Supernatural Name Generator

Supernatural names work because each kind of being is named in a different register, and the contrast is the point. Hunters carry plain American names: Dean Winchester, Bobby Singer, Ellen Harvelle, Rufus Turner. Short first names, working surnames with a little grit, nothing that sounds invented. A hunter named Lucien Ravensworth reads as a vampire in disguise; a hunter named Wade Cutler reads as a man with a trunk full of rock salt.

Angels follow the Enochian convention: two or three syllables ending in -iel, -ael or -el (Castiel, Gadreel, Samandriel, Anael), with archangels keeping their biblical forms. Demons go the other way, taking short, hard names from scripture and the Ars Goetia (Azazel, Lilith, Abaddon, Asmodeus) or simply borrowing a vessel's first name, which is how Meg and Ruby got theirs. Ghosts and vengeful spirits are best served by the full, old-fashioned names you would find on a gravestone or in a newspaper archive: Constance Welch, Mary Worthington, Silas Hollowell. Witches, vampires and reapers sit in between, with European or Victorian names that are just a shade too elegant for a small town in Kansas.

The list mixes canon names with hundreds of originals in each register, so you can pull a whole case: the hunter, the thing it is hunting and the angel who shows up at the end.