Royal Name Generator

Royal names and their royal origins

Make way for the king and queen! The “royal family” are the characters at the top of the heap—which means they’ll need names denoting their aristocratic lineage and exceptional status in your world’s social hierarchy.

In tabletop games, fiction, and mythology, royal characters have a history going back to chess, the Middle Ages, and even beyond ancient Rome, where the word “Caesar” became synonymous with imperial rule.

What’s in a royal name

Royal names often follow the first-last conventions we associate with British or Norse history, with Norse naming conventions like “-son” denoting family lineage. For exceptional (or exceptionally bad) rulers, a mononym + epithet is common, as in “Richard the Lionheart” or “Alexander the Great.”

Royal names: Decoded

Royal names are all about family history and deeds; in Western Europe, names like “Louis” and “Edward” can be found littered throughout royal genealogies. But if you’re building a human royal name for a fantasy setting, don’t forget how epithets can develop and encapsulate their bearers.

Step into the royal court and discover your regal identity. Use our royal name generator to find a name that echoes through the halls of palaces and the annals of your character's aristocratic lineage.

List of royal names

From Edward and Elizabeth to Louis to the -hito suffix in Japan, you can often expect royal names and segments to repeat themselves. But you can also draw on this list of true-to-life and fictional royal names to find inspiration for the royalty you want to name in your own story or tabletop game.