Star Wars species names

Unofficial, fan-made tools inspired by the species of the Star Wars galaxy. The range runs from Wookiees and Ewoks to Twi'leks, Chiss, and Mandalorians, with naming styles modeled on how each species sounds in the films, shows, and Legends novels. Handy for tabletop campaigns set in the galaxy, fan fiction casts, and original characters who need a name that fits an established culture.

Alderaanian

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Graceful and courtly, Alderaanian names fit Star Wars nobles, diplomats and the quiet elegance of a peaceful world.

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Anzati

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Anzati names whisper rather than announce themselves, low and predatory, matching the quiet menace of Star Wars' vampiric assassins.

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Aqualish

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Blunt and burbling at once, Aqualish names fit Star Wars' tusked brawlers who start trouble in every cantina they enter.

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Archenlander

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Archenlander names suit Narnia's mountain neighbor, sturdy and faintly chivalric, right for shepherds, lords and runaway princes.

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Arkanian

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Clipped and clinical, Arkanian names match Star Wars' haughty geneticists who consider themselves the galaxy's finest minds.

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Badger

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Talking badgers in the spirit of Narnia deserve earthy, compound names, gruff and loyal as the beasts who remember every old story.

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Balosar

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Short and slippery, these Balosar names belong to the Star Wars galaxy's underlevels, the kind muttered over shady deals in a smoky cantina.

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Besalisk

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Besalisks always have an arm free for a friend. Short, hearty names here for the Star Wars galaxy's cooks, brokers and fixers.

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Bith

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Reedy, jazz-club names for the bith of the Star Wars galaxy, big-eyed musicians and scientists with rhythm written into their bones.

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Bothan

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Information is the family business for bothans. These Star Wars-style names suit fur-ruffled spymasters who hear everything worth selling.

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Calormen

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Spice roads and silver tongues flavor these Calormen-style names, ornate southern sounds for viziers, merchants and scheming lords.

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Cathar

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Honor debts and sharp claws define the cathar. These Star Wars-style names fit mane-shaking feline warriors with prides to protect.

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Cerean

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Cereans favor calm, rounded sounds, and these names carry the patient, contemplative air of that tall, binary-brained Star Wars species.

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Chalactan

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Chalactan names lean serene and spiritual, matching a Star Wars culture famed for its seekers, pilgrims and quiet teachers of enlightenment.

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Chandrilan

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Chandrilan names sound like senators: polished, diplomatic syllables from one of the Star Wars galaxy's most civilized green worlds.

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Chiss

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Chiss full names join family and core syllables into long ceremonial strings that hide a short everyday name within.

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Clawdite

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Clawdites change faces for a living, so their names stay short and slippery, easy to shed the moment a new identity becomes necessary.

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Clone

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Clone troopers earn their nicknames in the field, and these follow suit: punchy one-word handles with a barracks-humor edge.

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Codru-Ji

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Four arms, one graceful name: the Codru-Ji of Star Wars carry soft, flowing sounds that belie their thoroughly unusual anatomy.

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Corellian

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Corellian names come with a freighter-deck swagger, plain human sounds with just enough edge for smugglers, shipwrights and hotshot pilots.

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Coruscanti

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City-planet polish runs through Coruscanti names, equally at home on politicians, clerks and street-level hustlers a thousand levels below the spires.

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Darth

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Sith titles built for menace, dark mononyms that sit naturally behind the Darth honorific and sound like a fallen Jedi's second life.

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Dathomirian

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Witch-dark names from the mists of Dathomir, suited to Nightsister covens and the Zabrak warriors raised under their watchful rule.

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Devaronian

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Horned and grinning, Devaronians wander the Star Wars galaxy under short, rakish names with a growl built into the sound.

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Dug

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Quick, spitting syllables make up these Dug names, just right for the Star Wars galaxy's most famously rude podracing enthusiasts.

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Duros

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Spacers to the bone, the Duros of Star Wars favor clipped, businesslike names, brief as a docking clearance and twice as practical.

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Ewok

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Chirps and chatter shape these Ewok-style names, fit for small forest-moon hunters who look adorable right up until the trap springs.

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Falleen

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The Falleen of the Star Wars galaxy negotiate in smooth, sibilant tones, and their names glide the same way, cool and unhurried.

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Farghul

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Feline grifters of the Star Wars galaxy, the Farghul wear quick prowling names that suit con artists with claws politely sheathed.

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Faun

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Fauns of Narnia tend toward warm, pastoral names, the sort belonging to a hoofed host who offers tea before mentioning any war.

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Gamorrean

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Grunting, snout-heavy names with a brutish swagger, the kind a porcine bruiser from a galaxy far away might answer to between axe swings.

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Gand

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Spoken in clicks and earned rather than given, these names suit insectoid trackers who refer to themselves in the third person.

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Gen'dai

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Built to outlast centuries, these heavy, rolling names belong on hulking near-immortals who shrug off wounds that would end anyone else.

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Geonosian

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Clicking, hive-bred names suited to winged insectoids of a dusty ringed world, short enough to chitter across a droid factory floor.

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Gotal

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Soft-spoken names with a quiet, sensory ring, well chosen for horned empaths who sense a mood before a word is said.

