Writing Adolescent Fiction/Character names
First names and surnames for characters of many different ethnic and religious groups. Here are many girls' names and boys' names, general, ethnic, and religious, and more than 48,000 surnames to choose from.
General
- A general list of girls' names
- A general list of boys' names
- A general list of unisex names
- Initial names
- Botanical names
- Precious stone names for girls
Americas
- Names from Early Established Diaspora Communities in the Americas
- Names from Communities of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Europe
- Albanian
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bulgarian and Macedonian
- Carpatho-Rusyn
- Celtic
- Cornish
- Czechoslovakian
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Maltese
- Manx
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Scandinavian
- Scottish and Irish
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Ukrainian
- Welsh
- Yugoslavian
Western Asia and North Africa
South Asia
Subsaharan Africa
- Congolese
- Horn of Africa (Ethiopian and Eritrean, Somali, Djiboutian)
- Ethiopian and Eritrean
- Somali
- Djiboutian
- Christian, Muslim, and Jewish names
- Ghanaian
- Kenyan, Tanzanian and Ugandan (including Swahili names)
- Malawian
- Nigerian
- Senegalese
- Sesotho
- Sierra Leonean
- Black South African
- Zimbabwean
- African-American
- West Indian
East and Southeast Asia
- Burmese
- Cambodian
- Chinese
- Filipino
- Himalayan (Tibetan, Bhutanese and Nepali)
- Hmong
- Indonesian (and Malaysian)
- Japanese
- Korean
- Lahu
- Laotian
- Manchu
- Mien
- Mongolian
- Thai
- Vietnamese
Oceania
- Australian Aboriginal
- Fijian
- Hawaiian
- Maori
- Micronesian (Guamanian, Northern Mariana Islander, Marshallese, Palauan and FSM)
- Papua New Guinean
- Samoan
- Tahitian
- Tongan
Religion