Vampire Clan Name Generator

Ancient bloodlines, houses and broods for the undead

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Generate vampire clan names for tabletop chronicles, novels and worldbuilding: old-world family names like Clan Dreszkaya and House Malvoire, descriptive broods such as the Candle-Snuffers, and Latin, French and Romanian lineages for any setting from gothic Transylvania to a modern city at night.

About vampire clan names

A vampire clan name has to do two jobs at once: sound old enough to have survived centuries, and tell you something about what the clan values. The two classic approaches come straight from the fiction. One is the dynastic family name, usually Eastern European, Italian or French in flavour (Clan Dreszkaya, House Volturno, the Karnstein Bloodline), which implies a founder, a castle and a line of descent. The other is the descriptive epithet (the Candle-Snuffers, the Sleepless Nobility, Children of the Pale Harvest), which sounds like something mortals or rival kindred whisper rather than a name the clan chose.

The strongest names borrow from real institutions of the past. Vampires in fiction organise like medieval nobility, monastic orders and secret societies, so words such as court, house, order, covenant, synod and parliament carry instant weight. Liturgical and funerary vocabulary works the same way: reliquary, sepulchre, vesper, tithe, communion, ossuary. Latin mottos (Sanguis Aeternus, Nox Perpetua) suit ancient clans, while a modern urban brood might be known by a neighbourhood, a cemetery or a single stark word.

Pick the structure that matches your clan's age and temperament, then keep the rest of your setting consistent so a Clan Vesperine and a Whitechapel Clan feel like they belong to the same night.

How to choose vampire clan names

  • Decide whether the name is what the clan calls itself or what others call it. Dynastic names (Clan Ossivar, House Ardelean) are self-chosen; epithets like the Starving Nobility or the Marrow Kings sound like reputation.
  • Match the language to the clan's origin: Romanian and Hungarian surnames for Carpathian lineages, Latin for clans that date to the Roman or medieval church, French or Italian for Renaissance courts, English place names for clans founded in London or New England.
  • Use the name to hint at a weakness or practice. A Brood of the Sunken Nave lairs under a drowned church; the Order of the Candle-Snuffers hunts those who draw attention. Players and readers remember names that imply a story.
  • For a campaign with several clans, vary the structure so they are easy to tell apart in conversation: one Clan X, one House of the Y, one plain epithet like the Unburied.
  • Give the clan a short everyday form. Heirs of the Plague Doctor becomes the Heirs, House Sangrenoir becomes Sangrenoir; this is how characters will actually refer to it.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a vampire clan, a coven and a bloodline?

In most fiction a bloodline is literal descent from a single progenitor, a clan is the larger political family that claims that descent, and a coven is a local group that lairs and hunts together regardless of lineage. Many names here work for all three, but dynastic names suit clans and bloodlines best.

Can I use these names in a Vampire: The Masquerade chronicle?

Yes. The official clans in that game have their own names, but these work well for bloodlines, coteries, anarch gangs, ancient sects or homebrew clans in your own chronicle, and for any other vampire RPG or novel.

How do I make an invented clan name sound ancient?

Use a surname-style root with Slavic, Magyar, Latin or Old French endings (-escu, -vary, -ius, -oire), pair it with a title such as House or Clan, and give the clan an epithet the mortals use. Age also comes from implication: a reference to a forgotten voivode or a drowned chapel suggests history without a word of backstory.

Are these names good for a modern urban vampire setting?

Many are. Place-based names like Whitechapel Clan or Highgate Clan, single-word epithets like the Unlit, and English descriptive names such as the Cold Mouths fit contemporary settings better than Latin orders, which you can reserve for elders.

