Fantasy World Name Generator

One press names a fantasy world, gives it a shape from old myth and one thing it is known for.

Fantasy World Name Generator: 20 worlds

Emberdeep, an island of mud that a diving animal brought up from the deep. Its rain falls so slowly that you can walk between the drops.

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World nameEmberdeep
Shape of the worldisland of mud that a diving animal brought up from the deep
Known forIts rain falls so slowly that you can walk between the drops

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Sylmara, a world joined to the heavens by a pillar at its center. Mushrooms there grow as tall as towers.
Coldharrow, a world ringed by a serpent that bites its own tail. It has twin suns: one for day and a small red one for dusk.
Sunmere, an island of mud that a diving animal brought up from the deep. The moon is cracked, and nobody agrees who did it.
Gloamreach, a world ringed by a serpent that bites its own tail. Travelers say the roads are longer going home.
Mordrenn, a world with a second sea above its sky. Its coasts glow at night.
Solmere, a cluster of nine worlds around one great tree. Its seasons arrive in a different order every year.
Halcyra, a world whose sky is held up by a Titan in the far west. Its forests walk a few steps every century.
Skoldmark, a stack of three layers: heavens, earth and a netherworld. Its lighthouses stand far inland, and nobody knows why.
Novareth, a ball at the center of turning, see-through spheres. Mushrooms there grow as tall as towers.
Ithrenn, a stack of three layers: heavens, earth and a netherworld. Its mountains are still growing, and loudly.
Volgrath, a land afloat on an endless first ocean. Its deserts sing when the wind crosses them.
Lorvanth, a cluster of nine worlds around one great tree. Its lighthouses stand far inland, and nobody knows why.
Eldurma, a world made from the body of a giant. Every lake has a bell at the bottom.
Thuldmoor, a ball circled by the sun, the moon and every star. The sun there sets in the same place it rises.
Durmagh, a disc whose sky rests on four dwarfs at its corners. Its birds migrate straight up.
Loramel, a ball at the center of turning, see-through spheres. Every map of it shows a different coast.
Orrindel, an island of mud that a diving animal brought up from the deep. The same comet returns every seven years, welcomed by name.
Korrowain, a world joined to the heavens by a pillar at its center. Its sea has a waterfall in the middle.
Aerenth, a world hatched from a cosmic egg. Its oldest tree is used as a calendar.
Phaelis, a world held in a tree that props up the sky. The first snowfall is a holiday everywhere.

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How it works

This fantasy world name generator names a whole world, not a town or a kingdom. With the name comes a shape from myth or early astronomy, such as a disc whose sky rests on four dwarfs at its corners.

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Keep the name, change the world

Press New world name until a name sounds right, then tap it to lock it. Each further press deals a new shape and a new thing the world is known for, so one name can be tried on several worlds.

Shapes people once believed in

Every shape is a real idea from myth or early astronomy, with its source in the list under the tool. Nine worlds around one great tree is Norse, a river circling a flat disc is Greek, and turning spheres come from Greek and medieval astronomy.

Tips

For a fantasy setting name generator at a smaller scale, name the realm with the kingdom name generator.
Say the name aloud ten times. A world name gets repeated more than any other in a story.

Questions and answers

What makes good fantasy world names?

Two or three syllables that are easy to say and do not sound like a real country. The names here come in three sounds, bright, deep and old, and each was screened against real places and the worlds of well-known books and games.

Is this a world name generator for writers or for game masters?

Both. A novelist gets a working name for the setting. A game master gets a name, a shape of the world to draw round the edge of the map and one odd fact to open the first session.

Can it work as a mythical world name generator?

Yes. The shapes are taken from myth: a world hatched from a cosmic egg, a world ringed by a serpent that bites its own tail, a sky held up by a Titan. Lock a shape and press for names.

Is the name of my world already taken?

Each name was searched as a page title on Wikipedia and on fantasy fan wikis, and every hit was cut. No list of fiction is complete, so search a name before you publish it.

