Create authentic Danish names for characters, stories, and games. Free, culturally accurate, and customizable—perfect for writers and creators.
The Danish government provides a preapproved list of given names (of around 50,000), and parents have to apply for special permission to give a child a name not on the list.
Many Danish family names reflect the historical use of patronymics in Scandinavia (where people used to take names based on their father’s name, rather than inheriting family names). You can see this in the most common surnames, with many ending in sen (son), like Nielsen and Jensen.
Danish names usually take the form of a given/first name and a family/surname, used in that order. Multiple first names are allowed, and so are middle names, but in Denmark, middle names are additional family names, not additional first names.
Let’s look at some typical examples from literary history:
Mads Jensen
Freja Andersen
Soren Larsen
Ingrid Møller
Emil Kristensen
Line Thomsen
Nikolaj Holm
Astrid Petersen
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🛑 Avoid clichés: Too often, fictional works fall back on stereotypical or random names. Our generator helps you go deeper and stand out.
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