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All 500 vampire clan names

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A: 4 names

  • A Sárkány Háza
  • Ashfall Clan
  • Ashgrave Clan
  • Az Éjszaka Gyermekei

B: 21 names

  • Belladonna Clan
  • Blackmoor Clan
  • Bloodline Ilvenra
  • Bloodline of the Ashen Crown
  • Bloodline of the Drowned King
  • Bloodline of the Forgotten Voivode
  • Bloodline of the Plague Doctor
  • Bloodline of the Weeping Saint
  • Blutkreis
  • Brood of Ashen Teeth
  • Brood of Nightjar and Thorn
  • Brood of the Bitter Tithe
  • Brood of the Cold Marrow
  • Brood of the Hungering Moon
  • Brood of the Lantern-Eaters
  • Brood of the Mourning Bride
  • Brood of the Sunken Nave
  • Brood of the Weeping Willow
  • Brotherhood of the Blind Cardinal
  • Brotherhood of the Red Lantern
  • Brotherhood of the Sleepless Tower

C: 141 names

  • Carfax Abbey Clan
  • Casa Draghici
  • Chi no Ichizoku
  • Children of Saint Alaric
  • Children of the Ashen Choir
  • Children of the Bone Lantern
  • Children of the Eclipse
  • Children of the Hollow Pulse
  • Children of the Pale Harvest
  • Chyornaya Luna Clan
  • Cinderveil Clan
  • Clan Adler
  • Clan Amaranthe
  • Clan Anghelescu
  • Clan Ashmoor
  • Clan Ashworth
  • Clan Bathorescu
  • Clan Belasco
  • Clan Belmonte
  • Clan Blackbourne
  • Clan Blackthorn
  • Clan Brannagh
  • Clan Carmichael
  • Clan Castellane
  • Clan Cernovic
  • Clan Corvinus
  • Clan Cressida
  • Clan Desrosiers
  • Clan Drachenwald
  • Clan Dragomir
  • Clan Dragoshani
  • Clan Dreszkaya
  • Clan Dusant
  • Clan Dusavoy
  • Clan Ebonhart

C, continued

  • Clan Ebonvale
  • Clan Espinoza-Varga
  • Clan Fairmont
  • Clan Fennimore
  • Clan Ferencz
  • Clan Ferrante
  • Clan Gallowglass
  • Clan Giacometti
  • Clan Gorescu
  • Clan Gravenhurst
  • Clan Greyling
  • Clan Greymantle
  • Clan Harkness
  • Clan Heldenbrand
  • Clan Hexenmoor
  • Clan Hollowell
  • Clan Hunyadi-Morte
  • Clan Iancu
  • Clan Ironwood
  • Clan Ivanescu
  • Clan Jaromir
  • Clan Jovanovic
  • Clan Kessler
  • Clan Kolozsvary
  • Clan Kovacs
  • Clan Kovalenko
  • Clan Lazarescu
  • Clan Lazariel
  • Clan Lindqvist
  • Clan Lioncourt
  • Clan Lupescu
  • Clan Maledetti
  • Clan Maravedi
  • Clan Marovic
  • Clan Melnik

C, continued

  • Clan Merideth
  • Clan Mircea
  • Clan Mortlock
  • Clan Nedelcu
  • Clan Nightingale
  • Clan Nightshade
  • Clan Noctiluca
  • Clan Nocturne
  • Clan Novak-Veil
  • Clan Oakhurst
  • Clan Oprescu
  • Clan Orlovsky
  • Clan Ossivar
  • Clan Ostrogoth
  • Clan Pellucid
  • Clan Petrescu
  • Clan Petrosyan
  • Clan Petrovna
  • Clan Popovici
  • Clan Radu
  • Clan Ravel
  • Clan Ravencroft
  • Clan Ravenhallow
  • Clan Ravok
  • Clan Redgrave
  • Clan Rhiannon
  • Clan Rosenhall
  • Clan Rosewyn
  • Clan Salvatici
  • Clan Sarkany
  • Clan Silvertongue
  • Clan Sorokin
  • Clan Stancescu
  • Clan Stillwater
  • Clan Stormgrave

