Names from books, games and anime

Lush, dangerous fae names in the vein of A Court of Thorns and Roses, suited to high lords, cursed courts and mortals with sharp tongues.

Cozy town names in the Animal Crossing spirit, sweet enough for the sign by the train station and short enough to fit your passport.

Knights, ladies and enchanters of Camelot answer to names like these, drawn from the Welsh and French strata of Arthurian romance.

Titan epithets in the Attack on Titan mold, each yoking one stark word to a looming threat, ready for shifters of your own invention.

Bayonetta-style names suit gun witches with impossible heels, dripping with Umbran glamour and a wink at the angels they outdance.

Bionicle-style names clank into place here, half machine hum and half island legend, ready for masked heroes and the rivals they battle.

Borderlands-flavored nicknames built for bandit masks and looted buggies, all wasteland swagger, bad decisions and loud paint.

Outlandish Ultimate talents in the Danganronpa spirit, the superlative class-roster titles that mark each student as a doomed prodigy.

Somber as a guttering bonfire, these Dark Souls-style names come with melancholy titles hinting at kingdoms long since gone hollow.

Sinister demon titles and breathing style names that fit the world of Demon Slayer, equal parts elegance and dread.

Rounded creature names with that familiar Digimon ending, friendly enough for a partner, spiky enough for a villain of the week.

Riders of Pern learn to listen for a certain soft ending, and these dragon names carry it, short and strange and ready to hatch.

Banners, duels and doomed royal lines run through Fire Emblem, and these courtly names match its mix of European tones and far-flung outliers.

State alchemist titles in the Fullmetal Alchemist manner, formal epithets that read as if a military examiner stamped them onto a license.

Latin-tinged constellation titles in the style of Teyvat's star charts, pairing an emblem creature with a suitably celestial epithet.

Small, somber bug names in the style of a fallen underground kingdom, equal parts adorable grub and doomed wanderer.

Trollish names with the rigid paired structure fans will recognize, evenly clipped syllables suited to any caste on the hemospectrum.

Train up a Viking companion with dragon names in the How to Train Your Dragon style, fierce on the wing and lovable on the ground.

District-flavored names in the spirit of The Hunger Games, rustic surnames and hopeful given names with the odd Capitol flourish.

Sword and sorcery names cut from the Hyborian Age mold, fit for grim mercenaries, doomed kings and wandering barbarians.

Snappy, bug-like names with Invader Zim cartoon energy, well suited to inept alien conquerors and their doomed schemes.

If a name could pass for both a song title and a menacing Stand, it fits the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure style collected here.

Pronounce these Lovecraftian names at your own risk: apostrophe-choked, dripping with cosmic dread, suited to elder gods, drowned cities and cults that should know better.

Everyday first names with a dystopian edge, fitting the boys and girls of the Glade and anyone who wakes in the maze with no memory of before.

Robot titles that bolt weapons, tools and animals together, in the spirit of MegaMan's rogues gallery of boss machines.

Shout one of these across an arena and it lands: blunt, dangerous fighter names in the spirit of a brutal tournament.

Quirk-style power names ready for a hero academy's registry, running from the flashy to the oddly mundane.

Sweet two-part pony names that pair a pretty noun with a flourish, sized for cutie marks and friendship lessons alike.

Throaty Na'vi-style names studded with apostrophes and glottal stops, sounding at home beneath Pandora's glowing canopy.

Hero registry titles and monster monikers in the spirit of One-Punch Man, where the silliest name often belongs to the strongest fighter.

Towering call signs in the Pacific Rim style, equally at home stenciled on a giant mech or assigned to a rising kaiju.

Portmanteau creature names in the spirit of Pokemon, mashing animals, elements and attitude into something you could shout in battle.

Team titles with a tokusatsu ring, fitting squads of color-coded heroes in the Power Rangers tradition, giant robot optional.

Clicking, glottal names that fit the Yautja hunters of the Predator films, harsh sounds earned through trial and trophy.

Codenames with a Red Queen edge, the kind rebels and silver elites trade in a kingdom where blood decides everything.

Every name here follows the RWBY color rule, alluding to a shade without naming it outright, just as Remnant's academies expect.

Weapon titles and semblance ideas with a RWBY flavor, dramatic concepts that pair a fighter's soul with their transforming steel.

Angelic first names paired with old compound surnames, the Shadowhunter way, ready for Nephilim heroes and their tangled family trees.

Street handles for shadowrunners, terse single words that work as well on a fake SIN as they do whispered over a comm in the rain.

Theatrical taken names in the spirit of Skulduggery Pleasant, the kind a sorcerer adopts to keep their true name safely out of reach.

Punchy, toy-shelf hero names in the Skylanders mold, where an elemental power and a goofy grin collide in two short words.

Hard-edged sci-fi names spanning the StarCraft universe, from gravel-voiced marines to psionic warriors and swarms with too many teeth.

Symmetry reads as holiness in the Stormlight Archive, and these rhythmic names hold that near-balanced ring as a quiet mark of honor.

Color-coded hero titles in the Super Sentai tradition, ready for a five-person team to shout in unison before the explosions start.

Lyrical given names and evocative surnames in the spirit of Throne of Glass, a world of assassins, fae courts and embattled queens.

Feline code names that pair a punchy moniker with a wild cat species, in the spirit of the classic ThunderCats cartoon.

Predatory aliases in the Tokyo Ghoul vein, mask names that sound half urban legend, half entry in an investigator's case file.

Punchy single-word call signs in the spirit of transforming robot warriors, built from machinery, motion and a touch of swagger.

Ornate, accent-laden names in the style of Tékumel's Tsolyáni empire, layered with the formality of a deeply alien bronze age court.

Clan cats earn their names, and these nature-woven ones in the spirit of the Warriors books range from gentle kit sounds to proud warrior titles.

Lyrical names that echo the Wheel of Time, for channelers, borderland soldiers and village folk swept up in the turning of the Pattern.

Weather, stone and sky shape these dragonet names, true to the Wings of Fire books where every tribe looks to nature for a hatchling's name.