Orphanage Name Generator

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Generate orphanage names spanning real historical styles: Victorian foundling hospitals and asylums, saint-named Catholic homes, Dickensian workhouses, benefactor-funded homes, and modern children's homes. Suited to historical fiction, gothic novels, and RPG settings.

About orphanage names

Real orphanages were named according to who ran them and when. Church-run homes carried a saint's name plus the words Home, Orphanage, or Asylum (St. Vincent's Home for Boys, St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum), and religious sisterhoods named homes after their order or Our Lady. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philanthropic institutions used stark descriptive titles: the Foundling Hospital, the Female Orphan Asylum, the Home for Friendless Children, the Asylum for Fatherless Children. Trade societies funded homes for their own members' children, giving us the Sailors' Orphan Home, the Railway Servants' Orphanage, and the Licensed Victuallers' Orphan Home.

Wealthy benefactors attached their surnames (the Barnardo Home, the Müller Orphan Houses, or a fictional Pemberton Home for Orphans), while royal patronage produced names like the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum. From the 1920s onward, reformers preferred softer, house-like names to erase the workhouse stigma: The Willows, Sunnyside Home, Fairhaven Children's Home.

For fiction, the era decides the name. "Asylum" and "Foundling" place a story before 1900; a saint plus "Home for Boys" suggests a Catholic institution mid-century; a gothic single-house name (Blackthorn House, Cold Ash Hall) signals something is wrong inside; and a bird or tree name reads as a modern, well-meaning home. This generator covers each of those registers, plus matron-run private homes, poor-law and council institutions, street-address names and fantasy foundling halls.

How to choose orphanage names

  • Match the vocabulary to the century: Foundling Hospital and Orphan Asylum for pre-1900, Home for Boys/Girls for 1900-1960, Children's Home or Village for anything modern.
  • For gothic or horror settings, drop the institutional words entirely and use a house name (Wraithmoor House, The Rookery); a name that sounds like a manor implies secrecy.
  • Name the funder or patron to add texture: a Railway Servants' Orphanage or Freemasons' Orphan Asylum immediately explains who the children are and who visits.
  • Saint names carry connotations. St. Jude (lost causes), St. Vincent de Paul (charity), and St. Nicholas (children) were popular for real homes for a reason.
  • If the story is contemporary, avoid the word orphanage in the actual name; real modern institutions say children's home, residential home, or cottage.

Frequently asked questions

What were orphanages historically called?

Common terms were Foundling Hospital, Orphan Asylum, Home for Destitute or Friendless Children, and later Children's Home. Church-run institutions were named for saints or religious orders, and many were funded by trades or benefactors whose names they carried.

How do I name an orphanage for a Victorian or gothic story?

Use period vocabulary such as Asylum, Foundling, Refuge, or Waifs and Strays, and either a saint, a benefactor's surname, or a bleak house name (Blackthorn House, Marrowgate Orphan Asylum). The heavier and more formal the phrasing, the more Victorian it feels.

Are these names based on real orphanages?

Some are. The Foundling Hospital, Barnardo's homes, the Müller Orphan Houses and a number of the city, royal and foreign-language institutions are real historical names, included for authenticity. The others follow the same conventions. The list was de-duplicated and screened, but not checked against records of real institutions, so a plain name may match a home that existed somewhere.

Do orphanages still exist, and what are they called today?

Traditional orphanages have largely been replaced in most countries by foster care and small residential children's homes. Modern facilities use names like Children's Home, Children's Village, or Cottage, and organizations such as SOS Children's Villages avoid the word orphanage entirely.

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All 1,000 orphanage names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 11 names

  • Abbey Gate Almonry for Foundlings
  • All Saints' Orphan Home
  • All Souls' Home for Children
  • Angel Guardian Home
  • Ark of Refuge
  • Ashfall House
  • Ashgrave Hall for Unclaimed Children
  • Asile des Petits Orphelins
  • Asilo de Huérfanos del Sagrado Corazón
  • Asilo dos Órfãos
  • Assumption Convent Nursery

B: 28 names

  • Band of Hope Children's Lodge
  • Baptist Children's Home
  • Barnehjemmet Solvang
  • Barnhemmet Björkbacka
  • Barnhemmet Solgården
  • Beacon Cottage
  • Beechwood Home for Girls
  • Benedictine Orphanage
  • Bethany Home for Children
  • Bethel Orphan Asylum
  • Bethesda Home for Foundlings
  • Bethlehem Home for Foundlings
  • Bethphage Mission
  • Beulah Rest

B, continued

  • Blackthorn House
  • Blackwell Home for Children
  • Bleak Hollow Home
  • Blessed Sacrament Orphan Home
  • Blessed Virgin Foundling Hospital
  • Bluebell Wood Lodge
  • Bluebird Home
  • Børnehjemmet Solbakken
  • Brackenside Lodge
  • Bramblewick Orphanage
  • Bright Futures Children's Home
  • Brother Anselm's Hostel for Boys
  • Brothers of Charity Farm School
  • Burgerweeshuis

C: 37 names

  • Calvary Children's Home
  • Canaan Farm for Boys
  • Candlewick Asylum
  • Captain Rudd's Training Home for Seafarers' Sons
  • Capuchin Friars' Refuge for Boys
  • Carmelite Sisters' Infant Refuge
  • Casa Cuna de San José
  • Casa da Roda
  • Casa de los Niños
  • Casa dei Trovatelli
  • Casa Esperanza
  • Casa Santa Lucia

