Random German Name Generator​ (last name, town & more)

Germany has about 850,000 different family names, and Müller leads them and Schmidt follows in second place. The following are some examples you can find in my tool.

Ida

Ida (”diligent” or ”hardworking”) Pfeiffer circled the globe two times, setting off in 1846 and again in 1851.

Noah

Noah has origins in the Hebrew Noach (”to settle” or “to rest”).

Emil

Emil is linked to aemulus, a rival.

Mia

Mia is a short form of Maria, from Hebrew Miryam.

Clara

From October 1990 to 2002, pianist Clara (”bright” or ”clear”) Schumann appeared on the 100 Deutsche Mark.

Maximilian

Maximilian means maximus, greatest.

Emilia

Emilia is the feminine of Emil.

Moritz

St. Moritz is the resort in the Engadin and comes from maurus, a Moor.

Lukas

Lukas is a man from Lucania that is a region in southern Italy.

Irmgard

Saxon tribes worshipped a pillar called the Irminsul until Charlemagne remove it in 772. Irmgard has the same opening element, irmin, whole or great.

Hannah

Hannah comes from Hebrew channah, grace. Registrars in Germany accept both Hanna and Hannah.

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Kunigunde

It is made of kuni, clan, and gund, battle. Empress Kunigunde walked over red-hot ploughshares to prove her innocence.

Katharina

In 1523, Katharina (”pure”) von Bora escaped her convent and married Martin Luther two years later.

Ekkehard

Composed from ecka, a blade’s edge, and hart, firm, Ekkehard means ”strong blade”. I believed it suits a knight in a historical novel.

Walburga

Walburga is composed from walt, rule, and burg, protection.Save

Mechthild

Mechthild (”might in battle”) of the Palatinate is credited with the push for two universities: Freiburg and Tübingen.

Korbinian

”Crow” or ”raven”.

Hildebrand

The Hildebrandslied is the only heroic poem to survive in Old High German. Hildebrand is meaning a battle sword.

Gebhard

Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher reached Waterloo on the afternoon of 18 June 1815. It has roots in geba, gift, and hart, sturdy.

Swantje

In coastal speech, -tje is the word for ”small”, so Swantje is symbolizing a swan chick.

Petra

Petra Kelly co-founded the Greens and led them into the Bundestag in 1983. It means rock, from petra.Save

Florian

Florian is from florus, flowering.

Burkhard

Burkhard is made of burg, fortress, and hart, tough.

Sieglinde

In Wagner’s Die Walküre, Sieglinde is the mother of the hero Siegfried. The first par is symbolizing victory, and lind, shield or gentle.

Frauke

”Little lady.”

Detlef

Detlef has thiad, people, and leib, heir, in its Low German variant. It sounds like a harbour pilot in a crime drama.

Hedwig

Hedwig is from hadu and wig, two words for battle. Jadwiga, the Polish form, was crowned in Kraków in 1384 as king of Poland.

Anselm

In 1078 Anselm (”divine protection”) of Aosta framed the ontological argument for God in the Proslogion.

Johannes

Johannes comes from Yochanan, ”God is gracious”.

Wolfgang

Mozart entered the Salzburg baptism register in 1756 as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus. Wolfgang means ”wolf’s path.”

Rüdiger

From hrod, fame, and ger, spear.

Gudrun

In the Volsunga saga, Gudrun marries the dragon slayer Sigurd. It comes from Norse gunnr, battle, and rún, a rune or mystery.

Ottilie

Ottilie is linked to od, wealth.Save

Liselotte

Liselotte von der Pfalz wrote 60,000 letters from Versailles. Liselotte combines Elisabeth and Charlotte and means ”free man.”

Hartmut

Hartmut is meaning ”hardy mind”, from hart and muot.

Egon

Egon is the edge of a blade, from ecka. I rank it as the best four-letter pick on this list.

Xaver

Xaver is linked to Basque etxe berri, new house, via missionary Francis Xavier.

Ute

Ute has roots in Old High German uot or ot and means ”prosperity” or wealth.”

Leopold

The Leopoldina (”brave people”) was founded in 1652 and became the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Jürgen

Jürgen is the Low German form of Georg and has roots in georgos, Greek for farmer.

