What are some good names for dragons?

[Yqatuba]

I like names that relate to the dragon's color, element, or other theme somehow. Such as Caustica the copper dragon or Vermillia the red dragon.

[Guinness530]

I always had old school Hebrew angel/devil names for my dragons.They would have elemental/color based names known to the normal races but those names come from survivors/witnesses

[Guinness530]

I had this one dragon named Haborym that wound up being a recurring adversary for the region across two campaigns. The players christened him, rather unimaginatively, as Emberwing. Pretty sure that name was from Dragonlance.

[lemeres]

Benedictus Raylisia Piakhan Raokones Nafplion Nistiamat Karusearin Valakas Shyanso Karuddanthes Nesaria the Third.

For the dragon that believes having a long name makes him sound more important (note- this is a reference to something that is itself a reference to like... a dozen other things).

[Omnius]

Aden, Lung, Masaru, Ryumyo, Arleesh, Hualpa, Mujaji, Alamais, Celedyr, Dunkelzahn, Feuerschwinge, Ghostwalker, Hestaby, Kaltenstein, Lofwyr, Nachtmeister, Rhonabwy, Schwartzkopf, Sirrurg...

[Davor]

I have a half-red white dragon that I recycle every yule season called Santaralax.

[Darigaaz the Igniter]

Depends on how old they are. Young dragons might choose a name like Scorch or Frostbite. Older dragons tend to pick up extra syllables every age category or so, giving you things like Garstimalix or Elaborixtalif.

[Gyre Glenross]

Esmeralda the Green Queen.

Obsidian.

Lord Cerulean.

Dar'thenogellarh.

Aashvimaantiss.

[Mystic_Snowfang]

We talking true dragons or just any dragon at all?

Because I've always wanted to see a dragon called Strawberry. Maybe a red Dragonkin.

[UnArcaneElection]

Nobody thought of Puff?

[Isonaroc]

Vermithrax Pejorative has always been my favorite dragon name.

[lemeres]

Mystic_Snowfang wrote:

We talking true dragons or just any dragon at all?

Because I've always wanted to see a dragon called Strawberry. Maybe a red Dragonkin.

That question is interesting. Because it first lead me to an image- a wyvern rubbing all 7 of its intelligence points together in order to try to make an important sounding name.

[dragonhunterq]

I've taken to using google translate as a starting point.
So for a blue dragon stick in lightning bolt and flip through some languages til you get something interesting looking like Turkish - Yildirim civatasi then just mess about with it a bit, maybe end up with Yilvatasi.

[Claxon]

Can I just mention how I feel the name "Drogon" is a stupid name for a dragon.

[DungeonmasterCal]

I once ran a recurring villainous blue dragon named Thunderstriker and a young red named Spitfire. Since then I've tried to become more elaborate with the dragon names. The names are of course in Draconic and "translated" so the players can understand them (unless they speak Draconic, of course).

Since then I've had a silver dragon named Argent Splendor Ascending, a green named Lord of the Verdant Shadows, a gold named Reflection of the Fires of the Sun, and a red named Master of the Burning Pyre.

[The Sideromancer]

Claxon wrote:

Can I just mention how I feel the name "Drogon" is a stupid name for a dragon.

You mean Draygon? or maybe the Dargon? maybe a Dreigon? At least its not Hewdraw...

start checking for references now!

[hellatze]

Dragonator.

[UnArcaneElection]

^That's reserved for Cyborg Dragons.

[lemeres]

UnArcaneElection wrote:

^That's reserved for Cyborg Dragons.

that is the dragon that was converted into a cyborg monster truck.

[Steelfiredragon]

Charath'rixakits

Z'hartothsim

Atrisix'ims

Meth'oxis( or Meth for short, yes a crystal dragon)

Ox'yokodone

Cyrith'ongolatra

Menzopaltrisa

An'gora'thrax

Anthrax( works best if your dragon breathes poison)

Xeroxescarbone
Dicti'thesaur'grim

now maybe you should have axed for easily pronounceable names

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

Harold.

[pad300]

Facechewer the PC Shredder...

[arkham]

Look at prescription medicines for names.

Methimazole
Prednizalone
Chlortrimatole

[Slim Jim]

Clyde.

[Tim Emrick]

In a GURPS campaign I ran ages ago, there was a recurring dragon NPC named Thastygliax. I started using his name as a username for email and various forums because I could be pretty confidant nobody had taken it yet. ;)

My current homebrew campaign has a couple dragons that feature prominently in the continent's history. Amargon was a blue dragon who, some centuries ago, ruled the desert that now bears his name. Zoloth, the Emerald Queen, is a green dragon who rules a kobold empire; her forces conquered much of the high elves' homeland several years before the game started. The viceroy of the occupying army is a half-dragon named Thraximandrykar.

