Tiefling Name Generator 5e

The D&D 5e Player's Handbook lays out tiefling naming more explicitly than most races. Tieflings, it says, share the culture of the people who raised them, so many carry ordinary human names. Some, however, take names drawn from the Infernal language, and the book lists examples: Akmenos, Amnon, Barakas, Damakos, Ekemon, Iados, Kairon, Leucis, Melech, Mordai, Morthos, Pelaios, Skamos, and Therai for men; Akta, Anakis, Bryseis, Criella, Damaia, Ea, Kallista, Lerissa, Makaria, Nemeia, Orianna, Phelaia, and Rieta for women. Younger tieflings striving to find a place in the world often choose a virtue name instead: Art, Carrion, Chant, Creed, Despair, Excellence, Fear, Glory, Hope, Ideal, Music, Nowhere, Open, Poetry, Quest, Random, Reverence, Sorrow, Temerity, Torment, and Weary.

The invented Infernal names here copy the phonetics of those official examples: Greek-flavored endings (-os, -on, -is, -ia), hard k and th sounds, and two or three syllables. Baldur's Gate 3, which runs on 5e rules, added recognizable names like Karlach, Zevlor, Rolan, and Alfira that many players now treat as canon flavor.

On a 5e character sheet, name and background go together. A tiefling with the Acolyte background might carry a virtue name like Reverence; a Criminal might have dropped an Infernal name for a plain alias. Choose the name that says something about how your character handles being a tiefling.