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Blunt names and earned nicknames for Jungle Fighters

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Generate Catachan names for Warhammer 40,000: blunt Jungle Fighter names like Brock Tanner and Mags Tierney, earned nicknames such as Dane 'Ripjaw' Hollis, ranked troopers and officers, veteran bynames like Old Snakebite, and a few squads and regiments.

About Catachan names

Catachan is the best-known death world of Warhammer 40,000, a jungle where nearly everything that grows or crawls can kill, and the Jungle Fighters it sends to the Astra Militarum are named to match. The lore's famous Catachans set the pattern: Sly Marbo, Colonel 'Iron Hand' Straken and Gunnery Sergeant 'Stonetooth' Harker. The given name is one blunt syllable, the surname is one or two hard ones, and the name a trooper really answers to is the nickname the squad gave him, written in quotes between rank and surname.

This list follows that shape. A good share is plain personal names such as Brock Tanner, Mags Tierney and Boone Novak, with surnames drawn from many backgrounds rather than one. The rest adds what a roster needs: earned nicknames (Dane 'Ripjaw' Hollis), ranks from Trooper to Colonel, specialists such as medics, snipers and scouts, and lone bynames like Old Snakebite. The nicknames come from the jungle and the job: predators, knives, flamers, demolition charges, scars and missing fingers.

A smaller share covers units. Regiments are written the way the setting writes them, a number and a byname (Catachan IX 'Mire Stalkers'), and squads carry their leader's name, as in Kessler's Cutthroats. Everything here is written in the style for your own army and none of it is presented as canon.

How to choose Catachan names

Decide how the nickname was earned before you pick it. 'Nine Fingers', 'Toadkiller' and 'Short Fuse' each suggest a story, and one line of that story on the roster makes the model memorable.
Keep the spoken name to two or three syllables. Catachans shout to each other through undergrowth, so Brock, Tuck, Mags and 'Fang' work better at the table than anything long.
Spread the ranks the way a platoon would: plenty of Troopers, a Corporal or two, one Sergeant per squad and a single Lieutenant or Captain above them. Save Colonel for the model that leads the army.
For a regiment, pair a number with a byname taken from the death world: a predator, a plant, a weapon or a habit. Roman numerals and ordinals both appear in the list, so pick one form and keep it for the whole army.
Name the squad after its sergeant once the sergeant has a name. Kessler's Cutthroats or Hagan's Hellhounds tells an opponent who is in charge without a second glance at the roster.

Frequently asked questions

What do Catachan names sound like?

Short and hard. The given name is usually one syllable (Dane, Holt, Jess, Rane) and the surname one or two, with plenty of k, t, g and r sounds: Kessler, Stroud, Gault, Tierney. The style borrows from 1980s action films, which is why a Catachan roster reads like the cast of one.

How do Catachan nicknames work?

A nickname is earned in the field and written in quotes, either between the given name and surname (Hank 'Deadeye' Morrow) or after the rank (Gunnery Sergeant 'Rockjaw' Thurman). The setting's own examples are 'Iron Hand' Straken and 'Stonetooth' Harker. Some veterans in this list are known by the byname alone, such as Old Snakebite or The Quiet One.

How are Catachan regiments named?

By a number and an earned byname, as in the setting's Catachan II 'Green Vipers' and Catachan XVIII 'Swamp Rats'. This page has thirty more in the same form, such as Catachan IX 'Mire Stalkers' and Catachan 46th 'Knife Hands'. For a wider choice of regiment titles from other worlds, see the Imperial Guard regiment page.

Can I use these names outside the tabletop game?

Yes. They suit any Astra Militarum character from a jungle death world: a Kill Team operative, a veteran in a co-op shooter, a roleplaying character or a piece of fan fiction. The names are invented in the Catachan style, so check for yourself before publishing anything commercial.

