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Does anyone know of a good online name generator that can be set up to create random names with culture-specific flavour? (Meaning, for example, names that sound like Russian, Norwegian etc etc.)

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related: Online resource for names by culture. Several of the answers there include name generators. – yhw42 Mar 13 '11 at 18:44

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Aaron Sherman's mkname CGI script

Lists several countries/regions (from African to Icelandic to Polish to Welsh) and generates a list of 10 names for both male and female characters matching the selection (some languages, like Hebrew, Iranian and Icelandic, also include non-latin characters in the names).

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(almost) exactly what I've been looking for, thank you – OpaCitiZen Mar 13 '11 at 11:24

Rinkworks Name Generator

You can select from several pre-configured options (Chineese Names, Greek Names, Hawaiian Names, ...) or enter a custom pattern describing the name format after which you want to have names generated.

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Everchanging Book of Names

A flexible name generator with 'chapters' for names from earth culture (Africa to Oceania), as well as several well known settings (WHFRP to Startrek) as well as this it's possible to make a custom library for it to generate names from (it'll apply linguistic rules and generate new names out of the list you provide)

Very Snazzy

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