Witch Hunter Name Generator

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Generate witch hunter names with real period weight: Old Testament Puritan given names, hortatory virtue names like Fear-Not and Be-Steadfast, German Hexenjager, Scottish witch-prickers, Inquisition magistrates, and grimdark fantasy witchfinders with titles and epithets.

About witch hunter names

The witch hunter of fiction is a composite of three real historical figures, and each left its own naming style. The English Puritan witchfinder of the 1640s, Matthew Hopkins being the model, carried a stern Old Testament given name (Obadiah, Ezekiel, Hezekiah, Mehitabel) or a hortatory virtue name (Fear-Not, Be-Steadfast, Kill-Sin, Hopestill) attached to a plain English surname. The German Hexenkommissar of the Holy Roman Empire trials was a jurist or cleric with a heavy Germanic name like Balthasar Nuss or Friedrich Forner, and Scottish witch-prickers were tradesmen with solid Lowland surnames like Kincaid, Cockburn and Rutherford.

Fantasy witch hunters, from Warhammer's Victor Saltzpyre and Mathias Thulmann to Solomon Kane, keep that period feel but sharpen the surname: Ashpyre, Blackcandle, Gallowglass, Ironbrand. The trick is restraint. One grim element per name is enough, and the given name should stay devout and plausible, so that the character reads as a person with a profession rather than a walking stake.

This list mixes authentic seventeenth-century English, German, Scottish, Dutch, French and Spanish names with original fantasy zealots, plus titled forms (Witchfinder, Hexenjager, Pricker, Inquisitor, Brother, Goodwife) for NPC sheets and character introductions. The few historical names included are long dead and are there to anchor the tone.

How to choose witch hunter names

  • Pair a devout given name with a plain surname for a believable hunter (Obadiah Thorne, Margarethe Kluge); save the loaded surnames like Ashpyre or Gallowglass for a villain or a grimdark setting.
  • Use a hortatory Puritan name (Fear-Not Ashcombe, Hold-Firm Taverner) when you want the character's fanaticism to show before they say a word.
  • Pick the nationality to match the era: Puritan English for 1640s East Anglia or Salem, Germanic for Bamberg and Wurzburg, Scottish for witch-prickers, French or Spanish for magistrates and inquisitors.
  • A title changes how other characters address them: Witchfinder, Hexenjager, Pricker, Magister and Goodwife all imply different authority, so choose the one your setting actually has.
  • Female witch hunters work well with virtue names (Mercy, Temperance, Verity) or with severe German and Scottish forms like Walburga Drechsler and Grizel Dunbar.

Frequently asked questions

What are some famous witch hunter names?

Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled Witchfinder General, and his partner John Stearne are the best-known historical examples, along with Heinrich Kramer, Pierre de Lancre and Nicolas Remy. In fiction there are Solomon Kane, Warhammer's Victor Saltzpyre and Mathias Thulmann, and the witch hunters of The Witcher and Bloodborne.

What is a Puritan witch hunter name?

Puritans favoured Old Testament names such as Ezekiel, Josiah, Hezekiah, Keziah and Mehitabel, and some used hortatory or virtue names like Praise-God, Fear-Not, Temperance and Hopestill. Pair one with a plain seventeenth-century English surname (Crowe, Fell, Pell, Sallow) for an authentic witchfinder.

What should I name a Warhammer witch hunter?

Empire witch hunters use Germanic names with a grim edge: Victor Saltzpyre, Mathias Thulmann, Johann Hesse. Choose a heavy German given name (Konrad, Dietrich, Hieronymus) and a surname that sounds like a trade or a place (Aschenbach, Steinhauer, Drechsler), then add the Templar or Hexenjager title if your group uses it.

Can I use these names for a D&D or novel character?

Yes. Most of the names are original or drawn from public-domain historical records and naming conventions, so they are free to use for tabletop characters, fiction and games. A few canonical fantasy names are included only for reference.

