Maximum name length: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (this is the max for WoW Characters) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 (this is a good value for full names) 21 22 23 24 (this is the max for WoW Guild Names) 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200

or browse to your own file of names:

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Welcome to the Character Namer

This web page was designed out of frustration with coming up with unique character names in World of Warcraft.

The naming styles for many Non-player Characters were relatively consistent across race or faction and it was my thinking that my character names should try to follow suit.

I had seen a nifty Markov based random word generator over at Oh The Huge Manatee and found that this little Javascript applet did a wonderful job of putting names together with variable tunable parameters.

I turned it into a PHP based application pulling from local lists of files and this name generator was born!

You can parse your own files by selecting it with the file-select above, and it will give you names based on your OWN list as well.

Each of the names is linked to Google to perform a quick search. This is intended to keep me from naming my characters something that looks cool but might mean something totally inappropriate either in or out of context (especially in a foreign language).

There's also a link to Armory to help ensure the name isn't already taken (Armory only lists active characters over level 10).

A name that comes up with an asterisk (*) notes where the generator ran out of retries and gave up, making it a word already in the dictionary or in the list.

The Multiple Words checkbox will split names or words into phrases and return phrase-built results (Good for first name / last name).

Recommended Settings for Guild Names: Try Minimum Length of 3, Number of Retries 200, Chunk Size 4, Name Length 24 and Multiple Words checked.

A larger chunk size on any listing will give more plausible names but come up with fewer unique entries.

(you can click on the [X] in the corner of this big ugly box to close it)

If you have any questions or would like me to add a list, drop me a line at halytech@halytech.net!