Prince Name Generator
Royal names and epithets for fantasy and historical princes
Generate prince names for fantasy novels, D&D courts, fairy tales and historical fiction: full styles like Prince Aldric the Bold and Prince Cassian of Vellmoor, crown-prince and regent titles, princely given names from Caspian to Casimir, and real-world royals from the Plantagenets to the Rurikids.
About prince names
A prince's name does three jobs at once: it has to sound like it belongs to a ruling house, it has to sit comfortably after a title, and it usually carries a tag that tells you where he stands in the succession. Real princes were named after grandfathers and saints, which is why the same two dozen names (Edward, Henry, Frederick, Alexander, Louis, Casimir) cycle through European dynasties, and why a fantasy prince named Aldric or Caspian reads as royal while one named Kevin does not. The name was then extended with either a place (Edward of Woodstock, John of Gaunt, Prince Yusuf of Granada) or an epithet earned or mocked in his lifetime (the Bold, the Unready, the Navigator, the Younger).
Titles matter too. A crown prince is the named heir; a prince regent rules in a monarch's place; a prince consort married the queen; a dauphin is the French heir; a prince-elector or prince-bishop held a German principality. Using the right one tells the reader what kind of court you are writing.
This list mixes invented fantasy princes with epithets and lands, plain title-and-name styles such as Prince Casimir for your own house, ranks from Crown Prince to Prince Regent, and historical princes from Wales, Rus, Iberia, the Islamic world, India and East Asia for flavour.
How to choose prince names
- Decide the prince's position before the name: Crown Prince Leander signals the heir, Prince Regent Corwin signals a power behind the throne, and a plain Prince Thane the Second Son signals a spare. The title does half the characterisation.
- Match the given name to your setting's culture. Caspian, Aldric and Emeric suit a Western European fantasy court; Rurik, Mstislav and Yaroslav suit a northern or Slavic one; Tariq, Faisal and Idris suit a desert kingdom. Mixing registers inside one family breaks the illusion.
- Epithets should be earned in the story or inherited as an embarrassment. The Bold, the Pious and the Builder work for a finished reign; the Unready, the Bastard Prince and the Lost Heir work better for a character with something to prove.
- Avoid naming your fantasy prince exactly after a famous real one (Vlad of Transylvania, Shaka of the Zulu). Use them as models for structure, then change the name or the land.
- Say the full style out loud: Prince Cassian of Vellmoor and Prince Silas the Grey scan well; a three-part name with a long place and a long epithet will be trimmed by readers to something shorter, so pick what you want that short form to be.
Frequently asked questions
What are good fantasy prince names?
Names with a classical or medieval feel that are not tied to one famous real person work best: Aldric, Caspian, Theron, Lucan, Evander, Emeric, Oswin, Corvin, Valerian, Leoric. Add a land or an epithet to finish the style, as in Prince Lucan of the Silver Reach or Prince Aurelian the Golden.
How are real princes named?
Most historical princes were named for ancestors and patron saints, then distinguished by a birthplace or territory (Edward of Woodstock, John of Gaunt, Llywelyn of Gwynedd) or an epithet (Henry the Navigator, Yaroslav the Wise, Radu the Handsome). Crown princes in some countries also carried a territorial title, such as Prince of Wales or Prince of Asturias.
What is the difference between a crown prince, a prince regent and a prince consort?
A crown prince is the designated heir to the throne. A prince regent governs on behalf of a monarch who is a child, absent or unable to rule. A prince consort is the husband of a reigning queen and has no claim to rule himself. Writers can use these titles to signal a character's power and ambitions at a glance.
Can I use these names for a D&D or fairy-tale character?
Yes. The epithet and land styles suit an NPC whose reputation precedes him (Prince Percival the Unsmiling, Prince Viktor the Unyielding), while the house-surname styles (Prince Caspian Thornewood, Prince Oswin Greyhaven) suit a player character whose story is still being written. Drop the title if your game only allows a plain name.
