Jedi Name Generator

The Jedi Name Generator returns one to ten names per click from a list of 500 invented Star Wars-style names, half tagged male and half female. Every entry is a first name plus a surname, the way most Jedi in the films and shows are known: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, Ahsoka Tano, Depa Billaba. The names here are original, not lifted from the canon, so they're safe to use for a fan-fiction Padawan, a Star Wars RPG character, a Jedi: Survivor save file or a cosplay badge.

Settings

• Number of Jedi names: 1 to 10 per click (default 3). A batch is shuffled from the filtered list, so no name repeats within it.
• Category: Random, Male or Female. Random draws from all 500; Male and Female draw from their 250 each.

How the names are built

Each name has two parts, and they follow different rules.

First names are short invented words of one to three syllables: Raye, Niar, Enny, Lule, Arxiva, Hakaos, Susyve, Mivide. They're meant to sound like they come from a dozen different homeworlds rather than one culture, which is how the Jedi Order reads on screen (Qui-Gon, Plo, Shaak, Kit, Luminara). Because they're generated from syllable pieces, a few come out consonant-heavy, like Drka or Pykr; if one is hard to say aloud, generate again.

Surnames come from a set of roughly 40 that recur across the list, and they fall into two styles:

• Evocative compounds in the tradition of Skywalker: Starweaver, Nightwind, Firebloom, Stormbringer, Skydancer, Frostveil, Thunderveil, Shadowblade, Lightbringer, Windrider, Stoneheart.
• Plain galactic surnames that sound like they belong on a Temple roster: Drayson, Praxon, Valen, Navarr, Thul, Abya, Duann, Keler, Homanlif, Shenuri, Ekiam, Amitey, Katana.

Mixing the two is what keeps a batch from sounding like a fantasy novel. "Enji Valen" and "Motrmoeth Windrider" can be Master and Padawan on the same mission without either feeling out of place.

Sample names

Finishing the character

A name is the first line of a Jedi's file. If you're writing or rolling up a character, the other details canon usually gives are worth deciding at the same time:

• Species and homeworld. The first name is the cue here: a soft, vowel-heavy name suits a Twi'lek or a Mirialan; a clipped one suits a Kel Dor or a Nautolan.
• Rank. Youngling, Padawan, Knight, Master, or a seat on the Council.
• Lightsaber. Color (blue for Guardians, green for Consulars, and the rare yellow, purple or white), and the hilt style.
• Era. High Republic, Clone Wars, the purge years or the sequel era changes what the character has lived through.
• Master or Padawan. Generate a second name from the other gender filter and you have the pair.

For other corners of the same fandom and its neighbors, the Saiyan Name Generator and Harry Potter Name Generator follow their own naming rules, and the Wolf Name Generator is a good place to find a name for a Loth-wolf-style companion. Everything else is under all name generators.