Barbarian Name Generator

How these barbarian names are built

The Warrior generator sorts fighters by the army that trained them: northern, legionary, steppe. Nobody picks a barbarian that way. What a player chooses is where the rage comes from, so this generator is organised by path instead, and each path changes the shape of the name as well as its sound. A totem name is one word; an ancestral name is three; a wildling name is a sentence somebody else wrote about them.

Totem names are compounded from beast roots rather than generated syllable by syllable, because the animal is the name. One root gives Urok, two give Urvakh, and the ending says what the bond is: -ok (totem-son), -ka (totem-daughter), -gar (hide-wearer), -esha (spirit-speaker), -una (dream-walker). Bear and wolf are weighted heaviest because they are what most players reach for, and a two-root name reads as a twin totem. The epithet then describes the animal in them, from the Bear-Souled to Runs-With-Wolves.

Ancestral names name the forebear as well as the barbarian, since the spirit guardian is the point. The given name takes a hall-flavoured ending such as -om (of the old line) or -reth (barrow-keeper), then a kinship phrase (Son of, Blood of, Last of), then the ancestor, whose own ending is a deed rather than a gender: who held the ford, who broke the siege, whose axe is still kept.

Zealot names are god-struck: hard initial clusters (thr, kr, vr) and endings that stop dead, glossed as the god’s hand, wrath-bearer, oath-burned. Wildling names run the other way, one or two blunt syllables with almost no clusters, followed by the sentence the settled folk use instead of a surname: Found-in-Snow, Speaks-Little, Two-Knives. Those bynames are descriptions rather than honours, which is the point of the path, and the ending on the given name is often missing entirely because nobody stayed long enough to add one.

Example barbarian names

A fixed sample from the generator above, so you can see the range before you press the button. Every list you generate is different; every link you copy reproduces its list exactly.

• Thevka Raven-Called
• Veshka the Boar-Tusked
• Thurheshgar Beast-Speaker
• Sharurek the Boar-Tusked
• Doshok the Two-Skinned
• Vakhgar the Bone-Crowned
• Vakhthurok the Two-Skinned
• Thevgar Runs-With-Wolves
• Thurka Beast-Speaker
• Vakhka Beast-Speaker
• Doshuna Snow-Sleeper
• Korheshka the Bone-Crowned
• Urvakhesha Beast-Speaker
• Doshnaghok the Antlered
• Urka Kin-to-the-Pack
• Vakhghanira the Whitepelt
• Korek the Unshorn
• Veshok Runs-With-Wolves
• Korvakhka Runs-With-Wolves
• Vakhdoshesha Elk-Hearted
• Urmokhgar the Unshorn