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All 500 prince names
C: 15 names
- Crown Prince Alexei
- Crown Prince Augustin
- Crown Prince Balduin
- Crown Prince Frederik
- Crown Prince Gustav
- Crown Prince Harald
- Crown Prince Kristoffer
- Crown Prince Leander
- Crown Prince Matthias
- Crown Prince Olav
- Crown Prince Rupert
- Crown Prince Sigismund
- Crown Prince Teodor
- Crown Prince Valentin
- Crown Prince Vasily
D: 1 name
- Dauphin Charles
P: 484 names
- Prince Adair the Wayward
- Prince Adalbert
- Prince Aedh of Connacht
- Prince Aelfric of Wyvernhall
- Prince Aethelred of the Danelaw
- Prince Agravain the Proud
- Prince Ahmad of the Red Fortress
- Prince Alaric the Unready
- Prince Albrecht
- Prince Alden of the Amber Court
- Prince Aldhelm the Learned
- Prince Aldous of the Thistle Throne
- Prince Aldric the Bold
- Prince Aldwin the Mild
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- Prince Alexander of Dunkeld
- Prince Alexios the Purple-Born
- Prince Alfonso of Castile
- Prince Alfred the Wise
- Prince Alistair the Unbowed
- Prince Alphonse the Generous
- Prince Alric the Shield-Prince
- Prince Amadeo of Castellara
- Prince Amadis of Gaul
- Prince Amaury
- Prince Ambrose of the Eastern Shore
- Prince Ambrosius Aurelianus
- Prince Anatole Beaulieu
- Prince Andrei of Vladimir
- Prince Ansel Morrowind
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- Prince Anselm of Thorncastle
- Prince Ansgar the Unhorsed
- Prince Archibald the Stern
- Prince Arjun of the Thousand Elephants
- Prince Armand the Debonair
- Prince Arnaud of the Lavender Hills
- Prince Arthur of Brittany
- Prince Athelstan the Glorious
- Prince Aubrey Featherstone
- Prince Aucassin of Beaucaire
- Prince Aurel of the Copper Hills
- Prince Aurelian the Golden
- Prince Aurelio
- Prince Aurick Stormfeld
- Prince Aymeric
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- Prince Baldwin
- Prince Balthazar of the Amber Coast
- Prince Ban of Benwick
- Prince Basil the Sober
- Prince Bastian
- Prince Bastien of Highcastle
- Prince Bedivere One-Hand
- Prince Bela of the Arpads
- Prince Benedict the Pious
- Prince Bertil of the Birch Kingdom
- Prince Bertrand of Morrow
- Prince Bharata the Dutiful
- Prince Blaise Thornbury
- Prince Bohemond
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- Prince Boleslaw of Poland
- Prince Boris of Bulgaria
- Prince Bors of Gaunnes
- Prince Brannigan of the Weeping Coast
- Prince Brannoch Ironcrown
- Prince Brendan of the Long Loch
- Prince Brennan the Bastard Prince
- Prince Brian of Munster
- Prince Cador of Cornwall
- Prince Caedmon the Singer
- Prince Caelan Ravensworth
- Prince Caius the Oathbound
- Prince Calder of the Iron Shore
- Prince Callixtus the Stone-Faced
- Prince Callum of the Fen Country
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- Prince Canute of the Danes
- Prince Caratacus the Unbroken
- Prince Casimir
- Prince Caspian Thornewood
- Prince Cassian of Vellmoor
- Prince Cassius of Redmarch
- Prince Cedric
- Prince Cedric of Ambergate
- Prince Clovis of the River Crossing
- Prince Conan Harrowden
- Prince Conn of the Hundred Battles
- Prince Conrad the Ironhanded
- Prince Consort Alaric
- Prince Consort Willard
- Prince Constantine of Cornwall
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- Prince Constantine the Dreamer
- Prince Corentin of the Granite Shore
- Prince Cormac of Tara
- Prince Cormac Stonebridge
- Prince Cormac the Kindhearted
- Prince Corvin of Blackmere
- Prince Corwin of the Autumn Court
- Prince Cosimo of Tuscany
- Prince Crispin Roseveare
- Prince Cuthbert the Meek
- Prince Cyprian the Unlucky
- Prince Cyril of the Lower Marches
- Prince Cyrus the Younger
- Prince Dagobert Silverhand
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- Prince Dagonet the Fool Prince
- Prince Damian the Unwilling
- Prince Darius the Builder
