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Generate Shadowhunter names in the style of Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments, Infernal Devices, Dark Artifices and Last Hours: canon Nephilim for reference plus original names with classic first names and old Shadowhunter family names like Lightwood, Herondale and Blackthorn. Ideal for OCs, fan fiction and roleplay.

About Shadowhunter names

Shadowhunter names have a very particular sound. First names are classic, often Victorian or Biblical: Isabelle, Alexander, Jonathan, Clarissa, Cordelia, Matthew, Tessa, Jem. The Blackthorns go fully Roman (Julian, Tiberius, Livia, Drusilla, Octavian), and the Silent Brothers and Iron Sisters take Old Testament names in the Brother Zachariah and Sister Cleophas pattern. Surnames are the real signature: old Nephilim families carry English-sounding compound names built from nature and landscape words, such as Lightwood, Herondale, Blackthorn, Fairchild, Starkweather, Lovelace, Penhallow and Rosewain, many of them lifted from Victorian novels and poets.

Because the Clave is global, Institutes from Mexico City to Mumbai and Beijing add names like Rosales, Villalobos, Joshi, Maduabuchi and Ke, and Shadowhunters raised by Downworlders can end up with hyphenated names like Lightwood-Bane. Family name matters enormously in the Chronicles, since it signals bloodline, politics and in the Herondales' case a prophecy or two, so the fun of an original character lies in choosing a surname that feels like it has been in the Clave for centuries.

This list mixes the canon cast from all the series with original Nephilim names that follow the same conventions, plus a few Downworlders for reference.

How to choose Shadowhunter names

  • Pair a classical or Victorian first name with a compound English surname (Cressida Sablewood, Ambrose Rookwood) and it will sound like it belongs in Idris.
  • Siblings often share a theme: Roman names for the Blackthorns, saints' names for the Lightwoods. Give your OC's family a pattern of its own.
  • Canon surnames carry history. Using Herondale or Morgenstern for an OC ties them to a known bloodline, which can be a plot point or a distraction.
  • For a Shadowhunter from a non-English Institute, use a real surname from that country rather than an invented compound word; that is how Clare does it.
  • Silent Brothers and Iron Sisters drop their family names and take a Biblical one: Brother Enoch, Sister Magdalena.

Frequently asked questions

How are Shadowhunter surnames created in the books?

Most are compound English words or real but archaic British surnames: Lightwood, Blackthorn, Fairchild, Herondale, Starkweather, Whitelaw, Greenlaw, Lovelace. Cassandra Clare has said several were borrowed from Victorian literature and poetry. Shadowhunters from other countries usually keep that country's surnames, like Rosales or Balogh.

Which canon characters are included?

The main Mortal Instruments cast (Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Alec, Simon, Magnus), The Infernal Devices (Will, Jem, Tessa, Charlotte, Jessamine), The Dark Artifices (Emma, Julian, the Blackthorns, Cristina, Kit) and The Last Hours (Cordelia, James, Lucie, Matthew, Anna, Thomas, Christopher), plus historical figures such as Jonathan Shadowhunter and notable Downworlders.

Can I use these names for a Shadowhunter OC?

Yes. The original names are free to use for OCs, fan fiction, roleplay and Shadowhunter-themed games. Canon names belong to Clare's characters, so use those for reference and choose an original one for your own Nephilim.

What makes a good name for a new Shadowhunter family?

Combine two nature or landscape words the way the existing families do: a colour, tree, bird or stone plus a place ending like -wood, -thorn, -dale, -mere, -hurst or -castle. Greycastle, Ravenhurst and Silvermarch fit in beside Lightwood and Blackthorn without copying them.

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A: 52 names

  • Abigail Shadowhunter
  • Absalom Starkweather
  • Adaeze Maduabuchi
  • Adela Herondale
  • Adelaide Hartwell
  • Adelaide Longbourne
  • Adrian Whitelaw
  • Agatha Merriweather
  • Akiko Ashikaga
  • Alaric Greenlaw
  • Alaric Harrowgate
  • Alastair Carstairs
  • Aldous Moonstead
  • Alec Lightwood
  • Alexander Gideon Lightwood
  • Aline Penhallow
  • Alistair Keytree
  • Alma Ravencroft
  • Amadeus Hawkmoor
  • Amatis Graymark
  • Ambrose Ashdown
  • Ambrose Larkspear
  • Ambrose Rookwood
  • Amelia Lockwood
  • Amira Nasser
  • Amos Gladstone
  • Andras Balogh
  • Andrew Blackthorn
  • Anjali Joshi
  • Anna Lightwood
  • Anneke Visser
  • Anneliese Gildenrose
  • Annis Wildmoor
  • Anselm Rosewain
  • Antigone Silvermarch
  • Anton Winterhalter
  • Antonia Longford
  • Anush Joshi
  • Arabella Dunmore
  • Arabella Montclaire
  • Araminta Pounceby
  • Ariadne Bridgestock
  • Armand Verlac
  • Arthur Blackthorn
  • Arthur Wentworth
  • Astrid Westergaard
  • Atticus Gladstone
  • Augustin Oakhurst
  • Augustus Pounceby
  • Aurelia Thorncastle
  • Aurelie Kingsmill
  • Aurora Coldwater

