Random Name Generator

Male and female mean 'usually', and the column says so. Plenty of these names cross over, and which ones do depends on the country and the decade: Camille, Andrea, Jean and Yuki all move. Turning the gender filter off gives you the whole list, which is often what you actually want.

Origin is a culture, not a passport. Grouping by language and naming tradition is the honest unit: Arabic names are used from Morocco to Indonesia, Scandinavian ones across five countries, and West African covers Yoruba, Igbo and Akan names that have quite different roots. Sorting these by modern nation state would be neater and wrong.

First names only, and deliberately. Most name generators bolt a random surname onto a random first name and produce combinations no human has ever been called. Pairing a Japanese given name with a Polish surname is not a name, it is noise — so this page gives you the first name and leaves the surname to you.

Nothing is invented. Every entry is a name in real use in the tradition it is listed under. There are no fantasy names, no made-up spellings and no names generated by mashing syllables together.