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DnD Character Name Generator — 200 Names a Batch, Counted

Q: Can I really get 200 character names in one press?

Yes. The count control runs from 10 to 200 and the generator runs in the page. In the measured run, 0 of 360 batches of 200 contained a duplicate full name - 0 in 72,000 names. Drawing ten batches for one culture repeats 75 names in 72,000 (0.10%), so the guard holds per batch, not per session.

Q: Do the names inside one batch sound too alike?

Some of them will. 37,666 of 72,000 names (52.3%) share their first three letters with another name in the same batch, and a 200-name batch carries 130 different openings on average rather than 200. The lizardfolk table is the tightest at 74.5% and the rock gnomes the loosest at 26.5%; a human batch sits at 32.9%.

Q: Does the style setting change the names or only the label?

It changes the build. Gritty makes one opening syllable before the ending and Noble makes two, so a Gritty human name and a Noble human name never collided in 2,000 draws each: 0 shared given names between 1,832 and 1,994 distinct ones. Mean length goes from 5.55 letters to 7.70 in the same culture, and the widest overlap of any pair is Gritty against Wild at 17.5%.

Q: How many surnames does one culture have?

Sixty-four, and every one of the 36 cultures returned exactly 64 distinct clan names in 2,000 draws, because each clan pool is eight first elements by eight second elements. A 200-name batch uses all 64 and never gives one clan more than four names, so a full roster reads as sixty-four families.

Q: Are the 200 names on this page already taken?

As full names, no. All 200 concatenated .com domains were free when read from Verisign RDAP on 2026-10-25, and none of the 200 has a same-name page on the Forgotten Realms wiki. The first names alone are a different matter: 65 of the 200 were already registered as single-word .com domains.

What one press of two hundred actually contains

The run behind every number on this page. 36 cultures × 10 batches × 200 names = 72,000 names, seed 20261025, gender Neutral, race fixed per run so each culture is measured alone, styles cycling gritty → noble → archaic → wild → grim in the order the page ships them. Then a second run for the style test: 6 cultures × 5 styles × 2,000 names each, seed 20261026, one style per run. Terms used below: a batch is one press of Generate; the head is the first three letters of a name (Wailey → wai), which is what a reader hears before the word resolves; the given name is the first word and the clan the second. Every figure is a count from those two runs — the script that produced them is at the bottom of the page, and the 200-name list further down is the first batch of the main run, culture Human, unchanged.

Three things the run says

A batch never repeats itself; a second batch repeats about two names. Not one of the 360 batches held a duplicate full name — 0 in 72,000 names inside a batch. Draw ten batches for one culture instead and the 2,000-name sample comes back with 1,994 to 2,000 distinct names, which is 75 repeats in 72,000 draws (0.10%). The duplicate guard works per press, not per session, so the thing worth guarding is a roster assembled over several presses, not a single one.

Half the rows share their opening three letters with another row. 37,666 of 72,000 names (52.3%) repeat a head inside their own batch, and a 200-name batch carries 130.1 different heads on average rather than 200. Lizardfolk is the tightest culture at 74.5% (1,489 of 2,000) and the rock gnomes the loosest at 26.5% (530 of 2,000); a human batch sits at 32.9%. The worst single batch in the run gave one opening 15 names. That is not a bug: the head is only three letters wide, and a culture with a narrow onset list runs out of distinct openings long before it runs out of names — the lizardfolk inventory has ten onsets and five vowels to open a word with. It is still the number that decides whether a batch looks hand-made or machine-made.

Style is a filter, not a label. A Gritty human name never turned up as a Noble human name in the second run: 0 shared given names between 1,832 and 1,994 distinct ones, because Gritty builds one opening syllable and Noble builds two. The widest overlap of any pair is Gritty against Wild at 566 names (17.5% of the union), which is what a one-to-two syllable register should share with a one-syllable one. Mean length inside a single culture goes from 5.55 letters to 7.70.

Thirty-six cultures, ten batches each

The table sorts by how tightly a culture repeats its openings. The right-hand columns are the ones worth reading first: the clan count is 64 in all 36 rows without a single exception, while the opening figure runs from 26.5% to 74.5%. A batch is therefore always 200 distinct names drawn from 64 families; what changes between cultures is how many of those names start with the same sound.

Ten batches of 200 per culture, 2,000 names each, seed 20261025. "Repeats" counts names that came back a second time across the ten batches. "Opening" counts names whose first three letters appear at least twice inside the same batch, averaged over the ten.
Culture	Distinct names	Repeats	Given names	Clans	Names sharing an opening	Heaviest opening
Lizardfolk	1,994	6	1,747	64	1,489 (74.5%)	11
Yuan-ti	1,997	3	1,849	64	1,452 (72.6%)	14
Mountain Dwarf	1,997	3	1,753	64	1,429 (71.5%)	11
Orc	1,996	4	1,879	64	1,345 (67.2%)	12
High Elf	1,998	2	1,831	64	1,343 (67.2%)	15
Aarakocra	1,995	5	1,856	64	1,333 (66.7%)	13
Hill Dwarf	1,999	1	1,881	64	1,291 (64.5%)	12
Dragonborn	1,996	4	1,867	64	1,266 (63.3%)	12
Goliath	1,999	1	1,898	64	1,265 (63.2%)	11
Fire Genasi	1,998	2	1,883	64	1,257 (62.9%)	14
Half-Orc	1,998	2	1,881	64	1,241 (62.0%)	12
Kobold	1,999	1	1,891	64	1,241 (62.0%)	10
Kenku	1,998	2	1,830	64	1,222 (61.1%)	12
Drow	1,999	1	1,915	64	1,146 (57.3%)	14
Duergar	2,000	0	1,737	64	1,142 (57.1%)	11
Leonin	1,994	6	1,829	64	1,128 (56.4%)	14
Tiefling	1,997	3	1,903	64	1,109 (55.5%)	13
Goblin	1,998	2	1,833	64	1,101 (55.0%)	11
Wood Elf	1,997	3	1,884	64	1,084 (54.2%)	12
Aasimar	1,999	1	1,888	64	1,073 (53.6%)	11
Firbolg	1,998	2	1,896	64	1,041 (52.0%)	12
Water Genasi	1,999	1	1,867	64	991 (49.5%)	5
Hobgoblin	1,997	3	1,845	64	963 (48.1%)	14
Half-Elf	1,998	2	1,916	64	956 (47.8%)	10
Owlin	1,998	2	1,743	64	947 (47.4%)	11
Triton	1,998	2	1,912	64	891 (44.5%)	8
Tabaxi	2,000	0	1,818	64	854 (42.7%)	9
Changeling	2,000	0	1,937	64	827 (41.4%)	9
Satyr	2,000	0	1,930	64	820 (41.0%)	8
Fairy	1,998	2	1,900	64	803 (40.1%)	5
Human	1,998	2	1,925	64	658 (32.9%)	8
Warforged	1,997	3	1,921	64	631 (31.6%)	4
Forest Gnome	2,000	0	1,849	64	626 (31.3%)	4
Lightfoot Halfling	1,996	4	1,835	64	599 (29.9%)	4
Stout Halfling	2,000	0	1,912	64	572 (28.6%)	4
Rock Gnome	2,000	0	1,904	64	530 (26.5%)	4

The mean of 130 different openings per batch hides a wide spread: the six tightest cultures repeat an opening for two thirds of the batch and the six loosest for a quarter of it. Both ends are in the table above in full.

Sixty-four clans, and a ceiling of four a batch

Every culture in the run returned exactly 64 clan names in 2,000 draws — 36 of 36 — because each clan pool is eight first elements by eight second elements, and those combine into one shared list per culture. Inside a single batch the busiest clan takes four names in all 36 cultures, and no clan takes five: the per-batch ceiling is four, so a full batch of 200 spreads itself over the 64 names as eight clans at four and the rest at three.

That is a structural fact worth knowing before you hand out a roster. Two hundred names is not two hundred strangers; it is sixty-four families, and reading a batch straight down will hand the party the same surname several times. Crossing a culture boundary is the cheap fix: the 19 culture pools hold 64 clan names each, and no two of them share more than 9 names, so a batch that mixes two cultures stops looking like one village.

Style changes the build, not the label

The second run exists to answer one question a dropdown cannot: does the Style menu do anything? It does, and the effect is countable. A style changes two things — how many opening syllables a name gets before its ending, and whether the closing list it may draw from is the short one or the long one. Gritty takes one opening syllable and a short ending. Noble takes two and a long one. Wild takes one or two. Archaic stretches to three where the culture's inventory allows it. Grim is Noble's frame with the short endings.

That is why Gritty and Noble collided exactly zero times in a human run, and why the pairs that do overlap are the pairs that share a syllable count. The table below is 2,000 given names per cell, one style at a time, same seed for the whole run.

