Writing Adolescent Fiction/Character names

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
 * Italian
 * Latvian
 * Lithuanian
 * Maltese
 * Manx
 * Polish
 * Portuguese
 * Romanian
 * Russian
 * Scandinavian
 * 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