Death Note Name Generator
Kira suspects, Wammy's House detectives and Shinigami names
Generate Death Note character names for every corner of the series: canon names from the manga, anime, films and Netflix adaptation, original Japanese full names for Kira suspects, task force officers and To-Oh students, single-word Wammy's House detective aliases with their real names, and harsh, odd-sounding Shinigami names in the style of Ryuk, Rem and Sidoh.
About Death Note names
Death Note names come in three distinct registers, and a convincing OC has to land in the right one. The human cast is almost entirely ordinary Japanese full names, written Western-order in the English release: Light Yagami, Misa Amane, Touta Matsuda, Kiyomi Takada. Ohba and Obata picked real, slightly formal surnames and then played with the given name, which is why Light is written with the kanji for moon and read Raito, and why Teru Mikami and Kyosuke Higuchi sound like people from a Tokyo phone book. A task force officer, a To-Oh student or a Yotsuba executive should sound just as plain.
Wammy's House detectives break that pattern on purpose. They go by a single word or letter and hide a Western real name underneath: L is L Lawliet, Near is Nate River, Mello is Mihael Keehl, Matt is Mail Jeevas, and the earlier generation were simply A and B. L layers further aliases on top (Ryuzaki, Hideki Ryuga, Eraldo Coil, Deneuve).
Shinigami names are a third thing entirely: short, guttural, and a little ridiculous. Ryuk, Rem, Sidoh, Gelus, Midora, Zellogi and Deridovely owe nothing to Japanese or English, and the long ones (Armonia Justin Beyondormason, Kinddara Guivelostain) read like a joke the Shinigami King is in on. The list opens with canon, then gives originals in each register.
How to choose Death Note names
- For a human OC, keep the full name believable: a common Japanese surname plus a given name that fits the character's age, written given-name first as in the English manga (Kenji Arakawa, Rina Kashiwagi). Save the unusual kanji readings for the one character who matters, the way Light's name is read Raito.
- For a Wammy's House successor, pick a one-word alias that is not a common English first name (Near, Mello, Matt) and pair it with a plain but slightly dated Western real name, written in full only when the reveal matters.
- Shinigami names should sound nothing like the human names: one to three syllables, hard consonants, odd double letters or a stray h (Sidoh, Zellogi, Calikarcha). Give a powerful or ancient one a long, absurd name and everyone else something blunt.
- Aliases matter in this series. Give an investigator or a Kira a second name they use on camera or online (Ryuzaki, Lind L. Tailor, Second Kira) and decide early which characters know the real one, since that is where the plot usually turns.
- If you are writing fan fiction set during the Yotsuba arc, the SPK hunt or the Wammy's House backstory, borrow the naming rules of that faction: Japanese executives, mixed American and European SPK agents, and English orphans with single-word codenames.
Frequently asked questions
What are the main character names in Death Note?
The core cast is Light Yagami (Kira), L Lawliet, Misa Amane, the Shinigami Ryuk and Rem, L's successors Near (Nate River) and Mello (Mihael Keehl), Watari (Quillsh Wammy), Light's father Soichiro Yagami, task force members Touta Matsuda, Shuichi Aizawa, Kanzo Mogi, Hideki Ide and Hirokazu Ukita, and later Teru Mikami, Kiyomi Takada, Naomi Misora and Kyosuke Higuchi. All of them open the list below for reference.
How do I make a Shinigami name that fits Death Note?
Keep it short and harsh, with no obvious meaning in any language: Ryuk, Rem, Sidoh, Gelus, Midora, Zellogi, Nu and Deridovely are the models. Doubled consonants, a final -k, -h or -th, and unusual letter pairs all help (Vaskuro, Thrax, Hattamuk, Zaqqut). Reserve long, overblown names like Armonia Justin Beyondormason for an elder or a Shinigami with unusual status.
What is the naming convention for Wammy's House detectives?
Each successor uses a single-word alias, usually a letter, a nickname or an odd English word (L, A, B, Near, Mello, Matt, Linda), while their real names are Western and rarely spoken aloud: L Lawliet, Nate River, Mihael Keehl, Mail Jeevas. For an original successor, choose an alias that is a real but uncommon word and pair it with a full real name that sounds like it belongs on an English birth certificate, as in the Quill (Anselm Crane) and Sable (Theodora Voss) entries.
Can I use these names for a Death Note OC, role-play or fan fiction?