B: 23 names

  • Barbara Lightwood
  • Barnabas Pounceby
  • Barnaby Hayward
  • Barnaby Keytree
  • Barnaby Redgrave
  • Bartholomew Carstairs
  • Bartholomew Cartwright
  • Bathsheba Starkweather
  • Beatrice Fairhollow
  • Beatrix Halloway
  • Beatrix Lockwood
  • Beatriz Mendoza
  • Benedick Kingsmill
  • Benedict Blackwell
  • Benedict Lightwood
  • Blanche Longbourne
  • Briony Featherstone
  • Brother Azariah
  • Brother Enoch
  • Brother Jeremiah
  • Brother Shadrach
  • Brother Zachariah
  • Bryony Eversleigh

C: 42 names

  • Caleb Gladstone
  • Calla Merriweather
  • Calliope Baybrook
  • Cameron Ashdown
  • Camilla Thornbury
  • Camille Belcourt
  • Carlos Rocio
  • Casimir Herondale
  • Caspar Saltmarsh
  • Cassandra Wrenfield
  • Cassia Kingsmere
  • Cassius Whitelaw
  • Catarina Loss
  • Catherine Townsend
  • Cato Greenlaw
  • Cecilia Ravencroft
  • Cecily Herondale
  • Celia Hallowmere
  • Céline Montclaire
  • Charles Fairchild
  • Charlotte Branwell
  • Chidi Okafor
  • Christopher Lightwood
  • Clara Aldertree
  • Clara Lockwood
  • Clarissa Morgenstern
  • Clary Fairchild
  • Claudia Kingsmill
  • Clemence Underhill
  • Clementine Lightwood
  • Clementine Starling
  • Constance Nightwell
  • Constance Yardley
  • Cordelia Bridgestock
  • Cordelia Carstairs
  • Cornelia Blackwell
  • Cornelius Starkweather
  • Cressida Sablewood
  • Cressida Stonemoor
  • Crispin Nightshade
  • Cristina Rosales
  • Cyprian Greycastle

D: 18 names

  • Dane Larkspear
  • Darius Carstairs
  • David the Silent
  • Delaney Scarsbury
  • Delia Wrayburn
  • Delphine Crowhurst
  • Delphine Lindengate
  • Demelza Greycastle
  • Desmond Aldertree
  • Desmond Scarsbury
  • Diana Wrayburn
  • Diego Rocio Rosales
  • Divya Joshi
  • Dmitri Volkov
  • Dominic Moorcroft
  • Dorian Greenlaw
  • Dorothea Moonstead
  • Drusilla Blackthorn

E: 37 names

  • Edgar Lightwood
  • Edith Lovelace
  • Edmund Ashgrove
  • Edmund Herondale
  • Edmund Ironwood
  • Edwin Keytree
  • Edwin Thornbury
  • Eirlys Graymark
  • Elaine Falconbridge
  • Eleanor Blackthorn
  • Elena Volkova
  • Elias Carstairs
  • Elias Starkweather
  • Elijah Townsend
  • Elinor Ravencroft
  • Eliza Carstairs
  • Eliza Thornbury
  • Ella Herondale
  • Elspeth Whitelaw
  • Elspeth Wrenfield
  • Eluned Pryce
  • Emma Carstairs
  • Emmeline Fairhollow
  • Emrys Greycastle
  • Ephraim Bridgestock
  • Esme Hardcastle
  • Estella Glassmere
  • Eugenia Lightwood
  • Eva Scarsbury
  • Evander Graymark
  • Evander Northwind
  • Evangeline Castellane
  • Everard Fairchild
  • Everett Blackwell
  • Everett Kingsmill
  • Ezekiel Kingsmill
  • Ezra Nightwell

F: 9 names

  • Felix Blackthorn
  • Fenella Brightmore
  • Filomena di Angelo
  • Fitzwilliam Longford
  • Flavia Nightshade
  • Flora Ashby
  • Flora Marchbanks
  • Francesca Nightwell
  • Freya Lindquist

G: 16 names

  • Gabriel Lightwood
  • Gabriel Wayland
  • Genevieve Whitlock
  • Georgia Dunmore
  • Georgiana Quillon
  • Gideon Dearborn
  • Gideon Fairhollow
  • Gideon Lightwood
  • Gilbert Goldenhall
  • Godfrey Hollowell
  • Godwin Ashby
  • Grace Blackthorn
  • Granville Fairchild
  • Gregory Aldertree
  • Griffin Ravenwood
  • Gwendolyn Redgrave

