WoW Forever Name Generator Two boxes to fill, and only one of them is the one you have practised

Forever asks you for two names before it lets you in. A main name and a secondary name, both typed at character creation, both yours, and both unique per region rather than per realm — because Forever has no realms for them to be unique on.

Twenty years of asking for a surname, and the moment it arrives you discover the catch. You now have to think of TWO of them, and reservation opens on the twenty-seventh of October. You are welcome.

Both boxes are real, and only the title is pretend

The main name and the secondary name are creation fields. Neither is decoration, neither is optional flavour, and the copy button on this page hands you both halves together, because both halves are what you will be typing into the creator.

The title that arrives afterwards is the roleplay part, and it is the only part of any of this that is. Guild rosters, forum signatures, an /emote in a tavern — the First Through Zephras at one end of the die, the Unwashed Sixty at the other.

Five axes steer the whole thing: faction, race, class, profession and ruleset. The deeper into them you go, the harder the name bends towards the character you actually described, which is the entire reason this site exists and I am tired of explaining it.

Unique per region, which is why you got a surname at all

Realmless changes the arithmetic completely. When every character in a whole region shares one name space, single names run out somewhere around the third week, and the answer was to hand everybody a second field rather than a queue number.

Blizzard have published no character limit for either box, so this page does not count you down against one somebody invented. They have not published which characters the creator accepts, either — and that matters, because Troll and Skyborne names generate here with apostrophes in them.

So I will not promise you the box takes an apostrophe, and I will not quietly strip them out to avoid the conversation. You get the name as the language actually builds it, and you get told which part is unverified.

Nine races, and one of them picks a side on the way in

Eight of them you already know. The ninth is the Skyborne, who choose their faction at character creation and get a different class list depending on which way they went — Shaman on the Horde side, Mage on the Alliance, with Warrior, Hunter, Rogue and Druid open either way.

That makes them the only race in here appearing on both sides of a wall the factions still cannot cross, which is a genuinely odd shape for an axis and took some doing. They also sit behind a paid upgrade pack. I have been asked to move on.

Every race carries its own phonetics, so a Dwarf and a Troll do not come out of the same bag of syllables with a different hat on. Most generators reach into one bag for all nine. I learned nine, separately, and nobody has mentioned it.

The ruleset is the axis nothing else on this site has

There is no realm to pick any more. You pick a ruleset instead — Normal, PvP, Roleplaying or Hardcore — and it is where you live. It carries the heaviest weight of the five axes here, deliberately, because a Hardcore name and a Roleplaying name are two different acts entirely.

So PvP gets the Perpetually Corpse-Camped and Camper of the Flight Path. Roleplaying gets Author of a Nine-Page Character Document. Hardcore gets Ended by a Level Twelve Boar, which I did not write for my own amusement. I wrote it because it is going to happen to somebody.

Hardcore is not there on launch day, mind. It is coming after launch, and the titles for it are written and waiting, which is the sort of forward planning nobody ever thanks me for.

Your profession ended up in your surname, and that was not my decision

Forever puts crafted campsite objects out in the open world, so a profession is now something other people can see rather than a tab you open alone in a bank. Visible identity belongs in a name. All twelve of them tag the surname pools here.

Surnames only, though. A surname can carry a forge or a tanning shed inside it perfectly comfortably; there has never been a convention for a first name that means alchemist, and I am not inventing one on a Tuesday.

Three clocks, and the middle one is the one that bites

Beta opened on the seventeenth of September. Launch is the fourth of November at 3pm PST, the level cap is sixty, and raids follow on the ninth of December. Not one of those is the moment you actually need this page.

• Early Name Reservation. 27 October to 3 November 2026 PST, with any upgrade edition, up to three characters.
• First come, first served, and not guaranteed. That is Blizzard's own wording rather than mine, and it is the whole reason to arrive holding a shortlist.

That window is an event about typing a name into a box, which is the only category of event I genuinely care about. Turn up with ten you would be content with, rather than one you have already fallen in love with.

Playing modern WoW instead?

Twenty-six races and one name field, over on the World of Warcraft generator. Different game, different name space, different rules — and nothing on this page mentions a race that Forever does not have.

This one covers the nine that it does, and stops there. That is not modesty, it is the guard: two pages arguing over the same reader is two pages wasting everybody's afternoon.

The corner of the campsite nobody ever cleans

Slide the die all the way round to FULL SEND and the vocabulary the name is built from changes completely. Sixty-two lines written for this game and no other — the campfire left burning, the one-hour cooldown, the rested timer you sat through, the second name box treated as a dare.

