Stars Reach Name Generator — names that fit the Reach, titles that fit your unfiled terraforming paperwork

8 species · 13 professions · 5 tones · built from the publisher's own naming conventions · free, no signup, runs entirely in your browser

More options (the name bends harder the deeper you go)

How Stars Reach names actually work

Here is the unusual thing about this one: Playable Worlds publishes the naming conventions themselves. Most studios leave you to reverse-engineer a naming style from whatever NPCs happen to be standing about. Stars Reach ships a roleplay guide per species that tells you the syllable count, the consonants that belong, the endings that sound right, and a handful of worked examples. Six of the eight species have one. So this generator isn't guessing at a house style — it's building original names inside rules the developers wrote down, which is about as close to lore-correct as a fan tool gets.

What that means in practice. Gertan names come in two punchy chunks of hard consonants and land on endings like -ek, -or or -hold. Elioni names drawl — two to four syllables that stretch out into -urr and -oww, which is exactly what you would expect from a species built around a tail and an opinion. Skwatchi carry a given name plus a clan name that ends in -ur, built from the sort of consonant clusters you can hear a mountain in. Stokadi hiss. Fae keep a short vowel-forward cover name and a hyphenated true name they are not supposed to hand out to strangers, which they hand out immediately. Terrans are Terrans: a given name and a family name, and the widest spread of the lot, because "eight types of humanity" starts with the boring one.

The two remaining species are honest extrapolation, and we would rather say so. Hyugon and Hansian arrived as Kickstarter stretch goals and have no published roleplay guide yet — so their pools are built in-style from the design material that does exist: Hyugon lean synthetic and clipped, all black-hole physics and math rock; Hansian run liquid and vowel-heavy, tropical-fish nomads from Bonsurf. They fit. They are not documented. When the guides publish, we will rebuild those two pools to match and note the change on our how it's made page.

The hierarchy is the fun part. Stars Reach genuinely has two naming axes, so this generator has two — species sets the sound, and profession leans on the surname and takes over the titles. It does not have factions you can join: the Servitors, the Cornucopia and the Transplanetary League are things in the world, not sides you pick, and every player is a Wayfarer. It does not have classes either, because the skill system is classless and species are near-cosmetic by design. Other generators would invent both. We would rather ship two axes that are real than four that aren't. Pick Mineralogist and you risk Curator of Identical Rocks; pick Governor and you may end up Mayor of a Town That Voted Them Out; pick Smuggler and the game will call you the Tax Optimist, which is the politest thing anyone has said about it.

The claiming reality, honestly: as of 14 August 2026 Stars Reach has not published its character-name rules — no confirmed length cap, no word on whether the field takes spaces, hyphens or a surname at all. Early Access opens on 18 August and we would rather say "we don't know yet" than invent a number that costs you a name you liked. So treat the first name as the thing you claim, and the surname and title as roster, profile and Discord flavour until the field tells you otherwise. Fae true names keep their hyphen here because the lore keeps it; if the creator refuses it, drop it. We'll update this page once the name field is in front of players — and if you get in first, tell us what it actually accepts and we'll credit you when we fix it. No expletive switch on this one: with the naming policy unpublished, family-safe is the only sensible default.