Inquisitor Name Generator

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Generate Warhammer 40k inquisitor names in the Black Library register: Gothic first-and-surname pairs like Gregor Eisenhorn, Lord Inquisitors, epithets, Ordo affiliations and a few canon names for calibration. Built for Inquisitor and Kill Team warbands, Dark Heresy and Imperium Maledictum campaigns, and fan fiction.

About inquisitor names

Inquisitor names in Warhammer 40,000 sound like they were lifted from a baroque European court and then left to rust for ten millennia. Canon agents such as Gregor Eisenhorn, Gideon Ravenor, Amberley Vail, Fyodor Karamazov and Torquemada Coteaz set the template: a weighty Old Earth given name (Latin, Germanic, Slavic or Biblical) attached to a terse, consonant-heavy surname. The result reads as a real person rather than a fantasy title, which matters because inquisitors are characters first and instruments of the Imperium second.

The names here follow that pattern and add the trappings a tabletop or RPG character sheet usually wants: the Inquisitor and Lord Inquisitor honorifics, an Ordo affiliation (Hereticus for witch hunters, Malleus for daemon hunters, Xenos for alien hunters, plus minor ordos like Sicarius and Chronos), and the kind of epithet other agents mutter behind a puritan's back. Most entries are original; the handful of canon names are included so you can check your own against Black Library tone.

When you choose, think about faction. Puritans suit severe, saint-like names (Ignatius Pell, Magdalena Sorrow); radicals and Xanthites wear stranger, more ornamental ones (Hieronymus Vastch, Balthazar Kroon). A surname that could belong to a minor noble house or a hive-city bureaucrat always lands better than one that sounds like a sword.

How to choose inquisitor names

  • Pick the Ordo first. Hereticus agents take austere Biblical or Latin names, Malleus agents heavy Germanic ones, and Xenos agents tend toward scholarly, slightly foreign-sounding surnames.
  • Use the honorific sparingly. In play the character is mostly addressed as 'Inquisitor' plus surname, so make sure the surname alone carries weight: Voke, Kholl, Mourne, Strix.
  • Give a puritan a plain, unbending name and a radical an ornate one; the contrast between Caius Haldane and Baldassare Kroon tells the table who will burn whom.
  • Add an epithet only after the character earns it in the story (the Witchfinder, the Unflinching). Starting with one feels like a title rather than a reputation.
  • Check your warband: the inquisitor's name should sound different from their acolytes and interrogators, who usually have humbler, shorter names.

Frequently asked questions

Are these canon Warhammer 40k inquisitor names?

A small set are canon for reference (Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Vail, Karamazov, Coteaz, Greyfax, Czevak, Kryptman, Lok). The rest are original names written in the same Gothic Imperial style, so they are safe to use for your own characters.

How do inquisitor names differ between the Ordos?

Nothing in the lore forces a naming style, but authors tend to give Ordo Hereticus agents severe, saintly names, Ordo Malleus agents hard Germanic or Latin ones, and Ordo Xenos agents scholarly or slightly exotic names. The entries marked with an Ordo show that pattern.

Can I use these names for Dark Heresy, Wrath and Glory or Imperium Maledictum?

Yes. They work for player inquisitors, patron inquisitors who send the party on missions, or NPC rivals. Drop the honorific for an interrogator or acolyte who has not yet earned the rosette.

Should an inquisitor have a title or a single name?

Most are known as 'Inquisitor' plus surname, and Lord Inquisitor is reserved for the senior figures of a conclave. Single-name inquisitors exist (Coteaz, Kryptman) but are usually famous enough that the first name has fallen away. For a new character, a full name plus honorific is the safe choice.

