Prussian Name Generator
Junker, burgher and Old Prussian names from the Baltic to Berlin
Generate authentic Prussian names: noble von families from Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia, everyday townsfolk and farmers with Masurian and Lithuanian surnames, Huguenot Berliners, and the Baltic Old Prussians who lived there before the Teutonic Knights.
About Prussian names
A Prussian name usually means one of two things. For most people it is the Kingdom of Prussia of 1701 to 1918: Junker landowners with a von before a short, hard surname (Kleist, Bülow, Zieten, Puttkamer, Dönhoff), given names that ran in families for generations (Friedrich, Wilhelm, Heinrich, Joachim, Luise, Charlotte, Wilhelmine), and the officer-class habit of double names like Friedrich Wilhelm and Hans Joachim. The eastern provinces add something no other German region has: Masurian surnames of Polish origin such as Sadowski and Kulessa, Prussian-Lithuanian names like Kairies, Naujoks and Szameitat, and Pomeranian names ending in -ow and -in (Treptow, Polzin, Zastrow) that come from old Slavic place names.
The second meaning is the Old Prussians, the Baltic people the Teutonic Order conquered in the 13th century. Their names survive only in chronicles and land grants: Herkus Monte, Glande, Diwan, Skomand, Auktume. They sound closer to Lithuanian than German, and are usually recorded with a tribal homeland attached (of Sambia, of Natangia, of Pogesania).
This generator covers both, plus the French Huguenot families (Fontane, Ancillon, du Bois-Reymond) that made up a fifth of Berlin by 1700. Use the noble names for officers and estate owners, the commoner names for soldiers, farmers and Königsberg townsfolk, and the Baltic names for anything set before 1300.
How to choose Prussian names
- Put the von in the right place: it is a nobility particle, not a surname, so Heinrich von Kleist is Herr von Kleist, never Herr Kleist, and it is sorted under K in a Prussian army list.
- Signal the province with the surname: -ow and -in endings (Bredow, Zastrow, Polzin) read Brandenburg and Pomerania, Polish -ski names read Masuria, and -at, -eit and -kus endings (Matzat, Kallweit, Bartkus) read the Lithuanian north-east around Tilsit and Memel.
- Match given names to the reign: Friedrich and Wilhelm dominate the 18th century, Otto, Hermann and Auguste the mid-19th, and Kurt, Erich, Herta and Else the generation born around 1900.
- For an Old Prussian tribal warrior, use a single name plus a homeland (Nakam of Pomesania) rather than a surname, since family names did not yet exist.
- Only a few Junker families were titled Graf or Freiherr; the great majority were plain von, so do not give everyone a count's title.
Frequently asked questions
What is a typical Prussian male name?
For the 18th and 19th centuries, Friedrich, Wilhelm, Karl, Heinrich, Otto, August and Hermann, very often doubled up (Friedrich Wilhelm, Karl Friedrich), paired with a surname such as Schulz, Krüger, Lehmann or, for the nobility, von Kleist or von Bülow. Hans Joachim and Hans Georg were favourite officer names.
Are Prussian names just German names?
Mostly, but the mix is distinctive. East and West Prussia had large Polish, Masurian and Lithuanian populations, so names like Dombrowski, Szameitat and Kairies were as Prussian as Müller. Berlin also had a large Huguenot community, which is why Fontane, Ancillon and Savigny are classic Prussian surnames despite being French.
What were Old Prussian names like?
The original Prussians were a Baltic people related to Lithuanians and Latvians. Recorded names include Herkus Monte, Glande, Diwan, Auktume, Skomand and Glappe, usually with a tribal region attached (Sambia, Natangia, Warmia, Pogesania) instead of a surname. The language died out around 1700.
What does von mean in a Prussian name?
Von marks the old landed nobility, the Junkers, who supplied most of Prussia's officers and civil servants. Families like Moltke, Zieten, Puttkamer and Dönhoff carried it. A few ranked higher as Graf (count) or Freiherr (baron), and zu instead of von usually signals an ancient family still seated on its original estate.
