Warband Name Generator

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Generate warband names for orc hordes, barbarian raiders, Chaos warbands, Viking war parties and any band of sworn fighters that follows a warlord instead of a flag. Built for Warhammer, Mordheim, Mount & Blade, D&D and grimdark fiction.

About warband names

A warband is smaller and rougher than an army. It is a few dozen to a few hundred fighters bound to a chieftain by oath, loot or fear, and its name works like a battle cry rather than a regimental title. Historical war bands were named for their leader or their home: the Jomsvikings, Harald's housecarls, the gallowglass of a clan, the reivers of a valley. That formula still works best in fiction, which is why Varg's Ravagers or Grimmund's Hundred sound more lived-in than anything with Eternal or Shadow in it.

Tabletop games added their own conventions. Warhammer orc and Chaos warbands take names from a totem, a wound or a boast: the Bloody Hand, Skullsplitters, the Flayed Ones. Mount & Blade and Battle Brothers players favor plain nouns with an edge, like the Iron Horde or the Long Knives. Grimdark fiction leans on place plus animal (Wolves of the Ashen Moor, Crows of Hollin Vale) and on religious-sounding brotherhoods (Brethren of the Flayed Hand, Sons of the Ninth Pyre).

The list below mixes all of these so rival warbands each sound like they come from a different corner of the map. Pick one that says who leads the band and what it is famous for, and avoid stacking more than two threatening words in a row.

How to choose warband names

  • Name the band after its founder or a dead hero (Halvar's Hearthguard, Sons of Torvald); it instantly implies history and a chain of command.
  • Use a totem animal or a single grisly trophy (the Black Totem, the Scalptakers) rather than piling up adjectives. One hard image beats three.
  • Tie the warband to a place your players will recognize (Raiders of the Whispering Pass, Wolves of the Bitter Shore) so the name doubles as a hook for where they operate.
  • Match the register to the culture: orcs and beastmen get blunt compounds (Ironjaw, Gorehowl), Norse and Celtic bands get oath and kin words (Oath-Kin of Hrolf, Wolfcoats of Thrym), Chaos cults get brethren and ninefold language.
  • Give a defeated or disgraced band a bitter name (the Sundered Oath, the Shieldless, the Thrice-Broken) to signal backstory in two words.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a warband and an army?

A warband is a small, personal force of roughly 20 to a few hundred fighters sworn to one leader, usually raiding or skirmishing rather than holding ground. An army is a larger organized force with formal units. Warband names are therefore personal and boastful (Varg's Ravagers) while army names tend to be numbered or regional.

How should I name an orc or Chaos warband for Warhammer?

Keep it blunt and physical. Orc warbands use crushing compounds and boasts (Skullsplitters, Ironjaw Warband, Gorrak's Tuskers); Chaos warbands use cult language like Brethren, Chosen, Sons of, and numbers sacred to their god (the Ninefold Spear, Sons of the Ninth Pyre).

Can I use these warband names in Mount & Blade, D&D or a novel?

Yes. All the names here are original or drawn from historical terms (housecarls, gallowglass, kern, reivers), so you can use them freely in games, campaigns and published fiction.

What makes a warband name sound authentic rather than edgy?

Real war bands were named for a leader, a home valley or one famous deed. Names like Hrafn's Ravens or Reivers of the Debatable Lands feel grounded because they answer who and where; stacking words like Eternal Shadow Death Legion answers neither.

