Caveman Name Generator

One press names a Stone Age character and hands them a real tool or animal of the Ice Age.

Caveman Name Generator: 20 caveman names

Wabbu Fire-Keeper, keeper of the saiga.

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  • NameWabbu
  • BynameFire-Keeper
  • Keepssaiga
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    1. Wabbu Fire-Keeper, keeper of the saiga.
    2. Vabbu Berry-Finder, keeper of the woolly rhinoceros.
    3. Yorghmu Hide-Scraper, keeper of the spear-thrower.
    4. Vughno Counts-the-Moons, keeper of the bow drill.
    5. Chugru Sleeps-Late, keeper of the microlith.
    6. Gribbu Burnt-Thumb, keeper of the aurochs.
    7. Yorghmu Spark-Maker, keeper of the hearth.
    8. Dromba Big-Laugh, keeper of the stone blade.
    9. Skonna Tooth-Necklace, keeper of the spear-thrower.
    10. Kegru River-Wader, keeper of the saiga.
    11. Gruthka Burnt-Thumb, keeper of the bone flute.
    12. Vothru Far-Shouter, keeper of the hand axe.
    13. Hrumba Fire-Keeper, keeper of the chert.
    14. Wughda Woke-the-Bear, keeper of the quern-stone.
    15. Othbu Flint-Hand, keeper of the steppe bison.
    16. Athku Cloud-Namer, keeper of the flint.
    17. Hrumba Hill-Climber, keeper of the mammoth.
    18. Wabbu Never-Cold, keeper of the antler.
    19. Brughno Hears-the-Herd, keeper of the bone needle.
    20. Fundru Hears-the-Herd, keeper of the cave hyena.

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    How it works

    This caveman name generator makes a Stone Age character for a story or a class play, as in "Nughra Burnt-Thumb, keeper of the bone flute." The names are invented; the things they keep are real.

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    Name, byname, keeper

    Press New caveman name. Lock a name such as Klumma and press until the byname fits, Far-Shouter or Hears-the-Herd; or lock the hand axe and press for everyone who has ever kept it.

    The things are real

    The last part is a tool, a material or an animal that people of the Stone Age knew: ochre, a spear-thrower, the cave bear, the aurochs. The list under the tool gives one line on each from its Wikipedia article.

    Questions and answers

    What were real caveman names?

    Nobody knows. Prehistory is the time before recorded history, which begins with the invention of writing systems, so no name from the Ice Age was ever written down. Every name on this page is invented.

    What is a caveman?

    A caveman is a stock character who stands for the early humans of the Paleolithic, the Old Stone Age. English Wikipedia says the type became popular in the early 20th century.

    How long did the Stone Age last?

    Roughly 3.4 million years, English Wikipedia says. It ended between 4000 BC and 2000 BC, with the coming of metalworking.

    What did Stone Age people make tools from?

    Mostly stone. A hand axe was usually made of flint or chert, shaped by knapping: hitting it against another stone. Bone and antler were used too, and the earliest needles were made of bone or wood.

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    Name: all 75 names

    A 3

    • Arghbo
    • Ashgru
    • Athku

    B 6

    • Begru
    • Blughno
    • Brokthu
    • Brughno
    • Brummo
    • Bukthra
    Show all 75 names (66 more)

    C 1

    • Chugru

    D 4

    • Drokthu
    • Dromba
    • Dromthu
    • Dughbo

    E 2

    • Embthu
    • Ethmu

    F 1

    • Fundru

    G 5

    • Ghrotu
    • Gribbu
    • Grukmo
    • Gruthka
    • Gwomru

    H 3

    • Hommu
    • Hothgru
    • Hrumba

    I 2

    • Ighno
    • Ithru

    K 7

    • Kegru
    • Klumma
    • Kothru
    • Krabmu
    • Kralba
    • Krughla
    • Kwabthu

    M 2

    • Mokthu
    • Mubru

    N 4

    • Nathru
    • Nokthru
    • Nughmo
    • Nughra

    O 3

    • Olthru
    • Orbthu
    • Othbu

    P 3

    • Pruddo
    • Prughmo
    • Puthru

    R 1

    • Ruthbu

    S 3

    • Skonna
    • Skrumba
    • Sothru

    T 6

    • Tembru
    • Thabbu
    • Thokmu
    • Thrabmu
    • Throkbu
    • Thwokka

    U 6

    • Ubbra
    • Ulgrok
    • Ulmgra
    • Umbrok
    • Urghna
    • Uthbu

    V 3

    • Vabbu
    • Vothru
    • Vughno

    W 4

    • Wabbu
    • Wuddo
    • Wughda
    • Wumbru

    Y 3

    • Yathru
    • Yorghmu
    • Yughbo

    Z 3

    • Zhogmu
    • Zomthu
    • Zothbu

    How this list was compiled: Our own list of 75 invented names, most of two syllables, written on 2026-10-03. No name from the Ice Age is known, so none is real. Each was screened that day against an English dictionary and lists of real first names and surnames; GeoNames places of 500 people and up (https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/, CC BY 4.0); the names of languages and peoples in the ISO 639-3 name index and the Glottolog list, so that no living people lends a name; every list on this site; a rude-word list; every word of every page title of 16 fantasy fan wikis, and names one letter from the first word of one; and the page titles and redirects of English Wikipedia and a full-text search of it (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0). 124 candidates were cut (51 a name from published fiction, or one letter from it; 39 found in the text of English Wikipedia; 15 a Wikipedia page title; 9 a real place; 4 a real first name or surname; 3 taken out on a second reading; 2 on another list of this site; 1 a rude word inside or across the join), among them Darrok, Mubba, Tukka, Zugga, Bondu, Krenna. No list of names is complete, so search a name before you publish it. Licence: own work