Waltraud

Waltraud is composed of walt, rule, and trud, strength.

Wiebke

Wiebke is a Frisian pet form of names that open on wig, battle. It is pronounced as VEEP-keh.

Brunhilde

Queen Brunhild (”armored warrior maiden”) of Austrasia was executed in 613 and buried in the abbey of St. Martin at Autun. Her story plays like the plot of our dark fantasy character generator.

Albrecht

Adal, noble, and beraht, shining.

Helene

Fencer Helene (”torch”) Mayer won Olympic gold in foil at Amsterdam at age 17.

Kaspar

Kaspar (”treasurer”) Hauser turned up in Nuremberg in 1828 as a teenager who could barely speak.

Margarete

Margarete means pearl, from Greek margarites. Diminutives that I like are Gretel and Gretchen.

Konrad

Konrad (“bold counselor”) Zuse finished the Z3 in Berlin in 1941.

Friedric

”Peace ruler”. Nicknames are Fritz and Fiete.

Gisela

”A pledge or hostage.” Its French form gave the title to Adolphe Adam’s ballet Giselle in 1841.

Dietrich

Dietrich has origins in theod, people, and rihhi, ruler, so the meaning is ”ruler of the people.”

Hildegard

Abbess Hildegard of Bingen invented a private language, known as the Lingua Ignota, with about 1,000 words. Hildegard is made of hild, battle, and gard, enclosure.

Barbara

From barbaros, foreign.

Heinrich

Heinrich joins heim, home, and rihhi, ruler.

Adelheid

Heidi is the orphan in Johanna Spyri’s 1880 novel and was christened Adelheid (“noble nature”).

Ludwig

Work on Neuschwanstein began in 1869 for Ludwig II of Bavaria, and he died in 1886 with the castle unfinished. It is from hlud, famous, and wig, battle.

Otto

Od, wealth.

Frieda

Frieda is the word for peace in its earlier form, fridu, and has the same root with Friedrich.

Hertha

In 1892 a blue-and-white steamer Hertha gave Berlin’s Hertha BSC its colours. It has origins in a misreading of Nerthus, the earth goddess Tacitus described.

Sigmund

On 26 August 1978, Sigmund (“victorious protector”) Jähn became the first man from Deutschland to reach space.

Dorothea

Dorothea (”gift of God”) Erxleben earned a medical doctorate at Halle in 1754.

Therese

Munich celebrated the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig and Therese (”reaper” or “harvester”) of Saxe-Hildburghausen in October 1810 with a horse race known as Theresienwiese. That party became the Oktoberfest.

Gerhard

It is composed of ger, spear, and hart, brave. Gerhard Mercator was able to straighten the lines on the map that are naturally curved.

Amalie

”Work.”

Lothar

Lothar (“famous army”) Matthäus played 25 World Cup matches and this is a record Lionel Messi broke several years ago.

Gottfried

Bahlsen named its butter biscuit after Gottfried (“God’s peace”) Wilhelm Leibniz, Hanover’s best-known resident.

Bertha

In August 1888, Bertha (”shining”) Benz drove her husband’s motor car about 106 km from Mannheim to Pforzheim.

Ulrich

Ulrich (”noble heritage” or “prosperous ruler”) Zwingli began preaching at the Grossmünster in Zurich on 1 January 1519.

Hermann

The Hermannsdenkmal near Detmold raises a sword seven m long and 550 kg heavy. It is made from heri, army, and man.

Joachim

The silver mines of Joachimsthal struck the Joachimsthaler from 1520, and the coin’s short form, thaler, became the word dollar.

Erika

Erika is the word for heather and is from the plant genus Erica.

Marlene

Marlene (“woman from Magdala”) Dietrich became a star as Lola Lola in The Blue Angel.

Theodor

Theodor Mommsen won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his history of Rome. It comes from Greek theos, god, and doron, gift, in reverse order of Dorothea.

Wilhelm

“Resolute protector”.

Ursula

Cologne’s coat of arms has eleven black flames for Ursula and her martyred companions. It is meaning ”little she-bear.”