Pureblood Name Generator

Old wizarding family names for Harry Potter purebloods

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Generate pureblood wizard names in the style of the Sacred Twenty-Eight: constellation first names, Latin and Victorian given names, and old family surnames like Black, Malfoy, Selwyn and Rosier. Canon characters plus hundreds of original names for fan fiction, roleplay and OCs.

About pureblood names

Pureblood names in the wizarding world follow recognisable house styles. The Black family names its children after stars and constellations (Sirius, Regulus, Bellatrix, Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Arcturus, Cygnus), the Malfoys lean on Latin and Greek (Lucius, Abraxas, Draco, Scorpius), and most old families reach for names that already sounded antique in the Victorian era: Walburga, Druella, Elladora, Araminta, Ignatius, Cantankerus. First names are rarely modern or nicknamed; the effect is a family tree that looks centuries old.

Surnames matter even more. The Sacred Twenty-Eight, the 1930s list of families judged truly pureblood, includes Abbott, Avery, Black, Bulstrode, Burke, Carrow, Crouch, Fawley, Flint, Gaunt, Greengrass, Lestrange, Longbottom, Macmillan, Malfoy, Nott, Ollivander, Parkinson, Prewett, Rosier, Rowle, Selwyn, Shacklebolt, Shafiq, Slughorn, Travers, Weasley and Yaxley. Cousins marry cousins, so the same given names recur across families: a Rosier marries a Black, a Black marries a Lestrange, and suddenly every branch has a Cassiopeia.

This generator mixes canon characters from the books, Fantastic Beasts and Hogwarts Legacy with original names built the same way, including invented old-money surnames like Ravensmoor and Winterbourne for families you want to create from scratch.

How to choose pureblood names

  • Pick a surname first and let it dictate the style: a Black gets a star name, a Malfoy a Latin one, a Longbottom or Macmillan something sturdier and more English.
  • Reuse given names across generations the way the books do. A Lucius, Cygnus or Elladora appearing twice in a family tree makes it feel genuinely old.
  • For an original family, invent a surname that sounds like a manor or a village (Harrowgate, Farrowmere, Thistlewood) and give it a motto and a ministry post.
  • Avoid modern diminutives. Purebloods are Bartemius, not Barty, in the family register, even if friends shorten it.
  • Not every pureblood is a Death Eater: the Weasleys, Longbottoms, Prewetts and Shacklebolts are just as old, so warm or heroic names fit the category too.

Frequently asked questions

What are the Sacred Twenty-Eight pureblood families?

They are the 28 British families listed in the 1930s Pure-Blood Directory as having no known Muggle ancestry: Abbott, Avery, Black, Bulstrode, Burke, Carrow, Crouch, Fawley, Flint, Gaunt, Greengrass, Lestrange, Longbottom, Macmillan, Malfoy, Nott, Ollivander, Parkinson, Prewett, Rosier, Rowle, Selwyn, Shacklebolt, Shafiq, Slughorn, Travers, Weasley and Yaxley. The Potters were left off because their name sounded too common.

Why do pureblood names come from stars and constellations?

The Black family tradition of naming children after stars (Sirius, Regulus, Bellatrix, Andromeda, Cygnus, Arcturus, Pollux) spread through intermarriage; Draco and Scorpius Malfoy both inherit it through Narcissa Black. Any star or constellation name reads instantly as pureblood for that reason.

Can I use these names for a Harry Potter OC or fan fiction?

Yes. Canon names belong to their characters, so for an original character pick an original combination such as Evander Lestrange or Ottilie Darrow, or invent a new family entirely. Most of the list is original and free to use in fan works.

How do I make a pureblood name sound old-fashioned?

Choose a given name that was fashionable in 1880 rather than today (Ignatius, Hesper, Araminta, Phineas, Lucretia), pair it with a short, hard-sounding English or Norman surname, and avoid nicknames in formal settings.

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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: 59 names

