Grim Dawn Name Generator
Gaslight survivors, witches and eldritch horrors of Cairn
Generate character names for Grim Dawn's world of Cairn: gritty Victorian and Germanic survivors like Dietrich Falkner, Black Legion soldiers and Luminari inquisitors, witches and occultists, apostrophe-cut Chthonian names like Kra'Thal, Aetherial names, outlaw nicknames and boss names with an epithet.
About Grim Dawn names
Grim Dawn is set in Cairn, a gaslight-era world that has just lost a war on two fronts: Aetherials who possess human bodies, and Chthonians pulled out of the Void by the blood cult of Ch'thon. The people left behind have plain, weathered names with a Victorian and Germanic ring. The game's own cast shows it: Ulgrim, Captain Bourbon, Warden Krieg, Inquisitor Creed and the outlaw Darius Cronley.
The list covers eight kinds of name. Survivors get full names such as Dietrich Falkner and Edith Coldharbor. Black Legion soldiers and the Luminari carry a rank or an office (Marshal Leona Falkenrath, Inquisitor Tiberius Locke), with brothers, sisters and necromancers for a zealot or a death cultist. Witches, occultists and cultists run from Belladra to Auntie Wormwood. Chthonian names are cut by an apostrophe in the manner of Shar'Zul and Grava'Thul (Kra'Thal, Mal'Dreth), while Aetherial names are long and smooth (Marethion, Ysandrel). Outlaws go by nicknames such as Buckshot Odette, and boss names add an epithet: Vesper the Gallows Bride, Ulric the Carrion Duke.
A few characters from the game appear as anchors; everything else is new and written in the style of the setting. This is a fan-made list with no connection to Crate Entertainment.
How to choose Grim Dawn names
- Match the name to the mastery. A Soldier or Demolitionist suits a Black Legion rank, an Inquisitor a Luminari title, an Occultist or Necromancer a witch or cultist name, and a Nightblade an outlaw nickname.
- For a human hero keep it plain: one Victorian or Germanic given name and a hard surname, as in Gideon Kessler or Greta Jaeger. Nobody in Cairn has time for a grand name.
- A Chthonian name is two short, guttural halves split by an apostrophe, with a capital after the break and plenty of Z, K, TH and UL: Vor'Zhul, Raz'Kheth. Save these for villains and things that should not be here.
- Give a hardcore character an epithet once it has survived something. Tolvar Grimhook and Grelda Rotmother read like people with a history.
- Run one theme across your roster of alts: all Black Legion ranks, all inquisitors, or a whole gang of outlaws in the manner of Cronley's crew.
Frequently asked questions
What kind of names fit Grim Dawn?
Human names in Cairn sound Victorian and Germanic, short and a little worn, like the game's Ulgrim, Creed and Bourbon. In this list that means names such as Silas Dunmore, Lotte Schaffer and Ignatz Ulbricht, plus ranks and titles for soldiers, inquisitors and witches.
How do Chthonian and Aetherial names differ?
Chthonians come from the Void and serve Ch'thon, and the game gives them harsh names broken by an apostrophe, as in Shar'Zul and Grava'Thul; the list follows with Kra'Thal, Ek'Zul and Zar'Thol the Rift Tyrant. Aetherials are spirits that take human hosts, so the list offers smooth invented names such as Marethion and Ysandrel beside titles for a possessed host, like Possessed Captain Reiner.
Are these names taken from the game?
Only a handful: Ulgrim, Captain Bourbon, Warden Krieg, Inquisitor Creed, Darius Cronley, Anasteria, Shar'Zul, Grava'Thul and Alkamos, Lord Executioner are in the list as anchors for the style. The other names are new and were written to sit beside them.
How do I make a boss or nemesis style name?
Take a short, hard name and add an epithet built on a fate, a trade or an image. The list does it three ways: with an article (Zelmira the Hexbound, Varkus the Shackled), with a title after a comma (Orsolya, Lady of Ash) and as a single compound byname (Tolvar Grimhook).
