the immigrant communities of the period, with nicknames modeled on real wanted posters and newspapers of the era.

Can I use these for RedM or other Red Dead roleplay servers?

They are built for that. Most RP servers require period-accurate first and last names, which is what the plain entries provide, and the titled and nicknamed versions work for character backgrounds and posse lore.

Does the list include horse names?

Yes, the last section is period horse names in the style RDR2 players actually use, from simple barn names like Biscuit and Clover to weightier ones like Thunderhead and Comanche, with a few canon favorites mixed in.

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All 500 Red Dead Redemption names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

Plain text, one name per line.

A: 24 names

Abel Strawbridge
Abigail Roarke
Abner Gault
Abraham Stroud
Absalom Cates
Achille Thibodeaux
Adelia Strang
Agent Cornelia Rusk
Alasdair Rennie
Alcide Poché
Aloysius Grumman
Alvin Crabtree
Ambrose Whitlow
Ambrosio Leyva
Amos Greeley
Amparo Villaseñor
Anselmo Cuéllar
Araminta Fosse
Arlo Whitcomb
Asa Driscoll
Augusta Merriman
Aurèle Breaux
Axel Gunderson
Azélie Benoit

B: 36 names

Baltasar Nájera
Banjo
Banker Horace Beddingfield
Barnaby Fisk
Baron
Bartholomew Queensbury
Bathsheba Fell
Bayou Nwa Ned
Beatrix Stallworth
Bertram Quayle
Beulah Mae Tatum
Big Red
Big Valley Belle
Billy Bob Hollis
Birdie Ashburn
Birdie Mae Pruitt
Biscuit
Black Hat Callaway
Blacksmith Ned Lockett
Blaze
Bloody Mary Kincaid
Bluebell
Boadicea
Boone Carver
Bootlegger Remy Arceneaux
Bounty Hunter Creed Morrow
Bowie Knife Jim Kell
Boyd Fanning
Bram Tiller
Brother Josias Candle
Brown Jack
Buckshot Bess Fairley
Buckskin Bill
Buell
Burl Hoskins
Buzzard Bill Hatch

C: 39 names

Cage Rutledge
Cal Whitlow
Caleb Hollowell
Captain Elias Merriwether
Card Sharp Montague Fairweather
Cash Pelham
Cassius Brightwood
Catalina Ferrer
Cato Ledbetter
Cattle King Jubal Whitacre
Célestin Mouton
Celia Pendergrass
Chestnut
Cholla Springs Charlie
Cillian Tierney
Cinder
Clem Ashby
Clementine Weems
Cleo Bivens
Clover
Clyde Ravenel
Coal Dust Cal Barton
Colonel Beauregard Lisle
Comanche
Conrad Eberle
Constance Vickery
Copper Kettle Kate
Cordell Grange
Cormac Dunleavy
Cornelia Devereaux
Cornelius Plunkett
Cottonmouth Cass Weems
Coyote Carl Hensley
Cricket
Crisanto Ledesma
Cumberland Jack Rourke
Curly Bill Oakes
Cuthbert Fanshawe
Cyrus Pembleton

D: 22 names

Dapple Dan
Deacon Lemuel Sparrow
Deke Sumner
Della Rae Hutto
Delphine Marbury
Delphine Mouledoux
Deputy Virgil Strawn
Devereaux Pinchot
Dinah Whitsett
Dirty Dan Sandoval
Dixie Lee Farrow
Doc Lucinda Maypole
Doc Orville Pettibone
Dolly
Domino
Dorcas Whitfield
Drusilla Tully
Duchess
Duncan Lachlan
Dusty
Dusty Joe Crimmins
Dynamite Dick Farrow

E: 22 names

Eli Bascom
Elias Crowder
Elijah Gaines
Elmer Haggard
Elodie Brasseaux
Emerald Ranch Ezra
Emma Jean Cotter
Emmett Sutter
Ennis
Enoch Pardee
Ephraim Colter
Erasmus Grubb
Esperanza Quiroga
Essie Lockhart
Eudora Pell
Eusebio Galindo
Evangeline Thorpe
Evaristo Lugo
Everett Shumate
Ewan Brodie
Ezra Colbeck
Ezra Pettigrew

F: 8 names

Fat Jack Tolley
Félicité Leger
Fergal Moran
Fiona Munro
Fitzwilliam Blount
Florencio Parra
Fortune Teller Zelda Moravec
Friedrich Muller

G: 8 names

Gaptooth Gus Mallory
General
Gideon Hask
Giovanna Ricci
Gravedigger Grimes
Gunpowder
Gunsmith Otto Krausgrill
Gus Blanchard

