Female Ghost Name Generator

Names for grey ladies, weeping women and restless brides

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Generate female ghost names in the style of real haunting legends: Grey Ladies and Women in White, period-accurate names for the dead (Mercy Hollins, Lavinia Thorncroft), folklore spirits from La Llorona to Okiku, and soft mood names like Lenore and Vesper.

About female ghost names

Female ghosts dominate haunting folklore, and their names follow a few clear conventions. The oldest is the descriptive title: the Grey Lady, the Woman in White, the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, the Blue Nun. Witnesses name what they saw, not who she was, so the color of a dress or a role (nun, bride, governess, nurse) becomes the name. Nearly every old castle in Britain has its own Green or White Lady, and the same instinct produced La Llorona, the Bean Nighe and Japan's Kuchisake-onna.

The second convention is a human name anchored to an era and a place. Resurrection Mary, Zona Heaster Shue and Kate Morgan are remembered because a name plus a location turns a sighting into a legend. For an invented ghost, match the name to the year she died: Mercy, Prudence or Hepzibah for a colonial farmhouse, Lavinia or Adelaide for a Victorian parlour, Ruby or Josie for a 1920s hotel. A modern name on a 1700s ghost breaks the spell immediately.

The third style is softer and works for friendly ghosts, mascots and stylized fiction: single mood names like Lenore, Vesper, Wisteria or Requiem, or a diminutive such as Little Emily or Wee Mab for a child spirit. This generator mixes all three so you can pick the register your story needs.

How to choose female ghost names

  • Decide how she died before you name her. A drowned girl, a jilted bride and a poisoned countess each suggest a different title: the Girl in the Well, the Phantom Bride, the Lady of the Tower.
  • Use a descriptive title (the Lady in Grey) while her identity is a mystery, then reveal the human name (Isobel Carrick) as the payoff of the investigation.
  • Match the given name to the century: Temperance and Keziah for the 1600s, Harriet and Georgiana for the 1800s, Della Mae and Ruby for the early 1900s.
  • Borrow from regional folklore for variety: yurei names like Okiku and Oiwa, the Pontianak and Churel of South and Southeast Asia, the Slavic Rusalka, the Celtic Banshee.
  • Keep child ghosts short and gentle (Little Grace, Poor Nell); keep vengeful ones formal or titled (Madame LaLaurie, the Red Lady of Leap).

Frequently asked questions

What are the most famous female ghost names?

La Llorona, Bloody Mary, the Bell Witch, Resurrection Mary, the Grey Lady, the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, Anne Boleyn, the Greenbrier Ghost (Zona Heaster Shue) and the Japanese ghosts Okiku, Oiwa and Sadako are the best known. In fiction, Moaning Myrtle, Carmilla, Rebecca de Winter and Samara are frequently cited.

Why are so many female ghosts called the White Lady or the Grey Lady?

Because sightings are usually described by clothing rather than identity, and pale dresses, shrouds and mourning gowns were what women were seen or buried in. The title also hints at a story, a bride, a nun or a widow, without committing to a name, which is why the pattern appears in nearly every country.

What makes a female ghost name sound scary rather than sad?

Scary names tend to be specific and physical: Kuchisake-onna (the slit-mouthed woman), Bloody Mary, the Girl with No Face, Black Annis. Sad names emphasise waiting and loss: the Weeping Woman, the Jilted Bride, the Lady Who Waits. Choose based on whether your ghost is a threat or a tragedy.

Can I use these names for a story, game or Halloween character?

Yes. Folklore ghosts, historical legends and the invented names here are free to use. Characters owned by films and books (Samara, Kayako, Moaning Myrtle) are trademarked and are included only as reference for the style.

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All 500 female ghost 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: 26 names

  • Abbess Hildegund
  • Abigail of the Lighthouse
  • Abigail Whitmore
  • Adelaide Fenton
  • Adeline Vesey
  • Agnes Thirlwall
  • Alice Flagg
  • Alice of the Hermitage
  • Amelie Sauvage
  • Ana Lucía Herrera
  • Anastasia Morozova
  • Annabel Lee
  • Anne Boleyn
  • Annie of Rose Hall
  • Annie Palmer
  • Annika Sjoberg
  • Antoinette Lefebvre
  • Araminta Sefton
  • Arang
  • Arang of Miryang
  • Arbella Stuart
  • Ashlyn Grey
  • Astrid Vinter
  • Augusta Pemberly
  • Aunt Hester
  • Aunt Prudence

B: 14 names

  • Baby Grace
  • Bathsheba Thorne
  • Bayou Lisette
  • Beatrice Cenci
  • Beatrice Halloway
  • Belladonna
  • Belladonna Lake
  • Belle Harrow
  • Belle of the Bayou
  • Bertha Mason
  • Bianca Morelli
  • Birdie Ashgrove
  • Bloody Mary
  • Bridget Ruane of the Shore