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All 500 Grim Dawn names
A: 22 names
- Adela Roth
- Aelistrae
- Aethertouched Wilmer
- Agatha Nine-Nails
- Agatha Pennock
- Alaric Holtz
- Alden Roark
- Aldravane the Usurper
- Alistair Penrose
- Alkamos, Lord Executioner
- Allumeria
- Ambrose Lockridge
- Anasteria
- Annelise Wellerman
- Ansel Brandauer
- Ansgar the Undying Sentinel
- Anton Wexford
- Archon Velmareth
- Ashen Verity
- Aunt Calamity
- Auntie Wormwood
- Az'Morrath
B: 34 names
- Balthus Coffinmaker
- Barnaby Tanner
- Baron Aldous Vex
- Barrowman Hugh
- Beatrix Holtzer
- Belladra
- Bertram Coldwell
- Bhal'Rakh
- Bhor'Gul the Sunderer
- Bitterroot
- Blackjack Renner
- Bleak Josiah
- Bloodsworn Calix
- Bloodsworn Hedra
- Bloodsworn Tolliver Reed
- Bloodsworn Ysarin
- Bonecharmer Oslo
- Bonesaw Rudi
- Boss Hendry
- Bound Sister Maelis
- Brannoch the Rust King
- Brass Annie
- Brother Aurelius
- Brother Cassian Flint
- Brother Eldric Vaughn
- Brother Ignace
- Brother Lucan Ashford
- Brother Markus Lowell
- Brother Osgood Pyre
- Brother Septimus
- Brother Venn
- Brunhilde Halder
- Bruno Schaffner
- Buckshot Odette
C: 45 names
- Calyxtria
- Candle Maud
- Captain Aldric Stahl
- Captain Bourbon
- Captain Emmeline Harcourt
- Captain Greaves
- Captain Henrike Vogt
- Captain Isolde Krantz
- Captain Lorenz Adler
- Captain Marius Hale
- Captain Roderick Thane
- Captain Wessel
- Carrow the Pale Rider
- Castellan Rudiger Ash
- Cecily Maddock
- Cedric Yarrowby
- Ch'zar
- Clara Morrow
- Clement Haversham
- Coalheart
- Coffin Nail Ned
- Commander Garrick Albrecht
C, continued
- Commander Octavia Sterne
- Commander Ruprecht Lang
- Commander Thessaly Vane
- Conrad Weller
- Constance Grieve
- Cordelia Marlowe
- Corporal Agnes Ritter
- Corporal Briar Lowe
- Corporal Dolph Hennig
- Corporal Ham Woodrow
- Corporal Nessa Grau
- Corporal Stefan Wirth
- Corporal Tully
- Corvaleth, Voice of the Aether
- Corvane, Blade of Solael
- Corwin Hargreave
- Crael the Thrice-Hanged
- Crone Hildegund
- Crone of the Withered Fen
- Crow Maggie
- Crystal-Born Aveline
- Cuthbert Ostler
- Cutter Rask
D: 15 names
- Dagmar Zeller
- Dame Hollis the Merciless
- Darius Cronley
- Deadeye Mallory
- Dhar'Zeth
- Dietrich Falkner
- Ditch Lily
- Dorian Kell
- Dra'Vuul the Voidfed
- Dravik, Bane of the Legion
- Dreadmason Orrin
- Dreamless Ione
- Drez'Ul
- Dunmar the Gravecaller
- Dusty Roe
E: 16 names
- Edith Coldharbor
- Edmund Ashcombe
- Ek'Zul
- Eldon Fairweather
- Elke Wachter
- Elsbeth Crowhurst
- Ember Kate
- Emil Rademacher
- Emissary Thalassine
- Emmerich, Warden of the Pit
- Enoch Morland
- Erasmus Crowther
- Eremistral
- Ernst Vollrath
- Esther Straub
- Ezrin the Flesh Tithe
F: 10 names
- Familiar-Keeper Odwin
- Father Abelard
- Father Corbin Ames
- Fenwick the Bog King
- Ferdinand Aldersgate
- Fleshshaper Irrandel
- Fleshweaver Ondrielle
- Frieda Mertens
- Fritz Aumann
- Fuse
G: 17 names
- Gallows Jack
- Gallows Meg
- Garrett Hollis
- Garrick the Flayer
- Georgina Penhale
- Ghar'Zul, Blood of Ch'thon
- Ghol'Varr
- Gideon Kessler
- Gla'Zuth the Obsidian
- Gor'Vash
- Grava'Thul
- Greave the Oathbreaker
- Grelda Rotmother
- Greta Jaeger
- Grinner
- Gunther Dreyfuss
- Gutter Prince Mordecai
H: 22 names
- Hagra the Marsh Widow
- Halcyrion
- Halvard, Lord Warden
