Dragon Name Generator

A name that fills a cave

A dragon's name is usually the first thing a story tells us about it, and often the only thing a village knows. It should sound old, heavy and a little hard to say, as if it was made for a mouth bigger than ours. The list on this page begins with Orvulynne the Sleepless, said or-VOO-lin.

Every name here comes from our own syllable grammar, written for this page. Dragons are shared by the myths of half the world, so no single book owns them, but famous named dragons from novels, films, games and myth are on our block list and never come out of the generator.

Ancient, wyrm and drake

• Ancient names are long and rolling, with open vowels and soft endings such as -aunith, -ysse or -oruun. They suit dragons who have slept under the same mountain for a thousand years and expect to be addressed properly.
• Wyrm names are blunt and guttural, built on gr, sk, kr and th, with endings like -ugor, -mok and -ath. They suit the cave-dwelling, cattle-stealing kind.
• Drake names are short, one or two quick syllables (-ssa, -x, -rr), for young dragons, small ones, or a dragon who was given a pet name by a rider.

The rules keep the sound clean: a group such as th, zh or x appears once, two of the same vowel never meet, and no part is used twice. The table below shows the parts each style draws from.

Titles, epithets and domains

Dragons rarely have family names. They have reputations. This generator gives each one a title (the Unburnt, the Thrice-Woken), an epithet that describes what it is or does (Saltmaw, Rimewarden), or a domain: the land it claims, from the Sunken Barrows to the Glass Peaks. No form takes more than four names in ten, so a list mixes all three. We left out plain colour titles and the mountain and hill pairs that famous stories have already made their own.