C, continued

  • Cathedral Close Choir Orphanage
  • Catholic Protectory
  • Cawdrake Hall
  • Cedars of Lebanon Refuge
  • Chapel Street Mission Nursery
  • Chapel Union Haven for Waifs
  • Chestnut Close Children's Unit
  • Child Jesus Nursery
  • Christ's Hospital Foundling Home
  • Christian Brothers' Industrial Home for Boys
  • Church Army Home for Boys
  • Cistercian Abbey Almonry School

C, continued

  • City Mission Children's Rest
  • Clover Field Family Cottages
  • Cold Ash Hall
  • Coldharbour Orphanage
  • Colegio de Niñas Huérfanas
  • Colonel Hazlett's School for Soldiers' Orphans
  • Congregational Children's Home
  • Convent of the Good Shepherd Home
  • Cornerstone Children's Home
  • Cottage Home No. 7
  • Cragside Home for Foundlings
  • Crowhurst Home for Boys
  • Curlew's End

D: 18 names

  • Daughters of Charity Foundling Asylum
  • Daybreak House
  • Deaconess Harriet's Children's Rest
  • Deaconess Institution for Orphans
  • Det Kongelige Vajsenhus
  • Dětský domov Na Kopci
  • Diaconie Weeshuis
  • Diocesan Refuge for Girls
  • Doctor Whitby's Hospital for Foundlings

D, continued

  • Dom Dziecka Nadzieja
  • Dom Sierot Świętego Mikołaja
  • Dominican Home for Girls
  • Dorcas Sewing Refuge
  • Dovecote Children's Home
  • Dr. Fothergill's Infirmary for Foundlings
  • Dredge Lane Foundling Ward
  • Dunmarrow Lodge
  • Duskwater House

E: 8 names

  • Ebenezer Home for Children
  • Elim Hall for Orphans
  • Elmhurst Home for Boys
  • Emberwick Hall
  • Emmanuel Home for Children
  • Episcopal Orphan Asylum
  • Evangelical Home for Orphans
  • Evangelisches Kinderheim Bethanien

F: 13 names

  • Fairhaven Children's Home
  • Faith Cottage
  • Father Donovan's Lodging for Working Boys
  • Father Moreau's Shelter for Street Children
  • Fernleigh
  • Fogmoor Orphan Asylum
  • Foxglove Cottage
  • Foyer Sainte-Geneviève
  • Franciscan Home for Boys
  • Free Church Orphanage
  • Friars' Gate Foundling Hospital
  • Friends' Meeting Refuge
  • Frostholme Hall

G: 15 names

  • Gallowsgate Foundling Home
  • Gloamhurst Hall
  • Good Shepherd Home for Girls
  • Goody Farnham's Cottage for Parish Infants
  • Gospel Hall Orphan Mission
  • Grace Chapel Home for Children
  • Grace Cottage Nursery
  • Granny Marlowe's Cottage
  • Gravelock Hall
  • Graywether Cottage Hospital
  • Greenacres Children's Home
  • Grey Nuns' Foundling Crèche
  • Greymantle Orphanage
  • Grimshaw House
  • Guardian Angels Home

H: 29 names

  • Hangman's Rise Refuge
  • Harbour House
  • Harmony House
  • Haven House
  • Hawthorn Lodge Residential Unit
  • Hearthstone Cottage
  • Heatherbank
  • Hebrew Orphan Asylum
  • Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
  • Hephzibah House
  • Heron's Rest
  • Hillside Home for Children
  • Hogar de la Misericordia
  • Hogar de Niños San Rafael

H, continued

  • Hogar Infantil La Esperanza
  • Hollow Bell Priory
  • Hollowmere House
  • Holy Childhood Mission
  • Holy Cross Abbey Orphan School
  • Holy Family Children's Home
  • Holy Innocents' Home
  • Holy Name Protectory
  • Holy Trinity Almonry
  • Homestead Children's Village
  • Hope Cottage for Infants
  • Hope Haven Home
  • Hospice des Enfants Assistés
  • Hospicio de Huérfanos de la Caridad
  • House of the Good Shepherd

I: 5 names

  • Immaculate Conception Orphanage
  • Immaculate Heart Home for Children
  • Infant Jesus Crèche
  • Ironbridge Institution for Unwanted Children
  • Istituto degli Innocenti

J: 3 names

  • Jericho Road Mission
  • Jewish Foundling Home
  • Jewish Orphan Asylum

K: 7 names

  • Kestrel Court
  • Kinderdorf Lindenhof
  • Kinderhaus Sonnenschein
  • Kinderheim Sankt Georg
  • Kindred House
  • Kingfisher Lodge
  • Knellstone Priory

L: 11 names

  • Lantern End
  • Lantern Lodge
  • Larkspur Cottage
  • Lastenkoti Päivölä
  • Lighthouse Children's Home
  • Lily of the Valley Nursery
  • Linnet Lodge
  • Little Angels Orphanage
  • Little Sisters of the Poor Children's Home
  • Loving Arms Home
  • Lutheran Orphan Asylum

M: 57 names

  • Ma Brannigan's Boarding House for Newsboys
  • Madame Fontaine's Pension for Orphan Girls
  • Maison de la Charité
  • Maison des Enfants Trouvés
  • Maple Grove Home for Children
  • Marist Brothers' Boys' Hostel
  • Marrowgate Orphan Asylum
  • Matron Hobbs's Ward for Foundlings
  • Meadowbank Children's Home
  • Mennonite Children's Home
  • Mercy Gate Shelter for the Motherless
  • Methodist Children's Home
  • Mill Brook Cottages
  • Minster Yard Charity School

