40K Imperial Name Generator

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Generate Warhammer 40K Imperial names for the human Imperium: Inquisitors, Commissars, Guard officers, Sisters of Battle, Rogue Traders, Navy captains, planetary governors, Arbites and clerks of the Administratum, in the High Gothic style of the setting.

About 40K Imperial names

An Imperial name in Warhammer 40,000 is less a single style than a recognisable blend. The backbone is High Gothic, the Latin-flavoured tongue of the Ecclesiarchy and Administratum, which gives names like Ursarkar Creed, Ibram Gaunt, Gregor Eisenhorn and Ciaphas Cain their weight: a Latin or Greek given name (Lucius, Octavia, Tiberius, Drusilla) attached to a short, hard surname, often Germanic or English in sound (Kell, Voss, Thorne, Stahl). Individual worlds add their own flavour: Slavic names on Vostroya and Valhalla, Byzantine names in old noble houses, Italianate echoes in the Navy and the Navis Nobilite.

The second ingredient is the rank. Imperial characters are almost always introduced with a title, and the title tells you which arm of the Imperium they serve: Inquisitor, Interrogator and Acolyte for the Holy Ordos; Commissar, Colonel and Lord General for the Astra Militarum; Canoness, Palatine and Sister Superior for the Adepta Sororitas; Lord-Captain for Rogue Traders; Arbitrator and Judge for the Adeptus Arbites; Prefect and Ordinate for the Administratum. Saints and cardinals are often known by a single name with an epithet, as with Saint Celestine or Alicia Dominica.

Every name here is original, written in that canon style and spread across every branch of the Imperium, so you can name a whole retinue, regiment or governor’s court without borrowing anyone famous.

How to choose 40K Imperial names

  • Pick the organisation first, then the rank. Inquisitors carry no regimental rank, Sisters of Battle are always Sister or a convent title, and Rogue Traders style themselves Lord-Captain or Lady-Captain aboard their own ships.
  • Pair a Latin or Greek given name with a clipped one- or two-syllable surname for the classic High Gothic sound: Octavia Dren, Lucius Hadrach, Tiberius Mordaunt.
  • Use a world's cultural flavour to say where a character comes from: Slavic names for Vostroyan or Valhallan troops, Germanic for Krieg and Mordian, Byzantine or Italianate for old noble and Navigator houses.
  • Saints, confessors and high ecclesiarchs often go by a single name plus an epithet or place (Saint Celestine, Lucia of the Argent Shroud); drop the surname to make a character sound venerated.
  • Avoid reusing famous canon names like Creed, Gaunt, Eisenhorn or Yarrick for your own characters; the original names here are free for Kill Team rosters, Rogue Trader RPGs, fan fiction and army lore.

Frequently asked questions

What does an Imperial name sound like in Warhammer 40K?

Most Imperial names combine a High Gothic, Latin- or Greek-derived given name with a short, hard-edged surname, often with a title in front: Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn, Commissar Ciaphas Cain, Lord Castellan Ursarkar Creed. Individual worlds add their own flavour, from Slavic Vostroyans to Byzantine noble houses.

Does this generator cover Space Marines?

No. It focuses on the human Imperium: Inquisition, Astra Militarum, Adepta Sororitas, Ecclesiarchy, Administratum, Arbites, Imperial Navy, Rogue Traders, Navigators, Officio Assassinorum and planetary nobility, plus a few Adeptus Custodes. For Astartes names use the Space Marine name generator, and for tech-priests the Adeptus Mechanicus generator.

How are Inquisitors and Sisters of Battle named?

Inquisitors use the title Inquisitor (or Lord Inquisitor) before a full name, sometimes with their Ordo: Ordo Malleus Inquisitor Jeremiah Stahl. Their staff are Interrogators, Acolytes and Savants. Sisters of Battle are Sister plus a given name, with ranks such as Sister Superior, Celestian, Palatine and Canoness; saints are known by a single name.

Can I use these names for my Kill Team, Guard regiment or Rogue Trader campaign?

Yes. All the names are original and free to use for miniatures, campaign characters, roleplaying games such as Rogue Trader and Dark Heresy, and fan fiction. Canon figures like Ursarkar Creed, Ibram Gaunt and Saint Celestine belong to Games Workshop and are mentioned on this page only as examples of the naming style.

