Owlbear Name Generator

Owlbears are one of the oldest original Dungeons & Dragons monsters, a bear's body with an owl's head and a foul temper, and since Baldur's Gate 3 let players adopt a cub they have become one of the most-named creatures at the table. The right name depends on the relationship. A cub raised by a druid or ranger usually gets something soft and slightly absurd, like Hootbert, Pellet or Sir Fluffington, that plays on the owl half while hinting at the menace it will grow into. A wild owlbear the party is hunting wants a name the villagers would whisper: Gorefeather, Nightmauler, the Terror of Greymere.

Good owlbear names pull from three sources. Owl language gives hoots, screeches, talons, tufts, pellets and feathers; bear language gives bristle, maw, paw, hide, grizzle and growl; and the forest gives moss, bramble, thorn, bog and pine. Compound names such as Bramblebeak or Mossfeather combine two of those and sound like they belong in a monster manual entry. Old-fashioned human names (Barnaby, Wilhelmina, Mortimer) are the classic choice for a tame one, because the contrast with a two-ton predator is the joke.

This list covers cubs, companions, wild beasts, legendary named owlbears with epithets, owl and bear words in other languages, and plenty of silly options for players who name on the spot.