Gorgon Name Generator

In Greek myth there are only three gorgons: Medusa (Medousa, 'guardian' or 'ruler'), Stheno ('forceful'), and Euryale ('far-roaming'), daughters of the sea gods Phorcys and Ceto and sisters of the grey Graeae, Enyo, Deino, and Pemphredo. Their names are ordinary Greek nouns and adjectives given to monstrous women, which is the key to naming new ones. The Greek word gorgos means 'dreadful', and the related name Gorgo was used by real Spartan women, including the queen who was Leonidas's wife.

The names here are constructed the same way, from ancient Greek roots: ophis and drakon for serpent, herpeton for crawling thing, lithos and petra for stone, blepsis and opsis for gaze, phobos and phrike for terror, and the endings -a, -e, -essa, -one, and -is that Greek gave to female names. So Lithessa is roughly 'stone woman', Ophiothrix is 'snake-hair', and Derkomene means 'she who stares'. Alongside them are related monsters and dread goddesses of the same mythic family (Echidna, Lamia, Skylla, the Erinyes, Achlys) whose names suit gorgon characters, and a handful of Latin-flavored fantasy names for settings that prefer the D&D medusa over the Greek original.

For a gorgon that reads as truly Greek, prefer k over c, -os and -e over -us and -a, and let the name mean something about stone, sight, or snakes.