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All 500 Prussian names
A: 49 names
- Achim von Arnim
- Adalbert von Bredow
- Adam Sczepanek
- Adelgunde von Wilamowitz
- Adelheid Krampe
- Adelheid von Bredow
- Adolf Preuß
- Adolf von Kalckreuth
- Adolf von Thadden
- Agathe von Brünneck
- Agnes Perkuhn
- Agnes von Boyen
- Albert Gudat
- Albert Senftleben
- Albert Treptow
- Albertine von Gneisenau
- Albrecht Tietz
- Albrecht von Dohna
- Albrecht von Roon
- Alexander von Kuenheim
- Alexandrine von der Gröben
- Alfred Hübner
- Alfred von Schlieffen
- Alne of Natangia
A, continued
- Alwine Luckow
- Amalie Dargel
- Amalie von Podewils
- Amélie von Schön
- Andreas Bischoff
- Angelika von Ostau
- Anna Krüger
- Anna von Rochow
- Annemarie Symanzik
- Annemarie von Mutius
- Antoine Reclam
- Antonie Fiedler
- Antonie von Bonin
- Armgard von Klitzing
- Arthur Golz
- August Gerullis
- August Lepa
- August von Dönhoff
- August Wittke
- August Wollenberg
- Auguste Lestocq
- Auguste Schulz
- Auguste von Arnim
- Auktume of Pogesania
- Austė of Bartia
B: 11 names
- Beate von Trotha
- Bernhard von Hülsen
- Berta Schröder
- Bertha Treptow
- Bertha von Massow
- Bettina von Arnim
- Bogislaw von Lochow
- Botho von Eulenburg
- Brigitte von Witzleben
- Bruno Bartsch
- Bruteno
C: 19 names
- Cäcilie von Kessel
- Cäcilie von Tempelhoff
- Carl von Clausewitz
- Carl von Rohr
- Caroline von Humboldt
- Caspar von Borcke
- Charles Duvinage
- Charlotte Pasquier
- Charlotte Thiel
- Charlotte von Grolman
- Charlotte von Kleist
- Christel Böhm
- Christian Jorroch
- Christian von Massenbach
- Christoph von Kalckstein
- Clara Dombrowski
- Clementine von Königsmarck
- Colmar von der Goltz
- Cornelie von Plessen
D: 11 names
- Dagmar von Wuthenow
- Daniel Chodowiecki
- Daniel Symanzik
- Detlev von Mutius
- Dietrich von Quitzow
- Diwan Klekine
- Döring von Krockow
- Dorothea Lukat
- Dorothea von Dönhoff
- Dorothee von Auerswald
- Dubslav von Stechlin
E: 51 names
- Eberhard Lietzmann
- Eberhard von Puttkamer
- Eberhard von Schlieben
- Eckart von Bonin
- Eckhard von Randow
- Edeltraud von Randow
- Edith Gollnow
- Eduard Dargel
- Edwin von Manteuffel
- Egon von Wuthenow
- Eleonore Kowalke
- Eleonore von Schlieffen
- Eleonore von Tettau
- Elfriede Weinert
- Élisabeth Lesueur
- Elisabeth Sadowski
- Elisabeth von Eulenburg
- Elisabeth von Lochow
- Elise von Bismarck
- Else Gerullis
- Emil Bajorat
- Emil du Bois-Reymond
- Emil Jurgeleit
- Emil Kannenberg
- Emil Kuhnke
E, continued
- Emilie Hübner
- Emilie von Alvensleben
- Emma Neumann
- Erdmuthe von Barfus
- Erich Kowalewski
- Erich Moldenhauer
- Erich Szameitat
- Erich Woydak
- Erika Kossak
- Erna Bendig
- Ernestine von Stülpnagel
- Ernst Mielke
- Ernst Pawlowitz
- Ernst Polzin
- Ernst Stolt
- Ernst von Bodelschwingh
- Ernst von Lehndorff
- Ernst von Pfuel
- Ernst Wittenburg
- Erwin von Witzleben
- Erwin Wendt
- Eva von Tiele-Winckler
- Ewald Genz
- Ewald Kleinschmidt
- Ewald von Hertzberg
- Ewald von Massow
F: 34 names
- Fabian von Schlabrendorff
- Felicitas von Natzmer
- Ferdinand Krampe
- Ferdinand Mounier
- Ferdinand von Bismarck
- François Cuny
- Franz Retzlaff
- Franz Rogalla
- Franziska von Pfuel
- Freda von Ribbeck
- Freifrau Amalie von Kalnein
- Freiherr Karl vom Stein
- Freiherr Ludwig von Vincke
