Coven Name Generator

Names for a coven of witches: named for a place, the moon, something darker, or a cosy circle with the kettle on.

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Press Generate Names for 8 coven names.

Tap a name to copy it, or the bookmark to keep it.

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By Rich · Updated 21 October 2026

Example Coven Names

A few names this generator came up with. Tap one to copy it, or press "Generate Names" above for more.

Any · Name only

The Bramble and Hearth Sisterhood
The Crescent Sisterhood
The Pumpkin Lane Coven
The Cauldron Lane Supper Club

Any · With a motto

The Coven of Crooked Elm: “We remember”
The Solstice Coven: “Three times the charm”
The Mandrake Hand: “Root and branch, we are one”
Daughters of the Turning Year: “Thirteen hands, one heart”

Named for a place · With a motto

The Coven of the Drowned Village: “What the moon hears, we keep”
The Coven of Skerry Point: “The old ways endure”
The Coven of Ember Vale: “By thorn and by candle”
The Highcliff Wise Women: “Silence is our first spell”

Moon and seasons · With a motto

Daughters of the Harvest Moon: “The moon keeps her own counsel”
The Waning Circle: “Count the crows”
The Midwinter Hearth: “Our knot will hold”
The Seventh Moon: “Speak to the bees”

Dark · Name only

The Briar Pact
The Nightshade Conclave
The Ninefold Order
The Hollow Thirteen

Cosy · Name only

The Moss and Lavender Society
The Robin and Biscuit Guild
The Candle Lane Club
The Kettle and Apple Gathering

How the Coven Name Generator Works

It works from 221 names and name parts, which combine into over 130,000 possible results.

The choices:

Style: Any, Named for a place, Moon and seasons, Dark, Cosy.
Name format:
- Name only, e.g. The Briar Order
- With a motto, e.g. The Hilltop Wise Women: “Under the hill, over the sea”

Each press gives you 8 names. "Show 8 more" adds 8 you haven't seen yet, until the names for the choices you've made run out.

A coven's name says where its witches meet and what they stand for. This coven name generator makes names for covens in D&D, stories and games, from the Coven of Hollow Oak to the Kettle and Thistle Circle, with a motto if you need one.

Where the word coven comes from

The word: coven comes from the Latin convenire, "to come together", the same root as convent. For centuries it just meant a gathering.
Covens of thirteen: the link with witches comes from Scotland. In 1662 Isobel Gowdie of Auldearn confessed that witches met in covens of thirteen. Her confessions were made under interrogation and say more about the trials than about real witches, but the number stuck.
The idea of an old witch cult was popularised by Margaret Murray's The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921). Historians no longer accept it, but it shaped how covens appear in fiction ever since.
Today some modern pagan and Wiccan groups call themselves covens. The names here are for fiction and games.

Naming your coven

By place: where they meet is the easiest name to believe (the Coven of Black Mere, the Fenland Gathering).
By the moon and the year: moon names and festivals suit a coven that keeps to the old calendar.
Darker: a pact or a covenant sounds like something you can't leave. Good for villains.
Cosy: for a friendlier story, a coven can be a supper club with spells. The Kettle and Crumpet Tea Club still counts.
Add a motto for character: it's what the members say to each other at the door.

To name the witches themselves, try the Witch and Swamp Witch name generators. For other groups, the Guild and Clan generators work the same way.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do covens have thirteen witches?

Because of a 1662 Scottish witch trial confession by Isobel Gowdie, who said witches met in thirteens. Margaret Murray's 1921 book made the idea famous, though historians now reject her theory.

What's a good name for a coven?

Name it for where it meets (the Coven of Hollowmere), for the moon (Daughters of the Hunter's Moon), or for what it stands for. Add a short motto to finish it off.

What's the difference between a coven and a circle?

In fiction they're often the same thing. Circle sounds gentler and more open; coven sounds older and more secret.