This manor name generator names a great house for a story or a game: an invented place name in the English manner, then Manor, Hall, Grange or another kind of house. The list below says what each word once meant.
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Press New manor name. Tap the name or the kind, press its padlock, then press again to change the other. To use it as a mansion name generator, lock Mansion, House or Hall and change the name.
What the kinds meant
A manor house was the main residence of the lord of the manor. Hall came to mean a manor house because a magistrate's court was held in its hall. A grange was first a granary, then a farm, particularly a monastery's. A chase is a country estate where game may be hunted.
Tips
Lock one name and press through the kinds to give an estate its hall, its dower house and its lodge.
Questions and answers
What is a good name for a manor?
A place name of two parts, then the kind of house. The names here join an opening to an ending found in English place names, such as -combe (a valley), -hurst (a wooded hill) or -stead (a place).
What is the difference between a manor and a mansion?
A manor is a landed estate, and its manor house was the main residence of the lord of the manor. A mansion is simply a large dwelling house; the word comes from the Latin mansio, a dwelling.
What does Grange mean in a house name?
Grange first meant a granary. In Britain it came to mean a farm with its buildings, particularly one that belonged to a monastery or a manor.
Are these real houses?
No. Each name was built for this page and searched in name lists, in place lists for the United Kingdom and the United States and across Wikipedia; any name that turned up was cut. A real house may still share one.
How this list was compiled: 99 names for a made-up great house, written for this page in the manner of English place names: an opening joined to an ending such as -combe, -holt, -hurst, -stead or -wold. 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). 138 of 237 candidates were cut (84 set aside on a second reading; 17 a real place; 13 found on English Wikipedia; 11 already on another list of this site; 5 a real first name or surname; 5 a name from published fiction, or one letter from one; 1 a rude word inside the letters; 1 a dictionary word; 1 one letter from a real village). 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. Licence: own work
Kind of house: all 16 kinds of house
Houses 9
CastleA fortified home of a lord or noble; also a house with some features of a medieval castle.
CourtA court is an enclosed space or courtyard, shut in by the walls of a building.
Dower HouseA moderately large house kept for the widow of an estate's previous owner.
HallA manor house: so called because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion.
HouseAn English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.
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Houses, continued
ManorA landed estate or its main house; a manor house was the main residence of the lord of the manor.
MansionA large dwelling house; the word comes from the Latin mansio, a dwelling.
TowerA tower is a tall, narrow structure, standing alone or forming part of a larger one.
VillaOriginally an ancient Roman country house for the upper class, an escape from city life.
Named for the land 4
ChaseIn Britain, a large country estate where game may be hunted.
GrangeFirst a granary; in Britain a farm with its buildings, particularly one that belonged to a monastery or a manor.
LodgeA building for recreational use, such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
ParkIn medieval England a deer park was an enclosed area holding deer, bounded by a ditch and a bank.
Once a religious house 3
AbbeyA monastery headed by an abbot or an abbess; also its buildings.
ManseA house lived in by the minister of a parish; from the Latin for a dwelling.
PrioryA monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.
How this list was compiled: 16 words that great houses carry in their names, with what each word means or once meant. Each line follows the English Wiktionary entry for the word, or the English Wikipedia article Manor house, English country house, Mansion, Villa, Dower house or Deer park (England) (CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-10-03; some lines keep the source's own words. Licence: own selection; meanings from English Wiktionary and English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)