Fable Name Generator

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Create names in the style of the Fable games: earthy Albion villagers, earned hero titles, dandyish villains and cozy-gothic villages. Try Barnaby Figgins, Hobbe Basher, Nightshade Nell or Thornwick.

About Fable names

Fable is a series of action RPGs set in Albion, a storybook version of old England where heroes are celebrities, villagers comment on your haircut, and a well-aimed kick at a chicken can shape your reputation. The names follow the same recipe: homely English sounds with a wink, sitting beside something a little sinister. Towns are called Bowerstone and Oakvale, the marsh is Wraithmarsh, and a villain can be a dandy with a pistol.

This generator mixes ten kinds of name. There are full names for men and women of Albion such as Barnaby Figgins and Elsie Pennyroyal, earned titles like Hobbe Basher and Pie Thief, heroes with a title attached, rogues and villains such as Nightshade Nell, single-word Guild names like Bramble and Flint, and figures from the Old Kingdom. For your map there are villages, wild places, inns and shops, from Thornwick and Gibbet Fen to The Hobbe and Bucket.

In the first game you start out as Chicken Chaser and buy a grander title once you can afford one, so a title here is meant to be worn the same way: as the name the crowd shouts when you walk into town. The names are new inventions in the Fable style, not a roster of characters from the games.

How to choose Fable names

  • Pair a plain first name with a countryside surname. Albion names work best when one half is ordinary and the other half is a hedgerow, a bird or a pie.
  • Treat a title as something earned. Pick Hobbe Basher or Door Whisperer for what your hero has actually done in your story, then upgrade it later.
  • Let alignment show. A kindly hero suits Giles the Generous, while a horned one might answer to Promise Breaker.
  • Name places for their mood as well as their look. Duckling Green sounds safe, Hangman's Halt does not, and players will pick up the hint before anyone speaks.
  • For tabletop play, give every village one inn and one rogue from the list so each stop on the road has a hook.

Frequently asked questions

Is this for the Fable video games?

Yes. The names follow the style of the Fable RPG series and its setting of Albion, not fables in the Aesop sense. If you want storybook characters instead, the Fairy Tale Name Generator is a better fit.

Are these names from the games?

They are new names in the Fable style, not a roster of canon characters. A few borrow a famous in-game title, as in Wilf the Chicken Chaser, and place names such as Stonebower and Knotwood Glade deliberately echo Bowerstone and Knothole Glade. Some may still match a minor character by chance.

What makes a name sound like it belongs in Albion?

Albion names are English and earthy with a comic edge: a common first name, a surname from the farm or hedgerow, and sometimes a boastful title. Hettie Broadbean, Cedric Mudlark and Tobias the Tax Dodger all follow that pattern. Villains lean the other way, toward silk, titles and menace, as with Lord Ambrose Blackmere.

Can I use these for D&D or another RPG?

Yes. Nothing in the list depends on Fable's rules, so the villagers, inns and villages drop straight into any light-hearted fantasy campaign. The Hobbe and Bucket or The Kicked Chicken would suit a roadside inn in almost any setting, though you may want to swap hobbes and balverines for your own monsters.

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All 500 Fable 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: 18 names

  • Ada of the Arena
  • Ada Sorrelwood
  • Agnes Crabapple
  • Alaric Fenwright
  • Alchemist Ptolemy Snood
  • Aldwyth of the Spire
  • Ale Philosopher
  • Alfie Thistlewick
  • Anvil
  • Applewick
  • Apprentice No Longer
  • Archie Pennygaff
  • Archon Aurelian
  • Archon's Rest
  • Arena Darling
  • Arena Survivor
  • Ashbow
  • Ashen Hood

B: 32 names

  • Balverine Woods
  • Balverine's Bane
  • Bandit Botherer
  • Banshee Hollow
  • Barnaby Figgins
  • Barnaby the Brave Eventually
  • Baron Cornelius Sludge
  • Basil Hedgepenny
  • Beard Baron
  • Bedwyr Ashgrove
  • Belch Virtuoso
  • Bellringer's End
  • Bertram Oakapple
  • Bertram the Bearded
  • Beryl Hawthornden
  • Bess Cuckoopint
  • Bess the Hobbe Hammer
  • Betsy Trundle
  • Blacksmith's Apprentice
  • Blackthorn Manor
  • Blind Seer Orla
  • Bogbean Bottoms
  • Bowerwick
  • Bracken
  • Bram Coppergate
  • Bram of the Barrows
  • Bramble
  • Bramblestone
  • Branwen Stormont
  • Brightbow
  • Brightmarket
  • Brother Oswy of the Temple

