Library Name Generator

One press names a made-up library, says what kind it is and what it keeps.

Library Name Generator: 20 libraries

The Bindery Private Library, which keeps newspapers from the day after every holiday

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  • NameBindery
  • Kind of libraryPrivate Library
  • What it keepsnewspapers from the day after every holiday
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    1. The Leafwright Lending Library, which keeps lists found in the pockets of secondhand coats
    2. The Flyleaf Scriptorium, which keeps nothing published after its founder's birthday
    3. The Dimmerwick Bibliotheca, which keeps comet sightings, each sworn before a witness
    4. The Market Cross Research Library, which keeps newspapers from the day after every holiday
    5. The Everscribe Circulating Library, which keeps a complete set of last year's calendars
    6. The Corrimane Private Library, which keeps postcards with the stamps steamed off
    7. The Elmscribe Subscription Library, which keeps footnotes that outgrew their books
    8. The Dimmerwick Map Library, which keeps recipes nobody has dared to cook
    9. The Tinderquill Map Library, which keeps comet sightings, each sworn before a witness
    10. The Candle Row Reference Library, which keeps sky maps made before the telescope
    11. The Harkenmoot Scriptorium, which keeps puppet plays in six languages
    12. The Candlemoot Research Library, which keeps the diaries of three generations of beekeepers
    13. The Eddlewick Public Library, which keeps fairy tales collected along one long street
    14. The Quirewood Athenaeum, which keeps the founder's shopping lists, in order
    15. The Cloister Circulating Library, which keeps the founder's shopping lists, in order
    16. The Lettermoor Chained Library, which keeps the guest books of hotels long closed
    17. The Gazetteer Bibliotheca, which keeps the diaries of three generations of beekeepers
    18. The Lamplight Repository, which keeps recipes nobody has dared to cook
    19. The Notewick Archive, which keeps the logbooks of every ferry on the river
    20. The Readewick Reading Room, which keeps weather reports for days that never came

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    How it works

    This library name generator builds a library for a story or a game world: an invented name, a real kind of library, explained in the list below, and one odd collection it keeps. It also gives fantasy library names.

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    Name a library

    Press New library name. Tap the name, the kind or the collection, press its padlock, then press again to change the rest. Lock Chained Library and press for the old reading rooms of a whole city.

    What the kinds mean

    An athenaeum is an institution for the advancement of learning, or its reading room. A scriptorium was a writing room in a medieval monastery. In a chained library the books are chained to the bookcase. A circulating library lent books to subscribers for a fee. Bibliotheca is an obsolete word for a library.

    Tips
    • Lock the collection and change the name until the two sound like one place.

    Questions and answers

    What is a good name for a fictional library?

    A founder, a place or a plain word, then an old word for a library: the Inkwell Athenaeum, the Three Owls Archive. One strange collection, such as maps of roads that have moved, gives a story something to find there.

    What are other words for a library?

    Athenaeum, archive, reading room, repository and the obsolete bibliotheca all name a place that keeps books or records. A scriptorium is close, but it was a room where manuscripts were copied.

    What is a chained library?

    A chained library is one where each book is attached to its bookcase by a chain, long enough to take the book from the shelf and read it, but not to remove it from the library.

    Are these real libraries?

    No. They are for stories and games. Each invented name was searched in name lists, place lists and across Wikipedia, and each plain name was searched with every kind as a Wikipedia title. A small real library may still share a name.

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    Name: all 93 names

    Made-up founders and places 59

    • Alcovering
    • Aldermoot
    • Ambrewick
    • Ashgrover
    • Bindlewick
    • Brindlowe
    • Candlemoot
    • Corrimane
    Show all 93 names (85 more)

    Made-up founders and places, continued

    • Dimmerwick
    • Dovewright
    • Eddlewick
    • Elmscribe
    • Everscribe
    • Fablecombe
    • Fennelwright
    • Fenniquill
    • Garrowind
    • Gatherwick
    • Gildwright
    • Glossenby
    • Harkenmoot
    • Ibberley
    • Jostlewood
    • Jotterby
    • Keeperwick
    • Kessenwright
    • Leafwright
    • Lettermoor
    • Linnetwick
    • Margerwick
    • Mossquill
    • Mullionby
    • Notewick
    • Orrinsby
    • Owlmoot
    • Pagewick
    • Parchwick
    • Pennyquill
    • Plumwright
    • Quirewood
    • Readewick
    • Rookscombe
    • Saffronby
    • Scrivenby
    • Sedgemoot
    • Tallisby
    • Tallowmoot
    • Thimblemoot
    • Tinderquill
    • Tolleringham
    • Tomeley
    • Vellacombe
    • Velloway
    • Vellumby
    • Vossinger
    • Whisperwick
    • Wordwick
    • Wrenlowe
    • Yewmoot

    Plain words 34

    • Abecedary
    • Almanac
    • Bell Lane
    • Bindery
    • Blue Door
    • Bookmark
    • Bookworm
    • Candle Row
    • Card Catalog
    • Cloister
    • Colophon
    • Corner Stair
    • Dog-Ear
    • East Gate
    • Ferry Street
    • Flyleaf
    • Frontispiece
    • Gazetteer
    • Hourglass
    • Inkwell
    • Lamplight
    • Long Gallery
    • Marginalia
    • Market Cross
    • Old Granary
    • Palimpsest
    • Paper Kite
    • Quire
    • Reading Lamp
    • Seven Bells
    • Sundial
    • Tallow Yard
    • Three Owls
    • Vellum

