Orphanage Name Generator

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Orphanage Name Generator: 20 orphanage names

The Fullergate Bluecoat School

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  • PatronThe Fullergate
  • Kind of homeBluecoat School
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    1. St. Leofrith's Ragged School
    2. Captain Ullimore's Home for Children
    3. Miss Warmfold's Foundling Hospital
    4. St. Osmerith's Foundling Home
    5. Lady Merriby's Orphan School
    6. Lady Thwaitley's Charity School
    7. St. Eadreth's Orphan Asylum
    8. St. Cenreth's Bluecoat School
    9. Alderman Brightfold's Orphanage
    10. St. Mildwenna's Cottage Homes
    11. Miss Ellowlock's Children's Home
    12. The Vessick Street Charity School
    13. The Lorimergate Home for Children
    14. Lady Merrilock's Foundling Home
    15. The Glovergate Foundling Home
    16. St. Guthwyn's Foundling Home
    17. St. Frithwin's Orphan School
    18. St. Guthwyn's Ragged School
    19. The Spindlegate Refuge
    20. St. Cenreth's Foundling Home

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    How it works

    This orphanage name generator names a children's home for a story or a game: an invented patron, then a name that homes and charity schools for orphaned or poor children really carried, each explained in the list below.

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    Press New orphanage name. Tap the patron or the kind, press its padlock, then press again to change the other. Lock Foundling Hospital or Ragged School for a story set long ago.

    What the names meant

    A foundling hospital took in foundlings and was less a medical hospital than a home that gave shelter and education. A ragged school gave free schooling to the poorest children of 19th-century Britain. A bluecoat school is a type of charity school. An asylum is a place of safety or refuge.

    Questions and answers

    What is a good name for an orphanage in a story?

    A patron, then the word for the home. The patron can be a saint, a founder or the street the home stands on. Every patron on this page is invented.

    What is another word for an orphanage?

    Children's home is the plain term. Older names include foundling hospital and orphan asylum; each has a line in the list below saying what it meant.

    What was a ragged school?

    Ragged schools were charities in 19th-century Britain that gave free education to destitute children. The name came from the ragged clothing of the pupils.

    Are these real places?

    No. Every patron is invented, and each name was searched in name lists, place lists and across Wikipedia so that no real institution or saint listed there is named. The kinds are real terms. The page describes no real child.

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    Patron: all 75 patrons

    Made-up saints 26

    • St. Bedwenna's
    • St. Beornwen's
    • St. Cenreth's
    • St. Ceolwin's
    • St. Cynwara's
    • St. Eadreth's
    • St. Felwenna's
    • St. Frithwin's
    • St. Godreth's
    • St. Gundrith's
    • St. Guthwyn's
    • St. Hildwyn's
    Show all 75 patrons (63 more)

    Made-up saints, continued

    • St. Leofrith's
    • St. Leofwara's
    • St. Lullwin's
    • St. Mildwenna's
    • St. Nothwin's
    • St. Ormwen's
    • St. Osmerith's
    • St. Selwara's
    • St. Sigwenna's
    • St. Thurwen's
    • St. Tidreth's
    • St. Ulfrith's
    • St. Wigwen's
    • St. Winreth's

    Made-up founders 28

    • Alderman Arbuthwick's
    • Alderman Brightfold's
    • Alderman Jessamore's
    • Alderman Jollifield's
    • Captain Elmsworthy's
    • Captain Fallerby's
    • Captain Ullimore's
    • Captain Wellfold's
    • Dame Gentlefold's
    • Dame Hathermoor's
    • Dame Nollingby's
    • Dame Wetherlock's
    • Dr. Dallisford's
    • Dr. Kellowby's
    • Dr. Kindlock's
    • Dr. Peacefold's
    • Lady Garrowick's
    • Lady Merriby's
    • Lady Merrilock's
    • Lady Thwaitley's
    • Miss Ellowlock's
    • Miss Sennimore's
    • Miss Warmfold's
    • Miss Wetherwick's
    • Mother Bellowby's
    • Mother Jessopley's
    • Mother Rillingby's
    • Mother Truefold's

    Made-up streets 21

    • The Bakergate
    • The Candlegate
    • The Cutlergate
    • The Dyergate
    • The Farrery Lane
    • The Fullergate
    • The Glovergate
    • The Hattergate
    • The Innery Row
    • The Jossery Street
    • The Lorimergate
    • The Marrowbank
    • The Mercergate
    • The Saddlergate
    • The Spindlegate
    • The Tallowgate
    • The Tannergate
    • The Thimblegate
    • The Vessick Street
    • The Weavergate
    • The Wickergate

    How this list was compiled: 75 made-up patrons for a children's home in a story: a saint-style name, a founder or the street the home stands on. Every name is invented; no real saint, person or street is meant. 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). 149 of 224 candidates were cut (42 a real place; 35 found on English Wikipedia; 21 already on another list of this site; 20 a name from published fiction, or one letter from one; 12 a real first name or surname; 8 set aside on a second reading; 5 one letter from the name of a real saint; 4 a dictionary word; 2 a rude word inside the letters). 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 home: all 12 kinds of home

    Plain names 5

    • Children's Home A home for the care and protection of children whose parents have died or can no longer care for them.
    • Cottage Homes Homes where house parents live with a small group of children on one campus.
    • Home for Children A children's home: long-term care for children who cannot stay with a family or a guardian.
    • Orphanage A residential institution for the care and protection of orphans.
    • Refuge A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
    Show all 12 kinds of home (7 more)

    Older names 7

    • Bluecoat School A type of charity school in England and Ireland; the first was founded in the 16th century.
    • Charity School In England, a school kept up by the gifts of a parish to teach poor children to read and write.
    • Foundling Home A foundling is an abandoned child, often a baby left at a safe place to be found.
    • Foundling Hospital First an institution that took in foundlings; less a medical hospital than a home that gave shelter and education.
    • Orphan Asylum An asylum is a place of safety or refuge.
    • Orphan School An institution for the education of children whose families cannot afford to have them educated.
    • Ragged School A charity in 19th-century Britain that gave free schooling to the poorest children; named for their ragged clothing.

    How this list was compiled: 12 names that homes and charity schools for orphaned or poor children have carried, with what each term means or meant. Each line follows the English Wikipedia article (Foundling hospital, Ragged school, Charity school, Bluecoat school, Orphan school, Children's home, Cottage homes) or the English Wiktionary entry (orphanage, children's home, foundling, asylum, refuge, ragged school; CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-10-03; some lines keep the source's own words. The lines say what the words meant and describe no real child. Licence: own selection; meanings from English Wikipedia and English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)