Space Station Name Generator
Generates a fictional space station name — distinct from the site's spaceship-name generator, which names a mobile vessel rather than a fixed orbital or deep-space station.
What this generator does
Names a fixed installation rather than a vessel, which is a genuinely different naming problem: stations are usually named for where they are, who paid for them or what they do, whereas ships are named for qualities. That is why this does not share a word bank with the spaceship generator.
What it builds, and how many ways
Each result is assembled to this shape: [designation] + [kind] — one of 4 sentence patterns this generator uses.
- designation: 26 options
- kind: 10 options
- numeral: 10 options
Taken together those banks can be assembled 3,380 different ways, repeating after about 73.
Some results it can produce:
- Meridian Habitat
- Dock Gossamer
- Bastion Waypoint VII
- Gossamer-II
A fixed sample so this page stays the same between visits. Your own results are assembled at random, each slot filled independently and each press independent of the last, so the same result can come up twice — past the repeat figure above, seeing one twice is more likely than not.
How to use this tool
- Press generate for a name.
- Generate again for a different one.
Common use cases
- Science-fiction worldbuilding
- Tabletop or video game setting names
- Writing prompts for sci-fi settings
Limitations and good to know
- It names the station and not its orbit, operator or purpose, all of which real installations take their names from.
- Designation-style results look like a catalogue entry rather than a name, which suits a background station and not one your story is set on.
Each part of the result is chosen independently with your browser's cryptographic random number generator, so every option in a bank is equally likely. How Generate Random works.