M, continued

  • Mirewater Hall
  • Miss Amberley's Rest
  • Miss Arkwright's School for Orphan Girls
  • Miss Birdwhistle's Home for Stray Children
  • Miss Carstairs's Mission Nursery
  • Miss Dearlove's Nursery
  • Miss Eudora Swann's Kindergarten for Orphans
  • Miss Fairchild's Rest for Homeless Girls
  • Miss Henrietta Vane's Seminary for Orphan Girls
  • Miss Lovelace's Cottage for Little Girls
  • Miss Pringle's Nursery for Foundlings
  • Miss Thistlewood's Home for Motherless Girls
  • Miss Winterbourne's Home for Little Wayfarers
  • Mistress Oakes's Dame School for Orphans

M, continued

  • Mizpah Refuge
  • Moravian Orphan House
  • Morning Star Children's Centre
  • Moth Lane Nursery
  • Mother Clement's Refuge
  • Mother Hildegard's Cloister School for Orphans
  • Mount Carmel Orphanage
  • Mount Loretto Home
  • Mount Tabor Children's Farm
  • Mournbridge Orphanage
  • Mr. Pennyfeather's Home for Lost Boys
  • Mrs. Abernethy's Lodgings for Mill Children
  • Mrs. Blenkinsop's Refuge for Deserted Infants
  • Mrs. Coggeshall's Orphan Lodging

M, continued

  • Mrs. Crabtree's Establishment for Pauper Infants
  • Mrs. Dabney's Boarding Home for Waifs
  • Mrs. Entwistle's Refuge for Factory Orphans
  • Mrs. Featherstone's Convalescent Cottage for Orphans
  • Mrs. Gathercole's Cottage Home
  • Mrs. Merriweather's Country Home for Poor Children
  • Mrs. Pargeter's Rooms for Infant Boarders
  • Mrs. Peabody-Stone's Shelter for Little Ones
  • Mrs. Pocock's Parish Nursery
  • Mrs. Quilter's Lodging for Orphan Boys
  • Mrs. Rudge's Infant Asylum
  • Mrs. Sowerby-Finch's Home for Gentlemen's Orphans
  • Mrs. Throckmorton's Charitable Home
  • Mrs. Tibbett's Home for Infants
  • Mrs. Underwood's Day Nursery and Orphan Home

N: 9 names

  • Nanny Applegarth's Nursery Home
  • Nazareth House
  • Nettleford House
  • New Beginnings Children's Home
  • Nightingale Family Group Home
  • Number Forty, Lamb's Passage
  • Number Nine, Tanner's Row
  • Number Twelve, Pump Court
  • Nurse Holloway's Infant Nursery

O: 18 names

  • Oakhurst Home
  • Old Mother Kettle's House
  • Open Arms Children's Home
  • Orchard Rise Children's Farm
  • Orfanato de Santo António
  • Orfanotrofio San Girolamo
  • Orfanotrofio Santa Maria della Pietà
  • Orphelinat des Sœurs de la Providence
  • Orphelinat Saint-Joseph

O, continued

  • Ospedale degli Esposti
  • Our Lady of Charity Home
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Orphanage
  • Our Lady of Mercy Home for Children
  • Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home for Children
  • Our Lady of Refuge Home
  • Our Lady of Sorrows Orphanage
  • Our Lady of the Angels Orphan Asylum
  • Our Lady Star of the Sea Orphanage

P: 10 names

  • Pallid Court
  • Peniel Mission Nursery
  • Pio Istituto degli Orfani
  • Poor Clares' Convent Nursery
  • Precious Blood Orphanage
  • Presbyterian Orphans' Home
  • Primrose Hill Cottages
  • Protestant Half-Orphan Asylum
  • Protestant Orphan Asylum
  • Providence House

Q: 1 name

  • Quaker Home for Friendless Children

R: 13 names

  • Rainbow House
  • Ravenscroft Home for Children
  • Ravenshollow House
  • Real Casa de Expósitos
  • Receiving Home No. 2
  • Redeemer Orphanage
  • Rehoboth Haven
  • Rettungshaus für verwaiste Kinder
  • Riverside Children's Home
  • Robin's Nest Children's Home
  • Rookwood Grange
  • Rose of Sharon Cottage
  • Rowan Tree Cottage

S: 102 names

  • Sable Heath Institution
  • Sacred Heart Orphanage
  • Safe Harbor Children's Home
  • Salesian Oratory for Street Boys
  • Saltmarsh Grange
  • Salvation Army Children's Home
  • Salvation Army Rescue Home for Girls
  • Samaritan Hall for Boys
  • Scarcliffe Institution
  • Seven Dolours Convent Orphanage
  • Shaker Village Children's Order
  • Sheltering Arms Home
  • Sierociniec Świętego Józefa
  • Siloam Children's Hospital and Orphanage

S, continued

  • Sister Bernadette's Night Shelter
  • Sister Mary Columba's Nursery
  • Sister Philippa's Cradle Home
  • Sisters of Charity Foundling Home
  • Sisters of Mercy Orphan Home
  • Sisters of Nazareth Nursery
  • Sisters of Providence Orphanage
  • Sisters of St. Joseph Orphanage
  • Sisters of the Holy Cross Children's Home
  • Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus Mission
  • Skylark Cottages
  • Sorrowmere Foundling Home
  • SOS Children's Cottage
  • Sparrow House
  • Springfield Lodge

