Tiefling Name Generator

The Tiefling Name Generator hands you one to ten names for a tiefling character in Dungeons & Dragons. You choose a category, male, female, virtue or last name, or leave it on Random to mix them, and each press gives you a fresh set drawn from a list of 753 names. It is meant for players rolling up a new character, DMs who need a tiefling NPC on the spot, and writers working in a D&D-flavored setting.

Options on the form

There are two controls. The number box accepts 1 to 10 and defaults to 5. The Gender dropdown is really a category picker with five choices:

• Random pulls from the whole list, so you may get an infernal given name, a virtue and a surname side by side.
• Male gives infernal-style given names (216 in the list): Akmir, Criono, Nephrus, Therai, Barmir.
• Female gives 222 infernal-style given names: Agnecyra, Aniloth, Hislaia, Mislies, Rieta, Yulista.
• Virtue gives 115 abstract nouns and adjectives that tieflings adopt as names: Acceptance, Courage, Despair, Ennui, Forgiveness, Tragedy.
• Last Name gives 200 surnames such as Allaway, Brooten, El Abbadi, Hamade, Runyon and Tingle.

Results are shuffled before they are cut to your number, so a single batch has no duplicates. Each name appears on its own card, and a few of the male and female entries already include a surname, such as Ralxus Eleftheriou.

How tiefling names work in D&D

The Player's Handbook describes three naming traditions for tieflings, and the categories on this page map onto them.

Infernal names come from the tiefling's fiendish bloodline. They are heavy on hard consonants and drawn-out vowels, with a Latin or Greek feel: the handbook's own examples are Akmenos, Amnon, Damakos and Mordai for men and Akta, Bryseis, Criella and Orianna for women. Our male and female lists follow the same pattern, which is why they sound harsher than a human name from the same town.

Human names are what tieflings raised among humans usually carry, and the surname list gives you that half. Combine an infernal given name with an everyday surname and you get a character whose name tells a story on its own: Therai Runyon grew up somewhere ordinary.

Virtue names are the most distinctive tiefling custom. Some tieflings, especially younger ones trying to prove they are more than their ancestry, take an idea as their name: Hope, Glory, Torment, Reverence. The handbook lists Art, Carrion, Despair, Ideal, Music and Poetry among others. Our virtue list leans into the same idea and includes plenty of darker choices, Cowardice, Dread, Envy and Hatred, because a tiefling who names themselves after a flaw is often more interesting than one named Courage.

Ways to use the names

• Building a player character. Roll five in one gender, pick the one you can pronounce at the table, then roll a surname if your backstory has the character raised by humans.
• Quick NPCs. A DM who needs a tiefling shopkeeper mid-session can pull one virtue name and move on. Virtue names are also easy for players to remember.
• Family trees. Use Last Name once to fix the family, then generate a handful of male and female first names for siblings and parents.
• Other fantasy races. If you are filling a whole party, the Gnome Name Generator and Medieval Name Generator cover the small folk and the humans, and the Random God Name Generator is handy when a warlock patron or cleric deity needs a name.

For names from other worlds entirely, try the Elden Ring Name Generator or the Witch Name Generator, and browse all name generators for the rest.

Sample output