Names
From RPGS surrounding the Labcats
Popular First Names by Decade (or Year)
These lists of American names are sorted by decade (or individual year). There are also lists for some other countries, but only going back to 1998.
Story Games Names Project
Lists of names:
- American names
- Directory of contemporary names
- Directory of historical names
- Directory of humorous names
Other Gaming Resources
Random Names
- Random Name Generator that works from census data, and lets you specify how unusual you want the names to be. With obscurity set to 1, I got names like Nicole Friesen and Lawrence Lippert. Setting it to 99 gave me Noella Haggstrom and Tuan Lingbeek.
Non-Anglophone Names
- Stars Without Number (free edition), a free science fiction RPG (sort of a cross between D&D and Traveller), has tables in the back for coming up with names (Arabic, Chinese, English, Indian, Japanese, Nigerian, Russian, Spanish).