S, continued

  • St. Agnes Home for Foundlings
  • St. Alban's Children's Home
  • St. Aloysius Boys' Home
  • St. Ambrose Asylum for Orphans
  • St. Andrew's Home for Boys
  • St. Anne's Home for Girls
  • St. Anthony's Home for Foundlings
  • St. Bartholomew's Home for Waifs
  • St. Bede's Home for Orphan Boys
  • St. Benedict's Orphanage
  • St. Bernard's Orphan Asylum
  • St. Botolph's Home for Waifs
  • St. Brigid's Orphanage
  • St. Catherine's Home for Girls

S, continued

  • St. Cecilia's Home for Little Girls
  • St. Chad's Orphan House
  • St. Christopher's Children's Home
  • St. Clare's Home for Foundlings
  • St. Columba's Home for Destitute Boys
  • St. Cuthbert's Home for Destitute Children
  • St. Dominic's Foundling Home
  • St. Dunstan's Orphan Asylum
  • St. Edmund's Home for Boys
  • St. Elizabeth's Foundling Asylum
  • St. Etheldreda's Girls' Home
  • St. Faith's Home for Girls
  • St. Francis Orphan Home
  • St. Gabriel's Children's Home
  • St. Genevieve's Home for Girls

S, continued

  • St. George's Orphanage
  • St. Helena's Refuge for Girls
  • St. Hilda's Home for Girls
  • St. Ignatius Boys' Orphanage
  • St. John the Baptist Orphan Home
  • St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum
  • St. Jude's Orphan Asylum
  • St. Kevin's Boys' Home
  • St. Leonard's Home for Children
  • St. Luke's Home for Fatherless Children
  • St. Margaret's Refuge
  • St. Mark's Orphanage
  • St. Martin's Home for Waifs
  • St. Mary Magdalene Refuge

S, continued

  • St. Mary's Home for Foundlings
  • St. Michael's Home for Boys
  • St. Monica's Home for Infants
  • St. Nicholas Foundling Hospital
  • St. Ninian's Foundling Home
  • St. Patrick's Orphan Asylum
  • St. Paul's Orphan Asylum
  • St. Peter's Home for Destitute Children
  • St. Philomena's Orphan Asylum
  • St. Rose of Lima Home for Girls
  • St. Saviour's Orphanage
  • St. Stephen's Orphan Home
  • St. Swithin's Foundling Home
  • St. Teresa's Home for Little Ones
  • St. Thomas Home for Foundlings

S, continued

  • St. Ursula's Girls' Home
  • St. Vincent's Home for Boys
  • St. Wilfrid's Orphan House
  • St. Winifred's Orphan House
  • Städtisches Waisenhaus
  • Star of Bethlehem Mission
  • Starling House
  • Starveacre Farm School
  • Stepping Stones Children's Home
  • Stillwater Grange
  • Sunny Bank Home
  • Sunnyside Home
  • Sunrise Children's Village
  • Swallowfield Children's Centre
  • Sycamore Court

T: 587 names

  • Tabitha Cottage for Girls
  • Temperance League Cottage for Children
  • The Abernathy Home for Boys
  • The Actors' Orphanage
  • The Admiral Cosgrove Naval Orphan School
  • The Agatha Pryce Home for Girls
  • The Aid Society Farm for City Boys
  • The Ainsworth Orphan Asylum
  • The Albany Orphan Asylum
  • The Alchemists' Guild Foundling Ward
  • The Alderman Cooke Home for Orphans
  • The Alderman Whitlock Home for Boys
  • The Almoner's Dole Refuge
  • The Almshouse

T, continued

  • The Amelia Grey Home for Foundlings
  • The Annexe at Chapel Yard
  • The Apothecaries' Hall Foundling Ward
  • The Arbuthnot Institution for Fatherless Girls
  • The Archdeacon Blount Home
  • The Armistice Memorial Cottages
  • The Artists' Orphan Fund Home
  • The Ashcombe Foundling Home
  • The Ashley Down Orphan Homes
  • The Asylum for Fatherless Children
  • The Babies' Castle
  • The Bailie Renwick Orphan Institution
  • The Bakers' Guild Orphan Hall
  • The Balfour-Reid Memorial Cottages
  • The Baltimore Manual Labor School for Orphans

T, continued

  • The Bank Clerks' Orphan Institution
  • The Bargemen's Children's Lodge
  • The Barnardo Home
  • The Baroness Lindsay Nursery
  • The Barrack School
  • The Barrington Foundling Home
  • The Beauchamp Home for Girls
  • The Beeches Children's Home
  • The Belfast Charitable Institution
  • The Bellamy Orphan Asylum
  • The Benevolent Home for Orphans
  • The Bermondsey Home for Destitute Children
  • The Bethnal Green Orphan Home
  • The Birmingham Middlemore Emigration Home
  • The Bishop's Home for Boys

T, continued

  • The Black Chimney House
  • The Blackfriars Foundling Hospital
  • The Blakemore Home for Children
  • The Blakiston Memorial Home
  • The Blind Orphans' Home
  • The Blue Coat Orphan School
  • The Board of Guardians' Home for Girls
  • The Booksellers' Provident Cottage
  • The Bootblacks' Home
  • The Border Fort Children's Barracks
  • The Borough Council Nursery
  • The Borough Receiving Home
  • The Boston Female Asylum
  • The Bowery Lodgings for Messenger Boys