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All 500 warband 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: 6 names

  • Ash-Eaters
  • Ashen Oath Warband
  • Ashfall Reavers
  • Ashwind Warband
  • Axes of the North Wind
  • Axewind Raiders

B: 30 names

  • Black Banner Warband
  • Blackblood Reavers
  • Blackmaw Reavers
  • Blackspear Raiders
  • Blades of the Ashen Queen
  • Blades of the Dawnless
  • Blades of the Serpent Tribe
  • Blightwind Raiders
  • Blood Brothers of the Scar
  • Blood Moon Raiders
  • Blood of Hargoth
  • Blood of the Boar
  • Bloodaxe Brotherhood
  • Bloodhounds of Vorn
  • Bloodmoon Brethren
  • Bloodtusk Warband
  • Bloody Hand Warband
  • Boarheads of Thorne
  • Boneaxe Warband
  • Bonecairn Raiders
  • Bonecarvers of Dunmorrow
  • Bonechewer Tribe
  • Bonegrinders of Skarr
  • Bonesaw Brotherhood
  • Boneshield Brotherhood
  • Brannoch's Bastard Sons
  • Breakers of the Bronze Gate
  • Brethren of the Flayed Hand
  • Brothers of the Broken Wheel
  • Brothers of the Ninth Pyre

C: 7 names

  • Cattle-Thieves of the High Pass
  • Children of the Stormcrow
  • Cinderheart Raiders
  • Clan Gorehand
  • Claws of the Ice Bear
  • Crows of Hollin Vale
  • Crows of the Killing Field

D: 9 names

  • Darkfen Reavers
  • Daughters of the Ash Wolf
  • Daughters of the Red Spear
  • Death Riders of Maar
  • Death's Hand
  • Deathsworn of Torrak
  • Drakkar's Drowned Men
  • Dreadclaw Raiders
  • Dust Riders of Kesh

F: 8 names

  • Fangs of Akkar
  • Fangs of the Frost Wyrm
  • Fangs of the Old Wood
  • Fangs of the Wyrm King
  • Fenwolves
  • Firebrand Warband
  • Fists of Thraxus
  • Frostbeard Raiders

G: 16 names

  • Gannet-Eaters of the Skerries
  • Ghosts of the Ninth Hall
  • Ghosts of the Salt Marsh
  • Gloomfen Marauders
  • Gnashers of the Deep Mire
  • Gorefist Warband
  • Gorehound Warband
  • Gorrak's Tuskers
  • Graveborn Warband
  • Gravelords of Drakkar
  • Grimclaw Warband
  • Grimhammer Warband
  • Grimhold Raiders
  • Grimmund's Hundred
  • Gruk's Bonecrushers
  • Gutbreakers

H: 22 names

  • Hagrin's Hunters
  • Halvar's Hearthguard
  • Hammers of Dunvar
  • Hands of the Ashen King
  • Harrowers of the Grey Fen
  • Hearth Ravagers
  • Hearthbreakers
  • Hearts of Obsidian
  • Hell's Own Hundred
  • Hexblade Marauders
  • Hollowmere Warband
  • Hollowmoor Raiders
  • Horde of the Black Moon
  • Horde of the Burning Eye
  • Hornspears
  • Hounds of Bellam
  • Hounds of Karrow
  • Howlers of the Ash Hills
  • Hrafn's Ravens
  • Hrafnkel's Stormriders
  • Hrolf's Oath-Kin
  • Hunters of the Grey Wood

I: 7 names

  • Iron Fang Raiders
  • Iron Raven Warband
  • Iron Tide Warband
  • Iron Wolves of Vokk
  • Ironbane Reavers
  • Ironhelm Vanguard
  • Ironjaw Warband

J: 1 name

  • Jarl Ketil's Longships

K: 10 names

  • Karrak's Chosen
  • Keepers of the Blood Feud
  • Kerns of the Black Glen
  • Kingsbane Warband
  • Kinslayers of the Tarn
  • Knives of the Cinder Cult
  • Kor'gath's Ironclad
  • Kraag's Slayers
  • Krell's Warhounds
  • Krugg's Maneaters

L: 1 name

  • Legion of the Shattered Oath

M: 6 names

  • Mangrove Reavers of the Delta
  • Marauders of Dreadmoor
  • Maw of the Mountain
  • Moonshadow Reavers
  • Moonwake Raiders
  • Morrigan's Crows

