Weapon Shop Name Generator

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Generate weapon shop names for tabletop towns, video game stores and fantasy novels: sign-style names like The Whetted Edge, proprietor names like Hadrick Vane, Bladesmith, plus armories, fletchers, gunsmiths and sci-fi weapon depots.

About weapon shop names

A weapon shop in a fantasy town is named the way real medieval trades were. The most common form is the hanging sign: customers who could not read found the shop by its painted board, which is why so many armories are called The Crossed Blades, The Notched Axe or The Quiet Quiver. The second form is the owner and the trade, as in Hadrick Vane, Bladesmith or Thistlewood & Daughters, Bowyers, which says at once that the place is old, family-run and proud of its work. The third is a place name plus a trade word (Ironvale Arms, Northgate Arsenal), which suits a larger outfitter supplying a garrison rather than one adventurer.

The trade words carry real distinctions. A bladesmith forges blades, a cutler finishes and sells them, a bowyer makes bows, a fletcher makes arrows, an armourer works plate and mail, and an arsenal or armory stores arms for a fighting force. Gunsmiths and powder sellers belong to later eras and fit steampunk, Western or modern game settings; plasma, railgun and orbital depots are the sci-fi equivalent.

The list covers all of these, plus dwarven, elven and orcish smithies, dark-alley dagger dealers, second-hand steel resellers, siege-engine yards and pun names for lighter campaigns, so you can stock a whole market street or name the one store your players keep returning to.

How to choose weapon shop names

  • Match the name to the customer: The Sellsword's Friend or Rogue's Rack suits an adventurer town, while Northgate Arsenal or Quartermaster's Stores suits a city that equips soldiers.
  • Use the trade word correctly; a shop called a fletchery that sells swords will bother players who know the difference, but a general Arms & Armour sign covers everything.
  • Give the proprietor a name and a specialty (Ysolde Kett, Knifemaker) so the shop becomes an NPC hook instead of a menu screen.
  • Sign-style names (The Bent Pommel, The Rusted Buckler) hint at a story: let the broken or rusted object on the sign have a history the owner will tell for a drink.
  • For a video game shop, keep it to two or three words that fit a map label and a storefront sign, and avoid apostrophes that break in UI fonts.

Frequently asked questions

What is a good name for a weapon shop in D&D?

Pick one of the three classic forms: a sign name like The Whetted Edge, an owner-and-trade name like Marrick Holt, Swordwright, or a place-and-trade name like Blackwater Armory. Owner names give the DM a ready-made NPC; sign names work best when the sign itself is memorable.

What's the difference between an armory, an arsenal and a smithy?

A smithy is where weapons are forged, an armory is where they are stored or sold, and an arsenal originally meant a large state-owned store or workshop for military arms. In fantasy shop names they are used loosely, but the words still set the scale: a smithy is one craftsman, an arsenal is an institution.

Do these names work for gun stores or sci-fi weapon shops?

Yes. Alongside the medieval and fantasy names the list includes gunsmith and powder-era names (Flintlock and Fuse, Brass and Powder Outfitters), modern tactical names (Hardpoint Arms, Caliber and Company) and futuristic ones (Railgun Row, Orbital Arms Depot) for cyberpunk, space opera and wasteland settings.

Can I use one of these names for a real business?

The names here are original and free to use, but check trademarks and business registries in your region before putting one on a storefront, since generic phrases like Arms and Armour are likely already in use somewhere.

