Lich Name Generator

Names for liches, the undead archmages who hide their souls in a phylactery.

Style

Name format

Press Generate Names for 8 lich names.

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

black shadow = tap it

By Rich · Updated 22 October 2026

Example Lich Names

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

Any · Name only

First Necromancer Nerissa
Pale Monarch Sepharine
The Withered Lich of the Iron Tomb
Dread Sovereign Lucretia

Any · With a title

Xarthuun of the Hidden Phylactery
Vexyss the Deathless
The Lich of the Glass Coffin
The Lich of the Frozen Crypt

Ancient · Name only

Ithuul
Yrith
Ulos
Zhulrax

Fallen archmage · Name only

Magus Zoltan
High Sorcerer Orvane
Grand Magister Malgrave
Archmage Hespera

Fallen archmage · With a title

Deathless Magister Tiberion the Undying
Arch-Lich Morvane, Lord of the Undead
Archon Dravos, Master of the Necropolis
Grand Magister Valdris the Bone-Crowned

Named for its tomb · Name only

The Lich of the Sunken Vault
The Crowned Lich of the Black Pyramid
The Lich of the Silent Necropolis
The Sleepless Lich of the Bone Spire

How the Lich Name Generator Works

It works from 100 names and name parts, which combine into over 5,900 possible results.

The choices:

Style: Any, Ancient, Fallen archmage, Named for its tomb.
Name format:
- Name only, e.g. The Lich of the Frozen Crypt
- With a title, e.g. The Lich of the Starless Observatory

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 lich is a wizard who has chosen undeath, binding their soul into a hidden phylactery so they can't truly die. In D&D they are among the most feared villains. This lich name generator makes ancient sorcerous names, fallen archmages with a title, and liches named for the tomb where they wait.

What is a lich?

A lich is a spellcaster who has made themselves undead to live forever, hiding their soul in an object called a phylactery.

The word: lich is Old English for a corpse, the same word as in lychgate, the roofed church gate where a coffin waited.
The phylactery: while it survives, the lich can't truly die. Destroy it, and the lich can be finished for good.
Famous liches belong to other worlds: Vecna, Acererak of the 1978 adventure Tomb of Horrors, Szass Tam and Larloch of the Forgotten Realms, and Kel'Thuzad of Warcraft. They're all left out here, so every name is new.

Naming a lich

Ancient names sound like they were old before the kingdom was founded: Xarthuun, Ozrekh.
Fallen archmages keep their old rank: Archmage Valdris, First Necromancer Caligo.
Tomb names are what the villagers call it: the Lich of the Sunken Vault.

For the lich before it died, try the Necromancer and Wizard name generators.

For every class and race, see all the D&D name generators.