    How this list was compiled: 93 names for a made-up library in a story or a game, written for this page: invented names of founders and places, and plain names taken from the parts of a book and the corners of an old town. Each made-up name was checked by script on 2026-10-03 against a dictionary, lists of first names and surnames, GeoNames places (towns of the world, and every name in the tables for the United Kingdom and the United States, also with the spaces taken out; https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/, CC BY 4.0), names from published fiction, every list on this site, the page titles of English Wikipedia and a full-text search of English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0). 62 of 121 candidates were cut (48 set aside on a second reading; 7 found on English Wikipedia; 3 already on another list of this site; 1 a real first name or surname; 1 a real place; 1 a rude word inside the letters; 1 one letter from the name of a real library). The names come from one list kept for all the made-up place pages of this site, so none is on two pages. No list of names is complete, so search a name before you publish it. Each plain name was also searched with every kind on this page as a page title of English Wikipedia. Two plain names were cut after that search because a library with its own English Wikipedia article carries the name. Licence: own work

    Kind of library: all 17 kinds of library

    Libraries today 10

    • Archive An accumulation of historical records, or the building where they are kept.
    • Lending Library A library from which books and other media are lent out.
    • Library An institution that holds books and other media for people to use, often lending them out.
    • Map Library A storage place for maps, usually in a library, an archive or a museum.
    Show all 17 kinds of library (13 more)

    Libraries today, continued

    • Private Library Privately owned, and usually meant for a small number of people or just one.
    • Public Library A library open to the general public and usually paid for from public sources such as taxes.
    • Reading Room A space in a library set aside for reading; also a name for a reference library.
    • Reference Library A library that collects only reference books, which may not be lent out.
    • Repository A place of storage, often for safety or preservation.
    • Research Library Holds an in-depth collection of material on one or several subjects.

    Older kinds and older words 7

    • Athenaeum An institution for the advancement of learning, or its reading room or library; first a temple of the goddess Athena.
    • Bibliotheca An obsolete word for a library, from Latin and before that Greek.
    • Chained Library A library whose books are chained to the bookcase: they can be taken down and read but not carried off.
    • Circulating Library Lent books to subscribers for a fee, and was first of all a business.
    • Scriptorium A writing room in a medieval European monastery, where scribes copied and illuminated manuscripts.
    • Subscription Library Paid for by members' fees or endowments; historically a predecessor of the public library.
    • Tabularium Named for the official records office of ancient Rome.

    How this list was compiled: 17 kinds of library, with what each name means or once meant. Each line follows the English Wikipedia article on that kind (Library, Scriptorium, Chained library, Archive and the others), or for library, reference library, reading room, repository, athenaeum and bibliotheca the English Wiktionary entry (CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-10-03; some lines keep the source's own words. Licence: own selection; meanings from English Wikipedia and English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

    What it keeps: all 59 collections

    A 8

    • a card catalog of local echoes
    • a complete set of last year's calendars
    • a dictionary of a language with nine speakers
    • a growing shelf of books still being written
    • a shelf of books bound in sailcloth
    • a yearly census of the town's cats
    • the answers to a century of crossword puzzles
    • atlases of islands nobody has found twice
    Show all 59 collections (51 more)

    B 3

    • bedtime stories that were never finished
    • birdsong written down as sheet music
    • books that arrived with no author and no title

    C 4

    • chess games written down move by move
    • the collected excuses of late students
    • comet sightings, each sworn before a witness
    • cookbooks missing their final recipe

    D 2

    • the diaries of its own night watchmen
    • the diaries of three generations of beekeepers

    E 1

    • every almanac since the flood

    F 5

    • fairy tales collected along one long street
    • field guides to animals seen only once
    • the first drafts of famous apologies
    • footnotes that outgrew their books
    • the founder's shopping lists, in order

    G 1

    • the guest books of hotels long closed

    H 1

    • handwriting samples from every mayor

    K 1

    • knitting patterns for lighthouse keepers' sweaters

    L 4

    • letters addressed only to the finder
    • lists found in the pockets of secondhand coats
    • the logbooks of every ferry on the river
    • lullabies in forty dialects

    M 5

    • manuals for machines that no longer exist
    • manuals of knots, with the knots attached
    • maps of roads that have moved
    • the margins of other libraries' books, copied out
    • the minutes of a club with one member

    N 3

    • newspapers from the day after every holiday
    • the notebooks of a clockmaker who never finished a clock
    • nothing published after its founder's birthday

    O 3

    • one book for every chimney in the town
    • one copy of every book ever returned late
    • only books that have been read aloud

    P 5

    • pattern books for kites
    • plans for bridges that were voted down
    • postcards with the stamps steamed off
    • pressed leaves from trees since cut down
    • puppet plays in six languages

    R 3

    • recipes nobody has dared to cook
    • riddles, with their answers filed in another room
    • the rule books of forgotten games

    S 6

    • scrapbooks kept by the lighthouse school
    • seed packets pressed flat like flowers
    • ship logs that stop in the middle of a sentence
    • sketchbooks left behind on trains
    • sky maps made before the telescope
    • songbooks with the tunes left blank

    T 3

    • tide tables for an inland lake
    • timetables for a railway that was never built
    • travel guides to places that changed their names

    W 1

    • weather reports for days that never came

    How this list was compiled: Our own list of 59 collections for a made-up library, written on 2026-10-03 and checked by script against every list on this site. They are invented and describe no real library. Licence: own work