This coven name generator makes up a circle of witches for a story or a game: a name such as The Salt Circle, the phase of the moon or turn of the year it meets at, and a sign.
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Name the circle, then set the night
Press New coven name. Tap a part to lock it, then press again. Lock the meeting time and press until the name fits, or keep a name and give it a different sign.
The meeting times are real astronomy
The times are the eight phases of the moon, the two solstices, the two equinoxes and the four midpoints between them. The list under the tool says what each one is: at the first quarter half the disc is lit, and the moon is up in the afternoon and early night.
Questions and answers
What is a coven?
A coven is a group or gathering of witches. The word comes from the Latin conventum, the root of convention, and was largely unused in English until 1921. This page makes covens up for stories and games.
How many witches are in a coven?
Stories often say thirteen. In 1921 Margaret Murray promoted the idea that witches across Europe met in groups of thirteen, which they called covens, and the number stuck. One word for the circle on this page is Thirteen.
What is a good name for a coven?
On this page a name is The, a plain word and a word for the group: The Thistle Sisters, The Elder Hearth, The Bramble Ring. The first words are plants, household things, weather and numbers.
Does this page follow a real religion?
No. It is for stories and games. The meeting times are astronomy, with no festival, god or rite of any faith, and the names and signs are made up.
How this list was compiled: Our own choice of 66 plain English words (plants, household things, weather, places and numbers), made on 2026-10-03. Every name the first two rows can spell was searched by script that day, with and without "The", as an English Wikipedia page title (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0) and as a page title on the fan wikis of well-known books, films and shows about witches (harrypotter.fandom.com, charmed.fandom.com, americanhorrorstory.fandom.com, discworld.fandom.com, theowlhouse.fandom.com, witcher.fandom.com, vampirediaries.fandom.com), and read for rude words across the join. 14 candidates were cut (9 a Wikipedia page title; 2 a rude word inside or across the join; 2 a fan wiki page title; 1 on another list of this site), among them Rowan, Tide, Quince, Quiet, Tin, Spider. Licence: own work
Kind of circle: all 27 words for the circle
A 1
Aunts
C 6
Cauldron
Chorus
Circle
Company
Cousins
Coven
D 1
Daughters
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G 3
Garden
Gathering
Grandmothers
H 2
Hands
Hearth
K 3
Kin
Kindred
Knot
L 1
Lodge
N 1
Nine
R 1
Ring
S 3
Sisterhood
Sisters
Stitch
T 3
Table
Thirteen
Thread
V 1
Vigil
W 1
Weave
How this list was compiled: Our own choice of 27 plain English words for a group, made on 2026-10-03. The screen is described in the source of the first words. One candidate was cut (a rude word inside or across the join): Seven. Licence: own work
Meets: all 16 meeting times
Phases of the moon 8
at the first quarterHalf the disc is lit; the moon is up in the afternoon and early night.
at the full moonThe whole disc is lit, and the moon is up from sunset to sunrise.
at the last quarterHalf the disc is lit; the moon is up late at night and in the morning.
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Phases of the moon, continued
at the new moonThe disc is completely in shade and cannot be seen, being too close to the Sun.
under the waning crescentA lit edge of less than half the disc, up from before dawn to early afternoon.
under the waning gibbous moonMore than half the disc is still lit; it is up most of the night and in the early morning.
under the waxing crescentA lit edge of less than half the disc, up from late morning until after dusk.
under the waxing gibbous moonMore than half the disc is lit; it is up in the late afternoon and most of the night.
Solstices and equinoxes 4
on the December solsticeTypically 21 December: the day with the shortest daylight in the Northern Hemisphere.
on the June solsticeBetween 20 and 22 June: the day with the longest daylight in the Northern Hemisphere.
on the March equinoxAround 20 March, when the Sun appears directly above the equator.
on the September equinoxAround 23 September; the Sun rises almost exactly in the east and sets almost exactly in the west.
The four midpoints 4
midway from the December solstice to the March equinoxEarly February, counted from the dates of the two.
midway from the June solstice to the September equinoxEarly August, counted from the dates of the two.
midway from the March equinox to the June solsticeEarly May, counted from the dates of the two.
midway from the September equinox to the December solsticeEarly November, counted from the dates of the two.
How this list was compiled: 16 meeting times stated as astronomy: the eight phases of the moon, the two solstices, the two equinoxes and the four midpoints between them. The moon lines follow the table of phases in English Wikipedia's Lunar phase article, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere, and the solstice and equinox lines follow the June solstice, December solstice and Equinox articles (read on 2026-10-03, CC BY-SA 4.0; a script checked the words behind each line). The four midpoints are our own count from the dates in those articles. No festival, god or rite of any faith is named. Licence: own selection and wording; facts from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sign: all 44 signs
A 39
a broom leaned the wrong way up
a bundle of lavender on the latch
a button sewn on with green thread
a candle in an upstairs window at noon
a cat that sits facing the door
a chalk moon on the garden gate
a crooked stitch in every hem
a feather tied to the well rope
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A, continued
a gray goose feather in a hatband
a hat pin shaped like a quill
a jar of rainwater by the gate
a kettle left on the front step
a key worn on a red cord
a lantern with one blue pane
a lit pumpkin, whatever the month
a loaf marked with a crescent
a moth drawn in soot above the hearth
a patch of clover left unmown
a pebble with a hole worn through it
a penny pressed into the doorpost
a ribbon the color of rust
a ring of chalk under the doormat
a ring worn on the thumb
a saucer of salt on the sill
a scarf knotted twice at the throat
a shoe left upside down on the path
a single dandelion left in the path
a spider left alone in the corner
a spiral scratched on a fence post
a spoon hung from the lintel
a sprig of rowan over the door
a teacup with no handle on the gatepost
a thimble on a chain
a thread of silver in a plain gray shawl
a walking stick of twisted hazel
a whistle of three falling notes
a wreath of ivy that never browns
an apple cut across to show the star
an owl carved into a spoon handle
I 1
ink on the left thumbnail
S 1
seven acorns in a row on the wall
T 3
three knocks, then one
three white pebbles on a windowsill
two spoons crossed on the windowsill
How this list was compiled: Our own list of 44 signs, written on 2026-10-03. Checked by script against every list on this site for repeats. 10 candidates were cut (9 on another list of this site; 1 a real first name or surname), among them a knot of red thread on the gate, a sprig of rosemary in a buttonhole, one glove, always the left, a bell with no clapper, a braid of straw over the door, a snail shell on a string. Licence: own work