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Fantasy Pirate Captain Name Generator
Pirate Captain, Crew and Sea Names for Fantasy Adventures
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How the Pirate Captain Name Generator (Fantasy) works
This fantasy pirate captain name generator is free and makes a new batch each time. Generate fantasy pirate captain names: plain names such as Captain Morwenna Saltcombe, Corin Drake and Captain Vesper, sea names such as Redhand Piran, Sable Blackwater and Reynard, called the Gull, names with a ship such as Captain Isolde Pike of the Drowned Gull and Captain Silas, master of the Laughing Widow, names with an epithet or deed such as Captain Nell the Unhanged and Rook Saltbeard, who sank the Iron Duke off Gullhaven, and pirate crew names such as the Saltmouth Reavers and the Gulls of the Black Tide. Choose female, male or either and generate up to a hundred at once.
Fantasy pirate captain name generator: where the names come from
A pirate captain's name is half a name and half a reputation, and the generator gives both halves with the fantasy coast of this section behind them. The plain name is a shared human name or a short sailor's one, Morwenna, Corin, Vesper, Piran, Moll, Wat, Hrolf, with a surname that smells of the sea, Saltcombe, Blackwater, Seagrave, Tidewell, Wrackham, Brinesmith, or a plain coastal trade, Pike, Crane, Cutter. The sea name is the name the crew uses, a compound of a colour and a part of the body or the sea, Redhand, Saltbeard, Blackwater, Halftooth, Ironhook, Stormgull, or a seabird, since a captain called the Cormorant or the Skua has earned it. The ship is the captain's other name, and the ships are coined here from a grim adjective and a sea thing, the Drowned Gull, the Laughing Widow, the Black Kestrel, the Weeping Anchor, the Iron Mermaid. The epithet is the luck or the cruelty, the Unhanged, the Undrowned, the Sea-Cursed, the Storm-Born, and the deed is the story, drawn from the shared ports and events, sank the Iron Duke off Gullhaven, took the Corinthos treasure fleet in a fog, stole the Drowned Queen's own ship. The crews sail out of the shared ports and waters, Saltmouth, Gullhaven, the Sundered Isles, the Drowned Lands, the Bloodmere.
Plain name gives the name and surname, usually with Captain. Sea name gives the compound or the bird. Name with ship gives the ship. Name with epithet or deed gives the luck or the story. Pirate crew name gives the crew, the Saltmouth Reavers, the Bloody Hooks, the Gulls of the Drowned Kestrel, the Storm Dogs of the Sundered Isles.
The gender option splits the given names and leaves surnames, sea names, ships, epithets and crews shared, since the sea does not ask.
The lists are original. The given names are old European names and sailor's nicknames in the public language, the surnames, sea names, ships and crews are coined for this page, and no name is copied from a published pirate, ship or crew; a match with a novel or a game would be chance, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.
For the real-world pirate rather than the fantasy one, the pirate name page; for the ship on its own, the fantasy ship page; for the port the crew drinks in, the tavern page; and for the mermaid the captain traded with, the mermaid page.
FAQ
What is a sea name?
The name the crew uses, a compound of a colour and a part of the body or the sea, Redhand, Saltbeard, Blackwater, Halftooth, Ironhook, or a seabird, the Gull, the Cormorant, the Skua. The Sea name kind gives it before or after a given name.
How are the ships named?
From a grim adjective and a sea thing, the Drowned Gull, the Laughing Widow, the Black Kestrel, the Weeping Anchor, the Iron Mermaid. The Name with ship kind joins one to a captain, Captain Isolde Pike of the Drowned Gull, Captain Silas, master of the Laughing Widow.
What is a deed name?
The story the captain is known for, drawn from the shared ports and events of this fantasy section. The Name with epithet or deed kind gives it, Rook Saltbeard, who sank the Iron Duke off Gullhaven, Captain Nell, who was hanged twice and drowned once.
How do I name a pirate crew?
Use the Pirate crew name kind. It names the crew for its port on the shared map, the Saltmouth Reavers, the Gullhaven Dogs, for its ship, the Gulls of the Drowned Kestrel, or joins a colour to a plural, the Bloody Hooks, the Storm Wolves of the Sundered Isles.
Are any of these names from published works?
No. Every list is original. The given names are old European names and sailor's nicknames in the public language, the surnames, sea names, ships and crews are coined for this page, and no name is copied from a published pirate, ship or crew, so a match would be chance, and a name meant for commercial use should be searched first.
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