C: 23 names

  • Caillich of the Crag
  • Camille Desrosiers
  • Carmen Valdés
  • Carmilla
  • Catherine Earnshaw
  • Catherine Howard
  • Cathy at the Window
  • Celestine Arnaud
  • Celestine Beaumont
  • Charity Fenwick
  • Charlotte Winterbourne
  • Chloe of the Myrtles
  • Clarissa Dunmore
  • Clementine Fell
  • Colette Beauregard
  • Comfort Pettibone
  • Constance Marlow
  • Consuelo Ortega
  • Cora Lee Hatcher
  • Cordelia Vane
  • Cordie Mayfield
  • Cressida Moon
  • Cressida Vale

D: 9 names

  • Deliverance Cole
  • Della Mae Prescott
  • Delphine of Royal Street
  • Delphine Rousseau
  • Dinah Pettigrew
  • Dolores Escobar
  • Dorcas Lillywhite
  • Dottie Mercer
  • Drusilla Hartwell

E: 21 names

  • Echo Harrowgate
  • Eleanor Eckert
  • Eliza Pemberton
  • Eliza Tillbury
  • Elizabeth Crowe
  • Elsa Lindqvist
  • Elzbieta Kowal
  • Ember Vance
  • Emily Morgan
  • Emily of the Schoolhouse
  • Emmeline Cray
  • Esperanza Reyes
  • Estelle Fontaine
  • Eszter Halasz
  • Etta Mae Boyd
  • Eudora Pike
  • Eula Varner
  • Euphemia Crale
  • Evalina Broussard
  • Evangeline Moss
  • Evangeline Sorrow

F: 5 names

  • Flora Tidwell
  • Florentine Dubois
  • Francesca da Rimini
  • Freya Halvorsen
  • Frost Ellery

G: 10 names

  • Genevieve Marchand
  • Georgiana Welby
  • Goodwife Ashby
  • Goodwife Thorne
  • Goody Bishop
  • Goody Proctor
  • Granny Fairweather
  • Granny Pike
  • Granny Whitlock
  • Greta Hollander

H: 13 names

  • Hanako of the Third Stall
  • Hanako-san
  • Hannah Sowerby
  • Harriet Dunstable
  • Hecate's Handmaid
  • Henrietta Mallory
  • Hepzibah Crane
  • Hollow Anne
  • Hollow Jane
  • Hone-onna
  • Hong-ryeon
  • Honora Quill
  • Hushabye

I: 10 names

  • Ida Mae Hollister
  • Imogen Blackwood
  • Inés de Castro
  • Ingrid Falk
  • Irina Belova
  • Isabella Marchbanks
  • Isadora Wren
  • Isobel Carrick
  • Isobel Shaw
  • Ivy Whitlock

J: 7 names

  • Jane Seymour
  • Jang-hwa
  • Jerusha Bellamy
  • Josephine Lark
  • Josie Whitcomb
  • Julie of the Rooftop
  • Juliet Ashworth

K: 9 names

  • Kamala of the Ghats
  • Kashima Reiko
  • Katarina Volkova
  • Kate Batts
  • Kate Morgan
  • Kayako
  • Keziah Mortlake
  • Kiyohime
  • Kuchisake-onna

L: 39 names

  • La Llorona
  • Lady Alice of Hever
  • Lady Dorothy Southworth
  • Lady Isabella of Ballygally
  • Lady Jane Grey
  • Lady Janet Douglas
  • Lady Louisa Carteret
  • Lady Mabel of the Moat
  • Lady Rokujo
  • Lamenta
  • Lamia
  • Lavinia Fisher
  • Lavinia Greaves
  • Lavinia Thorncroft
  • Lenora
  • Lenore
  • Lenore Ashgrove
  • Lenore of the Latch
  • Liesel Brandt
  • Ligeia
  • Lilias Drummond
  • Lilith
  • Lilith of the Owl Hours
  • Lisette of the Levee
  • Lisette the Drowned
  • Little Annie
  • Little Emily
  • Little Grace
  • Little Lottie
  • Little Mab
  • Little Maisie
  • Lorena Bluefield
  • Lucrezia Borgia
  • Lucy Westenra
  • Ludmila Novak
  • Lula Belle Tanner
  • Luna Castellane
  • Luz Marina Castillo
  • Lydia Ravenscroft

