How Do Fantasy Name Generators Work?

How Name Generators Work?

• Most random name generators create a few names at a time from variables like location and pet names.
• The generator uses that info to produce names.
• A formula in Excel generates random names.

How People Come Up with Fantasy Names?

• The simplest way to come up with a fantasy name is to use a word that’s already in your language or to use a word with related meaning.
• It depends on the culture of what I’m naming.
• Humans will have simpler names.
• Elven names need to flow, and be elegant.
• Dwarven names are guttural, coarse, like themselves.

Best Strategies for Coming Up with Fantasy Names:

• Generating a name from a word.
• Generating a name from an adjective.

Tips to Generate Fantasy Names:

• Originality.
• Pronounceability.
• Use maps.
• Google Translate.
• Keyboard mashing.