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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: 14 names

  • A Cut Above Arms
  • Adventurer's Supply Weapons
  • Aldous Marchbanks, Armourer
  • Angel's Blade Co.
  • Anvil Song Weapons
  • Anvilborn Arms
  • Arcane Arms
  • Arms Akimbo
  • Ashfall Forge
  • Ashford Steelworks
  • Ashwood Arrows
  • Assassin's Alley Arms
  • Aurelio Mancini, Rapiers and Main-Gauches
  • Axe Me Anything

B: 35 names

  • Back Alley Arms
  • Ballistic Bay
  • Bargain Blades
  • Bartholomew Grell, Cutler
  • Basilisk Eye Arms
  • Bastion Blades
  • Battlefield Pickings
  • Battlement Arms
  • Bazaar Blades
  • Bearclaw Arms
  • Bellows and Blade
  • Bessa Rook, Daggers and Dirks
  • Black Mamba Arms
  • Black Silk Knives
  • Blackthorn Weaponworks
  • Blackwater Armory
  • Blade of Glory
  • Blade of the East
  • Blades by the Pound
  • Bloodfang Arms
  • Blunderbuss and Bore
  • Boarhide Armory
  • Bodkin's
  • Bonebreaker Forge
  • Boomstick Supply
  • Brass and Powder Outfitters
  • Breech and Barrel
  • Brightwater Blades
  • Broadhead Archery Supply
  • Brokk and Sindri, Smiths
  • Brother Anselm's Maces and Staves
  • Buccaneer Blades
  • Bull's Eye Bowyers
  • Bulwark Arms
  • Burr and Bevel

C: 23 names

  • Caliber and Company
  • Campaign Supply Co.
  • Captain Moll's Cutlasses
  • Celestial Steel
  • Champion's Blades
  • Chimera Arms
  • Cinder and Edge
  • Circuit Steel
  • Citadel Arsenal
  • Cleric's Corner Weapons
  • Coal and Cleaver
  • Coldharbour Steel
  • Cormac Dunbar, Blade Dealer
  • Corsair Arms
  • Corwin Blackbriar, Armsmith
  • Crossroads Armory
  • Crowfeather Fletchery
  • Crown and Sword Armory
  • Crucible Arms
  • Crusader Weapons
  • Cut and Thrust
  • Cutthroat Cutlery
  • Cutting Remarks

D: 21 names

  • Damask and Dirk
  • Dark Lantern Arms
  • Dawnblade Company
  • Dead Center Archery
  • Deephold Dwarven Arms
  • Desert Steel
  • Discount Daggers
  • Dock Street Weapons
  • Dockside Daggers
  • Dorrin Halfhand's Second Chances
  • Dragonbone Arms
  • Dragonslayer Supply
  • Drake's Tooth Forge
  • Drakescale Armory
  • Drakewater Blades
  • Drawbridge Weapons
  • Duke's Road Weaponry
  • Dull No More
  • Dunmore & Pike, Polearms
  • Duskhollow Forge
  • Dwarfhold Blades

E: 9 names

  • Eastwind Arms
  • Ebenezer Quill, Bladesmith to the Guard
  • Edge of Reason
  • Eldritch Arms
  • Elvenwood Fletchery
  • Ember Wyrm Arsenal
  • Eversharp Elven Blades
  • Exorcist Arms
  • Exotic Arms Emporium

F: 13 names

  • Far Shore Weapons
  • Feathered Shaft Archery
  • Ferris & Hale, Fletchers
  • Feywild Edge
  • Firedrake Blades
  • Flight and Fletch
  • Flintlock and Fuse
  • Foreign Steel Imports
  • Forge Ahead
  • Foxglove Armory
  • Frostbite Weapons
  • Frostforge Blades
  • Fuller and Forte

G: 18 names

  • Garrison Arms
  • Gemcutter's Daggers
  • Gently Used Arms
  • Glimmerwood Bows
  • Glyph and Edge
  • Goblin Market Arms
  • Goldbeard's Fine Steel
  • Grandfather Orrin's Forge
  • Grandmother Ysk's Cleavers and Hooks
  • Gretchen Ironhollow, Axewright
  • Greyhaven Arms
  • Griffin Claw Weapons
  • Griffin's Talon Armory
  • Grimsby & Sons, Armourers
  • Gromnak's Cleavers
  • Guild Hall Weapons
  • Gunpowder Row
  • Gutripper Blades