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A: 43 names

  • Abednego Pike
  • Abel Marchbanks
  • Abel Ravenscar
  • Abigail Rooke
  • Abner Cardew
  • Abraham Witchell
  • Absalom Thorncastle
  • Absalom Vane
  • Adam Spottiswoode
  • Adriaen van der Vliet
  • Afra Einsiedel
  • Agnes Haliburton
  • Agnes Stallard
  • Alasdair Kincaid
  • Albrecht Fessler
  • Alexander Cockburn
  • Alice Wakeman
  • Alonso de Salazar
  • Ambrose Ashpyre
  • Ambrose Kettering
  • Amity Cardew

A, continued

  • Amos Coldharbour
  • Amos Goodwin
  • Anders Strandberg
  • Andrew Paterson
  • Andronicus Pell
  • Anna Hagenauer
  • Anne Cressey
  • Anneke de Wit
  • Anselm Drechsler
  • Anselme Ferrand
  • Anthony Wickes
  • Apollonia Vollrath
  • Aquila Drewe
  • Archelaus Rooke
  • Archibald Dunbar
  • Armand Duvallier
  • Asa Penrose
  • Asher Bramblecote
  • Augustin Vollrath
  • Avis Pigot
  • Aymeric Sauvage
  • Azariah Fellowes

B: 28 names

  • Bailiff Roger Dunstable
  • Baltasar Zuniga
  • Balthasar Nuss
  • Balthazar Gheeraerts
  • Barbara Wendeler
  • Barnabas Fell
  • Barnaby Burnett
  • Barthelemy Lescaut
  • Bartholomaus Zeidler
  • Bartholomew Sallis
  • Bartolomeo Spina
  • Bartram Nightingale
  • Barzillai Fenn
  • Bathsheba Fellowes
  • Be-Steadfast Crane
  • Beatrix Gravesend
  • Beatriz Castellanos
  • Benedetto Sarno
  • Bernhard Lutzinger
  • Bessie Ogilvie
  • Bevis Carminow
  • Boaz Renshaw
  • Bridget Colquhoun
  • Brigitta Falke
  • Brita Ekelund
  • Brother Anselm of the Burning Wheel
  • Brother Cadmus of Blackfriars
  • Brother Ignatius Rook

C: 27 names

  • Cadmus Pike
  • Caleb Ironbrand
  • Caleb Sallow
  • Captain Barnabas Crouch
  • Captain Jeremiah Goss
  • Catelijne Hoogstraten
  • Caterina Sarno
  • Catherine Sauvage
  • Catriona Kincaid
  • Cecily Rowley
  • Cesare Orsolini
  • Charity Gallowglass
  • Charity Pell
  • Christian Bannatyne
  • Christoph Einsiedel
  • Christopher Bowyer
  • Clemency Bleak
  • Clement Dessaix
  • Comfort Bligh
  • Consider Thorne
  • Constable Miles Peverell
  • Constance Greyling
  • Constance Sterne
  • Cornelis Brouwer
  • Cornelius Fenwick
  • Cornelius Lusk
  • Crispus Bellamy

D: 18 names

  • Damaris Stoke
  • Daniel Witchell
  • Deacon Silas Pomeroy
  • Deborah Harkness
  • Deliverance Hale
  • Demas Farrant
  • Denzil Rashleigh
  • Desire Wardle
  • Diego Vallecillo
  • Dietrich Hagenauer
  • Diligence Pryor
  • Dirck Hoogstraten
  • Doctor Cornelius Pickering
  • Doctor Johann Weyermann
  • Domenico Malaspina
  • Dorcas Wilding
  • Dorothea Grunewald
  • Duncan Brodie