- Hangman's Hal
- Harlan Voigtmann
- Harriet Dunleigh
- Hector the Bellringer
- Hedwig Kroll
- Hemlock Jane
- Henrietta Lockhart
- Hesper Nightbloom
- Hester Calloway
- Hexen Brigitta
- Hexen Liesl Krahe
- Hexen Walburga
- Hobart Pruitt
- Hobb the Furnace
- Hobnail Fritz
- Horace Bexhill
- Hugo Wachtel
- Hul'Vek
- Husk of Deacon Elias
I: 32 names
- Ignatz Ulbricht
- Ikh'Thul
- Illumaris
- Ilsabet, Hand of Bysmiel
- Ilse Dreyer
- Ilsevra the Plaguemother
- Ilvarethis
- Ingrid Steiner
- Inquisitor Adelheid Brandeis
- Inquisitor Calla Weir
- Inquisitor Corvin Thrale
- Inquisitor Creed
- Inquisitor Desmond Ashgrove
- Inquisitor Gerhardt Vance
- Inquisitor Hesper Lorne
- Inquisitor Honora Blackthorn
- Inquisitor Ignatius Fell
- Inquisitor Lisbeth Arden
- Inquisitor Lucius Marrow
- Inquisitor Marguerite Sable
- Inquisitor Maximilian Roux
- Inquisitor Roland Graff
- Inquisitor Seraphine Holt
- Inquisitor Severin Mohr
- Inquisitor Thorne
- Inquisitor Tiberius Locke
- Inquisitor Vesna Krol
- Inquisitor Zebediah Ward
- Irma Vollmer
- Isidore Blackwood
- Isolwen
- Ithrenelle
J: 5 names
- Jasper Marlin
- Johanna Radek
- Joram the Tollkeeper
- Josef Krollman
- Josephine Blackwell
K: 11 names
- Kathe Engel
- Katrin Garroway
- Kel'Dhar
- Kha'Nesh the Bloodcaller
- Kha'Zoul
- Klaus Nachtigall
- Knuckles Orme
- Kor'Zhan the Bloodfed
- Kra'Thal
- Kragmar the Stonefather
- Krail the Harrower
L: 29 names
- Lady Isaura of the Black Veil
- Lash Corrigan
- Legionnaire Iris Morgenstern
- Legionnaire Kaspar Dunn
- Legionnaire Selma Weiss
- Legionnaire Varek
- Lemuel Strauber
- Lenore Ashdown
- Leopold Ingram
- Liesel Eisen
- Lieutenant Ashby
- Lieutenant Calder Finch
- Lieutenant Everard Sloane
- Lieutenant Joachim Meier
- Lieutenant Maren Stoltz
- Lieutenant Petra Hahn
- Lieutenant Renata Kraus
- Lieutenant Volker Rahn
- Lightless Ysolene
- Lisbet Coldhand
- Locksmith Ines
- Longshot Greer
- Lor'Zhaal
- Lothar Eisenhart
- Lotte Schaffer
- Lucan the Twice-Dead
- Lucky Sig
- Ludwig Mertz
- Lysavelle
M: 27 names
- Mabel Coombs
- Mad Hettie
- Madame Cinder
- Mal'Dreth
- Malgrave, Usurer of Souls
- Marethion
- Marrow Agnes
- Marrow the Unburied
- Marshal Hadrian Kreutz
- Marshal Leona Falkenrath
- Marta Brandt
- Mathilde Oakes
- Matthias Grieves
- Meridhael
- Mez'Koth, Herald of Ruin
- Millicent Graves
- Milo Underhill
- Mirela the Unquiet
- Mog'Thrak
- Mongrel Tom
- Morthessa
- Mortimer Gravesend
- Morvane, Keeper of Chains
- Mother Eudora Blight
- Mother Hesperine
- Mother Ravenna
- Mudlark Essie
N: 15 names
- Nails
- Nar'Gol, Maw of the Void
- Nar'Zuul
- Necromancer Aldous Grimm
- Necromancer Casimir Vole
- Necromancer Ottoline Dray
- Necromancer Sybil Vantress
- Necromancer Uriel Sark
- Nell Pruett
- Nerissa of the Drowned Bell
- Nez'Garoth
- Nikolaus Brenner
- Nine-Lives Greta
- Nyssandra
- Nyxallume
O: 29 names
- Obadiah Graveborn
- Obelisk-Warden Sethriel
- Occultist Dravos Kane
- Occultist Emeric Sloe
- Occultist Lysandra Voss
- Occultist Merrin Vale
- Occultist Petronella
- Occultist Varro Night
- Odette Varley
- Odo the Unshriven
- Odraline
- Og'Mareth, Tongue of the Void
- Ogg'Rath
- Old Flint
- Old Hollowtooth
- Old Ironjaw
- Old Mother Wick
- Oloriande
- One-Eyed Marta
- Oracle Ninian
- Oracle Sethra
- Orsolya, Lady of Ash
- Orthamellon