H: 20 names

  • Hadrian Silvermarch
  • Hal Fairchild
  • Hannah Townsend
  • Haruki Ashikaga
  • Hazel Fenwick
  • Helen Blackthorn
  • Helena Underhill
  • Henrietta Moonstead
  • Henry Branwell
  • Hereward Yardley
  • Hermione Whitlock
  • Hero Rosewain
  • Hester Highsmith
  • Hodge Starkweather
  • Horace Dearborn
  • Horatio Ironside
  • Horatio Winterborne
  • Hugh Starling
  • Hugo Dieudonné
  • Hypatia Vex

I: 20 names

  • Ianthe Fenwick
  • Ignatius Hallowmere
  • Ignatius Morgenstern
  • Imogen Herondale
  • Ines Duarte
  • Inés Villalobos
  • Inigo Wildmoor
  • Iris Goldenhall
  • Iris Wrenfield
  • Isabella Castellane
  • Isabelle Lightwood
  • Isadora Hallowmere
  • Isadora Starling
  • Isaiah Hardcastle
  • Isidore Hawkmoor
  • Isobel Hollowell
  • Isolde Dearborn
  • Ivo Belcourt
  • Ivo Penhallow
  • Ivy Ironwood

J: 32 names

  • Jace Herondale
  • Jaime Rosales
  • James Carstairs
  • James Herondale
  • Jasper Ashgrove
  • Jem Carstairs
  • Jemima Ravensworth
  • Jessamine Lovelace
  • Jesse Blackthorn
  • Jessica Beausejours
  • Jia Penhallow
  • Jian Ke
  • Jocasta Merriweather
  • Jocelyn Fairchild
  • Jon Cartwright
  • Jonah Halloway
  • Jonas Ashgrove
  • Jonathan Christopher Herondale
  • Jonathan Shadowhunter
  • Joseph Orchardson
  • Josephine Swanwick
  • Josiah Wayland
  • Josiah Wrayburn
  • Jude Baybrook
  • Julian Blackthorn
  • Julian Featherstone
  • Julie Beauvale
  • Juliet Kestrelmoor
  • Juliet Moorcroft
  • Juliette Dieudonné
  • Julius Starkweather
  • Junia Ashworth

K: 6 names

  • Katherine Amberley
  • Kavya Rajaratnam
  • Kester Kestrelmoor
  • Kester Thornfield
  • Kit Herondale
  • Kit Ravenhurst

L: 32 names

  • Lancelot Wildmoor
  • Laurence Greycastle
  • Lawrence Hartwell
  • Lazlo Balogh
  • Leo Eversleigh
  • Leonor Sequeira
  • Leonora Orchardson
  • Leopold Nightshade
  • Leopold Ravenhurst
  • Lettice Pryce
  • Lettie Ashdown
  • Li Wen Ke
  • Liesl Rookwood
  • Lilian Highsmith
  • Lilias Castellane
  • Lily Chen
  • Linette Herondale
  • Linnea Pangborn
  • Livia Blackthorn
  • Livia Lindengate
  • Lorcan Hollowell
  • Lorna Thistlewood
  • Louisa Ravenwood
  • Luca Ferrante
  • Lucian Graymark
  • Lucie Herondale
  • Lucilla Highsmith
  • Lucinda Marchbanks
  • Lucius Greenlaw
  • Lucius Thorncastle
  • Lucy Quillon
  • Lysander Scarsbury

M: 39 names

  • Mabel Wentworth
  • Madeleine Westergaard
  • Magnus Bane
  • Magnus Pemberton
  • Maia Roberts
  • Malachi Dieudonné
  • Malcolm Fade
  • Manuel Villalobos
  • Marcella Verlac
  • Marcus Penhallow
  • Margaret Fairchild
  • Margaux Beausejours
  • Marguerite Winterhalter
  • Marian Rockford
  • Mariana Pemberton
  • Marisol Garza
  • Marisol Ravenhurst
  • Marius Greyhaven
  • Mark Blackthorn
  • Martin Wentworth
  • Maryse Lightwood
  • Matilda Herondale
  • Matthew Fairchild
  • Matthias Crowhurst
  • Matthias Thorncastle
  • Maud Lightwood
  • Maude Ironside
  • Maurice Bridgestock
  • Max Lightwood
  • Max Lightwood-Bane
  • Meredith Greenlaw
  • Micah Dearborn
  • Micah Merriweather
  • Michael Wayland
  • Milo Winterborne
  • Min-ho Hwang
  • Minerva Swanwick
  • Miriam Fairchild
  • Montgomery Hawkmoor

N: 6 names

  • Nadia Petrova
  • Nathaniel Castellane
  • Niall Cartwright
  • Nicholas Whitcombe
  • Nicodemus Rookwood
  • Ninette Verlac

