Assume every rogue name is an alias
The first rule of rogue naming: the name offered is the name that serves. A rogue may run three or four identities at once, each with its own history, debts, and wanted posters. The street name is the public-facing brand, short and slightly threatening or deliberately harmless. The legal name appears on forged documents. The true name is currency spent once or twice in a lifetime. When you roll above, you are rolling a wardrobe, never a single name.
Street names that work
Good underworld names are economical: one image, fast to say, easy to whisper. Whisper, Lockjaw, Six Coins, the Magpie. The epithets in this generator stay in that register, Shadowstep and Quickfingers rather than anything a herald would announce. A rogue's name also signals tier. Gutter-level operators get blunt tags, while a master thief's name acquires a definite article: THE Magpie stole it is a different sentence entirely, and every rogue knows which one they want said.
The true name as the last lock
Whatever your rogue is protecting, the true name is the final vault. It connects to the family, the hometown, the unpaid debt, the person they were before the first job went wrong. Decide who alive still knows it and you have written the character's emotional map in one move. Roll a batch above: take one name for the street, one for the documents, and keep one back. The kept one should be the plainest name in the list.
This generator's rogue flavor includes epithets like the Shadow, Quickfingers, the Smile, and titles like , , the. About a third of rolled names carry one; the rest stay clean. Click any result to copy it.