T, continued

  • The Boys' Farm Home
  • The Boys' Garden City
  • The Bracegirdle Institution for Orphan Girls
  • The Braddock Home for Children
  • The Briars
  • The Bridewell Children's Ward
  • The Bridge End Refuge
  • The Bristol Asylum for Poor Orphan Girls
  • The Brothers of the Lamp Boys' Hall
  • The Cabmen's Shelter Fund Nursery
  • The Calloway Orphanage
  • The Camden Home for Girls
  • The Canal Boatmen's Mission School
  • The Candlekeepers' Wardhouse
  • The Cannery Wharf Children's Mission

T, continued

  • The Canon Hartley Refuge
  • The Captain Meredith Home for Sailors' Orphans
  • The Caravan Masters' Foundling Camp
  • The Cardiff Sailors' Orphan Cottages
  • The Carrington Home for Waifs
  • The Carters' and Draymen's Orphan Fund
  • The Castellano Memorial Nursery
  • The Cathedral of Ashes Foundling Crypt School
  • The Cedars
  • The Central Clearing Hostel
  • The Chadwick Foundling Home
  • The Chantry of the Forgotten Children
  • The Charity House
  • The Charity School for Orphans
  • The Charleston Orphan House

T, continued

  • The Chestnuts
  • The Chilcott Trust Cottages
  • The Children's Aid Home
  • The Children's Bureau Receiving Home
  • The Children's Fold
  • The Children's Friend Home
  • The Children's Retreat
  • The Children's Sanctuary
  • The Children's Shelter
  • The Children's Village
  • The Chimney Sweeps' Orphan Home
  • The Cholera Orphans' Home
  • The Christ Church Orphan Home
  • The Church of England Waifs and Strays Society Home

T, continued

  • The Cincinnati Orphan Asylum
  • The Cinder Ward Children's Hall
  • The Cinderhouse
  • The Circus Children's Winter Lodge
  • The City Almshouse Children's Department
  • The City Nursery and Infant Hospital
  • The Clementine Ashe Nursery
  • The Clergy Orphan School
  • The Clerkenwell Foundling Asylum
  • The Clocktower Institution
  • The Coastguard Orphans' Cottage
  • The Colliery Disaster Orphan Home
  • The Commercial Travellers' Orphan Home
  • The Commodore Pascoe Seamen's Children's Hall
  • The Coram Foundling Home

T, continued

  • The Corbett Memorial Orphanage
  • The Cornelius Blythe Home for Boys
  • The Cottage Homes
  • The Cotton Operatives' Orphan Hall
  • The Council Cottages for Children
  • The Council Reception Centre
  • The Countess of Denbigh Orphanage
  • The County Council Family Group Home
  • The County Home for Dependent Children
  • The County Orphan Home
  • The County Poor Farm Nursery
  • The County Probationary Lodge
  • The Cranbrook Cottage Homes
  • The Cranleigh Home for Boys
  • The Cresswell Home for Girls

T, continued

  • The Crossfield Mill Orphan School
  • The Crossroads Mission
  • The Crown Wardhouse for Soldiers' Children
  • The Dalrymple Hospital for Fatherless Boys
  • The Danvers Memorial Orphanage
  • The Dashwood Home for Girls
  • The De Witt Institute for Widowers' Children
  • The Deacon Pruitt Children's Farm
  • The Dean's Orphanage
  • The Deptford Home for Sailors' Orphans
  • The Dewhurst Endowed School for Foundlings
  • The Dispensary Nursery for Foundlings
  • The Distributing Home for Child Emigrants
  • The District School for Pauper Children

T, continued

  • The Dockers' Union Children's Hostel
  • The Dockside Wardhouse
  • The Doctor Barlow Memorial Home
  • The Domestic Servants' Training School for Orphans
  • The Dowager Ashby Home for Girls
  • The Dowager Countess of Rothbury Cottages
  • The Drapers' Benevolent Institution
  • The Drovers' Rest for Fatherless Boys
  • The Drummer Boys' Hostel
  • The Dublin Foundling Hospital
  • The Duchess of Kent Home for Girls
  • The Duchy Foundling Hall
  • The Duke of Wellington Orphan School
  • The Duke of York's Orphan School
  • The Dunmore Children's Home

T, continued

  • The Earl of Shelford's Charity School
  • The Earthquake Orphans' Shelter
  • The Ebenezer Stroud Bequest Hospital
  • The Edinburgh Orphan Hospital
  • The Edwin Marsh Memorial Home
  • The Eleanor Halstead Home
  • The Ellingham Orphan Home
  • The Elms
  • The Elphinstone Institution
  • The Emigrants' Receiving Home
  • The Emigration Home for Boys
  • The Emmeline Fisk Home for Infants
  • The Empress Orphanage
  • The Engine Drivers' Orphan Lodge
  • The Epidemic Orphans' Hospital

T, continued

  • The Evacuees' Hostel
  • The Eversleigh Hospital for Poor Children
  • The Factory Children's Home
  • The Fairfax Home for Children
  • The Fairweather Home
  • The Famine Orphans' Asylum
  • The Fanshawe Benevolent Institution
  • The Farm School for Orphans
  • The Female Orphan Asylum
  • The Female Orphan School
  • The Fenwick Orphan Asylum
  • The Fever Orphans' Asylum
  • The Firemen's Orphan Home
  • The Firs

