WoW Character Name Generator

World of Warcraft has been running since 2004, which means the obvious names on any realm were taken years ago. What still works is a name that sounds like it belongs to a specific race. Blizzard gave each playable race a distinct linguistic flavor: humans get medieval European names (Aldric, Marissa, Garrick), night elves get flowing names with soft consonants and nature surnames (Shandris Nightsong, Kaelith Starbreeze), blood elves favor bright vowel-heavy names with Sun- and Dawn- surnames, orcs use hard guttural syllables (Grommok, Karguk), trolls drop apostrophes into short punchy names (Zul'gron, Rak'jin), and draenei stack doubled vowels like Velaana and Kaarion.

Dwarves and gnomes are the easiest to spot: dwarves take Norse-style first names with metal-and-stone surnames, while gnomes and goblins get bouncy nonsense first names and mechanical or money-themed surnames like Sprocketwhistle or Coinsnatch. Tauren borrow from Native American-inspired sounds and use nature totem surnames, and Forsaken usually keep the old Lordaeron human names they died with.

In-game names must be a single word of 2 to 12 letters with no spaces or numbers, so the surnames here are for your roleplay profile and guild roster. Pick the half that is free on your realm and save the rest for TRP3.