Male Vampire Name Generator

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Generate male vampire names for every age of the undead: titled Old World lords like Count Matei Văcărescu and Graf Eberhard von Rabenhorst, ancient one-word elders like Aurelian and Khosrow, and quiet modern covers like Cole Marrow.

About male vampire names

Male vampires have been led by their titles since the start: Polidori's Lord Ruthven (1819), Sir Francis Varney of the penny dreadfuls, Stoker's Count Dracula (1897) and the Count Orlok of Nosferatu (1922). A masculine vampire name usually does three jobs at once. It says where he is from, how old he is, and what rank he held while he was alive.

This list keeps those conventions straight. Titles are in their masculine forms and matched to a region: Count, Baron and Lord in the west, Graf and Margrave in German lands, Voivode and Boyar in Wallachia and Moldavia, Knez among the South Slavs. Slavic surnames use their masculine endings (Obolensky, Czarnecki, Černý, where a woman would be Obolenskaya, Czarnecka, Černá). Hungarian names are given in Western order, although in Hungary the family name comes first. Roman elders carry the three-part name of a male citizen: personal name, clan name and a cognomen such as Niger, Corvus or Dentatus.

Truly ancient vampires drop the surname altogether (Aurelian, Khosrow, Amenemhat), because they are older than family names. At the other end are cover names, short and forgettable on purpose, like Cole Marrow or Adam Crane, for a vampire who rents a flat and pays his bills. Bynames such as Lazar Twice-Buried are what the villagers call him.

How to choose male vampire names

  • Decide where and when he was turned before anything else, then pick a given name that was ordinary in that place and century. An ordinary name that has outlived its era is more unsettling than a name that only sounds dark.
  • Match the title to the surname. A Graf needs a German family name and a Voivode a Romanian one, while Count is safe nearly anywhere because English uses it for nobles from the whole continent.
  • Give an elder one name and a fledgling two. The longer a vampire has existed, the more of his name he has let fall away.
  • Pair a true name with a cover name and keep a thread between them, such as shared initials or a translated surname. Count Emeric Szentkirályi signing a lease as Emil Lindgren sets up a reveal for later.
  • Say the name aloud twice: once as a servant announcing him at a ball, once as a hunter cursing him. It should work in both voices.

Frequently asked questions

What are some good male vampire names?

For an aristocrat, try Count Matei Văcărescu, Graf Eberhard von Rabenhorst or Lord Alaric Penhallow. For a vampire who is thousands of years old, a single name such as Aurelian, Nikephoros or Khosrow carries more weight. For a modern setting, a plain cover like Cole Marrow or Julian Cross lets him pass unnoticed.

Why are so many male vampires counts and lords?

The literary vampire began as an aristocrat. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was widely read as a portrait of Lord Byron, and Stoker's Count Dracula fixed the image of the nobleman in his castle. A title also explains the wealth, the isolation and the habit of command that the character needs.

What do Voivode, Boyar, Graf and Knez mean?

Voivode is a Slavic title for a war leader or governor, and it was borne by the ruling princes of Wallachia and Moldavia. A boyar was a member of the landed nobility in those principalities and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Graf is the German equivalent of count, and knez is a South Slavic title usually translated as prince or duke.

How is this different from the Vampire Name Generator?

The general vampire page mixes men and women in one list, and the Female Vampire Name Generator covers immortal women. This list is masculine throughout: male given names, masculine surname endings and masculine titles, from Roman elders like Sextus Veturius Noctua to bynames like Laszlo Without a Shadow.