O: 19 names

  • Obadiah Ashdown
  • Octavia Pangborn
  • Octavian Blackthorn
  • Octavian Kingsmere
  • Oliver Hayward
  • Omar Haddad
  • Ophelia Blackthorn
  • Ophelia Crowhurst
  • Oriel Whitlock
  • Orson Wildmoor
  • Oscar Oakhurst
  • Oscar Swanwick
  • Oskar Lindquist
  • Osric Greyhaven
  • Oswin Ravenscar
  • Ottilie Gladstone
  • Ottoline Ashgrove
  • Owain Pryce
  • Owen Herondale

P: 17 names

  • Paige Ashdown
  • Patrick Penhallow
  • Percival Gildenrose
  • Perpetua Yardley
  • Persephone Ravenwood
  • Philip Thorncastle
  • Philippa Branwell
  • Philippa Winterborne
  • Philomena Moorcroft
  • Phineas Stormhollow
  • Piers Wentworth
  • Piers Wrenfield
  • Pieter van Aalst
  • Piran Tremayne
  • Portia Starkweather
  • Priya Sethi
  • Ptolemy Hardcastle

Q: 2 names

  • Quentin Brightwater
  • Quentin Quillon

R: 27 names

  • Rafael Lightwood-Bane
  • Rafe Kingsmere
  • Ragnor Fell
  • Raphael Santiago
  • Rayan Maduabuchi
  • Raymond Ironside
  • Reuben Amberley
  • Reuben Greyhaven
  • Robert Lightwood
  • Roderick Morgenstern
  • Roderick Whitcombe
  • Rohan Varma
  • Roland Stormhollow
  • Roland Townsend
  • Roman Ashworth
  • Rosa Garza
  • Rosalie Lightwood
  • Rosalind Goldenhall
  • Rosalind Herondale
  • Rosalind Morgenstern
  • Rosamund Goldenhall
  • Rosamund Wentworth
  • Rowena Graymark
  • Rowena Sablewood
  • Rufus Wayland
  • Rupert Kingsmere
  • Rupert Longbourne

S: 28 names

  • Sabina Keytree
  • Samantha Larkspear
  • Sampson Ironside
  • Sebastian Morgenstern
  • Sebastian Silvermarch
  • Sebastian Verlac
  • Seraphina Montclaire
  • Sidonie Ironwood
  • Silas Branwell
  • Silas Lockwood
  • Simeon Underhill
  • Simeon Whitcombe
  • Simon Lovelace
  • Sister Cleophas
  • Sister Dolores
  • Sister Emilia
  • Sister Philippa
  • Sofia Balogh
  • Solomon Blackmere
  • Solomon Joshi
  • Sona Carstairs
  • Sophie Collins
  • Soraya Carstairs
  • Stellan Blackmere
  • Stephen Herondale
  • Sven Westergaard
  • Sybilla Longbourne
  • Sylvie Blackthorn

T: 19 names

  • Tabitha Orchardson
  • Tamsin Moorcroft
  • Tarquin Frostwell
  • Tatiana Blackthorn
  • Tessa Gray
  • Thaddeus Frostwell
  • Thea Penhallow
  • Theodore Wrayburn
  • Thoby Baybrook
  • Thomas Lightwood
  • Thomas Whitlock
  • Tiberius Blackthorn
  • Tiberius Stormhollow
  • Timothy Rockford
  • Titus Ashworth
  • Tobias Fairchild
  • Tomas Ferreira
  • Tomás Villalobos
  • Tristan Ashworth

U: 3 names

  • Ulric Wayland
  • Ursula Bridgestock
  • Ursula Thornbury

V: 14 names

  • Valentina Orchardson
  • Valentine Morgenstern
  • Valeria Rosewain
  • Vanessa Ashdown
  • Verity Larkspear
  • Verity Marchbanks
  • Victor Aldertree
  • Victor Branwell
  • Victor Stonemoor
  • Viola Redgrave
  • Viola Wentworth
  • Violet Pounceby
  • Violetta Gildenrose
  • Vivienne Pryce

W: 8 names

  • Wen Penhallow
  • Wilfred Fenwick
  • Wilhelmina Nightwell
  • Wilhelmina Townsend
  • Will Herondale
  • Wolfram Stonemoor
  • Woolsey Scott
  • Wynne Frostwell

X: 1 name

  • Xavier Coldwater

Y: 3 names

  • Yi Tian Ke
  • Yolanda Thistlewood
  • Yusuf Hassani

Z: 7 names

  • Zachary Fairhollow
  • Zachary Ravensworth
  • Zara Dearborn
  • Zelda Highsmith
  • Zenobia Westergaard
  • Zillah Wrayburn
  • Zuri Adeyemi