Yes. The original Japanese names suit Kira suspects, NPA officers, students and Yotsuba staff; the Western names suit FBI, SPK and Wammy's House characters; and the Shinigami names suit a new notebook owner's companion. Pair a human name with an alias if the character hides their identity, since that is how most Death Note plots are built.
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All 500 Death Note names
A: 29 names
- A (Wammy's House)
- Ablivon
- Ackenbrow
- Ada Quint
- Aiber
- Aiko Sugisaki
- Akane Mizuhara
- Akihiko Sagara
- Akira Toyama
- Ambrose Tarrant
- Amelie Fontaine
- Ami Hasebe
- Anselm Pryce
- Anthony Rester
- Aoi Misaki
- Arayoshi Hatori
- Arma
- Armonia Justin Beyondormason
- Armonia Vex
- Ash (Corwin Pell)
- Asuka Hayami
- Atsushi Minagawa
- Augustin Lefèvre
- Aurelio Danvers
- Ayaka Serizawa
- Ayano Shibata
- Ayumi Kuroda
- Azmegor
- Azzamur
B: 12 names
- Backyard Bottomslash
- Bartholomew Nkemelu
- Believe Bridesmaid
- Bell (Edwin Marsh)
- Benedikt Rauch
- Bexx
- Beyond Birthday
- Bezzalom
- Bobbin Scath
- Brackenmaw
- Bram Holloway
- Brandon Okuda
C: 14 names
- Cal Whitford
- Calikarcha
- Calloway Grimmus
- Carkoth
- Cassius Vale
- Celeste Marchetti
- Chiaki Nomura
- Chie Murakami
- Chihiro Sakamoto
- Cinder (Mattie Aldous)
- Clara Winslow
- Clavicorn
- Coda (Ambrose Kettering)
- Corvin Ashe
D: 19 names
- Daichi Kurosaki
- Daigo Shirakawa
- Daisuke Matoba
- Daniel Okafor
- Daril Ghiroza
- Deacon Ryle
- Delia Hartwell
- Deneuve
- Deridovely
- Dorian Kessel
- Dorrowind
- Dosu
- Dranzeth
- Drathlune
- Dreadmoor Kessith
- Drozzle
- Drubbel
- Dumbrek
- Dweldrin
E: 14 names
- Eiichi Takahashi
- Eiji Kasahara
- Ekkoth
- Elias Thorncastle
- Elliot Rourke
- Elodie Sarrazin
- Ember (Leo Castellane)
- Emeric Dahl
- Emi Kurata
- Eraldo Coil
- Eri Tanabe
- Ethan Briggs
- Evan Kessler
- Ezekk
F: 9 names
- Felix Ostrander
- Fennegrul
- Ferro (Julius Mbeki)
- Ferrunt
- Fidget Nask
- Frederick Oates
- Freya Castellan
- Fumihiko Ogata
- Fuyumi Sakai
G: 17 names
- Gaulmor
- Gelus
- Ghiroza Danel
- Gholos
- Ghorbash
- Gideon Locke
- Ginzo Kaneboshi
- Glass (Percival Donne)
- Gobdurth
- Goro Iwasaki
- Gorrund
- Grace Colton
- Grant Lachlan
- Grawlik
- Grellnox
- Gribbel
- Gurdwell Ossimane
H: 31 names
- Halle Lidner
- Halo (Ezekiel Marr)
- Hanae Ohara
- Hanne Vestergaard
- Harlan Tesch
- Harrowmere
- Haruka Mizuno
- Haruki Kiyomizu
- Haruto Kisaragi
- Haruto Nakajo
- Hattamuk
- Hayato Sengoku
- Hideki Ide
- Hideki Ryuga
- Hideo Kamikawa
- Hikari Asami
- Hina Nakashima
- Hirokazu Ukita
- Hiroshi Onodera
- Hisao Onizuka
- Hitomi Wakaba
- Hitoshi Demegawa
- Hobbrand
- Hollis Greaves
- Hollowick
- Honoka Ishida
- Hozzugar
- Hugo Blanchard
- Hurrik
- Hush (Dominic Eales)