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A: 31 names

  • Abel Varanthes
  • Absalom Crane
  • Adalbert Kranz
  • Adela Moraine
  • Adelheid Vasq
  • Agathe Renquist
  • Agnes Thornewood of the Ordo Xenos
  • Agnieszka Voll
  • Alaric Merridew
  • Alaric Thann the Puritan
  • Aldric Nemesor
  • Alexius Varn
  • Amadeus Kest
  • Amberley Vail
  • Ambrose Kell
  • Anais Grimwald
  • Anneliese Vorn
  • Annelore Kirsch of the Ordo Hereticus
  • Annika Vold
  • Anselm Graves
  • Ansgar Mortlock
  • Antonius Dreke
  • Anzhela Brannoch
  • Aoife Carron
  • Archibald Vex
  • Arkady Velhorn
  • Augustin Vere
  • Augusto Drask
  • Aurelian Kest
  • Aurelio Pendrake
  • Aurelius Bane

B: 16 names

  • Baldassare Kron
  • Balthazar Kroon
  • Barnaby Mort
  • Bartholomew Grey
  • Bastian Mohr
  • Beatrix Vollmer
  • Bellamy Trask
  • Benedek Solari
  • Benedek Vaarn
  • Benedicta Hollis
  • Berenike Hask
  • Brannoch Vale
  • Brigid Tallow
  • Brisca Thorne
  • Bronislaw Czevak
  • Brunhild Vex

C: 21 names

  • Cador Wulfe
  • Caedmon Vell
  • Caius Haldane
  • Casimir Vorlath
  • Cassia Voldemont
  • Cassian Oddrun
  • Castor Drey
  • Cato Brennis of the Ordo Machinum
  • Celestine Marr
  • Cerys Hallam
  • Clara Ashmoor
  • Clementine Rook
  • Constantin Graal
  • Cordelia Bray
  • Cornelius Shrike
  • Corvin Ashenhart
  • Corvus Danneskjold
  • Corwen Pale the Unsmiling
  • Cristobal Rey
  • Cyprian Moor
  • Cyrus Kalendar

D: 9 names

  • Dagmar Orsk
  • Dagny Holmgard
  • Delphine Harrow
  • Desmond Ashe
  • Dietrich Haas
  • Dmitri Vaskov
  • Dominic Thracke
  • Dorian Skell
  • Dorothea Vaux

E: 22 names

  • Eberhard Ruhl
  • Eirlys Vane
  • Eleanor Strang
  • Eleazar Mund
  • Eleonora Sathe
  • Elke Rasmussen
  • Elodie Varsavia
  • Elspeth Vanthoor
  • Emeric Halberd
  • Emilio Strasse
  • Ephraim Sayle
  • Erasmus Tull
  • Eudora Pike
  • Eudoxia Marr
  • Euphemia Castor of the Ordo Scriptorum
  • Eustace Morrow
  • Evander Kyle
  • Evrard Lysse
  • Ewart Malkin
  • Ezekiel Calder
  • Ezekiel Drayce
  • Ezra Kryptman

F: 9 names

  • Fabius Gaunt
  • Fenella Gorse
  • Fenwick Drast
  • Ferdinand Oakes
  • Flavia Torquil
  • Florian Haske
  • Freya Lindgaard
  • Fulk Harrowgate
  • Fyodor Karamazov

G: 11 names

  • Gaius Lorentz
  • Gerhardt Malloch
  • Gideon Harrowgate of the Ordo Malleus
  • Gideon Ravenor
  • Giselbert Orne
  • Godfrey Halvane
  • Gottfried Rell
  • Gregor Eisenhorn
  • Gregorius Pell
  • Greta Lindholm
  • Gwendolyn Hask

H: 22 names

  • Hadrian Voss
  • Halvard Brecht
  • Hanna Verlaine
  • Hanne Westergaard
  • Harriet Vandal
  • Hector Rex
  • Hedda Skorn
  • Heinrich Sable
  • Hektor Vane
  • Helewise Gault
  • Helewyse Tarrant
  • Helga Strand
  • Helynna Valeria
  • Hesper Quill
  • Hester Vandrake
  • Hestia Vallon
  • Hieronymus Vastch
  • Hild Kraussen
  • Hilda Venger
  • Hollis Brand
  • Horatio Belisar
  • Humbert Sterne

