Sci-Fi Name Generators

Names for science fiction. Characters and aliens, planets and moons, starships and their registry numbers, robots and AIs, space stations, colonies, megacorporations, cyberpunk street handles, clone and serial designations, pilot callsigns, operation codenames and the catalogue-style designations real astronomers use for exoplanets and stars.

Every Sci-fi tool

AI name generator

Acronyms, ship minds, household assistants and self-chosen names for AIs.

Alien language / word generator

Alien words with meanings in soft, harsh, clicking, long and machine sounds.

Alien name generator

Alien names in soft, harsh, clicking and long styles with clan and title.

Alien planet name generator

Alien planet names as native names, survey names, descriptions and homeworlds.

Alien plant / creature name generator

Plants, animals, apex predators and colonists' names for life on the new world.

Alien species / race name generator

Alien species names with homeworlds, descriptors and human nicknames.

Android / synth name generator

Passing names, line names, serials and chosen names for artificial people.

Asteroid / comet name generator

Designations, numbered names, comet names and belter's names for rocks.

Bounty hunter name generator

Working names, reputations, guild handles and wanted-poster names for hunters.

Callsign generator (pilot callsigns)

Pilot callsigns, flight callsigns, squadron names and control callsigns for the cockpit.

Clone designation generator

Batch numbers, template names, chosen names and vat records for grown people.

Cyberpunk city / district name generator

Megacities, districts, street names and address codes for the neon sprawl.

Cyberpunk corporation name generator

Megacorps, subsidiaries, brand names and ticker codes for the towers.

Cyberpunk gang name generator

Crew names, colour gangs, turf names and member tags for the blocks.

Cyberpunk handle / netrunner alias generator

Compound handles, one-word aliases, leetspeak tags and crew callsigns for netrunners.

Cyberpunk name generator

Given names, street names, corporate names and handles for the neon city.

Cyborg name generator

Legal names, street names, augment designations and clinic records.

Dieselpunk name generator

Interwar names, pilot nicknames, racketeer names and machine names for the age of oil.

Drone name generator

Model designations, swarm names, operator nicknames and flight log entries.

Dystopian regime / faction name generator

Regimes, ministries, parties and enforcement arms for the state that watches.

Exoplanet catalogue designation generator (Kepler-style)

Catalogue numbers, candidates, moons and common names for the survey telescope.

Fleet name generator

Numbered fleets, named fleets, task forces and squadrons for space navies.

Galaxy name generator

Classical, descriptive, catalogue and region names for sci-fi galaxies.

Kaiju / giant monster name generator

Beast names, agency codenames, epithets and sighting reports for the giant monster.

Mech / giant robot name generator

Model designations, named machines, pilot's names and enemy reports.

Mission / operation codename generator (sci-fi)

Operations, missions, projects and exercises for the briefing room and the sealed file.

Moon name generator

Mythic, numbered, settler and descriptive moon names for sci-fi worlds.

Mutant name generator

Given names, trait names, strain designations and feared names for the changed.

Nebula name generator

Shape, colour, catalogue and spacer's names for sci-fi nebulae.

Planet name generator

Mythic, settler, descriptive and catalogue planet names for sci-fi worlds.

Post-apocalyptic name generator

Survivor names, scavenger nicknames, warlord titles and old-world names for after the fall.

Raider / gang name generator

Warbands, road gangs, cult crews and member tags for the crews of the waste.

Rebel / resistance cell name generator

Cell names, networks, codenames and broadcast names for the resistance.

Robot name generator

Model numbers, pet names, job names and given names for working machines.

Sci-fi character name generator

Sci-fi character names with ranks, homeworlds, callsigns and a gender option.

Sci-fi disease / virus name generator

Common names, clinical names, strain codes and named outbreaks for the thing that spreads.

Sci-fi drug / substance name generator

Street names, clinical names, military stims and compound codes for what the future takes.

Sci-fi element / material name generator (unobtainium engine)

Elements, alloys, exotic matter and trade names for what the future is made of.

Sci-fi holiday name generator

Founding days, feast days, days of remembrance and corporate holidays for the calendar.

