Ghost Name Generator

One press names a made-up ghost, says what kind of haunting it is and where it keeps to.

Ghost Name Generator: 20 ghosts

Dame Hesper, a barghest that haunts a crossroads with a single lamp

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  • NameDame Hesper
  • Kind of hauntingbarghest
  • Hauntsa crossroads with a single lamp
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    1. Dame Hesper, a barghest that haunts a crossroads with a single lamp
    2. The Backstage Prompter, a shade that haunts a windmill on the ridge
    3. Doctor Cuthbert, a gytrash that haunts the back stair of a seaside hotel
    4. Young Ned of the Narrow Stair, a vanishing hitchhiker that haunts the ticket booth of a shut fairground
    5. The Nodding Coachman, a church grim that haunts the top landing of a boarding school
    6. Mistress Verity, a barghest that haunts the bell tower of a town hall
    7. The Nodding Coachman, a bluecap that haunts the schoolhouse cloakroom
    8. The Backstage Prompter, a shade that haunts a towpath at dusk
    9. Squire Leofric, a yurei that haunts the spiral stair of a round tower
    10. The Third Bellringer, a hitodama that haunts the last carriage of the night train
    11. The Slow Organist, a vanishing hitchhiker that haunts a stone bridge over a mill stream
    12. Madam Zenobia, a bluecap that haunts the fig tree in the kitchen garden
    13. The Late Postman, a doppelganger that haunts the last carriage of the night train
    14. Lord Mortimer, a doppelganger that haunts the harbor wall at low tide
    15. Madam Octavia, a boggart that haunts the palm house of a public garden
    16. The Late Postman, a shade that haunts the ice house in the park
    17. The Slow Organist, a yurei that haunts the old candy shop on the corner
    18. The Listening Maid, a doppelganger that haunts the bell tower of a town hall
    19. Old Corwin of the Coal Cellar, a gytrash that haunts the ice house in the park
    20. Aunt Dorcas, a bluecap that haunts the dunes behind a fishing village

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    How it works

    This ghost name generator makes up a ghost the way old stories name them: a name such as The Thimble Lady, a real kind of haunting from folklore and the place it keeps to.

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    Name the ghost, then its haunt

    Press New ghost name. Lock the place and keep pressing to fill one house with ghosts. Names come in two shapes: a color or a trade with a figure, such as The Pale Lamplighter, or a title with an old first name, such as Lady Ermengarde.

    The kinds come from folklore

    A poltergeist is the "noisy spirit" of German folklore. A gytrash is a shape-changer of the West Riding of Yorkshire, said to haunt lonely roads. The list under the tool explains every kind.

    • Friendly or frightening is yours to decide: a result says only who, what and where.

    Questions and answers

    What are good ghost names?

    Ghost stories name a ghost for what people see or hear: a color, a job or a place, such as The Quiet Drummer or Old Nell of the Pantry. A title with a first name, such as Captain Obadiah, suits a ghost with a past.

    What kinds of ghost are there in folklore?

    Many. A poltergeist makes noise and moves things, a fetch is the double of a living person, a will-o'-the-wisp is a light seen over marshes at night and a church grim watches over one church.

    Are these the names of real ghosts?

    No. Every name is made up, and none matched a page title on Wikipedia or on the fan wikis we searched. The kinds of haunting come from folklore, and the list under the tool explains each.

    Is it too scary for a class story?

    The page stays at storybook level. A result gives a name, a kind of haunting and a place such as the box seats of an old theater, and nothing says how anyone died.