I: 137 names

  • Idunn Skarsgaard
  • Ignatius Pell
  • Ignatius Varrow the Unforgiving
  • Ilona Marsh
  • Ilsabet Coen
  • Ilse Vandemaar
  • Imogen Threlkeld
  • Ingeborg Hael
  • Ingolf Ravensbrook
  • Ingrid Stahlreich
  • Ingrith Vosk
  • Inigo Drave
  • Inquisitor Abram Kessel
  • Inquisitor Adrian Kell
  • Inquisitor Alessa Corvin
  • Inquisitor Ambrose Kettering
  • Inquisitor Ambrosius Vellacourt
  • Inquisitor Anja Rothwell
  • Inquisitor Ansel Moravec
  • Inquisitor Anselmo Ruiz-Vane
  • Inquisitor Astrid Kallenberg
  • Inquisitor Aurelio Tasker
  • Inquisitor Bastien Morrow
  • Inquisitor Beatriz Olmo
  • Inquisitor Benedikt Harlan
  • Inquisitor Bertrand Malle
  • Inquisitor Bettina Hollow
  • Inquisitor Brenna Soltau
  • Inquisitor Bruno Vessey
  • Inquisitor Caelan Drury
  • Inquisitor Cassius Weld
  • Inquisitor Celia Sarkany
  • Inquisitor Clarice Vendrell
  • Inquisitor Clothilde Ravn

I, continued

  • Inquisitor Corbin Thale
  • Inquisitor Cressida Vaughn
  • Inquisitor Cyril Daskalos
  • Inquisitor Dagmar Holst
  • Inquisitor Dagny Klaasen
  • Inquisitor Delia Voss-Harrow
  • Inquisitor Dorota Szabo
  • Inquisitor Edgar Trask
  • Inquisitor Edmund Sarrow
  • Inquisitor Edvard Thrane
  • Inquisitor Elias Jorund
  • Inquisitor Elowen Strand
  • Inquisitor Esme Valcourt
  • Inquisitor Ezekias Wrath
  • Inquisitor Ezra Vondrak
  • Inquisitor Ferdinand Brasque
  • Inquisitor Ferris Galt
  • Inquisitor Galina Mortensen
  • Inquisitor Gerard Lusk
  • Inquisitor Gretchen Voll
  • Inquisitor Guido Varnas
  • Inquisitor Gunther Ferrax
  • Inquisitor Gwenna Cray
  • Inquisitor Hadrian Rake
  • Inquisitor Hanna Gerlach
  • Inquisitor Hartmut Skoll
  • Inquisitor Hedwig Lorne
  • Inquisitor Helena Marrowick
  • Inquisitor Hollis Vare
  • Inquisitor Honora Styx
  • Inquisitor Hugo Malvane
  • Inquisitor Ignatz Kremm
  • Inquisitor Ilaria Novak
  • Inquisitor Imre Sandoval

I, continued

  • Inquisitor Ines Vallory
  • Inquisitor Jakob Venheim
  • Inquisitor Jeremiah Colt
  • Inquisitor Jonas Ulveth
  • Inquisitor Juno Aldercott
  • Inquisitor Kasimir Roth
  • Inquisitor Lenore Vashti
  • Inquisitor Leon Kasparov
  • Inquisitor Leopold Vansittart
  • Inquisitor Liesl Brandauer
  • Inquisitor Lorenzo Strake
  • Inquisitor Lucas Hallward
  • Inquisitor Lydia Vorhaus
  • Inquisitor Maelys Torvane
  • Inquisitor Magnus Thrale
  • Inquisitor Malcolm Straker
  • Inquisitor Marek Dunholm
  • Inquisitor Marisa Kettle
  • Inquisitor Marisol Drenne
  • Inquisitor Marit Jansdottir
  • Inquisitor Marlena Fitch
  • Inquisitor Mavis Torren
  • Inquisitor Meridia Locke
  • Inquisitor Nika Sorrel
  • Inquisitor Nikolaus Brecker
  • Inquisitor Noelle Carrow
  • Inquisitor Odette Vaillant
  • Inquisitor Oksana Vetrov
  • Inquisitor Olenna Varrick
  • Inquisitor Osric Helmsdale
  • Inquisitor Ottavia Brunt
  • Inquisitor Perenna Holt
  • Inquisitor Pernille Vox
  • Inquisitor Pietr Volkane