- Frieda Wiechert
- Friederike Pollex
- Friederike von Schwerin
- Friedrich Carl von Savigny
- Friedrich Krause
- Friedrich Kulessa
- Friedrich Kunz
- Friedrich Pankow
- Friedrich Schröder
- Friedrich von Bülow
- Friedrich von Königsmarck
- Friedrich von Ribbeck
- Friedrich von Saldern
- Friedrich von Seydlitz
- Friedrich von Wrangel
- Fritz Anskat
- Fritz Kudszus
- Fritz Matzat
- Fritz Rohde
- Fritz Steinke
- Fürst Heinrich zu Dohna
G: 42 names
- Gauwe of Natangia
- Gebhard von Alvensleben
- Gedete of Barta
- Georg Bergholz
- Georg Mertins
- Georg von Klitzing
- Georg von Zitzewitz
- Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff
- Georg Wischnewski
- Georges Devaranne
- Gerd von Rundstedt
- Gerda Zander
- Gerhard von Scharnhorst
- Gerkus of Nadrovia
- Gertrud Kairies
- Gertrud von Gersdorff
- Girdawe of Warmia
- Gisela von Kanitz
- Glande of Sambia
- Glappe of Ermland
- Godekke of Galindia
G, continued
- Gottfried Skowronnek
- Gottfried von Hoverbeck
- Gottlieb Lukat
- Gottlieb Schimanski
- Graf Alexander von Dohna-Schlobitten
- Graf August von Finckenstein
- Graf Carl zu Eulenburg
- Graf Eberhard zu Dohna
- Graf Friedrich von Dönhoff
- Graf Friedrich zu Lynar
- Graf Heinrich von Lehndorff
- Gräfin Marion von Dönhoff
- Grete Trakies
- Gudrun von Sydow
- Gustav Hinz
- Gustav Lenz
- Gustav Neumann
- Gustav Trakies
- Gustav von Bonin
- Gustav von Kessel
- Gustav Ziemer
H: 55 names
- Hanna Hinz
- Hans Christoph von Hake
- Hans Georg von Ribbeck
- Hans Kaminski
- Hans Mühlenbeck
- Hans von Dallwitz
- Hans von der Marwitz
- Hans von Kalckreuth
- Hans von Kanitz
- Hans von Plessen
- Hans von Rochow
- Hans von Seeckt
- Hans von Sydow
- Hans von Tettau
- Hans Zielke
- Hans Zühlke
- Hasso von Wedel
- Hedda von Krockow
- Hedwig Matzat
- Hedwig von Below
- Heinrich Bartschat
- Heinrich Kairies
- Heinrich Priebe
- Heinrich von Holleben
- Heinrich von Itzenplitz
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Heinrich von Treitschke
H, continued
- Heinrich Weinert
- Helene Pawlowski
- Helene von Seydlitz
- Helga Bischoff
- Helmuth von Moltke
- Helmuth von Pannwitz
- Henning von Tresckow
- Henri Le Coq
- Henriette Girard
- Henriette Radtke
- Henriette von Finckenstein
- Herbert Dahlke
- Hercule Auguste Papin
- Herkus Monte
- Hermann Bartkus
- Hermann Damerow
- Hermann Gollnow
- Hermann Lüdtke
- Hermann Radtke
- Hermann Schulz
- Hermann von Boyen
- Hermann von Wartensleben
- Hermine von Prittwitz
- Herta Vogt
- Hildegard Skambraks
- Hildegard von Tresckow
- Hugo von Kameke
- Hulda Rogalla
I: 9 names
- Ida Mielke
- Ida von Blücher
- Ilse Wollenberg
- Ingeborg Szameitat
- Ingeborg von Zastrow
- Irma Lemke
- Irmgard Kurschat
- Irmgard von Kameke
- Isaak Pelet
J: 21 names
- Jacques Mathieu
- Jakob Kuschel
- Jan Wilimzig
- Jean Pierre Erman
- Jeanne Dubosc
- Joachim von Stülpnagel
- Joachim von Zieten
- Jobst von Ostau
- Johann Jankowski
- Johann Kallweit
- Johann Klamroth
- Johann Olschewski
- Johann Rehberg
- Johanna Jankowski
- Johanna von Puttkamer
- Johannes Dreger
- Jondel of Sambia
- Julie von Hake
- Julius Klatt
- Jürgen Dabelow
- Jutta von Schlabrendorff
K: 30 names
- Kadar of Pogesania
- Kantigird
- Karl Bendzko
- Karl Böhm
- Karl Friedrich Ancillon
- Karl Gottschalk
- Karl Knaack
- Karl Perkuhn
- Karl Rieck