Mean letters in the given name, with the mean number of vowel groups beside it. 2,000 draws per cell, seed 20261026, one style per run.
Style	Human	High elf	Drow	Hill dwarf	Dragonborn	Tiefling
Gritty	5.55 letters 2 vowels	6.16 letters 2 vowels	5.89 letters 2 vowels	5.71 letters 2 vowels	5.89 letters 2 vowels	5.79 letters 2 vowels
Noble	7.7 letters 3 vowels	8.59 letters 2.97 vowels	8.26 letters 3 vowels	8.38 letters 2.99 vowels	8.34 letters 2.99 vowels	8.14 letters 3 vowels
Archaic	7.74 letters 3 vowels	8.77 letters 3.14 vowels	8.7 letters 3.28 vowels	8.36 letters 2.99 vowels	8.36 letters 2.98 vowels	8.64 letters 3.29 vowels
Wild	6.75 letters 2.54 vowels	7.68 letters 2.62 vowels	7.19 letters 2.54 vowels	7.25 letters 2.57 vowels	7.24 letters 2.54 vowels	7.1 letters 2.55 vowels
Grim	7.73 letters 3 vowels	8.59 letters 2.96 vowels	8.27 letters 2.99 vowels	8.37 letters 2.99 vowels	8.32 letters 2.99 vowels	8.14 letters 3 vowels

Two things fall out of that table. The one-syllable register is the shortest by a clear margin in every culture — 5.55 to 6.16 letters against 6.75 to 8.77 for the other four styles — and Archaic is the longest only where a culture is allowed a third syllable. On a human, Archaic and Noble produce the same two-syllable frame to within a tenth of a letter (7.74 against 7.70) and still share only 30 of 1,994 given names, because the style also swaps which endings the frame may take.

Shared given names between two styles in the same culture, as a share of all distinct names either style produced. The count in brackets is the raw intersection.
Style pair	Human	High elf	Drow	Hill dwarf	Dragonborn	Tiefling
gritty / noble	0.0% (0)	2.0% (66)	0.2% (6)	0.5% (18)	0.3% (13)	0.1% (3)
noble / archaic	0.8% (30)	2.0% (78)	0.8% (32)	1.8% (71)	1.2% (47)	1.0% (38)
noble / grim	0.7% (28)	2.5% (95)	1.1% (45)	2.0% (77)	1.1% (42)	1.3% (50)
archaic / grim	1.0% (40)	2.0% (77)	0.9% (37)	1.8% (72)	1.2% (47)	1.0% (40)
gritty / archaic	0.0% (0)	1.9% (63)	0.1% (2)	0.5% (19)	0.6% (24)	0.1% (5)
gritty / grim	0.0% (0)	2.4% (78)	0.2% (9)	0.7% (26)	0.3% (13)	0.1% (5)
noble / wild	0.6% (22)	3.0% (113)	0.6% (23)	1.4% (56)	0.7% (27)	0.7% (28)
archaic / wild	0.3% (13)	2.4% (93)	0.6% (23)	1.3% (49)	0.8% (30)	0.5% (20)
wild / grim	0.6% (24)	3.0% (113)	0.6% (22)	1.4% (53)	0.6% (22)	0.8% (32)
gritty / wild	17.5% (566)	26.5% (693)	20.8% (649)	24.4% (730)	20.0% (630)	19.8% (623)

The one pair that always overlaps is Gritty against Wild, because Wild is allowed a single opening syllable too: 566 of the 1,832 human names Gritty produced also came out of Wild. Every other pair sits under 3% of the union, and all five pairs above 2% are in the high elf run, where the third-syllable rule lets a longer build shrink into a one-syllable shape — that is where the 63 names Gritty and Archaic share come from, 4.6% of the Gritty set.

Two hundred names, each one checked

The difference here is not that there are two hundred of them — plenty of pages have two hundred. It is that every row can be checked. Each one carries three things: whether the matching .com is registered, read live from Verisign's RDAP service; which syllables the name is built from and which clan words sit behind it; and one line on how it reads and who it suits.

The batch below is the first press of the main run: culture Human, gender Neutral, all five styles, seed 20261025. It holds 200 distinct full names, 200 distinct given names, all 64 human clans, and 167 different openings — 56 of the two hundred rows share an opening with another row, the busiest being hai with 7.

On 2026-10-25 all 200 of the 200 concatenated .com names were free, with 0 left unread: a two-word name is long enough that the registrations thin out completely. The first names alone are a different story — 65 of the 200 were already registered as single-word .com domains — so if the plan is a domain for the character, take the whole name and not the given name by itself.