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Gran

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Mellow and breathy, these names belong to a three-eyed species more interested in community and good cooking than in blasters.

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Gungan

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Loose, bubbly names for amphibious swamp dwellers of a lush green world, best pronounced with a wet accent and a touch of clumsy charm.

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Hedgehog

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Talking hedgehogs of a storybook wood deserve cozy hedgerow names like these, prickly outside and thoroughly tea-and-toast within.

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Horse

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Whinnying, breathy names for talking horses in the spirit of Narnia, the kind a proud mare would answer to on the open plain.

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Hutt

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Slick, gurgling names that fit the Hutts of Star Wars, oily syllables made for crime lords who never leave the throne dais.

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Iktotchi

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Hard consonants and prophetic gravity for the Iktotchi of Star Wars, names that suit horned seers who saw you coming.

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Ishi Tib

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Brackish, clipped names for the Ishi Tib of Star Wars, an amphibian people whose words sound dredged from tide pools.

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Ithorian

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Resonant, humming names for the Ithorians of Star Wars, gentle herd folk whose speech rolls like wind over canyon mouths.

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Jawa

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Haggle-ready names for the Jawas of Star Wars, chittering scavenger syllables traded in the shadow of a sandcrawler.

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Kaleesh

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Terse warrior names for the masked Kaleesh of Star Wars, short proud sounds from a people shaped by war and reverence.

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Kaminoan

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Spare and liquid as their storm-lashed stilt cities, these Kaminoan names suit the tall, courteous cloners of Star Wars.

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Kel Dor

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Kel Dor names rasp like air through a breath mask: consonant-heavy sounds fitting the goggled sages who watch the galaxy from behind tinted lenses.

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Keshiri

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Soft and brief, Keshiri-style names echo a violet-skinned island people whose quiet ocean world stayed hidden from the wider galaxy for ages.

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Kiffar

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Terse and streetwise, names in the Kiffar vein suit a tattooed near-human people whose clans prize memory, loyalty and the odd psychometric gift.

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Klatooinian

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Gruff and compact, the Klatooinian style of name belongs to a canine-faced people who spend too many lifetimes doing muscle work for the galaxy's worst employers.

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Korunnai

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Korunnai names roll like upland drums, made for cloud-herding clans born close to the Force and closer still to their grasslands.

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Kowakian Monkey-Lizard

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Kowakian monkey-lizards bite, steal and cackle about it, so their names land half-affectionate and entirely deserved, the way a smuggler talks to a pet.

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Kubaz

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Brevity is the whole point for the Kubaz, clipped little names suited to long-snouted informants whose trilling speech outsiders rarely master.

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Lasat

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Lasat names growl with survivor's pride: short, punchy sounds for a tall warrior people rebuilding their culture after near annihilation.

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Lightsaber Combat Forms

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Archive entries for the dueling hall: lightsaber form names that sound handed from master to student across centuries of quiet practice.

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Lothalite

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Farm-world plainness is the charm here: frontier-worn human names for Lothalites scraping by in the shadow of imperial smokestacks at the galaxy's edge.

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Mandalorian

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Mandalorian names carry creed and clan in every syllable, battle-worn sounds for a culture where armor and family mean the same thing.

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Mikkian

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Brief, bell-bright sounds suited to the tendril-headed Mikkians of the Star Wars galaxy, as vivid and spare as the species itself.

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Miraluka

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Hushed, vowel-led names worn by the eyeless seers of old Star Wars lore, a species that perceives the galaxy through the Force alone.

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Mirialan

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Devout and softly rounded, these names match the tattooed and disciplined people of a galaxy far away.

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Mole

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Garden-grown compound names that belong to Narnia's talking moles, who take pride in their digging and their flowerbeds.

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Mon Calamari

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Burbling, brine-flavored names with hard consonant snaps at the end, ready for the amphibious admirals and shipwrights of Star Wars.

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Mouse

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Squeaky, gallant little names in the Narnian vein, fit for talking mice with rapiers, courtesy and far more courage than size.

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Muun

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Thin, frugal names that suit the gaunt financiers of the galaxy's banking clans, every syllable as economical as their ledgers.

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Naboo

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Regal, melodic names in the Naboo fashion, graceful enough for elected queens, senators and the handmaidens who guard them.

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Nautolan

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Cool, flowing names with an undertow, belonging to Star Wars' tentacle-crowned swimmers, as easy in a duel as in deep water.

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Neimoidian

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Oily, deliberate names befitting the most risk-averse merchant viceroys in Star Wars, each one sounding like a contract clause read aloud.

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Nikto

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Gruff, gritted names built for the hard-bitten desert toughs of Star Wars, heard wherever crime lords need muscle on short notice.

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Nothoiin

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Clipped, breezy syllables for Nothoiin characters, short alien names that would fit the casinos and back alleys of a galaxy far away.

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Onderonian

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Onderonian names carry a rough frontier nobility, suited to beast riders and walled-city royals from the jungle worlds of Star Wars.

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Ortolan

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Soft, round syllables for Ortolans, the blue, trunk-nosed musicians and gourmands of the Star Wars cantina scene.