[Anthony - Griffon Lore Games]

Flameamaxextreme Meltyourface

[cannen144]

I was once asked to come up with a name for a dragon by one of my players. Being that I was unprepared for this as the dragon was more of a setting piece, I ended up coming up with "Spicy Steve".

So not Spicy Steve.

[Tinalles]

Some names I've used for dragons.

Verseelax

Terinax

Vernalia

Shar-Besan

So many stories attached to those names! But I'll spare you.

Some names I'd like to use for dragons:

Beryllian

Ferox

Cirosian (the C is an S sound)

There are a few other ones from assorted APs and modules, but none that have really played important campaign roles.

[Bwang]

I figure every people around a dragon will call it different things and since my cultures use real languages and naming conventions, I use translation programs and botch the results. I stopped color coding Dragons in '76, so the actual legends about dragons get important.

The relevant Dragons are Feria Ackgurinc (soft on last c, an armored monster with caustic breath and bite) and Narcisius Forin Descanin (Watre based with a 'drying' aura and powerful presence). Or to paraphrase a player: The A10 and the Sirocco on uppers.

[UnArcaneElection]

cannen144 wrote:

I was once asked to come up with a name for a dragon by one of my players. Being that I was unprepared for this as the dragon was more of a setting piece, I ended up coming up with "Spicy Steve".

So not Spicy Steve.

That depends. For a Dragon that eats a lot of beans and spices, and has the hitherto unknown Dragon feat Bidirectional Breath Weapon, this might be the ticket . . . .

[TheNine]

Had a table favorite mercury dragon named Talrazinorinar. High pitched hyperactive super fast talker, quite the pratical joker, super helpful and nice if you put up with his pranks.

[Cuup]

I usually incorporate the color/element of a dragon into its name.

I named a Gold Dragon Galdoran
I named a Bronze Dragon Claydum (Clay and Bronze are close in color, right? :p)
I named a Blue Dragon Bo'Leighre (Bo - Lie - Reh; Bolt of lightning)

Pretty much every "dragon name generator" I've found has been too campy or cliche for me to stomach, but I like the above method very much. Also, I hate to admit it, but the Eragon book series contains some pretty cool dragon names that don't fall into the campy or cliche lot (imo).

[Malachandra]

Dotted

[Brolof]

I usually pair a dragon's name with a title, something menacing and memorable. Things like the Great Wyrm Void Dragon, Zy'alourthia the Lord of the Dark Expanse. Or the Great Red Wyrm, Scarlifrax the Fire Within.

[HWalsh]

I tend to follow Paizo's name scheme, where Dragons have overly complex names.

(See Iomedae's Herald's name)

As such every Dragon will have 2 names.
1. A name in Draconic
2. A name in Common

In Draconic the name is usually a phrase:
"Born in the fires of destruction" Might be a Red Dragon's "Draconic Name" while they may say, "Human's call me Flame Wing."

[blahpers]

In my campaign, a dragon's true name is the sound of its roar and the measure of its breath. This isn't a problem for dragons--in general, when a dragon greets another dragon, they speak their own name rather than that of the addressee.

When a dragon is referred to by some other name, it is generally one created by those who fear said dragon. A dragon hoards names given by lesser creatures in much the same fashion as they hoard treasure.

[Darigaaz the Igniter]

Claxon wrote:

Can I just mention how I feel the name "Drogon" is a stupid name for a dragon.

Probably spent a lot of time as a wyrmling in the company of Hugh Mann.

[Steelfiredragon]

Shamekatherusaintit

[Scott Wilhelm]

I like Dickensian names.

There was a Dragon named Smaug: how about Dragons named Chloroflorocarbon, Acid Rain, or Ozone?

In an old Infocom adventure, there was referenced a Dragon name Thermofax. How about a dragon named Netscape, Cray, or Sun?

I think about dragon hoards and the effect they have on their local economies. How about Magnetar or Goldmansax? Bernieponzie? Ponzimadoff? Or maybe just Trickledown?

UnArcaneElection wrote:

That's reserved for Cyborg Dragons.

My Cyborg Dragon is named Roboforclosure.

I'd get a stomach ache if I new I were facing the Dragon Helicobactor Pylori!

DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

Harold.

Some dragons can Polymorph and live long lives as people. You'd never know they were Dragons. But everyone in my elementary school was afraid of Mrs. Levinson...