- Prince Dashiell Amberline
- Prince Demetrius of the Hundred Isles
- Prince Desmond
- Prince Diarmuid of Leinster
- Prince Dietmar Falkenrath
- Prince Dietrich of Bern
- Prince Dmitri of Moscow
- Prince Dominic Hallowfield
- Prince Dorian of Wrenfield
- Prince Duarte of Aviz
- Prince Duncan of Kettlemoor
- Prince Duncan of Strathclyde
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- Prince Dusan the Mighty
- Prince Eadric the Wild
- Prince Eamon Thistlewood
- Prince Eberhard the Bear
- Prince Edgar
- Prince Edgar the Aetheling
- Prince Edmund of Langley
- Prince Edmund the Younger
- Prince Edric of the Windward Isles
- Prince Edward of Woodstock
- Prince Edwyn the Far-Sighted
- Prince Eldred of the Mistmoor
- Prince Elias of the Pale Shore
- Prince Elio Santacroce
- Prince Ellery of Brightwater
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- Prince Elrith of the Dawn Spires
- Prince Emeric of Dunmore
- Prince Emilian of the Cloud Peaks
- Prince Emrys of the Singing Stones
- Prince Endric the Sun-Touched
- Prince Enguerrand
- Prince Enrique the Navigator
- Prince Erasmus the Well-Read
- Prince Ercole of Ferrara
- Prince Eric of the Swedes
- Prince Eustace
- Prince Evander Halloway
- Prince Everard the Just
- Prince Everett the Unbending
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- Prince Ewald the Hammer
- Prince Ewan Silverthorne
- Prince Ewart of Dreadmoor
- Prince Ezra of the Olive Coast
- Prince Fabian of the Lake Country
- Prince Faisal ibn Rashid
- Prince Faramond Ironwood
- Prince Federico of Urbino
- Prince Felix the Fortunate
- Prince Ferdinand
- Prince Fergus of Ulster
- Prince Fernando of Portugal
- Prince Ferris Oakhollow
- Prince Finnian of the Glass Valley
- Prince Florian of Ashbury
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- Prince Frederick the Fair
- Prince Fulk of Blackhaven
- Prince Gaheris the Silent
- Prince Galahad the Pure
- Prince Galeazzo Visconti
- Prince Galen the Healer-Prince
- Prince Gallus the Last of His Line
- Prince Ganelon
- Prince Gareth Beaumains
- Prince Garrick Thornefield
- Prince Gaspard the Silver-Tongued
- Prince Gavriel the Long-Awaited
- Prince Gawain of Orkney
- Prince Genji the Shining
- Prince Geoffrey of Anjou
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- Prince Gerald of the Three Bridges
- Prince Gereon the Watchful
- Prince Gideon Whitlock
- Prince Gilbert Ravensdale
- Prince Giselher the Young
- Prince Godfrey
- Prince Godric Fenwick
- Prince Gottfried the Pilgrim
- Prince Gregor
- Prince Gunther of Burgundy
- Prince Guy of Winterbourne
- Prince Haakon the Good
- Prince Hadrian Stormhallow
- Prince Halvard of the Salt Towers
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- Prince Hamish of the Misty Isles
- Prince Harald Fairhair
- Prince Haroun of the Golden City
- Prince Harsha of Kanauj
- Prince Hector the Shieldwall
- Prince Heinrich Steinhardt
- Prince Henry of the Narrow Sea
- Prince Hieronymus of Marrowgate
- Prince Hildebrand the Grey
- Prince Hiro of the Chrysanthemum Court
- Prince Hollis the Bright
- Prince Horatio the Seafarer
- Prince Huayna of Cusco
- Prince Hugh the Gentle
- Prince Hugo
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- Prince Humbert of the Chalk Downs
- Prince Humphrey of Lancaster
- Prince Hywel the Good
- Prince Idris Longshadow
- Prince Idris of the Mountains
- Prince Ignatius the Scholar
- Prince Igor of Novgorod
- Prince Imperial Lucius
- Prince Ine the Lawgiver
- Prince Ingram Fairholm
- Prince Isaak Frostbourne
- Prince Isidore of Calderon
- Prince Ivar Greyfell
- Prince Ivo
- Prince Ivor Snowdrift
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- Prince Jahan the Builder
- Prince Jaime of Majorca
- Prince Jalal of the Two Rivers
- Prince Jareth the Goblin Prince
- Prince Jasper the Wanderer
- Prince Jayavarman the Builder
- Prince Jerome the Unhurried
