About DND Name Book

DND Name Book is a free name generator for Dungeons & Dragons characters, built for players who want a name that fits the world rather than something pulled at random from a list. Every generator on the site is anchored in the lore of its race — naming conventions, cultural context, and original example names — so the names you roll feel like they came from the published material, even though every one of them is generated fresh in your browser.

What this site is

Each race has its own page with three things on it:

1. A working generator. Roll one name or twenty-five at a time, filter by gender, by starting letter, or by whether you want a clan or family name attached. Names are produced by a markov-chain trained on a per-race seed list of plausible names — they are recombinations, not lookups.
2. Original race lore. A few paragraphs on the history, society, and worldview of the race. Useful for new players who want context, and for veteran DMs who want a refresher before dropping an NPC into a session.
3. Naming conventions. What the names actually mean, how they are structured, and where they come from. Tieflings have virtue names. Tabaxi have phrasal names that compress whole sentences. Kenku have mimicry sounds. The conventions matter, and we explain them.

Why we made it

Existing D&D name generators tend to do one of two things: either they show you a list and stop, or they bury the list under a wall of ads and a slow, dated interface. We wanted a third option — a tool that loads instantly on a phone at the table, gives you the name you need, and quietly explains where it came from. That's it.

For builders, bots, and AI agents

Most generator sites are built to be clicked by a human at the table. DND Name Book is built to be used by humans and by the tools humans use. We expose a free public JSON API (CORS-open, no auth, CC0 output), publish an llms.txtfile describing the whole site in plain Markdown, ship Schema.org JSON-LD on every page, and tag every interactive element with stable selectors so browser automation doesn't snap on every redesign. If you're building a Discord bot, a Foundry module, an LLM-powered DM assistant, or anything that needs lore-accurate fantasy names — please use it. We'd rather be the dependency you reach for than the page you scrape.

How it makes money

DND Name Book is supported by display ads. We do not collect personal information, sell email addresses, or run pop-ups. If you'd like to help the site, the kindest thing you can do is share a generator with another player who is naming a character.

Trademark and fan content

Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, and related logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. DND Name Book is an unofficial fan tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast. All race lore on this site is original prose, written for this site. We do not reproduce or distribute Wizards of the Coast copyrighted text or art.