N: 2 names

  • Nightblade Raiders
  • Nightmaw Raiders

O: 4 names

  • Oak-Eaters
  • Oathbreakers of Kell
  • Oathsworn of the Stag
  • Orsk's Weregild Riders

P: 2 names

  • Pack of the Winter Wolf
  • Pikes of the Narrow Water

R: 19 names

  • Raiders of the Stormfen
  • Raiders of the Whispering Pass
  • Rakkash Skullcrushers
  • Rathgar's Reavers
  • Ravagers of Krask
  • Ravagers of the Black Hills
  • Ravagers of Thule
  • Ravens of the Black Ford
  • Ravens of Vorhaim
  • Reapers of Skarl
  • Reavers of the Frozen Shore
  • Reavers of the Wild Coast
  • Red Hook Raiders
  • Redshields
  • Reivers of the Debatable Lands
  • Riders of the Gale
  • Riders of the Red Moon
  • Rippers of the Black Bog
  • Rotgut's Marauders

S: 47 names

  • Savagers of the Blood Fen
  • Scarback Clan
  • Scions of the Ironwood
  • Scourge of the Lowlands
  • Scourge of the Wildlands
  • Serpent Tongue Warband
  • Serpent's Teeth
  • Shadow Wolves of Vell
  • Shadowmere Reavers
  • Shadows of Mordhel
  • Shields of Ulmark
  • Sisters of the Carrion Crow
  • Sisters of the Long Knife
  • Skarn's Blackguard
  • Skarn's Bloody Dozen
  • Skinners of the Marsh
  • Skullhelm Riders
  • Skullpike Clan
  • Skullrend Warband
  • Skullsplitter Warband
  • Skulltakers of Sarn
  • Sons of Ash and Iron
  • Sons of Drakk

S, continued

  • Sons of Gorm
  • Sons of Krom
  • Sons of the Ashen Wind
  • Sons of the Barrow Wyrm
  • Sons of the Broken Spear
  • Sons of the Burning Spear
  • Sons of the Eagle
  • Sons of the Grey Sea
  • Sons of the Iron Sky
  • Sons of the Ninth Storm
  • Sons of the Serpent Mother
  • Sons of the Tundra
  • Sons of the Wolf Mother
  • Sons of Torvald
  • Spear Maidens of Oryn
  • Spears of Agrath
  • Spears of the Red Dawn
  • Spears of the Wolfmoon
  • Storm Sons of Ryth
  • Stormbrood
  • Stormcrows of Vael
  • Stormhammers
  • Svard's Shieldbreakers
  • Sworn Axes of Orm

T: 269 names

  • Tarn's Tidebreakers
  • Terrors of the Blight Fen
  • The Anvil Brotherhood
  • The Ash Kings
  • The Ashen March
  • The Baleful Horde
  • The Bane of Ellor
  • The Barrow Wights
  • The Battered Shields
  • The Bitter Dawn
  • The Bitter Spears
  • The Bitter Wolves
  • The Bitterwind Spears
  • The Black Harvest
  • The Black Lances
  • The Black Marrow
  • The Black Sails of Dregmoor
  • The Black Spears
  • The Black Tongues of Irr
  • The Black Totem
  • The Black Tusk
  • The Blackmire Reavers
  • The Blackthorn Pack
  • The Blackwood Spears
  • The Bleak Company
  • The Blighted Sons
  • The Blightfen Pack
  • The Blightmarch
  • The Blood Eagle Warband
  • The Blood Howlers
  • The Blood Oath Brotherhood
  • The Blood Sworn of Kaal
  • The Bloodfeather
  • The Bloodhorn
  • The Bloodstone Reavers
  • The Bloody Shields
  • The Bogborn
  • The Bogsworn of Mire Hollow

