Game of Thrones Nickname Generator

Westerosi bynames for wolves, vipers and hedge knights

Pop Culture500 names

0 of 500 seen

This or that?

7 picks, 1 winner

Tap the name you like more.

Tap a name to copy it. The arrows swap one name.

Or browse all 500 names, A to Z

Nicknames and epithets in the style of Westeros, from The Ashen Crow and Gatebreaker to Lord Too-Late and The Turnip Knight. Most are new names in the manner of the books and the show, with a few famous bynames such as The Young Wolf as reference points.

About this generator

In Westeros a byname does work that a given name cannot. The story is full of Jons, Walders and Aegons, so people are told apart by what they did, how they look or what they carry on a shield. Robb Stark is the Young Wolf for his age and the direwolf of his house. Jaime Lannister is the Kingslayer because he killed the king he had sworn to guard, and Davos Seaworth is the Onion Knight because he smuggled onions into Storm's End during a siege.

This list follows the same habits: color and beast pairs in the manner of the Red Viper, age and sigil names, one-word deed names, epithets tied to places on the map such as the Trident and the Kingswood, mystery knight names from the tourney lists, mocking names a rival would use, sellsword monikers from the Free Cities, names from the Iron Islands and beyond the Wall, and barracks names like those the Night's Watch hands out.

Most entries are new names in that style. A small share are famous bynames from the books and the show, kept as reference points, and nothing here should be read as belonging to an existing character unless you already know it does. Use them for roleplay, fan fiction, tabletop campaigns in the Seven Kingdoms or a gamertag.

Tips for choosing a name

  • Tie the name to one fact: a deed, a sigil, a scar or a home. The Onion Knight works because there is a story behind it, so decide the story before you take a name like Gatebreaker or The Knight of the Broken Bridge.
  • Decide who gave the name. Singers and sworn men hand out names like The Shield of the Marches, while rivals prefer Lord Too-Late or The Paper Shield. One character can carry both, and which one a speaker uses tells the reader whose side they are on.
  • Match the region. Salt, oars and drowning belong to the Iron Islands (Oarbreaker, Twice-Drowned), coin and contracts to the free companies (Halfpay, The Gilded Skull), and plain kitchen words to the Night's Watch (Spare Glove, Cold Porridge).
  • Use it the way the story does: alone, or after a given name. "The Ashen Crow rode in at dusk" and "Ser Willam, called the Ashen Crow" both read naturally.
  • Say it aloud. The bynames that last in the books are short and built from plain words, so pick the one your players or readers will still remember next session.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a nickname sound like Game of Thrones?

Plain old words, heraldry and a hint of a story. Names such as The Ashen Crow, Saltbeard, The Bell of Stoney Sept and The Hill That Walks use animals, colors, weather, weapons and real places on the map of Westeros rather than invented syllables. A good one makes the listener ask how the character earned it.

Are these nicknames from the books and the show?

Most are new names written in the style of the setting. A small share are famous bynames from the story, such as The Young Wolf and The Red Viper, included as examples of the patterns. The list does not mark which is which, so look a name up before you treat it as part of the story.

How do characters earn a byname in Westeros?

Usually in one of four ways: a deed, a look or habit, the arms of their house, or mockery. That is why the list has deed names like Lancebreaker, sigil names like The Limping Lion and unkind ones like Ser Falls-a-Lot. A name given in mockery often sticks hardest, and some characters end up wearing theirs with pride.

Can I combine a nickname with a full Westerosi name?

Yes. Take a given name and a house name from one of the related generators and add the byname after it, the way the story does. A sellsword or a brother of the Night's Watch can go by the byname alone, which suits names like Halfpay or Whetstone.

Related generators

More like this

Browse category

All 500 names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

Plain text, one name per line.

A: 3 names

  • Antlerhelm
  • Ashbeard
  • Axecatcher

B: 17 names

  • Bannock
  • Baseborn
  • Bittersteel
  • Bittertongue
  • Black Bread
  • Blackhelm
  • Blacksail
  • Blacktooth
  • Blood Sausage
  • Bloodraven
  • Boarsbane
  • Boiled Leather
  • Bootlace
  • Borrowed Cloak
  • Bowl o' Brown
  • Breaker of Horns
  • Breakspear

C: 8 names

  • Candle-End
  • Chilblain
  • Cold Porridge
  • Cowlick
  • Crookjaw
  • Crowbait
  • Crowfriend
  • Cutbraid

