Forty hand-checked kobold names, every one short enough to shout down a tunnel. Free, no sign-up, and the entire pool is printed on this page.
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Count the syllables in the forty names below. Thirty-six of them are a single syllable. The longest is two. That is not a stylistic accident — it is the organising idea of the whole pool, and it comes straight from how kobolds actually live. A kobold name gets used in tunnels, in the dark, over the noise of a collapsing trap, usually by someone who is running. A three-syllable name does not survive that. It gets cut to the first syllable within a week and the rest of it is decoration.
So instead of grouping these names by "mood" or "personality", the four groups below sort them by what the sound does when you shout it: names that snap shut, names that rattle, names that are a noise something made, and names that carry down a corridor. Every name appears exactly once and the four groups together are the entire pool.
These are the generator's real names — the finite, hand-checked pool it draws from. Nothing on this page is invented filler, and there is no longer list hidden behind an email form.
One syllable, ending on a hard stop — k, x, t, ck, p. The name is finished before anyone can interrupt it, which is the single most kobold-appropriate property a name can have. This is the default group: if you want a name that sounds like it belongs to a kobold who has survived a while, take one from here.
These end on a buzzing z instead of a stop, so the name hangs in the air for an extra beat. They read as louder and more pleased with themselves — the kobold who announces the trap after you have already stepped in it. Zazz and Razz are almost impossible to say without sounding smug, which is the point.
Straight onomatopoeia. Each of these is the sound of a thing happening — something dropping into water, a fuse catching, a small creature eating. These are the comic-relief names, and they are genuinely useful, because a kobold called Bloop gets remembered by a table for six months. Use them for NPCs you want the players to feel bad about later.
These end open — a long vowel or a hum rather than a stop — so they travel further and get shouted more easily across a distance. Structurally they are the "leader" names of the pool: Kor, Zor and Kree work as a call sign when a warren needs to hear a single word and move.
Forty names is enough for a warren if you use the pool the way kobolds would. Two methods:
Recombine the halves. Split any name at the first vowel and swap: Sn-ik + Dr-ax → Snax and Drik. The forty names give 26 distinct openings and 30 distinct endings, which is roughly 780 combinations that still sound like they came from the same pool. Keep them to one syllable and they will pass.
Then add a descriptor, not a surname. Kobolds distinguish two Piks by what they do, not by lineage: Pip-with-the-lantern, Left-Handed Snik, Vex-who-lost-the-cart. This is why the pool has no surnames — the second half of a kobold's name is a fact about them, and facts change. It is also the fastest way to give a warren of otherwise identical NPCs distinct identities at the table.
Kobold names sit at the short, clipped end of the small-folk range. If you need contrast in the same scene, the Goblin Name Generator pool is harsher and more guttural, the Gnome Name Generator pool is longer and more ornamental, and the Halfling Name Generator pool is warm and domestic. For the dragon your kobolds answer to, use the Dragonborn Name Generator pool; for the place they live in, the Dungeon Name Generator pool. All Race Generators and the full generator directory cover everything else.
Exactly 40. The pool is finite and hand-checked, and every one of the 40 is printed on this page grouped by what the sound does, so you never have to reroll just to find out what is in it.
Yes. The pool is checked to be free of protected intellectual property, so you can use these names in published fiction, paid adventures, streams or games with no attribution required.
Because a kobold name has to survive being shouted in a tunnel, usually by someone running. Thirty-six of the 40 names are a single syllable. Longer names get cut down to their first syllable in play anyway, so the pool skips the step.
Not in this pool. There is no Draconic register here at all, no honorifics and no dragon-derived roots. That is a deliberate limit and it is stated plainly rather than hidden behind rerolls.
Split names at the first vowel and swap the halves for roughly 780 in-style combinations, then distinguish individuals with a descriptor rather than a surname: Pip-with-the-lantern, Left-Handed Snik. Kobolds identify each other by what a person did, not by lineage.
No limit. Click as often as you like. The tool draws from the same fixed pool of 40 each time.