T, continued

  • The Bone Kings
  • The Boneclaw Clan
  • The Bonehilt Brethren
  • The Brazen Host
  • The Breaking Wheel
  • The Broken Crown Raiders
  • The Broken Fang Brotherhood
  • The Broken Spear Pack
  • The Broken Tooth
  • The Brokenback Hill Men
  • The Bronze Shields
  • The Burning Hand
  • The Cairn Wolves
  • The Carrion Crown
  • The Chainbreakers
  • The Cinder Host
  • The Cinderjaw Tribe
  • The Cold Iron
  • The Coldwater Raiders
  • The Copper Spears
  • The Crag Lions
  • The Crimson Fang
  • The Crimson Fist
  • The Crimson Talons
  • The Crimson Wake
  • The Crushed Banner
  • The Crushing Fist
  • The Cursed Banner
  • The Cursed Sons
  • The Darkhollow Pack
  • The Darkwater Raiders
  • The Darkwood Pack
  • The Dawn Raiders
  • The Death Ravens
  • The Deathmaw Clan
  • The Dire Banner
  • The Doom Riders
  • The Doomtusk

T, continued

  • The Dread Fang Clan
  • The Drowned Banner
  • The Dune Stalkers
  • The Dusk Reavers
  • The Eaters of the Dead
  • The Ember Host
  • The Fallen Banner
  • The Fallen Oak
  • The Fang and Fire
  • The Fang Host
  • The Fearless Spear
  • The Fenborn
  • The Firstblood Spears
  • The Flame Hunters
  • The Flaming Skull
  • The Flayed Company
  • The Flaywind Reavers
  • The Flint Hand
  • The Flint Spears
  • The Forest Ghosts
  • The Foul Tide
  • The Frost Wolves
  • The Frostbitten
  • The Frozen Spears
  • The Fury of Grath
  • The Gallowglass of Dun Carrig
  • The Gallows Pack
  • The Ghostmane Riders
  • The Ghosts of the Burning Sands
  • The Gnashing Teeth
  • The Gore Crow
  • The Gore Ravens
  • The Gore Tusks
  • The Goreblades
  • The Gorehowl
  • The Grave Spears
  • The Gravemarch
  • The Gray Wolves of Dunmere
  • The Greatwolves

T, continued

  • The Grey Host
  • The Grey Riders
  • The Greywind Riders
  • The Grim Company
  • The Grim Reavers
  • The Grinning Skull
  • The Grudgebearers
  • The Gutting Tide
  • The Hagsons
  • The Hammerhost
  • The Harrowed
  • The Hatchet Men
  • The Headhunters of Mirr
  • The Hellhound Pack
  • The Hidden Knife
  • The Hollow Crown
  • The Hollow Horde
  • The Hollow Men
  • The Hollow Tooth
  • The Hornblowers of Tesk
  • The Hounds of War
  • The Housecarls of Eadric
  • The Howlers of Kragmoor
  • The Howling Hundred
  • The Howling Pack
  • The Hundred Wolves
  • The Hungry Fang
  • The Hungry Ghosts
  • The Icebound Reavers
  • The Iron Horde
  • The Iron Mongrels
  • The Iron Roar
  • The Ironblood Legion
  • The Ironhide
  • The Ironhowl
  • The Ironmoot
  • The Ironthorn
  • The Jackal Brothers

T, continued

  • The Jackal Warband
  • The Jagged Crown
  • The Jagged Edge
  • The Lame King's Spears
  • The Last Shields
  • The Long Knives
  • The Lost Legion of Vael
  • The Marrowgnaw Clan
  • The Marrowmen of Ost
  • The Marsh Ghosts
  • The Mountain Host
  • The Mountain Kings of Drun
  • The Mourning Host
  • The Night Ravens
  • The Night Tusk
  • The Nine Crows
  • The Nine Fingers
  • The Ninefold Spear
  • The Oathbound
  • The Pale Riders
  • The Plague Wagons of Mirl
  • The Ragged Banner
  • The Raging Bulls of Thane
  • The Ravager Kings
  • The Raven Spears
  • The Ravenous Dozen
  • The Reaver Kings
  • The Red Hand of Kareth
  • The Red Howl
  • The Red Tide
  • The Redblades
  • The Rended
  • The Roaring Bull Clan
  • The Rotwood Marauders
  • The Rust Tide
  • The Salt Hounds
  • The Salt Marsh Reavers
  • The Salt Reavers
  • The Saltblood Raiders

