This cyclops name generator builds new names the way the old ones are built: two Ancient Greek word parts joined, as in "Akmonops, Who Counts by Touch." Akmon is from the Greek for anvil; -ops is eye, as in Cyclops.
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Opening, ending, byname
Press New cyclops name. Press until the name ends in ops for a family of eyes, or opens on a word you want, such as Pok (fleece). Bynames come from the forge and the flock: of the Ninth Anvil, Who Sings to the Ewes.
Read the Greek
The lists under the tool give the Greek word behind every part, in Greek letters and in ours, with its meaning from Wiktionary. Most endings join on with -o-, the way Greek makes one name of two words.
Questions and answers
What are the names of the three Cyclopes?
In Hesiod's Theogony the Cyclopes are three brothers, Brontes, Steropes and Arges, who make the thunderbolt of Zeus. This page never deals those three names; it builds new ones.
What does the word Cyclops mean?
English Wikipedia gives the Greek as "circle-eyes" or "round-eyes": kyklos is a circle and ops an eye. The ending ops is on this page, so a new name can end the way Cyclops does.
Who is the most famous Cyclops?
Polyphemus, the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon in Greek mythology, whom Odysseus meets in Homer's Odyssey. The Cyclopes of the Odyssey are cave-dwelling shepherds, which is why half the bynames here are about flocks.
Are these real Greek names?
The parts are real Ancient Greek words, but the names are new. A join that turned out to be a Wikipedia title, often the scientific name of an animal, was cut. Search a name before you publish it.
How this list was compiled: 30 openings, each the stem of a real Ancient Greek word, with the word and its meaning. Own selection; every word and meaning was checked on 2026-10-03 in the Ancient Greek section of its English Wiktionary entry (https://en.wiktionary.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0). Greek words are written in our letters without their accents and long marks. Every opening was joined to every ending by script, and each whole name was checked that day against the page titles and redirects of English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0), where many joins proved to be the scientific names of animals and plants, and a full-text search of it; GeoNames places of 500 people and up; an English dictionary and lists of real names; every list on this site, the giants of myth among them; a rude-word list, read across the join; and every word of every page title of 16 fantasy fan wikis. 27 candidates were cut (8 found in the text of English Wikipedia; 7 a dictionary word; 4 a name from published fiction, or one letter from it; 4 a Wikipedia page title; 2 on another list of this site; 2 a rude word inside or across the join), among them Arg, Petr, Megal, Bront, Astrap, Pyr. One more opening was taken out on 2026-10-05 because it reads as a rude word in Greek. The three Cyclopes of Hesiod (Brontes, Steropes, Arges) cannot be spelled by these rows. No reader of Ancient Greek has read the list. Licence: own selection; words and meanings from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
Ending: all 13 endings
E 1
ergosFrom ergon (ἔργον): work.
O 12
ocheirFrom cheir (χείρ), joined on with -o-: hand.
odonFrom odous (ὀδούς): tooth, tusk.
odorosFrom doron (δῶρον), joined on with -o-: gift.
okerosFrom keras (κέρας), joined on with -o-: horn.
oklesFrom kleos (κλέος), joined on with -o-: fame, glory.
omachosFrom mache (μάχη), joined on with -o-: battle, contest.
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O, continued
ophemosFrom pheme (φήμη), joined on with -o-: rumor, reputation, as in Polyphemos.
ophorosFrom phero (φέρω), joined on with -o-: to bear, carry.
opousFrom pous (πούς), joined on with -o-: foot.
opsFrom ops (ὤψ): eye, as in Cyclops.
oskoposFrom skopos (σκοπός), joined on with -o-: watcher.
osthenesFrom sthenos (σθένος), joined on with -o-: strength.
How this list was compiled: 13 endings, each from a real Ancient Greek word, with the word and its meaning, checked on 2026-10-03 in the Ancient Greek section of its English Wiktionary entry (https://en.wiktionary.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0). Most are joined on with the linking vowel -o-, as Greek joins two words into one name. Screened with the openings (see that list). Nothing was cut. Licence: own selection; words and meanings from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
Byname: all 53 bynames
A 1
Anvil-Singer
C 2
Cheese-Presser
Curd-Stirrer
E 1
Ember-Fingered
F 1
the Far-Seeing
H 2
Hammer-Handed
the Heavy-Footed
K 1
Keeper of the Bellows
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L 2
Lamb-Carrier
the Late to Supper
M 1
Milk-Pail Carrier
O 18
of the Black Smithy
of the Burning Mountain
of the Cliff Cave
of the Cold Anvil
of the Deep Forge
of the Echoing Cave
of the Great Bellows
of the Hollow Hill
of the Island Flock
of the Lightning Stack
of the Lonely Shore
of the Ninth Anvil
of the Round Door
of the Salt Pasture
of the Seven Rams
of the Smoking Peak
of the Three Hearths
of the Unfinished Wall
S 1
the Soot-Faced
T 2
Thunder-Smith
Tongs-Bearer
U 1
the Unwinking
W 20
Wall-Builder
Who Counts by Touch
Who Counts the Flock Twice
Who Guards the Pass
Who Hums at the Forge
Who Knows Each Fleece
Who Lost His Staff
Who Mends the Thunder
Who Milks at Dawn
Who Never Blinks
Who Rolls the Doorstone
Who Shades His Eye
Who Sings to the Ewes
Who Sleeps by the Fire
Who Stacks the Wall
Who Tempers the Bolt
Who Watches the Sea
Who Whistles to Goats
the Wide-Striding
Wool-Carder
How this list was compiled: Our own list of 53 bynames, written on 2026-10-03, for the two kinds of Cyclops in the old poems: the smiths of the thunderbolt and the cave-dwelling shepherds. Checked against every list on this site for repeats, and each was looked up as a page title of English Wikipedia. 5 candidates were cut (3 on another list of this site; 1 a Wikipedia page title; 1 taken out on a second reading), among them the Sleepless, Spark-Catcher, of the Bronze Door, Stone-Stacker, the Slow to Anger. Licence: own work