Werewolf Name Generator
Werewolf and lycan names, real names that mean wolf, and names for the pack.
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This werewolf name generator makes names for werewolves and lycans, male and female, and for the packs they run with. You can have a given name with a pack surname, such as Ulric Greymane, or draw from a list of real names that mean wolf, each shown with its language and meaning.
Names That Mean Wolf
The wolf was admired as well as feared in early northern Europe, and wolf is one of the most common elements in Germanic personal names. These are all real names, and several are still given today.
| Name | Language | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Ulf | Old Norse | Wolf |
| Ylva | Swedish | She-wolf |
| Rudolf | Germanic | Famous wolf |
| Wolfgang | German | Wolf's path |
| Wulfric | Old English | Wolf power |
| Ethelwulf | Old English | Noble wolf |
| Faolan | Irish | Little wolf |
| Bleddyn | Welsh | Wolf |
| Vuk | Serbian | Wolf |
| Lowell | Norman French | Little wolf |
A name like this lets a character carry a secret in plain sight. Nobody in the village thinks twice about a man called Rudolf.
Where Werewolves Come From
The oldest well-known werewolf is Lycaon, a king of Arcadia in Greek myth. In Ovid's Metamorphoses he serves human flesh to Zeus and is turned into a wolf as punishment, and his name gives us lycanthropy. Norse myth has the great wolf Fenrir, and the sagas tell of men who put on wolf skins and take wolf shape. The belief was taken seriously well into the modern period: in 1589 a German farmer, Peter Stumpp, was tried and executed near Cologne as a werewolf. The full moon, the silver bullet and the bite that passes on the curse were mostly fixed later, by twentieth-century films.
Naming the Pack
A pack name works like a clan name. The pack names option gives three kinds: a shared surname (the Greymane Pack), a moon (Hollow Moon Pack) and a territory (Pack of the Black Pines). Give every member the pack surname and the group reads as a family at once. For the pack's rivals, see the Vampire Name Generator, and for names from Old Norse records, the Viking Name Generator.
How to Use the Werewolf Name Generator
- Choose what you need: Pick werewolf names for a character, or pack names for the group.
- Pick a name format: A given name with a pack surname, or the list of real names that mean wolf.
- Set male or female: The given names change with the choice.
- Generate and copy: Each press gives six names. Names that mean wolf show their language and meaning underneath.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are good names for a werewolf?
Names that already mean wolf are the natural choice, and many languages have them: Ulric and Wulfric in Old English, Ulf and Ylva in the Scandinavian languages, Faolan in Irish, Bleddyn in Welsh and Vuk in Serbian. A pack surname such as Greymane or Ashfang then marks the character as part of a group.
What is the difference between a werewolf and a lycan?
In folklore there is none. Lycan is short for lycanthrope, from the Greek for wolf-man, and means the same thing as werewolf. Modern fiction sometimes separates them, most often by making the lycan a werewolf who controls the change. The names work for either.
What are female werewolf names?
Ylva is Swedish for she-wolf and is still in use. Ulfhild and Wulfhild mean wolf battle, Wulfrun means wolf rune, and Lupa is the Latin word for a she-wolf. Choose Female in the generator for these and for other northern names such as Astrid and Sunniva.
How do I name a werewolf pack?
Packs are usually named for a shared mark, a moon or a territory: the Greymane Pack, Hollow Moon Pack, Pack of the Black Pines. A territory name is useful in a game because it tells players where the pack can be found.
Where does the word werewolf come from?
From Old English wer, meaning man, and wulf. It is literally man-wolf. Lycanthrope is the same idea in Greek, from lykos, wolf, and anthropos, human being.
Do real wolf packs have an alpha?
Not in the way fiction suggests. A wild wolf pack is normally a family: a breeding pair and their offspring. The idea of wolves fighting their way up to alpha status came from studies of unrelated captive wolves, and the researcher who popularised the term, David Mech, later spent years correcting it. It is still a useful structure for a story.