Show all 200 names with their checks

The 200-name batch, seed 20261025, culture Human, gender Neutral, five styles cycling. The .com column was read from Verisign RDAP on 2026-10-25.
Name	.com	Syllables and source	Meaning or feel
Wailey Harrowgate	free	wai (a glide w + the ai diphthong) before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Harrow + -gate (ON gata, a road)	Barely a name on its own, which is exactly why it sticks. -gate is a road, from the Norse gata, so the family lives on the way through. It sounds like a ferryman who was named after a place and left it.
Tuhiford Ashmayne	free	tu (a stopped t + a blunt u) + hi before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Ash + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	The first syllable is clipped and the second lands behind it. -mayne is the only ending in the pool that counts servants instead of land. If a magistrate has to shout it across a yard, it holds.
Joceley Fairford	free	jo (the affricate j + a round o) + ce before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Fair + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	For a bell-founder it is exactly enough name. Two beats that would be easy to sing and hard to spell, in that order. The fair- in the surname could be hair or weather; both readings are lucky.
Soliford Marrowcott	free	so (a hissing s + a round o) + li before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Marrow + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	Two beats that glide into each other rather than separate. Use it where a river-runner needs to be forgotten by the next session. -cott keeps the family in one building, which is the smallest possible estate.
Haijaley Greymayne	free	hai (a bare h + the ai diphthong) + ja before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Grey + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	It moves instead of striking; the consonants never close the word off. Grey in the surname is stone, and stone is what most old walls actually are. Hand it to a collector of debts and the name will age with the campaign.
Goson Blackmayne	free	go (a stopped g + a round o) + a s coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Black + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	The surname starts on soot, which dates the family by a century. One beat, and the surname arrives sooner than the listener expects. A s is wedged in before the ending. Put it on a gatekeeper and the surname does the rest of the introduction.
Cehiford Greywick	free	ce (a hard c + a short e) + hi before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Grey + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	A good alias for a court steward who would rather his family did not find him. Grey in the surname is stone, and stone is what most old walls actually are. The stress sits on a closed syllable, so the name does not trail off.
Haigaford Harrowwick	free	hai (a bare h + the ai diphthong) + ga before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Harrow + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Give it to a keeper of the parish book and keep the fancier names for people who matter. Harrow- is farm work and also distress; the double meaning is the point. Written down it looks longer than it sounds, which is a useful trick at a table, and the diphthong is the loudest thing in it.
Ruwanins Redcott	free	ru (an r that opens rather than growls + a blunt u) + wa + a n coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Red + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	Skip it for a villain and use it for a river-runner, where plain is correct. A liquid start, and the second syllable is where the stress lands. Red- is the oldest colour word in the pool and the loudest.
Mecailey Harrowcott	free	me (a nasal m + a short e) + cai before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Harrow + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	-cott keeps the family in one building, which is the smallest possible estate. The opening is soft enough that the ending gets the attention. It suits an executioner at twenty and better at fifty.
Sasard Draygate	free	sa (a hissing s + a flat a) + a s coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Dray + -gate (ON gata, a road)	It reads as a carter in a town with one road through it. -gate ends on a road, and roads make a family visible. Short enough to be a shout across a yard, which is what one-beat names are for.
Gejainell Harrowfen	free	ge (a stopped g + a short e) + jai + a n coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Harrow + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Harrow- is farm work and also distress; the double meaning is the point. Two beats with a hard front, the kind that carries outdoors. A n is wedged in before the ending. It sits on a chancellor and looks borrowed on a hero.
Suliford Blackford	free	su (a hissing s + a blunt u) + li before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Black + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	Save it for a hedge prophet — the vowels are too plain for a protagonist. The surname starts on soot, which dates the family by a century. Two beats that lean together, so the name is spoken as one motion.
Bamoley Drayfen	free	ba (a stopped b + a flat a) + mo before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Dray + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Two beats; the first is a knock and the second is the answer. A poacher is the right slot; the ending keeps the name from sounding grand. A dray is the low cart that carries a load, so the family hauls for a living.
Haijoric Harrowmoor	free	hai (a bare h + the ai diphthong) + jo + a r coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Harrow + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	The first consonant lets the vowel through, so nothing catches on the way in, and the vowel pair carries the stress. Put it on a keeper of the gallows and nobody at the table asks twice. Harrow- is farm work and also distress; the double meaning is the point.
Lenay Fairwick	free	le (a liquid l + a short e) + a n coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Fair + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	It will survive being misheard, which is what a mill hand needs most. Fair- is the one flattering word in the human pool, and it does not overreach. Its given name is one beat long, which is the shape of a nickname rather than a title.
Wejaiford Fairfen	free	we (a glide w + a short e) + jai before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Fair + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Hand it to a heir with a writ to prove it and the name will age with the campaign. Fair- is the one flattering word in the human pool, and it does not overreach. Two beats with a hum in them and no hard corner anywhere.
Sojilins Marrowfen	free	so (a hissing s + a round o) + ji + a l coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Marrow + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Two beats that would be easy to sing and hard to spell, in that order. That is a chronicler's name in a village of ninety people. The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften.
Daiwoley Marrowford	free	dai (a stopped d + the ai diphthong) + wo before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Marrow + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	The front of the word is the loud part and the rest is furniture. Keep it for a charcoal burner and give the paladin something with more air in it. The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften.
Galuley Draywick	free	ga (a stopped g + a flat a) + lu before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Dray + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Give it to a bounty clerk and let the players mispronounce it once. Two beats, and a clean stop in the middle of the first one. A dray is the low cart that carries a load, so the family hauls for a living.
Cirer Fairgate	free	ci (a hard c + a thin i) + a r coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Fair + -gate (ON gata, a road)	A name a stablehand would inherit rather than choose. One opening syllable and then the ending; there is no middle to get lost in. The fair- in the surname could be hair or weather; both readings are lucky.
Buhaford Ashmoor	free	bu (a stopped b + a blunt u) + ha before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Ash + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	The ash in the surname could be a burnt field or a tree, and the name never says which. Skip it for a villain and use it for a heir with a writ to prove it, where plain is correct. The consonant at the front does the work a title would do in a longer name.
Gibuley Drayholt	free	gi (a stopped g + a thin i) + bu before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Dray + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	-holt ends the name in timber. It begins with a sound that survives a bad accent, which is not a small thing. Use it where a keeper of the parish book needs to be forgotten by the next session.
Haisan Marrowmoor	free	hai (a bare h + the ai diphthong) + a s coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Marrow + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	It suits a beast-handler at twenty and better at fifty. One beat, and the surname arrives sooner than the listener expects. The s is there only to keep the vowels apart. The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften.
Liroley Ashford	free	li (a liquid l + a thin i) + ro before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Ash + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	A liquid start, and the second syllable is where the stress lands. -ford puts them at a crossing, which is where tolls and gossip both happen. Put it on a keeper of the gallows and the surname does the rest of the introduction.
Wosan Fairmoor	free	wo (a glide w + a round o) + a s coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Fair + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	-moor is open upland: bad for wheat, good for sheep. Works as a night watchman in the third session, when the party stops asking for names. Barely a name on its own, which is exactly why it sticks.
Jadoford Blackcott	free	ja (the affricate j + a flat a) + do before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Black + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	The surname starts on soot, which dates the family by a century. A marriage-broker is the right slot; the ending keeps the name from sounding grand. Written down it looks longer than it sounds, which is a useful trick at a table.
Behuford Greycott	free	be (a stopped b + a short e) + hu before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Grey + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	-cott keeps the family in one building, which is the smallest possible estate. Two beats with a hard front, the kind that carries outdoors. It sounds like a copyist who was named after a place and left it.
Saimerer Marrowgate	free	sai (a hissing s + the ai diphthong) + me + a r coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Marrow + -gate (ON gata, a road)	-gate is a road, from the Norse gata, so the family lives on the way through. Save it for a scout named after where he was found — the vowels are too plain for a protagonist. It sounds spoken rather than written, which is the harder half to fake.
Rudaisell Harrowford	free	ru (an r that opens rather than growls + a blunt u) + dai + a s coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Harrow + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	-ford puts them at a crossing, which is where tolls and gossip both happen. Nothing in it stops the breath, so it can be said quietly and still carry. There is a s in the word that belongs to no syllable on the page. Put it on a body-trader and nobody at the table asks twice.
Lonon Greymoor	free	lo (a liquid l + a round o) + a n coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Grey + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	Short enough to be a shout across a yard, which is what one-beat names are for. Use it for a carter; the name will not do the work for you. The -moor ending sets them on high ground with nothing to hide behind.
Gotiford Faircott	free	go (a stopped g + a round o) + ti before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Fair + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	Something in the first syllable refuses to soften, and that is the character of it. -cott keeps the family in one building, which is the smallest possible estate. It fits a minor lordling better than a longer name would fit anyone.
Wejoley Greygate	free	we (a glide w + a short e) + jo before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Grey + -gate (ON gata, a road)	The second syllable is the one the ear keeps, and it is the softer of the two. Give it to a bell-founder and let the players mispronounce it once. Grey in the surname is stone, and stone is what most old walls actually are.
Bainard Harrowmayne	free	bai (a stopped b + the ai diphthong) + a n coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Harrow + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	A name a poacher would inherit rather than choose. It is the length of a call across a market, not of a name on a charter. The n is there only to keep the vowels apart. Harrow- is farm work and also distress; the double meaning is the point.
Teloray Draymoor	free	te (a stopped t + a short e) + lo + a r coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Dray + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	The surname starts on a cart, which is a trade and a limitation both. Assign it to an executioner in a border town and it stops sounding invented. Two beats, front-loaded, with the ending tucked underneath.
Gilic Greyford	free	gi (a stopped g + a thin i) + a l coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Grey + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	The -ford is a river crossing, so the family is placed on water. It sits on a carter and looks borrowed on a hero. There is no room for a middle syllable, so the word is all front and ending.
Gucomell Blackwick	free	gu (a stopped g + a blunt u) + co + a m coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Black + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Give it to an envoy and keep the fancier names for people who matter. Black- is a colour of work rather than of heraldry. It opens on a consonant that will not be swallowed, and the second beat settles under it.
Diwonins Fairmayne	free	di (a stopped d + a thin i) + wo + a n coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Fair + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Fair- is the one flattering word in the human pool, and it does not overreach. Two syllables, the first harder than the second, which is the ordinary English rhythm. A n is wedged in before the ending. A good alias for a tomb-keeper who would rather his family did not find him.
Bilay Ashwick	free	bi (a stopped b + a thin i) + a l coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Ash + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	One beat, and the surname arrives sooner than the listener expects. -wick ends on a farm with a market attached. Put it on a poacher and the surname does the rest of the introduction.
Maluley Fairholt	free	ma (a nasal m + a flat a) + lu before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Fair + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Fair- is the one flattering word in the human pool, and it does not overreach. Two beats that would be easy to sing and hard to spell, in that order. One line in a ledger, one name: a bounty clerk.