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All 500 Catachan names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 3 names

Abe 'Jinx' Barlow
Abe Haas
Ash Lorne

B: 26 names

Barkskin
Bart 'Smiler' Cutter
Bart Lutz
Bascom's Bad Luck
Bayou Bess
Bex 'Bayonet' Niles
Bex Carrow
Big Mako
Big Timber
Blowpipe
Bo 'Greenhell' Yancey
Bo Mendoza
Boone 'Croc' Hadley
Boone Novak
Bram 'Hatchet' Corrigan
Bram Yarrow
Brand Colby
Brandt's Bushwhackers
Brenna Kruse
Brock 'Toadkiller' Marsh
Brock Tanner
Bryn Osgood
Bull Tavita
Burke 'Granite' Lachance
Burke Hagan
Burrell's Torchmen

C: 98 names

Cade 'Mudfoot' Ellery
Cade Garrick
Cal 'Whisper' Draven
Cal Ritter
Canopy Jack
Captain 'Hellcat' Durrant
Captain 'Redclaw' Maddern
Captain 'Stonewall' Jaeger
Captain 'Tigerfish' Havel
Captain 'Warhorse' Tiernan
Captain Bren Gallagher
Captain Curt Hartigan
Captain Dolan Ibsen
Captain Emil Kravitz
Captain Fenn Lazar
Captain Gord Maguire
Captain Hobb Oyelaran
Captain Ivo Pritchard
Captain Jago Quintero
Captain Oda Jansen
Captain Petra Novotny
Cass Whelan
Catachan 101st 'Long Knives'
Catachan 113th 'Firewalkers'
Catachan 126th 'Monsoon Brigade'
Catachan 139th 'Hell's Gardeners'
Catachan 22nd 'Canopy Runners'
Catachan 31st 'Fever Dogs'
Catachan 46th 'Knife Hands'
Catachan 52nd 'Marsh Hawks'
Catachan 5th 'Mud Devils'
Catachan 63rd 'Bog Wolves'

C, continued

Catachan 68th 'Stranglers'
Catachan 77th 'Leech Lords'
Catachan 81st 'Deadfall Company'
Catachan 90th 'Bush Hammers'
Catachan 95th 'Machete Boys'
Catachan IV 'Red Bandanas'
Catachan IX 'Mire Stalkers'
Catachan LI 'Venom Cats'
Catachan LV 'Quiet Death'
Catachan VI 'Green Reapers'
Catachan XI 'Rot Walkers'
Catachan XL 'Black Mambas'
Catachan XLII 'Spore Runners'
Catachan XLV 'Mangrove Kings'
Catachan XV 'Thorn Vipers'
Catachan XXIII 'Croc Skinners'
Catachan XXIX 'Burning Vines'
Catachan XXVI 'Toad Hunters'
Catachan XXXIII 'Night Fangs'
Catachan XXXVIII 'Thunder Lizards'
Chet 'Sledge' Kovalik
Chet Grubb
Clay 'Hardtack' Oduya
Clay Lunt
Colonel 'Bloodthorn' Corwin
Colonel 'Deathgrip' Stavros
Colonel 'Iron Root' Garrity
Colonel 'Old Mangrove' Haskell
Colonel 'The Anvil' Makoa
Colonel Kurt Rademaker
Colonel Lev Stannard
Colonel Mort Trevanion
Colonel Nolan Voight

C, continued

Colonel Orrin Wainwright
Colonel Pryce Yarborough
Colonel Roan Ashdown
Colonel Runa Ulstad
Colonel Siv Zachary
Colt 'Burner' Kaplan
Colt Gault
Cord 'Gator' Brisbane
Cord Oakes
Corporal 'Bullfrog' Toomey
Corporal 'Copperhead' Lusk
Corporal 'Dogtooth' Hanlon
Corporal 'Hardcase' Mirren
Corporal 'Short Fuse' Raske
Corporal 'Splinter' Wace
Corporal Axel Gundry
Corporal Ezra Hume
Corporal Gil Isley
Corporal Hugo Jessop
Corporal Ivan Kerr
Corporal Jonas Mabry
Corporal Jorie Latch
Corporal Karl Neff
Corporal Kira Quigg
Corporal Leif Oxley
Corporal Milo Purdy
Corporal Nico Rand
Corporal Omar Slate
Corra Pell
Croc-Wrestler
Crowe's Carrion Birds
Cy 'Treetop' Zimmer
Cy Ortiz