E: 33 names

  • Ebenezer Lusk
  • Ebenezer Ravenscar
  • Edmund Rowley
  • Edward Wyndham
  • Elder Gideon Scudder
  • Elder Jonas Cordwainer
  • Eleanor Fellstone
  • Eleazar Wilding
  • Eli Thackeray
  • Elias Candlewick
  • Elias Rooke
  • Elinor Shackle
  • Eliot Gravesend
  • Eliphalet Coker
  • Elisabeth Eisenreich
  • Elkanah Pryor
  • Elspeth Rutherford
  • Enoch Carrion
  • Enoch Lattimer
  • Epaphras Vane
  • Ephraim Holloway
  • Erastus Hartshorn
  • Etienne Marchand
  • Eunice Crabtree
  • Euphame Lauder
  • Ewan Dalgleish
  • Examiner Thaddeus Blackley
  • Experience Moss
  • Ezekias Brimstone
  • Ezekiel Marsh
  • Ezekiel Pyre
  • Ezra Blackcandle
  • Ezra Hale

F: 15 names

  • Faint-Not Hewett
  • Faith Cotterell
  • Father Ambrose Wakefield
  • Father Bartholomew Kett
  • Father Lorenzo Bonacorsi
  • Fear-Not Ashcombe
  • Fearnot Sayer
  • Fergus Cranstoun
  • Fernando de Ayala
  • Fight-the-Good-Fight White
  • Flee-Sin Hallam
  • Fly-Fornication Rudd
  • Francis Colquhoun
  • Freegift Mabbe
  • Friedrich Forner

G: 24 names

  • Gamaliel Stoke
  • Gaspard Rouvier
  • Gavin Cunninghame
  • Gawain Hesketh
  • Geertruyd Brouwer
  • Geoffrey Ruddle
  • Georg Truchsess
  • Gerrit Lammers
  • Gertrud Strobel
  • Gideon Pell
  • Gideon Ropewalk
  • Giles Pettigrew
  • Girolamo Faccini
  • Godsgift Crabtree
  • Gonzalo Barrientos
  • Goodman Caleb Bartlett
  • Goodwife Prudence Corwin
  • Goody Hester Putnam
  • Gottfried Reinholt
  • Grace Candlewick
  • Grace Whitlock
  • Gregor Kleinmann
  • Grizel Dunbar
  • Guillaume Tardieu

H: 30 names

  • Hannah Gaunt
  • Hannibal Vyvyan
  • Hate-Evil Brand
  • Hector Bannatyne
  • Heinrich Kramer
  • Helene Scheer
  • Hendrick Oosterhuis
  • Henri Boguet
  • Henry Stallard
  • Hermann Feuerstein
  • Hester Crowe
  • Hester Wormwood
  • Hexenjager Bertold Krauss
  • Hexenjager Matthias Vogt
  • Hexenjager Wolfram Drexler
  • Hexenkommissar Johann Reichard
  • Hezekiah Bligh
  • Hezekiah Stormont
  • Hieronymus Falke
  • Hold-Firm Taverner
  • Honor Ravenscar
  • Honor Sallow
  • Hope Lattimer
  • Hope-Still Peedle
  • Hopestill Penrose
  • Hophni Carrow
  • Hosea Crabtree
  • Hugh Merriman
  • Humility Quill
  • Humphrey Blount

I: 16 names

  • Ichabod Hallowell
  • Ichabod Shrike
  • Ilse Brandner
  • Increase Ashby
  • Ines de Ayala
  • Inigo Uribarren
  • Inquisitor Benedetto Alighieri
  • Inquisitor Rodrigo Zapata
  • Inquisitor Tomas Ocampo
  • Isaac Ashdown
  • Isabeau Marchand
  • Isabel Tuke
  • Isaiah Quenchless
  • Ishmael Carrow
  • Isobel Dalgleish
  • Isolde Thistlewood