H: 19 names

  • Hadrick Vane, Bladesmith
  • Halberd and Half
  • Hammerdeep Forge
  • Harbor Armory
  • Hardpoint Arms
  • Harlan & Fitch, Gunsmiths
  • Harrowgate Armory
  • Hawkeye Bowcraft
  • Hawkridge Blades
  • Hearthfire Weapons
  • Hero's Edge
  • Hexblade Supply
  • Highcastle Armory
  • Hilt and Run
  • Hob Tanner's Weapon Stall
  • Holy Water and Hammers
  • Hrothgar Bellows, Smith to the Watch
  • Hydra Head Blades
  • Hyperion Arms

I: 6 names

  • Icewind Arms
  • Ion Edge Weapons
  • Ironfoot Axes
  • Ironjaw Weaponry
  • Ironsights Supply
  • Ironvale Arms

J: 1 name

  • Jade Edge Weapons

K: 9 names

  • Keep and Sword
  • Kendrick Ashby & Nephews
  • Khaz-Durn Weaponsmiths
  • Kingsbridge Blades
  • Knight's Rest Armory
  • Knives for the Road
  • Knives Out Outfitters
  • Knock and Loose
  • Kobold Knives

L: 14 names

  • Lady Ashcombe's Dueling Pistols
  • Laser Line Arms
  • Leafsong Weapons
  • Legend's Forge Weapons
  • Lioba Vesk, Daggers Made to Measure
  • Lionsgate Armory
  • Lock Stock and Barrel Arms
  • Long Gun Depot
  • Longbow Lane
  • Longhouse Arms
  • Longship Blades
  • Loot and Lance
  • Lord Hale's Arms
  • Lucan Brightwater, Swordsmith

M: 20 names

  • Maces Wild
  • Mana Forge Weapons
  • Manticore Steel
  • Margery Stane, Swordsmith, Est. the Year of the Flood
  • Mariner's Weapons
  • Market Square Weapons
  • Marrick Holt, Swordwright
  • Matchlock Arms
  • Mech Bay Arms
  • Meg Thornley, She Sharpens Anything
  • Merchant's Arms
  • Midnight Cutlery
  • Mistress Velda's Edges
  • Mithral Deep Outfitters
  • Molten Edge Smithy
  • Moonforged
  • Moonwhisper Bows
  • Mother Hestia's Knives
  • Muster and Arms
  • Muzzleflash Armory

N: 5 names

  • Nan Ketteridge, Knives and Shears
  • Nightshade Armory
  • No Questions Asked Arms
  • Northern Steel
  • Northgate Arsenal

O: 13 names

  • Oakenshaw Weapons
  • Oasis Armory
  • Oathkeeper Arms
  • Ogre's Haft
  • Old Hexham's Pike Yard
  • Old Ivo's Second-Hand Steel
  • Old Tam's Arms
  • Orbital Arms Depot
  • Orcish Iron
  • Ordnance Outlet
  • Oreheart Weaponry
  • Outfitters of War
  • Owl's Beak Blades

P: 20 names

  • Paladin's Choice Arms
  • Party Outfitters
  • Pawn and Pommel
  • Pell & Cadogan, Makers of Edged Tools
  • Percussion Cap Supply
  • Petra Valdane, Weaponsmith
  • Petrov & Sons, Armourers to the Boyars
  • Phoenix Feather Arms
  • Photon Forge
  • Pilgrim's Steel
  • Pinpoint Arrows
  • Pistol and Powderhorn
  • Plasma and Pike
  • Plunder Arms
  • Point Taken
  • Poisoner's Row Arms
  • Port Royal Arms
  • Portcullis Armory
  • Pre-Owned Blades
  • Privateer's Supply

Q: 5 names

  • Quantum Quiver
  • Quartermaster's Stores
  • Quench and Quillon
  • Quest Ready Arms
  • Quick Quills and Quarrels