M: 32 names

  • Madame Beauvais
  • Madame Delphine
  • Madame Ghislaine
  • Madame LaLaurie
  • Madame Marie
  • Mae Nak
  • Mae Nak Phra Khanong
  • Magdalena Wojcik
  • Mamie Lou Greer
  • Margarethe Voss
  • Marguerite Duval
  • Mari Lwyd's Bride
  • Marie Laveau's Shadow
  • Marie of the Cathedral
  • Marisol of the Old Chapel
  • Mary Surratt
  • Mary Wallace
  • Maud of the Mill Race
  • Maudie Sparks
  • Mehitable Ross
  • Mercy Hollins
  • Milagros Santos
  • Miranda Sallow
  • Mircalla Karnstein
  • Miss Jessel
  • Mistress Harrowgate
  • Mistress Pennywhistle
  • Morella
  • Mother Shipton
  • Mother Superior Alphonsine
  • Mourna
  • Mourning Dove

N: 11 names

  • Nang Takian
  • Nang Tani
  • Natalia Sokolova
  • Nellie Cropsey
  • Nettie Blaylock
  • Nie Xiaoqian
  • Nightshade
  • Nightshade Pemberton
  • Nocturne
  • Nure-onna
  • Nyx Bellweather

O: 17 names

  • Obedience Tarleton
  • Ocean-Born Mary
  • Odette Valcourt
  • Oiwa
  • Oiwa of Yotsuya
  • Okiku
  • Okiku of the Nine Plates
  • Old Martha Crane
  • Old Meg Halloran
  • Old Mother Haggard
  • Old Mother Weir
  • Old Nell of the Marsh
  • Old Sally of the Sluice
  • Ophelia Drowne
  • Ophelia Marsh
  • Otsuyu
  • Ottilie Marsh

P: 12 names

  • Patience Ashcroft
  • Pearl Bryan
  • Peggy of the Tollhouse
  • Perdita Crane
  • Persephone Ashe
  • Persephone Grey
  • Philippa Nightingale
  • Polly Whitlow
  • Poor Clem
  • Poor Nell
  • Poor Polly
  • Prudence Wakefield

Q: 1 name

  • Quiet Grace

R: 15 names

  • Rachel Hargreave
  • Rebecca de Winter
  • Rebecca Lorne
  • Rebecca of Manderley
  • Remedios Varela
  • Remember Fairchild
  • Requiem
  • Requiem Rose
  • Resurrection Mary
  • Rosalia Ferrante
  • Rosalind Fairlie
  • Rosaline of the Rooftop
  • Rosario Ibáñez
  • Rose of the Rafters
  • Ruby Castellane

S: 23 names

  • Sadako
  • Sadie Thornbury
  • Sarah Hollowell
  • Sarah Winchester
  • Savitri the Waiting
  • Scratching Fanny
  • Selene Ashwood
  • Seraphina Locke
  • Shadow Nell
  • Sigrid Nordhagen
  • Silence Goodridge
  • Silent Sadie
  • Silent Sarah
  • Sister Agnes
  • Sister Benedicta
  • Sister Cecilia of the Well
  • Sister Magdalene
  • Sister Ursula
  • Solange Mercier
  • Soledad Aguirre
  • Sorrel Hallow
  • Sunako
  • Susannah Dryden

T: 175 names

  • Tabitha Grimshaw
  • Teke Teke
  • Temperance Bright
  • Thankful Sayer
  • The Abbess of Thornwick
  • The Actress in the Green Room
  • The Ballerina in the Wings
  • The Banshee
  • The Banshee of the O'Neills
  • The Baobhan Sith
  • The Bathtub Bride
  • The Bean Nighe
  • The Beautiful Stranger
  • The Bell Witch
  • The Bloofer Lady
  • The Blue Lady
  • The Blue Nun
  • The Bride in the Attic
  • The Bride of Blackwater
  • The Bride of Harrow Fen
  • The Bride of Sorrel Weed
  • The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
  • The Caoineag
  • The Chambermaid of Room 217
  • The Churail of the Peepal
  • The Churel
  • The Countess of Candlelight
  • The Crying Girl
  • The Dancer of the Palais
  • The Dayan
  • The Diva of the Empty Theatre
  • The Drowned Bride
  • The Drowned Girl of Ash Pond
  • The Duchess of the Dark Stair
  • The Elevator Girl

T, continued

  • The Faceless Nun
  • The First Wife
  • The Flapper on the Fire Escape
  • The Ghost at the Casement
  • The Girl in the Blue Dress
  • The Girl in the Cloche Hat
  • The Girl in the Gallery
  • The Girl in the Well
  • The Girl in the Well House
  • The Girl in the Yellow Dress
  • The Girl of Pawleys Island
  • The Girl on the Stairs
  • The Girl Who Waits
  • The Girl with No Face
  • The Glaistig
  • The Governess
  • The Green Lady
  • The Green Lady of Crathes
  • The Green Lady of Fyvie
  • The Greenbrier Ghost
  • The Grey Lady
  • The Grey Lady of Dudley
  • The Grey Lady of Evansville
  • The Grey Lady of Glamis
  • The Grey Lady of Hampton Court
  • The Grey Lady of Longleat
  • The Grey Lady of Willard Library
  • The Grey Nun
  • The Gwisin in White
  • The Gwrach y Rhibyn
  • The Headless Countess
  • The Headless Nun
  • The Hitchhiking Girl
  • The Hotel Maid
  • The Humming Woman

