Mainly for the RPG games but i've used the same principle to quickly name generic pilots...

In the past we've had 'ace smuggler, Rogan Josh'. Keema Naan of the rebel alliance.

Bounty hunter Saag Aloo.. the list goes on.

You can also get good names from medicines... Dak Tarin was a pilot in one game!

I just add unnecessary As and Es. Or bastardize existing names.

Like instead of jackson i'd use Jaxun (and maybe pronounce it jazun). Or Adrian to Aedraen. Because the extra As and Es are oh so necessary to making a beautifully nonsensical star wars name.

I like to use the trusty Scrabble bag, take out a few tiles, toss them about, get a random string of ABCs, add vowels to complete the name

EDIT:

http://mathbits.com/MathBits/CompSci/LibraryFunc/SWname.htm

Your Star Wars First Name:

1. Take the first 3 letters of your last name.
2. Add to that, the first 2 letters of your first name.

Your Star Wars Last Name:

1. Take the first 2 letters of your mother's maiden name.
2. Add the first 3 letters of the name of the town in which you were born.

That wouldn't work in my case . Maljo Shjon. Doesn't sound to pleasing to the ears. I'll stick with Par'Jila Verd (Triumphant Warrior in Mandalorian)

Well in that case just call me Focth Dalam.

I just look through recent popular yuppie kid names. Or follow their methods of mashing two other names together and/or swapping out vowels, but the actual ones usually sound more like Star Wars or D&D names than anything else.

Braelyn, Hopper, Rayce, Romi, Lila, Cambrae, Ottilie, Piper, Lando, Padme, Annakin, and so on.

Then again the three main character from the original movies were named Luke, Leia, and Han, so maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Bizje Sawil

It almost works...

I like to use the trusty Scrabble bag, take out a few tiles, toss them about, get a random string of ABCs, add vowels to complete the name

EDIT:

http://mathbits.com/MathBits/CompSci/LibraryFunc/SWname.htm

Your Star Wars First Name:

1. Take the first 3 letters of your last name.

2. Add to that, the first 2 letters of your first name.

Your Star Wars Last Name:

1. Take the first 2 letters of your mother's maiden name.

2. Add the first 3 letters of the name of the town in which you were born.

Raybo Reash is just awful.

Duraham's suggestion is fun [i get Burbr Dupem], but only results in 5-letter names.

For science fiction-ey names of any sort I use languages that aren't immediately obvious. Croatian [Bartol Radovan!], Polish, Hebrew; and some Cree, Greek and German.

Or go with the SW tradition of Biblical name + (Astronomical feature + agent noun). Like Ezekiel Sunpincher.

Mainly for the RPG games but i've used the same principle to quickly name generic pilots...

In the past we've had 'ace smuggler, Rogan Josh'. Keema Naan of the rebel alliance.

Bounty hunter Saag Aloo.. the list goes on.

You can also get good names from medicines... Dak Tarin was a pilot in one game!

Hey, that's how they came up with the name Yuuzhan Vong; it was based off of a name for some type of tea at a retaurant the design staff was eating at.

yeah i can believe that.

I've ressurected rogan Josh for our current star wars campaign but in this one (its set in the 'rebels' era) he's a newly trained jedi fleeing vader's purges

The smuggler in our group (sarah) is D'Lela Trotta with a bright yellow HWK doing 'independent trading - coruscant, tattooine, dantooine'

But you might have to be British to get that reference unless Only Fools and Horses was popular in the states.

Never thought of using Indian. Ive tried Chinese and Japanese Even Ethiopian but for some reason never gone to the subcontinent for names.

Usually though i take some ancient or obscure language like Latin or Welsh and mangle it a bit. Sometimes character names will change during the creation depending on my mood and the way they develop. The character from who's creation all my Corvan designs sprung was originally named Roland Shyantii. Probably because i has watched Silence of the lambs while working on him *L*, Then since i decided he was a lesser member of Corvan corporate nobility i decided he needed a name that fit. I like Ravens and Corvans have avian ancestry. And since the full name of the Raven is Corvus Corax his last name became Corrax.

Now you know. and knowing is half the battle

I like to use the trusty Scrabble bag, take out a few tiles, toss them about, get a random string of ABCs, add vowels to complete the name

EDIT:http://mathbits.com/MathBits/CompSci/LibraryFunc/SWname.htm

Your Star Wars First Name:

1. Take the first 3 letters of your last name.

2. Add to that, the first 2 letters of your first name.

Your Star Wars Last Name:

1. Take the first 2 letters of your mother's maiden name.

2. Add the first 3 letters of the name of the town in which you were born.

I don't think so.

