Effective Naming Tool
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This resource may be valuable to you if you have substantial difficulty in creating names.
To give an example, I ran one test in an attempt to generate BIONICLE names akin to those used in 2001.
First, the input:
Categories:
V=aueio
C=nklmhtpgjrwv
Rewrite rules:
ii|i
aa|a
ee|e
oo|o
uu|u
Syllable types:
CV
V
CVn
Now, a bit of explanation:
Categories: I only used two categories (vowels and consonants), since basically every major name from 2001 followed the simple pattern of consonant/vowel alternation. It is possible to create more categories (such as back vowels or fricatives) to control probabilities better or to enforce different phonotactic rules. The frequency of letters comes from the names of the six Toa Mata, the Turaga Metru, and the Toa Inika (prior to renaming). In fact, all of the information for this generator comes from analysis those eighteen names. It is worth noting that I omitted the "wh" of Whenua, because it has no clear meaning. If you want to include it, note that the vocabulary generator does not allow digraphs in the categories: You’ll need some other symbol and a rewrite rule.
Rewrite rules: I know that doubled vowels occasionally occurred (e.g., in Lhii and later Hewkii), but they did not appear in the sample I used. Also, these doubled vowels seem to have no defined meaning, and I dislike how they look. So, yeah.
Syllable types: The only exceptions to consonant/vowel alternation that I found were in consonant+vowel+n (e.g., in Kongu) and in cases when two vowels appeared together (e.g., in Onua), so there are three syllable types.
The output was the following (pretty close to what I intended):
Hoko anuaki atekiamu ea nulu munkunkalan ku utielun kuni liu ane ninu hilupi ka. Kana le ma keluna ne lame kuno. Tale ka e ka gani tenka! Nuo kinninku nanmen aiwano nun. Ina janla kinnineaju he ni nanuna kine. Nu nahan na lin nukanlan mon nin? Gonani lu ananhun aopenun lulena. Ea kukon kai ua u nenunoa hima? Haekane ela na numa nala nulula kau. Lae ka ko enutama alele amunonen lalu. Min ma najuntehen nuhe tannonalun hon ninanela. Nunepue gae ge menlen nenitoahun. Kimun lunokan ilin kano kola. Niheake nu inennun hakan takulu tau nakeja nuhitan nano ma ahu! Nanu ea nonkounulo nikin ta laven aunenken. Ka alun a memali eahu na? Urehen paman. Nulentalumu nenu nun kinanu ateko ula. Lama aka nata pinnanalen honu lannukumi! Atuni umelenu awae ne nu u. Eau gaea a elanti ula hanala i. Kaie au hope kalon nakana? Nenakui uona menkunahi e wi wu. Wu a ae. Nuhuha eke heno takianu mukakon. Io au u nale. Una ku o nopanua uke. Amuo mea ene nini meule nulo. Uhen u kemihei akulemanka kanou. I tanakuhani nuanenu uheoka ganhune mepe.
There’s certainly room for improvement, especially since I only analyzed eighteen names. If anybody else can expand upon the work I've done, that would really be useful.
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