- Osric Pennywell
- Ossiriel
- Ottilie Falk
- Otto Steinfeld
- Ottomar the Unrepentant
- Oz'Ghul
P: 14 names
- Percival Oakhurst
- Phaedrelle
- Philippa Northcott
- Phineas Callow
- Possessed Captain Reiner
- Powder Kegan
- Preacher Amsel
- Private Emmet Kline
- Private Jonas Abel
- Private Lark
- Private Olga Dressler
- Private Trude Benner
- Private Wick Sorrel
- Prudence Fenn
Q: 8 names
- Qar'Thuul
- Quartermaster Bodo Fleischer
- Quartermaster Hetty Marsh
- Quartermaster Oswin Pratt
- Queen of Knives
- Quelastria
- Quick Nell
- Quillon, Scourge of the Wastes
R: 15 names
- Rakh'Shai the Bleeding Eye
- Rattlebone Tam
- Raven-Speaker Thessa
- Raz'Kheth
- Reanimator Ilveth
- Reanimator Vosk
- Red Ansel
- Reinhard Zellweg
- Rolf Achterberg
- Rook Halloran
- Rosalind Hargrove
- Rosamund the Red Reeve
- Royce Maddox
- Rupert Northam
- Rustjaw Abel
S: 44 names
- Sabine Ulmer
- Sallow Meg, Mother of Rats
- Saw Doctor
- Sawtooth
- Scarlip Wendel
- Sebastian Kruger
- Seer Adaline Moth
- Seer Ulmara
- Sefton the Whisperer
- Selmira
- Seraphine the Ember Saint
- Sergeant Bruna Kohl
- Sergeant Cole Braddock
- Sergeant Dunleavy
- Sergeant Hanne Lorentz
- Sergeant Hask
- Sergeant Mirela Voigt
- Sergeant Odell Crane
- Sergeant Pike
- Sergeant Rutger Baum
- Sergeant Tarn Ostrander
- Sevrastian
S, continued
- Sha'Garn the Riftborn
- Sha'Voreth
- Shar'Zul
- Shardspeaker Onderre
- Shiv Agnes
- Silas Dunmore
- Silas the Lamplighter
- Sister Benedetta
- Sister Calliope
- Sister Esme Crowe
- Sister Hanna Grimsby
- Sister Lucretia Wynn
- Sister Morwen Tallow
- Sister Odile
- Sister Ysolde
- Six-Bells Otto
- Skarn the Riftwalker
- Slim Carver
- Smoke Leary
- Solmeriane
- Stitch
- Sul'Kharn
T: 29 names
- Tabitha Yarrow
- Taken Sergeant Holbrook
- Tallow Jim
- Thaddeus Varleigh
- Thal'Nezh
- The Gentleman
- The Green-Eyed Governess
- The Hollow Magistrate
- The Lantern Widow
- The Pale Regent
- The Stitched Colonel
- The Voice in Mayor Thackery
- The Weeping Magistrate
- Thek'Ul the Gorged
- Theodora Osterhout
- Thessalune
- Thessaly Crowfoot
- Thessick, Queen of the Hive
- Thorne the Reaver King
- Thornwife Agda
- Thraz'Ul
- Thul'Vash the Flayed Prophet
- Tiberon, Hand of the Pyre
- Tinker Bram
- Tobias Eberhardt
- Tolvar Grimhook
- Tor'Gheist
- Trigger Wilma
- Two-Fingers Tull
U: 9 names
- Ul'Korr
- Ul'Thrak the Hungering
- Ulgrim
- Ulric the Carrion Duke
- Ulrich Hartmann
- Ursula Nachtmann
- Urz'Mal
- Usher of the Last Light
- Usurper Malthane
V: 20 names
- Valestria
- Vandrethil
- Varkus the Shackled
- Vassa, Eye of Dreeg
- Vel'Kazh
- Venomwright Aldara
- Veridaine
- Verity Rourke
- Vesper the Gallows Bride
- Vexandra
- Vigo Blackpowder
- Viktor Engelhardt
- Virelliane
- Viridian Soriel
- Vogh'Ren
- Vor'Kath the Unmaker
- Vor'Zhul
- Vraz'Okh
- Vul'Dren the Hollow
- Vulture Dan
W: 17 names
- Wagoner Sy
- Warden Krieg
- Warlord Hraban
- Wendell Garrow
- Werner Lindt
- Whisper
- Widow Sorrel
- Wilhelm Haas
- Wilhelmina Voss
- Winifred Bexley
- Witch Edda Blackthistle
- Witch Hagatha Fenn
- Witch Lunette
- Witch Ottoline of the Bog
- Witch Sabetha
- Wolfram the Gorehound
- Wretch-Lord Ezbiah
X: 3 names
- Xanthirael
- Xar'Voth the Blood Tide
- Xul'Gorr
Y: 5 names
- Yeshka the Bone Seamstress
- Yor'Thaal
- Ysandrel
- Ysmerelda
- Yth'Zor the Harvester