Dragon Name Generator

How dragon names are usually built

Dragon names borrow the sound of fire and stone: long vowels, hard openings and a rolling second half. Common shapes are a short, sharp first syllable (Vhar, Zor, Kra) followed by a heavier tail (-axis, -ormir, -athor). The double stress gives the name a roar and a trailing echo, which suits a creature that is both threat and monument.

The other half of a dragon's identity is the epithet. A name tells you what to call it; a title tells you what it did. Ashen, Patient, Unbroken and Hollow turn a name into a warning, and a place attached to it, such as of Cinder Peak, turns it into a landmark.

Making dragon names feel like one lineage

Decide who names a dragon and in which language. If dragons name themselves in their own tongue, keep a small shared vocabulary so that kin sound alike, for example every fire-wyrm ending in -ax and every sea-wyrm in -uun. If humans name them, the names should sound human, usually as a title: the Ashen One, the Warden of the Pass. Keep true names and common names distinct, so that knowing the true name is a plot tool. Then hold to the rule: a dragon whose true name gives power over it cannot be addressed casually by every minor character.

Twenty example dragon names

• Vharaxis a huge fire dragon with a seat on a mountain.
• Zorgoth the kind of name a village whispers.
• Krathyx a quick, sharp younger dragon.
• Ignathar the Patient a dragon that has waited a thousand years.
• Syrrakoth a hissing name for a sea-wyrm.
• Draveth the Ashen grey-scaled, with a ruined city under its wings.
• Morulax a cave-dweller that hoards books.
• Ossimir a bone-white elder that speaks in riddles.
• Vaelthrax a storm dragon that rides lightning.
• Xanuun a name that sounds like a distant bell.
• Ryngoroth a heavy name for a siege-breaker.
• Skathul a thieving dragon, short and sly.
• Urzaroth the Hollow a dragon with a bitter reason for its title.
• Tyrruvax a warlike bronze dragon that serves a king.
• Havormir a gentle elder that guards a pass.
• Gorathyx a volcanic brute.
• Nyssarax, Warden of Ashfall a guardian with a place to hold.
• Vyrmathor a vast name for a dragon that is more legend than animal.
• Kezethis a trickster whose name hides a sibilant laugh.
• Ulgrathis, Scourge of the Broken Spine a war-name for a dragon that has burned an army.