C, continued

  • Clan Strigoiu
  • Clan Szabo-Nocturna
  • Clan Tarnow
  • Clan Tenebrai
  • Clan Tepesh
  • Clan Tisza
  • Clan Ulvhild
  • Clan Umbrosa
  • Clan Ungureanu
  • Clan Valdrac
  • Clan Valkenberg
  • Clan Vanhelm
  • Clan Varkolak
  • Clan Vaszary
  • Clan Vesperhal
  • Clan Vesperine
  • Clan Vinterberg
  • Clan Vladimirescu
  • Clan Vrancea
  • Clan Vukovic
  • Clan Waldstein
  • Clan Wieliczka
  • Clan Wolcott
  • Clan Wrenfield
  • Clan Ysolde
  • Clan Ziegler-Voss
  • Clan Zlatar
  • Clann Dubh
  • Clann Fola
  • Clann na hOíche
  • Coldfang Clan
  • Copiii Noptii
  • Corvus Ruber
  • Cosa Notturna
  • Covenant of the Drowned Chapel
  • Covenant of the Frozen Tide

D: 21 names

  • Das Haus Obrecht
  • Daughters of Lilith's Well
  • Daughters of the Bone Orchard
  • Daughters of the Long Dark
  • Daughters of the Moth
  • Daughters of the Pale Mother
  • Die Blutgarde
  • Die Nachtkinder
  • Die Schlaflosen
  • Dom Nocy
  • Dom Zarubin
  • Domus Sanguinis
  • Dornenkrone Clan
  • Duskmantle Clan
  • Duskthorn Clan
  • Dynasty of Ash
  • Dynasty of the Dead Lamp
  • Dynasty of the Hollow Hand
  • Dynasty of the Salt Cathedral
  • Dynasty of the Silent King
  • Dynasty of Unending Night

F: 5 names

  • Fangs of the Ninth Gate
  • Fangs of the Red Winter
  • Fangs of the Widowed Moon
  • Fiii Lunii
  • Frostmarrow Clan

G: 5 names

  • Gravesend Clan
  • Gravewind Clan
  • Greywater Clan
  • Grimsvard Clan
  • Gwaed Hen

H: 55 names

  • Heirs of Lament
  • Heirs of Varna
  • Hemlock Clan
  • Highgate Clan
  • Hollowfang Clan
  • House Almásy-Noir
  • House Anghel
  • House Ardelean
  • House Ashenreach
  • House Aurelian
  • House Benedetti
  • House Blackfriars
  • House Brasov
  • House Calderano
  • House Carcosa
  • House Castellani
  • House Corvino
  • House Delacroix-Noir
  • House Ebonmere
  • House Faulkner-Grey
  • House Ferrero-Noir
  • House Grimaldi-Noir
  • House Iordache
  • House Kessandra
  • House Lenoir
  • House Lorraine-Sang
  • House Lucasta

H, continued

  • House Malvoire
  • House Morozov
  • House of Pale Mercy
  • House of Rust and Rosary
  • House of the Drowned Bride
  • House of the Grey Hour
  • House of the Hollow Crown
  • House of the Last Candle
  • House of the Long Winter
  • House of the Ninth Coffin
  • House of the Sundered Veil
  • House of the Thirsting Rose
  • House Orsini-Nero
  • House Orvandel
  • House Ostrava
  • House Ostrowski
  • House Ravenstein
  • House Rookwood
  • House Rosenkranz
  • House Sangrenoir
  • House Seraphine
  • House Sterne
  • House Thorncastle
  • House Tomescu
  • House Torvald
  • House Varga
  • House Volturno
  • House Wrath

I: 3 names

  • I Figli della Notte
  • Il Sangue Antico
  • Ironvein Clan

K: 13 names

  • Keepers of the Blind Moon
  • Keepers of the Hushed Bell
  • Keepers of the Red Reliquary
  • Keepers of the Sable Grail
  • Kindred of Ravensmoor
  • Kindred of the Black Chapel
  • Kindred of the Cold Sun
  • Kindred of the Hollow Bell
  • Kindred of the Iron Chalice
  • Kindred of the Quiet Throat
  • Krew Północy
  • Krov Vechnaya
  • Kuroi Kiba

