Ghostbusters Name Generator

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Ghostbusters names of every kind the films use: the cast from Peter Venkman to Slimer, then new busters such as Dr. Marvin Plotkin, nicknamed ghosts such as Sock Snatcher, classified spooks such as Class Three Wall-Walking Wisp and titled entities such as Morzul the Latchkeeper.

About Ghostbusters names

The franchise names four kinds of thing. The busters are rumpled academics with a surname stitched on the chest: Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore. Ghosts get blunt nicknames for a habit or a look, such as Slimer and Muncher. Gods, their servants and old tyrants carry a name plus an office or a homeland, as in Gozer the Gozerian, Zuul the Gatekeeper and Vigo the Carpathian. And spooks are filed by type in mock-scientific phrases on the pattern of Class Five Full-Roaming Vapor.

Close to sixty entries are from the films and cartoons: the cast, a few ghosts, the three classification phrases from the first film and some gear, among them Ecto-1 and Proton Pack. They are a reference block and not a full cast list. Everything else is new and written in the style, not taken from the films or cartoons.

The new names follow the same four habits and add three more: busters with nametag surnames (Stu Grabowski, Dr. Hattie Lindqvist), nicknamed ghosts (Sock Snatcher, Old Wheezy), classified apparitions (Class Three Wall-Walking Wisp), titled entities with coined names that belong to no real mythology (Morzul the Latchkeeper), cases built around possessed objects and haunted places, gear and vehicles on the Ecto-1 pattern, and crews for franchises in made-up cities such as Port Halloway.

How to choose Ghostbusters names

  • A buster name works when the surname alone could sit on a uniform tag. Try it in capitals: PLOTKIN, GRABOWSKI and LINDQVIST read right, and a first name like Stu or Hattie keeps the owner human.
  • To classify your own spook, stack the facts the way the films do: a class number, how much of it shows, how it moves and what it is. Class Four Semi-Anchored Moaner says it stays put, mostly, and complains.
  • Nickname a ghost for the one thing the crew would notice first, a habit or a look: Fridge Raider, Noodle Neck, The Pipe Banger. Blunt and a little rude to the ghost is the house style.
  • A big bad needs a name and an office. Pair a coined name with a job that sounds small for a god, as in Xorbal the Notary or Thrumm the Janitor of the Void, and the joke writes itself.
  • Keep it spooky and funny. The ghosts on this page are invented pests, never real people who died, and the crews are for stories and tabletop games set in made-up cities.

Frequently asked questions

Which names on this page are from Ghostbusters?

Close to sixty entries, given as names only. They include Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore, Janine Melnitz, Dana Barrett, Louis Tully, Phoebe Spengler, Slimer, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Gozer the Gozerian, Vigo the Carpathian, Ecto-1 and Proton Pack, along with names from the 2016 film and the cartoons. It is a reference block, not a full cast list. Every other entry is new, and this fan page has no link to the studio.

How do the ghost classifications work?

In the first film the team describes a ghost in stacked technical terms, and the list keeps the three phrases used there: Class Five Full-Roaming Vapor, Focused Non-Terminal Repeating Phantasm and Free-Floating Full-Torso Vaporous Apparition. The new ones copy the recipe: a class number or a behavior, how much of the ghost shows, and what it does, as in Class Two Partial-Torso Hoverer or Recurring Midnight Typist. The class numbers on new entries are for flavor and follow no fixed scale.

Are the gods and demons real mythological names?

No. Names such as Morzul the Latchkeeper, Hezmu the Usher and Zandor the Zandorian are coined for this page in the pattern of Gozer the Gozerian: an invented name plus an office or a place. They are not Sumerian, Babylonian or any other real names, and no real deity appears among the new entries.

Can I use the crew names for a fan group or a business?

They are written for fiction: a story, a tabletop campaign or a game set in an invented city, which is why the places are made up, as in Quillhaven Ghostbusters and Fogwater Slime Removal Service. They are not offered as names for a real company or a real fan chapter, because the franchise name belongs to its owner.

