## Xanathar's Missing Pages ##### Human Surnames, etc. ###### v1.6

\page ## Xanathar's Missing Pages # Human Surnames The random name tables in Xanathar's Guide are a very useful addition, but if you were confused or frustrated to see that it includes hundreds of first names from a dozen distinct human cultures, but not even a single surname, then this document is for you!

Where possible I have sourced real names from era-appopriate data, but many ancient cultures just didn't use anything we would equate with a surname. In those cases I either used modern surnames from the region, or something approximate to a surname, so there is at least one additional table for each human culture listed in *Xanathar's Guide to Everything*. While researching this document it became apparent that the "Polynesian" table needed to be expanded, to better represent the vast area and variety of peoples that this region covers.

- ### (d100) Human Surnames ..... Page - ##### [2(1-5) Arabic](#p3) - ##### [3(6-9) Celtic](#p4) - ##### [3(10-14) Chinese](#p4) - ##### [4(15-18) Egyptian](#p5) - ##### [5(19-23) English](#p6) - ##### [6(24-27) French](#p7) - ##### [6(28-32) German](#p7) - ##### [7(33-36) Greek](#p8) - ##### [7(37-41) Indian](#p8) - ##### [8(42-45) Japanese](#p9) - ##### [9(46-50) Mesoamerican](#p10) - ##### [10(51-55) Niger-Congo](#p11) - ##### [11(56-59) Norse](#p12) - ##### Polynesian - [11(60-64) Australian](#p12) - [12(65-68) Fijian](#p13) - [12(69-73) Hawaiian](#p13) - [13(74-77) Maori](#p14) - [13(78-82) Samoan](#p14) - [14(83-86) Tongan](#p15) - ##### [14(87-91) Roman](#p15) - ##### [15(92-95) Slavic](#p16) - ##### [15(96-00) Spanish](#p16) - ### Etc. - ##### Markov Generated Names - [16Angelic](#p17) - [16Demonic](#p17) - [17Legendary](#p18) - [17Tolkien](#p18) - [18Anglo-Saxon](#p19) - [18World of Warcraft](#p19) - [19Star Wars](#p20) - ##### [20Drow Names](#p21)

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## Arabic Arabic names are traditionally composed from five distinct elements; the *ism*, *kunya*, *nasab*, *laqab*, and *nisba*. A name usually consists of an *ism*, and one or more of the other elements, any or all of which may be used to refer to a person, depending on the situation. For example:

### Ism The *ism* is the name given at birth, usually an Arabic word whose meaning signals the hoped-for character of the person. eg: Nura; "light", Jalal; "greatness", Fayez; "victory".

Roll on the Arabic name table in Xanathar's Guide.

### Kunya The *kunya* is often the name of a person's first-born child, prefixed by Abu (*father*) or Umm (*mother*), eg: Umm Ahmad; "the mother of Ahmad", and is used as a sign of respect or reverence. However it can also be a metaphorical or ironic byname, eg: Abu al-Fayez; "the father of victory;" (*the victorious*), Umm al-Dawaniq; "the mother of pennies" (*the miserly*). Abu Bakr; "the father of the camel foal" (*kind to camels*). When used as part of a person's full name, the *kunya* precedes the *ism*.

Either roll on the Arabic name table in Xanathar's Guide, or [translate an English word into Arabic](https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=translate+english+to+arabic), and prefix the result with Abu or Umm, as appropriate.

### Nasab The *nasab* is a list of a persons male ancestors, usually just the father and grandfather, but it could be a long chain of names for someone in an important family. They are all prefixed by ibn (*son*), except for women, who add the prefix bint (*daughter*) to just their fathers name, eg: bint Jalal ibn Fayez; "the daughter of Jalal who was the son of Fayez". The *nasab* follows the *ism*.

Roll on the Arabic male name table in Xanathar's Guide as many times as the person's importance dictates, and prefix each name with ibn (or bint for a womans father).

### Laqab The *laqab* is a byname, usually descriptive of some quality the person has (or would like to have), eg: al-Rashid; "the rightly-guided", al-Tawll; "the tall", al-Basil; "the brave". These *laqab* follow the *ism* and precede the *nasab*. There is also a religious form of *laqab* which is "Abd" (*servant of*) plus one of the 99 names of God, eg; Abd al-Rahman; "the servant of the Merciful". The feminine form of this *laqab* is "Amat", eg; Amat al-Rahman; "the (female) servant of the Merciful". These *laqab* are used in the place of an *ism*, eg; Abd al-Rahman ibn Idris ibn Sinan.