C: 34 names

  • Cadoc Thornbury
  • Candlewick Row
  • Captain Hollis Blacktide
  • Carrot Cruncher
  • Castle Fairweather
  • Cedric Mudlark
  • Cedric the Twice Married
  • Champion of the Old Arena
  • Chapel of Forgotten Vows
  • Chest Rattler
  • Chicken Kicker
  • Chieftain Skullcap
  • Cider Hill
  • Cider Sage
  • Cindervale
  • Clara Moorhen
  • Clara the Crowd Favorite
  • Clarence Wormald
  • Col Hawksbeard
  • Coldanvil
  • Connie Bumblebrook
  • Coopers' Yard
  • Cordelia Ravenscar
  • Cowslip Common
  • Crack Shot
  • Crimson Cowl
  • Crooked-Hat Carver
  • Crossbow Saint
  • Crowd Pleaser
  • Crowmarket
  • Crumhorn's Curiosities
  • Cullis Rise
  • Cutpurse Kate
  • Cutthroat Coast

D: 20 names

  • Daisy Pinchbeck
  • Dame Rosalind Ironbough
  • Dance Floor Menace
  • Dapper Desmond Deadeye
  • Darkbriar Forest
  • Deacon Malprice
  • Deadman's Causeway
  • Demon Door Dell
  • Desmond Frogmore
  • Dickon Haybarrow
  • Dickon the Dog Walker
  • Dig Spot Devotee
  • Doctor Bloodworth
  • Dolly Rushlight
  • Door Whisperer
  • Dot Figgleton
  • Dot the Door Opener
  • Duckling Green
  • Dunstan Rook
  • Dusk Robe

E: 11 names

  • Edith Goosegrass
  • Edmund Crowfoot
  • Edmund the Evicted
  • Effie Stonecrop
  • Eirlys Wintermere
  • Eldergate
  • Elmvale
  • Elsie Pennyroyal
  • Elspeth Gloam
  • Emrys Hollowell
  • Ewan Marshlight

F: 12 names

  • Fairhand
  • Fergus Applegarth
  • Fernbow
  • Fiddler's Rest
  • Figgins' Fine Pies
  • Flame Fingers
  • Flint
  • Flintlock Flora
  • Flirt of the Fair
  • Flora the Flame Handed
  • Flora Winterbourne
  • Fogmouth

G: 33 names

  • Gale
  • Gallowmoor
  • Gallows Tree Crossing
  • Gargoyle Husher
  • Garrick Ironpenny
  • Gerald Hogsflesh
  • Gertie Plumtree
  • Gibbet Fen
  • Gibbet's Reach
  • Gilbert Tansy
  • Giles Piecrust
  • Giles the Generous
  • Gilly Meadowsweet
  • Gilly of the Guild
  • Gloam
  • Gnome Silencer
  • Godfrey Nettlebed
  • Godfrey the Gullible
  • Goose Wrangler
  • Goosefeather Glade
  • Goosegrass and Daughters
  • Gorsefinch
  • Gossamer
  • Graveside Green
  • Grey Gauntlet
  • Greycloak
  • Greywater Marsh
  • Grinning Tom
  • Guildmaster's Headache
  • Gull Rock Light
  • Gwen Harebell
  • Gwen the Gargoyle Shooter
  • Gwilym Oakhanger

H: 39 names

  • Hagstone Tor
  • Haircut Hero
  • Hammer Hauler
  • Hangman's Halt
  • Harold Stumpwick
  • Harold the Heroic Enough
  • Harrow
  • Harvest Home Downs
  • Hawkmoth
  • Hawkspur
  • Hawthorn Cross
  • Hazel Wrenfield
  • Heartbreaker of Albion
  • Heir of the Old Blood
  • Hen Botherer
  • Hero of the Hanging Oak
  • Heroes' Rest
  • Hester Coldharbour
  • Hettie Broadbean
  • Hettie the Hexed
  • High Warden Eadwulf
  • Hilda Oatcake
  • Hilda the Halo'd
  • Hob Nettlefoot
  • Hob of the Hollow
  • Hobbe Basher
  • Hobbe Warren
  • Hobbe's Hollow
  • Hobnail's Boots and Bindings
  • Hollow Man Harrower
  • Hollow Man's Heath
  • Hollowstep
  • Honeycomb Lane
  • Hopgarden
  • Horace Wetherby
  • Horn Grower
  • Howling Coombe
  • Humphrey Quillfeather
  • Hush