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A: 10 names

  • Abby Yates
  • Agnes Vanderhoof
  • Ambient Cold-Draft Whisperer
  • Anchored Stairwell Echo
  • Anchored Swimming-Pool Shimmer
  • Anita Vasquez-Bloom
  • Anzeth the Twice-Banished
  • Archie Bellweather
  • Attic Tapper
  • Aura Tuning Fork

B: 13 names

  • Balgrim the Scourge of the Sub-Basement
  • Banz Moltho the Locksmith
  • Baroness Helka the Twice-Painted
  • Belcher
  • Bellhop Bob
  • Benny Hochstetler
  • Bernice Kowalczyk
  • Blue Wobble
  • Bound Theater Balcony Watcher
  • Bramblegate Ghostbusters Auxiliary
  • Brazuk the Toll Collector
  • Busters on a Budget
  • Button Popper

C: 40 names

  • Callie Spengler
  • Candle Drip
  • Carla Dombrowski
  • Celeste Dragomir
  • Chandelier Swinger
  • Chester Mulrooney
  • Chomper
  • Cinderwick Ghostbusters, Station Two
  • Cinderwick Station Nine
  • Class Five Ectoplasmic Composite
  • Class Five Free-Roaming Glutton
  • Class Five Full-Roaming Vapor
  • Class Five Slime-Trailing Hoarder

C, continued

  • Class Four Full-Figure Identity Haunter
  • Class Four Non-Repeating Pipe Knocker
  • Class Four Semi-Anchored Moaner
  • Class Four Territorial Doorman
  • Class One Cold-Spot Lingerer
  • Class One Flickering Afterglow
  • Class One Residual Shimmer
  • Class Seven Dimensional Tollkeeper
  • Class Seven Threshold-Dwelling Overseer
  • Class Six Corporeal Pigeon Flock
  • Class Six Phantom Aquarium School
  • Class Six Spectral Carriage Horse
  • Class Three Anonymous Repeater

C, continued

  • Class Three Closet-Bound Rustler
  • Class Three Stairwell Roamer
  • Class Three Wall-Walking Wisp
  • Class Two Disembodied Humming
  • Class Two Drifting Hand
  • Class Two Floating Lantern Glow
  • Class Two Partial-Torso Hoverer
  • Clem Vukovich
  • Coat Hanger Rattler
  • Containment Unit
  • Count Ostrov the Insufferable
  • Creaker
  • Curtain Twitcher
  • Cyclical Clocktower Chimer

D: 34 names

  • Dana Barrett
  • Desmond Okafor
  • Donna Szymanski
  • Doorbell Ditcher
  • Dormant Trunk-Bound Presence
  • Dot Pellegrino
  • Dozzak the Sleeper in the Sub-Basement
  • Dr. Ambrose Pettibone
  • Dr. Bartholomew Nix
  • Dr. Cornelius Stubbs
  • Dr. Dmitri Volkonsky

D, continued

  • Dr. Esperanza Villalobos
  • Dr. Felix Oberholtzer
  • Dr. Hattie Lindqvist
  • Dr. Imani Breckenridge
  • Dr. Julius Ketterman
  • Dr. Kwame Asante-Reed
  • Dr. Marvin Plotkin
  • Dr. Mei-Ling Hartsock
  • Dr. Nadia Petrakis
  • Dr. Oswald Krumholz
  • Dr. Priscilla Nakamura

D, continued

  • Dr. Quincy Abernathy
  • Dr. Reuben Halvorsen
  • Dr. Sanjay Balakrishnan
  • Dr. Thaddeus Quill
  • Dr. Yolanda Treadwell
  • Draxmoor the Coachman
  • Dribbler
  • Drooler
  • Druul the Doorstop
  • Druvak the Unraveler
  • Duke Radomir the Portrait-Bound
  • Dunmere Ghostbusters

E: 28 names

  • Echo Harbor Ectoplasm Removal
  • Echo Harbor Ghostbusters
  • Echo-Locked Choir Fragment
  • Ecto Goggles
  • Ecto-1
  • Ecto-12 Bookmobile
  • Ecto-1A
  • Ecto-2
  • Ecto-7 Milk Truck
  • Ecto-Bucket
  • Ecto-Ferry
  • Ecto-Gondola
  • Ecto-Handcar
  • Ecto-Pedicab

E, continued

  • Ecto-Scooter
  • Ecto-Sidecar
  • Ecto-Snowplow
  • Ecto-Sub
  • Ecto-Tandem
  • Ecto-Tug
  • Ecto-Wagon
  • Ectoplasm Mop
  • Eddie Scarpelli
  • Eduardo Rivera
  • Egon Spengler
  • Elevator Eddie
  • Erin Gilbert
  • Ernie Bukowski

