Reaper Name Generator

Reaper names work best when they sound like a person who happens to do a terrible job politely. The most popular register, seen in everything from Black Butler's dispatch officers to Discworld's Death and Supernatural's reapers, is a gothic Victorian full name: a slightly old-fashioned given name (Mortimer, Ophelia, Silas, Lenore, Thaddeus) paired with a surname that carries a graveyard echo. Good reaper surnames are real-sounding words with dark undertones: Graves, Crow, Hollow, Vane, Marrow, Knell, Sexton, Pall, Dusk, Ashgrave, Wintergrave.

The second source is mythology and dead languages. Thanatos, Moros and the Keres are Greek; Mors, Letum and Libitina are Latin; Azrael and Samael come from Jewish and Islamic tradition; Ankou is the Breton collector of souls; Morana and Giltine are Slavic and Baltic; Yama and Enma rule the dead in Hindu and Buddhist lore; and Japanese shinigami give you names like Kurohane or Tsukikage. These work as mononyms or as a first name with a gothic surname (Mortis Vane, Morrigan Vale).

Finally, reapers often go by what they do rather than who they are. Epithets such as the Pale Harvester, the Quiet Ferryman, Keeper of the Hourglass or She Who Closes Eyes suggest a reaper's temperament, and folk nicknames like Old Pale or Mother Hush tell you how ordinary people talk about them when they think no one is listening.