Wanon Ashfen	free	wa (a glide w + a flat a) + a n coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Ash + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Nothing decorative in it: one beat, one ending, and then it stops. Reserve it for a drover; it has no grandeur to spend. -fen puts them in wetland, the cheapest ground in the district.
Dahesard Blackfen	free	da (a stopped d + a flat a) + he + a s coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Black + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Two beats; the first is a knock and the second is the answer. Black- is a colour of work rather than of heraldry. It sounds like a chancellor who was named after a place and left it.
Setuford Greyfen	free	se (a hissing s + a short e) + tu before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Grey + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	-fen puts them in wetland, the cheapest ground in the district. Two beats that glide into each other rather than separate. It reads as a bell-founder in a town with one road through it.
Corer Redholt	free	co (a hard c + a round o) + a r coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Red + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	For a hermit it is understated, which is the point. -holt is a wood, and woods are where family names go when the land runs out. A single beat, and the stress never moves; say it twice and it stays put. The r bridges into a vowel-initial ending.
Bawoley Greyholt	free	ba (a stopped b + a flat a) + wo before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Grey + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Two beats with a hard front, the kind that carries outdoors. It will survive being misheard, which is what a gaoler needs most. Grey- is a colour that refuses to commit, which suits a border family.
Gisic Marrowwick	free	gi (a stopped g + a thin i) + a s coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Marrow + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Short enough to be a shout across a yard, which is what one-beat names are for. -wick is a farm that grew into a small trading place. Keep it for a drover and give the paladin something with more air in it.
Gaijeford Redwick	free	gai (a stopped g + the ai diphthong) + je before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Red + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	That is an envoy's name in a village of ninety people. Something in the first syllable refuses to soften, and that is the character of it, the diphthong holding the middle of the word. Red- is the oldest colour word in the pool and the loudest.
Musilell Draymayne	free	mu (a nasal m + a blunt u) + si + a l coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Dray + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Two beats that lean together, so the name is spoken as one motion. Good for a bell-founder and slightly wrong for a magistrate, which is useful. -mayne is a household, from the old word for a retinue, so the surname claims people rather than acres.
Suceman Marrowmayne	free	su (a hissing s + a blunt u) + ce + a m coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Marrow + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Skip it for a villain and use it for a scout named after where he was found, where plain is correct. It sounds spoken rather than written, which is the harder half to fake. A m is wedged in before the ending. The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften.
Hesoley Drayford	free	he (a bare h + a short e) + so before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Dray + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	-ford puts them at a crossing, which is where tolls and gossip both happen. A liquid start, and the second syllable is where the stress lands. Assign it to a keeper of the gallows in a border town and it stops sounding invented.
Caison Ashcott	free	cai (a hard c + the ai diphthong) + a s coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Ash + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	Barely a name on its own, which is exactly why it sticks. Best on a hired blade with a family behind him, where the name gets said once and then only written down. -cott keeps the family in one building, which is the smallest possible estate.
Gutaisard Harrowholt	free	gu (a stopped g + a blunt u) + tai + a s coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Harrow + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	If a chancellor has to shout it across a yard, it holds. -holt ends the name in timber. It opens on a consonant that will not be swallowed, and the second beat settles under it.
Jaimeford Blackgate	free	jai (the affricate j + the ai diphthong) + me before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Black + -gate (ON gata, a road)	-gate ends on a road, and roads make a family visible. The first consonant lets the vowel through, so nothing catches on the way in. One line in a ledger, one name: an oath-keeper.
Waran Ashgate	free	wa (a glide w + a flat a) + a r coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Ash + -gate (ON gata, a road)	-gate ends on a road, and roads make a family visible. One opening syllable and then the ending; there is no middle to get lost in. Hand it to a charcoal burner and the name will age with the campaign.
Jasailey Redmoor	free	ja (the affricate j + a flat a) + sai before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Red + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	It moves instead of striking; the consonants never close the word off. Red- is the oldest colour word in the pool and the loudest. A gaoler is the right slot; the ending keeps the name from sounding grand.
Gesay Ashholt	free	ge (a stopped g + a short e) + a s coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Ash + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Give it to a drover and keep the fancier names for people who matter. -holt ends the name in timber. One syllable in front of the ending, and the ending does the rest of the work.
Heliford Redmayne	free	he (a bare h + a short e) + li before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Red + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Two beats with a hum in them and no hard corner anywhere. Red- is the oldest colour word in the pool and the loudest. It sounds like a chancellor who was named after a place and left it.
Cujeley Redford	free	cu (a hard c + a blunt u) + je before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Red + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	Red- is the oldest colour word in the pool and the loudest. The first syllable is clipped and the second lands behind it. It suits a reliquary guard at twenty and better at fifty.
Somins Draycott	free	so (a hissing s + a round o) + a m coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Dray + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	The surname starts on a cart, which is a trade and a limitation both. Put it on a trapper and the surname does the rest of the introduction. It reads as a diminutive of something longer that nobody remembers any more.
Laisoley Blackmoor	free	lai (a liquid l + the ai diphthong) + so before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Black + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	A soft front, and a second beat underneath it that does most of the sounding. Save it for a collector of debts — the vowels are too plain for a protagonist. Black- is a colour of work rather than of heraldry.
Genic Marrowholt	free	ge (a stopped g + a short e) + a n coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Marrow + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	There is no room for a middle syllable, so the word is all front and ending. For a smith's apprentice it is understated, which is the point. Marrow- is the least comfortable word available to a human clan, and it is doing all the work.
Jeluford Redgate	free	je (the affricate j + a short e) + lu before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Red + -gate (ON gata, a road)	It reads as a minor lordling in a town with one road through it. Red- is the oldest colour word in the pool and the loudest. The second syllable is the one the ear keeps, and it is the softer of the two.
Wiheford Blackholt	free	wi (a glide w + a thin i) + he before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Black + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	-holt ends the name in timber. The opening is soft enough that the ending gets the attention. If a priest of an old order has to shout it across a yard, it holds.
Ruler Redfen	free	ru (an r that opens rather than growls + a blunt u) + a l coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Red + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Red in the surname is rust, blood or hair, and the reader picks one without being told. It sits on a scout named after where he was found and looks borrowed on a hero. A single beat, and the stress never moves; say it twice and it stays put.
Tairiley Redfen	free	tai (a stopped t + the ai diphthong) + ri before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Red + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	The consonant at the front does the work a title would do in a longer name. Red- is the oldest colour word in the pool and the loudest. A good alias for a bounty clerk who would rather his family did not find him.
Tinon Harrowcott	free	ti (a stopped t + a thin i) + a n coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Harrow + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	One syllable, then the family name; that order is what keeps it legible. Works as a night watchman in the third session, when the party stops asking for names. The surname begins with a harrow dragging a field, and a name like that keeps a grudge.
Wiraford Greyfen	free	wi (a glide w + a thin i) + ra before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Grey + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Give it to a marriage-broker and keep the fancier names for people who matter. Written down it looks longer than it sounds, which is a useful trick at a table. Grey- is a colour that refuses to commit, which suits a border family.
Giwalell Redwick	free	gi (a stopped g + a thin i) + wa + a l coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Red + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Two beats with a hard front, the kind that carries outdoors. Red in the surname is rust, blood or hair, and the reader picks one without being told. Assign it to a reliquary guard in a border town and it stops sounding invented.
Lamuford Marrowwick	free	la (a liquid l + a flat a) + mu before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Marrow + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	That is a ridge-walker's name in a village of ninety people. -wick is a farm that grew into a small trading place. It moves instead of striking; the consonants never close the word off.
Misailey Harrowwick	free	mi (a nasal m + a thin i) + sai before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Harrow + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	The surname begins with a harrow dragging a field, and a name like that keeps a grudge. Fine for a bounty clerk; a little too neat for a villain. It sounds spoken rather than written, which is the harder half to fake.
Guler Blackwick	free	gu (a stopped g + a blunt u) + a l coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Black + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	One opening syllable and then the ending; there is no middle to get lost in. Put it on a smith's apprentice and nobody at the table asks twice. Black- is a colour of work rather than of heraldry.
Lidaiford Greyholt	free	li (a liquid l + a thin i) + dai before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Grey + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	-holt ends the name in timber. Hand it to a heir with a writ to prove it and the name will age with the campaign. Two beats that glide into each other rather than separate.
Biraley Ashwick	free	bi (a stopped b + a thin i) + ra before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Ash + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Use it for a bell-founder; the name will not do the work for you. The ash in the surname could be a burnt field or a tree, and the name never says which. Two beats, and a clean stop in the middle of the first one.
Gohailey Blackcott	free	go (a stopped g + a round o) + hai before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Black + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	Something in the first syllable refuses to soften, and that is the character of it. It suits a hermit at twenty and better at fifty. -cott is a cottage, and a cottage is a small claim to land.
Hasuric Draymoor	free	ha (a bare h + a flat a) + su + a r coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Dray + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	-moor is open upland: bad for wheat, good for sheep. Give it to an executioner and let the players mispronounce it once. The first consonant lets the vowel through, so nothing catches on the way in.
Dunan Blackmoor	free	du (a stopped d + a blunt u) + a n coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Black + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	-moor is open upland: bad for wheat, good for sheep. It is the length of a call across a market, not of a name on a charter. It sits on a carter and looks borrowed on a hero.
Cailusins Ashcott	free	cai (a hard c + the ai diphthong) + lu + a s coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Ash + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	It will survive being misheard, which is what a chancellor needs most. It opens on a consonant that will not be swallowed, and the second beat settles under it. Ash in the surname reads as a fire the family survived.
Bijoford Marrowholt	free	bi (a stopped b + a thin i) + jo before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Marrow + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	A stop opens it, so the name starts rather than slides. The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften. Reserve it for a copyist; it has no grandeur to spend.
Becoford Marrowmoor	free	be (a stopped b + a short e) + co before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Marrow + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	It starts on a consonant you can hear through a door. The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften. Keep it for a charcoal burner and give the paladin something with more air in it.
Rosemay Marrowgate	free	ro (an r that opens rather than growls + a round o) + se + a m coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Marrow + -gate (ON gata, a road)	A soft front, and a second beat underneath it that does most of the sounding. The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften. Save it for a plague-doctor — the vowels are too plain for a protagonist.
Wunard Fairmoor	free	wu (a glide w + a blunt u) + a n coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Fair + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	For a stablehand it is exactly enough name. -moor is open upland: bad for wheat, good for sheep. Its given name is one beat long, which is the shape of a nickname rather than a title.
