Planet Name Generator

Two names for one world

People who live on a planet have a word for it. A survey, a navy or a shipping line has a code. Stories often need both: the word in dialogue, the code on a screen. This page can give you either, or the pair. It starts with KAE-7793.

Spoken names come from a syllable grammar written for this page, in three styles. Codes use prefixes we invented (VRN, QEL, IXA and others) plus a number. They are not Kepler, HD, TRAPPIST or any real survey series. Real planets, moons and bright stars are rejected, and so are planets from films and novels.

Lyrical, harsh, oceanic

• Lyrical names are open and easy to sing. Use them for garden worlds, old colonies and places a culture is proud of.
• Harsh names keep harder consonants. Use them for rocks, battlefields and worlds nobody markets to tourists.
• Oceanic names lean on water and shore sounds. Use them when the surface is mostly sea. Do not use them for a desert unless the sea is gone and the name is a memory.

A code does not have a style. If the system that catalogues worlds is one institution, keep one prefix across the sector (all VRN, or all QEL) by generating several and picking. The generator mixes prefixes on purpose, so a single list looks like more than one survey.

Saying it, filing it

In conversation, drop the code. In a log, a distress call or a map legend, keep it. A name plus a code in the narration, every time, reads like a database. Pick one register per scene.

If the world has cities, generate those separately and do not build them out of the planet's code. VRN-Town is a joke. A lyrical planet can have harsh ports if the ports were named by later arrivals: that is a history, and it wants two tools, not one overloaded name.