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A: 43 names

  • Abbot Jerome Halk
  • Absalom Drake
  • Acolyte Bennick Sorl
  • Acolyte Jessa Moraine
  • Acolyte Thom Grellis
  • Adalbert Mahr
  • Adelheid Roth
  • Adept Meryl Caskett
  • Adeptus Arbites Marshal Varro Skane
  • Administratum Prefect Ambrose Gall
  • Administratum Prefect Cicero Hale
  • Admiral Horatio Strand
  • Admiral Octavia Stormcrown
  • Agatha Redmayne

A, continued

  • Agrippina Volte
  • Aleksei Vostrov
  • Alessandro Vittori
  • Alexios Vatatzes
  • Alistair Greythorne
  • Ambrosia Quade
  • Amelie Garnier
  • Anastasia Volk
  • Anja Aske
  • Anna Tornikina
  • Annika Strasse
  • Anselma Theodorakis
  • Antonia Florus
  • Arbitrator Kaine Ostrovich

A, continued

  • Arbitrator Nils Hedderman
  • Arbitrator Theda Molloch
  • Arch-Confessor Kyrinov Dast
  • Arch-Deacon Lucilla Fenmore
  • Arco-Flagellant Kal Vorn
  • Armand Delacroix
  • Astra Militarum Medic Joss Hallam
  • Astrid Thorsen
  • Astropath Jonas Wyck
  • Astropath Laelia Mirren
  • Astropath Merrick Sol
  • Augustin Kessler
  • Aurelia Vox
  • Aurelian Voight
  • Avitus Korne

B: 13 names

  • Balthazar Rooke
  • Barnaby Whitlock
  • Bartholomew Quince
  • Basil Kantakouzenos
  • Bastien Rochefort
  • Beatrice Mallory
  • Beatrice Sforzini
  • Beatrix Aldrus
  • Bohdan Kryzanek
  • Boris Yezhov
  • Bronwyn Trask
  • Brother-Confessor Ulric Dane
  • Brunhilde Grune

C: 68 names

  • Caecilia Brann
  • Callidus Agent Morrigane
  • Callidus Agent Seraphel
  • Calpurnia Wrex
  • Canoness Anneliese Vorn
  • Canoness Serafina Dace
  • Canoness Superior Miriya Hollis
  • Canoness Theodosia Blackmere
  • Captain Jorun Stahlberg
  • Captain Leoric Fane
  • Captain Maren Trask
  • Captain Mordane Vrass
  • Captain Ossian Vrade

C, continued

  • Captain Sabine Mortlake
  • Captain Theodric Mayne
  • Cardinal Abelard Kresh
  • Cardinal Ambrose Sulk
  • Cardinal Hestia Morrow
  • Cardinal Ignatius Vell
  • Carys Mordane
  • Caspian Dreyfus
  • Cassius Ravelle
  • Castellan Adrienne Vorlan
  • Cato Ferrand
  • Celestian Madeline Rook
  • Celestian Ottilia Maun
  • Chaplain-Confessor Severin Lusk

C, continued

  • Chief Medicae Rosa Ferrand
  • Chirurgeon Oswin Lask
  • Claudia Stahl
  • Clementine Vaskar
  • Colette Vernier
  • Colonel Aurelius Quint
  • Colonel Brigid Stael
  • Colonel Dagmar Hest
  • Colonel Havlock Grune
  • Colonel Marguerite Volkert
  • Colonel Rhea Stavross
  • Colonel-Commandant Sabbat Yorke
  • Commander Alys Drachen

C, continued

  • Commissar Aldric Penhallow
  • Commissar Anselm Dorst
  • Commissar Greta Voskaya
  • Commissar Ilsa Varnhelm
  • Commissar Lord Ingrid Teller
  • Commissar Rufus Graeme
  • Commissar Tobias Wrenn
  • Commissar-General Mordecai Strang
  • Commodore Linnea Orsk
  • Commodore Rhea Vantilis
  • Confessor Beata Ilsen
  • Confessor Matthias Drago
  • Confessor Wendel Kaine
  • Constantine Lascaris

C, continued

  • Consuelo Valdespino
  • Cordelia Strange
  • Cornelia Raust
  • Corporal Fen Dorrick
  • Corporal Jory Penn
  • Corporal Niklas Voight
  • Crassus Mendel
  • Crusader Isolde Penitent
  • Crusader Tomas Ardent
  • Culexus Adept Nyx Sarne
  • Custodian Aquilon Ceres
  • Custodian Aurelian Kastor
  • Custodian Hesperus Thrane
  • Cyprian Holt

D: 11 names

  • Dante Moretti
  • Deacon Luthor Vaine
  • Death Cultist Syra
  • Decimus Kasr
  • Delphine Sauvage
  • Dialogus Pelagia Wyrme
  • Dietrich Brecht
  • Dmitri Gusev
  • Domitia Vorne
  • Drill Abbot Rufus Kane
  • Drusilla Krane