T, continued

  • The Jazz Age Widow
  • The Jilted Bride
  • The Knitting Ghost
  • The Kuntilanak
  • The Lady in Black
  • The Lady in Grey
  • The Lady in Lavender
  • The Lady in Red of the Hollywood Hotel
  • The Lady in Room 428
  • The Lady in the Dove-Grey Veil
  • The Lady in the Mirror
  • The Lady of Ballygally
  • The Lady of Bourbon Street
  • The Lady of Glamis
  • The Lady of Leap Castle
  • The Lady of Lough Gur
  • The Lady of Manderley
  • The Lady of Myrtles
  • The Lady of the Grand Staircase
  • The Lady of the Honeymoon Suite
  • The Lady of the Lake
  • The Lady of the Lantern
  • The Lady of the Lighthouse Stair
  • The Lady of the Loop
  • The Lady of the Lyceum
  • The Lady of the Mill
  • The Lady of the Sea Islands
  • The Lady of the Speakeasy
  • The Lady of the Stairs
  • The Lady of the Switchboard
  • The Lady of the Tower
  • The Lady of the Well
  • The Lady of Thornfield
  • The Lady on the Landing
  • The Lady with the Lamp

T, continued

  • The Langsuir
  • The Lantern Girl
  • The Little Girl in White
  • The Madwoman in the Attic
  • The Matron of Ward Nine
  • The Mavka
  • The Mermaid of Zennor
  • The Milkmaid of the Hollow
  • The Mistress of the Manor
  • The Morrígan's Daughter
  • The Night Nurse
  • The Nurse in the Grey Cape
  • The Nursemaid
  • The Painted Skin Woman
  • The Phantom Bride
  • The Phantom Flapper
  • The Phantom Hitchhiker
  • The Pichal Peri
  • The Pink Lady
  • The Pink Lady of Stirling
  • The Pontianak
  • The Queen in the Gallery
  • The Red Lady
  • The Red Lady of Leap
  • The Rokurokubi Woman
  • The Rusalka
  • The Rusalka of the Millpond
  • The Samodiva
  • The Screaming Queen
  • The Seamstress
  • The Selkie Widow
  • The Showgirl
  • The Sighing Lady
  • The Singing Woman
  • The Soprano of Box Five

T, continued

  • The Spinning Woman
  • The Sundel Bolong
  • The Telephone Girl
  • The Typist on the Ninth Floor
  • The Usherette
  • The Veiled Nun
  • The Vila
  • The Virgin Ghost
  • The Washerwoman at the Ford
  • The Weeping Mavka
  • The Weeping Nun of St. Aldhelm
  • The Weeping Woman
  • The Whistling Woman
  • The White Lady
  • The White Lady of Rosslyn
  • The White Lady of Samlesbury
  • The White Wife of the Hebrides
  • The White Witch of Rose Hall
  • The Widow at the Window
  • The Widow on the Widow's Walk
  • The Widow Winchester
  • The Woman at the Crossroads
  • The Woman in Room 502
  • The Woman in the Lobby
  • The Woman in the Mourning Ring
  • The Woman in the Wallpaper
  • The Woman in the Water
  • The Woman in White
  • The Woman of Cock Lane
  • The Woman of the Mist
  • The Woman Who Counts the Stairs
  • Theodosia Blackmere
  • Theodosia Burr Alston
  • Tiny Tess
  • Tomie

U: 1 name

  • Ubume

V: 7 names

  • Verity Hale
  • Vesper
  • Vesper Thorne
  • Vespera
  • Viola Crockett
  • Viola Pendergast
  • Vivienne Lacroix

W: 15 names

  • Wee Jeannie
  • Wee Mab
  • Weeping Willa
  • Wilhelmina Hardcastle
  • Willa Drowne
  • Willow Weep
  • Winnie Redfern
  • Winter Ashby
  • Winter Rose
  • Wintermere
  • Wisp
  • Wisteria
  • Wisteria Vane
  • Wraith
  • Wraithe Morrow

X: 1 name

  • Ximena Alarcón

Y: 2 names

  • Yelena Petrova
  • Yuki-onna

Z: 2 names

  • Zofia Nowak
  • Zona Heaster Shue