Giwaley Ashfen	free	gi (a stopped g + a thin i) + wa before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Ash + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Use it where a castellan needs to be forgotten by the next session. -fen is marsh, which is land nobody else wanted. The front of the word is the loud part and the rest is furniture.
Maibeley Ashholt	free	mai (a nasal m + the ai diphthong) + be before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Ash + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Two beats with a hum in them and no hard corner anywhere. Ash in the surname reads as a fire the family survived. Best on a reliquary guard, where the name gets said once and then only written down.
Caleford Draywick	free	ca (a hard c + a flat a) + le before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Dray + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	A dray is the low cart that carries a load, so the family hauls for a living. One line in a ledger, one name: a beast-handler. It begins with a sound that survives a bad accent, which is not a small thing.
Sogailey Fairwick	free	so (a hissing s + a round o) + gai before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Fair + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	It suits a bounty clerk at twenty and better at fifty. Fair- is the one flattering word in the human pool, and it does not overreach. It sounds spoken rather than written, which is the harder half to fake.
Domon Draymayne	free	do (a stopped d + a round o) + a m coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Dray + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	For a mill hand it is understated, which is the point. A single beat, and the stress never moves; say it twice and it stays put. A dray is the low cart that carries a load, so the family hauls for a living.
Tulaford Blackgate	free	tu (a stopped t + a blunt u) + la before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Black + -gate (ON gata, a road)	Give it to a knight of a small order and let the players mispronounce it once. Two beats, front-loaded, with the ending tucked underneath. -gate ends on a road, and roads make a family visible.
Rehaford Greymayne	free	re (an r that opens rather than growls + a short e) + ha before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Grey + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Grey in the surname is stone, and stone is what most old walls actually are. Two beats that lean together, so the name is spoken as one motion. Hand it to a hedge prophet and the name will age with the campaign.
Cetimard Ashmoor	free	ce (a hard c + a short e) + ti + a m coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Ash + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	Skip it for a villain and use it for an outlander, where plain is correct. The -moor ending sets them on high ground with nothing to hide behind. Two syllables, the first harder than the second, which is the ordinary English rhythm.
Libailey Redcott	free	li (a liquid l + a thin i) + bai before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Red + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	The opening is soft enough that the ending gets the attention. -cott keeps the family in one building, which is the smallest possible estate. Put it on a corpse-washer and the surname does the rest of the introduction.
Buman Harrowmayne	free	bu (a stopped b + a blunt u) + a m coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Harrow + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Barely a name on its own, which is exactly why it sticks. Good for a hired blade with a family behind him and slightly wrong for a magistrate, which is useful. -mayne is a household, from the old word for a retinue, so the surname claims people rather than acres.
Beraiford Harrowmoor	free	be (a stopped b + a short e) + rai before -ford (OE ford, a river crossing) / Harrow + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	The surname begins with a harrow dragging a field, and a name like that keeps a grudge. Put it on a tax farmer and nobody at the table asks twice. Two beats, and a clean stop in the middle of the first one.
Baijiley Harrowfen	free	bai (a stopped b + the ai diphthong) + ji before -ley (OE leah, a clearing in woodland) / Harrow + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	The first syllable is clipped and the second lands behind it. Harrow- is farm work and also distress; the double meaning is the point. Use it for a scholar of dead languages; the name will not do the work for you.
Rajolell Draygate	free	ra (an r that opens rather than growls + a flat a) + jo + a l coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Dray + -gate (ON gata, a road)	The second syllable is the one the ear keeps, and it is the softer of the two. A good alias for a trapper who would rather his family did not find him. -gate ends on a road, and roads make a family visible.
Cutoser Harrowgate	free	cu (a hard c + a blunt u) + to + a s coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Harrow + -gate (ON gata, a road)	The stress sits on a closed syllable, so the name does not trail off. Assign it to an executioner in a border town and it stops sounding invented. -gate is a road, from the Norse gata, so the family lives on the way through.
Ganic Fairfen	free	ga (a stopped g + a flat a) + a n coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Fair + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	The fair- in the surname could be hair or weather; both readings are lucky. Works as a night watchman in the third session, when the party stops asking for names. Its given name is one beat long, which is the shape of a nickname rather than a title.
Batosay Redmayne	free	ba (a stopped b + a flat a) + to + a s coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Red + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Red- is the oldest colour word in the pool and the loudest. A knight of a small order is the right slot; the ending keeps the name from sounding grand. Two beats with a hard front, the kind that carries outdoors.
Haigorins Redmoor	free	hai (a bare h + the ai diphthong) + go + a r coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Red + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	It sounds like a priest of an old order who was named after a place and left it. Red in the surname is rust, blood or hair, and the reader picks one without being told. Nothing in it stops the breath, so it can be said quietly and still carry.
Jolay Greygate	free	jo (the affricate j + a round o) + a l coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Grey + -gate (ON gata, a road)	-gate is a road, from the Norse gata, so the family lives on the way through. Nothing decorative in it: one beat, one ending, and then it stops. There is a l in the word that belongs to no syllable on the page. That is a poacher's name in a village of ninety people.
Detulins Blackfen	free	de (a stopped d + a short e) + tu + a l coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Black + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	-fen puts them in wetland, the cheapest ground in the district. The front of the word is the loud part and the rest is furniture. Give it to a corpse-washer and let the players mispronounce it once.
Melic Ashford	free	me (a nasal m + a short e) + a l coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Ash + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	Ash in the surname reads as a fire the family survived. Reserve it for a drover; it has no grandeur to spend. It reads as a diminutive of something longer that nobody remembers any more.
Lorumard Blackholt	free	lo (a liquid l + a round o) + ru + a m coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Black + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Black- is a colour of work rather than of heraldry. A soft front, and a second beat underneath it that does most of the sounding. The m bridges into a vowel-initial ending. If a magistrate has to shout it across a yard, it holds.
Dehorell Blackford	free	de (a stopped d + a short e) + ho + a r coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Black + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	-ford puts them at a crossing, which is where tolls and gossip both happen. It opens on a consonant that will not be swallowed, and the second beat settles under it. The r is there only to keep the vowels apart. Save it for a hedge prophet — the vowels are too plain for a protagonist.
Gamon Greywick	free	ga (a stopped g + a flat a) + a m coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Grey + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Grey in the surname is stone, and stone is what most old walls actually are. One opening syllable and then the ending; there is no middle to get lost in. A lone m sits between the last vowel and the ending. It reads as a charcoal burner in a town with one road through it.
Tudoner Redgate	free	tu (a stopped t + a blunt u) + do + a n coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Red + -gate (ON gata, a road)	Put it on a plague-doctor and nobody at the table asks twice. -gate is a road, from the Norse gata, so the family lives on the way through. Two syllables, the first harder than the second, which is the ordinary English rhythm. The n bridges into a vowel-initial ending.
Juman Redholt	free	ju (the affricate j + a blunt u) + a m coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Red + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	For a smith's apprentice it is understated, which is the point. Barely a name on its own, which is exactly why it sticks. Red- is the oldest colour word in the pool and the loudest.
Sobilard Ashgate	free	so (a hissing s + a round o) + bi + a l coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Ash + -gate (ON gata, a road)	A court steward is the right slot; the ending keeps the name from sounding grand. It moves instead of striking; the consonants never close the word off. A l is wedged in before the ending. The ash in the surname could be a burnt field or a tree, and the name never says which.
Worimic Marrowfen	free	wo (a glide w + a round o) + ri + a m coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Marrow + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Two syllables that do not quite rhyme, which keeps it from feeling invented. Marrow- is the least comfortable word available to a human clan, and it is doing all the work. Assign it to a priest of an old order in a border town and it stops sounding invented.
Rajolon Marrowcott	free	ra (an r that opens rather than growls + a flat a) + jo + a l coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Marrow + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	A name a poacher would inherit rather than choose. The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften. It sounds spoken rather than written, which is the harder half to fake.
Weluray Fairgate	free	we (a glide w + a short e) + lu + a r coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Fair + -gate (ON gata, a road)	The opening is soft enough that the ending gets the attention. Put it on an executioner and the surname does the rest of the introduction. The fair- in the surname could be hair or weather; both readings are lucky.
Cumer Ashmayne	free	cu (a hard c + a blunt u) + a m coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Ash + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Works as a night watchman in the third session, when the party stops asking for names. One syllable, then the family name; that order is what keeps it legible. The m before the ending is a bridge, not a syllable. -mayne is a household, from the old word for a retinue, so the surname claims people rather than acres.
Taigolan Harrowford	free	tai (a stopped t + the ai diphthong) + go + a l coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Harrow + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	It sits on a castellan and looks borrowed on a hero. Two beats, and a clean stop in the middle of the first one, the vowel pair doing all of the colour. A l is wedged in before the ending. Harrow- is farm work and also distress; the double meaning is the point.
Ruhainins Greycott	free	ru (an r that opens rather than growls + a blunt u) + hai + a n coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Grey + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	-cott keeps the family in one building, which is the smallest possible estate. It sounds like a priest of an old order who was named after a place and left it. Two beats that lean together, so the name is spoken as one motion.
Merell Draycott	free	me (a nasal m + a short e) + a r coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Dray + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	A dray is the low cart that carries a load, so the family hauls for a living. Skip it for a villain and use it for a trapper, where plain is correct. The whole given name is a single beat, so the clan name ends up doing the identifying.
Maibumer Redford	free	mai (a nasal m + the ai diphthong) + bu + a m coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Red + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	Written down it looks longer than it sounds, which is a useful trick at a table. Keep it for a gaoler and give the paladin something with more air in it. The -ford is a river crossing, so the family is placed on water.
Melins Fairford	free	me (a nasal m + a short e) + a l coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Fair + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	Nothing decorative in it: one beat, one ending, and then it stops. The -ford is a river crossing, so the family is placed on water. For a drover it is exactly enough name.
Sarailard Fairholt	free	sa (a hissing s + a flat a) + rai + a l coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Fair + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	A soft front, and a second beat underneath it that does most of the sounding. For a tax farmer it is understated, which is the point. -holt ends the name in timber.
Delaiman Faircott	free	de (a stopped d + a short e) + lai + a m coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Fair + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	The consonant at the front does the work a title would do in a longer name. It fits a hedge prophet better than a longer name would fit anyone. Fair- is the one flattering word in the human pool, and it does not overreach.
Wibaimon Drayford	free	wi (a glide w + a thin i) + bai + a m coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Dray + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	-ford puts them at a crossing, which is where tolls and gossip both happen. Assign it to a ridge-walker in a border town and it stops sounding invented. A liquid start, and the second syllable is where the stress lands.
Caiwilell Greyford	free	cai (a hard c + the ai diphthong) + wi + a l coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Grey + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	The front of the word is the loud part and the rest is furniture, the vowel pair doing all of the colour. Grey in the surname is stone, and stone is what most old walls actually are. It reads as a deserter in a town with one road through it.
Taray Marrowmayne	free	ta (a stopped t + a flat a) + a r coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Marrow + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	-mayne is a household, from the old word for a retinue, so the surname claims people rather than acres. Barely a name on its own, which is exactly why it sticks. The r is there only to keep the vowels apart. Use it where a gatekeeper needs to be forgotten by the next session.