  • Abraxas Malfoy
  • Abraxas Nott
  • Achernar Shafiq
  • Adhara Carrow
  • Adrian Pucey
  • Alaric Burke
  • Alaric Ravensmoor
  • Alaric Yaxley
  • Alcander Crouch
  • Alcor Selwyn
  • Alcyone Greengrass
  • Aldebaran Parkinson
  • Alderic Diggory
  • Aldous Crowhurst
  • Alecto Carrow
  • Algernon Longbottom
  • Alhena Black
  • Alice Longbottom
  • Alioth Fawley
  • Alnilam Macmillan
  • Aloysius Abbott
  • Alphard Black
  • Altair Selwyn
  • Altair Slughorn
  • Amadeus Shacklebolt
  • Ambrose Macmillan
  • Ambrosius Burke
  • Amelia Bones
  • Amos Diggory
  • Amycus Carrow
  • Anastasia Dolohov
  • Andromeda Tonks
  • Anne Sallow
  • Antares Black
  • Anthea Avery
  • Antioch Peverell
  • Antonin Dolohov
  • Aquila Black
  • Araminta Meliflua
  • Araminta Selwyn
  • Arcturus Black
  • Arcturus Nott
  • Ariadne Shafiq
  • Armand Malfoy
  • Artemisia Lufkin
  • Artemisia Weasley
  • Arthur Weasley
  • Asterope Carrow
  • Astoria Greengrass
  • Atticus Greengrass
  • Augusta Longbottom
  • Augustine Malfoy
  • Augustus Prewett
  • Augustus Rookwood
  • Aurelia Abbott
  • Aurelian Black
  • Aurelian Harrowgate
  • Aurelius Nott
  • Aurora Wilkes

B: 17 names

  • Barnabas Macnair
  • Bartemius Crouch
  • Bartholomew Abbott
  • Belisarius Flint
  • Bellatrix Lestrange
  • Bellona Prewett
  • Belvina Bulstrode
  • Belvina Burke
  • Belvina Gamp
  • Benedict Rowle
  • Benedicta Ollivander
  • Benjy Fenwick
  • Bertram Thistlewood
  • Bilius Weasley
  • Blaise Zabini
  • Brutus Goyle
  • Brutus Malfoy

C: 65 names

  • Cadmus Peverell
  • Caelia Greengrass
  • Caelum Black
  • Caius Dolohov
  • Callidora Longbottom
  • Callidora Shacklebolt
  • Callidora Shafiq
  • Calliope Avery
  • Calpurnia Slughorn
  • Cantankerus Nott
  • Capella Avery
  • Caractacus Burke
  • Caradoc Dearborn
  • Carina Black
  • Carlotta Vaisey
  • Casimir Shafiq
  • Caspar Crouch
  • Caspian Blackmoor
  • Caspian Malfoy
  • Cassandra Macmillan
  • Cassian Black
  • Cassian Nott
  • Cassiopeia Black
  • Cassiopeia Gaunt
  • Cassiopeia Lestrange
  • Cassiopeia Rosier
  • Cassius Flint
  • Cassius Lestrange
  • Cassius Prewett
  • Cassius Selwyn
  • Cassius Warrington
  • Castor Black

C, continued

  • Cedrella Weasley
  • Cedric Diggory
  • Cedric Weasley
  • Celaeno Burke
  • Céleste Malfoy
  • Celestine Ollivander
  • Cepheus Black
  • Charis Crouch
  • Charis Fawley
  • Charis Ollivander
  • Clio Crouch
  • Columba Black
  • Columbine Slughorn
  • Corban Yaxley
  • Cordelia Burke
  • Cornelia Gamp
  • Cornelia Pucey
  • Cornelius Fawley
  • Cornelius Gamp
  • Corvina Mulciber
  • Corvina Ravensmoor
  • Corvina Rowle
  • Corvinus Gaunt
  • Corvus Black
  • Corvus Lestrange
  • Cressida Abbott
  • Cygnus Avery
  • Cygnus Black
  • Cygnus Crouch
  • Cygnus Malfoy
  • Cyprian Shacklebolt
  • Cyril Gibbon
  • Cyrus Flint

D: 18 names

  • Daphne Greengrass
  • Darius Rookwood
  • Dedalus Diggle
  • Demetrius Rookwood
  • Deneb Selwyn
  • Desmond Wilkes
  • Dominique Weasley
  • Dorcas Meadowes
  • Dorea Flint
  • Dorea Potter
  • Dorian Crouch
  • Draco Black
  • Draco Malfoy
  • Druella Lestrange
  • Druella Rosier
  • Druella Slughorn
  • Drusilla Gamp
  • Drusilla Rosier

E: 32 names

  • Edgar Bones
  • Edgar Slughorn
  • Edmund Rowle
  • Edmund Winterbourne
  • Edric Diggory
  • Eduardus Limette Black
  • Edwin Mulciber
  • Eileen Prince
  • Elara Black
  • Eldritch Diggory
  • Electra Rosier
  • Ella Max Black
  • Elladora Abbott
  • Elladora Black
  • Elphias Doge
  • Elphinstone Urquart
  • Elspeth Burke
  • Eltanin Travers
  • Emeric Darrow
  • Emeric Selwyn
  • Emmeline Vance
  • Enid Longbottom
  • Erasmus Ollivander
  • Ernie Macmillan
  • Eudora Macmillan
  • Euphemia Potter
  • Evan Rosier
  • Evander Lestrange
  • Evangeline Nott
  • Evangeline Orpington
  • Evangeline Shacklebolt
  • Evanora Crabbe

