Middle-Earth Names
Tolkien’s fictional languages sit beside familiar everyday names in Middle-earth. This collection spans The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and the wider legendarium, identifying the character behind every choice.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rose Cotton, the hobbit who marries Samwise. | 2,386#114 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
Samwise Gamgee's familiar short name. | 428#647 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Rose Cotton's familiar name; she marries Samwise Gamgee. | 1,088#283 | Up 188 rank positions in five years | 1927 | ||
Elrond's daughter, who marries Aragorn. | 158#1,384 | Up 345 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Thorin Oakenshield, the dwarf leader in The Hobbit. | 134#1,379 | Down 39 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The name of Sam and Rose's daughter and of a flower in Middle-earth. | 127#1,635 | Up 472 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The shield-maiden of Rohan. | 146#1,471 | Up 753 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
One of the dwarves in Thorin's company. | 76#2,002 | Up 279 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
The king of Rohan during the War of the Ring. | 104#1,632 | Up 1,248 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
One of Thorin's companions in The Hobbit. | —Unranked | — | 2006 | ||
The mortal hero of the story of Beren and Luthien. | 37#3,187 | Up 2,077 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
One of the dwarves in Thorin's company. | 31#3,631 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The elven lady of Lothlorien. | 15#7,248 | new | 2003 | ||
The bowman of Lake-town in The Hobbit. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
Samwise Gamgee, Frodo's companion. | 20#5,010 | Up 1,952 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Bilbo Baggins, the central hobbit in The Hobbit. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
The formal name of the hobbit called Pippin. | 13#6,710 | Up 3,604 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
The Ranger who becomes king in The Lord of the Rings. | 11#7,227 | Up 3,461 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
The shape-changing host in The Hobbit. | 7#9,833 | Down 146 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
The elven heroine of the story of Beren and Luthien. | 9#10,574 | Up 1,139 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Peregrin Took's familiar name. | 5#13,405 | Down 3,085 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The mother of Luthien in the wider legendarium. | —Unranked | — | 2024 | ||
The elven member of the Fellowship. | —Unranked | — | 2003 | ||
The wizard who guides the Fellowship. | —Unranked | — | 1970 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.