Imp Name Generator

Imps are the smallest devils in the infernal hierarchy: winged, horned, stinger-tailed, and far more interested in trickery than in open combat. In D&D and Pathfinder they serve as warlock familiars, spies for archdevils, and the fine-print enforcers of infernal contracts. In older European folklore an imp is a household sprite or a witch's familiar, kept in a bottle or a ring, that curdles milk, hides keys and whispers gossip. A good imp name has to carry both sides: a whiff of brimstone and a lot of petty malice.

That gives you three useful naming styles. Sharp, spiky invented names (Skreek, Vezzik, Zaltar, Nabrix) with lots of K, X and Z sounds are the classic tabletop approach and echo the harsher devil names imps serve under. English folk-imp names lean on old words for tricks and mischief: Puck, Bogle, Filch, Wheedle, Widdershins, Pettifog. And the funniest imps carry a self-important epithet that undercuts them: Ozzik the Unimportant, Vezzik the Almost-Mighty, Quazzim the Contractual.

Whatever style you choose, keep it short. Imps are quick and small, and a two-syllable name with a hiss or a click in it says that far better than something long and grand. Save the multi-part titles for the moment an imp is trying to impress a summoner.