F: 7 names

  • Fabian Prewett
  • Fabius Macmillan
  • Faris Spavin
  • Felix Rosier
  • Fleamont Potter
  • Flora Carrow
  • Frank Longbottom

G: 21 names

  • Gaius Rosier
  • Garreth Weasley
  • Garrick Ollivander
  • Genevieve Fawley
  • George Weasley
  • Geraint Ollivander
  • Gerbold Ollivander
  • Gertrude Goyle
  • Gideon Avery
  • Gideon Prewett
  • Ginevra Weasley
  • Godric Gryffindor
  • Godwin Doge
  • Gormlaith Gaunt
  • Graham Montague
  • Graham Pritchard
  • Gregory Goyle
  • Griselda Marchbanks
  • Grogan Stump
  • Gwendolen Ollivander
  • Gwendolyn Longbottom

H: 32 names

  • Hadrian Everleigh
  • Hadrian Shafiq
  • Hannah Abbott
  • Hardwin Potter
  • Harfang Longbottom
  • Harold Longbottom
  • Hector Fawley
  • Helga Hufflepuff
  • Henry Potter
  • Hepzibah Smith
  • Hermia Bulstrode
  • Hesper Gamp
  • Hesper Harrowgate
  • Hesper Yaxley
  • Hesperus Rowle
  • Hesphaestus Gore
  • Hestia Carrow
  • Hestia Gamp
  • Hieronymus Carrow
  • Hilda Crabbe
  • Hollis Mulciber
  • Honora Pritchard
  • Honoria Macmillan
  • Honorine Fawley
  • Horace Slughorn
  • Horatio Zabini
  • Hortensia Milliphutt
  • Hortensia Ogden
  • Hyacinth Greengrass
  • Hydra Black
  • Hyperion Malfoy
  • Hyperion Rookwood

I: 20 names

  • Idris Shafiq
  • Ignatia Travers
  • Ignatius Flint
  • Ignatius Gaunt
  • Ignatius Lestrange
  • Ignatius Prewett
  • Ignotus Peverell
  • Imogen Longbottom
  • Iolanthe Peverell
  • Irina Dolohov
  • Irma Crabbe
  • Isabeau Bletchley
  • Isabeau Crowhurst
  • Isadora Selwyn
  • Isla Hitchens
  • Isolde Lestrange
  • Isolde Shacklebolt
  • Isolde Winterbourne
  • Isolt Sayre
  • Izar Travers

J: 3 names

  • Jasper Jugson
  • Josephina Flint
  • Juno Flint

K: 1 name

  • Kingsley Shacklebolt

L: 43 names

  • Lavinia Parkinson
  • Leander Fawley
  • Leander Prewett
  • Leonis Black
  • Leonora Shafiq
  • Leontes Yaxley
  • Leopold Bulstrode
  • Leopold Farrowmere
  • Leta Lestrange
  • Licorus Black
  • Licorus Rowle
  • Linfred Ogden
  • Lorcan McLaird
  • Lorenzo Zabini
  • Louis Weasley
  • Lucan Rosier
  • Lucan Rowle
  • Lucasta Derrick
  • Lucian Bole
  • Lucian Greengrass
  • Lucinda Ashgrove
  • Lucius Carrow
  • Lucius Malfoy
  • Lucretia Goyle
  • Lucretia Malfoy
  • Lucretia Prewett
  • Lucretius Bulstrode
  • Lucretius Lestrange
  • Lupus Black
  • Lycoris Black
  • Lycoris Carrow
  • Lynx Black
  • Lyra Gaunt
  • Lyra Lestrange
  • Lyra Malfoy
  • Lyra Travers
  • Lysander Avery
  • Lysander Longbottom
  • Lysander Rosier
  • Lysandra Rookwood
  • Lysandra Yaxley
  • Lysias Shacklebolt
  • Lysimachus Burke

M: 29 names

  • Maia Greengrass
  • Malcolm Baddock
  • Marcellus Weasley
  • Marcus Flint
  • Marguerite Flint
  • Marius Black
  • Marius Dolohov
  • Marius Greengrass
  • Marius Travers
  • Marlene McKinnon
  • Marvolo Gaunt
  • Maud Higgs
  • Maximilian Nott
  • Meissa Lestrange
  • Merak Rowle
  • Merope Flint
  • Merope Gaunt
  • Miles Bletchley
  • Millicent Bagnold
  • Millicent Bulstrode
  • Mintaka Black
  • Misapinoa Blishwick
  • Molly Prewett
  • Montague Bulstrode
  • Mordecai Gamp
  • Morfin Gaunt
  • Morgana Yaxley
  • Morrigan Lestrange
  • Morwenna Macnair

