Vampire Coven Name Generator

Names for vampire covens, courts, broods and bloodlines

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Generate vampire coven names for novels, tabletop chronicles and urban fantasy, from gothic aristocratic houses and hungry broods to Latin orders, secret cabals and modern city coteries.

About vampire coven names

Vampire coven names do a different job than witch coven names. A witch circle names itself for a goddess or a herb; a vampire coven names itself for hunger, lineage and the long passage of time. The strongest names fall into a few recognisable families: aristocratic houses with a surname that sounds old and Central European (House Vasarhelyi, House Corvinescu), broods and courts built around a sire or a possessive image (Brood of Mother Hecuba, Court of the Pale Duchess), religious inversions that borrow church vocabulary (Parish, Sacrament, Communion, Requiem), Latin orders in the Vampire: The Masquerade style (Ordo Noctis Aeternae), and quiet modern cabals that hide behind a club, salon or society name.

What makes one sound right is restraint plus one sharp image. 'The Shadow Vampires' is nothing; 'The Quiet Throat' or 'The Coven of the Drowned Chapel' each imply a history. Good vampire covens also hint at how they feed and where they nest: a belfry, a cellar, a marsh, a gaslit street, a ruined abbey. Blood, ash, velvet, lanterns, bells and roses are the traditional palette, but the colour words (crimson, scarlet, sable, pale) work best as accents, not as the whole name.

Use the list for a single antagonist coven, a city full of rival courts, or the bloodline your player character belongs to.

How to choose vampire coven names

  • Decide what the collective noun says about the group first: House and Court imply old aristocracy and hierarchy, Brood implies a single sire and her children, Coven and Circle imply ritual, Cabal, Lodge and Society imply a modern cover identity.
  • Tie the name to a nest or hunting ground: a ruined chapel, a salt marsh, a row of gaslamps, a particular street. Place-anchored names (The Carfax Brood, The Rook Street Coterie) make a city feel lived-in.
  • Use church vocabulary for dread: Parish, Sacrament, Communion, Vesper, Requiem and Tithe all suggest a congregation that has twisted something holy.
  • Keep colour words as accents. One 'crimson' or 'pale' per name is plenty; stacking Blood, Shadow, Dark and Night together reads as parody.
  • For a chronicle with several covens, give each a different structure (one House, one Court, one Brood, one Latin order) so players can tell them apart by name alone.

Frequently asked questions

What is a group of vampires called?

Fiction uses many words: coven, clan, brood, court, house, bloodline, nest, coterie and cabal. Coven and clan are the most common in novels and films; Vampire: The Masquerade uses clan for a bloodline and coterie for a small working group; Anne Rice's novels favour coven; brood usually means the childer of a single sire.

How do vampire covens get their names in fiction?

Most are named for a founding sire or aristocratic family (House Dracul, the Karnstein line), a place they haunt, a symbol or relic, or a deliberately innocuous cover such as a club, lodge or society that hides them from mortals.

Can I use these names for Vampire: The Masquerade or D&D?

Yes. The Latin orders, courts and coteries fit Vampire: The Masquerade chronicles directly, and the houses, broods and covens work for D&D settings such as Ravenloft or any homebrew world with vampire antagonists.

Are these names free to use in a published book or game?

They are free to use for any project. Names that reference well-known fictional families such as Karnstein or Dracula are included for flavour; if you are publishing commercially, prefer the fully original names in the list.

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All 500 vampire coven names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 4 names

  • Aeterna Sitis
  • Ashmoor Kindred
  • Ashvale Brood
  • Assembly of the Candled Dead