E: 18 names

  • Ecclesiarch Paulus Vermillion
  • Edmund Harrowgate
  • Eleanor Blackwood
  • Elspeth Kaine
  • Emilio Tarantino
  • Enforcer Brann Tollis
  • Enginseer-Liaison Mila Rho
  • Ennius Drell
  • Enoch Crowther

E, continued

  • Esmeralda Grimshaw
  • Etienne Morvan
  • Eudokia Palaiologa
  • Euphemia Thrall
  • Evander Kolt
  • Evelina Strom
  • Eversor Assassin Designate Velk
  • Ewa Stanislaw
  • Ezekiel Marr

F: 18 names

  • Fabius Thrane
  • Famulous Clemence Dorr
  • Farida Nasr
  • Father Cassius Brell
  • Fausta Lorne
  • Felicia Brandt
  • Fenella Quist
  • Fighter Ace Ravi Drummond
  • Flag-Captain Benedict Sorrow

F, continued

  • Flag-Captain Ezekiel Rane
  • Flavia Draik
  • Flavius Arkwright
  • Flight Marshal Dorian Aske
  • Flight Marshal Zoe Kasper
  • Fortress-Commander Greta Naumann
  • Frateris Militia Captain Gil Marrow
  • Freya Kolbeck
  • Friedrich Orlov

G: 19 names

  • Gaius Morrow
  • General Tiberius Graal
  • Genevieve Lautrec
  • Geoffrey Ashdown
  • Gerhard Vollmer
  • Ginevra Castellano
  • Gnaeus Ravensworth
  • Godric Ashvane
  • Governess Theodora Vranth

G, continued

  • Governor Octavian Bellisar
  • Governor-Militant Cassius Thorne
  • Grand Provost Marshal Vasilus Moro
  • Gretchen Ambler
  • Grigori Nemtsev
  • Guardsman Alik Drezh
  • Guardsman Pyotr Valko
  • Guardswoman Irina Sokol
  • Guardswoman Rosza Kellen
  • Gunther Marrick

H: 13 names

  • Hadrian Vance
  • Hadriana Sarne
  • Harriet Oakes
  • Heinrich Lurez
  • Helena Bryennia
  • Helmut Ulrich
  • Hieronymus Kraus
  • High Lord Tiberius Ghast
  • Honoria Wrenn
  • Honorius Bale
  • Hospitaller Hildegund Strane
  • Hospitaller Marguerite Ashe
  • Hostus Blaine

I: 28 names

  • Ibrahim Kesh
  • Ignacio Vasconcelos
  • Ignatius Drago
  • Ilaria Hexe
  • Ilse Harlon
  • Imogen Sallow
  • Imperial Commander Drusilla Orm
  • Ingrid Halvard
  • Inquisitor Castellan Mordecai Hulme
  • Inquisitor Dorian Valke
  • Inquisitor Helena Mordaunt
  • Inquisitor Iphigenia Raust
  • Inquisitor Lucan Varro
  • Inquisitor Marius Caddock

I, continued

  • Inquisitor Octavia Dren
  • Inquisitor Serapha Quoll
  • Inquisitor Tybalt Ossric
  • Inquisitor Verity Ashgrave
  • Interrogator Nico Vastrel
  • Interrogator Odile Frane
  • Interrogator Pell Hadrack
  • Interrogator Sabine Lurez
  • Irene Doukas
  • Irina Drezhna
  • Isabeau Tremont
  • Isotta Varano
  • Iunia Steel
  • Ivan Pravdin

J: 9 names

  • Janusz Hellebore
  • Jareth Wyld
  • Jericho Vane
  • Judge Ivory Stanhope
  • Judge Leodegar Vance
  • Judge Magister Ysolda Crane
  • Julia Ostrovich
  • Justinian Raoul
  • Justus Valen

K: 4 names

  • Kaspar Holmgren
  • Katrin Davrel
  • Katya Stroganova
  • Konrad Vastrel

L: 47 names

  • Lady Governor Isaura Kaltos
  • Lady Governor Vesper Thorne
  • Lady Tempestor Miriam Stahl
  • Lady-Captain Seraphine Dolorosa
  • Lady-Captain Theodosia Greyle
  • Laelia Durst
  • Lazarus Fenn
  • Leopold Graeme
  • Liesl Villem
  • Lieutenant Casimir Roth
  • Lieutenant Etienne Kale

