Minotaur Name Generator

The original Minotaur had a name: Asterion (or Asterius), "the starry one," the bull-headed son of Pasiphae locked in Daedalus's labyrinth beneath Knossos. That gives minotaur names two natural roots. Greek-style names end in -os, -ios, -us, or -ion and borrow freely from Cretan places (Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Mount Ida, the Dikte cave) and from the Greek word for bull, tauros: Tauriskos, Taurion, Keraton from keras, horn. Titles work too: the Beast of Knossos, Keeper of the Maze, Son of Pasiphae.

Modern fantasy turned the lone monster into a people, and their names changed accordingly. Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance, Magic's Theros, and Pathfinder minotaurs tend to have short, hard given names full of k, r, g, and z sounds (Throkk, Vrokul, Ghaska, Kazrak) followed by an epithet that describes the body or the deed: Ironhoof, Bloodhorn, Nine-Scars, Tribute-Eater. Dragonlance adds formal clan prefixes (Kaz, Chot Es-Kalin, Hotak de-Droka), and many settings give minotaurs herd or clan names worth inventing alongside the individual.

When you pick one, match the name to the role. A labyrinth guardian or mythic monster suits a Greek name or a title; a barbarian PC or a warband chief suits a guttural name with an earned epithet; a female minotaur often softens the vowels (Ishka, Morra, Ulmara) while keeping the hard consonants.