B: 33 names

  • Bloodthorn Cabal
  • Brood of Lady Eszter
  • Brood of Lady Morwenna
  • Brood of Mother Hecuba
  • Brood of Mother Ravenna
  • Brood of Saint Oswin
  • Brood of the Amber Shroud
  • Brood of the Black Sacrament
  • Brood of the Bleeding Spire
  • Brood of the Blind Saint
  • Brood of the Bone Lantern
  • Brood of the Burned Abbey
  • Brood of the Cobwebbed Crown
  • Brood of the Cracked Reliquary
  • Brood of the Crooked Sacristan
  • Brood of the Frozen Heart
  • Brood of the Hangwood Elm
  • Brood of the Iron Hearse
  • Brood of the Opal Fang
  • Brood of the Quarry Mother
  • Brood of the Sallow Lamp
  • Brood of the Scarlet Sleeper
  • Brood of the Scarlet Spire
  • Brood of the Shrouded Saint
  • Brood of the Sleeping King
  • Brood of the Tallow King
  • Brood of the Tarnished Halo
  • Brood of the Thirteen Sextons
  • Brood of the Unmarked Grave
  • Brood of the Velvet Bier
  • Brood of the Wailing Belfry
  • Brood of the Whispering Crypt
  • Brood of the Widow Vasilisa

C: 106 names

  • Cabal of Silk and Sinew
  • Cabal of the Crimson Fathom
  • Cabal of the Hooded Crane
  • Children of Carmilla
  • Children of Quiet Hallows
  • Children of the Ashen Dawn
  • Children of the Burning Window
  • Children of the Cinder Gate
  • Children of the Fog
  • Children of the Grey Dawn
  • Children of the Hollow Bell
  • Children of the Ninth Coffin
  • Children of the Old Gravel Road
  • Children of the Red Vesper
  • Children of the Sallow Moon
  • Children of the Sealed Cistern
  • Children of the Stilled Clock
  • Children of the Wintering Moon
  • Circle of the Old Crypt
  • Collegium Sepulchri
  • Concilium Lamiarum
  • Corvus Noctis
  • Coterie of the Absinthe Lamp
  • Coterie of the Emptied Font
  • Coterie of the Gas-Blue Flame
  • Court of Ashes and Ermine
  • Court of Broken Clocks
  • Court of Ice and Garnet
  • Court of Lanterns and Lies
  • Court of Marrow and Silk
  • Court of the Cold Mistress
  • Court of the Dead Swan
  • Court of the Drowned Lantern
  • Court of the Hungry Rose
  • Court of the Lidless Eye

C, continued

  • Court of the Midnight Gavel
  • Court of the Night Heron
  • Court of the Ninth Bellow
  • Court of the Pale Duchess
  • Court of the Pale Flame
  • Court of the Pickled Saint
  • Court of the Rotting Crown
  • Court of the Ruined Cathedral
  • Court of the Seven Caskets
  • Court of the Shrouded Lamp
  • Court of the Starless Crown
  • Court of the Unhallowed Font
  • Court of the Unquiet Dead
  • Court of the Widow's Walk
  • Court of the Wilting Crown
  • Court of Wax and Rust
  • Coven Duskwither
  • Coven of Black Lace
  • Coven of Nine Shadows
  • Coven of Saint Alaric's Crypt
  • Coven of Saint Sebastian's Pyre
  • Coven of the Ashen Bride
  • Coven of the Bitter Well
  • Coven of the Black Hart
  • Coven of the Blackened Altar
  • Coven of the Brass Key
  • Coven of the Broken Rosary
  • Coven of the Burnt Chapel
  • Coven of the Candle Wake
  • Coven of the Cold Feast
  • Coven of the Copper Bell
  • Coven of the Drowned Chapel
  • Coven of the Drowned Sisters
  • Coven of the Ebon Spire
  • Coven of the Empty Cradle

C, continued

  • Coven of the Fallen Spire
  • Coven of the Fallow Bell
  • Coven of the Forgotten Altar
  • Coven of the Frozen Fountain
  • Coven of the Gallows Hill
  • Coven of the Gaslamp
  • Coven of the Grave Moth
  • Coven of the Hanged Lantern
  • Coven of the Last Ferry
  • Coven of the Lightless Stair
  • Coven of the Lonely Mile
  • Coven of the Lost Bell Tower
  • Coven of the Lost Hour
  • Coven of the Moonlit Crypt
  • Coven of the Obsidian Chalice
  • Coven of the Rain Bell
  • Coven of the Raven's Bargain
  • Coven of the Red Thread
  • Coven of the Rotting Vine
  • Coven of the Rusted Gate
  • Coven of the Seventh Grave
  • Coven of the Seventh Ward
  • Coven of the Shattered Grail
  • Coven of the Shut Confessional
  • Coven of the Silver Lantern
  • Coven of the Starving Moon
  • Coven of the Still Heart
  • Coven of the Sunken Garden
  • Coven of the Thin Veil
  • Coven of the Veiled Hour
  • Coven of the Velvet Knife
  • Coven of the Widow's Tear
  • Coven of the Withered Orchard
  • Coven Ravenskull
  • Covenant of the Rusted Nail
  • Cult of the Weeping Vein

