Dune House Name Generator
Great House and Minor House names for the Landsraad
Generate Great House names that belong in Frank Herbert's Imperium: canon Houses like Atreides, Harkonnen, Corrino and Ecaz alongside hundreds of original Landsraad houses with the same Greek, Latin, Finnic, Japanese, Persian and Norse roots. Built for Dune fan fiction, Dune: Imperium and Dune: Adventures in the Imperium campaigns, and sci-fi worldbuilding.
About Dune house names
The Great Houses of Dune are feudal dynasties that rule whole planets under the Padishah Emperor, so their names have to sound old, inherited and slightly foreign. Frank Herbert built them from real Earth languages picked for their associations: Atreides comes from the Greek Atreus, giving the family a tragic, Homeric weight; Harkonnen is Finnic and harsh; Corrino, Vernius and Venport are Latinate, suggesting imperial Rome; Moritani is Japanese, Ordos Mongol, Fenring and Thorvald Germanic and Norse; Ecaz and Richese read as vaguely French. Minor houses in the Landsraad follow the same logic, from Ginaz and Hagal to Metulli, Taligari, Novebruns and Wydras.
A convincing original House name is usually two or three syllables, ends in a clean consonant or a Latin -us/-o/-is, and could plausibly be a surname somewhere on old Earth twenty thousand years ago. It is written as House plus the name, and a Great House is often tied to its fief: House Atreides of Caladan, House Harkonnen of Giedi Prime, House Corrino of Kaitain. This generator mixes canon houses from the novels, the Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson prequels and the games with original names in each of Herbert's source languages, so your invented house sits naturally beside the famous ones in fan fiction, a Dune: Imperium table or a tabletop campaign.
How to choose Dune house names
- Match the language root to the House's character: Greek or Latin for ancient prestige, Finnic or Slavic for blunt menace, Japanese or Persian for formal, ritual-bound courts.
- Attach a homeworld (House Tolvane of Chusuk) when you introduce the House; Herbert's fiefs like Caladan, Giedi Prime, Kaitain, Grumman, Ecaz and Richese are used interchangeably with the family name.
- Avoid names that rhyme with the big three. Anything ending in -eides, -onnen or -ino will read as a knockoff of Atreides, Harkonnen or Corrino.
- Give the House a single defining trade or sin, the way Richese has machines, Ix has technology and Harkonnen has cruelty; a name attached to a reputation is easier to remember than a list of titles.
- Keep Minor Houses shorter and plainer than Great Houses. Herbert's minor houses (Sor, Kalt, Plana, Maros) are often one or two syllables, which makes the Great Houses sound grander by contrast.
Frequently asked questions
Which Dune houses are actually canon?
From Frank Herbert's novels and appendices: Atreides, Harkonnen, Corrino, Ecaz, Richese, Moritani, Fenring, Ginaz, Hagal, Kenric, Metulli, Mutelli, Novebruns, Tantor, Taligari, Teranos, Varota, Wallach and others. Ordos comes from the Dune Encyclopedia and the strategy games, while Vernius, Thorvald, Butler, Venport, Bludd and Ginjo appear in the Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson prequels. Everything else in this list is original.
Why do Dune house names sound like they come from so many different languages?
Herbert imagined humanity's noble families as survivors of many Earth cultures, scattered across the Imperium over ten thousand years after the Butlerian Jihad. Greek, Latin, Finnish, Japanese, Mongol and Norse names coexist because the Landsraad is a melting pot of ancient lineages rather than one culture.
Should my Dune house name include the planet?
It is optional. Characters in the books usually say just the family name, but formal and written contexts use House Atreides of Caladan. Pick a homeworld from Herbert's planets (Poritrin, Chusuk, Gamont, Lankiveil, Bela Tegeuse) or invent one, and use the long form for introductions and the short form in dialogue.
Can I use these names for Dune: Imperium or a tabletop RPG?
Yes. Dune: Adventures in the Imperium expects players to create their own Minor House, and Dune: Imperium tables often give homebrew leaders a House. Choose a name whose language root matches the culture you want, add a homeworld and a trade, and it will fit alongside the canon houses.
