Forest Spirit Name Generator

Forest spirits are the oldest supernatural beings most cultures can name, and their names tend to share a shape: short, rooted in a single tree or clearing, and descriptive rather than grand. The Slavic leshy is literally 'the one of the forest', the Japanese kodama is the echo that answers you between cedars, the Greek hamadryad dies with her oak, and the English Green Man has no name at all beyond the leaves on his face. Tapio, Silvanus, the skogsrå and Tāne Mahuta likewise simply say what they rule.

Original forest spirits sound right when they borrow that logic. A soft given name plus a place-bound epithet (Thariel of the Old Yew, Sable of the Cedar Crown) tells you exactly which tree the spirit will not leave. Kinship titles such as Grandmother Rowan or Brother Loam are how rural people actually referred to the things they left milk for, and hyphenated kennings like Whisper-in-the-Beeches or Steps-Behind-You suit spirits that are more sensation than person. Tree, fungus and animal words (Chanterelle, Old Whitehart, Owl-Eyes) give quieter, stranger names for the small folk of the undergrowth.

The list mixes authentic spirits from Celtic, Norse, Slavic, Japanese, Greek, Indian, Amazonian, African and Pacific traditions with invented names in matching phonologies, ready for druid patrons, fey NPCs, folk-horror fiction or a game's sacred grove.