D: 2 names

  • Domus Caligo
  • Dusk Parliament of Ravensmoor

E: 1 name

  • Ember and Marrow

F: 3 names

  • Fangs of the Pale Hand
  • Fellowship of the Ruddy Cup
  • Fratres Sanguinis

G: 1 name

  • Grimwald Kindred

H: 63 names

  • House Amaranth
  • House Ardelean
  • House Ashcombe
  • House Bathory-Vance
  • House Belgrave
  • House Blackvane
  • House Calloway-Dusk
  • House Corvinescu
  • House Delacroix-Vey
  • House Draculesti
  • House Draegan
  • House Dravenmoor
  • House Duskmere
  • House Ebonhart
  • House Ferencz
  • House Grauwald
  • House Greymoor
  • House Halloran
  • House Karnstein
  • House Lachrymal
  • House Lucent
  • House Malachai
  • House Malvoire
  • House Maravel
  • House Marrowvane
  • House Morrowgate
  • House Morvane
  • House Nightingale
  • House Nightshade
  • House of Quiet Bells
  • House of Serrated Mirrors

H, continued

  • House of the Broken Fang
  • House of the Broken Hourglass
  • House of the Gilded Coffin
  • House of the Last Ember
  • House of the Long Shadow
  • House of the Sable Veil
  • House of the Third Candle
  • House of the Unlit Candle
  • House of the Weeping Arch
  • House of Withering Light
  • House Oriel
  • House Orsolya
  • House Ozorai
  • House Ravenmoor
  • House Ravensworth
  • House Rothgard
  • House Sangrieve
  • House Severin
  • House Szentgyorgyi
  • House Thorne
  • House Thornquist
  • House Valcourt
  • House Valdemar
  • House Varkoczy
  • House Vasarhelyi
  • House Vesperine
  • House Vhalen
  • House Vortenne
  • House Voskrenski
  • House Wraithmoor
  • House Ysolde
  • House Zelenkovich

K: 22 names

  • Keepers of the Last Breath
  • Keepers of the Winter Blood
  • Kindred of Blackgull Quay
  • Kindred of Deadman's Reach
  • Kindred of Tannery Row
  • Kindred of the Ash Road
  • Kindred of the Black Candle
  • Kindred of the Blood Orchid
  • Kindred of the Cold Hearth
  • Kindred of the Dark Tide
  • Kindred of the Dead Orchard
  • Kindred of the Frostbitten Rose
  • Kindred of the Frozen Lake
  • Kindred of the Oak Coffin
  • Kindred of the Quenched Forge
  • Kindred of the Rotting Pier
  • Kindred of the Salt Marsh
  • Kindred of the Salted Grave
  • Kindred of the Sunless Sea
  • Kindred of the Thirteenth Hour
  • Kindred of the Wolf Hour
  • Kindred of the Yew Tree

N: 1 name

  • Nox Perpetua Society

O: 11 names

  • Order of the Crossed Stakes
  • Order of the Hollow Crown
  • Order of the Last Communion
  • Order of the Silent Cup
  • Order of the Sundered Chalice
  • Order of the Veiled Throat
  • Order of the Wan Moon
  • Ordo Noctis Aeternae
  • Ordo Rubrae Lunae
  • Ordo Sitis Sacrae
  • Ordo Vesperae Carnis

S: 6 names

  • Saint Vitus Kindred
  • Sanguis et Umbra
  • Sisterhood of the Scarlet Lily
  • Sisters of the Shuttered Window
  • Sodality of the Bled Lamb
  • Sorores Tenebrarum

