Arbites Name Generator

The Adeptus Arbites are the Imperium's judges, jailers and riot police rolled into one: shotgun-armed Arbitrators who enforce the Lex Imperialis from precinct-fortresses on every world. Their names in Black Library fiction follow the general 40k pattern of Old Earth given names attached to clipped, hard-edged surnames, but with a noticeably Roman and judicial tilt. Matthew Farrer's Shira Calpurnia and Lord Marshal Dvorov set the tone: a statute-book Latin first name and a surname that could be barked across a courtroom.

This generator follows that register. You will find Latin names (Severus, Livia, Quintus), Germanic and Slavic ones (Wolfram, Yekaterina, Radovan), austere Biblical ones (Absalom, Hester, Obadiah) and a scattering of Hungarian, Italian and French forms for worlds with different Old Earth roots. Roughly a fifth of the entries carry the ranks a roster actually needs: Arbitrator for rank and file, Proctor for squad leaders, Judge for those who try cases, Marshal and Lord Marshal for precinct and sector command, Provost and Castellan for fortress administration.

Pick by role. A street-level Arbitrator suits a blunt name (Gideon Trask, Ilse Bracken); a Judge or Lord Marshal can carry something heavier and more Roman (Constantius Wrake, Augusta Vell). Avoid anything heroic; the best Arbites names sound like they were read off a charge sheet.