German Name Generator

Male Name[1]

Pankraz Rein

Female Name[1]

Helmtrud Bartelt

Male Name[2]

Burckhardt Thum

Female Name[2]

Alrun Schnell

Male Name[3]

Gunther Dippel

Female Name[3]

Eleonore Liebert

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.