T: 246 names

  • The Abattoir Court
  • The Ash Wednesday Cabal
  • The Ashborne Sisters
  • The Ashen Chancel
  • The Ashfall Assembly
  • The Ashgrove Kindred
  • The Ashlight Covenant
  • The Ashveil Sisters
  • The Barrowgate Kindred
  • The Beguiling Dark
  • The Bitter Sacrament
  • The Black Candle Collective
  • The Black Moth Brood
  • The Black Veil Fellowship
  • The Blackfriars Kindred
  • The Blackstone Cabal
  • The Blackthorn Court
  • The Blackwater Brood
  • The Bleached Psalter
  • The Bleak Manor Circle
  • The Bleak Parliament
  • The Bleak Sisters of Hollin
  • The Bleeding Hymn
  • The Blood Orchard
  • The Bloodletter's Guild
  • The Bloodmere Lodge
  • The Bloodmoon Enclave
  • The Bloodwine Parlour
  • The Bone Physicians
  • The Bonewhite Sisterhood
  • The Bramblewood Brood
  • The Bride-Eaters of Kellmoor
  • The Burgundy Court
  • The Carfax Brood
  • The Carrion Salon

T, continued

  • The Catacomb Parish of Vienna
  • The Cellar Choir of Lindenmoor
  • The Cellar Saints
  • The Cinder Court
  • The Cindermoor Sisters
  • The Cloistered Fang
  • The Cobweb Sisters
  • The Cold Bell Lodge
  • The Coterie of Thorns
  • The Court of Ashen Roses
  • The Crepuscular Society
  • The Crimson Accord of Hollowfen
  • The Crimson Loom
  • The Crimson Parish
  • The Crimson Reliquary
  • The Crimson Requiem
  • The Crimson Sabbat
  • The Crimson Sigil
  • The Crimson Vesper
  • The Crypt Choir of Saint Ives
  • The Dark Tidewater Brood
  • The Darkwater Conclave
  • The Dead-Letter Society
  • The Dimmed Choir
  • The Drowned Bell Lodge
  • The Drowned Choir
  • The Dusk Accord of Lowmarsh
  • The Dusk Concordat
  • The Dusk Moth Society
  • The Dusk Wardens of Lowhallow
  • The Dusk-Drinkers
  • The Duskfang Coterie
  • The Ebon Sisterhood
  • The Elders of Karnstein Hall
  • The Ember Lineage

T, continued

  • The Evenfall Kindred
  • The Eventide Assembly
  • The Exsanguine Club
  • The Fasting Ones
  • The Ferryman's Brood
  • The Ferrymen of the Eleventh Bridge
  • The Final Hour Lodge
  • The Funeral Court
  • The Garnet Assembly
  • The Garrotte Club
  • The Gehenna Pact
  • The Gilded Mourners
  • The Glass Coffin Society
  • The Gloaming Brood
  • The Gloaming Tribunal
  • The Grave Mothers
  • The Graven Kindred
  • The Gravesend Compact
  • The Gravewater Society
  • The Greyfriars Communion
  • The Greywater Kindred
  • The Halloway Pact
  • The Hallowell Brood
  • The Hangman's Parish
  • The Harrowgate Cult
  • The Hatpin Sisters
  • The Hemlock Assembly
  • The Hemlock Hall Kindred
  • The Hollow Pulse
  • The Hollowbrook Brood
  • The Hollowmoon Sisters
  • The Ilse Vardan Sorority
  • The Ironveil Brood
  • The Ivory Grimace
  • The Kindred of Ravensgate

T, continued

  • The Lamentation of Hollis Row
  • The Lamia Consortium
  • The Lamia of Seven Bridges
  • The Lamplight Pact
  • The Lamplighters' Kindred
  • The Lamprey Club
  • The Lantern Court of Ravensfall
  • The Lantern-Eaters
  • The Leeching Hour Lodge
  • The Lichgate Accord
  • The Lilith Chapter
  • The Lodge of the Pale Widow
  • The Long Thirst
  • The Long-Toothed Fellowship
  • The Lowgate Court
  • The Lullaby Brood
  • The Marish Sisters of Fennel Cross
  • The Marrow Court
  • The Marrowbone Compact
  • The Marrowfield Cabal
  • The Masquerade Court of Varna
  • The Maudlin Saints
  • The Mausoleum Tenancy
  • The Mercy Street Coterie
  • The Midnight Chancery
  • The Midnight Tithe
  • The Mistral Cabal
  • The Moonward Cabal
  • The Moth-Wing Circle
  • The Mourning Bell Society
  • The Mourning Court
  • The Night Auction Society
  • The Night Choir
  • The Night Orchard Lodge
  • The Nightbloom Circle