J: 39 names

  • Jabez Tregarron
  • Jacob Terpstra
  • Jacoba Verhoeven
  • Jakob Sprenger
  • James Kincaid
  • Jane Merriman
  • Janet Cockburn
  • Japheth Crowe
  • Jasper Rookwood
  • Jean Bodin
  • Jeanne Lescaut
  • Jedidiah Moss
  • Jemima Lusk
  • Jeremiah Blackwood
  • Jeremiah Widdershins
  • Jervis Trelawny
  • Jethro Ambler
  • Joachim Blankenhorn
  • Joan Grindle
  • Joanna Bellamy
  • Joel Harkness
  • Johann Eisenreich
  • Johann Hesse
  • John Shackle
  • John Stearne
  • Jonah Stakewright
  • Jonas Hexbane
  • Jonas Wardle
  • Joost Verhoeven
  • Joshua Fellstone
  • Josiah Crowe
  • Josiah Whitlock
  • Josias Wormwood
  • Jotham Pendle
  • Juana Barrientos
  • Jubal Stoke
  • Jude Gallowglass
  • Judith Stroud
  • Justice Humphrey Starkie

K: 9 names

  • Karin Strandberg
  • Kaspar Wendeler
  • Katharina Steinhauer
  • Katherine Dimmock
  • Keziah Wardle
  • Kill-Sin Pimble
  • Knight-Examiner Osric Lyle
  • Konrad Aschenbach
  • Kunigunde Roderer

L: 23 names

  • Lamentation Chapman
  • Lancelot Bagshawe
  • Lars Hedstrom
  • Lavinia Severance
  • Lawrence Pigot
  • Lazarus Brand
  • Lemuel Hardcastle
  • Lemuel Tallow
  • Leonhard Scheer
  • Levi Hartshorn
  • Lieven de Kuyper
  • Lois Coker
  • Lope de Mendieta
  • Lorenz Steinhauer
  • Lorenzo Cavalca
  • Lovewell Hale
  • Lucius Crabtree
  • Lucius Fairweather
  • Lucrezia Faccini
  • Ludovico Tasca
  • Ludwig Schwarzkopf
  • Lydia Kettering
  • Lysbeth Terpstra

M: 39 names

  • Maarten de Wit
  • Magdalena Vosshardt
  • Magister Hieronymus Tannhauser
  • Magister Konrad Weissgerber
  • Magistrate Nicolas Chauvet
  • Magistrate Walter Ingoldsby
  • Make-Peace Heaton
  • Malachi Drewe
  • Malachi Frostmere
  • Margaret Cunninghame
  • Margarethe Kluge
  • Margery Fawcett
  • Marguerite Duvallier
  • Marian Wickes
  • Marion Brodie
  • Maritgen Schoonhoven
  • Marshal Abel Darkmoor
  • Martha Bracewell
  • Mary Thackeray
  • Master Hugh Carew
  • Mathias Thulmann
  • Mathurin Veillard
  • Matthew Hopkins
  • Matthias Cutler
  • Matthias Ulbrecht
  • Mattias Ekelund
  • Mehitabel Spurling
  • Melchior Strobel
  • Mercy Blackwood
  • Mercy Ironbrand
  • Meshach Penhallow
  • Micah Ravenhill
  • Micah Wrexham
  • Miles Tandy
  • Mindwell Lattimer
  • Miriam Tallis
  • Mordecai Spurling
  • Morwenna Frostmere
  • Mungo Haliburton

N: 11 names

  • Nahum Tallis
  • Nathan Greyling
  • Nathanael Tallis
  • Nathaniel Harrowgate
  • Nehemiah Stroud
  • Nicanor Fellowes
  • Nicholas Frayne
  • Nicodemus Bleak
  • Nicolas Remy
  • Nils Lindqvist
  • Ninian Lauder

O: 12 names

  • Obadiah Thorne
  • Obed Farrant
  • Obedience Penhallow
  • Oliver Dimmock
  • Onesimus Marsh
  • Orsola Grimani
  • Osric Gaunt
  • Oswald Severance
  • Ottavio Grimani
  • Ottilie Lutzinger
  • Otto Brandtner
  • Ozias Blackthorn