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    Name: all 100 ghost names

    A color or a trade, and a figure 49

    • The Amber Angler
    • The Attic Seamstress
    • Aunt Odda of the Orchard
    • The Backstage Prompter
    • The Brass Bugler
    • The Cellar Fiddler
    • The Chalk Schoolmaster
    • The Copper Tinker
    Show all 100 ghost names (92 more)

    A color or a trade, and a figure, continued

    • The Dusty Librarian
    • The Frost Skater
    • Granny Fenn of the Fold
    • The Gray Governess
    • The Humming Glassblower
    • The Humming Housekeeper
    • The Ink-Stained Scribe
    • The Lantern Boatman
    • The Late Postman
    • The Listening Maid
    • Little Tibb of the Third Step
    • Long Wil of the Landing
    • The Marsh Ferryman
    • The Mislaid Butler
    • The Night Ferrywoman
    • The Nodding Coachman
    • Old Bram of the Belfry
    • Old Corwin of the Coal Cellar
    • Old Dob of the Dovecote
    • Old Hob of the Hayloft
    • Old Jory of the Jetty
    • Old Marl of the Mill Race
    • Old Nell of the Pantry
    • Old Pim of the Pump House
    • Old Sal of the Salt Shed
    • Old Tam of the Turnstile
    • The Pale Lamplighter
    • The Plum-Colored Page
    • The Quiet Drummer
    • The Sighing Weaver
    • The Silver Stationmaster
    • The Sleepy Sentry
    • The Slow Organist
    • The Thimble Lady
    • The Third Bellringer
    • The Tidy Chambermaid
    • The Velvet Usher
    • The Whistling Ostler
    • The Yawning Watchman
    • Young Ned of the Narrow Stair
    • Young Wat of the Well

    A title and an old first name 51

    • Aunt Dorcas
    • Bosun Jabez
    • Captain Ezekiel
    • Captain Jethro
    • Captain Obadiah
    • Colonel Barnaby
    • Colonel Phineas
    • Cook Griselda
    • Cousin Lavinia
    • Dame Hesper
    • Dame Ottilie
    • Doctor Cuthbert
    • Doctor Lemuel
    • Farmer Gideon
    • Goodman Ephraim
    • Goodwife Mehitabel
    • Governess Honoria
    • Grandfather Ezra
    • Granny Keziah
    • Lady Ermengarde
    • Lady Georgiana
    • Lady Philomena
    • Lady Rosamund
    • Lady Sidony
    • Lord Auberon
    • Lord Mortimer
    • Madam Octavia
    • Madam Zenobia
    • Major Algernon
    • Major Thaddeus
    • Master Fabian
    • Master Jasper
    • Master Tobias
    • Miller Hezekiah
    • Miss Araminta
    • Miss Euphemia
    • Miss Lettice
    • Miss Tabitha
    • Mister Zebedee
    • Mistress Prudence
    • Mistress Verity
    • Nurse Clemency
    • Professor Bartholomew
    • Professor Erasmus
    • Sergeant Josiah
    • Sir Barnabas
    • Sir Peregrine
    • Skipper Nehemiah
    • Squire Ambrose
    • Squire Leofric
    • Uncle Ignatius

    How this list was compiled: Our own list of 100 ghost names, written on 2026-10-02 in the two shapes ghost stories use: a color, a trade or a place with a figure, and a title with an old first name. No name is that of a ghost of legend, a book, a film or a game as far as we could find. Checked by script that day against every list on this site, a rude-word list, the page titles of 16 fantasy fan wikis, exact page titles of English Wikipedia with and without "The" (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0) and exact page titles on 6 fan wikis (harrypotter.fandom.com, disney.fandom.com, scoobydoo.fandom.com, ghostbusters.fandom.com, dannyphantom.fandom.com, mario.fandom.com); the names of the first shape were also searched for in the text of English Wikipedia. 25 candidates were cut (18 found in the text of English Wikipedia; 6 on another list of this site; 1 a Wikipedia page title), among them The Candle Clerk, The Midnight Baker, The Unpaid Piper, Dame Winifred, Miss Henrietta, Miss Clementine. No list of ghost stories is complete, so search a name before you publish it. Read again on 2026-10-03 against every list of this site and its sister sites: 1 more name was cut for standing close to a line of another list. Licence: own work

    Kind of haunting: all 14 kinds of haunting

    B 3

    • barghest In Northern English folklore, a monstrous black dog. The name can also mean a ghost or a household elf.
    • bluecap A fairy or ghost in English folklore that lives in mines and appears as a small blue flame.
    • boggart A supernatural being from English folklore. One writer called the word "a generic name for an apparition".
    Show all 14 kinds of haunting (11 more)

    C 1

    • church grim A guardian spirit in Scottish, English and Nordic folklore that watches over one church. It often appears as a black dog.