It wont be grammatically correct, but to make your own laqab bynames, it's probably easiest to just [translate an English word into Arabic](https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=translate+english+to+arabic), then prefix it with "al-". eg; al-Rashid; "the rightly-guided", al-Tawll; "the tall", al-Basil; "the brave".

### Nisba The *nisba* can be derived from a persons place of birth, origin, residence, religious sect, tribe, family, or other affiliation. Also occasionally from a trade or profession. A nisba is almost always preceded by the definite article, eg: al-Khabaz; "the baker", al-Tahiri; "of (the tribe) Tahir", al-Isfahani; "of (the city) Isfahan". A person may have more than one *nisba*, in which case the order would be; profession, tribe or family, then location. The *nisba* follows the *ism* and *nasab*.

**Profession Nisba:** [Translate an English word into Arabic](https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=translate+english+to+arabic), then

prefix it with "al-", eg: al-Khabaz; "the baker", al-Tajir; "the merchant", al-Bahar; "the sailor", etc.

**Location Nisba:** Prefix the names of cities and regions in your campaign setting with "al-" and add an "i" to the end, eg; al-Calimporti, al-Ormpuri, al-Shaari, al-Mirabari, etc.

**Tribal Nisba:** Choose or roll on the table below.

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> > You can prefix any of these Celtic surnames with *Mc-*, *Mac-*, "*Mac a' -*", "*Mac an -*", or "*Mac Iain -*", which all mean "*son of*", or an "*O' -*", which means "*grandson of*". (eg: *McBrùn*, *Mac Iain Brùn*, *O'Brùn*) >

## Chinese d100|Surname :-:|:- 1|An 2|Ang 3|Bái 4|Cháng 5|Chén 6|Cheong 7|Chéng 8|Cui 9|Cài 10|Cáo 11|Ding 12|Dong 13|Duàn 14|Dài 15|Dèng 16|Dù 17|Fang 18|Fàn 19|Féng 20|Fù 21|Gao 22|Gong 23|Guo 24|Gù 25|Hao 26|Huáng 27|Hán 28|Hè 29|Hé 30|Hóu 31|Hú 32|Jia 33|Jiang 34|Jin 35|Kang 36|Kong 37|Li 38|Liáng 39|Liú 40|Lu 41|Luó 42|Lài 43|Lí 44|Lín 45|Lóng 46|Lù 47|Ma

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\page d100|Surname :-:|:- 48|Máo 49|Mèng 50|Min 51|Pan 52|Péng 53|Qiu 54|Qián 55|Qiáo 56|Qín 57|Rén 58|Shen 59|Shi 60|Shào 61|Shèng 62|Shí 63|Su 64|Sun 65|Sòng 66|Tang 67|Tián 68|Tán 69|Táng 70|Wang 71|Wu 72|Wàn 73|Wáng 74|Wèi 75|Wén 76|Wú 77|Xiao 78|Xià 79|Xiè 80|Xióng 81|Xu 82|Xue 83|Xú 84|Yin 85|Yuen 86|Yuán 87|Yán 88|Yáng 89|Yáo 90|Yè 91|Yì 92|Yú 93|Zeng 94|Zhang 95|Zhong d100|Surname :-:|:- 96|Zhou 97|Zhu 98|Zhào 99|Zhèng 100|Zou

## Egyptian Ancient Egyptians usually just had a given name, with only royalty and other VIP's requiring additional names, and modern Egyptians use Arabic-style surnames. But of course most D&D games don't take place in historically realistic, or modern Egypt, so here are some Egyptian words that can be used as bynames.