T, continued

  • The Saltwater Levy
  • The Scalding Host
  • The Scalptakers
  • The Scarlet Horde
  • The Scarred Hundred
  • The Scorched
  • The Screaming Arrow
  • The Screaming Host
  • The Seven Shields
  • The Shattered Sons
  • The Shieldless
  • The Silent Spears
  • The Skinned Men
  • The Skull Host
  • The Skullbrand Clan
  • The Slaughter Sons
  • The Slaughterhost
  • The Slavering Host
  • The Spear of the North
  • The Spear of Ulgar
  • The Stagborn
  • The Stalkers of Wyrl
  • The Stone Fists
  • The Stone Spear Tribe
  • The Stonebreakers
  • The Stonehorn Tribe
  • The Stormbreak Raiders
  • The Stormwatch of Kael
  • The Sundered Oath
  • The Sundered Shield
  • The Sunken Spears
  • The Sword Brothers of Kaal
  • The Tallowmen
  • The Tattered Banner
  • The Tempest Host
  • The Tenth Hearth
  • The Thorn Host
  • The Thorncrown

T, continued

  • The Thunder Host
  • The Thundering Moot
  • The Tide-Wolves
  • The Tusk and Tallow
  • The Tusk Brotherhood
  • The Ulfberht Brotherhood
  • The Unbowed
  • The Unburied
  • The Unchained
  • The Undaunted
  • The Unhallowed Hundred
  • The Unwashed Host
  • The Vanquished Host
  • The Vulture Host
  • The Warg Riders
  • The Whitefang Reavers
  • The Widow's Fangs
  • The Wild Hunt of Vael
  • The Wild Stag Hunt
  • The Winter Hunt
  • The Winter Reavers
  • The Wolf Brothers of Nim
  • The Wolf Spears
  • The Wolfhide Raiders
  • The Wrath of Sarrow
  • The Wrathborn
  • The Wrathful Moot
  • The Wrecking Host
  • The Wyrm Reapers
  • Thorngrim's Raiders
  • Thorns of the Bramblewood
  • Thrice-Broken Warband
  • Throatcutters of Ilm
  • Thrym's Bearsarks
  • Thunderhoof Warband
  • Thundertusk Warband
  • Torvik's Raiders
  • Tribe of the Splintered Axe
  • Tuskar's Wrath

U: 1 name

  • Ulfgar's Wolfpack

V: 7 names

  • Vandals of the Red Marsh
  • Varg's Ravagers
  • Vaskar's Bloodsworn
  • Vorgath's Ironteeth
  • Vornhild's Shield Sisters
  • Vultures of the Deep Waste
  • Vultures of the Red Waste

W: 26 names

  • Warband of the Bleeding Oak
  • Warband of the Bloody Dawn
  • Warband of the Ember Sky
  • Warband of the Iron Oath
  • Warband of the Red Hand
  • Warband of the Tusk King
  • Warband of the Weeping Moon
  • Warband of the Wyrm Hunters
  • Warchildren of Kael
  • Wardens of the Wild Hunt
  • Wardens of the Wolfmoor
  • Warhorns of Tannoc
  • Warmaidens of the Fjord
  • Warpack of the Bleeding Sun
  • Warriors of the Broken Sky
  • Warsworn of Agrath
  • Widowmakers of Brann
  • Wolfbane Warband
  • Wolfriders of the Bleak Tundra
  • Wolves of Hallorn Reach
  • Wolves of the Ashen Moor
  • Wolves of the Bitter Shore
  • Worgriders of Kresk
  • Wyrmfang Riders
  • Wyrmspawn Warband
  • Wyrmspear Raiders