Annual Report
Star Wars Names Report 2026
A statistical look at how Star Wars names are built — across 17 canonical species, 4 eras, and 55,296,000 unique phoneme combinations. Free, citable, and updated yearly.
17
Species covered
55,296,000
Unique combinations
37
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47
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Released under CC-BY-4.0. Cite as: Star Wars Name Generator — Names Report 2026.
Top 10 species by unique name combinations
Calculated as prefix_count × max(1, middle_count) × suffix_count from the open dataset.
Human12,000
Mandalorian12,000
Jedi12,000
Planet12,000
Twi'lek9,000
Wookiee9,000
Zabrak9,000
Droid9,000
Hutt9,000
Rodian9,000
Average phoneme-block length, by species
Mean character count across every prefix, middle, and suffix block. Higher = longer-feeling names.
Hutt4.85 chars
Sith4.56 chars
Mandalorian4.4 chars
Jedi4.17 chars
Chiss3.82 chars
Mon Calamari3.8 chars
Wookiee3.77 chars
Trandoshan3.74 chars
Rodian3.72 chars
Bothan3.72 chars
Gamorrean3.63 chars
Twi'lek3.57 chars
Harshness ranking — share of phonemes containing k / x / z / q / v
A simple proxy for how aggressive a species' naming sound is. Sith and Trandoshan tend to dominate; Pantoran and Mon Calamari skew softer.
Trandoshan73.8%
Zabrak49.2%
Mandalorian37.3%
Gamorrean30.8%
Sith30.2%
Hutt29.2%
Wookiee27.7%
Human26.7%
Droid26.2%
Rodian26.2%
Chiss24.6%
Bothan24.6%
Methodology
- All figures are derived from the public dataset at /data/species.json and regenerated on every release.
- Combinations exclude era, gender, and style modifiers — the true addressable space is far larger (see How it works).
- Harshness is a heuristic, not a phonetic measurement. Useful for ranking, not absolute claims.
- Dataset snapshot taken at
2026-05-08T12:15:25.951Z.
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