T, continued

  • The Fishermen's Orphan Home
  • The Fitzgerald Memorial Home
  • The Five Corners Mission Nursery
  • The Fold of the Lamb
  • The Foresters' Court Orphan Lodge
  • The Founders' Bequest Hospital
  • The Foundling Asylum
  • The Foundling Hospital
  • The Foundling Wheel House
  • The Foundlings' Tower
  • The Foundrymen's Children's Hall
  • The Freemasons' Orphan Asylum
  • The Friendly Society Orphan Institution
  • The Frontier Chapel Refuge
  • The Gables

T, continued

  • The Gardeners' Benevolent Cottage for Orphans
  • The Garrison Children's Hostel
  • The Garroway Refuge
  • The Gatehouse at Abbey Field
  • The General Ashburn School for Soldiers' Orphans
  • The Georgiana Wyndham Cottages
  • The Gilchrist Orphan Hall
  • The Girls' Cottage Home
  • The Girls' Home of Refuge
  • The Girls' Village Home
  • The Glasgow Home for Destitute Children
  • The Glassblowers' Orphan School
  • The Goldsmiths' Bequest Foundation
  • The Governesses' Benevolent Nursery
  • The Governor's Orphan Home

T, continued

  • The Grange Children's Centre
  • The Grange Hall Children's Farm
  • The Great Fire Orphans' Refuge
  • The Great Gale Relief Shelter
  • The Greaves Orphan Home
  • The Green Coat School for Foundlings
  • The Gresham Home for Boys
  • The Grey Coat Orphan School
  • The Grey House
  • The Guardians' Scattered Homes
  • The Guild of Orphans Home
  • The Gutterwharf Urchin Hall
  • The Hadley Foundling Home
  • The Half-Orphan Asylum

T, continued

  • The Halifax Protestant Orphans' Home
  • The Hall of a Hundred Cots
  • The Hall of Unnamed Children
  • The Harcourt Home for Girls
  • The Hargrove Home for Boys
  • The Harriet Lowell Foundling Home
  • The Hartwell Orphan Asylum
  • The Hatters' Benevolent Cottage
  • The Haven
  • The Hawthorne Memorial Home
  • The Hawthorns
  • The Hearthward Hall for Lost Children
  • The Heseltine Orphan Hospital
  • The Hetherington Farm School
  • The Hezekiah Flint Orphan Farm

T, continued

  • The Highgate Home for Destitute Boys
  • The Hilltop Institution
  • The Hollies
  • The Hollingsworth Home for Boys
  • The Home at Three Bridges
  • The Home for Convalescent Orphans
  • The Home for Deaf Orphans
  • The Home for Destitute Boys
  • The Home for Destitute Orphans
  • The Home for Friendless Children
  • The Home for Half-Orphans
  • The Home for Homeless Children
  • The Home for Incurable Children
  • The Home for Little Ones
  • The Home for Little Wanderers

T, continued

  • The Home for Motherless Children
  • The Home for Neglected Children
  • The Home for the Fatherless
  • The Home-Finding Society Shelter
  • The House at Marsh End
  • The House behind the Gasworks
  • The House of Second Mothers
  • The House of Small Sorrows
  • The House on Cobbler's Lane
  • The House on Fever Hill
  • The Hudson Valley Orphan Farm
  • The Humane Society Orphanage
  • The Illingworth Mill Children's Hall
  • The Imperial Foundling Hospital

T, continued

  • The Industrial Home for Boys
  • The Industrial Home for Destitute Children
  • The Industrial School for Orphans
  • The Infant Orphan Asylum
  • The Infant Welfare Home
  • The Infants' Home
  • The Ingram Children's Home
  • The Ironworkers' Orphan Cottages
  • The Ivory Lane Orphanage
  • The Ivy House
  • The Jardine Seamen's Children's Lodge
  • The Jessop Lodge for Boys
  • The Josephine Kerr Home for Infants
  • The Josiah Thorne Home for Waifs
  • The Judge Halloran Farm for Boys

T, continued

  • The Juvenile Asylum
  • The Juvenile Refuge
  • The Kendrick Home for Orphans
  • The King's Wards' Hall
  • The Kingsley Foundling Home
  • The Kittredge Home for Girls
  • The Lacemakers' School for Orphan Girls
  • The Lady Ashworth Home for Girls
  • The Lady Cavendish Orphan Asylum
  • The Lady Fitzwilliam Orphanage
  • The Lady Margaret Selwyn Hospital for Foundlings
  • The Lambeth Female Orphan Asylum
  • The Lamplighters' Orphan Fund Hostel
  • The Langley Orphan Home
  • The Lansdowne Orphanage

T, continued

  • The Lantern Sisters' Foundling Cloister
  • The Lascelles Nursery
  • The Laundresses' Children's Nursery
  • The Laurels
  • The Lavinia Thorpe Refuge for Girls
  • The Leeds Orphan Institution
  • The Leverton Almshouse School
  • The Licensed Victuallers' Orphan Home
  • The Lifeboat Disaster Fund Cottage
  • The Lifeboat Home for Fishermen's Orphans
  • The Lifeboatmen's Orphanage
  • The Lightkeepers' Children's Hostel
  • The Limes
  • The Lindqvist Children's Lodge

T, continued

  • The Liverpool Sheltering Home
  • The Lock-Keeper's Cottage for Canal Orphans
  • The Locked Wing
  • The Lockwood Home for Boys
  • The Lodge at Kings' Mead
  • The Lord Ellesmere Home for Boys
  • The Lord Mayor's Fund Nursery
  • The Lower City Foundling Yard
  • The Lying-In and Foundling Hospital
  • The Lytton Home for Waifs
  • The Macready Refuge for Boys
  • The Mages' College Foundling Wing
  • The Male Orphan Asylum
  • The Manchester Refuge for Homeless Boys
  • The Marchioness of Ely Home

