Wizard Name Generator

Builds a wizard's name from three interchangeable forms — a first name with an epithet, a first name with an order, or all three together — drawn from 26 first names, 16 epithets and 6 magical orders for 3,068 distinct results, in the 'Name, the Epithet' storytelling style.

How many

Don't repeat what I've already seen

Your result will appear here.

What this generator does

Produces a name in the 'Name the Epithet' form — a personal name followed by a descriptive title — because that two-part shape is what makes a wizard name read as a wizard name rather than as any other fantasy character. The epithet carries the character work: it hints at a speciality, a reputation or a rumour.

What it builds, and how many ways

Each result is assembled to this shape: [first] + [epithet] — one of 3 sentence patterns this generator uses.

first: 26 options
epithet: 16 options
order: 6 options

Taken together those banks can be assembled 3,068 different ways, repeating after about 69.

Some results it can produce:

Alaric the Unwilling
Drusilla, of the Seventh House
Ignatius the Unwilling, of the Amber Order
Nyx the Sleepless

A fixed sample so this page stays the same between visits. Your own results are assembled at random, each slot filled independently and each press independent of the last, so the same result can come up twice — past the repeat figure above, seeing one twice is more likely than not.

How to use this tool

Press generate for a wizard name.
Generate again for a different one.

Worked examples

What a draw can look like: A single press might return 'Alaric the Grey' or 'Melisande, of the Ember Conclave' — the three templates mix a first name with an epithet, an order, or both.

Common use cases

Fantasy writing
Tabletop RPG character naming
Roleplay or game character design

How this generator works

Picks one of three templates at random, then fills it from three lists: 26 first names, 16 epithets ('the Grey', 'the Lamplighter') and 6 magical orders ('of the Amber Order'). The shortest template pairs just a first name with an epithet (416 combinations); the longest strings all three parts together (2,496 combinations) — 3,068 in total across the three forms.

Limitations and good to know

The three templates are not equally satisfying even though each is equally likely: the two-part 'name, of the order' form can read thinner than the full three-part title.
3,068 distinct results comes from combining three separate lists rather than 3,068 hand-written names, so the same epithet or order will recur across different first names — that is expected, not a fault.

Practical tips

Treat the epithet as a prompt rather than a label. A wizard called the Patient earned that name somehow, and deciding how is half a character.
Drop the epithet when the wizard is being addressed by someone who knows them well; keeping it everywhere makes dialogue stilted.

Each part of the result is chosen independently with your browser's cryptographic random number generator, so every option in a bank is equally likely. How Generate Random works.