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All 500 Dune house names
H: 500 names
- House Abayomi
- House Adelhart
- House Adewara
- House Adeyemo
- House Adlerberg
- House Aegeon
- House Aemilius
- House Aiakidos
- House Akiyoshi
- House al-Nasir
- House Albinus
- House Albuquerne
- House Alcantaro
- House Aldana
- House Aldobran
- House Alexin
- House Alkmaion
- House Almadrava
- House Alman
- House Altanbek
- House Amakusa
- House Anastasios
- House Anaxos
- House Androkles
- House Arashiyama
- House Archelaos
- House Ardenne
- House Ardito
- House Argolis
- House Arkadian
- House Arquent
- House Arslan
- House Asante
- House Asbjorn
- House Ashcombe
- House Ashkani
- House Atreides of Caladan
- House Atreides-Corrino
- House Aubriac
- House Aurelian
- House Aurvandil
- House Ayodele
- House Azadeh
- House Baatar
- House Bahadur
- House Bahrami
- House Baldrane
- House Bancroft of Lankiveil
- House Bankole
- House Bantree
- House Batukhan
- House Belgorad
- House Beltraine
- House Berezhnoy
- House Bhargav
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- House Bjarkan
- House Bludd
- House Boroghul
- House Bradwardine
- House Brandstetter
- House Brandvold
- House Brannoch
- House Brissonet
- House Butler of Salusa Secundus
- House Bystrov
- House Caecilian
- House Caldeirao
- House Calloway
- House Camillian
- House Canidar
- House Carthagon
- House Carvalhosa
- House Caskevin
- House Cassaro
- House Cassiodor
- House Castelmar
- House Castrovane
- House Cavalhac
- House Cesarino
- House Chambrun
- House Chandravar
- House Chauvelin
- House Chernagor
- House Chidubem
- House Chinua
- House Chuluun
- House Corbreuse
- House Corrigan
- House Corrino of Kaitain
- House Corvel
- House Corvinus
- House Dariush
- House Darvish
- House Dehghan
- House Delmarra
- House Demaratos
- House Devarajan
- House Dobrynin
- House Dorano
- House Dorieus
- House Drachenfeld
- House Drazhev
- House Drusselan
- House Drusus
- House Duvallier
- House Dyvetz
- House Eberhardt
- House Ecaz
- House Egilsgard
- House Ehrenfeld
- House Eisenhardt
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- House Ellingboe
- House Ellsworth
- House Erechtheus
- House Escandon
- House Escoffet
- House Esfandiar
- House Essaro
- House Estavel
- House Eurytos
- House Ezhar
- House Fabrizzo
- House Falkenau
- House Falkenrath
- House Farazad
- House Farrukhzad
- House Fenring
- House Ferravez
- House Fuyutsuki
- House Garrick
- House Ghassani
- House Ginaz
- House Ginjo
- House Giordanelli
- House Giraudel
- House Golshani
- House Gorodin
- House Gracchan
- House Greaves
- House Greifenhahn
- House Grozin
- House Gunnvald
- House Hadramar
- House Hagal
- House Hallgrim
- House Hallorann
- House Halme of Bela Tegeuse
- House Halvard
- House Hamdani
- House Haraldsen
- House Harkonnen of Giedi Prime
- House Harmonthep
- House Hartwig
- House Hayakiri
- House Hayashida
- House Hessling
- House Hinomori
- House Hiramatsu
- House Hjalmarsen
- House Hollister
- House Hoshizaki
- House Hrafnkel
- House Ikenaga
- House Illumar
- House Illyros
- House Ilmarinen
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- House Ilyenko
- House Imbrian
- House Indrasen
- House Iolkos
- House Ishigane
- House Ismaros
- House Itohara
- House Iversholt
- House Ixalon
- House Jahangir
- House Jelair
- House Jormund
- House Jorvinen
- House Kadmeion
- House Kagemura
- House Kagetsu
- House Kaijo
- House Kalevari
- House Kallias
- House Kalt
- House Kamau
- House Kaminsk
- House Kamran
- House Kanemitsu
- House Karasov
- House Kartikeyan
- House Kashani
- House Kavalieri
- House Kayhan
- House Kenric
- House Kerait
- House Kerrigan
- House Kesari
- House Kesh
- House Kessander
- House Kessendra
- House Kettilsen
- House Khasar
- House Khorlan
- House Kleonai
- House Kollinar
- House Korvanen
- House Koval
- House Kravenko
- House Kronwald
- House Kullervo
- House Kurobane
- House Kurosh
- House Kuroyama
- House Kusanagi
- House Kuusamo
- House Kuzuyu
- House Labdakos