N: 7 names

  • Nagaina Gaunt
  • Narcissa Malfoy
  • Narcissa Rosier
  • Nekkar Ollivander
  • Neville Longbottom
  • Nicholas Malfoy
  • Nikolai Dolohov

O: 19 names

  • Octavia Montague
  • Octavia Shafiq
  • Octavian Avery
  • Octavian Malfoy
  • Octavius Prewett
  • Ominis Gaunt
  • Ophelia Greengrass
  • Ophelia Longbottom
  • Ophiuchus Malfoy
  • Orion Black
  • Orion Nott
  • Orion Rosier
  • Osbert Crabbe
  • Osric Burke
  • Ottaline Gambol
  • Ottilie Darrow
  • Ottilie Travers
  • Ottoline Gibbon
  • Ottoline Thistlewood

P: 28 names

  • Pansy Parkinson
  • Pavo Black
  • Percival Slughorn
  • Percy Weasley
  • Perdita Abbott
  • Peregrine Derrick
  • Peregrine Macmillan
  • Perpetua Parkinson
  • Persephone Parkinson
  • Perseus Black
  • Perseus Prewett
  • Perseus Travers
  • Persis Nott
  • Philippa Jugson
  • Philippa Parkinson
  • Philomena Doge
  • Phineas Avery
  • Phineas Black
  • Phineas Nigellus Black
  • Phineas Parkinson
  • Phoebe Black
  • Polaris Flint
  • Pollux Black
  • Pollux Bulstrode
  • Pollux Burke
  • Priscilla Dupont
  • Procyon Nott
  • Ptolemy Crouch

Q: 1 name

  • Quintus Greengrass

R: 23 names

  • Rabastan Lestrange
  • Radolphus Lestrange
  • Ralston Potter
  • Ravenna Lestrange
  • Regulus Black
  • Regulus Malfoy
  • Rhiannon Macnair
  • Rigel Black
  • Rionach Gaunt
  • Roderick Slughorn
  • Rodolphus Avery
  • Rodolphus Lestrange
  • Ronald Weasley
  • Rosalba Diggory
  • Rosalba Everleigh
  • Rosalind Bole
  • Rosalind Fawley
  • Rosalind Prewett
  • Rosamund Yaxley
  • Rowena Ravenclaw
  • Roxana Shafiq
  • Rufus Bones
  • Rupert Crouch

S: 23 names

  • Sabina Carrow
  • Saiph Crouch
  • Salazar Gaunt
  • Salazar Slytherin
  • Scorpius Malfoy
  • Sebastian Sallow
  • Selene Rookwood
  • Septimus Malfoy
  • Septimus Parkinson
  • Septimus Weasley
  • Seraphina Blackmoor
  • Seraphina Rosier
  • Seraphina Zabini
  • Seraphine Warrington
  • Serpens Gaunt
  • Sheliak Abbott
  • Silas Yaxley
  • Sirius Black
  • Sirius Lestrange
  • Spica Yaxley
  • Sturgis Podmore
  • Susan Bones
  • Sybilla Baddock

T: 20 names

  • Tamsin Macnair
  • Tarquin Parkinson
  • Taygeta Selwyn
  • Terence Higgs
  • Thaddeus Carrow
  • Thaddeus Fawley
  • Thalia Nott
  • Theodora Rowle
  • Theodore Nott
  • Theodosia Crouch
  • Theodosia Prewett
  • Thorfinn Rowle
  • Thorne Ashgrove
  • Thuban Rosier
  • Tiberius Lestrange
  • Tiberius Longbottom
  • Tiberius Ogden
  • Titus Bulstrode
  • Tobias Fawley
  • Torquil Travers

U: 8 names

  • Ulick Gamp
  • Ulric Macnair
  • Ulysses Yaxley
  • Urquhart Vaisey
  • Ursula Black
  • Ursula Flint
  • Ursula Gamp
  • Ursula Travers

V: 13 names

  • Valentina Zabini
  • Valerian Selwyn
  • Vasily Dolohov
  • Vega Black
  • Venusia Crickerly
  • Vesper Carrow
  • Vesper Rosier
  • Vesta Carrow
  • Victoire Weasley
  • Vincent Crabbe
  • Vinda Rosier
  • Violetta Bulstrode
  • Vivienne Rosier

W: 8 names

  • Walburga Black
  • Walburga Macmillan
  • Walden Macnair
  • Wilfred Ogden
  • Wilhelmina Bulstrode
  • Wilhelmina Tuft
  • William Weasley
  • Winifred Abbott

Y: 1 name

  • Yevgenia Dolohov

Z: 2 names

  • Zacharias Smith
  • Zosma Greengrass