D: 20 names

Dag 'Ghost' Eklund
Dag Stahl
Dane 'Ripjaw' Hollis
Dane Kessler
Dara 'Shade' Kendrick
Dara Holm
Darcy Quade
Deadwood
Deathworld Dana
Decker's Demolishers
Dee Rustin
Deke 'Vinecutter' Rojas
Deke Kincaid
Devil's Shadow
Dex 'Deadfall' Ackroyd
Dex Salazar
Dirk 'Steelgut' Mondragon
Dirk Ivers
Duke 'Skeeter' Yates
Duke Vickers

E: 6 names

Earl 'Loudmouth' Fenwick
Earl Kozak
Eli 'Tripwire' Brody
Eli Malloy
Elsa Gantry
Erna Rusk

F: 10 names

Fang
Fay Mordaunt
Finn 'Thunder' Grady
Finn Dragan
Flint 'Mamba' Okonjo
Flint Raines
Ford 'Snare' Cassidy
Ford Brannigan
Foss's Burn Team
Freya Sorley

G: 21 names

Gage 'Mantrap' Sorensen
Gage Maddox
Garrick's Old Guard
Garth 'Shiv' Devlin
Garth Zoller
Gault's Gravediggers
Gerta Thackery
Green Death
Greenback
Greta Munro
Grif 'Punji' Dagostino
Grif Doyle
Gunn Adeyemi
Gunnery Sergeant 'Big Iron' Castell
Gunnery Sergeant 'Greyback' Orsini
Gunnery Sergeant 'Longshot' Madigan
Gunnery Sergeant 'Rockjaw' Thurman
Gunnery Sergeant 'Thunderfist' Voll
Gus 'Bigfoot' Hauser
Gus Volkov
Gwen Tarrant

H: 15 names

Hagan's Hellhounds
Hal 'Tiny' Imrie
Hal Petrak
Hank 'Deadeye' Morrow
Hank Burrell
Harlow's Headhunters
Hendry's Hatchets
Hesper Underhill
Hild Norgard
Holt 'Devilclaw' Renko
Holt Brandt
Hoyt 'Anvil' Jagger
Hoyt Foss
Huck 'Frag' Eastman
Huck MacRae

I: 5 names

Ida Skerry
Ike 'Bear' Jorgen
Ike Baran
Inga Varley
Ironbark

J: 14 names

Jace 'Lockjaw' Hendricks
Jace Dunnock
Jade Pallas
Jarrow's Jungle Rats
Jed 'Boomer' Trask
Jed Decker
Jess 'Krak' Haverford
Jess Stryker
Jo Haldane
Jock 'Mule' Keogh
Jock Zelenko
Jonna Kreel
Judd 'Stumpy' Pascoe
Judd Mott

K: 18 names

Kane 'Lefty' Quarles
Kane Nagle
Kat 'Wasp' Jarvis
Kat Dravik
Kay Roark
Kel 'Rhino' Lombard
Kel Halvorsen
Kessler's Cutthroats
Kid Thornback
Kincaid's Killjoys
Kip 'Satchel' Fogarty
Kip Docherty
Kirk 'Viper' Mallory
Kirk Pruitt
Kit 'Tick' Sexton
Kit Marsden
Knox 'Brick' Iverson
Knox Eads