R: 19 names

  • Raider's Rack
  • Railgun Row
  • Rampart Armory
  • Ravenmoor Arms
  • Red Sand Arms
  • Redcliff Arsenal
  • Redfist Blades
  • Redline Tactical Supply
  • Reef Knot Arms
  • Rent-a-Rapier
  • Rifling Co.
  • Roadside Arms
  • Roderic Thorne, Sword Merchant
  • Rogue's Rack
  • Rosamund Ferrier, Chains and Flails
  • Royal Armory of the Second Street
  • Runeaxe Armory
  • Runeblade Emporium
  • Rust Belt Weapons

S: 50 names

  • Saint's Edge Arms
  • Saltmarsh Armory
  • Saltwater Steel
  • Salvaged Steel
  • Sanctified Steel
  • Scale and Talon Weapons
  • Scimitar Row
  • Scorpion Tail Arms
  • Scrap and Steel
  • Scrapyard Steel
  • Sea Dog Arms
  • Second Sword Resale
  • Sentinel Steel
  • Serpent's Coil Arms
  • Seven Swords Imports
  • Sharp Practice
  • Shot and Shell
  • Sigil Steel
  • Silas Wrenfield, Arms & Armor
  • Silk Road Arms
  • Silver Bullet Supply
  • Silverleaf Archery
  • Silverpine Weaponry
  • Sister Ignatia's Holy Hammers
  • Skullsplitter Weapons

S, continued

  • Slag and Steel
  • Smuggler's Steel
  • Sold As Seen Swords
  • Souk Steel
  • Sparkshower Forge
  • Spear Pressure
  • Spellforged Arms
  • Spoils of War Resale
  • Squire's Supply
  • Stab in the Dark
  • Stagshead Weapons
  • Stake and Sword
  • Starlight Blades
  • Starmetal Blades
  • Steel Before Supper
  • Stonebeard Brothers Weaponry
  • Stonebridge Blades
  • Stormcrest Weaponry
  • Stormforged Arms
  • Sunderfell Arsenal
  • Sunforged Arms
  • Sunspear Arms
  • Swift Flight Fletchers
  • Sword Decisions
  • Sylvan Steel

T: 155 names

  • Tamahagane Blades
  • Tansy Thornbury, Bows Strung While You Wait
  • Temper and Tang
  • Templar Steel
  • The Adventurer's Edge
  • The Anvil and Eagle
  • The Armory at Wren's Gate
  • The Armourer's Yard
  • The Arms Merchant
  • The Arrowhead
  • The Axe and Ember
  • The Axe Rack
  • The Bargain Bin Bowyer
  • The Baron's Arsenal
  • The Bent Pommel
  • The Black Anvil
  • The Blade and Bramble
  • The Bladesmith's Corner
  • The Blessed Blade
  • The Blunt Instrument
  • The Boarding Axe
  • The Bow and Bodkin
  • The Bowyer's Bench
  • The Bright Steel
  • The Broken Haft
  • The Budget Armory
  • The Bunker Armory
  • The Burnt Glove
  • The Caravan Armory
  • The Chapel Armory
  • The Cloaked Stiletto
  • The Cold Anvil
  • The Cold Steel
  • The Cracked Bell Armory
  • The Crooked Scabbard
  • The Crossbow Corner
  • The Crossed Blades
  • The Cutlass and Cask

T, continued

  • The Cutler's Guildhouse
  • The Dagger and Dice
  • The Dagger Den
  • The Dented Helm
  • The Dirk and Dove
  • The Dragon's Hoard Armory
  • The Drawn Steel
  • The Drawstring
  • The Drunken Fletcher
  • The Dungeoneer's Kit
  • The Enchanted Edge
  • The Enchanter's Rack
  • The Expedition Armory
  • The Fence's Friend
  • The Field Armory
  • The Flail and Feather
  • The Fletcher's Row
  • The Forge Door
  • The Fur and Falchion
  • The Garrote Shop
  • The Gilded Gauntlet
  • The Glaive and Gull
  • The Greenwood Bowyer
  • The Grindstone
  • The Gunsmith's Bench
  • The Hammer and Tongs
  • The Hammerfall
  • The Hanging Halberd
  • The Hatchling's Edge
  • The Hilt and Hound
  • The Honest Blade
  • The Honest Ferrier
  • The Hooded Hilt
  • The Hungry Whetstone
  • The Iron Quillon
  • The Katana House
  • The Keen Edge Co.
  • The Keen Falchion
  • The King's Arms Purveyors

