German Name Generator

Male Name[1]

Heimfrid Martens

Female Name[1]

Ingelies Volz

Male Name[2]

Karleugen Dohmen

Female Name[2]

Birglinde Lux

Male Name[3]

Berni Dillmann

Female Name[3]

Anny Gleißner

Unlike the Scandinavian countries, Germany has utilised a system of personal given names (called 'vorname', or plural 'vornamen') followed by hereditary surnames since the late Middle Ages. Thanks to this, while there are a few echoes of the patronymic system of handing down the father's surname, none of these are counted as 'official' names. German children can have multiple given names, and one of these will be singled out officially as the 'call name' (or 'Rufname') that the child will generally be known as, although this does not always have to be the first of the names.