I like to use the trusty Scrabble bag, take out a few tiles, toss them about, get a random string of ABCs, add vowels to complete the name

EDIT:

http://mathbits.com/MathBits/CompSci/LibraryFunc/SWname.htm

Your Star Wars First Name:

1. Take the first 3 letters of your last name.

2. Add to that, the first 2 letters of your first name.

Your Star Wars Last Name:

1. Take the first 2 letters of your mother's maiden name.

2. Add the first 3 letters of the name of the town in which you were born.

This was my first Star Wars Characters name... and now my user name here.

You can also just add or subtract another letter, insert first pet instead of mother's maiden, and the road where you grew up for town. Lots of simple combos like this.

I like to use the trusty Scrabble bag, take out a few tiles, toss them about, get a random string of ABCs, add vowels to complete the name

EDIT:http://mathbits.com/MathBits/CompSci/LibraryFunc/SWname.htm

Your Star Wars First Name:

1. Take the first 3 letters of your last name.

2. Add to that, the first 2 letters of your first name.

Your Star Wars Last Name:

1. Take the first 2 letters of your mother's maiden name.

2. Add the first 3 letters of the name of the town in which you were born.

Rydcl Gasuf...

I don't think so.

It doesn't have to be perfect. Adjust it a tich to make sense:

Duraham's suggestion is fun [i get Burbr Dupem], but only results in 5-letter names.

For science fiction-ey names of any sort I use languages that aren't immediately obvious. Croatian [Bartol Radovan!], Polish, Hebrew; and some Cree, Greek and German.

Or go with the SW tradition of Biblical name + (Astronomical feature + agent noun). Like Ezekiel Sunpincher.

Again... just nudge it a bit:

Burb'r Duppemm totally fits in Star Wars.

Ryd'cal Gasuff works great.

Mainly for the RPG games but i've used the same principle to quickly name generic pilots...

In the past we've had 'ace smuggler, Rogan Josh'. Keema Naan of the rebel alliance.

Bounty hunter Saag Aloo.. the list goes on.

You can also get good names from medicines... Dak Tarin was a pilot in one game!

Hey it worked for Dragonball Z (most characters named after food)

Call my bounty hunter: Sambal Oelek, he has an astromech droid named "Number 24 (with rice)"

Let's see if it also works with flemish food:

Paling In't Groen

Frit Bitterbal

Kip Kap

Tomaat Garnaal

So what do you guys think? does it work or not?

Or diseases: Crypto Orthopox anyone?

I usually adapt names that already exist. The last one i played was Jacen Farlander.

I generally just kit-bash footballer's names together, and add in some letters here and there. Whenever I need a new name I just fire up a game of Fifa.

Zakaria Saanctis

Loic Lescelles

Miralem Ayew

Bastian Ljajic

Wow, c'mon, if you're gonna use takeout menus, please at least move the letters around a bit. I mean, if I come across a character named Moo Goo Gai Pan I'm just going to walk away from the table.

At some point it does get a little offensive. I mean..think about coming to the table with a black character named "Fried Chicken" or "Grape Soda"...No. Just no.

I like to use the trusty Scrabble bag, take out a few tiles, toss them about, get a random string of ABCs, add vowels to complete the name

EDIT:

http://mathbits.com/MathBits/CompSci/LibraryFunc/SWname.htm

Your Star Wars First Name:

1. Take the first 3 letters of your last name.

2. Add to that, the first 2 letters of your first name.

Your Star Wars Last Name:

1. Take the first 2 letters of your mother's maiden name.

2. Add the first 3 letters of the name of the town in which you were born.

Janlu Reostr

Hmm...

Wow, c'mon, if you're gonna use takeout menus, please at least move the letters around a bit. I mean, if I come across a character named Moo Goo Gai Pan I'm just going to walk away from the table.

At some point it does get a little offensive. I mean..think about coming to the table with a black character named "Fried Chicken" or "Grape Soda"...No. Just no.

Its clearly tongue in cheek in our games. Everyones cool with it.

I had a character named Javik, which I took from Davik in KTOR, just changing the D for a J. Now that I think or it, if you swap Ds and Ks Jek becomes Jed, and Dak becomes Jack. Jed Porkins sound very redneck, doesn't it.

A couple others I've used were:

Vance Antillies (From Jack Vance the sci-fi author. Antillies, why not, it's like the star wars version of Smith)

Koa Bousk (sort of a mish mash of Boba, Boushh, and Bossk)

Wow, c'mon, if you're gonna use takeout menus, please at least move the letters around a bit. I mean, if I come across a character named Moo Goo Gai Pan I'm just going to walk away from the table.

At some point it does get a little offensive. I mean..think about coming to the table with a black character named "Fried Chicken" or "Grape Soda"...No. Just no.

Grape Yoda!

Brilliant!