It is off by default, it asks you first, and it switches itself back off the moment you leave. I shall be telling everyone it was your idea.

Name ideas, if you would rather just read some

Two dozen the die has already rolled, sitting still so you can scan them. Press the button for your own — these are only here because somebody always asks.

• Colanderek Leafletmane, Chair of the Threat Committee
• Militiamond Kerfufflescone, Owner of Three Reserved Names
• Zeldormir Diddyfall, Recipient of a Strongly Worded Letter
• Varnsnip Fafflecharge, The Formally Warned
• Halthieth Forebind, Enthusiastic About Tabards
• Scatternia Tuffetfolio, Late to Every Muster
• Placketjests Bramblewood, The Named Twice Over
• Pootlfaffs Battleridge, The Terms and Conditions Reader
• Heskpeeps Glenteacup, The Faction Banner Waver
• Gralormond Suncaption, Of the Cycle
• Lollyanbury Arcanewall, The Mana Budget Auditor
• Gardhsnip Bowlstab, First in the Name Queue
• Ditherumber Weenywatch, The Draft Hero
• Fenrkins Cragshield, The Actioned Item
• Doorstopward Fairwhisper, Sheep of the Wrong Target
• Bannorinley Heathpompom, Warden of the Old Trap
• Wilmald Tiddlyroot, The Seconded Hero
• Hughomirth Dozypath, Commuter of the Elwynn Road
• Rendjolly Ashdigest, Assistant to the Regional Campfire
• Wanglyrson Soulstoneblade, The Alphabetised Inventory
• Fletchermuir Signagewake, The Regionally Distinct
• Coasterfizzy Dozybind, The Classic Mode Purist
• Caelnia Whitepolymorph, Sealed and Unbothered
• Pippumir Trotsqueakbox, Provider of Snacks and Water

The other generators

Same die, different worlds. Each one has its own axes, its own titles and its own opinions about what a name is allowed to be.

• Aion 2 name generator — Elyos and Asmodian names that fit Atreia, and 200 titles that mostly do not
• Albion Online name generator — one field, one word, no surname — and six cities that sound nothing alike
• Aniimo name generator — twelve regions of Idyll, nine elements, and not one published name rule to work from
• Baldur's Gate 3 name generator — Tav, the Dark Urge and the hirelings nobody renames, fifty-eight subclass slots deep, in a name box that is unique nowhere
• Black Desert Online name generator — two claimable fields, nine homelands that sound nothing alike, and a family name every alt inherits
• Dungeons & Dragons name generator — heroes for the players, NPCs for the DM who needed one ten seconds ago, and titles from dice jail
• Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen name generator — one name field each, no rename until New Game Plus, and a pawn whose name strangers read
• Dungeon Crawler Carl name generator — a name, a race and a class — you chose none of them, and neither did anybody else
• Emberville name generator — Knight, Warlock or Wanderer — 71 titles for whatever you did to those chickens
• Enshrouded name generator — six regions of Embervale, and 201 titles about your unfinished roof
• Fallout 76 name generator — two naming surfaces nobody else builds for - the Vault Dweller and the C.A.M.P. - and as far as anyone can find, both of them are yours alone
• Final Fantasy XIV name generator — All sixteen clans, their real naming conventions, and names that fit the twenty-character box
• Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave name generator — avatar names in the register of each of Dagda's kingdoms
• Genshin Impact name generator — nine nations in nine registers, and a nickname box its own publisher has never documented
• Lost Ark name generator — twenty continents, twenty-nine advanced classes, and a first name that fits Amazon's sixteen-character field
• Neverwinter name generator — the D&D MMO, not the Nights: fifteen races, eighteen paragon paths, twelve gods, and a name nobody can take off you because nobody owns one
• Old School RuneScape name generator — twelve characters including the space, counted as you go, and an ironman does not name himself like a main
• Once Human name generator — one name field, one shot, and a game that never gives a taken name back
• Ragnarok Zero: Global name generator — eight homelands, thirteen second jobs, three servers, and one word in the box
• RuneScape: Dragonwilds name generator — sixteen characters, no spaces, and five regions of Ashenfall to fit inside them
• Soul's Remnant name generator — two boxes with two different rule sets, fourteen map families, and a guild field that refuses spaces
• Stars Reach name generator — eight species, and two of them we had to reason our way into
• Valheim name generator — five naming surfaces, nine biomes, and a portal tag with ten characters to live in
• Warframe name generator — four things to name, seven registers to name them in, and 200 Platinum if the alias comes out wrong
• World of Warcraft name generator — twenty-six races that refuse to share a phone book