T, continued

  • The Nightfall Syndicate
  • The Nightglass Circle
  • The Nightjar Circle
  • The Nightwatch of Saint Jude's Close
  • The Nightwell Society
  • The Ninefold Thirst
  • The Ninth Night Covenant
  • The Noctuary
  • The Nocturne Society
  • The Nocturnes of Wren Street
  • The Nosferatu Choir
  • The Oakmoor Cabal
  • The Obsidian Brood
  • The Obsidian Choir
  • The Oldmoor Kindred
  • The Onyx Tithe
  • The Opium Salon of Rue Malfort
  • The Ossified Sisters
  • The Ossuary Court
  • The Pale Harvest
  • The Pale Ledger
  • The Pale Rider Cabal
  • The Pale Sisterhood
  • The Palemoor Compact
  • The Pallid Fellowship
  • The Parish of Empty Pews
  • The Parliament of Hollow Teeth
  • The Pendragon Crypt
  • The Penumbral Court
  • The Pewter Masque
  • The Plague-Cart Kindred
  • The Quiet Parish of St. Morrow
  • The Quiet Throat
  • The Ravenhall Compact
  • The Ravenous Salon

T, continued

  • The Red Hour Covenant
  • The Red Lamplight Society
  • The Red Room Collective
  • The Redmoor Compact
  • The Reliquary Tenants
  • The Revenant Assembly
  • The Rook Street Coterie
  • The Rooks of Hollow Row
  • The Ruby Leash
  • The Sable Bursary
  • The Sable Congregation
  • The Sable Parlour
  • The Saint Dismas Chapter
  • The Saint Ildiko Circle
  • The Saint Mordred Society
  • The Sallow Court of Ostrava
  • The Salted Circle
  • The Sanguinary Guild
  • The Sanguine Accord
  • The Sanguivore Lodge
  • The Sated Court of Morrowmere
  • The Sated Few
  • The Scarlet Abbey
  • The Scarlet Belfry
  • The Scarlet Coterie
  • The Scarlet Hermitage
  • The Scarlet Library
  • The Scarlet Midwives
  • The Scarlet Ossuary
  • The Scarlet Vigil
  • The Sepulchre Circle
  • The Shadewell Pact
  • The Shadowed Chancel
  • The Shroud Circle
  • The Silent Brood of Marrowell

T, continued

  • The Silent Cathedral
  • The Sleeping Fang
  • The Sleepless Lineage
  • The Sorrow Kindred
  • The Sorrowful Gate
  • The Strigoi Conclave
  • The Tallow Sisters
  • The Tenants of Blackfriars Vault
  • The Thirsting Sisters of Ilmarsh
  • The Thirteen Sorrows
  • The Thistlemoor Brood
  • The Thornfield Circle
  • The Thornhaven Brood
  • The Thornwood Kindred
  • The Twelve Bells of Hallowmere
  • The Twilight Cenacle
  • The Umbral Estate
  • The Unbaptised of Strood
  • The Unblinking
  • The Undertakers' Choir
  • The Upyr Brotherhood
  • The Vampyre Court of Whitby
  • The Veiled Court
  • The Vellichor Lodge
  • The Velvet Hunger
  • The Vermilion Sisters
  • The Vesper Choir
  • The Vesper Kindred
  • The Vesperbell Society
  • The Vigilant Dark
  • The Wax-Sealed Court
  • The Whispering Tithe
  • The Winter Court of Karnstein
  • The Wintering Ones
  • The Wolfsbane Covenant
  • The Wraithwood Brood

W: 1 name

  • Wardens of the Grey Coffin