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A: 44 names

  • Abimelech
  • Achille Dufresne
  • Adad-nirari
  • Adam Crane
  • Afanasy Stroganov
  • Aidan Marsh
  • Aladár Bánffy
  • Alex Novak
  • Alexios
  • Algernon Vesey
  • Alvise Foscarini
  • Alvise of the Drowned Quarter
  • Ambrus Holló
  • Ambrus the Red
  • Amenemhat
  • Andre Laurent
  • Andrei the Unwept
  • Anghel Pădureanu
  • Anicius
  • Anselm the Patient
  • Anselmo Zúñiga
  • Ansgar Wolfhagen

A, continued

  • Anton Brandt
  • Appius Junius Cotta
  • Archibald Penhale
  • Ardashir
  • Aristarchos
  • Aristide Devereaux
  • Arjun Sethi
  • Árpád Kardos
  • Arseny Zimin
  • Artabanus
  • Ascanio Pallavicini
  • Asen Rusev
  • Aubrey Chillingworth
  • Augustus Rhinelander
  • Aulus Cornelius Scaevola
  • Aulus Sulpicius Dentatus
  • Aurelian
  • Aurelio Tornabuoni
  • Aurelio Villaseñor
  • Avitus
  • Aymeric de Peyrepertuse
  • Aymeric the Uninvited

B: 32 names

  • Baldassare Querini
  • Balduin Morgenroth
  • Baltasar de Peñafiel
  • Balthazar de Sainte-Foy
  • Barbu Olteanu
  • Bardas
  • Barnaby Coldridge
  • Baron Anton Vlădescu
  • Baron Augustin de Carfax
  • Baron Étienne de Noirmont
  • Baron Gáspár Lónyay
  • Baron Ladislav Černý
  • Baron Miklós Szendrey
  • Baron Reinhold von Krähenberg
  • Baron Thibault de Malvaux
  • Baron Ulrich von Finsterwalde
  • Bartholomew Netherby
  • Beauregard Latour
  • Ben Harker
  • Benedict Aldercott
  • Bérenger de Castelnau
  • Bogdan the Unshriven
  • Bolesław Wilczek
  • Bořivoj Černohorský
  • Botond Erdős
  • Boyar Ilarion Strejescu
  • Boyar Matei Filipescu
  • Boyar Toma Cernăianu
  • Boyar Zamfir Oteteleșanu
  • Brennus
  • Brother Aurelio
  • Byron Fairholme

C: 35 names

  • Caleb Thorne
  • Callum Frost
  • Carloman
  • Casimir of the Long Dusk
  • Cavaliere Dante Orsolini
  • Cecil Winterton
  • Celestino Navarro
  • Celsus
  • Cezar Filipescu
  • Chevalier Rémy de Lioncel
  • Childeric
  • Chlothar
  • Ciprian Sârbu
  • Clarence Gravenor
  • Cole Marrow
  • Conrad Verinder
  • Corentin Le Floch
  • Cornelius Van Tassel
  • Cosimo the Sleepless
  • Costin Bălăceanu
  • Count Alaric de Montferrand
  • Count Aurelian Negruzzi
  • Count Emeric Szentkirályi
  • Count Iosif Cantemir
  • Count Kazimierz Wolański
  • Count Lazar Dragović
  • Count Matei Văcărescu
  • Count Ottokar von Eschenbach
  • Count Ruggero Malaspina
  • Count Severin Lubomirski
  • Count Tibor Keresztes
  • Count Zsigmond Erdélyi
  • Crispin Hawksmoor
  • Ctibor Vlček
  • Cuthbert Marwood

D: 27 names

  • Dagobert the Long-Lived
  • Damian Locke
  • Daniel Graves
  • Dante Ricci
  • Dashiell Penrose
  • Decimus Papirius Niger
  • Decimus Valerius Orestes
  • Demetrios
  • Dénes Mikes
  • Desimir Savić
  • Desmond Okoye
  • Diodoros
  • Djehuty
  • Dmitri Sokol
  • Domagoj Kovačević
  • Domokos Kemény
  • Don Álvaro de Sotomayor
  • Don Esteban de Villanegra
  • Don Fadrique de Olmedilla
  • Don Leandro Salazar y Frías
  • Dragoș Balș
  • Dragoș of the Black Church
  • Duarte Vasconcelos
  • Duc Aurélien de Valsombre
  • Duca Lodovico Serpieri
  • Duke Anselm of Harrowmere
  • Duke Leofric of Wolvercote

