Fantasy name generator by language rule
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The same text always gives the same name back, so a link brings it up again. What you type is only a starting point for the draw and never leaves your browser.
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Your name in that language
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| Beginnings, middles and endings this language uses | — |
| Different names the rule can produce at this length | — |
A few more from the same rule
This does not translate your name, and no honest generator does. The ones that swap each letter for a syllable from a table produce something that only looks like a name: nothing about it follows the sounds the language actually allows.
What happens here instead is that the text you typed picks pieces out of the sound inventory of that language, and the pieces are shown above the result so you can see the rule rather than trust it.
Does this translate my name into elvish?
No, and neither does any other generator, whatever they promise. There is no rule that turns a Portuguese or English name into an elvish one, because the two do not share sounds, spelling or the way words are built.
What the ones with a letter table do is swap each letter of your name for a syllable they picked, which produces something that only looks the part. Here your text is used as a starting point for the draw and nothing else, and the pieces that made the name are printed under it so you can check the rule.
How are the names actually built?
Each language gets an inventory of beginnings, middles and endings taken from the sounds it uses. A name is a beginning plus a middle, once or twice, and then an ending on the last one.
That is why the elvish ones come out soft and the orcish ones come out full of consonant clusters: the difference is in the inventory, not in a list of ready made names.
How many different names can come out?
It depends on the language and the length you chose, and the page prints the exact figure. With two syllables it runs from twenty thousand for the orcish rule to two hundred and forty two thousand for the klingon one.
With three syllables the same rules give between about a million and twenty five million. Nobody is going to run out.
Why is the klingon name not capitalised?
Because in the written form of that language a capital letter is a different sound, not the same sound written bigger. The letters D, H, I, Q and S mean something other than d, h, i, q and s.
So putting a capital at the front of a klingon name would change the word. Every other language here is capitalised as you would expect.
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