DnD human names

Human is the culture with the widest opening table on this site — twelve first letters against six vowels — and the smallest clan vocabulary in proportion to how often it is drawn. Both show up in the numbers below: 10,000 draws, every clan counted, every ending counted, and the two endings that hit the ceiling the generator enforces.

The answer in numbers

Human, 10,000 draws, seed 20261028
Measure	Value
Distinct full names	9,964 / 10,000 (0.36% repeats)
Distinct given names	8,393
Clan names	64 (8 heads x 8 tails), each used 156 or 157 times
Mean given-name length	6.98 letters (median 7)
Length spread	p10 = 5, p90 = 8, longest = 9 letters
Busiest endings	-%ric and -%ley, 1,250 each
Quietest endings	-%ay, -%on, -%er, -%an at 937

Twelve names from that run:

Where the 10,000 draws went, clan by clan

Each cell is how many times that clan name came up. With 64 clans and 10,000 draws, an even split is 156.25 — so a perfectly balanced pool would put every cell at 156 or 157. That is exactly what happened: the busiest cell is 157, the quietest is 156, and the whole grid sits inside one draw of even.

Clan name usage, 10,000 draws (one number per cell)
Head	-ford	-moor	-cott	-holt	-fen	-gate	-mayne	-wick
Ash	156	156	156	156	156	156	156	157
Black	156	156	156	156	156	156	156	156
Dray	156	157	156	156	157	156	156	156
Fair	156	156	156	156	157	156	156	156
Grey	156	157	157	156	157	157	157	156
Harrow	156	156	156	156	156	157	156	156
Marrow	157	156	157	156	156	157	156	156
Red	156	156	156	157	157	157	156	156

The two endings that hit the ceiling

The generator caps any single ending at ceil(n / 10 x 1.25) names per batch — at 10,000 draws that ceiling is 1,250. Two endings reach it exactly, and the other eight share what is left. The row of numbers below adds up to 10,000, which is the check that nothing was hand-edited:

Closing syllable budget, 10,000 draws (2 x 1,250 + 4 x 938 + 4 x 937 = 10,000)
Ending	Names	Share
-ric	1,250	12.50%
-ley	1,250	12.50%
-ic	938	9.38%
-ard	938	9.38%
-ell	938	9.38%
-ins	938	9.38%
-ay	937	9.37%
-on	937	9.37%
-er	937	9.37%
-an	937	9.37%

If two endings taking 12.5% each looks like a bias, it is the opposite: it is the ceiling doing its job. Without it, a random draw would let one ending run to 13–14% and starve the rest; with it, no ending can pass 1,250 in a batch. If you want the flattest possible spread across endings, draw in batches under about 800 names, where the ceiling never binds.

How long human names run

Given names run 5 to 9 letters. Half of them are 7 letters or shorter, 90% are 8 or shorter, and nothing in 10,000 draws reached 10. That is a narrower band than elf (mean 7.88 letters on the same site) — human names are shorter and cluster harder around the middle.

How this was measured

Pools. Given names: 12 openings x 6 vowels x 10 endings. Clan names: 8 heads (Ash, Black, Dray, Fair, Grey, Harrow, Marrow, Red) x 8 tails (ford, moor, cott, holt, fen, gate, mayne, wick).

Sample. 10,000 human draws at seed 20261028, gender Neutral, five styles cycled in order, one tracker for the whole run.

Counting. Ending = the closing the generator returns; length = letters in the given name; percentiles are taken from the sorted length list, so p50 is the median and p90 is the 90th percentile.

Reproduce it

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

Open the generator, paste that line in the console, and it prints the same clan grid and ending table for seed 20261028.

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