German Name Generator

Male Name[1]

Frieder Schuchardt

Female Name[1]

Margitte Gärtner

Male Name[2]

Fred Klages

Female Name[2]

Krista Knecht

Male Name[3]

Gerd Bunge

Female Name[3]

Rotraut Grosser

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.