This lamia name generator joins a made-up opening, as in Arsithope, to an ending real Greek women's names carry, then adds a kind of serpent woman or night spirit from Greek myth and the lair she keeps.
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Name, kind and lair
Press New lamia name. You get a line such as "Drythonike, a drakaina who keeps a dry well under a fig tree". Tap a part to lock it, then press again: keep the kind for a nest of sisters, or keep one lair, such as the third cave past the lighthouse, and try names until one fits.
Endings that mean something
Eight endings carry a meaning from a real name: -onike is victory, -odike justice, -othea goddess, -odora gift, -ope voice. Lock one and every press gives a name with that sense. The other endings, such as the -ia of Hysmia, are there for their sound.
Questions and answers
What is a lamia?
In ancient Greek mythology Lamia was a queen of Libya who became a monster and, later, a kind of night-haunting spirit. She has been given serpent features: in the 1820 poem Lamia by John Keats she appears trapped in the form of a serpent.
What is a female serpent called in Greek myth?
A drakaina: a female serpent or dragon, sometimes with humanlike features. Wikipedia counts Lamia, Echidna and Campe among those said to have the head and torso of a woman.
Are these names from Greek myth?
No. The names are made up and were checked against Wikipedia's lists of Greek mythological figures and creatures. The named monsters of the myths, such as Echidna, are facts on this page and are never dealt as names.
How this list was compiled: Our own list of 37 openings in the sound of Greek names, written on 2026-10-03. They are made-up syllables and carry no meaning. Every opening was joined to every ending by script, and each whole name was checked that day against the names in the English Wikipedia articles Lamia, Empusa, Mormo, Echidna (mythology), Drakaina (mythology), Gorgons and the lists of Greek mythological figures, minor figures, deities and creatures; English Wikipedia page titles and a full-text search of English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0); every list on this site, the Greek name lists among them; an English dictionary and lists of real first names, surnames and places; a rude-word list, read across the join as well; every word of every page title of 16 fantasy fan wikis; and exact page titles on 7 fan wikis (forgottenrealms.fandom.com, pathfinder.fandom.com, riordan.fandom.com, godofwar.fandom.com, hades.fandom.com, finalfantasy.fandom.com, elderscrolls.fandom.com). 10 candidates were cut (8 found in the text of English Wikipedia; 1 a name from published fiction, or one letter from it; 1 a Wikipedia page title), among them Skyth, Psyll, Euryn, Gorth, Elyss, Nyssar. Greek names were built from parts like these, so a result can still be a real old name that the lists do not hold. Each opening was afterwards looked up on its own as an English Wikipedia page title: Zosyn (a trade name), Naryx (an ancient Greek town) and Charyn (a river) were cut. Licence: own work
Ending: all 22 endings
A 3
aia
ais
ante
E 3
eis
ene
essa
Show all 22 endings (16 more)
I 6
ia
ida
ikleiaFame. The real name Antikleia is glossed "against fame".
inoeMind. The real name Arsinoe is given as "elevated mind".
ione
issa
O 8
o
odikeJustice. The real name Eurydike is glossed "wide justice".
odoraGift. The real name Pandora is read as "all-gifted" or "all-giving".
oe
omacheBattle. The real name Andromache is read as "man battler" or "man's battle".
onikeVictory, with a linking o. The real name Berenike means "bearer of victory".
opeVoice. The real name Kalliope means "beautiful-voiced".
otheaGoddess. The real name Leukothea means "white goddess".
Y 2
ylla
yne
How this list was compiled: 22 endings that real Greek women's names carry. Eight have a line: each follows the meaning the English Wikipedia article on a real name gives (Berenice, Eurydice, Andromache, Pandora, Leucothea, Calliope, Arsinoe, Anticlea; read on 2026-10-03, CC BY-SA 4.0). The endings with a line carry a linking o or i before the meaning part, as real names such as Andromache and Arsinoe do. The other endings are given for their sound only. Own selection. Nothing was cut. Licence: own selection; meanings from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
Kind: all 6 kinds
D 1
drakainaIn Greek myth, a female serpent or dragon, sometimes with humanlike features.
E 2
echidnaIn Greek myth, a monster half woman and half snake who lived alone in a cave; the name means she-viper.
empusaA shape-shifting being of Greek myth, said to have a single leg of copper and to serve the goddess Hecate.
Show all 6 kinds (3 more)
G 1
gorgonOne of three monstrous sisters of Greek myth who could turn anyone who looked at them to stone.
L 1
lamiaIn Greek myth, a queen of ancient Libya who became a monster; in later tradition, a night-haunting spirit.
M 1
mormoA spirit of Greek folklore whose name mothers and nurses called on to make children behave.
How this list was compiled: 6 figures of Greek myth and folklore. Own selection; each line follows the opening of the English Wikipedia article on that figure (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-10-03, and leaves out the grim parts of the tales. Licence: own selection; lines from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
Lair: all 46 lairs
A 22
a boat shed on a lake with no boats
a cellar of broken jars
a cistern nobody draws from
a cliff ledge above the goat path
a courtyard whose fountain ran dry long ago
a dry well under a fig tree
a grotto lit by glowworms
a harbor chain rusted shut
Show all 46 lairs (38 more)
A, continued
a lagoon the maps leave blank
a mosaic floor under the sand
a potter's kiln long cold
a ring of fallen columns
a sea cave with one dry shelf
a shepherd's hut with no door
a silver mine closed for a century
a staircase cut into the cliff
a sunk temple with no roof
a sunken road between two hills
a terrace of abandoned beehives
a tide pool as deep as a house
a warm spring the goats will not drink from
an olive grove gone wild
B 1
the back room of the old library
C 2
the cave of blue echoes
the cold room under the baths
D 2
the drains under the marketplace
the dunes that sing
E 1
the echoing well of the upper town
H 1
the hollow under the old theater
I 1
the island with one cypress
M 1
the marble quarry after dark
O 2
the old aqueduct where it meets the hill
the orchard wall where lizards sun
R 5
the reed beds at the river mouth
the rocks where fishermen never land
the roofless treasury
the roots of the plane tree in the square
the ruined bathhouse on the hill
S 3
the salt pans beyond the harbor
the shade of the last column standing
the signal tower nobody climbs
T 3
the third cave past the lighthouse
the thornbrake by the mill
the top row of the amphitheater
W 2
the warm rocks above the olive press
the warm side of the mountain
How this list was compiled: Our own list of 46 lairs, written on 2026-10-03. Checked by script against every list on this site and on its sister sites; four lines close to a line on another list were rewritten. 6 candidates were cut (6 on another list of this site), among them a bridge nobody finished, a cave behind a waterfall, the spring that runs warm in winter, the empty granary, the tower without a bell, the stream bed in the dry season. Licence: own work