Planet Name Generator
This page opens the generator on its Planet style, so the first grid is already science fiction place names: Umbr, Lumar VII, Cirron Rise, Oortis-181. Three things make those read as worlds rather than people. The stems come first: 44 syllables written for this style and used by no other style in the tool, among them asht, cirr, oort, phos, kryo, helio and nyx. Then the joining: Planet is one of the smooth styles, so a seam that doubles a vowel or stacks three consonants is thrown out and drawn again, and about two draws in three finish on one of six classical endings, is, us, ar, ex, eia or on. Then the grammar on top, which the Length control changes: short gives a bare name or a name with a Roman numeral from II to XII, medium adds a designation such as Prime, Minor, Reach or Deep and a hyphenated three-digit number, and long joins two stems instead of one and never comes out bare. The character styles on the same page build a personal name instead, which is the honest reason this is not the elf page with different words in it.
Building names
The chips choose the style, and each one is a different syllable set: Planet builds place and thing names. Type a seed word to make a run repeatable, or leave it empty for a fresh set every press. The line under each name is a reading cue for the invented word the name is built on, cut at the joins the generator used.
Common questions
- Why do these read as planet names rather than character names?
- Planet is one of the place styles here, alongside City, Country, Island, Guild and Spaceship, and a place style builds the grammar of a thing rather than a personal name. The corpus does the rest. Its 44 stems belong to this style and appear in no other style in the tool, it carries no prefixes at all, and about two draws in three end on is, us, ar, ex, eia or on, the endings that make Glissis and Calidus sound catalogued rather than spoken. On top of that the tool attaches the marks a surveyed world carries: a Roman numeral, a designation such as Prime, Halo or Verge, or a three-digit number after a hyphen.
- Can I name a whole system, its moons and its stations here?
- Up to a point, and it is worth knowing where the tool stops. There is no separate moon or star style: what the Planet style gives you is the shape a catalogued body has, which is why names arrive as Umbr, Nyx XI, Cirron Rise and Oortis-181. For a system, ask for a batch, keep one name for the system itself and hand the numbered and designated forms to the bodies inside it. The numeral is drawn at random from II to XII rather than counted upward, so a run of II, III, IV in order is something you write yourself once the tool has given you the name. Ships and crews are separate sets one chip away on the same page: Spaceship builds hulls, Alien builds the people.
- Does the same seed word give me the same planets tomorrow?
- Yes. Type a word into Seed word and the run comes from a small stream that word starts, so the same seed on the Planet style at the same length returns the same names in the same order, tomorrow and on anyone else's machine. Asking for more names extends that list rather than reshuffling it, so a run of 40 opens with the names a run of 12 already gave you. Leave the seed empty and every press draws fresh from the browser's cryptographic generator, which cannot be replayed. A seed of only spaces counts as empty.
- How do I keep the worlds I want and throw the rest back?
- Every cell has a star on its right. Press it and that name moves into a kept list under the grid with its reading cue beside it, and pressing it again removes it. The kept list belongs to this tab only and goes when you close the tab, which is what Copy kept is for: it puts every kept name on the clipboard, one per line. Copy all takes the whole grid the same way, and clicking a name on its own copies that one name.
- Can I use a name from here in a published game, book or film?
- We place no restriction on the names this page produces. The syllables were written for this tool, the assembly is a rule that runs in your browser, and nothing is drawn from a published list of worlds, so a name that lands near a familiar one did so by chance rather than by copying. What the tool cannot tell you is whether a particular string is already a trademark or an established setting's planet, because that is a question about the world and not about the generator, so a name headed for a cover is worth a search first. The accuracy line on this page is the tool's own and is the statement of record.
Every syllable set here is written for this tool and assembled by rule, so a name can land near a real one by chance but is never copied from a published character list. The pronunciation cue is built from the same syllables, so it is a reading aid rather than a claim about any language.