H: 21 names

Half-Moon Harry Teague
Hamish Ogilvie
Hangman Hale
Hannah Goodall
Hans Lindemann
Harlan Pike
Harlan Vosburgh
Harriet Oldham
Hask's Raiders
Hazel Tumlin
Hedwig Strauss
Henrietta Pomfret
Hettie Burwell
Hezekiah Lark
Hippolyte Savoie
Hiram Dunmore
Hollis Van Meter
Homesteader Mattie Overholt
Horace Quimby
Horse Thief Dab Pinkney
Hoyt Garrity

I: 11 names

Ida Belle Rucker
Ignacio Santacruz
Ike Haverly
Ingvar Torvik
Ione Stallard
Ira Dunlevy
Isaac Broadus
Isaac Fenwick
Isidro Espinosa
Isobel Lennox
Ivy Maddern

J: 20 names

Jacinta Olvera
Jacob Heddle
Jasper Dowdy
Jasper Weems
Jedediah Pryor
Jep Caudle
Jeremiah Stiles
Jerusha Tomlin
Jessamine Cole
Jim Bob Teague
John Henry Bascom
Jonah Kittredge
Josephine Delacourt
Josiah Kendrick
Josiah Thorne
Jozef Kowalczyk
Jubal Tate
Jubilee Hawkes
Judge Barnabas Coker
Juniper

K: 6 names

Karen Wilcox
Keziah Tandy
Kid Lightning Lusk
Kit Marlowe
Kitty Bramwell
Klaus Brenning

L: 33 names

La Banda del Diablo
Lafayette Broussard
Laird Macallister
Landon Gaspard
Lavinia Oxendine
Leander Wick
Leandro Mijares
Lefty Reardon
Lemuel Hatch
Lena Brightwater
Leonora Quill
Leopold Van Horne
Lettie Mayweather
Levi Hackett
Liang Chen
Liesel Baumgartner
Lieutenant Augustus Penrose
Little Bit
Lodema Sparks
Lon Brazos
Lonesome Charlie Brix
Lorena Vasquez
Lorenzo Ybanez
Los Bandoleros del Río
Los Coyotes de Sonora
Los Forajidos de Perdido
Los Hermanos Escalera
Los Lobos de Chuparosa
Lucas Tremont
Lucía Zamudio
Lucretia Hawksworth
Lula Mae Bixby
Lyman Ostrander

M: 31 names

Mad Dog McCready
Madam Vivienne Delacroix
Maeve Gallagher
Malachi Dorn
Maple
Marguerite Lavelle
Mariah Crowe
Marigold
Marion Tolbert
Marisol Escalera
Marshal Ezra Tolliver
Marshal Josephine Crane
Mary Alice Crowley
Mary Oakhurst
Matthias Rourke
Maximiliano Abrego
Maybelle Toliver
Mayor Aldous Fenimore
Mercer Dalrymple
Merritt Shankle
Mesa Flats Mabel
Mesquite
Micah Sloane
Midnight
Minerva Coldiron
Mingo Rutherford
Minnie Tarrant
Molly Parnell
Moonshine
Moonshiner Coot Haggerty
Mose Whitaker

N: 14 names

Narcisse Comeaux
Nathan Boudreaux
Nathaniel Loomis
Ned Trask
Nehemiah Boggs
Nellie
Nettie Ruth Calhoun
Newt Ballinger
Niamh Brannigan
Noble Ferris
Nora Dubose
Nora Jean Pruitt
Nugget
Nurse Winifred Sayles

O: 14 names

Obadiah Lusk
Odilon Fontenot
Oilman Wilbur Calloway
Olaf Sigurdsson
Old Boy
Old Paint
Olen Treadway
Olympe Chauvin
One-Ear Pete Sorley
Opal Kirkwood
Orrin Blackstock
Otis Gallant
Ottilie Brandt
Otto Reinhardt

P: 22 names

Padraig Boyle
Padre Benicio Alvarado
Paloma Vidal
Palomino Pete
Pardee's Irregulars
Parson Ebenezer Quill
Patches
Pearl Abbott
Peregrine Hale
Philémon Cormier
Philomena Moody
Phoebe Hargrove
Pieter Van der Berg
Pike Ambler
Pinkerton Edwin Halstead
Pistol
Plácido Montemayor
Porfirio Encinas
Powder Keg Pruitt
Prairie Rose
Preacher Abel Goodnight
Prudence Whitcomb

