Game of Thrones House Name Generator

Noble houses in A Song of Ice and Fire are named the way English gentry families were: after a place, a feature of the land, an ancestor's nickname or an old trade. Stark, Bolton, Karstark and Umber are blunt Northern names of one or two syllables. Reach and Riverlands houses like Tyrell, Fossoway, Mallister and Butterwell sound softer and more Norman-French. Dornish houses (Martell, Dayne, Yronwood, Qorgyle) carry Rhoynish flavour, the Iron Islands favour hard consonants (Greyjoy, Drumm, Harlaw, Blacktyde), and Valyrian-descended houses like Targaryen, Velaryon and Celtigar have the only names in Westeros with three flowing syllables and Y-heavy spellings.

George R.R. Martin also builds compound houses from two plain words: Blackwood, Whitehill, Kettleblack, Goodbrother, Coldwater, Smallwood, Merryweather. That formula is the easiest way to invent a house that sounds like it has always been on the map. Pair a colour, metal or weather word with a landscape word, or take a real English surname that already looks medieval.

The list mixes the great houses with their seats, roughly a hundred real lesser houses from the books and House of the Dragon, and a set of invented houses built on the same patterns. Add a seat, sigil and words and you have a bannerman ready for a fan fiction, a Westeros roleplay or a tabletop campaign.