T, continued

  • The Kris and Kukri
  • The Lance and Lantern
  • The Last Blade
  • The Last Nail
  • The Lead Locker
  • The Leaning Spear
  • The Loyal Blade
  • The Mace and Mantle
  • The Mercenary's Market
  • The Musket Loft
  • The Neon Armory
  • The Ninth Arrow
  • The Notched Axe
  • The Old Arsenal
  • The One-Eyed Archer
  • The Pike and Partridge
  • The Pointy End
  • The Polearm Loft
  • The Powder Keg
  • The Queen's Blade Company
  • The Quiet Quiver
  • The Quiver Tree
  • The Red Forge
  • The Regiment's Outfitter
  • The Reliquary Forge
  • The Rusted Buckler
  • The Rusty Rack
  • The Scabbard
  • The Scavenger's Edge
  • The Sellsword's Friend
  • The Serpent's Fang
  • The Seven Hammers
  • The Shadow's Edge
  • The Sharpening Stone
  • The Sharper Sister
  • The Shield Wall Supply
  • The Silent Blade
  • The Sleeping Hound Armory
  • The Sling and Stone

T, continued

  • The Sly Blade
  • The Soldier's Rest Armory
  • The Sorcerer's Steel
  • The Spear and Sparrow
  • The Split Tankard Arms
  • The Stropping Post
  • The Strung Bow
  • The Sundered Shield
  • The Sword and Stone
  • The Swordwright's Hall
  • The Synth Blade
  • The Targe and Thistle
  • The Tempered Blade
  • The Three Nails
  • The Treasure Trove Armory
  • The Twins Varga, Sabreurs
  • The Vampire Hunter's Kit
  • The Velvet Dagger
  • The Veteran's Rack
  • The Whetted Edge
  • The Widow Marbury's Armory
  • The Widow's Edge
  • The Windlass Crossbow Co.
  • The Wizard's Armory
  • Thieves' Tools and Blades
  • Thistlewood & Daughters, Bowyers
  • Thorin Coalhand's Weaponworks
  • Thornwall Arsenal
  • Thornweave Weapons
  • Tinker Jory's Blades and Oddments
  • Tobias Sallow, Purveyor of Fine Arms
  • Torvald the Bent, Axes
  • Trader's Steel
  • Traveler's Blade
  • Treesinger Arms
  • Triggerstone Tactical
  • Troll Bridge Weapons
  • True Aim Archery
  • Tuskgrinder Arms

U: 3 names

  • Ulfric Stoneaxe Weaponry
  • Ulla Greycloak, Spears for the Watch
  • Underhill Arms

V: 5 names

  • Vanguard Arms
  • Viper Blades
  • Voidsteel Weapons
  • Voltaic Weapons
  • Vow and Steel

W: 19 names

  • Warg Tooth Armory
  • Warlock's Weaponry
  • Wasteland Arms
  • Wat Halloran's Steel on Credit
  • Watchtower Weapons
  • Wayfarer's Weapons
  • Waystone Weapons
  • Whetstone & Oil
  • Whisper Blades
  • Windrunner Archery
  • Winterfall Forge
  • Wolfden Weaponry
  • Wolfpelt Weapons
  • Wolfsbane Weapons
  • Wolstan Crane, Master Bowyer
  • Wootz Steel Imports
  • Wyrmfire Forge
  • Wyrmtooth Weaponry
  • Wyvern Spur Weapons

Y: 3 names

  • Yew and Sinew
  • Yorick Pell, Maker of Siege Engines
  • Ysolde Kett, Knifemaker

Z: 1 name

  • Zero-G Arms