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Owl

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Feathered, moonlit names for talking owls of the Narnian sort, fit for wise parliament members and midnight messengers alike.

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Pantoran

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Pantoran names favor brief, elegant sounds, well suited to the blue-skinned diplomats and senators of the Star Wars galaxy.

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Pau'an

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Spare, whispery names for the gaunt, gray-skinned Pau'ans of Star Wars, fitting a long-lived people of deep sinkhole cities.

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Planet

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Worlds need names too, and these planet titles fit the Star Wars map, from neon trade hubs to forgotten rocks on the Outer Rim.

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Quarren

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Wet, burbling syllables for the squid-faced Quarren of Star Wars, shaped by deep ocean cities and uneasy surface politics.

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Rattataki

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Stark, flinty names for the pale Rattataki of Star Wars, raised on arena worlds where only the hard survive.

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Rodian

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Buzzy, clipped names in the Rodian style, paired sounds that suit bounty hunters and cantina regulars in a galaxy far away.

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Satyr

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Classical, goat-footed names for satyrs and fauns, Latin-tinged and merry, at home in an enchanted wood or a wine-soaked revel.

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Savarian

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Spare, breathy syllables make up Savarian names, minimal alien sounds suited to background players on the Star Wars fringe.

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Selkath

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From an ocean world of the Old Republic era come these gurgling Selkath names, a match for amphibious diplomats and healers.

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Selonian

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Den loyalty defines the Selonians, and these sleek, brisk names fit the tunnel-building mustelids of the Corellian system.

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Sephi

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The long-eared Sephi favor airy, flowing names, a near-elven sound for Star Wars characters with old blood and long memories.

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Serennian

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Old money echoes through these names from Serenno, refined and unhurried picks for Star Wars counts, heirs and schemers.

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Shistavanen

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Growled and grizzled, Shistavanen names fit the wolfish scouts and loners prowling the Star Wars frontier.

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Sith Pureblood

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Dark-side weight presses on every Sith pureblood name, guttural old-tongue sounds befitting the red-skinned lords of a vanished empire.

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Skakoan

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Hissing through pressure suits, Skakoans bear muffled, valve-tight names suited to methane-breathing engineers in a galaxy at war.

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Snivvian

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Snivvian trackers and artists wear short, clipped sounds in the Star Wars galaxy, names easy to bark over cantina noise.

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Spaceship

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Starship titles with that lived-in Star Wars swagger, pairing far-flung ports with bold deeds for freighters, fighters and smugglers' prides.

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Squirrel

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Narnia's talking squirrels chatter in busy little names, quick words that sound like acorns being counted and recounted.

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Star

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Name the stars of Narnia, who are people rather than burning gas, with luminous, melodic sounds that shimmer accordingly.

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Sullustan

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Quick, burbling two-part names for the Sullustan pilots and engineers of Star Wars, tumbling out like chatter in a cave city.

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Talz

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Two or three soft sounds usually suffice for the shaggy Talz of Star Wars, gentle names from the snow worlds these four-eyed giants call home.

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Telmar

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Stately, faintly piratical names befitting Telmar's lords and soldiers, a conquering human dynasty in Narnia's storybook world.

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Tholothian

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Tholothian names lean short and elegant, fitting the poised, tendril-crowned humanoids seen among the galaxy's diplomats and Jedi.

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Togruta

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Melodic, open-voweled names fitting Togruta hunters, the proud horned species with sweeping montrals and bold facial markings.

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Toydarian

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Picture a winged haggler refusing your best offer; these buzzy, bouncing names suit Toydarian traders, fixers and junk dealers.

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Trandoshan

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Hissing clusters of consonants suited to Trandoshan hunters, names that sound best spoken through bared reptilian teeth.

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Tusken Raider

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Guttural, apostrophe-cracked names in the Tusken Raider mold, harsh as the desert that shaped the sand people who bear them.

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Twi'lek

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Drop a new face into the universe with twi'lek names styled after the source material.

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Ugnaughts

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Stubby, workmanlike names that fit Ugnaughts, the tough porcine tinkerers who keep cloud cities and salvage yards running.

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Weequay

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Weequay of the Star Wars galaxy sound the way they look, rough-hewn names for leathery spacers and pirates taking the jobs nobody else wants.

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Wolf

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Talking wolves of a Narnian cast need names with teeth, and these sharp, snarling ones suit proud pack hunters serving dark queens or running free.

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Wookiee

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Long, growling and gloriously hard to spell, these wookiee names suit the shaggy giants of the Star Wars galaxy, best read aloud from deep in the chest.

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Yarkora

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Few words leave a yarkora's mouth, so the name must carry weight: terse, enigmatic sounds for the tall camel-faced wanderers of Star Wars cantinas.

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Zabrak

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Drop a new face into the universe with zabrak names styled after the source material.

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Zeltron

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Zeltrons in the Star Wars vein wear names as breezy as their charm, fit for a people who treat flirtation as a first language and parties as diplomacy.

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Zygerrian

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Zygerrian-style names land clipped, regal and a little cruel, fit for proud feline slavers from a far-off galaxy.

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