Greek Warrior Name Generator

Greek warrior names are almost all compounds that announce what a man was meant to be. The martial roots are easy to spot once you know them: machos (battle) in Aristomachos and Telemachos, nike (victory) in Nikandros and Stratonikos, kratos (power) in Timokrates, sthenos (strength) in Demosthenes, kleos (glory) in Perikles and Agathokles, laos (host) in Menelaos and Archelaos, and the prefixes Alexi (defender), Thrasy (bold), Deino (terrible) and Polem (war). Leonidas is simply lion-son. A name like Deinomachos or Thrasyleon would not have raised an eyebrow in a Spartan mess.

A warrior was identified by more than the name. In an army roster or on a grave stele he was Dexileos son of Lysanias, or Brasidas of Sparta, and a famous man picked up an epithet: Demetrios Poliorketes (the Besieger), Kleitos the Black, Aias the Great. Rank words such as polemarch, lochagos, hipparch and navarch were offices, not names, and the Spartans had their own vocabulary of enomotarch, Skiritai and Spartiate.

This list opens with the heroes of the Iliad and the Greek myths, then the historical Spartans, Athenians, Thebans and Macedonians, the Amazons and fighting women, and a few later Byzantine and 1821 figures. After that come original names in Greek spelling (k not c, -os not -us): bare names, city forms, patronymics, epithets and ranked officers.