D: 7 names

  • Damp Straw
  • Damphair
  • Darkstar
  • Dragonseed
  • Dreamwine
  • Drinker of Rivers
  • Dustcloak

F: 9 names

  • Faintheart
  • Father of Avalanches
  • Feastbreaker
  • Fieldburner
  • Fingerdancer
  • First Out of the Saddle
  • Forktongue
  • Foxskin
  • Frostborn

G: 7 names

  • Gallowsbait
  • Gatebreaker
  • Giantsbane
  • Giantsfriend
  • Goldcloak
  • Goldprice
  • Goldword

H: 7 names

  • Halfhelm
  • Halfpay
  • Hayloft
  • Hedgeborn
  • Honeytongue
  • Hot Pie
  • Husband to Storms

I: 3 names

  • Icebeard
  • Inkfingers
  • Ironprice

K: 4 names

  • Kelpbeard
  • Kingsblood
  • Kingslayer
  • Knucklebones

L: 21 names

  • Lady Never-Pleased
  • Lady Sharp-Elbows
  • Lancebreaker
  • Latesword
  • Lemoncloak
  • Littlefinger
  • Longlance
  • Longmarch
  • Longoar
  • Lord Borrowed-Boots
  • Lord Last-to-the-Battle
  • Lord Muddle
  • Lord Never-Pays
  • Lord Porridge
  • Lord Pudding
  • Lord Sits-a-Lot
  • Lord Too-Late
  • Lord Turnip
  • Lord Two-Chins
  • Lord Yes-Your-Grace
  • Lordmaker

M: 5 names

  • Mammoth-Rider
  • Mead-Thief of the Frostfangs
  • Mothcloak
  • Mudcloak
  • Mutton Bone

N: 4 names

  • Nine Bells
  • No Bells
  • No-Gloves
  • Notchblade

O: 6 names

  • Oarbreaker
  • Oatcake
  • Oathbender
  • Old Copper
  • Onion Broth
  • Owl-Eyes

P: 4 names

  • Patchcloak
  • Peacebreaker
  • Pease
  • Potboy

Q: 2 names

  • Queenmaker
  • Quickhand

R: 5 names

  • Ragcloak
  • Ravenkeeper
  • Reefrunner
  • Riverborn
  • Rustbeard

S: 32 names

  • Salt Cod
  • Saltbeard
  • Saltsharer
  • Scullion
  • Seastone
  • Second Helping
  • Sellspear
  • Ser Almost
  • Ser Backward
  • Ser Borrowed-Horse
  • Ser Falls-a-Lot
  • Ser First-to-the-Feast
  • Ser Hides-Behind-Squires
  • Ser Second-Best
  • Ser Sloth
  • Ser Too-Slow-to-Matter
  • Seven Hundred Feet
  • Seven-Scars
  • Shieldsplitter
  • Short Straw
  • Silverhair
  • Sixfingers
  • Small Beer
  • Snowbeard
  • Sourleaf
  • Spare Glove
  • Speaker to Ravens
  • Stonehand
  • Stormborn
  • Stormsail
  • Strongwine
  • Swiftsword

T: 347 names

  • The Almost-Queen
  • The Amber Wasp
  • The Ash-Crowned
  • The Ashen Crow
  • The Attainted
  • The Autumn Wolf
  • The Axe of the Islands
  • The Bane of the Bite
  • The Barley Knight
  • The Barnacle
  • The Basilisk of the Isles
  • The Bear of the Bay of Ice
  • The Beggar King
  • The Beggar Prince of Pentos
  • The Beggar Wolf
  • The Bell of Stoney Sept
  • The Bent Rose
  • The Black Cormorant
  • The Black Lamprey
  • The Black Ram
  • The Black Stag
  • The Blackfish
  • The Blade of the White Knife
  • The Blank Shield
  • The Blind Falcon
  • The Blue Kestrel
  • The Blue Rose
  • The Blusterer
  • The Boar of the Rainwood
  • The Borrowed Lance
  • The Bow of the Kingswood
  • The Braavosi Blade
  • The Braggart of Bitterbridge
  • The Bramble Knight
  • The Bravo Without a Blade
  • The Bridge That Charges Twice
  • The Bridled Stallion
  • The Brindled Hound

