Fantasy Month Name Generator

One press names a month for your world, such as Frostwane or Haymoot.

Fantasy Month Name Generator: 20 month names

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    1. Sleetrest
    2. Brewkeep
    3. Reapfast
    4. Applewane
    5. Bramblekeep
    6. Brewhold
    7. Swallowtide
    8. Nestwake
    9. Hayrest
    10. Wrenfast
    11. Rooktide
    12. Brambleveil
    13. Sowwane
    14. Thawwane
    15. Cuckooveil
    16. Barleyfast
    17. Brighttide
    18. Lambfast
    19. Barleywane
    20. Frosthold

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    How it works

    This fantasy month name generator joins one of 49 seasonal roots to one of 12 endings, for 588 month names. Each root's season and each ending's sense are in the lists below.

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    Make a whole calendar

    Lock an ending, such as tide, and press until you have twelve months, about three roots from each season: Thawtide and Lambtide for spring, Haytide for summer, Reaptide for the harvest. Months that share an ending read as one calendar.

    Why there is no Snowfall or Harvest Moon

    Every name was checked against a dictionary, the full moon names, the Shire and Old English calendars and the calendars of games such as The Elder Scrolls. Parts that made real words or borrowed names were dropped, among them Sun, Fire, moon and fall.

    Questions and answers

    How many months should a fantasy calendar have?

    As many as your world needs. Twelve comes from the Moon, which goes through its phases about twelve times a year; a world with two moons or a longer year could have more. Press once for each month.

    What do the endings tide and moot mean?

    Tide is an old word for a time or season, still heard in eventide. Moot is Old English for a meeting, so a moot month suits the season when councils gather. Every ending's sense is in the list below.

    Can I use these month names in my book or game?

    Yes, they are free to use. The screening cannot be complete, and trade marks were not searched, so search a name before you publish it.

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    Root: all 49 roots

    Winter 11

    • Deep The deep of winter, the darkest weeks.
    • Frost Hard frost on the fields.
    • Hearth Everyone indoors around the fire.
    • Hoar Hoarfrost: white frost on grass and roofs.
    • Holly Holly berries, red in the bare hedges.
    • Pine Only the evergreens stay green.
    • Rime Rime is frost that grows feathers on twigs.
    • Sleet Cold rain half turned to ice.
    • Snow The deep-snow month.
    • Starve The lean end of winter, when the stores run low.
    • Still Frozen ponds and no wind.
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    Spring 14

    • Blossom Orchards in flower.
    • Bud Buds on the branches.
    • Cuckoo The cuckoo is first heard in spring in Europe.
    • Hatch Eggs hatching in every nest.
    • Lamb Lambing season.
    • Nest Birds building.
    • Plough The fields are turned.
    • Rain Spring showers.
    • Seed Sowing begins.
    • Sow Seed goes into the ground.
    • Sprout First green shoots.
    • Thaw Ice breaking on the rivers.
    • Willow Willow catkins by the water.
    • Wren A small bird with a loud spring song.

    Summer 10

    • Barley Barley ripening gold.
    • Bright The longest, brightest days.
    • Clover Clover in flower.
    • Hay Haymaking in the meadows.
    • Honey Hives full, bees busy.
    • Lark Skylarks singing high over the fields.
    • Linden Linden trees, also called limes, flowering and humming with bees.
    • Meadow Meadows at their tallest.
    • Swallow Swallows swooping low over water.
    • Thunder Hot days and summer storms.

    Autumn 14

    • Acorn Acorns dropping in the oak woods.
    • Apple Apple picking.
    • Bramble Blackberries ripe on the brambles.
    • Brew Brewing from the new barley and apples.
    • Gather Gathering nuts, berries and firewood.
    • Harvest The harvest is brought in.
    • Hunt The hunting season.
    • Leaf Leaves turning and falling.
    • Mist Morning mists over the valleys.
    • Reap Reaping the grain.
    • Rook Rooks gathering in noisy flocks.
    • Rust Bracken and leaves the color of rust.
    • Sheaf Grain bound in sheaves.
    • Wither Gardens dying back.

    How this list was compiled: Own list of 49 word roots, each marked with the season it suits: 11 for winter, 14 for spring, 10 for summer and 14 for autumn. Every one of the 588 names the two rows can spell was built by script and screened on 2026-09-23: against an English dictionary (Snowfall and Honeymoon went); the GeoNames cities15000 table with alternate names (https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/cities15000.zip); the 403 words of the LDNOOBW English list (https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words) and about 90 more, read across the join; every word of 44 English Wikipedia articles on real and fictional calendars and settings, among them the Shire calendar, the Old English and Germanic calendars, the French Republican calendar, the full moon names, The Elder Scrolls and Skyrim, Forgotten Realms, Golarion, Eberron, Greyhawk and Dragonlance (Frostfall and Candlekeep went); and every English Wikipedia page title, joined and as two words (Harvest moon, Embertide and Leaf fall went). Where a root or an ending made more than one hit it was dropped: the roots Sun, Fire, Rose, Ember, Candle, Bloom and Wolf and the endings moon, fall, song, crest, glow, thorn, mark and mont. No name the two rows spell now makes a hit. A search cannot be complete, so search a name before you publish it. Licence: Own work.

    Ending: all 12 endings

    D 1

    • dawn The first month of a season.

    F 1

    • fast A month of short rations or fasting.

    H 1

    • hold A month when the weather holds, or stores are held back.

    K 1

    • keep A month for keeping stores, vows or watch.

    M 1

    • moot Old English for a meeting: a month when councils gather.

    R 2

    • reach A long stretch of time, the way a river has reaches.
    • rest A quiet month when the fields lie fallow.

    T 2

    • tide An old word for a time or season, still heard in eventide.
    • turn The year turns: a month at a change of season.

    V 1

    • veil A month of mist, snow or long nights.

    W 2

    • wake A wake was a yearly parish feast in England: a month with a festival in it.
    • wane The shrinking of the moon: a month that closes a season.
    How this list was compiled

    Own list of 12 endings, each with the kind of month it suggests. "tide" in its old sense of a time or season and "moot" as Old English for a meeting follow Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tide and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot, read 2026-09-23); the parish wake as a yearly feast follows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakes_week. Screening of the joined names is described under the Root row. Licence: Own work.