Male Wizard Name Generator

Male wizard names work best when they sound learned rather than powerful. A wizard earns his magic from decades of study, so the classic pattern is an old, slightly formal given name followed by a surname that evokes the tower, the library or the night sky: Nicodemus Vellumgrave, Septimus Wyndhollow, Erasmus Quillfeather. Latin and Greek names (Aurelius, Demetrius, Ptolemy), Anglo-Saxon and medieval names (Aldhelm, Wulfstan, Osric) and the Victorian scholar set (Bartholomew, Thaddeus, Ignatius) all carry that weight instantly, which is why Gandalf, Merlin and Dumbledore sit so comfortably next to Elminster and Mordenkainen.

The second ingredient is how the name is worn. Court and academy wizards take a title: Magister, Archmagus, Loremaster, Provost. Wandering wizards pick up an epithet that hints at a story, such as Caradoc the Unblinking or Selwyn of the Drowned Library. Hedge wizards and village cunning-men get humble rustic names like Hob Marrowick or Ebenezer Crumb, and the villains of the piece tend toward hard invented mononyms such as Thundravane or Yzrakhal.

This list mixes all of those with regional flavors, so you can match a wizard to his homeland: Germanic (Dietrich Nebelwald), Slavic (Kazimir Zvezdin), Italian (Cosimo Lucernari), French, Spanish, Arabic, Persian, Norse, Welsh and Irish, East Asian and elvish-style names are all here.