I, continued

  • Inquisitor Radmila Strachan
  • Inquisitor Radomir Kasch
  • Inquisitor Ramiel Hask
  • Inquisitor Rhea Kastner
  • Inquisitor Roald Sandergaard
  • Inquisitor Rosalie Thurn
  • Inquisitor Roxane Draal
  • Inquisitor Ruprecht Galle
  • Inquisitor Rurik Stahlbrand
  • Inquisitor Sabrina Khell
  • Inquisitor Selene Vaar
  • Inquisitor Solveig Arnell
  • Inquisitor Soren Vikane
  • Inquisitor Stefan Garrick
  • Inquisitor Sturm Vandalis
  • Inquisitor Tamara Essler
  • Inquisitor Thea Morrisant
  • Inquisitor Thomasine Vell
  • Inquisitor Tobiah Sterling
  • Inquisitor Tomasz Fell
  • Inquisitor Tristam Vorr
  • Inquisitor Uriah Kanne
  • Inquisitor Veda Morrant
  • Inquisitor Viola Greymantle
  • Inquisitor Virgil Thanatos
  • Inquisitor Winfried Haupt
  • Inquisitor Wolfram Stieg
  • Inquisitor Wren Sallander
  • Inquisitor Ysabel Tarn
  • Irina Scholz
  • Isadora Cavell
  • Ishmael Torq
  • Isidore Kane
  • Isolde Vrayne of the Ordo Astra
  • Ivo Cassander

J: 17 names

  • Jacobus Mere
  • Jaq Draco
  • Jasper Fenn
  • Jedediah Flint the Witchfinder
  • Jena Orechiel
  • Jericho Stane of the Ordo Malleus
  • Jerome Ashkelon
  • Jerzy Kalvan
  • Jessamine Vell
  • Joachim Valdis
  • Jocasta Verhoeven
  • Joscelin Tarrasque
  • Josiah Blackmantle
  • Jovan Keltis
  • Judith Marrow
  • Jurgen Stahl
  • Justinian Hale

K: 11 names

  • Kael Drusus
  • Kaius Vorn the Unflinching
  • Kalistrat Rensk
  • Kaspar Lindqvist
  • Katarinya Greyfax
  • Katerina Holt
  • Katya Rusalkine
  • Kenelm Thoris
  • Kirsten Holle
  • Konstantin Haller
  • Kristina Voll

L: 34 names

  • Larissa Demont
  • Lavinia Coldwell
  • Lazarus Mourne
  • Leander Hask
  • Leofric Vast
  • Leontine Markgraf
  • Leontyne Vaal
  • Leopold Archambault
  • Lilith Abfequarn
  • Livia Carnock
  • Lorcan Ravell
  • Lord Inquisitor Augustine Sarr
  • Lord Inquisitor Brennick Halvor
  • Lord Inquisitor Cassiopeia Grendt
  • Lord Inquisitor Helmut Vandrake
  • Lord Inquisitor Maddox Verreaux
  • Lord Inquisitor Orsin Valgaard
  • Lord Inquisitor Ottoline Skarre
  • Lord Inquisitor Tessaly Morrgan
  • Lord Inquisitor Ysmay Calloran
  • Lorelei Ashgrave
  • Lorimer Gast
  • Lothaire Vedel
  • Lothar Grimm
  • Lucan Dravenne
  • Lucia Mordaine
  • Lucien Fairweather
  • Lucius Bane
  • Lucretius Varga
  • Lucrezia Valdane
  • Ludmila Korsk
  • Ludovic Scarn
  • Lukasz Brennick
  • Lysander Koll

M: 24 names

  • Maelik Thann
  • Magdalena Sorrow
  • Malachi Voren
  • Marcellus Vaan
  • Marcus Venner
  • Maren Castellane
  • Margarethe Vail
  • Marguerite Deschain
  • Marguerite Sel of the Ordo Xenos
  • Marius Hallstrom
  • Mathilde Grey
  • Matthias Cray
  • Matthias Roke
  • Maud Ashenbrook
  • Maxim Drozhin
  • Maximilian Orthos
  • Melusine Corr
  • Meredith Sallow the Radical
  • Mira Volsung
  • Mirabel Sarkov
  • Mirelle Dusant of the Ordo Sepulturum
  • Miriam Stroud
  • Mordecai Welles
  • Morgana Steiner