L: 15 names

  • La Casa del Ocaso
  • La Cour Écarlate
  • La Lignée Morvane
  • La Maison du Crépuscule
  • La Sangre Negra
  • Les Affamés
  • Les Dents d'Ivoire
  • Les Enfants de Minuit
  • Les Veilleurs Pâles
  • Lex Cruoris
  • Lineage of Saint Mordecai
  • Lineage of the First Thirst
  • Lineage of the Nameless Count
  • Los Hijos de la Sangre Vieja
  • Los Sedientos

M: 4 names

  • Marrowgate Clan
  • Montparnasse Clan
  • Mortlake Clan
  • Muintir na Gealaí

N: 9 names

  • Nachtvolk
  • Neamul Strigoiului
  • Nightgrave Clan
  • Nightjar Clan
  • Nightvein Clan
  • Nightwardens
  • Noctis Filii
  • Nocturnum
  • Nox Perpetua

O: 12 names

  • Order of Moth and Marrow
  • Order of Noctis Aeternae
  • Order of Saint Nocturne
  • Order of the Candle-Snuffers
  • Order of the Crimson Tithe
  • Order of the Gilded Wound
  • Order of the Hollow Reliquary
  • Order of the Pale Sacrament
  • Order of the Red Hush
  • Order of the Silent Bell
  • Order of the Unopened Tomb
  • Ordo Vesperi

P: 2 names

  • Palemoor Clan
  • Père-Lachaise Clan

R: 3 names

  • Redmarsh Clan
  • Ród Cienia
  • Rookhollow Clan

S: 14 names

  • Sablecourt Clan
  • Saltspire Clan
  • Sânge Rece Clan
  • Sangele Vechi
  • Sangre Azul Clan
  • Sanguinem
  • Schattenbund
  • Schwarzmond Clan
  • Sepulchre Clan
  • Sisterhood of Salt and Sorrow
  • Sons of the Salt Marsh
  • Sons of the Winter Duchess
  • Sorores Lunae
  • Stillbrook Clan

T: 161 names

  • Temnaya Krov
  • Tenebrae Regnum
  • Ternovyy Venets Clan
  • The Aldermoor Line
  • The Ashborn
  • The Ashfall Court
  • The Bellanoir Bloodline
  • The Bellegarde Kindred
  • The Belltower Kindred
  • The Black Rosary
  • The Black Synod
  • The Bleeding Chapel
  • The Bloodbound
  • The Blue Hour Clan
  • The Bone Orchard
  • The Brides of the Danube
  • The Broken Fang
  • The Brotherhood of the Stopped Clock
  • The Carrion Kin
  • The Castellans of Thorn
  • The Catacomb Princes
  • The Chapelgate Kindred
  • The Choir of Rust
  • The Choir Unending
  • The Coffin Lords
  • The Cold Candles
  • The Cold Cathedral
  • The Cold Mouths
  • The Conclave of Carrion
  • The Conclave of the Red Vesper
  • The Conclave of Winter
  • The Counts of Carcosa

T, continued

  • The Counts of the Red Cellar
  • The Court Below the Cathedral
  • The Court of Broken Mirrors
  • The Court of Carrion Kings
  • The Court of Pale Lanterns
  • The Court of Salt and Shadow
  • The Court of the Eleventh Hour
  • The Court of the Last Sunset
  • The Court of the Moth-Eaten Crown
  • The Court of the Red Vigil
  • The Court of the Unsleeping
  • The Court of Withered Lilies
  • The Crimson Sodality
  • The Crypt Council
  • The Dravenmoor Kindred
  • The Drowned Brides
  • The Dukes of the Unlit
  • The Dusk Parliament
  • The Dusk-Sworn
  • The Duskwater Brood
  • The Elsevier Line
  • The Ember Fangs
  • The Embered Court
  • The Endless Vigil
  • The Eternal Wake
  • The Everhungry
  • The Fraternity of Ash and Amber
  • The Fraternity of the Black Vesper
  • The Gentlemen of the Crypt
  • The Ghouls of Smithfield
  • The Grave Dukes
  • The Graveborn

