Cyberpunk Name Generator

How the Cyberpunk Name Generator works

Cyberpunk name generator: the patterns behind each name

A cyberpunk character has as many names as there are people who want something from them, and the generator gives the four that matter, the given, the street, the corporate and the net. The given name is the one on the birth record, an ordinary name from the shared cast of this section with the shorter, harder first names picked out, Nyx Marrow, Jax Solano, Sable Voss, Dex Reyes, Sunny Okonkwo, Rook Tanaka, or a first name alone, Cass, Fenn, Lark, which is the name the character had before the city gave them another. The street name is the one the city gave, a single hard word, Razor, Static, Glitch, Wire, Jolt, Fuse, Spike, Vex, Shard, Hex, Ghost, Zero, or a metal with a first name, Chrome Petra, Wire Kael, Glass Nyx, Carbon Rook, or the word with the given name, Kael Static, Glitch Halloran, Razor Voss, or the full bar-room form with the street name in quotes, Dex "Wire" Reyes, Sable "Fuse" Onne, since a street name is a description that stuck. The corporate name is the one on the badge, a double-barrelled surname because the towers marry each other, Tamsin Halloran-Quade, Dorian Castellan-Thorne, or a name with a title, Dorian Castellan, Junior Vice-President, Mira Lindqvist, Head of Compliance, Orin Farrow, Director of Retention, or a name with an employer, Petra Solano of Halcyon Dynamics, Ezra Voss-Kepler, Quade Systems, or the file form, Nakamura, Ravi, Senior Analyst, which is a person described as an asset. The handle is the name on the net, a compound of two ordinary words from the machine room, Ghostline, Nullpoint, Deadpixel, Backdoor, Sidechannel, Coldboot, Bitrot, Faultline, Whitenoise, Nightshift, or a single word, Wraith, Cipher, Vector, Proxy, Nomad, or with a digit, Deadpixel7, Signal3, or a given name with an underscore, Vesper_9, Nyx_4, or two compounds, Coldboot_Wraith, which is the name that never touches the given one if the character is careful.

Given name gives the birth record. Street name gives the city's. Corporate name gives the badge. Handle gives the net.

There is no gender option, since the first names are shared across the cast and a handle has none.

The lists are original. The names are the shared cast of this section, the corporations are the shared setting, the street names are ordinary hard words, the titles are ordinary corporate ones and the handles are compounds of machine-room words coined for this page; no published cyberpunk character, corporation, city or franchise name appears in the lists, a match with a game, a novel or a film would be chance, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the handle on its own with more range, the cyberpunk handle page; for the city the character runs in, the cyberpunk city page; for the tower on the badge, the cyberpunk corporation page; for the crew the street name belongs to, the cyberpunk gang page; and for the character with more metal than skin, the cyborg name page.

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