Urist

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"Urist" is the most popular dwarf name in the community. It is often used as a generic dwarven name.

The origin of the name's popularity seems to be the tale "One Dwarf Against the World," a well-received narrative style account of a hermit fortress played in the 2D version. That dwarf's full name was Urist Borushdumat (Raked-Roughness).

At least according to the catsplosion page (definitely not officially), urist is also the tongue-in-cheek term for the temperature units used by ToadyOne in DF.