- Prince Joachim the Unlooked-For
- Prince John of Gaunt
- Prince Jonas of the Quiet Harbour
- Prince Jorah the Grey-Eyed
- Prince Joscelin the Poet Prince
- Prince Julian
- Prince Justinian the Lawmaker
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- Prince Kaedon Starweather
- Prince Kaleb of Axum
- Prince Karim of the Oasis
- Prince Karna of Anga
- Prince Kay the Seneschal
- Prince Kendrick Wolfsbane
- Prince Kenneth of the Scots
- Prince Kieran of Ardmere
- Prince Kofi of the Golden Stool
- Prince Konrad
- Prince Ladislaus the Saint
- Prince Lambert of the Low Fens
- Prince Lamorak of Gales
- Prince Lancelot of the Lake
- Prince Laurent of Montrevel
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- Prince Lazar of Serbia
- Prince Lazarus the Twice-Crowned
- Prince Leander Moonsworth
- Prince Leif of the Far Shore
- Prince Leodegrance of Cameliard
- Prince Leonidas of the Hot Gates
- Prince Leopold of Harrowgate
- Prince Leoric the Lionhearted
- Prince Li Shimin of Tang
- Prince Lionel Brightmoor
- Prince Lionel of Antwerp
- Prince Lionel of Benwick
- Prince Llywelyn of Gwynedd
- Prince Lohengrin the Swan Knight
- Prince Lorcan Blackbriar
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- Prince Lorenz
- Prince Lorenzo of Florence
- Prince Lorien the Dreamer
- Prince Lot of Lothian
- Prince Lothar the Vigilant
- Prince Lucan Dawnridge
- Prince Lucan of the Silver Reach
- Prince Lucan the Butler
- Prince Lucas of the Ninth Tower
- Prince Lucas Pendragon
- Prince Lucian Greymantle
- Prince Lucien the Lamplighter
- Prince Lucius the Lantern-Bearer
- Prince Ludovic
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- Prince Ludovic Marchbanks
- Prince Ludovico of Milan
- Prince Lysander the Gallant
- Prince Lysias of the Marble Isles
- Prince Madoc the Voyager
- Prince Magnus Barefoot
- Prince Magnus the Restless
- Prince Malcolm of Alba
- Prince Malric of Coldharbour
- Prince Manfred Hohenstein
- Prince Marcel Vautrin
- Prince Marcelin of the Lantern Coast
- Prince Marcus of the Southern Gate
- Prince Marius of the Sunken Keep
- Prince Mark of Tintagel
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- Prince Matthias the Steadfast
- Prince Maximilian the Patient
- Prince Meinhard the Stonecutter
- Prince Meliodas of Lyonesse
- Prince Menelik of Shewa
- Prince Merrick Holloway
- Prince Mieszko of Gniezno
- Prince Mikael
- Prince Milo of Sweetwater
- Prince Mircea of Wallachia
- Prince Moctezuma of the Lake Cities
- Prince Mordred of the Dark Wood
- Prince Mstislav of Chernigov
- Prince Nadir of the Moonlit Court
- Prince Nathaniel Greyson
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- Prince Nestor the Long-Lived
- Prince Nezahualcoyotl the Poet
- Prince Niall of Ravenscar
- Prince Niall of the Nine Hostages
- Prince Nicholas of Everwinter
- Prince Nikolai
- Prince Nikolas of Vellantine
- Prince Nils of the Frozen Strait
- Prince Oberon
- Prince Octavian Larkspur
- Prince Odo the Stout
- Prince Odran Blackfeather
- Prince Offa of Mercia
- Prince Ogier the Dane
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- Prince Olaf Tryggvason
- Prince Oliver
- Prince Oliver the Wise
- Prince Oren of Hawksmoor
- Prince Orfeo the Harper
- Prince Orlan the Half-Crowned
- Prince Orsino of the Tideless Sea
- Prince Orson of the Bear Hills
- Prince Osric the Bookish
- Prince Osric the Untested
- Prince Oswald of Northumbria
- Prince Oswin Greyhaven
- Prince Otho Brambleford
- Prince Owain of Powys
- Prince Palamedes the Saracen
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- Prince Parzival of Anjou
- Prince Pascal
- Prince Pedro of Aragon
- Prince Pellinore of the Isles
- Prince Pepin the Short-Tempered
- Prince Perceval of the Grail
- Prince Percival the Unsmiling
- Prince Peregrine Fallowmere
- Prince Philibert of Castelrose
- Prince Philippe the Courteous