E: 24 names

  • Ebenezer Crowninshield
  • Edwin Sedgemoor
  • Egon von Tiefenbach
  • Eirik Nordahl
  • Elemér Teleki
  • Eli Sandoval
  • Elias Van Wyck
  • Ellis Radclyffe
  • Emeric the Hollow
  • Emil Lindgren
  • Emmerich Sturm
  • Emory Wainscott
  • Enguerrand de Malestroit
  • Ephraim Wardwell
  • Erasmus Pallister
  • Étienne Boisblanc
  • Eumenes
  • Eustace Highgate
  • Evan Locke
  • Evander Last of His House
  • Évariste Lenoir
  • Evaristo Montemayor
  • Ezio Pierleoni
  • Ezra Bloom

F: 11 names

  • Fabián Quiroga
  • Fabian Tollemache
  • Fabrizio Salviati
  • Falk von Drachenfels
  • Father Damaskin
  • Felix Arnaud
  • Ferenc of the Ninth Bell
  • Ferrante Caracciolo
  • Fitzroy Selwyn
  • Florus
  • Foulques de Lussan

G: 21 names

  • Gabriel Stone
  • Gaius Sempronius Longus
  • Garrick Oakhurst
  • Gaspard the Candle-Snuffer
  • Gauthier de Noirétable
  • Gavril Albu
  • Gedeon Székely
  • Geoffroi de Montségur
  • Gilbert Sotherton
  • Gleb Voronin
  • Gnaeus Domitius Varus
  • Godfrey Who Waits
  • Gotthard Rabe
  • Graf Eberhard von Rabenhorst
  • Graf Gebhard zu Schwarzenfels
  • Graf Lothar von Düsterloh
  • Graf Meinhard von Grabow
  • Graf Ruprecht von Nebelheim
  • Graf Tassilo von Wolkenstein
  • Gratian
  • Guidobaldo Aldobrandini

H: 15 names

  • Hadrian Yarborough
  • Halvard Mørk
  • Hamish Strathallan
  • Harlan Wycherley
  • Hezekiah Warren
  • Hollis Eastlake
  • Honoré Beauchamp
  • Horace Bellweather
  • Horatio Pell
  • Horia Munteanu
  • Hospodar Șerban Mavrogheni
  • Hugo Lambert
  • Hugues de Rochemaure
  • Humphrey Lanyon
  • Hyacinthe Mercœur

I: 14 names

  • Ibbi-Sin
  • Iddin-Dagan
  • Ignacio Alarcón
  • Ilie Who Came Back
  • Inigo Redfern
  • Íñigo Valdivieso
  • Innokenty Apraksin
  • Ippolito Strozzi
  • Isaac Moreau
  • Isaakios the Lampless
  • Ishme-Dagan
  • Iuliu Moldovan
  • Ivan Resnik
  • Ivor Hargrave

J: 14 names

  • Jack Renfield
  • Jago Trevanion
  • Jean-Baptiste Marigny
  • Jenő Rhédey
  • Jerome Wolcott
  • Joaquín Vela
  • Jocelyn Carfax
  • Jonah Pryce
  • Jonas Eklund
  • Jonas Van Dorn
  • Joost van Aken
  • Josiah Hathorne
  • Jude Hallam
  • Julian Cross

K: 15 names

  • Kaeso Furius Merula
  • Kallistos
  • Kálmán Vörös
  • Kaloyan Draganov
  • Kenamun
  • Kenji Morita
  • Khaemwaset
  • Khosrow
  • Kleitos
  • Klemens von Hollenstein
  • Knez Vukan Dragaš
  • Kornél Wesselényi
  • Krateros
  • Krešimir Jurić
  • Kurigalzu