T, continued

  • The Broken Antler
  • The Bronze Bull
  • The Bull of Blackhaven
  • The Caged Wolf
  • The Captain of Three Men
  • The Cave Bear
  • The Chained Bear
  • The Champion of Nothing
  • The Cheapest Sword in Lys
  • The Cheesemonger
  • The Cider Knight
  • The Clay Prince
  • The Cliff Eagle
  • The Coin Counter
  • The Company of One
  • The Contract Breaker
  • The Copper Eel
  • The Crab of Crackclaw Point
  • The Craven of Cider Hall
  • The Crimson Hawk
  • The Crimson Moth
  • The Crow's Eye
  • The Crowned Stag
  • The Cupbearer
  • The Cuttlefish
  • The Darling of the Lists
  • The Dawn Lark
  • The Dearest Sword in Volantis
  • The Dispossessed
  • The Dowager of Daggers
  • The Dragonknight
  • The Drowned Kraken
  • The Dun Stallion
  • The Dusk Owl
  • The Ebon Swan
  • The Eel of the Canals
  • The Eel of the Neck
  • The Ember Hound
  • The Eternal Squire

T, continued

  • The Faithful Hound
  • The Faithless Fox
  • The Falconer's Daughter
  • The Favor Thief
  • The Fiddler
  • The Flatterer
  • The Forgotten Twin
  • The Fox of Fairmarket
  • The Frost Hawk
  • The Ghost of Hardhome
  • The Ghost of the Godswood
  • The Ghost of the Grass
  • The Ghost of the Kingsroad
  • The Ghost of the Rhoyne
  • The Gilded Skull
  • The Goat of the Red Mountains
  • The Golden Boar
  • The Great Stag
  • The Green Adder
  • The Grey Badger
  • The Grey Falcon
  • The Grey Lynx
  • The Grey Mastiff
  • The Groveler
  • The Gull of Gulltown
  • The Half Lord
  • The Halfhand
  • The Hand of No King
  • The Hand's Shadow
  • The Hawk of the High Road
  • The Hedge Boar
  • The Hedge Lord
  • The Heron of Greywater
  • The Hill That Walks
  • The Hollow Helm
  • The Hooded Hawk
  • The Hound
  • The Hound of the Goldroad

T, continued

  • The Huntress of the Wolfswood
  • The Ibbenese Tusk
  • The Imp
  • The Iron Pike
  • The Ivory Shrike
  • The King of Crumbs
  • The King of Nothing
  • The King's Conscience
  • The Kingmaker
  • The Knight of Ashes
  • The Knight of Burrs
  • The Knight of Crows
  • The Knight of Flowers
  • The Knight of Lanterns
  • The Knight of the Broken Bridge
  • The Knight of the Empty Helm
  • The Knight of the Laughing Tree
  • The Knight of the Weeping Willow
  • The Lady of Brambles
  • The Lady of Thistles
  • The Lame Stag
  • The Lance of the Reach
  • The Landless Lion
  • The Lantern of the Quiet Isle
  • The Lark of the Honeywine
  • The Last Direwolf
  • The Last Griffin
  • The Last Man Mounted
  • The Last Penny
  • The Last Reaver
  • The Latecomer
  • The Laughing Lion
  • The Laughing Maid
  • The Laughing Shield
  • The Laughing Storm
  • The Lesser Walrus
  • The Lightning Lord
  • The Limping Lion
  • The Little Bear

T, continued

  • The Little Bird
  • The Little Fox
  • The Little Lion
  • The Lorathi Shadow
  • The Lord of Bones
  • The Lord of Crows
  • The Lord of Empty Halls
  • The Lord of Leftovers
  • The Lord of the Disputed Lands
  • The Lost Stag
  • The Lyseni Knife
  • The Mad King
  • The Maester's Headache
  • The Magpie Knight
  • The Maid of Mistwood
  • The Maid of the Mists
  • The Marsh Bittern
  • The Melee Rat
  • The Milkwater Fox
  • The Moon Moth
  • The Moth Knight
  • The Mountain That Rides
  • The Mouse of Maidenpool
  • The Mud Knight
  • The Mud Otter
  • The Myrish Eye
  • The Nearly-King
  • The Never-Crowned
  • The Night Adder
  • The Oak That Never Bent
  • The Oft-Betrothed
  • The Old Bear
  • The Old Hawk
  • The Old Kraken
  • The Old Lion
  • The Old Tiger
  • The Old Trout
  • The Oldest Squire in the Reach