T, continued

  • The Marchmont Home for Girls
  • The Marchwardens' Hall for War Orphans
  • The Marylebone Female Orphan Asylum
  • The Match Girls' Home
  • The Matron Ashdown Home
  • The Mayor Pettigrew Children's Hall
  • The Mechanics' Institute Orphan School
  • The Melbourne Orphan Asylum
  • The Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum
  • The Merchant Venturers' Hospital for Orphans
  • The Merriwether Home for Children
  • The Metropolitan Orphan Asylum
  • The Milbank Orphan Asylum
  • The Military Orphan Asylum
  • The Mill Girls' Home

T, continued

  • The Mill Pond Cottage
  • The Mine Explosion Relief Cottages
  • The Miners' Orphan Home
  • The Mining Camp Children's Shelter
  • The Miss Havelock Home for Girls
  • The Misses Catchpole's Home for Girls
  • The Mission Hall Crèche
  • The Moon Mother's Cradle Hall
  • The Mortimer Orphanage
  • The Mothers' and Babies' Home
  • The Mowbray Bequest Nursery
  • The Müller Orphan Houses
  • The Municipal Children's Home
  • The Musicians' Orphan Home

T, continued

  • The Naval Orphan Home
  • The Navvies' Mission Nursery
  • The Nest Children's Home
  • The Nethercott Institute for Destitute Girls
  • The Netherfield Home for Children
  • The New Orleans Female Orphan Asylum
  • The Newsboys' Home
  • The Newsboys' Lodging House
  • The Northcote Orphan Asylum
  • The Norwich Girls' Orphan Hospital
  • The Nursery and Child's Hospital
  • The Octavia Rhodes Settlement
  • The Oddfellows' Lodge for Widows and Orphans
  • The Old Brewery Mission
  • The Old Dairy Nursery

T, continued

  • The Old Excise Office Refuge
  • The Old Granary Hostel
  • The Old Mill Orphanage
  • The Old Rectory at Nether Cross
  • The Old Schoolhouse Family Home
  • The Old Station Hotel Hostel
  • The Old Tollhouse Cottage
  • The Old Vicarage Nursery
  • The Open-Air School and Children's Hostel
  • The Orchard House
  • The Order of the Open Hand Children's Hall
  • The Ormerod Cottages
  • The Orphan Society Home
  • The Orphan Train Depot Lodging
  • The Orphan Training School

T, continued

  • The Orphan Working School
  • The Orphans' Friend Home
  • The Osgood Foundling Home
  • The Oswald Pike Memorial Home
  • The Outpost Nursery
  • The Paddocks
  • The Palliser Orphanage
  • The Parish Apprentices' Dormitory
  • The Parish Farm for Pauper Infants
  • The Parish Orphan House
  • The Parish Poor Children's Home
  • The Patriotic Orphan Asylum
  • The Pelham Home for Children
  • The Pemberton Home for Orphans

T, continued

  • The Penhaligon Cottage for Fisher Children
  • The Philanthropic Society Home
  • The Pickersgill Orphanage
  • The Placing-Out Agency Home
  • The Policemen's Orphanage
  • The Poor Law Cottage Homes
  • The Poorhouse Children's Wing
  • The Poorhouse Nursery
  • The Poplars
  • The Postmen's Benevolent Orphanage
  • The Potters' Guild Children's Hall
  • The Prairie Orphan Farm
  • The Prendergast Home for Waifs
  • The Prince Albert Orphan Home
  • The Princess Alice Orphanage

T, continued

  • The Princess Louise Home for Girls
  • The Princess Mary Village Homes
  • The Printers' Orphan Home
  • The Priory Home for Children
  • The Provost Maitland Hospital for Orphans
  • The Public Assistance Children's Home
  • The Quarantine Home for Orphans
  • The Quarrymen's Orphan Cottages
  • The Quayside Mission for Wharf Children
  • The Queen Adelaide Orphan Asylum
  • The Queen Victoria Orphan Home
  • The Queen's Foundlings
  • The Queen's Orphanage
  • The Quennell Memorial Home
  • The Quiet House

T, continued

  • The Radcliffe Home for Girls
  • The Ragged Home for Boys
  • The Ragged School Home
  • The Railway Servants' Orphanage
  • The Ravenhill Orphan Home
  • The Redfern Colliery Orphan Fund Cottage
  • The Reformatory and Orphan Home
  • The Refuge for Destitute Children
  • The Refuge for Homeless Girls
  • The Refugee Children's Hostel
  • The Regimental Orphan School
  • The Relief Committee Children's Shelter
  • The Relief Society Children's Colony
  • The Rescue Home for Girls

T, continued

  • The Residential Nursery
  • The Reverend Peel's Home for Waifs
  • The River Goddess Foundling Shrine
  • The Rookery
  • The Rotherwick Hall for Boys
  • The Rowans
  • The Royal Albert Orphan Asylum
  • The Royal Caledonian Asylum
  • The Royal Female Orphanage
  • The Royal Hospital School for Seamen's Orphans
  • The Royal Masonic Institution for Boys
  • The Royal Masonic Institution for Girls
  • The Royal Merchant Navy School
  • The Royal Military Asylum
  • The Royal Naval Orphan Home

