Ship Name Generator

A ship is called by its name

People hail a ship. The name has to survive being shouted, painted on a stern and written in a log. This page opens with LOK Ornix-2.

Fantasy names join a sea-word to a craft-word: wave, storm, tide, keel, warden, and others we listed. Pirate names are someone's deed, and the someone is invented here, not a historical captain and not a character from a film. Sci-fi names look like a registry entry, ISV Veyra-9 and its cousins, using hull codes we chose because they are not a real navy's prefix. USS, HMS and RMS are not used. Real ships and famous fictional ones are blocked.

Three fleets

• Fantasy. One compound word. It suits galleys, cogs and anything that would have a figurehead. Keep a whole navy inside this style if they share a language.
• Pirate. An owner and a deed: Revenge, Fortune, Bargain, Folly, and the rest of a short list that is about luck and debt, not about a real war. The owner is two invented names. If you need the captain as a person, generate them on the character page and only then decide whether the ship wears their name.
• Sci-fi. Code, call-name, number. The code is the institution (a line, a company, a navy you invented). The call-name is what the crew says. The number is the hull. In dialogue, use the call-name. In a distress call, use the whole string.

A port scene can mix them: a compound-word trader, a pirate prize under a new name, a registry hull that nobody loves. Do not mix them inside one navy.

Renaming and prizes

Ships change names when they change owners. Generate two and decide which was painted over. The old name is a secret or a scar; the new one is what the harbour master writes down.

Do not use a real disaster, a real warship or a film's hero ship. The block list holds the famous ones. If you are writing near history, look the name up anyway. A generator is not an admiralty.