F: 18 names

  • Fast-Moving Ceiling Crawler
  • Firehouse Twelve Irregulars
  • Floyd Kessler
  • Flusher
  • Focused Non-Terminal Repeating Phantasm
  • Focused Repeating Dinner Guest
  • Fogwater Ghostbusters Night Shift
  • Fogwater Slime Removal Service
  • Frannie O'Dell

F, continued

  • Free-Floating Full-Torso Vaporous Apparition
  • Free-Floating Half-Torso Hummer
  • Free-Floating Opera Cloak
  • Free-Roaming Composite Blob
  • Free-Roaming Pantry Vapor
  • Fridge Raider
  • Full-Roaming Subway Howler
  • Full-Spectrum Mirror Dweller
  • Full-Torso Balcony Specter

G: 24 names

  • Garraka
  • Garrett Miller
  • Gary Grooberson
  • Ghost Thermos
  • Ghost Trap
  • Ghostbusters of New Lanternport
  • Ghostbusters of Port Halloway
  • Ghostbusters: Gloamfield Division
  • Gladys Wertheimer
  • Glimmerton Ghost Wranglers
  • Glorbax the Glorbaxian
  • Gobbler

G, continued

  • Goo Goggles
  • Gorvane the Unpaid
  • Gozer the Gozerian
  • Grabber
  • Gray Glob
  • Green Gus
  • Grimlow Containment Crew
  • Grimlow Ghostbusters
  • Grizelle the Uninvited
  • Gurgler
  • Gus Halloran
  • Guzzler

H: 14 names

  • Hal Wozniak
  • Haldris the Cupbearer
  • Hank Pasternak
  • Hat Thief
  • Haunt Gauge
  • Hexley County Ghostbusters
  • Hexley Vapor Response Unit
  • Hezmu the Usher
  • Hiccup
  • High-Altitude Skyscraper Drifter
  • Hoarder
  • Hollowbrook Junior Ghostbusters
  • Hollun the Moth-Eaten
  • Hugo Steinmetz

I: 6 names

  • Illmuth the Bringer of Drafts
  • Intermittent Basement Glow
  • Irv Tannenbaum
  • Ithka the Weigher of Shadows
  • Ivo Shandor
  • Ixmar the Cartographer of Nowhere

J: 5 names

  • Janine Melnitz
  • Janosz Poha
  • Jhorn the Herald of the Boiler Room
  • Jillian Holtzmann
  • Joanie Tressler

K: 4 names

  • Kevin Beckman
  • Keyhole Whistler
  • Krellis the Sorrow of the Sixth Floor
  • Kylie Griffin

L: 18 names

  • Lantern Bay Ghostbusters
  • Lantern Bay Paranormal Pest Control
  • Lars Pinfield
  • Laundromat Lou
  • Lenny Szabo
  • Leopold Ganz
  • Library Ghost
  • Lightbulb Larry
  • Long Arms

L, continued

  • Lottie Macready
  • Lou Bagnoli
  • Louis Tully
  • Low-Energy Attic Murmur
  • Low-Hovering Carpet Chill
  • Lucky Domingo
  • Luminous Stage-Door Lingerer
  • Lumpy
  • Lurthex the Chooser of Forms

M: 27 names

  • Mallow Bay Ghostbusters
  • Manny Escobedo
  • Marble Roller
  • Marge Dibner
  • Mavis Underhill
  • Melody
  • Mickey Dunleavy
  • Midnight Shift Busters
  • Midnight Vacuumer
  • Migratory Rooftop Wailer
  • Milt Hershkowitz
  • Mini-Pufts
  • Mist Net

M, continued

  • Mister Drip
  • Misthaven Ghostbusters
  • Moe Katzenbach
  • Moocher
  • Mop Head
  • Morty Fensterwald
  • Morvu the Morvuvian
  • Morzul the Latchkeeper
  • Mothball
  • Moxul the Overdue
  • Multi-Limbed Vaporous Tangle
  • Mumbler
  • Muncher
  • Myrzeth the Night Clerk

N: 11 names

  • Nadeem Razmaadi
  • Napkin Thief
  • Nembrax the Lamplighter
  • Nether Falls Ghostbusters
  • Never Cross the Streams Club
  • Nocturnal Full-Torso Sleepwalker
  • Non-Malevolent Furniture Arranger
  • Non-Terminal Elevator Rider
  • Noodle Neck
  • Norm Pulaski
  • Nurm the Nurmite