- House Lavoisant
- House Lebedin
- House Lehtovaara
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- House Lempiala
- House Leontios
- House Lessard
- House Lichtenau
- House Lisle-Maren
- House Lockhart
- House Lorcasse
- House Lorenzin
- House Louhenkari
- House Lucanius
- House Lucretian
- House Lutsenko
- House Lykaon
- House Lysandros
- House Makena
- House Malenko
- House Mallory
- House Maraudin
- House Marcellan
- House Maros
- House Mashhadi
- House Mashriq
- House Mehraban
- House Melchior
- House Mendrago
- House Menelion
- House Merenkal
- House Meridas
- House Meropides
- House Metulli
- House Mikazuki
- House Mirovan
- House Mirzadeh
- House Mitsurugi
- House Mizuhara
- House Montclaire
- House Montecuri
- House Morande
- House Moravec
- House Moritani of Grumman
- House Morvane
- House Mutelli
- House Nagatoro
- House Naimar
- House Nalubega
- House Nandivarman
- House Nestorides
- House Ngozika
- House Nikandros
- House Njordvik
- House Nkemdirim
- House Nkwocha
- House Nogai
- House Nourzad
- House Novebruns
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- House Noverell
- House Numerian
- House Nurmikko
- House Oberan
- House Obiora
- House Odagiri
- House Oduya
- House Oinomaos
- House Oirat
- House Olorundare
- House Ophelion
- House Oraxes
- House Ordokhan
- House Ordos
- House Orestian
- House Orimura
- House Ormerod
- House Ormsgard
- House Oronthe
- House Orsinelli
- House Ortegaz
- House Orval
- House Oskarsen
- House Ostermann
- House Ostiano
- House Ostrakon
- House Ostrigan
- House Ostrovin
- House Ostrowicz
- House Oyarzun
- House Oyelaran
- House Oyemade
- House Pajarinen
- House Pakkanen
- House Pallantides
- House Parviz
- House Pelagon
- House Peleides
- House Pellerin
- House Pellicane
- House Penhallow
- House Petrishev
- House Petronax
- House Phaedron
- House Pherekles
- House Plana
- House Pohjola
- House Polydoros
- House Pontrevaux
- House Pratapa
- House Pyrrhan
- House Qaderi
- House Qarath
- House Quennell
- House Quessart
- House Quillon
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- House Quintanar
- House Quorrin
- House Radomir
- House Raghuvanshi
- House Rahbari
- House Ranceval
- House Raukola
- House Rautalahti
- House Ravenel
- House Ravnkel
- House Ravnsborg
- House Reinholt
- House Rennegaard
- House Richese
- House Rinaldesco
- House Rostami
- House Rostoff
- House Rutilio
- House Ruzhinsky
- House Ryuzaki
- House Saarikko
- House Sabellius
- House Sabzevar
- House Saint-Vire
- House Sakuragi
- House Salcedo
- House Sallustro
- House Salvian
- House Sarentis
- House Sareth
- House Sarhadi
- House Sarkan
- House Sartak
- House Sauvenay
- House Sawatari
- House Scarlatto
- House Septimian
- House Serrador
- House Severino
- House Shimotsuki
- House Shirazi
- House Shirogane
- House Sievanen
- House Sigurdsen
- House Sigvaldi
- House Skallagrim
- House Sohrabi
- House Sokolnik
- House Solano
- House Sor
- House Sorayama
- House Sorkhab
- House Stannard
- House Starovin
- House Steinholt
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- House Stormgaard
- House Strogov
- House Subotan
- House Suryavanshi
- House Svalbrand
- House Svirsky
- House Szarvas
- House Tabrizi
- House Tahmaspi
- House Takamori
- House Taligari
- House Tamarine
- House Tantor
- House Tapiovaara
- House Tarkhan
- House Tarnovsky
- House Tarquino
- House Tarrant
- House Tarumbe
- House Tavros
- House Tendai
- House Tengrin
- House Tenkawa
- House Teranos
- House Terrazas
- House Tesserine
- House Therion
- House Theron
- House Thessalon
- House Thessarion
- House Thorvald
- House Thrain
- House Thrasymede
- House Tiberio of Chusuk
- House Toghrul
- House Tolvane
- House Torremar
- House Torvik
- House Tovald
- House Tremaux
- House Tremayne
- House Tresillian
- House Trevisani
- House Tsarev
- House Tseida
- House Tsukinaga
- House Tsurugane
- House Tuonela
- House Turan of Gamont
- House Tyndaros
- House Tyrrhenus
- House Ubeck
- House Uchan
- House Udayan
- House Ulanbek
- House Ulvsson