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.

• A general list of girls' names
• A general list of boys' names
• Botanical girls' names
• Popular names in the U.S. in different years
• English
• Welsh
• Scottish and Irish
• French
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Greek
• German
• Dutch
• Scandinavian
• Polish
• Czechoslovakian
• Hungarian
• Yugoslavian
• Romanian
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Belarusian
• Ukrainian
• Russian
• Finnish
• Jewish
• Armenian
• Arab (including Lebanese, Syrian, and Egyptian)
• Persian
• Turkish
• East Indian
• African-American
• West Indian
• Native American
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean
• Vietnamese
• Filipino