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\page ## Mesoamerican The ancient Nahuatl names were not gender-specific, though women often had more obviously feminine names, like *Cuauhcihuatl*; "Eagle Woman", *Azcueitl*; "White Heron Skirt", *Amaxochitl*; "Paper Flower". Personal names usually consisted of two or more separate words, which sometimes form a complete sentence, but they did not have anything we would recognise as an inherited or family name. ### Day Sign Names Children are first given a name on the 7th day after they are born, according to the ritual calendar that combines a number from one to thirteen, and one of the twenty different day signs, for example; *Mahtlactli-once Tecpatl*, which means "Eleven Flint". The numeral is often dropped by the family in everyday use. Each day, both the number and sign are incremented. After 13 days the cycle of numbers repeats, while the signs dont repeat until all 20 have been used. It takes 260 days for the full cycle to come back around to "1 Crocodile" again. Within a few months children are taken to the temple and given one of the secondary names of the divine protector that oversaw the day of their birth. eg; Cuauhtemoc; "Descending Eagle". These names were not static though, and a change in social status would usually involve a partial or complete change of a persons name. ### Nahuatl Numbers #|Nahuatl :-:|:- 1|Ce 2|Ome 3|Yei 4|Nahui 5|Macuilli 6|Chicuace 7|Chicome 8|Chicuei 9|Chiconahui 10|Mahtlactli 11|Mahtlactli once 12|Mahtlactli omome 13|Mahtlactli omei

>* Rolling 1-13 with standard RPG dice is, seemingly, a complex math problem with many long winded solutions, so you might want to use an online dice roller, or just roll a d20 until it returns a number within the desired range. > >* To create your own Mesoamerican names, you could use this [English <> Nahuatl translator](https://www.freelang.net/online/nahuatl.php). >

### Other Types of Name * Euphemistic names of people and deities, such as Ixcozauqui (“Yellow Face”) - a term for the fire god. * Titles incorporating the word tecuhtli (“Lord”) or tiachcauh (“Elder brother”), referring to high-ranking warriors, eg Chichimecatecuhtli (“Lord of the Chichimecs”) or Temillotl Tiachcauh (“Elder Brother Stone Column”). * Names of plants, birds, insects, reptiles and animals like Xilaxochitl (“Calliandra Flower”), Tlohtli (“Hawk”), Ayotl (“Turtle”), Miztli (“Mountain Lion”), Azcatl (“Ant”). * Names of precious/sacred objects, eg Macuextli (“Bracelet”), Xochicozcatl (“Flower Garland”). * Names related to warfare and sacrifice, in particular those including the concept of atltlachinolli - “water-burnt land”, the cosmic war caused by the fusion of two natural elements, water and fire; Atletl (“Water-fire”), Cenyaotl (“One Enemy”), Malomitl (“Captive’s Bone”), etc. * Names with the possessive particles e and hua meaning “owner of a thing” eg, Coyohua (“Coyote owner”). * Pejorative names (probably teasing nicknames) like Xocuetl (“The Lame One”), Ixtepetla (“The Blind One”), Amintzin (“Diarrhea”). * Names derived from toponyms and ethnic groups such as Atlixcatl - “He of Atlixco”, a city-state. * Names referring to particular time periods/seasons eg Maxihuitl (“Five Years”), Xopantzin (“Venerable Raining Season”). * Birth order names which indicate the relative age of children in a family in respect to each other: Tiacapan (“The First Born”), Tlaco (“The Middle One”), Teicu (“The Younger One”), or Xoco (“The Youngest”). ### Nahuatl Ritual Day Signs #|Nahuatl|English :-:|:-|:- 1|Ometeotl|Crocodile 2|Ocelotl|Jaguar 3|Mazatl|Deer 4|Xochitl|Flower 5|Acatl|Reed 6|Miquiztli|Death 7|Quiahuitl|Rain 8|Malinalli|Grass 9|Coatl|Snake 10|Tecpatl|Flint 11|Ozomahtli|Monkey 12|Cuetzpalin|Lizard 13|Ollin|Quake 14|Itzcuintli|Dog 15|Calli|House 16|Cozcacuauhtli|Vulture 17|Atl|Water 18|Ehecatl|Wind 19|Cuauhtli|Eagle 20|Tochtli|Rabbit

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### Hawaiian Names Traditionally the Hawaiian people had no inherited names, and their given names were made up from elements that evolved over a persons lifetime. Their names were not gender-specific and could be influenced by family, ancestor gods or dreams, and would often commemorate significant events or achievements in the individuals life. Usually a short form of the full name was used for daily convenience. Sometimes children were given names with distasteful meanings to discourage bad spirits. A sacred name might also be given, but it was kept secret.

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