T, continued

  • The Onion Knight
  • The Orkmont Ox
  • The Orphan of the Greenblood
  • The Overlooked
  • The Owl of Oldtown
  • The Painted Boar
  • The Painted Lion
  • The Pale Spider
  • The Paper Shield
  • The Pardoned
  • The Patchwork Knight
  • The Patient Spider
  • The Paymaster's Friend
  • The Pearl of the Arbor
  • The Penny King
  • The Pentoshi Purse
  • The Piebald Knight
  • The Pike of the Red Fork
  • The Pilot of the Sorrows
  • The Piper of Skirling Pass
  • The Pride of the Rock
  • The Prince of Gulls
  • The Prince of Puddles
  • The Purple Bravo
  • The Qohorik Axe
  • The Queen of Cats
  • The Queen of Love and Beauty
  • The Queen of Nettles
  • The Queen of Thorns
  • The Queen Who Never Was
  • The Queen's Knife
  • The Raven of Raventree
  • The Realm's Delight
  • The Red Priest's Shadow
  • The Red Stoat
  • The Red Viper
  • The Red Woman
  • The River Pike
  • The River That Remembers

T, continued

  • The Rogue Prince
  • The Rose of the Roseroad
  • The Rose That Bites
  • The Russet Hound
  • The Rust Knight
  • The Rusted Kraken
  • The Sable Wolf
  • The Salt Crab
  • The Salt Queen
  • The Salt-Crowned
  • The Sand Adder
  • The Scarecrow Knight
  • The Scarlet Fox
  • The Scorpion of Sandstone
  • The Scourge of the Stepstones
  • The Sea Snake
  • The Seldom-Sober
  • The Septa's Despair
  • The Shadow of the Hightower
  • The She-Lion
  • The She-Wolf
  • The Shield of the Marches
  • The Shield of the Stony Shore
  • The Shorn Ram
  • The Short-Reigned
  • The Silent Wolf
  • The Silver Trout
  • The Smiling Knight
  • The Smoke Cat
  • The Snow Bear
  • The Snow Owl
  • The Spear of the Sands
  • The Spearwife
  • The Spider
  • The Spotted Stag
  • The Stag of Shipbreaker Bay
  • The Stone Ram
  • The Storm Gull

T, continued

  • The Storm of Cape Wrath
  • The Storm That Waits
  • The Straw Lord
  • The Stumbler
  • The Sullen Bear
  • The Summer Stag
  • The Summer Swan
  • The Swan of Stonehelm
  • The Sword of the Dusk
  • The Sword of the Morning
  • The Tattered Prince
  • The Tawny Lion
  • The Terror of the Trident
  • The Third Son
  • The Thistle of the Rills
  • The Thorn Maiden
  • The Thorn of the Reach
  • The Thorn Viper
  • The Threadbare Captain
  • The Thrice-Unhorsed
  • The Thrice-Wed
  • The Tin Lion
  • The Toll of the Twins
  • The Toothless Lion
  • The Tourney-Made
  • The Tower That Talks
  • The Turnip King
  • The Turnip Knight
  • The Twice-Exiled
  • The Twice-Ransomed
  • The Tyroshi Peacock
  • The Uncrowned Stag
  • The Undrowned
  • The Unhorsed
  • The Unhurried
  • The Unthanked
  • The Usurper
  • The Wall That Weeps
  • The Wall-Bound

T, continued

  • The Wall-Sent
  • The Warden of Nothing
  • The Water Dancer
  • The Wayward Falcon
  • The Weaver of Whispers
  • The Weeper
  • The Weeping Stag
  • The White Bull
  • The White Kraken
  • The White Raven
  • The White Shadowcat
  • The White Weasel
  • The Widow of Seven Lords
  • The Widow of the Ford
  • The Winter Rose
  • The Winter Wolf
  • The Withered Rose
  • The Wolf of Dagger Lake
  • The Wooden Stag
  • The Wrong Brother
  • The Young Boar
  • The Young Dragon
  • The Young Elephant
  • The Young Falcon
  • The Young Raven
  • The Young Wolf
  • Thrallbreaker
  • Three-Cloaks
  • Three-Coins
  • Thrice-Sold
  • Tigercloak
  • Towerbreaker
  • Turncloak
  • Turnspit
  • Twice-Drowned
  • Twice-Paid
  • Two-Blankets
  • Two-Swords
  • Twoskins

V: 1 name

  • Vowbreaker

W: 8 names

  • Wallwalker
  • Wastewalker
  • Wet Boots
  • Wet Wool
  • Whetstone
  • Whitefur
  • Winch
  • Wormways