Or maybe your librarian was a Polymorphed Gold Dragon and the books are her hoard. You know that sweet, blue-haired old lady in a yellow cardigan and wing-tipped glasses hanging from a chain around her neck who is slow to anger but quick to find the ancient text about Hobgoblin wars. Weeks later, the party is paraded in front of the Hobgoblin garrison to be publicly executed, the crowd parts in a hushed silence as that same Librarian comes up to the party, nooses around their necks, demanding the return of the late library book and a 4sp fine, each! Now the party is in real trouble...

[Aristophanes]

Most Dragons that I have met prefer to be called "Master".

[AlleRacing]

dragonhunterq wrote:

I've taken to using google translate as a starting point.

So for a blue dragon stick in lightning bolt and flip through some languages til you get something interesting looking like Turkish - Yildirim civatasi then just mess about with it a bit, maybe end up with Yilvatasi.

This is my go to method of naming things, and it tends to work out.

[Mark Hoover 330]

Scott Wilhelm wrote:

Some dragons can Polymorph and live long lives as people. You'd never know they were Dragons. But everyone in my elementary school was afraid of Mrs. Levinson...

Or maybe your librarian was a Polymorphed Gold Dragon and the books are her hoard. You know that sweet, blue-haired old lady in a yellow cardigan and wing-tipped glasses hanging from a chain around her neck who is slow to anger but quick to find the ancient text about Hobgoblin wars. Weeks later, the party is paraded in front of the Hobgoblin garrison to be publicly executed, the crowd parts in a hushed silence as that same Librarian comes up to the party, nooses around their necks, demanding the return of the late library book and a 4sp fine, each! Now the party is in real trouble...

I'm watching you Wizowski... ALWAYSSSS watching you!

[Isonaroc]

Claxon wrote:

Can I just mention how I feel the name "Drogon" is a stupid name for a dragon.

In fairness, it was named after a dude named Drogo.

[The Thing From Another World]

Their is also this helpful link for those who don't know about it:

Fantasy Name Generator

[Niemand]

you can't go wrong with "Zathras"...

[My Life Is In Ruins]

I use latin, greek, phoenician roots along with Quenya.

[UnArcaneElection]

Niemand wrote:

you can't go wrong with "Zathras"...

Would have to be not one of those obnoxious Idle Rich Dragons with a flashy hoard, but a really working-class Dragon . . . With instead a great collection of tools (in which it is sometimes hard to find the right one . . .).

[Will.Spencer]

Some from published adventures, some from my own naming:

Brass:

• Fidelizzas
  
• Vyraxis
  
• Assarriah
  
• Kharumm
  
• Miliah
  
• Caliax
  
• Trumpet
  
• Trombone
  
• Cornet
  
• Cezar
  
• Cuzn
  

Bronze:

• Murkey
  
• Tiruvinn
  
• Romulus
  
• Remus
  
• Vaihtualohikaarme
  
• Lightspar
  
• Seaquake
  
• Aezenstar
  

Copper:

• Tzzerymgrl
  
• Cuprum
  
• Zonaladin
  
• Maghara
  
• Rokiere
  
• Spargonitus
  
• Sienna
  
• Lycaenid
  
• Sepia
  
• Penny
  
• Cu
  

Gold:

• Syana
  
• Paladraum
  
• Goldwing
  
• Aurilias
  
• Dracaur
  
• Vellumthrax
  
• Renaissance
  
• Aurum
  
• Serendipity
  

Silver:

• Amvarean
  
• Saggarintys
  
• Myrkjartan
  
• Ysar'n Drax
  
• Lashonna
  
• Avaleru
  
• Sumerthain
  
• Glistern
  
• Scrilmeiis
  
• Fortuna
  

[Omnius]

Slab Bulkhead!
Fridge Largemeat!
Punt Speedchunk!
Butch Deadlift!
Bold Bigflank!
Splint Chesthair!
Flint Ironstag!
Bolt Vanderhuge!
Thick McRunfast!
Buff Drinklots!
Trunk Slamchest!
Fist Rockbone!
Stump Beefknob!
Smash Lampjaw!
Punch Rockgroin!
Buck Plankchest!
Stump Chunkmen!
Dirk Hardpec!
Rip Steakface!
Slate Slabrock!
Crud Bonemeal!
Brick HardMeat!
Rip Slagcheek!
Punch Sideiron!
Gristle McThornbody!
Slate Fistcrunch!
Buff Hardback!
Bob Johnson!
Blast Thickneck!
Crunch Buttsteak!
Slab Squatthrust!
Lump Beefbroth!
Touch Rustrod!
Reef Blastbody!
Big McLargeHuge!
Smoke ManMuscle!
Eat Punchbeef!
Hack Blowfist!
Roll Fizzlebeef!
Blast Hardcheese!

[Will.Spencer]

@Omnius:

Those must be the half-red-dragon half-goblins I read so much about.