N: 9 names

  • Nadezhda Kormak
  • Nadia Grell
  • Nahum Drael
  • Nerys Vaal
  • Nestor Halvorsen
  • Nicodemus Vael
  • Nikodemus Flay
  • Noemi Falkenrath
  • Noor Valhaim

O: 14 names

  • Oberon Talask
  • Octavia Drusk
  • Octavia Ruhl of the Ordo Malleus
  • Octavian Skorr
  • Ondine Falk
  • Ophelia Dunmoor
  • Oriel Sandor
  • Orlando Vask
  • Orsolya Venn
  • Osgar Thale
  • Osric Dalmarr
  • Oswald Sterne
  • Ottilie Brask
  • Ottoline Graef

P: 11 names

  • Pavel Ostrakan
  • Percival Mordant
  • Perpetua Quell
  • Petra Halloway
  • Phaedra Kaine
  • Philemon Gault of the Ordo Chronos
  • Philippa Draskovic
  • Phineas Kane
  • Piers Garrow
  • Primus Vandemar
  • Ptolemy Strake

Q: 2 names

  • Quillon Hart
  • Quintus Varro

R: 20 names

  • Radulf Kenn
  • Rafe Killoran
  • Ragna Voldsen
  • Ragnar Halvek
  • Raimund Thel
  • Ravenna Strix
  • Remus Vaalk
  • Reuben Scarrow
  • Rhiannon Vorst
  • Roderick Vell
  • Rodric Kane
  • Rodrigo Malvar the Unbending
  • Rosa Kessemeier
  • Rosalind Achterberg
  • Rosamund Kyrie
  • Roswitha Hell
  • Rowena Stross
  • Ruben Castillane of the Ordo Hereticus
  • Rupert Vanquist
  • Ruth Castellane

S: 22 names

  • Sabina Corve
  • Sabine Mortlake
  • Sabra Dunning
  • Samuel Thrace
  • Saskia Ormond
  • Sebastian Draig
  • Seraphina Cutter
  • Seraphine Dolmaire
  • Severin Kholl
  • Severus Achtmann
  • Sidonie Krall
  • Sigismund Ferrox
  • Sigismund Vaye
  • Sigrid Harrow
  • Sigrun Thale
  • Silvan Ketteridge
  • Simeon Drale
  • Siobhan Thrace
  • Solomon Lok
  • Solvei Thane
  • Stellan Vorke
  • Sybilla Ravenshaw

T: 18 names

  • Tamsin Hollowell
  • Tancred Ossian
  • Tatiana Drusk
  • Teodora Vasek
  • Thaddeus Voke
  • Theodora Rann
  • Theron Achebe
  • Thessaly Corvane
  • Thorne Ashvane
  • Tiberian Greaves
  • Tiberius Grell
  • Titania Vesk
  • Titus Maro
  • Tobias Raske
  • Tomas Ferreira Vex
  • Torquemada Coteaz
  • Torvald Rusk of the Ordo Barbarus
  • Tybalt Marrowick

U: 5 names

  • Ulla Hartmann
  • Ulric Strasse
  • Ulysses Marsk
  • Undine Grast
  • Urien Vasque

V: 13 names

  • Valdemar Kraus
  • Valentina Orsk
  • Valerius Thorne
  • Vanja Reinholt
  • Varnus Kaldrek
  • Vasily Orlok of the Ordo Sicarius
  • Verity Mallon
  • Veronika Strauss
  • Vesper Lorne
  • Violante Strake
  • Vittorio Carne
  • Vivienne Draskell
  • Vortigern Kell

W: 6 names

  • Waldemar Strigoi
  • Wendel Crane
  • Wilhelm Korvane
  • Wilhelmina Strauss the Hammer of Heretics
  • Wilhelmina Tarsk
  • Willa Stroud

X: 3 names

  • Xanthe Corvel
  • Xenia Orlov
  • Xerxes Holm

Y: 7 names

  • Yelena Drovnik
  • Yolanda Vreyk
  • Yorick Sander
  • Yrsa Hellmark
  • Ysabeau Traske
  • Ysmene Achard the Silent
  • Ysolde Markov

Z: 6 names

  • Zacharias Mott
  • Zadok Ruhl
  • Zebedee Kark
  • Zenobia Kael
  • Zofia Wrenfeld
  • Zoltan Kray