- Prince Phineas the Merry
- Prince Piers Hawkhurst
- Prince Quentin of Hollowvale
- Prince Quillon Ashenford
- Prince Radu the Handsome
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- Prince Rafe Stormcrest
- Prince Rainald of the Eastmarch
- Prince Rainier
- Prince Rama of Ayodhya
- Prince Ranulf the Red
- Prince Raphael Montclair
- Prince Rashid of the Thousand Lamps
- Prince Raymond
- Prince Regent Bartholomew
- Prince Regent Corwin
- Prince Regent Edmund
- Prince Regent Hadwin
- Prince Reinhold Adlersberg
- Prince Remy of the Lilac Throne
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- Prince Reynard of Castelmont
- Prince Rhodri Ironbrook
- Prince Rhys of Deheubarth
- Prince Rhys of Thornholt
- Prince Richard of Bordeaux
- Prince Robert the Loyal
- Prince Roderick the Quiet
- Prince Roger of the Grey Tower
- Prince Roland
- Prince Roland of the Breton March
- Prince Rolf Seastrand
- Prince Ronan the Hawk-Eyed
- Prince Ronan Wintermere
- Prince Rowan Ashgrove
- Prince Royal Geoffrey
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- Prince Ruairi of the Western Strand
- Prince Rurik of Kolvany
- Prince Sabin the Moonstruck
- Prince Salim of the Spice Road
- Prince Sancho of Navarre
- Prince Sebastian of the High Court
- Prince Severin the Sleepless
- Prince Shaka of the Zulu
- Prince Shotoku the Wise
- Prince Siddharth of Kapilavastu
- Prince Siegfried of Xanten
- Prince Sigismondo of Rimini
- Prince Sigurd the Crusader
- Prince Sigurd the Reluctant
- Prince Silas the Grey
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- Prince Simeon the Great
- Prince Sixtus of the Seven Hills
- Prince Somerled of the Isles
- Prince Soren of the Ice Fjords
- Prince Sorrel Ravenbrook
- Prince Stanislas Wierzbicki
- Prince Stefan
- Prince Stefan of Moldavia
- Prince Stellan the Lost Heir
- Prince Stephen of Blois
- Prince Stephen of Hungary
- Prince Sundiata of Mali
- Prince Suryavarman of Angkor
- Prince Sviatoslav the Brave
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- Prince Sweyn Forkbeard
- Prince Sylvester the Forest Prince
- Prince Takeru of the Eastern Provinces
- Prince Tancred
- Prince Tariq of the Dunes
- Prince Tarquin of Sundermere
- Prince Tavish of the Heather Hills
- Prince Teodric of Greywater
- Prince Tewodros of Gondar
- Prince Thaddeus Greycastle
- Prince Thane the Second Son
- Prince Theobald of Champagne
- Prince Theodric Blackwell
- Prince Theron the Fair
- Prince Thibault
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- Prince Thomas of Woodstock
- Prince Thorsten the Unshaken
- Prince Tiernan Fairbanks
- Prince Timon the Unmoved
- Prince Titus of the Marble Steps
- Prince Tobiah Winterhale
- Prince Tobias of Saltmarsh
- Prince Torvald of the Black Pines
- Prince Torvin the Boar-Hunter
- Prince Tristan of the Marches
- Prince Tristram Everhart
- Prince Tristram of Lyonesse
- Prince Tupac of the Four Quarters
- Prince Tybalt Quarrell
- Prince Ulric Frostmantle
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- Prince Urban
- Prince Uriel of the Starlit Keep
- Prince Urien of Gore
- Prince Uther Pendragon
- Prince Vaeron the Exiled
- Prince Valdemar the Victorious
- Prince Valen Ashmoor
- Prince Valerian Ashcombe
- Prince Varian the Wolf-Prince
- Prince Vasco of the Sea Roads
- Prince Vasilis of the Golden Horn
- Prince Vijaya of Lanka
- Prince Vikram of Ujjain
- Prince Viktor the Unyielding
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- Prince Vincent
- Prince Vitus the Dancer
- Prince Vlad of Transylvania
- Prince Vladimir of Kiev
- Prince Vladislav of Bohemia
- Prince Waldemar of Greifenburg
- Prince Walter the Plain
- Prince Warin of the Salt Flats
- Prince Wenceslas
- Prince Wilfred Ashworth
- Prince Wilhelm of Eisenhall
- Prince Willem van Drakensteyn
- Prince Wolfgang the Hunter
- Prince Wolfram Eichenwald
- Prince Wystan of the Hollow Hills