- Huxley Bane
I: 16 names
- Ibrenne
- Ichika Hozumi
- Ichiro Kasai
- Idris Fenwick
- Ignacio Reyes
- Ignatius Pell
- Ikuto Sonoda
- Ilsa Brandt
- Imogen Hale
- Imrekk
- Isamu Tokita
- Itaru Taguchi
- Itsuki Hanamura
- Ivory (Lilias Crewe)
- Ixxen
- Izumi Hosokawa
J: 11 names
- Jadwiga Null
- James Turner
- Jibbet
- Joel Brandt
- Jonas Felder
- Jorroth Pelch
- Julian Kraus
- Jun Mochizuki
- Jun Murakumo
- Juno (Yevgenia Volkov)
- Junpei Tanigaki
K: 42 names
- Kaito Mizushima
- Kanae Yoshimura
- Kanna Ishibashi
- Kanzo Mogi
- Kaori Umeda
- Kasumi Takeda
- Katsumi Obayashi
- Kazuhiro Yokota
- Kazuki Terashima
- Keiichi Hasegawa
- Keisuke Oyamada
- Keita Nagumo
- Kelmour
- Ken Morgan
- Kenji Arakawa
- Kenji Nabekura
- Kenny Doyle
- Kenta Yoshizawa
- Kenzo Moriwaki
- Kessuk
- Kestrel (Jonah Wilde)
- Kezrael
- Kiichiro Osoreda
- Kimiko Kujo
- Kinddara Guivelostain
- Kindrella Vosmarch
- Kira
- Kirika Amasawa
- Kite (Declan Hoyle)
- Kiyomi Takada
- Kohei Murata
- Koji Aoi
- Koskoth
- Kosuke Yanagida
- Kotone Takase
- Krael
- Kunio Tamura
- Kurou Otoharada
- Kuukro
- Kyoko Nishizawa
- Kyosuke Higuchi
- Kyouka Shinohara
L: 14 names
- L Lawliet
- Lark (Lottie Fairbanks)
- Laskareth
- Lena Mossberg
- Leonie Baptiste
- Light Turner
- Light Yagami
- Lind L. Tailor
- Linnet (Beatrix Wolde)
- Lozz
- Lucian Moreau
- Lumen (Orla Finch)
- Lurkhollow
- Lurrible
M: 42 names
- Madoka Aizawa
- Mail Jeevas
- Maki Nikaido
- Makoto Ebihara
- Marcel Duvall
- Marcus Aldridge
- Margaux Delacroix
- Mari Kikuchi
- Marlowe Vance
- Marrow (Hester Vane)
- Marrowgrim
- Mary Kenwood
- Masahiko Kida
- Masaki Kubo
- Masaru Hiraoka
- Masato Hinohara
- Matt
- Matthias Ulbrecht
- Mayu Hoshino
- Meddlewick
- Megumi Sawada
- Mei Kuroki
- Mello
- Merle (Silas Okonkwo)
- Mezzu
- Mia Sutton
- Midora
- Mihael Keehl
- Minami Tsuchiya
- Minoru Tanaka
- Mio Kitagawa
- Mirai Toudou
- Miriam Stroud
- Misa Amane
- Misaki Haruno
- Miyu Amane
- Mizuki Otani
- Momoka Seto
- Morbray
- Morrigael Thule
- Moth (Priya Sandor)
- Myrrhwick
N: 24 names
- Nadia Arslan
- Nana Shirasagi
- Naoki Kagawa
- Naomi Misora
- Naoya Sekiguchi
- Narkosh
- Nartheg
- Nate River
- Natsumi Oda
- Near
- Nekthis
- Nene Harada
- Nico Valente
- Nihl
- Nirruk
- Noa Kinoshita
- Noboru Kuroiwa
- Nobuyuki Sasamori
- Nozomi Uehara
- Nu
- Nullok
- Nuudo
- Nyx (Sunniva Lark)
- Nyzzek
O: 10 names
- Oblisk
- Oddrig
- Ogdoad Mire
- Oggrum
- Oksana Hrytsenko
- Oliver Penrose
- Ommed
- Orson Vallière
- Osamu Kitahara
- Ozrammon
P: 10 names
- Pax (Rafael Quintero)
- Pellmordi
- Petra Sandoval
- Phexis
- Pike (Wendell Ashcroft)
- Pip Marlow
- Plaguewren
- Plinth Mordo
- Plothe
- Pukkul
Q: 5 names
- Qarrunth
- Quagrim
- Quarter Queen
- Quill (Anselm Crane)
