Mage Name Generator

A mage name does a different job from a warrior's or a rogue's. Mages in most fantasy are learned and a little apart from ordinary society, so their names tend toward the scholarly and the old-fashioned: Latin and Greek shapes (Aurelian, Thessaly, Archelaus), medieval European given names that have fallen out of use (Oswin, Ottoline, Leofric), and surnames that sound like places or old families rather than professions. When a setting wants its mages to feel ancient or inhuman, the names shrink to a single word with unusual consonant clusters, like Vaelrith, Quorrath or Zalkareth.

Epithets are the other signature of the mage. A scholar earns a by-name from a deed, a habit or a tower (Orindel the Unbound, Hesta of the Salt Tower), and titles such as Magister, Archmagus, battlemage or hedge mage tell you where someone stands in the hierarchy of a magical order before you know anything else.

This generator mixes all of these: full names with quiet, bookish surnames; single-word archmage names; epithet names; names drawn from Persian, Arabic, East Asian, Indian, African and Mesoamerican naming traditions for settings that are not medieval Europe; and titled mages from apprentice to court mage. Pick the register that matches your setting: academic, ancient or rural.