T, continued

  • The Grey Court of Trieste
  • The Halloran Kindred
  • The Halvorsen Brood
  • The Hollow Nobility
  • The Hollowed
  • The Hounds of Saint Sorrow
  • The Hunters of the Thin Hour
  • The Hushed Choir
  • The Iron Fang
  • The Iron Sepulchre
  • The Karnstein Bloodline
  • The Keepers of the Grey Candle
  • The Kindred of Bitter Wine
  • The Lantern Heirs
  • The Lantern Lords
  • The Leeching Court
  • The Lords of Lesser Light
  • The Lords of Marrowbone
  • The Margraves of Dusk
  • The Marrow Kings
  • The Marrow Lords
  • The Midnight Court of Prague
  • The Monks of Mourning
  • The Moonshriven
  • The Moravec Brood
  • The Mourners of Sighisoara
  • The Nachtzehrer Brood
  • The Night Tithe
  • The Nightborn
  • The Obsidian Court
  • The Order of the Inverted Bell
  • The Ossuary Choir

T, continued

  • The Ossuary Kindred
  • The Pale Communion
  • The Pale Hussars
  • The Pale Nobility
  • The Palebound
  • The Parliament of Moths
  • The Parliament of Ravens
  • The Plague Saints
  • The Princes of Varna
  • The Quiet Dynasty
  • The Quillon Line
  • The Red Fraternity
  • The Red Hour
  • The Red Monastery
  • The Red Parliament
  • The Red Vespertine
  • The Reliquary Court
  • The Ruined Gentry
  • The Rust Chapel
  • The Sablewing Court
  • The Sallow Crown
  • The Salt Widows
  • The Sanguine Covenant
  • The Scarlet Abbots
  • The Shroud Brotherhood
  • The Sisters of Lenore
  • The Sleepless Nobility
  • The Society of the Closed Eye
  • The Sodality of the Long Thirst
  • The Sodality of the Silent Choir
  • The Sodality of Thorns
  • The Spindle Court

T, continued

  • The Starveling Court
  • The Starving Nobility
  • The Sundered Kin
  • The Synod of the Last Dusk
  • The Szentgyorgy Bloodline
  • The Tallow Court
  • The Tarquin Line
  • The Tenebrosi
  • The Thirstborn
  • The Thistle Kin
  • The Thorned Communion
  • The Tombwardens
  • The Umbral Lineage
  • The Unburied
  • The Unkind
  • The Unlit
  • The Vellum Kin
  • The Vellum Saints
  • The Velvet Court
  • The Velvet Fang
  • The Velvet Requiem
  • The Voivodes of Ash
  • The Watchers of Blackheath
  • The Wax Saints
  • The Winterhalter Line
  • The Witching Hour Clan
  • The Wolves of Bistrita
  • The Wyrmhollow Brood
  • Thistlemoor Clan
  • Thornhaven Clan
  • Thorns of Lament
  • Thorns of the Black Sun
  • Trastevere Clan

U: 1 name

  • Umbra Cruenta

V: 2 names

  • Vellumgate Clan
  • Vérvonal Kaszmir

W: 8 names

  • Wardens of the Frost Cairn
  • Wardens of the Hollow Throne
  • Whitecairn Clan
  • Whitechapel Clan
  • Widowmere Clan
  • Wintermere Clan
  • Wolfsbane Clan
  • Wraithvale Clan

Y: 1 name

  • Yami no Ketsuzoku