    D 1

    • doppelganger A supernatural double of a living person.

    F 1

    • fetch A supernatural double or an apparition of a living person.

    G 1

    • gytrash A legendary shape-changer of the West Riding of Yorkshire, said to haunt lonely roads.

    H 1

    • hitodama In Japanese folklore, a ball of fire that floats in the air at night. The name means "human soul".

    P 1

    • poltergeist In German folklore, a "noisy spirit" blamed for loud noises and for objects being moved.

    S 1

    • shade In poetry and literature, the spirit of a person, living on in the underworld.

    V 1

    • vanishing hitchhiker An urban legend: a hitchhiker who vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle.

    W 2

    • will-o'-the-wisp In folklore, a ghost light seen by travelers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.
    • wraith A traditional word for a ghost or spirit.

    Y 1

    • yurei In Japanese folklore, a figure like the ghost of Western stories. Written yūrei: "faint" and "spirit".

    How this list was compiled: 14 real kinds of ghost and haunting from folklore. Each line follows the opening of its English Wikipedia article, read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0). The wording is ours. Kinds that are always a woman, a boy or a rider (the White Lady, the radiant boy, the headless horseman) are left out because the name row is dealt blind, and the banshee is left out because she is not a ghost. Licence: own selection and wording; facts from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

    Haunts: all 61 haunts

    A 9

    • a bend in the old coach road
    • a covered bridge at the edge of town
    • a crossroads with a single lamp
    • a hollow oak on the village green
    • a milestone on the heath road
    • a stone bridge over a mill stream
    • a towpath at dusk
    • a windmill on the ridge
    • the attic above a toy shop
    Show all 61 haunts (52 more)

    B 5

    • the back stair of a seaside hotel
    • the baggage room of a station
    • the ballroom of a shuttered mansion
    • the bell tower of a town hall
    • the box seats of an old theater

    C 5

    • the carousel on the pier
    • the cellar of a bakery
    • the clock tower of a market square
    • the cloisters of a cathedral school
    • the coat check of a grand hotel

    D 3

    • the dovecote of an old farm
    • the dressing rooms of a music hall
    • the dunes behind a fishing village

    E 1

    • the east wing of a museum

    F 2

    • the fig tree in the kitchen garden
    • the footbridge by the weir

    G 2

    • the gallery above a ballroom
    • the gate arch of an old castle

    H 2

    • the harbor wall at low tide
    • the hedge maze of a great park

    I 1

    • the ice house in the park

    L 3

    • the lantern gallery of a lighthouse
    • the last carriage of the night train
    • the long gallery of a manor house

    M 2

    • the map room of a ship museum
    • the map shelves of a town library

    O 3

    • the old candy shop on the corner
    • the orchard behind a schoolhouse
    • the organ loft

    P 5

    • the palm house of a public garden
    • the pantry of a farmhouse
    • platform two of a closed railway station
    • the portrait hall
    • the print room of a newspaper office

    Q 1

    • the quarry pond

    R 1

    • room nine of a roadside inn

    S 7

    • the schoolhouse cloakroom
    • the scullery of a townhouse
    • the seventh step of the cellar stair
    • the signal cabin of a country halt
    • the spiral stair of a round tower
    • the stable yard of an old inn
    • the sundial lawn

    T 4

    • the third pew from the door
    • the ticket booth of a shut fairground
    • the toll house on the turnpike
    • the top landing of a boarding school

    U 1

    • the upstairs corridor of a country inn

    W 3

    • the walled garden of a great house
    • the well in the courtyard
    • the wings of a marionette stage

    Y 1

    • the yew by the church gate

    How this list was compiled: Our own list of 61 places for a ghost to keep to, written on 2026-10-02 to read after the words "that haunts". No real building or town is named, and no line says how anyone died. Checked by script against every list on this site for repeats. 3 candidates were cut (2 on another list of this site; 1 a real place), among them a ferry slip in the fog, a sail loft by the harbor, the boathouse on a still lake. Licence: own work