Tiefling Name Generator

Two kinds of tiefling name

Tieflings carry a fiendish bloodline, and their names tend to show which way they have decided to face it. Some keep a name in the old infernal manner: classical in shape, a little sinister in sound. Others give themselves a virtue name, a single word for the person they mean to become, and wear it like a promise or a dare.

This generator does both. Infernal names come from our own syllable grammar, built around ae, th, x and z with endings such as -ia and -essa for feminine names, -os and -eus for masculine ones, and -ix or -yr for neutral ones. The list on this page starts with Promise of the Crimson Spire. Virtue names come from a list of more than ninety abstract English words we chose ourselves, from Amity and Cadence to Threnody and Vigilance.

How infernal names are built

Each infernal name is a beginning, an optional middle syllable (two when you set Length to long) and an ending. The rules keep the sound sharp but readable: th, x, z and ae may each appear only once, two of the same vowel never meet, and at most two vowels stand together, so you won't get a tangle like Zethaexae. Stress usually falls on the second-to-last syllable, and every invented name comes with a hint for saying it.

The table below shows the parts the grammar draws from, with names built from them by the same rules the tool uses.

Family names and virtue names

Family names come in three forms: a dark compound (an ash, ember or raven word joined to a second word), of House followed by an invented infernal name, or of the plus a quarter of a city, the kind of place a tiefling family might end up when the rest of town keeps its distance. A virtue name can take a family name too, which gives combinations such as Mercy Ashgrave that tell a story on their own. We deliberately left out the virtue names printed in the rulebooks; every word on our list was picked by us.