Laigosic Drayholt	free	lai (a liquid l + the ai diphthong) + go + a s coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Dray + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	A dray is the low cart that carries a load, so the family hauls for a living. Put it on a tax farmer and the surname does the rest of the introduction. The first consonant lets the vowel through, so nothing catches on the way in, and the vowel pair carries the stress.
Rucesic Greymoor	free	ru (an r that opens rather than growls + a blunt u) + ce + a s coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Grey + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	Put it on a tomb-keeper and nobody at the table asks twice. The -moor ending sets them on high ground with nothing to hide behind. Two beats with a hum in them and no hard corner anywhere.
Rurell Drayfen	free	ru (an r that opens rather than growls + a blunt u) + a r coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Dray + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	-fen puts them in wetland, the cheapest ground in the district. A scout named after where he was found is the right slot; the ending keeps the name from sounding grand. One opening syllable and then the ending; there is no middle to get lost in.
Jebulan Blackmayne	free	je (the affricate j + a short e) + bu + a l coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Black + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Skip it for a villain and use it for a collector of debts, where plain is correct. It sounds spoken rather than written, which is the harder half to fake. Black- is a colour of work rather than of heraldry.
Cenay Marrowford	free	ce (a hard c + a short e) + a n coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Marrow + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	If a smith's apprentice has to shout it across a yard, it holds. The -ford is a river crossing, so the family is placed on water. It reads as a diminutive of something longer that nobody remembers any more.
Wihalins Fairmayne	free	wi (a glide w + a thin i) + ha + a l coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Fair + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	A good alias for a court steward who would rather his family did not find him. The second syllable is the one the ear keeps, and it is the softer of the two. A lone l sits between the last vowel and the ending. -mayne is the only ending in the pool that counts servants instead of land.
Lumarer Harrowholt	free	lu (a liquid l + a blunt u) + ma + a r coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Harrow + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Harrow- is farm work and also distress; the double meaning is the point. Works as a hedge prophet in the third session, when the party stops asking for names. Nothing in it stops the breath, so it can be said quietly and still carry.
Mailaron Ashfen	free	mai (a nasal m + the ai diphthong) + la + a r coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Ash + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	It moves instead of striking; the consonants never close the word off. Use it for a ridge-walker; the name will not do the work for you. The ash in the surname could be a burnt field or a tree, and the name never says which.
Bawimard Draycott	free	ba (a stopped b + a flat a) + wi + a m coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Dray + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	Two beats, and a clean stop in the middle of the first one. The surname starts on a cart, which is a trade and a limitation both. It sits on a deserter and looks borrowed on a hero.
Cilan Harrowford	free	ci (a hard c + a thin i) + a l coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Harrow + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	The surname begins with a harrow dragging a field, and a name like that keeps a grudge. A single beat, and the stress never moves; say it twice and it stays put. Save it for a toll keeper — the vowels are too plain for a protagonist.
Gacosic Draymayne	free	ga (a stopped g + a flat a) + co + a s coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Dray + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	The surname starts on a cart, which is a trade and a limitation both. The consonant at the front does the work a title would do in a longer name. The s bridges into a vowel-initial ending. It fits a chancellor better than a longer name would fit anyone.
Lemainins Marrowcott	free	le (a liquid l + a short e) + mai + a n coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Marrow + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	-cott is a cottage, and a cottage is a small claim to land. Two beats that would be easy to sing and hard to spell, in that order. Put it on a bell-founder and the surname does the rest of the introduction.
Cogemard Fairford	free	co (a hard c + a round o) + ge + a m coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Fair + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	The fair- in the surname could be hair or weather; both readings are lucky. It will survive being misheard, which is what a beast-handler needs most. It starts on a consonant you can hear through a door.
Mudimer Redgate	free	mu (a nasal m + a blunt u) + di + a m coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Red + -gate (ON gata, a road)	Put it on a plague-doctor and nobody at the table asks twice. Red in the surname is rust, blood or hair, and the reader picks one without being told. Two beats that glide into each other rather than separate. The m is there only to keep the vowels apart.
Lasay Greymayne	free	la (a liquid l + a flat a) + a s coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Grey + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	One syllable in front of the ending, and the ending does the rest of the work. For a carter it is exactly enough name. -mayne is a household, from the old word for a retinue, so the surname claims people rather than acres.
Liranon Greycott	free	li (a liquid l + a thin i) + ra + a n coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Grey + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	A soft front, and a second beat underneath it that does most of the sounding. -cott is a cottage, and a cottage is a small claim to land. It suits a tax farmer at twenty and better at fifty.
Tacurell Ashmoor	free	ta (a stopped t + a flat a) + cu + a r coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Ash + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	Two beats with a hard front, the kind that carries outdoors. Skip it for a villain and use it for a chronicler, where plain is correct. The -moor ending sets them on high ground with nothing to hide behind.
Wedomins Greyholt	free	we (a glide w + a short e) + do + a m coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Grey + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Grey in the surname is stone, and stone is what most old walls actually are. If a hunter has to shout it across a yard, it holds. It sounds spoken rather than written, which is the harder half to fake.
Himunard Harrowmayne	free	hi (a bare h + a thin i) + mu + a n coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Harrow + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Two syllables that do not quite rhyme, which keeps it from feeling invented. The surname begins with a harrow dragging a field, and a name like that keeps a grudge. Use it where a corpse-washer needs to be forgotten by the next session.
Genay Marrowholt	free	ge (a stopped g + a short e) + a n coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Marrow + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	For a smith's apprentice it is understated, which is the point. It reads as a diminutive of something longer that nobody remembers any more. A n is wedged in before the ending. The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften.
Wacelan Harrowfen	free	wa (a glide w + a flat a) + ce + a l coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Harrow + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	A liquid start, and the second syllable is where the stress lands. Use it for a minor lordling; the name will not do the work for you. Harrow- is farm work and also distress; the double meaning is the point.
Homunell Blackcott	free	ho (a bare h + a round o) + mu + a n coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Black + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	The second syllable is the one the ear keeps, and it is the softer of the two. Keep it for a bell-founder and give the paladin something with more air in it. Black- is a colour of work rather than of heraldry.
Boser Faircott	free	bo (a stopped b + a round o) + a s coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Fair + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	One beat, and the surname arrives sooner than the listener expects. The fair- in the surname could be hair or weather; both readings are lucky. Give it to a hunter and let the players mispronounce it once.
Gaibolon Fairwick	free	gai (a stopped g + the ai diphthong) + bo + a l coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Fair + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	It opens on a consonant that will not be swallowed, and the second beat settles under it, and the vowel pair carries the stress. A bounty clerk is the right slot; the ending keeps the name from sounding grand. -wick is a farm that grew into a small trading place.
Jomic Marrowgate	free	jo (the affricate j + a round o) + a m coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Marrow + -gate (ON gata, a road)	Marrow- is the least comfortable word available to a human clan, and it is doing all the work. Its given name is one beat long, which is the shape of a nickname rather than a title. A lone m sits between the last vowel and the ending. It sits on a carter and looks borrowed on a hero.
Halisan Redwick	free	ha (a bare h + a flat a) + li + a s coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Red + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	-wick is a farm that grew into a small trading place. It sounds like a castellan who was named after a place and left it. It moves instead of striking; the consonants never close the word off.
Butinic Redholt	free	bu (a stopped b + a blunt u) + ti + a n coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Red + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Good for a reliquary guard and slightly wrong for a magistrate, which is useful. -holt is a wood, and woods are where family names go when the land runs out. Two beats, and a clean stop in the middle of the first one. The n bridges into a vowel-initial ending.
Bocason Fairmoor	free	bo (a stopped b + a round o) + ca + a s coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Fair + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	Fair- is the one flattering word in the human pool, and it does not overreach. Something in the first syllable refuses to soften, and that is the character of it. The s bridges into a vowel-initial ending. It will survive being misheard, which is what a charcoal burner needs most.
Jusolins Blackmoor	free	ju (the affricate j + a blunt u) + so + a l coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Black + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	Save it for a collector of debts — the vowels are too plain for a protagonist. Black- is a colour of work rather than of heraldry. Written down it looks longer than it sounds, which is a useful trick at a table. A lone l sits between the last vowel and the ending.
Lumer Draygate	free	lu (a liquid l + a blunt u) + a m coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Dray + -gate (ON gata, a road)	A dray is the low cart that carries a load, so the family hauls for a living. A name of one beat gets worn down to a nickname within a month of use. It reads as a ferryman in a town with one road through it.
Haibalay Harrowholt	free	hai (a bare h + the ai diphthong) + ba + a l coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Harrow + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Harrow- is farm work and also distress; the double meaning is the point. For a knight of a small order it is exactly enough name. Nothing in it stops the breath, so it can be said quietly and still carry.
Sobainard Ashford	free	so (a hissing s + a round o) + bai + a n coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Ash + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	It sounds spoken rather than written, which is the harder half to fake. Skip it for a villain and use it for a copyist, where plain is correct. The -ford is a river crossing, so the family is placed on water.
Birulell Ashwick	free	bi (a stopped b + a thin i) + ru + a l coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Ash + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Two syllables, the first harder than the second, which is the ordinary English rhythm. Put it on a beast-handler and nobody at the table asks twice. -wick is a farm that grew into a small trading place.
Satelay Ashmayne	free	sa (a hissing s + a flat a) + te + a l coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Ash + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Two beats that glide into each other rather than separate. If a gaoler has to shout it across a yard, it holds. The ash in the surname could be a burnt field or a tree, and the name never says which.
Mumic Blackgate	free	mu (a nasal m + a blunt u) + a m coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Black + -gate (ON gata, a road)	Assign it to a gatekeeper in a border town and it stops sounding invented. It is the length of a call across a market, not of a name on a charter. The surname starts on soot, which dates the family by a century.
Hesoser Drayfen	free	he (a bare h + a short e) + so + a s coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Dray + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	The surname starts on a cart, which is a trade and a limitation both. A liquid start, and the second syllable is where the stress lands. A knight of a small order is the right slot; the ending keeps the name from sounding grand.
Wolesard Ashholt	free	wo (a glide w + a round o) + le + a s coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Ash + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Best on a reliquary guard, where the name gets said once and then only written down. The first consonant lets the vowel through, so nothing catches on the way in. -holt ends the name in timber.
Hanan Harrowwick	free	ha (a bare h + a flat a) + a n coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Harrow + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	It sits on a scout named after where he was found and looks borrowed on a hero. One beat, and the surname arrives sooner than the listener expects. There is a n in the word that belongs to no syllable on the page. The surname begins with a harrow dragging a field, and a name like that keeps a grudge.
Tehonins Redmayne	free	te (a stopped t + a short e) + ho + a n coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Red + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	The front of the word is the loud part and the rest is furniture. It sounds like a corpse-washer who was named after a place and left it. Red in the surname is rust, blood or hair, and the reader picks one without being told.