I: 8 names

  • Ignatius Pickle
  • Inkwell-on-the-Marsh
  • Iron Lark
  • Ironthrush
  • Isolde Brackenridge
  • Ivor Clodhopper
  • Ivy Tattersall
  • Ivy the Arrow Catcher

J: 9 names

  • Jack the Lesser
  • Jackdaw's End
  • Jasper Tinwhistle
  • Jem Larkspur
  • Jem o' Knives
  • Jethro Hobbesbane
  • Jethro the Jilted
  • Josie Cobnut
  • Judge Harrowgate

K: 11 names

  • Keeper Morwen
  • Kettlewick
  • King of the Highwaymen
  • Kingfisher Weir
  • Kit Sparrowgrass
  • Kitty Lambswool
  • Knell
  • Knight-Errant Percival Mudd
  • Knotwood Glade
  • Knuckles Norbert
  • Kraken Poker

L: 19 names

  • Lady Elowen of the Old Kingdom
  • Lady Morwenna Ashdown
  • Landlord of Everything
  • Lantern
  • Lantern Bog
  • Last of the Bloodline
  • Leopold Marrowby
  • Letty Tallowby
  • Lightfinger Lil
  • Lightning Hands
  • Little Trundle
  • Lord Ambrose Blackmere
  • Lord Percival Fairweather
  • Loremaster Cuthwin
  • Lottie Marchpane
  • Loud Meg of Mudwick
  • Lull
  • Lychgate
  • Lyle Underbough

M: 25 names

  • Mabel the Merciful
  • Mabel Thimblewick
  • Madam Plum's Potions
  • Madame Vesper
  • Maelis the Pale
  • Magister Corvin
  • Marrow
  • Marrowfield
  • Marshfire
  • Martha Dewberry
  • Maud Spindleberry
  • Mistveil Valley
  • Molly of the Marsh Road
  • Molly Skylark
  • Monty Butterwick
  • Moonfall Moor
  • Moonlit Hunter
  • Mortimer Grubb
  • Mossbury
  • Mother Gallows
  • Mournstead
  • Much Grumbling
  • Much Married
  • Mudwick
  • Murmur

N: 9 names

  • Ned Brambleworth
  • Nell Cinderby
  • Nell the Nimble Fingered
  • Nettleglade
  • Nightjar
  • Nightshade Nell
  • Nora Pennyfeather
  • Norbert Cowslip
  • Nymph's Pool

O: 16 names

  • Oakenford
  • Oakfist
  • Old Bower Bridge
  • Old Kingdom Road
  • Old Mossop's Blacksmithy
  • Old Ned the Undefeated
  • Old Scratch
  • Old Tom's Folly
  • Olive Puddock
  • One-Eyed Odell
  • Oracle of the Hollow Hill
  • Osbert the Overpaid
  • Osbert Tumbledown
  • Oswald Threadneedle
  • Oswin Runehand
  • Otterbrook Meadows

P: 21 names

  • Peggy Windlestraw
  • Pegleg Prudence
  • Percy the Horned
  • Percy Widdershins
  • Picklewick
  • Pie Glutton
  • Pie Thief
  • Piers Hollybush
  • Piers the Pickpocket
  • Pilgrim's Stair
  • Pinchbeck Pawnbrokers
  • Pint Puller
  • Pistol Percy
  • Poacher Pask
  • Polly Hopscotch
  • Prioress Hildreth
  • Professor Faustus Crane
  • Promise Breaker
  • Prudence Goodbody
  • Pub Game Pauper
  • Puddlecombe

Q: 8 names

  • Queen of Thieves' Alley
  • Queenie Halfpenny
  • Queenie the Quarrelsome
  • Quentin Oddfellow
  • Questmonger
  • Quickblade
  • Quill
  • Quillbrook

R: 21 names

  • Ratcatcher Royce
  • Ravensquay
  • Red-Handed Bess
  • Renown Chaser
  • Rent Collector
  • Rhoda Milkwort
  • Rhosyn Marchbank
  • Rime
  • Rimepeak Pass
  • Road Warden
  • Roland Ditchwater
  • Rookcliff
  • Rooster Booter
  • Rosie Quickthorn
  • Rosie the Reformed
  • Rowan Aldersmith
  • Rowena Blackbriar
  • Rufus Turnipseed
  • Runaway Groom
  • Runewright Leofric
  • Rustwater Quay