T, continued

  • The Royal Orphan Asylum
  • The Royal Patriotic Orphan Home
  • The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum
  • The Rutherford Children's Home
  • The Sailors' Orphan Home
  • The Salford Orphan Asylum
  • The San Francisco Ladies' Protection and Relief Society
  • The Sandford Home for Boys
  • The Savannah Female Asylum
  • The Scattered Home on Albion Street
  • The Schoolmasters' Orphan Institution
  • The Schuyler Farm for Homeless Boys
  • The Scrimgeour Institution
  • The Seamstresses' Refuge for Girls
  • The Sedgwick Foundling Home

T, continued

  • The Senator Whitmore Orphan Farm
  • The Shelter for Destitute Girls
  • The Shelter for Friendless Children
  • The Shelter for Respectable Girls
  • The Shepherds' Friendly Society Orphan Farm
  • The Sheriff's Fund Shelter
  • The Shipwreck Orphans' Home
  • The Shipwrights' Orphan Institution
  • The Shoeblack Brigade Home
  • The Shop Assistants' Orphan Fund Hostel
  • The Shoreditch Refuge for Children
  • The Shrine of the Kind Lady Orphan Hall
  • The Shuttered House
  • The Siege Orphans' Refuge

T, continued

  • The Silas Aldergate Charity for Poor Scholars
  • The Sir Thomas Bramwell Orphan Home
  • The Sisters of the Quiet Hearth
  • The Society for Orphans Home
  • The Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphanage
  • The Soldiers' Daughters' Home
  • The Somerville Orphan Asylum
  • The Southwark Refuge for Homeless Children
  • The Spitalfields Orphan House
  • The Stable Yard Mission
  • The Stanhope Children's Home
  • The State Home for Soldiers' Orphans
  • The State Orphan Asylum
  • The State Public School for Dependent Children
  • The Stone Barn at Pilgrim's Cross

T, continued

  • The Stonemasons' Lodge for Orphans
  • The Stormwatch Keep Orphan Barracks
  • The Street Boys' Home
  • The Strickland Hall for Girls
  • The Sutcliffe Orphan Home
  • The Sycamores
  • The Sydney Benevolent Asylum
  • The Talbot Home for Orphan Girls
  • The Tallow House
  • The Tanners' Company Almonry
  • The Tattersall Refuge for Girls
  • The Telegraph Clerks' Orphan Fund Hostel
  • The Temple of the Dawn Foundling Hall
  • The Territorial Orphans' Home
  • The Thackeray Home for Orphans

T, continued

  • The Thaddeus Pell Institution for Boys
  • The Theatrical Fund Nursery
  • The Thieves' Quarter Urchin Den
  • The Tinplate Workers' Provident Settlement
  • The Tinsmiths' Guild Wardhouse
  • The Top Floor at Paradise Row
  • The Toronto Girls' Home
  • The Training Home for Girls
  • The Training Ship Home for Boys
  • The Tramwaymen's Children's Hostel
  • The Trawlermen's Children's Mission
  • The Tremayne Home for Girls
  • The Trevelyan Mine Orphans' School
  • The Underhill Home for Girls

T, continued

  • The Union Orphan Asylum
  • The Union Workhouse Children's Ward
  • The Uppingham Bequest Cottage
  • The Vanbrugh Orphanage
  • The Vellacott Nursery for Foundlings
  • The Verney Foundling Home
  • The Vestry Nursery
  • The Veterans' Orphan Home
  • The Viceregal Orphanage
  • The Vintners' Charity Hall
  • The Viscountess Stanmere Refuge
  • The Wagon Road Children's Mission
  • The Waifs' and Strays' Home
  • The War Nursery
  • The War Orphans' Home

T, continued

  • The Warburton Memorial Orphanage
  • The Wardens' Rest for Plague Orphans
  • The Warehousemen and Clerks' Orphan Schools
  • The Wartime Billeting Hostel
  • The Watchmen's Children's Refuge
  • The Watts Naval Training School for Orphans
  • The Wayfarers' Guild Foundling Loft
  • The Weavers' Orphan Asylum
  • The Welfare Board Annexe
  • The Wentworth Home for Boys
  • The Whitcombe Home for Boys
  • The Whitechapel Orphan Asylum
  • The Widow Hargreaves Home
  • The Widow Ormsby's Almshouse for Children
  • The Widows' and Orphans' Home

T, continued

  • The Willows
  • The Winslow Memorial Orphanage
  • The Wolcott Home for Foundlings
  • The Wolstenholme Hospital for Orphans
  • The Workhouse Infant Ward
  • The Workhouse School for Pauper Boys
  • The Wyrmfire Orphans' Hall
  • The Yardley Memorial Children's Home
  • The Yeomanry Orphans' Fund Lodge
  • The York Blue Coat Boys' School
  • Thirteen Candle Street
  • Thistlemoor Grange
  • Thornbarrow Hall
  • Thornfield Orphanage
  • Trinity Church Orphanage

U: 3 names

  • Uncle Jeremiah's Farm for Homeless Boys
  • Unitarian Home for Children
  • Ursuline Orphan Home

V: 2 names

  • Villa Bambini
  • Visitation Convent Foundling Ward

W: 12 names

  • Waisenhaus Marienthal
  • Waisenhaus zum Guten Hirten
  • Wayside House
  • Weeping Birch Lodge
  • Weeshuis der Hervormden
  • Wesleyan Orphan Home
  • Westholme
  • Wickerby Home for Boys
  • Widow's Reach
  • Willow Creek Children's Home
  • Wraithmoor House
  • Wren House

Z: 1 name

  • Zion Orphan Home