O: 14 names

  • Object-Bound Rocking-Chair Force
  • Obrund the Auditor
  • Ogmeth the Landlord
  • Old Flickerface
  • Old Saltmarsh Ghostbusters
  • Old Wheezy
  • Omar Haddad-Pryce
  • Ombo the Ombovian
  • Omvra the Veiled
  • Oozer
  • Opal Thistlewood
  • Oshkavar the Elevator Operator
  • Ozrith the Last Tenant
  • Ozzie Trautman

P: 26 names

  • Pack Rats of Ravenport
  • Partial-Limb Doorknob Turner
  • Partially Manifested Piano Player
  • Particle Dustpan
  • Patty Tolan
  • Pearl Zabriskie
  • Pelgrath the Steward of the Seventh Door
  • Persistent Doorbell Ringer
  • Peter Venkman
  • Phantom Flytrap
  • Phlegmar the Damp
  • Phoebe Spengler
  • Pincher

P, continued

  • PKE Meter
  • PKE Pocket Reader
  • Pocket Trap
  • Podcast
  • Port Halloway Spook Squad
  • Prince Valdric the Unpleasant
  • Prof. Horace Ludlow
  • Prof. Ignatius Blore
  • Prof. Lucille Haverkamp
  • Prof. Winifred Stang
  • Proton Lasso
  • Proton Pack
  • Pudding Face

Q: 3 names

  • Qelmor the Registrar
  • Quaal the Doorman of Dusk
  • Quillhaven Ghostbusters

R: 18 names

  • Ravenport Ghostbusters Local 13
  • Ray Stantz
  • Ray's Occult Books
  • Ready to Believe Hotline
  • Recurring Midnight Typist
  • Rekket the Turnkey
  • Remote Hider
  • Repeating Ballroom Waltzers
  • Residual Footstep Pattern

R, continued

  • Residue Swab Kit
  • Rhonda Czerny
  • Ricky Napolitano
  • Roaming Mid-Density Mist
  • Roland Jackson
  • Rosalind Tuckerman
  • Rowan North
  • Ruthie Feldspar
  • Ruvok the Mildly Inconvenienced

S: 39 names

  • Sarvoth the Bailiff
  • Scribbler
  • Seasonal Boiler-Room Groaner
  • Sedgewick Hotel
  • Self-Illuminating Hallway Orb
  • Semi-Corporeal Laundry Folder
  • Semi-Transparent Corridor Drifter
  • Sephtak the Gardener
  • Shirley Blatt
  • Shiverton Ghostbusters
  • Shoelace Knotter
  • Short-Range Closet Thumper
  • Shulveth the Sealbreaker

S, continued

  • Shusher
  • Sid Finkelman
  • Six Eyes
  • Skaldra the Forgotten of Floor Thirteen
  • Skip Lonergan
  • Skorn the Appraiser
  • Slime Blower
  • Slime Squeegee
  • Slimer
  • Slow-Drifting Vaporous Bellhop
  • Smudger
  • Sneezer
  • Sniffer

S, continued

  • Snorer
  • Sock Snatcher
  • Soup Slurper
  • Spook Central
  • Spook Hook
  • Spook Siphon
  • Squelch
  • Static Cling
  • Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
  • Sticky Fingers
  • Stomper
  • Stu Grabowski
  • Szarn the Ferryman

T: 113 names

  • Tallowfield Trap and Tow
  • Tallowfield Volunteer Ghostbusters
  • Tazmuun the Lockpick
  • Terror Dogs
  • Tessa Marchetti
  • Tethered Portrait Gazer
  • The Aquarium Night Shift Incident
  • The Back-Alley Busters
  • The Boogieman
  • The Bottomless Mailbox
  • The Bowling Alley Pinsetter Haunting
  • The Bramblegate Boo Brigade
  • The Card Catalog Uproar
  • The Case of the Backward Clocktower

T, continued

  • The Case of the Crowded Empty Theater
  • The Case of the Ectoplasmic Car Wash
  • The Case of the Floating Wedding Cake
  • The Case of the Glowing Bathtub
  • The Case of the Humming Manhole
  • The Case of the Levitating Deli
  • The Case of the Marching Mannequins
  • The Case of the Sleepwalking Statues
  • The Case of the Vanishing Hot Dog Cart
  • The Chair Rocker
  • The Chattering Typewriter
  • The Closet Yodeler
  • The Courthouse Gavel Incident
  • The Crossword Finisher