Sci-fi military rank and unit generator

Ranks, units, officers and formations for the army and navy of the future.

Sci-fi name generator (hub page)

Characters, aliens, planets, starships, robots and colonies from one sci-fi page.

Sci-fi religion / cult name generator

Faiths, cults, sects and leader titles for what the future believes.

Sci-fi surname generator

Earth surnames, colonial compounds, coined future surnames and ship-born names.

Sci-fi tech / gadget name generator

Devices, implants, field systems and brand names for the kit in the pocket.

Sci-fi weapon name generator

Sidearms, rifles, ship weapons and named blades for the armoury of the future.

Serial number / designation generator (e.g. TK-421 patterns)

Letter-digit codes, word-number designations, long serials and hyphenated forms.

Smuggler name generator

Given names, trade names, covers and ship-and-captain pairs for runners.

Solarpunk name generator

Given names, commune names, cooperative names and garden city names for the green future.

Space colony / outpost name generator

Founded colonies, survey outposts, company towns and settler's names.

Space corporation / megacorp name generator

Founder firms, compound names, acronyms and conglomerates for sci-fi business.

Space empire / federation name generator

Empires, federations, compacts and hegemonies for space opera powers.

Space marine name generator

Rank and name, squads, barracks nicknames and roll calls for drop troops.

Space pirate name generator

Captains, crew names, pirate ships and crews for the shipping lanes.

Space port name generator

City ports, named ports, coded ports and spacer's names for landing fields.

Space station name generator

Named, numbered, corporate and nicknamed space stations for sci-fi.

Spacecraft registry number generator

Registry numbers, hull numbers, transponder IDs and full registrations for the papers.

Star name generator

Classical, Bayer-style, catalogue and sailor's names for sci-fi stars.

Star system name generator

Named, binary, survey and spacer's names for sci-fi star systems.

Starship / spaceship name generator

Navy, merchant, prefixed and nicknamed starship names for sci-fi.

Starship class name generator

Named classes, type numbers, maker models and role classes for starships.

Steampunk name generator

Victorian names, inventor titles, airship captains and automatons for the age of brass.

Superhero name generator (sci-fi flavour)

Heroes, villains, teams and civilian identities built from metals, physics and orbits.

Time traveller name generator

Travellers, agents, cover identities and temporal bureaus for the ones out of time.

Wasteland settlement name generator

Ruin names, trade posts, forts and old sign names for the wasteland.

Zombie apocalypse group name generator

Survivor groups, convoys, safe zones and radio callsigns for the people still moving.

What the section covers

Science fiction names come in more shapes than fantasy ones because the genre borrows from more places. A space opera wants a starship with a grand name and a hull number, an alien species with a name a human mouth can nearly say, and a planet in a system with a Greek letter in it. Cyberpunk wants a handle, a corporation with a portmanteau name and a drug or a chip with a brand. Military sci-fi wants callsigns, squadron names and operation codenames. Hard sci-fi wants the real catalogue formats: a star with an HD number, an exoplanet with a lower-case letter, a spacecraft with a registry. The pages here cover each of those, one job per page.

How the names are built

Each page carries a set of patterns and the word lists to fill them, and a click picks a pattern and fills it at random. Alien and character pages use syllable tables tuned to sound alien without being unpronounceable; ship and station pages combine a name class (virtues, birds, myths, places) with a prefix and an optional number; designation pages build from letter and digit lists so the results have the right shape, TK-421 or HD 209458 b, rather than being random strings. Where a page has distinct styles, such as a military versus a civilian ship or a corporate versus a street handle, it has a select for them.

What the names are for

Tabletop games, video game characters, novels and short fiction, worldbuilding wikis, and the more mundane job of naming servers, projects, Wi-Fi networks and test accounts. The count field lets you generate a whole crew, a whole fleet or a whole star system in one click, and the results are easy to copy.

Originality

The lists are original. Nothing is lifted from a franchise, and where a page describes a type of name that a franchise made famous, such as the letter-digit trooper designation, it describes the general format rather than reproducing a trademarked list. A random result can still coincide with a name in a book or a game, so check before using one commercially.

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