Laron Harrowcott	free	la (a liquid l + a flat a) + a r coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Harrow + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	Harrow- is farm work and also distress; the double meaning is the point. Works as a night watchman in the third session, when the party stops asking for names. One syllable, then the family name; that order is what keeps it legible.
Rijairell Drayford	free	ri (an r that opens rather than growls + a thin i) + jai + a r coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Dray + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	That is an envoy's name in a village of ninety people. The second syllable is the one the ear keeps, and it is the softer of the two. -ford puts them at a crossing, which is where tolls and gossip both happen.
Dubinard Redford	free	du (a stopped d + a blunt u) + bi + a n coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Red + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	Keep it for a copyist and give the paladin something with more air in it. Red in the surname is rust, blood or hair, and the reader picks one without being told. Two beats; the first is a knock and the second is the answer.
Gowiric Fairgate	free	go (a stopped g + a round o) + wi + a r coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Fair + -gate (ON gata, a road)	It starts on a consonant you can hear through a door. Put it on a hunter and the surname does the rest of the introduction. -gate is a road, from the Norse gata, so the family lives on the way through.
Ladainer Blackfen	free	la (a liquid l + a flat a) + dai + a n coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Black + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	-fen is marsh, which is land nobody else wanted. Two beats that would be easy to sing and hard to spell, in that order. Give it to a corpse-washer and let the players mispronounce it once.
Jasay Redmoor	free	ja (the affricate j + a flat a) + a s coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Red + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	If a smith's apprentice has to shout it across a yard, it holds. Nothing decorative in it: one beat, one ending, and then it stops. The s is there only to keep the vowels apart. Red in the surname is rust, blood or hair, and the reader picks one without being told.
Gaijilon Fairholt	free	gai (a stopped g + the ai diphthong) + ji + a l coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Fair + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	It begins with a sound that survives a bad accent, which is not a small thing, the diphthong holding the middle of the word. One line in a ledger, one name: a castellan. Fair- is the one flattering word in the human pool, and it does not overreach.
Raidisan Draywick	free	rai (an r that opens rather than growls + the ai diphthong) + di + a s coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Dray + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	-wick is a farm that grew into a small trading place. For a keeper of the parish book it is understated, which is the point. A soft front, and a second beat underneath it that does most of the sounding, with the diphthong wider than the spelling suggests.
Dajesins Greygate	free	da (a stopped d + a flat a) + je + a s coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Grey + -gate (ON gata, a road)	The first syllable is clipped and the second lands behind it. It fits a beast-handler better than a longer name would fit anyone. -gate ends on a road, and roads make a family visible.
Salimell Harrowgate	free	sa (a hissing s + a flat a) + li + a m coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Harrow + -gate (ON gata, a road)	Good for a gravedigger and slightly wrong for a magistrate, which is useful. Written down it looks longer than it sounds, which is a useful trick at a table. The m before the ending is a bridge, not a syllable. -gate ends on a road, and roads make a family visible.
Haimay Greymoor	free	hai (a bare h + the ai diphthong) + a m coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Grey + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	There is no room for a middle syllable, so the word is all front and ending, the diphthong holding the middle of the word. It sits on a gatekeeper and looks borrowed on a hero. The -moor ending sets them on high ground with nothing to hide behind.
Jigainins Harrowmoor	free	ji (the affricate j + a thin i) + gai + a n coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Harrow + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	Put it on a tax farmer and nobody at the table asks twice. The -moor ending sets them on high ground with nothing to hide behind. The opening is soft enough that the ending gets the attention.
Josailon Blackholt	free	jo (the affricate j + a round o) + sai + a l coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Black + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Hand it to a priest of an old order and the name will age with the campaign. -holt ends the name in timber. Nothing in it stops the breath, so it can be said quietly and still carry.
Sonan Greyfen	free	so (a hissing s + a round o) + a n coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Grey + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	One beat, and the surname arrives sooner than the listener expects. Save it for a scout named after where he was found — the vowels are too plain for a protagonist. Grey- is a colour that refuses to commit, which suits a border family.
Hicorard Drayholt	free	hi (a bare h + a thin i) + co + a r coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Dray + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Put it on a body-trader and the surname does the rest of the introduction. The surname starts on a cart, which is a trade and a limitation both. It sounds spoken rather than written, which is the harder half to fake.
Dosic Marrowford	free	do (a stopped d + a round o) + a s coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Marrow + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	A single beat, and the stress never moves; say it twice and it stays put. -ford puts them at a crossing, which is where tolls and gossip both happen. If a smith's apprentice has to shout it across a yard, it holds.
Tesairer Blackford	free	te (a stopped t + a short e) + sai + a r coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Black + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	It reads as a minor lordling in a town with one road through it. Two beats with a hard front, the kind that carries outdoors. Black- is a colour of work rather than of heraldry.
Luwainell Redfen	free	lu (a liquid l + a blunt u) + wai + a n coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Red + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Give it to a keeper of the parish book and keep the fancier names for people who matter. The second syllable is the one the ear keeps, and it is the softer of the two. Red in the surname is rust, blood or hair, and the reader picks one without being told.
Walan Greywick	free	wa (a glide w + a flat a) + a l coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Grey + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Grey in the surname is stone, and stone is what most old walls actually are. A good alias for a charcoal burner who would rather his family did not find him. The whole given name is a single beat, so the clan name ends up doing the identifying.
Cuhailic Redcott	free	cu (a hard c + a blunt u) + hai + a l coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Red + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	Use it where a corpse-washer needs to be forgotten by the next session. Two beats; the first is a knock and the second is the answer. A l is wedged in before the ending. Red- is the oldest colour word in the pool and the loudest.
Rumins Greyford	free	ru (an r that opens rather than growls + a blunt u) + a m coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Grey + -ford (OE ford, a crossing)	Barely a name on its own, which is exactly why it sticks. Grey in the surname is stone, and stone is what most old walls actually are. It sits on a gatekeeper and looks borrowed on a hero.
Jemamay Marrowfen	free	je (the affricate j + a short e) + ma + a m coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Marrow + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Assign it to a magistrate in a border town and it stops sounding invented. -fen is marsh, which is land nobody else wanted. Two beats that would be easy to sing and hard to spell, in that order. A m is wedged in before the ending.
Selunard Marrowwick	free	se (a hissing s + a short e) + lu + a n coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Marrow + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften. A soft front, and a second beat underneath it that does most of the sounding. A n is wedged in before the ending. That is a reliquary guard's name in a village of ninety people.
Siron Blackmayne	free	si (a hissing s + a thin i) + a r coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Black + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	-mayne is a household, from the old word for a retinue, so the surname claims people rather than acres. Skip it for a villain and use it for an outlander, where plain is correct. It reads as a diminutive of something longer that nobody remembers any more.
Wimailer Blackwick	free	wi (a glide w + a thin i) + mai + a l coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Black + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Two beats with a hum in them and no hard corner anywhere. Black- is a colour of work rather than of heraldry. Fine for a gaoler; a little too neat for a villain.
Daimell Draymoor	free	dai (a stopped d + the ai diphthong) + a m coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Dray + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	Give it to a carter and let the players mispronounce it once. The surname starts on a cart, which is a trade and a limitation both. There is no room for a middle syllable, so the word is all front and ending, and the vowel pair carries the stress. A lone m sits between the last vowel and the ending.
Rudamer Ashgate	free	ru (an r that opens rather than growls + a blunt u) + da + a m coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Ash + -gate (ON gata, a road)	Keep it for a heir with a writ to prove it and give the paladin something with more air in it. A liquid start, and the second syllable is where the stress lands. -gate is a road, from the Norse gata, so the family lives on the way through.
Dirasic Fairmayne	free	di (a stopped d + a thin i) + ra + a s coda before -ic (OE -ic, of the kind of) / Fair + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Two beats, and a clean stop in the middle of the first one. -mayne is a household, from the old word for a retinue, so the surname claims people rather than acres. Give it to a chronicler and keep the fancier names for people who matter.
Teray Ashcott	free	te (a stopped t + a short e) + a r coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Ash + -cott (OE cot, a cottage)	Best on an outlander, where the name gets said once and then only written down. Short enough to be a shout across a yard, which is what one-beat names are for. The r is there only to keep the vowels apart. The ash in the surname could be a burnt field or a tree, and the name never says which.
Wosaimon Fairfen	free	wo (a glide w + a round o) + sai + a m coda before -on (OE -on, a weak ending, the commonest unstressed tail in English names) / Fair + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	If an executioner has to shout it across a yard, it holds. The opening is soft enough that the ending gets the attention. A m is wedged in before the ending. Fair- is the one flattering word in the human pool, and it does not overreach.
Daman Marrowmoor	free	da (a stopped d + a flat a) + a m coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Marrow + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	It is the length of a call across a market, not of a name on a charter. Hand it to a smith's apprentice and the name will age with the campaign. The surname begins on bone, the one image in this batch that will not soften.
Micaimins Marrowmayne	free	mi (a nasal m + a thin i) + cai + a m coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Marrow + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	It sits on a chancellor and looks borrowed on a hero. Two beats that glide into each other rather than separate. -mayne is the only ending in the pool that counts servants instead of land.
Witolell Harrowmoor	free	wi (a glide w + a thin i) + to + a l coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Harrow + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	The surname begins with a harrow dragging a field, and a name like that keeps a grudge. Put it on a keeper of the parish book and nobody at the table asks twice. Written down it looks longer than it sounds, which is a useful trick at a table.
Derard Greymayne	free	de (a stopped d + a short e) + a r coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Grey + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	Grey- is a colour that refuses to commit, which suits a border family. It will survive being misheard, which is what an outlander needs most. A single beat, and the stress never moves; say it twice and it stays put.
Gaihumay Redfen	free	gai (a stopped g + the ai diphthong) + hu + a m coda before -ay (OE eg, an island or dry ground in a marsh) / Red + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	Red in the surname is rust, blood or hair, and the reader picks one without being told. Two beats; the first is a knock and the second is the answer. It reads as a bounty clerk in a town with one road through it.
Danell Ashfen	free	da (a stopped d + a flat a) + a n coda before -ell (OE -el, a diminutive) / Ash + -fen (OE fenn, marsh)	The ash in the surname could be a burnt field or a tree, and the name never says which. A name a smith's apprentice would inherit rather than choose. Barely a name on its own, which is exactly why it sticks.
Dowulard Draymoor	free	do (a stopped d + a round o) + wu + a l coda before -ard (OE heard, hard or bold) / Dray + -moor (OE mor, open upland)	That is a heir with a writ to prove it's name in a village of ninety people. A dray is the low cart that carries a load, so the family hauls for a living. Two beats with a hard front, the kind that carries outdoors.
Maicirins Ashholt	free	mai (a nasal m + the ai diphthong) + ci + a r coda before -ins (ME -ines, from -inges, the people of a place) / Ash + -holt (OE holt, a wood)	Ash in the surname reads as a fire the family survived. A soft front, and a second beat underneath it that does most of the sounding. A r is wedged in before the ending. Works as a copyist in the third session, when the party stops asking for names.
Goner Redwick	free	go (a stopped g + a round o) + a n coda before -er (OE -ere, the doer ending) / Red + -wick (OE wic, a farm or small trading place)	Keep it for a river-runner and give the paladin something with more air in it. -wick is a farm that grew into a small trading place. One syllable in front of the ending, and the ending does the rest of the work. The n bridges into a vowel-initial ending.
Matainan Ashmayne	free	ma (a nasal m + a flat a) + tai + a n coda before -an (OE -an, a weak ending) / Ash + -mayne (ME mayne, a household or retinue)	If an executioner has to shout it across a yard, it holds. The first consonant lets the vowel through, so nothing catches on the way in. -mayne is a household, from the old word for a retinue, so the surname claims people rather than acres.