T, continued

  • The Department Store Window Walkers
  • The Dimmer
  • The Diner Booth Nobody Leaves
  • The Doorslammer
  • The Dumbwaiter Disturbance
  • The Dunmere Dust-Up Crew
  • The Growling Filing Cabinet
  • The Hall Monitor
  • The Haunted Coat Check
  • The Haunted Drive-In Screen
  • The Haunted Elevator to Floor Thirteen
  • The Haunted Escalator at Platform Six
  • The Haunted Ferry Whistle
  • The Haunted Ice Cream Truck

T, continued

  • The Haunted Mini-Golf Windmill
  • The Haunted Photo Booth
  • The Haunted Revolving Door
  • The Hotel Ballroom Incident
  • The Humming Usher
  • The Janitor Closet Division
  • The Ladder Company Holdouts
  • The Laundromat Spin Cycle Specter
  • The Lint Collector
  • The Mallow Bay Marshmallow Patrol
  • The Midnight Carousel Disturbance
  • The Museum Armor That Walks
  • The Nether Falls Night Desk
  • The Night Call Crew

T, continued

  • The Old Firehouse Pole Haunting
  • The Old Saltmarsh Siphon Crew
  • The Opera House Cold Spot
  • The Overdue Invoice Crew
  • The Page Turner
  • The Phantom Subway Car
  • The Pinegloom Proton Club
  • The Pipe Banger
  • The Pizza Oven Portal
  • The Planetarium Blackout
  • The Possessed Accordion
  • The Possessed Cuckoo Clock
  • The Possessed Lawn Sprinkler
  • The Possessed Parking Meter

T, continued

  • The Possessed Pay Phone
  • The Possessed Pipe Organ
  • The Possessed Player Piano
  • The Possessed Shopping Cart
  • The Possessed Snow Globe
  • The Possessed Toaster of Apartment 4C
  • The Quillhaven Night Owls
  • The Refrigerator That Growls
  • The Rooftop Water Tank Howler
  • The Rug Wrinkler
  • The Scoleri Brothers
  • The Secondhand Hearse Squad
  • The Self-Playing Jukebox Case
  • The Shiverton Trap Team

T, continued

  • The Shoebox Trap
  • The Singing Radiator of Twelfth Street
  • The Skating Rink After Hours
  • The Slime Scoop
  • The Slime Shift
  • The Spinning Barber Pole Case
  • The Spirit Level
  • The Sub-Basement Furnace Face
  • The Sub-Basement Specialists
  • The Television That Watches Back
  • The Thermostat Fiddler
  • The Wax Museum After Dark
  • The Weeping Vending Machine
  • Thessk the Chamberlain

T, continued

  • Third Shift Spectral Removal
  • Thistle Harbor Ghostbusters
  • Thistle Harbor Haunt Control
  • Thrumm the Janitor of the Void
  • Tickler
  • Tilda Rasmussen
  • Tobias Zelinka
  • Tobin's Spirit Guide
  • Toll Booth Tilly
  • Torvax the Archivist
  • Trap Caddy
  • Trevor Spengler
  • Trudy Habersham
  • Tumnok the Patient
  • Two Packs and a Trap

U: 5 names

  • Umber City Specter Collectors
  • Umbrella Flipper
  • Unanchored Reading-Room Shusher
  • Urzoth the Bellringer
  • Uzrath the Bookkeeper

V: 14 names

  • Vapor Jar
  • Vapor Springs Ghostbusters
  • Vapor Vacuum
  • Vapor-Trailing Taxi Fare
  • Vaporous Elevator Passenger
  • Veldra the Threshold Warden
  • Vern Sadowski
  • Vexilla the Hostess
  • Vharn the Drovnian
  • Vigo the Carpathian
  • Vinz Clortho the Keymaster
  • Volgath the Caretaker
  • Vorga the Understudy
  • Vosk the Voskovian

W: 8 names

  • Walt Pruitt
  • Walter Peck
  • Wickham Falls Spirit Wranglers
  • Wide-Ranging Harbor Fog Form
  • Winnie Blankenship
  • Winston Zeddemore
  • Wispy Beard
  • Wraith Rake

X: 1 name

  • Xorbal the Notary

Y: 4 names

  • Yarnoth the Piper
  • Yawner
  • Ylgra the Hinge of Worlds
  • Yomtek the Collector of Keys

Z: 3 names

  • Zandor the Zandorian
  • Zorvane the Herald
  • Zuul the Gatekeeper