Android Name Generator

How the Android / Synth Name Generator works

Android name generator: how the names are built

An android is a machine made to look like a person, and its name is the story of whether it passes, so the generator names the android at each stage of that story. The passing name is the one it uses in public, an ordinary name from the shared cast of this section, Mira Halloran, Kael Voss, Sela Onne, Dorian Ekwueme, Tamsin Reyes, or a first name alone, Cass, Ezra, Lark, which is indistinguishable from a human name because it is meant to be. The line name is the one the makers use for a production run, a first name with a number, Ilsa-7, Tessa Four, Ada Nine, Corvin-3, or the ordinal that tells you which one this is, the Fourth Ada, the Second Tessa, Cassia of the Third Line, or the catalogue form, Model Tessa Line 4, Model Orin Line 2, since makers give a line a human name and then number the copies, which is where the unease comes from. The serial name is the one under the skin, a surname with a serial, Onne 22-Kappa, Voss 71-Sigma, or the maker's form, Halcyon Dynamics Companion Unit 3, Quade Systems Clerk Unit 8, or a code before the name, KR-410 Mira, TL-207 Kael, Delta-31 Sela, or the plain record, Corvin, serial 41180, Petra, serial 90212, which is what the scanner reads and what the android would rather you did not. The chosen name is the one it takes when it decides its name is its own, a coined name a little off the human ones, Wren, Argent, Pell, Cassia, Sorrel, Tallow, Ludo, Ivo, Rue, Linnet, Juno, Hesper, Odile, or with the passing surname kept, Argent Solano, Wren Halloran, or the old first name with the new one, Mira Hesper, Kael Perrin, which is the name of an android who has stopped passing and started being.

Passing name gives the public one. Line name gives the maker's. Serial name gives the one under the skin. Chosen name gives the android's own.

There is no gender option, since the first names are shared across the cast and a synth's gender is whatever the line was built to present.

The lists are original. The names are the shared cast of this section, the makers and series are the shared setting, the serial forms are ordinary letter-and-number ones and the chosen names are coined for this page; no published android, replicant, synth or franchise name appears in the lists, a match with a film, a series or a game would be chance, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the robot that does not try to look human, the robot name page; for the mind without a body at all, the AI name page; for the person who is half machine, the cyborg name page; for the batch grown rather than built, the clone designation page; and for the maker on the serial, the megacorp page.

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