- Karl vom Knesebeck
- Karl von Finckenstein
- Karl Zimmermann
- Karoline von Wedel
- Karoline Wendt
- Katharina von Schlieben
- Käthe Grabowski
- Kirsne of Scalovia
- Klara von Quitzow
- Klara Zernick
- Klementine von Glasenapp
- Konrad von Zitzewitz
- Konstanze von Schack
- Kunigunde von Tauentzien
- Kuno von Waldersee
- Kurt Endrulat
- Kurt Grabowski
- Kurt von der Gröben
- Kurt von Dewitz
- Kurt von Loeben
- Kurt von Schwerin
L: 28 names
- Leberecht von Blücher
- Leonore von Gerlach
- Leopold von Buch
- Leopold von Platen
- Leopoldine von Scharnhorst
- Levin von Perbandt
- Liesbeth Kunz
- Lieselotte Kuhnke
- Ligeike of Sambia
- Lina Gudat
- Linka of Bartia
- Lotte Anskat
- Louis de la Motte Fouqué
- Louis von Weltzien
- Louise Béguelin
- Louise Golz
- Ludwig Cziesla
- Ludwig de Lancizolle
- Ludwig Thiel
- Ludwig von Bredow
- Ludwig von Kalnein
- Ludwig von Vincke
- Ludwig Woyke
- Luise Henriette von Waldersee
- Luise Kaminski
- Luise von Bodelschwingh
- Luise von Dohna
- Luitgard von Voß
M: 30 names
- Magnus von Brünneck
- Magnus von Eberhardt
- Mantas of Warmia
- Margarete Kowalewski
- Margarete von Wrangel
- Margarethe von Borcke
- Maria von Pannwitz
- Marianne Jorroch
- Marianne von der Marwitz
- Marie Sarre
- Marie von Zitzewitz
- Marie Wischnewski
- Martha Dahlke
- Martha Lehmann
- Martin Mrotzek
- Martin Pawlowski
- Martin Strelow
- Mathilde Beyer
- Mathilde von Kalckreuth
- Matthias von Oppen
- Max Dombrowski
- Max Kowalke
- Max Sielaff
- Maximilian von Schwerin
- Melusine von der Goltz
- Meta Bajorat
- Michael Przybilla
- Michael Vogt
- Milegedo of Bartia
- Minna Zimmermann
N: 3 names
- Nakam of Pomesania
- Nalub of Natangia
- Neidhardt von Gneisenau
O: 13 names
- Oldwig von Natzmer
- Olga Skowronnek
- Ottilie Preuß
- Ottilie von Manteuffel
- Otto Kuklinski
- Otto Lehmann
- Otto Lemke
- Otto Mannteufel
- Otto Naujoks
- Otto von Podewils
- Otto von Schack
- Otto Wolter
- Otto Wussow
P: 14 names
- Paul Blanchard
- Paul Jendreizik
- Paul Kruse
- Paul Lüdke
- Paul Skambraks
- Paul Wegener
- Paul Wiechert
- Pauline Klatt
- Pauline von Möllendorff
- Philipp Michelet
- Philipp von Ladenberg
- Pierre Jordan
- Pipin of Pomesania
- Preibute of Samland
R: 14 names
- Regina von Zedlitz
- Reinhold Hagedorn
- Reinhold Luckow
- Reinhold von Glasenapp
- Renata von Perbandt
- Richard Bendig
- Richard Fiedler
- Robert Beyer
- Rosa Genz
- Rosalie von Hertzberg
- Rudolf Pollex
- Rudolf von Auerswald
- Rudolf von Gersdorff
- Ruth Stolt
S: 17 names
- Sambil of Nadrovia
- Samuel Formey
- Samuel Kossak
- Sargune of Pomesania
- Saule of Sudovia
- Selma Mahnke
- Sibylle von Kalckstein
- Sieglinde von Loeben
- Sigismund von Zedlitz
- Sklodo of Quednau
- Skomand of Sudovia
- Sophie Bartsch
- Sophie Charlotte von Hardenberg
- Sophie von Lehndorff
- Stanto of Ermland
- Sudargas of Sudovia
- Susanne Toussaint
T: 12 names
- Thekla von Heyden
- Theodor Brenneke
- Theodor Fontane
- Theodor Zernick
- Theodora von Düring
- Theodora von Roon
- Therese Kruse
- Thilo von Trotha
- Toni Zielke
- Traugott von Jagow
- Troppo of Samland
- Tusse of Galindia
U: 5 names
- Ulrich von Wilamowitz
- Ulrike Naujoks
- Ulrike von Clausewitz
- Ursula Rehberg
- Ursula von Kuenheim
V: 2 names
- Veronika von Itzenplitz
- Viktoria von der Schulenburg