Pen Name Generator

Each genre has its own feel, so a Thriller pick favors punchy, authoritative names while a Romance pick favors warmer, more elegant ones — the names you see are chosen to sit naturally on that genre's shelf.

It picks names that fit that marketplace: Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Japan each have their own hand-curated first and last names, while US/UK/Canada/Australia share English names. Your Amazon search link updates to match, too — a Germany pick searches amazon.de instead of amazon.com.

It's a real search link, not a trademark or registry check — it opens the selected marketplace's Books department for that exact name so you can see if it's already in use by another author. Treat it as a fast first pass, not a legal clearance.

Yes — KDP explicitly supports publishing under a pseudonym. Your legal name and tax information still go on your KDP account behind the scenes; only your public author name changes.

No. Generation, copying, and your shortlist all happen entirely in your browser — nothing is sent to a server, and refreshing the page clears your shortlist.

It narrows which first names are eligible to be picked — it's a style lean, not a rule. "No preference" mixes feminine, masculine, and neutral names together.

Every batch is freshly shuffled, so results vary. Use the regenerate button on a single card to reroll just that one name, or the star icon to save names you like to a shortlist first.