L, continued

  • Lieutenant Maud Ketterly
  • Lieutenant Perrin Valdane
  • Lieutenant-Commander Piers Lathe
  • Liliana Vorsk
  • Liv Brandstad
  • Livia Falx
  • Livilla Dane
  • Lorcan Pryce
  • Lord Castellan Imre Vasko
  • Lord Commander Militant Augustin Seide
  • Lord Commissar Stellan Ruhe
  • Lord Commissar Viktor Halloran

L, continued

  • Lord General Alaric Dessan
  • Lord General Octavius Brandt
  • Lord Governor Haxtus Mordane
  • Lord Governor Ignatius Valtane
  • Lord Inquisitor Bastian Krell
  • Lord Inquisitor Haxtus Vorne
  • Lord Inquisitor Ysolde Karmantha
  • Lord Marshal Oriana Thane
  • Lord Militant Castor Vhale
  • Lord Militant Eustace Ravell
  • Lord Regent Cassian Morrowvale
  • Lord Regent Mortimer Halkane

L, continued

  • Lord Solar Aurelian Maxentius
  • Lord-Captain Horatio Drex
  • Lord-Captain Isembard Vaux
  • Lorenzo Malvezzi
  • Lothar Weiss
  • Lucan Drachenfels
  • Lucan Tell
  • Lucius Castellan Ravelle
  • Lucius Hadrach
  • Lucrezia Ferrante
  • Lukasz Dreyer
  • Lysander Pike

M: 29 names

  • Magister Taxonomis Helgard Rune
  • Major Corvin Aldrus
  • Major Dessa Harlon
  • Major Ingo Thale
  • Marcellus Pell
  • Marcia Lorek
  • Marcus Tancred
  • Marek Slavin
  • Margarethe Kurst
  • Marshal Ezra Coldwell
  • Marshal Thessaly Crane
  • Marta Oszkar
  • Master of Astropaths Ulric Panne
  • Master of Ordnance Gideon Thrale

M, continued

  • Master of the Fleet Augusta Vane
  • Mathilde Ossric
  • Matteo Orsino
  • Matthias Ghent
  • Maximus Corvane
  • Medicae Primus Joss Brannigan
  • Messalina Corde
  • Mikhail Tarkov
  • Milena Varga
  • Millicent Fairweather
  • Mireille Corbin
  • Missionary Ambrose Tell
  • Missionary Tobiah Rusk
  • Montague Ferrers
  • Mother Superior Eudora Pask

N: 11 names

  • Nadezhda Vorlova
  • Navigator Cyrus Belisarius
  • Navigator Eudora Sandrasekhar
  • Navigator Ptolemy Heliodorus
  • Navigator Ysmene Lotharius
  • Navis Nobilite Heir Cassian Tarquil
  • Nikephoros Phokas
  • Novator Aldous Drusus
  • Novice Patience Bray
  • Novice Temperance Lyle
  • Numerius Gall

O: 11 names

  • Octavia Brask
  • Octavian Drusus
  • Ogryn Bone'ead Grukk
  • Olga Kravchuk
  • Ordinate Lucinda Marsh
  • Ordinate Petra Vail-Kestrel
  • Orson Hallmark
  • Osric Thane
  • Oswald Penrose
  • Ottilie Fane
  • Ottoline Drusk

P: 26 names

  • Palatine Marisol Kade
  • Palatine Veradis Lune
  • Percival Dunmore
  • Perpetua Strand
  • Petty Officer Gustav Lorne
  • Philomena Gorse
  • Pilar Navarre
  • Pilgrim Mother Hestia
  • Planetary Governor Hestia Carrow
  • Planetary Governor Lucilla Vey
  • Pompeia Vask
  • Pontifex Ludovic Sarne
  • Portia Lune

P, continued

  • Preacher Hosanna Brayle
  • Preacher Josua Ferrand
  • Preacher Mirabel Ost
  • Prelate Corvina Amsel
  • Prelate Ignatia Vorl
  • Prioress Agnessa Welk
  • Priscilla Ganth
  • Proctor Gervase Bolt
  • Proctor Hanne Maskell
  • Proculus Harne
  • Prudence Hale
  • Publius Ostrander
  • Pyotr Ivanek

Q: 3 names

  • Quartermaster Ben Halloway
  • Quartermaster Hanna Lindqvist
  • Quintus Pelor

R: 20 names

  • Radovan Kriz
  • Raoul Beaumarchais
  • Ratling Sniper Tobias Fenwick
  • Rear Admiral Cressida Nall
  • Regimental Chaplain Father Anton Glasse
  • Regimental Chaplain Father Elias Quorn
  • Regimental Standard Bearer Luc Davrel
  • Reginald Thorncastle
  • Reinhardt Trask
  • Repentia Mistress Hesper Gaunt