L: 39 names

  • Lachlan Kincaid
  • Lamech
  • Landgrave Konrad von Thurn
  • Laszlo Without a Shadow
  • Laurence Usher
  • Lazar Twice-Buried
  • Leander Mallory
  • Leandro Falier
  • Leandro Villalobos
  • Lemuel Graves
  • Leo Varga
  • Leofric the Undrowned
  • Leontios
  • Licinius
  • Linus Barrowcliffe
  • Lionel Kensal
  • Liviu Cernea
  • Lord Alaric Penhallow
  • Lord Auberon Quill
  • Lord Crispin Holloway-Vane
  • Lord Desmond Carrowmore
  • Lord Evelyn Marchbanks
  • Lord Hugo Wintersett
  • Lord Julian Mortlock
  • Lord Lucian Thornfield
  • Lord Septimus Harrowby
  • Lord Tristram Ashdown
  • Lőrinc Apafi
  • Lothair
  • Lourenço Sampaio
  • Lowell Dunwich
  • Lucan
  • Lucas Thorn
  • Lucien Thibodeaux
  • Lucius Aemilius Bestia
  • Lucullus
  • Luke Sexton
  • Lysimachos
  • Lyuben Hristov

M: 32 names

  • Maarten Zwart
  • Magnus Oxenford
  • Manius Servilius Macer
  • Manole Ursu
  • Marchese Ottavio Sanseverino
  • Marcian
  • Marco Santoro
  • Marcus Dray
  • Marcus Flavius Lentulus
  • Margrave Dietmar von Eisenthal
  • Marqués Íñigo de Valdeluna
  • Marquis Honoré de Valcreuse
  • Marquis Lucien de Sainte-Croix
  • Massimiliano Cornaro
  • Matteo Gradenigo
  • Matthias the Pale
  • Matthias von Greifenau
  • Max Kessler
  • Maxence d'Arcy
  • Maximiliano Rivas
  • Menandros
  • Mieczysław Kruk
  • Mihnea Ardeleanu
  • Mihnea the Fasting
  • Milan Horvat
  • Miles Carrow
  • Miroslav the Moth
  • Mithridates
  • Momčilo Lazić
  • Montgomery Vance
  • Mortimer Whitby
  • Mstislav Obolensky

N: 12 names

  • Nakht
  • Naram-Sin
  • Narcisse Broussard
  • Nate Halloran
  • Nathaniel Mayhew
  • Nick Sterling
  • Nico Varela
  • Nikandros the Exile
  • Nikephoros
  • Noah Whitlock
  • Numerius Atilius Vespillo
  • Nuño Salcedo

O: 14 names

  • Obadiah Coffin
  • Octave Robichaux
  • Octavian Suțu
  • Ödön Fekete
  • Ognyan Vasilev
  • Old Tobias of the Mill
  • Oldřich Temný
  • Olybrius
  • Orodes
  • Orsino Frangipane
  • Oskar Nyman
  • Oswald Cavanaugh
  • Ottokar the Thirteenth Guest
  • Owen Mortimer

P: 19 names

  • Petru the Returned
  • Philon
  • Philotas
  • Phineas Lychgate
  • Phraates
  • Piers Hollingbourne
  • Placide Arceneaux
  • Přemysl Sova
  • Prince Amadeo di Castelnero
  • Prince Dmitri Zaleski
  • Prince Mircea Ghica
  • Prince Stefan Lazarov
  • Prince Vasili Orlovsky
  • Priscus
  • Probus
  • Prokhor Demidov
  • Przemysław Zawisza
  • Ptahmose
  • Publius Octavius Tubero

Q: 5 names

  • Quentin of the Closed Carriage
  • Quincy Thorne
  • Quintillus
  • Quintus Aurelius Cinna
  • Quintus Caecilius Silanus

