After agonising and labouring over the character creator in Hogwarts Legacy, you might find yourself stumped to find a theme-appropriate name for the Wizarding World - but fortunately, there is a Hogwarts Legacy name generator built right in.

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Plenty more players will be faced with this conundrum now as Hogwarts Legacy has just landed on the Nintendo Switch – a console that has sold 132.46 million units, so it's safe to say that developers Portkey Games are going to deposit a fair amount of gold at Gringotts.

But with an upcoming next-gen Switch 2, you'll be wanting to know if the Nintendo Switch is still worth it.

If you are playing it on the Switch of today, be sure you have enough space on your MicroSD card for the Hogwarts Legacy Switch file size and day one patch.

But back to the name generator!

It's fairly simple to use the name generator to get an appropriately arcane name, but we'll go over it down below so you know exactly what to do and what to expect.

This article is part of our free Hogwarts Legacy walkthrough guide - to unlock your complete companion to the game.

Is there a Harry Potter name generator for Hogwarts Legacy?

Yes, there is a Harry Potter name generator that you can use to name your created player character in Hogwarts Legacy. While there are many out there, the best is probably the officially-licensed Bloomsbury name generator.

The Potter UK publishing house has created its own Harry Potter name generator that’s simple to use. All you need to do is enter your first name and second name and then select whether you’re a wizard, witch, or if you’d rather be surprised.

Based on our use of the name generator, we know that you can use it as often as you like, and you should get a different name each time you click that Make My Name button.

It likely won’t give you your own name if it’s one that doesn’t appear in the books, however, as this writer’s first name is routinely ignored, at least.

What it appears to do is take your initials and apply them to names from the book series. Toby Saunders, for example, comes out as names such as Thomas Shacklebolt, Troy Slytherin and Terence Snape.

If you aren’t happy with your witch or wizard name, you can always mix and match your own name and a Potter-sounding surname. Toby Shacklebolt isn’t too bad.

If you’d rather have something random that sounds like it could have been lifted from the pages of the books, you can always use the Imagine Forest Harry Potter name generator.

This lets you simply select a randomly generated name. We’ve had hits including Grogan Fawley, Arthur Sky and Nicola Ohnishi using this name generator.

Whatever you choose, as long as it fits the character you create, your name will be fine. Now get out there and live out your Hogwarts Legacy fantasy.

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Toby Saunders
Toby SaundersFreelance Writer

Toby Saunders is a freelance writer specialising in Video Game journalism. He has a wealth of experience in the field and is published on many different websites including PCGamesN, Nintendo Life and Pocket Tactics. He has a degree in Film Studies (he gets to write about Film and TV occasionally, too).

Cole Luke
Cole LukeFreelance Writer

Cole Luke is a freelance journalist and video producer who contributes to RadioTimes.com's Gaming section. He also has bylines for Digital Foundry, PC Gamer, Network N and more.

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