    Byname: all 55 bynames

    A 2

    • Always-Hungry
    • Ash-Fingers

    B 4

    • Bark-Chewer
    • Berry-Finder
    • Big-Laugh
    • Burnt-Thumb
    Show all 55 bynames (49 more)

    C 5

    • Carries-Two-Baskets
    • Cave-Singer
    • Cloud-Namer
    • Cold-Nose
    • Counts-the-Moons

    D 1

    • Deer-Follower

    E 1

    • Ember-Carrier

    F 7

    • Far-Shouter
    • Feather-Hat
    • Fire-Keeper
    • First-Up
    • Fish-Tickler
    • Flint-Hand
    • Found-the-Honey

    G 1

    • Grass-Braider

    H 4

    • Hears-the-Herd
    • Hide-Scraper
    • Hill-Climber
    • Honey-Thief

    K 1

    • Knows-the-Pass

    L 2

    • Last-Asleep
    • Lost-the-Trail

    M 1

    • Mud-Painter

    N 2

    • Never-Cold
    • Night-Watcher

    P 2

    • Paints-with-Both-Hands
    • Pebble-Sorter

    Q 1

    • Quiet-Hunter

    R 2

    • River-Wader
    • Rock-Counter

    S 9

    • Sings-to-the-Ice
    • Sleeps-Late
    • Small-Fire
    • Smoke-Eyes
    • Snores-Like-a-Bear
    • Snow-Eater
    • Spark-Maker
    • Stepped-in-the-Stream
    • Storm-Sitter

    T 6

    • Talks-to-the-Fire
    • Thick-Fur
    • Thunder-Hider
    • Tooth-Necklace
    • Track-Reader
    • Two-Spears

    W 4

    • Warm-Cloak
    • Wind-Listener
    • Woke-the-Bear
    • Wolf-Friend

    How this list was compiled: Our own list of 55 bynames for what a person does or once did, written on 2026-10-03. Checked against every list on this site for repeats, and each was looked up as a page title of English Wikipedia, with the hyphen and with a space. 10 candidates were cut (5 a Wikipedia page title; 3 on another list of this site; 2 taken out on a second reading), among them Loud-Yawn, Wet-Foot, Red-Hands, Star-Pointer, Shell-Collector, Tall-Shadow. Licence: own work

    Keeps: all 32 things

    Tools, materials and crafts 20

    • adze A cutting tool like an axe, with its edge set crosswise to the handle; adzes have been used since the Stone Age.
    • antler Antlers grow from the skulls of deer and are shed and regrown each year.
    • bone flute Several flutes from the Upper Paleolithic were found in caves in the Swabian Alb region of Germany.
    Show all 32 things (29 more)

    Tools, materials and crafts, continued

    • bone needle The earliest sewing needles were made of bone or wood.
    • bow drill A rod spun by a cord and a bow: a tool of prehistoric origin, used to drill holes and to start fires.
    • burin A stone flake with a chisel-like edge, used for carving wood or bone and sometimes for engraving images.
    • cave painting Cave paintings are found on the walls or ceilings of caves; the term usually implies prehistoric origin.
    • chert A hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock made of quartz; hand axes were usually made of flint or chert.
    • dugout canoe A boat made from a hollowed-out tree.
    • flint A form of quartz that was widely used to make stone tools and to start fires.
    • hammerstone A hard cobble used to strike flakes off a lump of tool stone.
    • hand axe A prehistoric stone tool with two faces, the longest-used tool in human history.
    • hearth The place in a home where a fire is kept for heating and for cooking.
    • microlith A small stone tool, usually of flint or chert, used in spear points and arrowheads.
    • obsidian A natural volcanic glass, formed when lava cools rapidly.
    • ochre A natural clay earth pigment, yellow to deep orange or brown in color.
    • quern-stone A stone tool for grinding grain by hand; querns are used in pairs.
    • scraper A stone tool thought to have been used for working hides and wood.
    • spear-thrower A tool that uses leverage to throw a dart or javelin faster; also called an atlatl.
    • stone blade A long narrow flake struck from a stone core, at least twice as long as it is wide.

    Ice Age animals 12

    • aurochs An extinct wild ox, considered the wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle.
    • cave bear A prehistoric bear of Europe and Asia; its name comes from its remains being found largely in caves.
    • cave hyena An extinct hyena of Eurasia, well represented in many caves of the last glacial period.
    • cave lion A large extinct cat, classed either as a subspecies of the lion or as a closely related species.
    • giant deer Also called the Irish elk: an extinct deer, one of the largest deer that ever lived.
    • mammoth The woolly mammoth is an extinct mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene into the Holocene.
    • musk ox A hoofed mammal native to the Arctic, noted for its thick coat.
    • reindeer A deer of arctic, subarctic and tundra regions of northern Europe, Siberia and North America.
    • saiga An antelope that ranged across the mammoth steppe during the Pleistocene.
    • steppe bison An extinct bison that was widely spread across the mammoth steppe in the Late Pleistocene.
    • wild horse The species that includes the modern domesticated horse and Przewalski's horse.
    • woolly rhinoceros An extinct rhinoceros of northern Eurasia, covered with long, thick hair.

    How this list was compiled: 32 real things of the Stone Age: tools, materials and crafts that archaeologists have found, and animals of the Ice Age. Own selection; each line follows the English Wikipedia article on its subject (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-10-03. The bone needle line is from the article Sewing needle, the bone flute from Paleolithic flute, the stone blade from Blade (archaeology), the mammoth from Woolly mammoth and the giant deer from Irish elk. The things come from different times and places within the Stone Age; no line says that one person could have known them all. Licence: own selection; lines follow English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)