Noble House Name Generator

How noble house names are built

A noble house has three names that matter. The family name (House Aldric) is the one people say. The seat is where the family lives or the lands it holds (of Greyhaven), and it often ends up used as a title. The family words are a short motto that members say at weddings and funerals, such as Hold the Line. Together they sound like a coat of arms. Some houses are named for a founder and some for a place, and the older the house, the more likely the two are the same word.

Keeping noble houses consistent

Give every house a banner, a colour and a set of words that fit its name, and let one of the three tell something about its history. A house with the words Ever Watchful holds a border. A house with Salt and Iron once held a port and a forge. Let the older houses keep short, plain names, and let newer ones take longer, grander titles. Track which families are allied or at feud, because similar names are easy to mix up in a crowded chapter. And decide whether a house name can pass through marriage or whether it ends when the last son dies.

Twenty example noble house names

• House Aldric of Greyhaven an old seafaring family on a rocky coast.
• House Brakmund, Hold the Line border lords with a stern motto.
• House Calavar of the Silver Tower scholar nobles with an observatory.
• House Tarnholm a northern house that keeps its own council.
• The Lords of Ashbourne a seat so old that the family name is lost.
• House Sevarion, Ever Watchful spies and ambassadors with long memories.
• House Mirenor of Wickfield wealthy farmers who bought their title.
• House Kordheim of the Black Keep a martial house that trains its heirs hard.
• House Elorenne a soft-spoken court family with steel behind it.
• House Vandrel, Ours by Right a claimant house with a long grievance.
• House Orsendal of Saltmarsh port nobles who tax every barge.
• The Wardens of Highmoor keepers of a mountain pass for centuries.
• House Dunwick, From Ash We Rise a house that lost everything once.
• House Thalmund of the Golden Gate masters of a trade road.
• House Velden the youngest of the great houses.
• House Hartley of Greywater cautious nobles with a famous cellar.
• House Ulvarin, Salt and Iron smiths and sailors with a shared crest.
• House Marrowby of the Hollow Hold a quiet house with a bad reputation.
• The Stewards of Belmere regents who hold a seat for an absent king.
• House Rasketh, Never Forgotten a family that keeps a book of debts.