- Quillsh Wammy
R: 38 names
- Raszel
- Rattlebone
- Raye Penber
- Rei Kuzunoha
- Reiji Namikawa
- Reika Takada
- Rem
- Ren Kurokawa
- Ren Sakurada
- Rena Morishita
- Reon Sagisawa
- Rhea Lindqvist
- Rhuk
- Riko Tsukishima
- Riku Hattori
- Rikuto Iwamoto
- Rina Kashiwagi
- Rio Kagami
- Ritsuko Kamiyama
- Roger Ruvie
- Ronan Fairclough
- Rook (Caspian Dray)
- Rory Cavanagh
- Rosskin
- Ruddlevoss
- Rue Ryuzaki
- Rui Karasawa
- Rune (Margit Sørensen)
- Ruri Kawashima
- Ruslan Petrov
- Ryo Nakagami
- Ryo Saeki
- Ryoma Tadokoro
- Ryosuke Tsuda
- Ryota Hinode
- Ryu Nakahara
- Ryuk
- Ryuzaki
S: 50 names
- Sable (Theodora Voss)
- Sachiko Yagami
- Sae Minamoto
- Saki Takahara
- Sakura Aoi
- Sakura Hisakawa
- Saoirse Kenning
- Sarqueline Vath
- Satoshi Kamiya
- Saya Kagurazaka
- Sayaka Tomioka
- Sayu Yagami
- Sebastian Fairweather
- Second Kira
- Seiji Karasuma
- Shade (Tamsin Roake)
- Shavorath Vell
- Shigeru Hanabusa
- Shiho Fujimura
- Shingo Mido
- Shinji Tachibana
- Shiori Akino
- Shizuka Matsuoka
- Sho Nanase
- Shoichi Kaburagi
- Shota Ishizuka
- Shuddermane
- Shuichi Aizawa
- Shuji Nitta
- Shun Kaneshiro
- Sidoh
- Simon Brackett
- Skarmuth
- Skelgar
- Skreeg
- Skrim
- Slate (Bastian Holm)
- Sneggoth
- Snorrel
- Soichiro Yagami
- Sol (Solveig Aamot)
- Sophie Dalton
- Sora Amano
- Sota Kiryu
- Stephen Gevanni
- Suguru Shimura
- Sumire Hirota
- Susumu Kageyama
- Suzume Hirano
- Sythe
T: 39 names
- Tadashi Kuwabara
- Taizo Sakura
- Takahiro Sonobe
- Takashi Ninomiya
- Takeo Mizoguchi
- Takeshi Ooi
- Takumi Nishihara
- Takuo Shibuimaru
- Tally (Noor Haddad)
- Tarn (Nathaniel Crane)
- Tarquin Hollowgast
- Tarrak
- Tatsuya Nogami
- Tazzamuk
- Tchagoth
- Teru Mikami
- Tetsuya Okabe
- Thea Greer
- Thessaly Brack
- Thierry Morrello
- Thorne (Rufus Peverell)
- Thrax
- Tobias Wren
- Tomas Herrera
- Tombwick
- Tomoe Ichinose
- Tomomi Taguchi
- Tomoya Asagiri
- Toru Fujisawa
- Toshiro Hiraga
- Touta Matsuda
- Troy Lassiter
- Tsubaki Ando
- Tsukasa Miyashiro
- Tsukuru Mishima
- Tsuneo Ikehata
- Tsutomu Kamimura
- Tulvane
- Twillow
U: 4 names
- Ulgrimm
- Ulkor
- Ulvara
- Umbrecht
V: 10 names
- Vaskuro
- Veddergast
- Vesper (Isolde Marsh)
- Vhezlok
- Viktor Malenko
- Vizzer
- Vornagh
- Vorsse
- Vrellock
- Vyrrh
W: 8 names
- Wakana Yoshioka
- Watari
- Wedy
- Wei Liang
- Wick (Cormac Blythe)
- Wodrith
- Wren Ashby
- Wrenthal
X: 2 names
- X-Kira
- Xoddo
Y: 23 names
- Yamato Shiozaki
- Yayoi Kitamura
- Yethlis
- Ymmel
- Yoko Nishina
- Yoshiki Wakabayashi
- Yoshino Kurihara
- Yoshio Tanuma
- Yotsuba Kira
- Ythrecht
- Yui Morikawa
- Yuka Fujishiro
- Yuki Kanzaki
- Yuki Shien
- Yukito Amaha
- Yumi Noda
- Yuna Tsurugi
- Yuri
- Yusuke Fujinami
- Yuta Kamishiro
- Yuuto Amagai
- Yuzo Sugai
- Yvvren