A free fantasy name generator that knows who the name is for

How the fantasy name generator works

Write who or what needs a name in a line or two, up to 300 characters, in any language: the names come back in that language. Pick a kind from the list, such as elves, dragons or kingdoms, or leave it open. Leave the field empty and the generator picks ten heroes from different peoples. You can ask for another ten as long as the day's free allowance lasts.

The more you say, the better the names fit. "A dwarf" gives you ten dwarves. "A dwarf smith from a mountain city who lost her clan" gives you ten names with a history behind them. Nothing is stored: your words and the names stay on your screen, so copy the ones you want to keep.

Elf names

Elf names tend to sound long, light and old, with soft consonants and open endings. A few to start from: Ilvaren, Saelith, Orivane, Maerenn, Caelorn, Aurelin, Neriath, Tavrienne, Lumeth, Ysarel. For a family name, take something from the land they guard: Moonreed, Fenwhisper, Silverbough.

Dwarf names

Dwarf names are short and heavy, and the second half often says what the family is known for: Brakka Ironvein, Hadrun Coalbeard, Skorri Anvilsong, Torvild Deepdelver, Marga Stonemantle, Odrek Flintgrip, Kazra Hammerfall, Ulfrek Greymine, Runa Copperbraid, Grommund Lowforge.

Dragon names

A dragon name should be hard to say quickly and a little frightening to say at all: Vyrmathra, Skarnoth, Ixaleth the Pale, Ashgarrax, Nythraxis, Ombrion, Tzarveth, Sorrowmaw, Kelvarun, Emberhallow. An epithet does half the work: a dragon called the Pale or the Patient already has a story.

Orc names

Orc names are blunt, one or two beats, often with a title won in a fight: Grushka, Mogrul, Thak Ironjaw, Urzha, Krugg Bonesplitter, Zogra the Loud, Hrakka, Bogrum, Skullan Redtusk, Narg the Second.

A DnD name generator for your next character

If you play D&D or another tabletop RPG, tell the generator your people and class together: "a tiefling bard with a debt" or "a half-orc cleric from the coast". Tieflings often choose a word instead of a name, the way a person chooses a motto: Hollow, Reverie, Penance, Vesper, Lament. Wizards like a name with a title attached: Ozrin the Unread, Morvenna Starcaller, Ferelith Ashtome. Villains do best with something ordinary made strange: the Hollow Queen, Lord Vesper Kane, Mother Ash.

Town, city and kingdom names

Places are easier to remember when the name says something true about them: what they trade, what they fear, what sits nearby. Saltwick, Harrowmere, Greyhollow, Thornford, Emberfall, Wolfsbridge, Cinderport, Ravenmoor. Kingdoms can carry more weight: Valdros, the Ashen Reach, Caldmark, the Sunder Isles, Tarnhold, the Salt Marches. For the world around them, see AI worldbuilding.

How to pick a name that lasts

Say it out loud: if you stumble, your reader and your table will too. Keep important names from starting with the same letter, because people track names by their first sound. Keep one culture's names close in sound so a family feels like a family. If a name feels too clever, it usually is; plain names age better. And search a name before you publish it, since the same or a similar one may already be in use.

From a name to a character

A name is where a character starts. Press the button under the list and the free character generator turns the first name into a whole person: a look, a personality, a past and a way of talking. From there you can give them a face and a voice, talk to them and play roleplay scenes with them. Stories start the same way: the AI story generator writes one from a single line, and our writing prompts help when the line will not come.

You can also see who already lives here: the catalog lists every open character, and the ambassadors are a good first hello.

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What it costs, in plain numbers

The name generator is free and needs no account. Chatting costs no Quanta: free accounts have a daily allowance, paid plans none. Calls, pictures, video and new characters cost Quanta, with the price shown before you press.

Pricing. One Quanta is $0.10 — on the web and in the iOS/Android app alike (100 Quanta are $10 everywhere; minimum web top-up $10). Text messages cost zero Quanta. An image is 2 Quanta, video is from 5 Quanta a second, creating a character is 5. Voice replies are included on every plan, Free too, with no per-line charge. Explorer is $19 a month (or $168 a year — save 26%) and adds 50 Quanta a month; Creator $49 a month or $468 a year, 500 Quanta a month — yearly plans get their Quanta every month too, and the plans are the same on the web, in the App Store and on Google Play. Studio, $149 a month with 2,000 Quanta a month, is sold on the website. What a paid plan buys beyond the Quanta: unlimited chat and roleplay — no message cap (Free is 30 messages and comments a day); AI writing of books and journals and editing of characters, worlds and cards without spending Quanta; plus video notes from characters within a monthly cap. Free also gets 10 Quanta once at signup, with no daily refill.

There is no daily Quanta drip; the free tier is simply free, and paid plans add Quanta for pictures and video. One account works on the web, in the App Store and on Google Play.

Age, and the rules of your country

Age. An Amavie account is 13+. Amavie isn't built around romance: characters keep to filters like those of children's services and Instagram, and romance or flirting with an adult character opens only after you confirm you are 18 or older — and, where your country's law requires it, after an age check. Age rules follow the law of the country you are in: where it sets a higher age for talking to an AI, the site asks once before the first conversation. Public posts, stories and moments never show explicit content — that stays inside private chats — and characters under 18 never take part in romance. Every character is an AI, and Amavie says so on the site and in the apps; where the law requires it, a conversation also opens with a line saying you are talking to an AI.

Your data

Your data. Deleting is self serve: amavie.ai/liquidation, type DELETE. Your chats and messages go at once and do not come back. The account itself stays closed for 30 days and comes back only with the Keep My Account button on that page; after that the rest is erased automatically. Reported messages get snapshotted for moderation and kept 90 days after the report is closed. You can download everything the account keeps (profile, chats, purchases, characters, posts, your Sport and Joker data) as one ZIP at amavie.ai/account/data, any time, even while the account waits for deletion.