World name: all 112 world names

Bright 37

Aerenth
Alumere
Belisane
Brisanthe
Celanth
Daelith
Dorelune
Eirenne

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Bright, continued

Elyndra
Evarren
Florianth
Glaurel
Halcyra
Helisande
Ilvareth
Jaleth
Kirelle
Loramel
Lysandor
Marenth
Miravane
Olareth
Orisel
Phaelis
Quelanne
Risenth
Saelume
Selunth
Solmere
Sunmere
Sylmara
Talmere
Tiraleth
Ulanthe
Wynmere
Ysolme
Zerenth

Deep 34

Blackmarl
Cindermoor
Coldharrow
Dramoor
Drumgar
Durmagh
Dursk
Duskmoor
Emberdeep
Fellgrund
Galdmere
Garrowmoor
Gloamreach
Gorrowen
Grimmere
Hollgrund
Kharvald
Korrowain
Kragmoor
Mordrenn
Morvunn
Murngard
Oldrum
Ostrakar
Ruhngar
Skoldmark
Stonnmark
Tharngrim
Thuldmoor
Tuldrum
Uldrath
Volgrath
Wolgrim
Zarkuun

Old-sounding 41

Aldumar
Antherra
Arvandia
Avanthor
Calmarre
Carthane
Corvathia
Druvaine
Eldurma
Estovar
Harmundia
Iskaria
Ithrenn
Jorrath
Kelvoria
Lorvanth
Mundaris
Myrrowen
Novareth
Ormaris
Orrindel
Ostavia
Palanthe
Pellanor
Pyrrhen
Quenmar
Quorvain
Rumaris
Sevranth
Sundaria
Tarrowen
Terravaine
Thessarune
Tolmaria
Valdoria
Velmarch
Vesmara
Wyrmund
Xanthera
Yarrowain
Zemaria

How this list was compiled: 112 invented names for a fantasy world, our own work. Screened by script on 2026-10-02 and dropped on any hit: an English dictionary, GeoNames places, United States name and surname files, every list on this site (the World row of the fantasy city page among them) and every name the planet name page can spell, a list of worlds and countries of well-known books and games with names one letter away, a rude-word list read inside the name (https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words), English Wikipedia page titles, and exact page titles on 12 fantasy fan wikis (lotr.fandom.com, forgottenrealms.fandom.com, elderscrolls.fandom.com, witcher.fandom.com, dragonage.fandom.com, gameofthrones.fandom.com, wot.fandom.com, harrypotter.fandom.com, wowpedia.fandom.com, pathfinder.fandom.com, criticalrole.fandom.com, zelda.fandom.com). On a second pass that day the names were also searched as exact page titles on 63 more fan wikis (starwars.fandom.com, warriors.fandom.com, finalfantasy.fandom.com and others), and against every page title of 16 fan wikis for a name used as one word of a title (cut) or one letter from the first word of a title (cut where that name is well known). 46 candidates were cut (12 a fan wiki page title; 11 a name from published fiction, or one letter from it; 5 a rude word inside or across the join; 5 a real first name or surname; 4 on another list of this site; 4 taken out on a second reading; 3 a Wikipedia page title; 1 a real place; 1 other reasons), among them Lunareth, Vaelorn, Thalessa, Nimbrae, Lumenor, Cyrelle. No list of fiction is complete, so search a name before you publish it. Licence: own work

Shape of the world: all 17 shapes

Held up or carried 4

disc whose sky rests on four dwarfs at its corners Norse: four dwarfs named East, West, North and South were set under the corners of the sky.
world held in a tree that props up the sky The world tree: a colossal tree in several mythologies that supports the heavens and reaches the underworld through its roots.
world joined to the heavens by a pillar at its center The axis mundi, or world pillar: a name from the study of myths for a center that joins sky and earth.

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Held up or carried, continued

world whose sky is held up by a Titan in the far west Greek: the Titan Atlas was condemned to hold up the sky, and stood at the ends of the earth in the extreme west.

How it began 4

island of mud that a diving animal brought up from the deep The earth-diver: a kind of creation story in which a creature dives into the first waters and brings up mud that becomes the land.
land afloat on an endless first ocean The cosmic ocean: in many myths a vast first ocean surrounds the world and was there before it.
world hatched from a cosmic egg The world egg: a motif in the creation stories of many cultures, in which the hatching of an egg gives rise to the universe.
world made from the body of a giant Norse: the gods made the world from the body of the giant Ymir.