Forgotten Realms wiki: all 200 names were checked the same day and none has a same-name page. The checker was validated in the same run against Elminster, Daggerford, Oakvale, Drizzt Do'Urden, Mordenkainen and Waterdeep, all six of which it found — so the empty result is a finding, not a broken lookup. One line is all that result carries; repeating it down two hundred rows would pad the table without adding a second fact.

Reproduce this page

Open the generator, then paste this into the console. It draws through the shipped makeName, makeTracker and setSeed, so the syllable tables, the clan pools and the duplicate guard are the ones in production.

var s=document.createElement('script'); s.src='/assets/character-stats.js'; document.body.appendChild(s);

Parameters: seed 20261025 for the batch audit — 36 cultures × 10 batches × 200 names, gender Neutral, race fixed per run, styles cycling in shipped order — and seed 20261026 for the style run — six cultures × five styles × 2,000 names. The script leaves its output on window.__CHAR_STATS, including the per-culture head counts and the style intersections. The 200-name batch is the first press of the audit at the same seed, so it comes back identical. The Verisign RDAP reads and the wiki lookups were made separately on 2026-10-25 and are not part of that script.

Computed from the data file.

Questions

Can I really get 200 character names in one press?

Yes — the count control runs from 10 to 200 and generation is local, so a full press is instant. Inside a batch there are no duplicates: 0 in 72,000 names over 360 batches. Across batches the guard resets, and ten presses for the same culture repeated 75 names in 72,000 draws (0.10%).

Do the names inside one batch sound too alike?

Some will. 52.3% of the 72,000 names share their first three letters with another name in the same batch, and a 200-name batch carries 130.1 different openings on average. The lizardfolk table is the tightest at 74.5%, the rock gnomes the loosest at 26.5%, and a human batch sits at 32.9%. Switching culture or style is a better fix than rerolling, because rerolling draws from the same inventory.

Does the style setting change the names or only the label?

It changes the build. Gritty puts one opening syllable before the ending and Noble puts two, so a Gritty human name and a Noble human name never collided in 2,000 draws each: 0 shared given names between 1,832 and 1,994 distinct ones. Mean length moves from 5.55 letters to 7.70 in the same culture, and the widest overlap of any pair is Gritty against Wild at 17.5%.

How many surnames does one culture have?

Sixty-four, and all 36 cultures returned exactly 64 in 2,000 draws, because each clan pool is eight first elements by eight second elements. A 200-name batch uses every one of them and never gives a clan more than four names — eight clans get four, the other fifty-six get three.

Are the 200 names on this page already taken?

As full names, no. All 200 concatenated .com domains were free on 2026-10-25 and none of the 200 has a same-name page on the Forgotten Realms wiki. The given names alone are a different matter: 65 of the 200 were registered as single-word domains.

Do I need an account, and does anything leave the page?

No account, no stored history, no server call during generation. The only thing that persists is the state in the address bar, which you can bookmark; copying uses the system clipboard with a text-selection fallback when the browser refuses.

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