R, continued

  • Roderick Baal
  • Rogue Trader Calpurnia Voss
  • Rogue Trader Erasmus Haak
  • Rogue Trader Hadrian Szell
  • Rogue Trader Lucrezia Halvane
  • Rogue Trader Solomon Wray
  • Rosalind Ashcombe
  • Rosamund Vickery
  • Ruprecht Gall
  • Rurik Anderholm

S: 50 names

  • Sabina Kront
  • Sabinus Tarrow
  • Savant Ephraim Lask
  • Savant Quillon Vex
  • Schola Cadet Willa Grange
  • Schola Progenium Cadet Aric Vale
  • Schola Progenium Drill Abbot Osric Vane
  • Scion Dacian Kasr
  • Scion Marek Stahl
  • Scion Petra Halvorsen
  • Scribe Ludo Pennock
  • Scribe-Senior Ambrosius Whelk

S, continued

  • Seneschal Barnabus Kett
  • Seneschal Orrin Fabrice
  • Sentinel Pilot Lisbet Arn
  • Sentinel Pilot Remy Aske
  • Septimus Graal
  • Serafina Castracane
  • Seraphim Beatrix Orlane
  • Seraphim Isolde Kerr
  • Seraphina Valke
  • Sergeant Aisha Rahman
  • Sergeant Bran Halloway
  • Sergeant Dagny Voss
  • Sergeant Kel Rurik

S, continued

  • Sergeant Ludo Marrick
  • Sergeant Tessaly Kranz
  • Sergeant Tomasz Grell
  • Sergeant Varick Olm
  • Sergei Bolotnikov
  • Servius Gaunt
  • Severus Kanth
  • Shield-Captain Tiberian Valoris
  • Shield-Captain Valerius Thane
  • Siegfried Dorst
  • Sigrun Eskildsen
  • Sister Agathe Kell

S, continued

  • Sister Agnetha Morrow
  • Sister Cassia Brandt
  • Sister Clothilde Varren
  • Sister Eulalia Sarn
  • Sister Hildegard Ruse
  • Sister Superior Aveline Thorne
  • Sister Superior Gertrude Ravenne
  • Sister Superior Ysabeau Kront
  • Solange Vautrin
  • Soren Lindqvist
  • Storm Trooper Kerr Malcolm
  • Storm Trooper Sasha Lindt
  • Svetlana Ruzhina

T: 27 names

  • Tank Commander Hanna Ulrich
  • Tank Commander Ulf Steinmann
  • Tariq Alvarn
  • Tatiana Orlovskaya
  • Tempestor Prime Garrick Vole
  • Tempestor Prime Isadora Vrell
  • Tertia Halveth
  • Thaddeus Pyke
  • Theodora Kastamonites
  • Theodosius Komnenos
  • Thibault Desrosiers
  • Tiberius Mordaunt
  • Tithe-Master Augustus Brell

T, continued

  • Titus Bellamy
  • Tobias Kranz
  • Torvald Hjelm
  • Trooper Bex Orlov
  • Trooper Dace Villem
  • Trooper Hollis Vane
  • Trooper Juno Harne
  • Trooper Katja Brandt
  • Trooper Lars Penn
  • Trooper Nadja Kurst
  • Trooper Osmund Dane
  • Trooper Vance Tolliver
  • Trooper Willa Fisk
  • Tullius Havoc

U: 2 names

  • Ulysses Parn
  • Ursula Penn

V: 16 names

  • Valeria Kantor
  • Varus Holloway
  • Vasily Kaskin
  • Verity Cask
  • Veteran Sergeant Oda Halvorsen
  • Veteran Sergeant Tomas Brecht
  • Vibia Colt
  • Vindicare Marksman Orvo Drask

V, continued

  • Vindicare Operative Kell Vantor
  • Virgil Stroud
  • Vitus Karmantha
  • Void-Master Callista Orne
  • Void-Master Tamsin Holloway
  • Vopiscus Tell
  • Vox-Officer Tomas Kaldor
  • Vox-Operator Keely Marsh

W: 6 names

  • Warden Jacob Stroud
  • Warmaster Herod Kasr
  • Wilfried Nacht
  • Wilhelm Strang
  • Wilhelmina Sorrow
  • Winifred Croft

X: 2 names

  • Xanthe Moravec
  • Xavier Ortegon

Y: 2 names

  • Yelena Sokolova
  • Ysolde Marchetti

Z: 4 names

  • Zephyrim Lucretia Vane
  • Zoe Angelina
  • Zofia Dravik
  • Zoya Kalinova