Demon Name Generator

Names with weight

In folklore a demon's name is power: whoever knows it can summon, bind or bargain. That is why a good demon name feels a little dangerous to say aloud, classical in shape and wrong in sound. The list on this page starts with Aelyr the Patient, said AY-lir.

Our names come from the infernal syllable grammar we wrote for the site, extended for this page. They are invented, not taken from scripture, grimoires, novels, films or games, and the named demons of all of those are on our block list.

Greater, lesser and fallen

• Greater demons get the full infernal grammar: z, x, ph and th, with long endings such as -agoth, -iax and -uzeth. These are the lords and dukes of the pit.
• Lesser demons are imps and errand-runners. Their names are short and spiky (Snix-, Vrik-, Gnib-) with endings like -ix, -ub and -etta: easy to shout, easy to forget, which suits them.
• Fallen names keep an echo of the heavens they left, in endings such as -iel, -ael and -riel. We never produce the names of archangels or of the angels and watchers named in old texts.

The grammar forbids clumsy runs of vowels, uses each harsh group once and caps the length, so a name stays sayable even when it is meant to sound alien.

Ranks, titles and places

Demons in stories are bureaucrats as often as monsters, so a rank follows the name after a comma: Warden of Old Grudges, Tallyman of Sour Milk, Collector of Unpaid Debts. A title describes a manner (the Soft-Spoken, the Ever-Hungry), and a place gives an address in the underworld: of the Seventh Cellar, of the Burning Throne. Each form appears on at most four names in ten.