Its shape 9

ball at the center of turning, see-through spheres Greek and medieval astronomy: the stars and planets were thought to be set in rotating, transparent celestial spheres.
ball circled by the sun, the moon and every star The geocentric model of Aristotle and Ptolemy, in which the Sun, Moon, stars and planets all orbit Earth. Astronomy replaced it long ago.
cluster of nine worlds around one great tree Norse: the old poems picture Nine Worlds around a cosmic tree, Yggdrasil.
flat disc circled by one great river Greek: Oceanus was the great river that encircled the entire world.
flat land under a solid dome of sky Ancient Near East: a flat earth with a solid firmament above it.
hollow world lit by an inner sun Hollow Earth: an idea science gave up long ago that lives on in adventure fiction, where some tales light the inside with an inner sun.
stack of three layers: heavens, earth and a netherworld Ancient Near East: a divine realm at the top, the flat earth, and a netherworld at the bottom.
world ringed by a serpent that bites its own tail Norse: Jörmungandr, the World Serpent, lies in the sea encircling the Earth and biting his own tail.
world with a second sea above its sky Ancient Near East: above the solid sky lay a cosmic ocean.

How this list was compiled: 17 shapes of the world from myth and early astronomy. Each was read on 2026-10-02 in the English Wikipedia article named on the item, and the words each line rests on were matched to that article by script. The one-line descriptions are ours. These are old beliefs and stories set down as such; none is offered as a fact about the real world. Two shapes that belong to faiths practiced today were taken out, so that no made-up world is dealt one. Licence: own work

Known for: all 62 lines

Sky and weather 20

It has twin suns: one for day and a small red one for dusk
It has two moons that never rise together
Its autumn lasts half the year
Its clouds are low enough to be farmed
Its harvest moon lasts a week
Its rain falls so slowly that you can walk between the drops
Its seasons arrive in a different order every year

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Sky and weather, continued

Lightning strikes upward from its tallest peak
The moon is cracked, and nobody agrees who did it
Night falls there all at once, like a curtain
The northern lights can be heard as well as seen
The same comet returns every seven years, welcomed by name
The sky has a seam you can see on clear nights
Snow falls there in colors
The stars are said to be the lamps of a city overhead
The stars there are close enough to count
The sun there sets in the same place it rises
Whales swim in the upper air on still days
The winds have names and keep appointments
Winter comes from the south there

Land 15

Echoes there come back a day late
Every hill is said to be a sleeping giant
Every map of it shows a different coast
The far side has never been mapped
Its birds migrate straight up
Its caves are warmer the deeper they go
Its deserts sing when the wind crosses them
Its forests walk a few steps every century
Its mountains are still growing, and loudly
Its stone keeps a footprint for a hundred years
Its volcanoes breathe out cold
Mushrooms there grow as tall as towers
No one has found the edge and come back with the same story
Rainbows there leave marks on the ground
There is one mountain that nobody has seen the top of

Water 12

All its rivers flow into one bottomless well
Every lake has a bell at the bottom
Islands drift, and the charts are redrawn every ten years
Its coasts glow at night
Its fog rolls in smelling of fresh bread
Its ice never melts, even in the kitchens
Its largest lake has an island with a lake of its own
Its rivers run uphill every spring
Its sea has a waterfall in the middle
Its sea is fresh water and its lakes are salt
The tide comes in once a year and stays a month
Time is kept by a waterfall that pauses at noon

Built and left behind 15

A wall crosses it, and nobody recalls which side it guards
Bridges there are grown, not built
Every village keeps one book, and no two are alike
The first snowfall is a holiday everywhere
Its dragons are small, numerous and kept like cats
Its giants left stairs that are too tall to climb
Its largest kingdom fits in one valley
Its lighthouses stand far inland, and nobody knows why
Its oldest law is carved on a mountain in mile-high letters
Its oldest tree is used as a calendar
The oldest city has been rebuilt on itself nine times
One road circles the whole world and is always being mended
The shadows there all point toward the capital
There are doors in the hills that open one day a year
Travelers say the roads are longer going home

How this list was compiled: 62 lines on what a made-up world is known for, our own work, written on 2026-10-02. Checked by script against every list on this site. Licence: own work