P: 23 names

  • Paolo Grillandi
  • Patience Darkwater
  • Patience Goodwin
  • Patience Harrow
  • Patrick Ogilvie
  • Perrine Rouvier
  • Philemon Sterne
  • Philipp Grunewald
  • Philippa Sallis
  • Phineas Gaunt
  • Phineas Grimm
  • Phoebe Farrant
  • Pierre de Lancre
  • Piers Woolmer
  • Pieter van Aelst
  • Praise-God Barebone
  • Pricker Andro Balfour
  • Pricker John Kincaid
  • Pricker Tam Lockhart
  • Priscilla Mallory
  • Provost Ulrich Zimmer
  • Prudence Ashcombe
  • Prudence Ashpyre

R: 22 names

  • Rachel Ambler
  • Ralph Knevett
  • Raoul Brissac
  • Rebecca Penrose
  • Regina Hollinger
  • Remember Fenwick
  • Repentance Tompson
  • Return Oakes
  • Reuben Sayer
  • Reverend Amos Tillinghast
  • Reverend Ezekiel Cheever
  • Reverend Nathaniel Bosworth
  • Richard Fawcett
  • Robert Baillie
  • Robert Grindle
  • Rodrigo Castellanos
  • Roger Askew
  • Rosamund Shrike
  • Rowland Godolphin
  • Rudolf Wachtel
  • Rufus Ashmole
  • Rufus Harkness

S: 28 names

  • Sabina Harrowell
  • Salathiel Grimm
  • Sampson Treffry
  • Sarah Hartshorn
  • Search-the-Scriptures Kemp
  • Sebastian Kluge
  • Sebastian Ortuno
  • Sergeant Jasper Hollins
  • Seth Mallory
  • Shadrach Hale
  • Sibylla Truchsess
  • Sidonie Tardieu
  • Silas Cotterell
  • Silas Mourne
  • Silence Drewe
  • Silvanus Bracewell
  • Simeon Bracewell
  • Simeon Darkwater
  • Sister Mercy Thorne
  • Sister Temperance of Whitby
  • Solomon Kane
  • Solomon Pryor
  • Sorry-for-Sin Coupard
  • Stand-Fast Lockyer
  • Stephanas Coker
  • Stephen Gosling
  • Submit Bligh
  • Susannah Fell

T: 22 names

  • Tabitha Carrow
  • Tam Rutherford
  • Temperance Coldharbour
  • Temperance Vale
  • Templar Gunther Hartwig
  • Templar Lucas Vane
  • Tertius Wilding
  • Thaddeus Quill
  • Thaddeus Wyck
  • Thankful Kettering
  • Thankful Sayer
  • Theodor Ammann
  • Theodosia Wyck
  • Theophilus Gaunt
  • Thibault Corbeau
  • Thomas Wakeman
  • Tobias Sterne
  • Tobias Thistlewood
  • Tomas Ibarra
  • Tristram Pelham
  • Truth Wrexham
  • Tychicus Stoke

U: 6 names

  • Ulrich Brandner
  • Ulrich Fischer
  • Unity Harkness
  • Uriah Penhallow
  • Ursula Pettigrew
  • Ursula Reinholt

V: 7 names

  • Valentin Roderer
  • Veit Hollinger
  • Verity Blackcandle
  • Verity Marsh
  • Veronika Fessler
  • Victor Saltzpyre
  • Vincenzo Acerbi

W: 19 names

  • Wait Stroud
  • Waitstill Marchbanks
  • Walburga Drechsler
  • Walter Cressey
  • Walter Veitch
  • Warden Lazarus Gleave
  • Weep-Not Billing
  • Welcome Moss
  • Wilhelmina Thorncastle
  • Willem Schoonhoven
  • William Tuke
  • Winifred Askew
  • Witchfinder Amos Threlkeld
  • Witchfinder Elias Pargeter
  • Witchfinder General Obadiah Crane
  • Witchfinder Jeremiah Loveday
  • Witness-Taker Eleazar Bunce
  • Wolfram Kessler
  • Wrestling Brewster

Z: 6 names

  • Zachariah Grimshaw
  • Zadok Bellamy
  • Zeal Tallis
  • Zebedee Holloway
  • Zebulon Harrowell
  • Zipporah Renshaw