L: 29 names

Lars 'Machete' Engstrom
Lars Whitlock
Lena 'Canopy' Tolan
Lena Thrace
Lieutenant 'Blackwater' Sorrel
Lieutenant 'Cold Steel' Varden
Lieutenant 'Kestrel' Lindgren
Lieutenant 'Nightjar' Okoye
Lieutenant 'Sidewinder' Braddan
Lieutenant Lotte Wendt
Lieutenant Maud Carver
Lieutenant Nadia Frost
Lieutenant Paco Thibault
Lieutenant Rolf Unger
Lieutenant Sven Valdez
Lieutenant Tor Yost
Lieutenant Udo Zuber
Lieutenant Vito Arkwright
Lieutenant Wolf Bledsoe
Lieutenant Yan Dressler
Lieutenant Zed Everard
Little Devil
Lockhart's Long Knives
Lon 'Tusk' Mackey
Lon Lindqvist
Longblade Lorca
Lux Brenner
Lyle 'One-Eye' Rasmus
Lyle Orr

M: 37 names

Ma Hellfire
Mace 'Python' Reinholt
Mace Sutter
Mad Dog Macklin
Maddox's Dozen
Mags 'Hammer' Lowry
Mags Tierney
Major 'Blacktooth' Sevrin
Major 'Grinder' Polk
Major 'Hardwood' Lennox
Major Seth Blackwood
Major Tilde Daventry
Major Tobe Coulter
Major Urban Eckhart
Major Ursa Hagen
Major Vern Fielding
Major Wyatt Garrow
Mara Stoll
Marsh King
Marta Lasko
Max 'Boar' Nolan
Max Thorsen
Medic 'Bonesetter' Whitby
Medic 'Leeches' Faraday
Medic Alby Ibarra
Medic Bern Kowal
Medic Coby Lund
Medic Dessa Mayhew
Medic Enzo Nettle
Medic Vesna Jolley
Mercer's Long Patrol
Mitch 'Half-Ear' Sturm
Mitch Rudd
Moe 'Fuse' Gallo
Moe Flanagan
Mother Mamba
Mott's Mudlarks

N: 12 names

Nash 'Scorp' Lindell
Nash Mercer
Nate 'Nine Fingers' Talbot
Nate Sykes
Ned 'Razorback' Ostrander
Ned Bjork
Nell 'Pitfall' Radek
Nell Bracken
Nightcrawler Nan
Nils Quinlan
Nix Calder
Novak's Nightcrawlers

O: 9 names

Oakes's Ironwoods
Ol' Reliable
Old Flamethroat
Old Nine Lives
Old Snakebite
Old Toadskin
Otis 'Jackal' Penrose
Otis Dahl
Oz Tane

P: 5 names

Papa Powderkeg
Pete 'Hyena' Quist
Pete Strand
Petra Wolfe
Pruitt's Pit Vipers

Q: 2 names

Quint 'Patch' Urquhart
Quint Tull

R: 21 names

Rafe 'Gristle' Farrow
Rafe Bascom
Raines's Lost Squad
Rane 'Longlas' Ingram
Rane Corliss
Ray 'Panther' Ruiz
Ray Marconi
Red Bandana Roe
Reese Tatum
Reva Drummond
Rex 'Hornet' Sandoval
Rex Tolliver
Rhea 'Rootwalker' Ursel
Rhea Bollard
Rhett 'Longknife' Aldous
Rhett Stroud
Rip Okoro
Rotgut
Rourke Dolan
Roz 'Leatherneck' Oakley
Roz Kovac

S: 54 names

Sable Finch
Sal Venn
Sawgrass Sal
Scout 'Featherfoot' Naylor
Scout 'Mistwalker' Rooke
Scout Lonn Upshaw
Scout Mika Vetch
Scout Nev Wyeth
Scout Orla Yeager
Scout Pike Zorn
Scout Rudd Alder
Scout Sanna Birch
Sergeant 'Bonesaw' Halloway
Sergeant 'Flintlock' Arne
Sergeant 'Ironjaw' Kellan
Sergeant 'Mudskipper' Tovey
Sergeant 'Old Leather' Brandis
Sergeant Anja Jurek
Sergeant Brax Colter
Sergeant Britt Orlov
Sergeant Brom Nesbit
Sergeant Crag Dunmoor
Sergeant Dack Pardoe
Sergeant Gar Eastlake
Sergeant Jorn Fairbairn
Sergeant Kord Galvin
Sergeant Marek Hobbs

