Can I use these for D&D drow?

Yes. The names suit drow in any edition or setting, and dark elves in other games too.

How do I name a drow city?

Switch the kind to Towns. The Dark elven style gives city names like Gil-Sho'ur and Vidurth.

What's the difference between this and the elf name generator?

The elf generator uses the flowing Elven style. This one uses Dark elven, learned from a separate list with harder sounds.

Drow Name Generator

Names for drow and other dark elves: characters, noble houses and the cities under the earth. The Dark elven style is harder than the Elven one. It keeps the long vowels but adds doubled consonants, sz and rr, and the odd apostrophe, so the names sound related to elvish and clearly not the same.

Naming

Style

Dark elven: sharp and underground.

Click a name to copy it.

Dark elven sounds

A dark elf name should sound like the surface elves' cousin who went underground and changed. Keep some elven softness (l, th, the long vowels) and add sharper pieces: sz, rr, x, z, and an apostrophe between syllables. Names like Lizex Lolthlin or Matheas Litar sit on that line.

Apostrophes are best used sparingly. One per name at most, and not in every name, or they stop meaning anything.

Noble houses

Drow society in most settings is ruled by a few great houses in rivalry. Generate a batch, pick four or five family names that look nothing alike, and make those the houses. Every drow character then belongs to one of them or is houseless, which is a story in itself.

Names are the start

Make the whole world: a map, its peoples, its magic and a villain with a plan. The free world generator names its towns and regions with this same engine, in the style you choose.

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In the World Studio you build a world on a real map, set its rules in plain words and invite players. An AI game master voices every character while the game engine keeps the map, the fights and the money honest.

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Questions

Can I use these for D&D drow?: Yes. The names suit drow in any edition or setting, and dark elves in other games too.
How do I name a drow city?: Switch the kind to Towns. The Dark elven style gives city names like Gil-Sho'ur and Vidurth.
What's the difference between this and the elf name generator?: The elf generator uses the flowing Elven style. This one uses Dark elven, learned from a separate list with harder sounds.

Names are generated with a port of the names generator from Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator (MIT license, by Max Haniyeu), including its name lists.