Whether you are poised at your computer or actually indulging in a bit of live roleplaying, Vampires are a perennial favorite. Whatever version of the creatures of the night resonates with you, we have a name generator here to find you that perfect, elegant and devastating vampire name.
From scary names to lurid Gothic romance, from the new age vampires of Twilight to those archetypes of blood, life and death, there is a generator here that will help you find the perfect name for your character. Mapping generators use your name, or parts of it, to create a name from their databases to be your vampire name. They also need your gender.
A good vampire name generator has many different first names, usually chosen for their historical connotations or their own darker meanings. Often, they use names of Eastern European extraction because most of the vampire legends we are most familiar with originated there. Then they figure out how they want to link the names you enter into the generator with that database. Your click causes them to analyze your name according to a preset pattern, and create your name. Every time you enter the same name, you will get the same answer.
Bright Hub has tried all of the generators listed in this article, and has gained a pretty good idea of how they work, and also a feel for how large a database they use. The larger the database, the more likely you are to come up with a name that isn't already used by half a dozen other vampires or Gothic characters you are acquainted with.
The first name generator I want to bring to your attention is that of The Vampire Name Generator from the emmadavies.net site. It is perhaps the most popular mapping generator I found, with links to it from other sites and forum postings. You enter your first name, last name, and gender, and get quite an elaborate result.
Rebecca Scudder, female, gave me:
- The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity:
- Sarah Maundrell
- Known in some parts of the world as:
- Haunt of The CursedThe Great Archives Record:The cursed and the curser - bringing downfall and ill favour to kings and peasants alike!
Henry Johnson, male, gave me :
- The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity:
- Margrave of Drac
- Known in some parts of the world as:
- Poison of The Lamiae
- The Great Archives Record:The offspring of a goddess - beautiful, powerful and ruthless.
Since Margrave is a title, Henry can also pick himself a first name if he desires.
This gives you a name, an appellation or nickname with which you might be referred to, and an entry from the Great Archives reporting
upon your career. Definitely elements that can help in planning your character or persona history.
This is a mapping generator, so entering your exact name again gives you the same results. It also seems to have a more limited database for the appellations, such as 'Poison of the Lamiae', and the Record from the Great Archives, which gave me twice 'The offspring of a goddess - beautiful, powerful and ruthless.' and 'The cursed and the curser - bringing downfall and ill favour to kings and peasants alike!' in about six tries with male and female names. It does map similar last names consistently, of whatever the sex, so Rebecca Scudder and Harry Snyder gave Sarah Maundrell and Beno Maundrell.
It connects elements of the information it gives you together, so that Peter Smith found:
- The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity:
- Baron of Moldovia
- Known in some parts of the world as:
- Haunt of Russia
- The Great Archives Record:
- The scourge of Russia - insane and dangerous!
The Russian theme carries through with the different titles and use names, so your history from the Great Archives is internally consistent. Moldovia was part of greater Russia, in the time of the Soviet Union, although at various times in history it was its own Eastern European principality, and parts of several other empires. Peter again must choose his own firstname, unless he wishes to be known ar the Baron to everyone.
All in all, although some of the database seems limited, it gives you a lot of information to plan your character around. And, if you don't want to be yet another offspring of a goddess, you could always change it to the offspring of a demon or a fallen angel.