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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
Popular names in the U.S. in different years
African-American
Southern/Southwestern double boys' names
Southern girls' names
West Indian
Latin American Names
Spanish
Portuguese
French
Names from Communities of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Native American
Latin American Indian / Indigenous Latin American
Alaska Native
Europe
Albanian
Basque
Belarusian
Bulgarian and Macedonian
Carpatho-Rusyn
Celtic
Cornish
Czechoslovakian
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
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Maltese
Manx
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Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
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Scottish and Irish
Spanish
Swedish
Ukrainian
Welsh
Yugoslavian
Western Asia and North Africa
Ancient Egyptian
Arab
Berber
Kyrgyz
Maltese
Persian
Turkish
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Georgian
South Asia
Bangladeshi
Indian
Nepalese
Roma
Sri Lankan
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
Buddhist
Jewish
Mennonite (European-origin)
Mormon
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