Nymph Name Generator

In Greek mythology a nymph (nymphē, "bride" or "young woman") is a minor female nature deity bound to a particular place or thing. The Greeks sorted them by habitat: naiads for springs, rivers, and fountains (Arethusa, Castalia, Peirene), dryads and hamadryads for oaks and other trees (Daphne, Pitys, the eight hamadryad sisters Karya, Balanis, Kraneia, Morea, Aigeiros, Ptelea, Ampelos, and Sykea, each named for her tree), oreads for mountains and grottoes (Echo, Cyllene, Ida), nereids and oceanids for the sea and its shores (Thetis, Galatea, Amphitrite), and celestial nymphs such as the Pleiades and Hyades who became stars. Nymphs raised infant gods, loved mortals and Olympians, gave their names to cities and rivers, and were often transformed into the very things they guarded.

Authentic nymph names follow Greek feminine patterns, ending in -a, -e, -o, or -is, and many are transparently meaningful: Kymothoe (wave-swift), Ianassa (healing queen), Chrysopeleia (golden dove), Melissa (bee), Kalypso (she who conceals). Sisters within a group often share a sound or theme, so a set of invented naiads for a single river should feel like Doto, Proto, and Thoe do together.

Most names here are attested in Homer, Hesiod, Apollodorus, Ovid, or Pausanias; a few, like Kymothoe and Kalypso, are given in Greek transliteration alongside their Latinized forms because both spellings are in common use.