S: 36 names

  • Sage of the Sunken Library
  • Saint of the Square
  • Sal Fiddlewood
  • Sal the Silver Tongued
  • Saltgrave
  • Sawtooth Sam
  • Scarecrow Fields
  • Sebastian Lacewing
  • Seth Barrowby
  • Seth the Shovel
  • Shadowchapel Ruins
  • Sheepwash Ford
  • Shiver Sands
  • Sickle
  • Silas Chalkpit
  • Silas of the Spire
  • Silk-Glove Simeon
  • Silver Key Cavern
  • Silver Key Hoarder
  • Silver Spur
  • Sir Caradoc the Steadfast
  • Sir Gawen of the Grey Road
  • Sir Roderick Blight
  • Sister Spite
  • Smuggler Jory
  • Smugglers' Rest
  • Snowmelt Falls
  • Spade Enthusiast
  • Spindle Cross
  • Spindleberry Stylists
  • Squall
  • Squire Tuppence
  • Stargazer Emrys
  • Stonebower
  • Stonewren
  • Stormfinch

T: 91 names

  • Tabitha Wormwood
  • Tallow
  • Tanner's Row
  • Tattooed Terror
  • Tavern Champion
  • Tempest
  • Temple of Small Mercies
  • Terror of the Tavern
  • Tess Barleymow
  • Tess the Tattooed
  • The Balverine of Bracken Lane
  • The Balverine's Rest
  • The Bandit King of Gorsemoor
  • The Beard and Barber
  • The Beggar King
  • The Blind Cartographer
  • The Blue Mushroom
  • The Bowerman's Arms
  • The Broken Aqueduct
  • The Candle Snuffer
  • The Cider Orchards
  • The Crooked Sisters
  • The Demon Door Arms
  • The Drowned Chapel
  • The Drunken Guildmaster
  • The Gentleman Cutthroat
  • The Giant's Footstool
  • The Gift Shop of Dubious Charms
  • The Gilded Turnip
  • The Goose and Garter

T, continued

  • The Gravedigger's Arms
  • The Guttering Lantern
  • The Halo and Horns
  • The Hanging Oak
  • The Headless Hollow Man
  • The Hero of Thornwick
  • The Hero's Tankard
  • The Hobbe and Bucket
  • The Honest Bandit
  • The Honest Trader's Emporium
  • The Kicked Chicken
  • The Lantern Bearer
  • The Laughing Door
  • The Laughing Gargoyle
  • The Laughing Highwayman
  • The Masked Magistrate
  • The Millpond Menace
  • The Oak and Anvil
  • The Oathless Knight
  • The Orphan Monarch
  • The Pale Alderman
  • The Pie and Pitchfork
  • The Pilgrim Queen
  • The Quill and Cutlass
  • The Rusty Cleaver
  • The Scullery Queen
  • The Shadow Justice
  • The Shepherd Prince
  • The Shepherd's Regret
  • The Silver Key Inn

T, continued

  • The Sleeping Sentry
  • The Sunken Library
  • The Tattooed Pig
  • The Thrice-Crowned
  • The Troll's Elbow
  • The Weeping Arch
  • The Whispering Barrows
  • The Widow Marrow
  • Thimblewick's Tailoring
  • Thornwick
  • Thornwood Deep
  • Thunderhead Cliffs
  • Tilly Windfall
  • Tinder
  • Tinker's Drift
  • Toadstool Ring
  • Tobias Crumhorn
  • Tobias the Tax Dodger
  • Tofu Saint
  • Tollbell
  • Tom the Pie Eater
  • Trader's Friend
  • Treasure Sniffer
  • Tristan Wheatear
  • Troll Bridge Gorge
  • Troll Tumbler
  • Tumult
  • Tuppence Tattoos
  • Turnip Green
  • Twinhammer
  • Two-Knives Tobias

U: 5 names

  • Ulric Stonechat
  • Una Featherstone
  • Una the Unkillable
  • Underbough
  • Upper Thistle

V: 4 names

  • Verity Larkrise
  • Villagers' Darling
  • Violet Nightjar
  • Violet the Vengeful

W: 18 names

  • Walt the Wall Leaner
  • Warden Grimshaw
  • Weaver Eadric
  • Weavers' Wend
  • Weepingwood
  • Wendell Mugwort
  • Whetstone
  • Whistling Wat
  • Wilf the Chicken Chaser
  • Wilf Tunstall
  • Wilhelmina Snodgrass
  • Will Weaver
  • Willmaster Thessaly
  • Windmill Rise
  • Winnie Buttercross
  • Witchelm Wood
  • Wraithwater
  • Wreckers' Cove