S, continued

Sergeant Odell Inman
Sergeant Shaw Kettler
Sergeant Torv Langstrom
Sergeant Yuri Maslak
Silent Tam
Skip Kahale
Smoke
Snaggletooth
Sniper 'Dead Calm' Ibsen
Sniper 'One Shot' Kessel
Sniper Fritz Ogden
Sniper Gia Prowse
Sniper Hale Quince
Sniper Imre Rask
Sniper Jorah Sands
Sniper Kaia Thorpe
Sol 'Jaguar' Shand
Sol Rosso
Stan 'Stitch' Vandal
Stan Wragg
Stone Hargrave
Stonefist Sid
Stranglevine
Stroud's Stranglers
Sutter's Scorpions
Swamp Granny
Sykes's Snakehandlers

T: 58 names

Tam Greer
Tate 'Rawhide' Nyberg
Tate Jarrow
Tess 'Tarantula' Mundy
Tess Ragnar
Tex 'Splint' Wexler
Tex Krauss
Thane Okafor
The Bush Doctor
The Grinning Trooper
The Last Bandana
The Leaf That Bites
The Mangrove
The Mudlark
The Quiet One
The Walking Mountain
Thornhide
Three-Scar Tolly
Tolliver's Toadstickers
Tom 'Buzzard' Tully
Tom Vitale
Tory 'Brainleaf' Vasko
Tory Maddock
Trace Holloway
Tracker Arlo Jepson
Tracker Bess Kagan
Tracker Cray Lomax
Tracker Zeb Illsley
Trooper 'Chopper' Baines

T, continued

Trooper 'Firebug' Danziger
Trooper 'Greenhorn' Simms
Trooper 'Leadfoot' Kovacs
Trooper 'Mouse' Engel
Trooper 'Slowhand' Petrie
Trooper 'Sticks' Mulroney
Trooper 'Twitch' Ballard
Trooper Cora Ulmer
Trooper Edda Boggs
Trooper Fitch Quarry
Trooper Gannon Redd
Trooper Hanne Fisk
Trooper Harl Stubbs
Trooper Jarl Tibbett
Trooper Lund Vance
Trooper Murdo Wicks
Trooper Norv Yoder
Trooper Pax Zeller
Trooper Rigg Amsel
Trooper Stig Cobb
Trooper Trey Dobbs
Trooper Ward Emery
Tuck 'Spiker' Bellamy
Tuck Harlow
Tug Nakoa
Tull's Thornbacks
Two-Knives
Ty 'Knuckles' Gorse
Ty Crowe

U: 4 names

Ulf 'Vulture' Ulrich
Ulf Ferro
Una Hask
Uncle Gangrene

V: 18 names

Val Ironside
Van 'Swampfoot' Varga
Van Cruz
Vance Pickett
Vera 'Quiet' Paxton
Vera Stang
Veteran 'Grandad' Holbrook
Veteran 'Last Man' Tolland
Veteran Tobin Clegg
Veteran Ulla Dorsey
Veteran Vaughn Esker
Veteran Wim Furlong
Veteran Xan Gorse
Veteran Yara Hext
Vic 'Sawbones' Yardley
Vic Steiner
Vickers's Vultures
Vinesnapper

W: 9 names

Wade 'Creeper' Stokes
Wade Hendry
Walt 'Preacher' Zabel
Walt Vogel
Wes 'Sinkhole' Wolcott
Wes Vega
Whitlock's Night Shift
Wren Castor
Wyn Jessup

Y: 1 name

Yarrow's Yellowjackets

Z: 5 names

Zane 'Lucky' Abbot
Zane Richter
Zara Dunn
Zeke 'Leech' Warrick
Zeke Lockhart