R: 22 names

  • Radosław Mroczek
  • Rafe Undercroft
  • Ramose
  • Randolph Mortlake
  • Raniero Spinola
  • Rastko Bogdanović
  • Rastko of the Crossroads
  • Răzvan Negrescu
  • Reid Ashford
  • Relja Obradović
  • Remus Bucur
  • Rim-Sin
  • Rimush
  • Rodion Korsakov
  • Rodrigo Montesinos
  • Roland Wyndham
  • Roman Adler
  • Romanos
  • Rufinus
  • Ruggero the Gentle
  • Rupert Sallowfield
  • Ryan Holloway

S: 37 names

  • Sam Coffey
  • Sancho de Ribera
  • Savely Morozov
  • Seb Moreno
  • Șerban Corbu
  • Servius Popillius Rufus
  • Settimio Caetani
  • Séverin Malherbe
  • Séverin the Collector
  • Sextus Papirius Nasica
  • Sextus Veturius Noctua
  • Shalmaneser
  • Shapur
  • Sigebert
  • Silas Ward
  • Silas Winthrop
  • Silvano Doria
  • Silvanus of the Catacombs
  • Simão Coutinho
  • Simon Vale
  • Sir Aldric Moorcroft
  • Sir Godfrey Helstone
  • Sir Ivo Dunstanville
  • Sir Lucan Tremaine
  • Sir Piers Lockridge
  • Sobekhotep
  • Spurius Marcius Carbo
  • St. John Rivers-Cole
  • Staurakios
  • Stefan Dragan
  • Stelian Morariu
  • Stoyan Wolf-Friend
  • Strahinja Vukčević
  • Svetoslav Kolev
  • Sylvester Pryce
  • Symmachus
  • Szilárd Vadász

T: 28 names

  • Tancrède de Hautefort
  • Thaddeus Pruitt
  • The Count in the North Tower
  • The Gentleman from Whitby
  • The Last Boyar
  • The Master of Carfax
  • The Night Coachman
  • The Old Man of Borgo Pass
  • The Pale Hussar
  • The Patron of the Opera
  • The Sleeper under Saint Vitus
  • The Tenant of the Crypt
  • The Widower of Bistritz
  • Theodoric the Unmourned
  • Théophile Desmarais
  • Théophile Landry
  • Theophilos
  • Thibault de Morvan
  • Tiberio Ruspoli
  • Tiberiu the Bell-Ringer
  • Tiberius Manlius Cethegus
  • Timaios
  • Tiridates
  • Titus Postumius Corvus
  • Tobias Reyes
  • Torsten Ekdahl
  • Traian Lupu
  • Tudor Cantacuzino

U: 4 names

  • Ulrich the Winter Guest
  • Ulysses Garland
  • Uroš Crnković
  • Userhat

V: 25 names

  • Valens
  • Valerian Shuvalov
  • Varro the Elder
  • Vaughan Llewellyn
  • Venantius
  • Vibius Hostilius Lupus
  • Vicomte Florent de Malemort
  • Victor Lund
  • Vince Carmody
  • Vintilă Drăgan
  • Virgil Negru
  • Virgil Tremaine
  • Viscount Evander Lisle
  • Viscount Hadrian Stroud
  • Viscount Rupert Dacre
  • Voivode Dragoș Hârlea
  • Voivode Mihnea Corbea
  • Voivode Neagoe Strâmbeanu
  • Voivode Pătrașcu Udriște
  • Voivode Radu Craiovescu
  • Voivode Stoica Brădescu
  • Voivode Vintilă Golescu
  • Vojislav Grujić
  • Vratislav Havránek
  • Vukašin Radulović

W: 4 names

  • Wenzel the Quiet
  • Wes Carrigan
  • Wilfred Amberley
  • Witold Czarnecki

Y: 1 name

  • Yaroslav Winterborn

Z: 6 names

  • Zaccaria Loredan
  • Zakhar Naryshkin
  • Zamfir Croitoru
  • Zoltán Night-Rider
  • Zosimos
  • Zvonimir Marić