Firbolg Name Generator

A firbolg has two names: a soft one in their own tongue, and a long descriptive one the neighbours use because they cannot pronounce the first. Both are built here.

Generate firbolg names

Chuchaigh
Dhomhai
Cairagh
Sechoch
Neghnait
Eacha
Tailín
Bhaina
Cholán
Failán
Lairán
Feanú

How these firbolg names are built

Firbolgs are written with two registers, and this generator builds both rather than picking a side. The first is a name in their own tongue, and the sound the genre reaches for is a lenited Gaelic one. Onsets soften into bh, mh, ch and dh, the vowels come in broad and slender pairs (ea, ai, io, ui, ao), and the codas stay light: n, r, l and a breathy -gh or -ch.

Those names take a glossed ending. Masculine endings are -án (little one), -agh (of the hill), -ach (of the wood), -aire (keeper) and -mhór (great); feminine endings are -a (gentle), -ín (dear), -each (of the water) and -aigh (bright); -aidh (quiet) and -ú (of the old wood) suit anyone. The gloss under each name is the ending it took.

The second register is the Common-tongue name, and it is not a translation so much as a description a neighbour settled on: a plant or landmark, then the thing this firbolg is known for doing. Rowan Who Waits By The Ford, Bracken Who Feeds The Winter Birds, The Mist Who Asks Nothing. Both slots are glossed, so the meaning line reads as a short biography.

Gender and length apply to the firbolg-tongue register only. The Common-tongue names are built from fixed phrases and carry no gender, which suits a people who do not use the distinction much themselves. Use Either register when you want the generator to alternate between the two the way a firbolg village actually would, with the soft name for family and the long one for everybody else.

Example firbolg 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.

Laogha
Bhegha
Bhochaidh
Mhuighach
Bioragh
Tuinaidh
Boch
Fiolnait
Deachoch
Dhanach
Dirfo
Tinfao
Sealán
Nealoch
Duinait
Chaonán
Caochagh
Each
Dadhu
Mheanú
Nioragh

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to what players and writers ask us most

Which name would a firbolg actually give an adventuring party?

The Common-tongue one, almost always. Firbolgs are private and their own names are not offered to outsiders lightly, so the long descriptive name is what a party hears first and the soft one comes later, if at all.

Why do the firbolg-tongue names look Irish?

Because the name comes from Irish myth and the published material leans on that sound. The grammar here uses lenited consonants and broad and slender vowels to get the texture, but the words are generated, not borrowed, and the mythological names are blocked.

Do firbolgs have surnames or clan names?

Not in the usual sense. They belong to a village and a wood rather than a lineage, which is why the Common-tongue name points at a place and a habit instead of a family.

Can I use these names commercially?

Yes. Everything is generated from original data written for this site and we claim no rights over the output.

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