Q: 1 name

Quincy Marbury

R: 25 names

Rachel Beckwith
Rafe Pickett
Rail Boss Thaddeus Vail
Rambler
Ransom Pollard
Ransom Voight
Rattlesnake Roy Garrity
Raven
Refugio Saucedo
Remy Thériault
Reverend Thaddeus Crowninshield
Roanoke Ridge Rose
Rogelio Arrieta
Rosalie Duplantier
Rosamund Roarke
Rosario Bustamante
Roscoe Tanner
Ruby
Ruby Jo Pickens
Rufus Tolliver
Rupert Chalmers
Rustler Nate Spurlock
Ruth Anne Posey
Rutherford Pascoe
Ruthven Hockley

S: 35 names

Sadie Talbot
Sagebrush
Saint Denis Sylvie
Saloon Keeper Jolene Marsh
Salvatore Greco
Sampson Tigue
Sawbones Sully Fenn
Scarlet Meadows Sal
Schoolmarm Prudence Abernathy
Seamus Rafferty
Sebastian Coldwater
Seraphina Vane
Sergeant Rufus Gallant
Séverin Bergeron
Shep Caudill
Sheriff Cassius Mabry
Sheriff Hollis Bradshaw
Shotgun Shelby Reese
Showgirl Lulu Ransome
Sigrid Ostergaard
Silas Hogg
Silas Mayhew
Silver Dollar
Siobhan Feeney
Sister Temperance Hale
Snake Oil Sam Whittlesey
Soledad Arredondo
Solomon Weatherspoon
Sorrel Sally
Stage Driver Abner Stubblefield
Storm Cloud
Strawberry Sam Dodge
Sugarfoot
Sully Graves
Susan Grimsby

T: 76 names

Tall Trees Tom
Tallulah Reece
Telegraph Operator Milo Prewitt
Telesforo Ybarra
Tennessee
Tennyson Greer
Teodoro Anguiano
The Ambarino Icemen
The Annesburg Coal Dogs
The Annesburg Kid
The Armadillo Kid
The Bayou Brothers
The Bellweather Bandits
The Big Valley Bunch
The Blackstock Brothers
The Blackwater Kid
The Bluewater Marsh Boys
The Brandywine Drop Boys
The Cholla Springs Gang
The Colter Creek Gang
The Cotorra Springs Crew
The Cumberland Cutthroats
The Dakota River Boys
The Dewberry Creek Gang
The Driscoll Boys
The Dunmore Gang
The Elysian Pool Gang
The Farrow Gang
The Flatneck Station Gang
The Gaptooth Breach Bunch
The Greeley Brothers
The Grizzlies Gang
The Hackett Horde
The Heartlands Horsemen
The Hennigan's Stead Hellions
The Hollowell Bunch
The Kittredge Boys
The Lagras Swamp Rats

T, continued

The Lakay Lowlifes
The Lemoyne Night Riders
The Manzanita Post Marauders
The Mayhew Mob
The New Austin Nomads
The New Hanover Horsemen
The Nuevo Paraíso Hermanos
The Ostrander Bunch
The Owanjila Outfit
The Painted Sky Riders
The Rhodes Kid
The Ridgewood Renegades
The Rio Bravo Riders
The Roanoke Ridge Raiders
The Sawtelle Seven
The Scarlet Meadows Outfit
The Sisika Escapees
The Tall Trees Boys
The Thieves' Landing Wreckers
The Tremont Outfit
The Tumbleweed Kid
The Van Horn Wreckers
The West Elizabeth Wolves
The Whitlow Riders
Theodora Stanhope
Thornton Mabry
Three-Fingered Jack Dunne
Thunderhead
Tilda Rasmussen
Tilly Greaves
Titus Fairbanks
Tobias Renshaw
Tom Brannigan
Trapper Ike Bonesteel
Traveller
Tuck Hadley
Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed Tess Harlow

U: 2 names

Ulysse Boudreau
Undertaker Ulrich

V: 7 names

Van Horn Vicky
Ventura Cepeda
Vernon Suggs
Vincenzo Morello
Viola Merriwether
Violet Fairley
Virgil Mapes

W: 17 names

Wade Kessock
Walt Kearney
Warden Ambrose Skerrit
Wash Tankersley
Wei Zhang
Wes Calder
Whiskey
Whistling Wes Farnum
Widow Effie Crandall
Widowmaker Whit Cobb
Wilbur Teasdale
Wiley Bristow
Wilhelm Kraus
Wilhelmina Crayle
Will Dorsey
Winslow Hanks
Wyatt Broadwater

X: 2 names

Xavier Dupuis
Xiomara Téllez

Z: 4 names

Zeb Hollister
Zeke Calloway
Zeke the Mule
Zilpha Cordray