Plane Name Generator

Names for D&D planes, demiplanes and other dimensions, from bright heavens to roiling chaos.

Style

Name format

Press Generate Names for 8 plane names.

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

black shadow = tap it

By Rich · Updated 29 October 2026

Example Plane Names

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

Any style · Name only

Ulekh
The Plane of Living Lava
The Pearl-Grey Shallows
The Plane of Endless Tides

Elemental · Name only

Pyrethra
The Rime Fields
The Five Iron Peaks
The Four Smoking Peaks

Heavenly · Name only

The Golden Vineyards
The Meadows of Seven Fountains
Elarura
The Mountain of the Kind Sun

Infernal · With a description

Bezimor, ruled by a duke who has never lost a bargain
The Kilns of Iron Chains, where a single bell tolls every time a soul is claimed
The Iron-Gated Terraces, home to an army that has marched for ten thousand years
The Courts of Forfeit Souls, a frozen plane where the fires burn blue and cold

Fey and shadow · With a description

The Thirteen Hollow Hills, home to pixies, hags and the Antlered King's hunt
The Starless Hedge, where the flowers are as tall as towers
The Wood of Fallen Leaves, home to the shadow folk, who trade in lost memories
The Silver-Leafed Courts, whose forests move when no one is looking

Astral/dream · With a description

The Pearl-Grey Spiral, where nothing ages and nobody needs to eat
The Star-Strewn Lagoon, home to dream eaters, astral pirates and lost souls
The Nine Silver Stairs, where nightmares gather in dark clouds on the horizon
The Starlit Mists, whose islands are the bodies of forgotten gods

How the Plane Name Generator Works

It works from 1,863 names and name parts, which combine into over 33,000 possible results.

The choices:

Style: Any style, Elemental, Heavenly, Infernal, Fey and shadow, Astral/dream, Chaotic.
Name format:
- Name only, e.g. The Hundred Golden Stairs
- With a description, e.g. Halura, where the souls of the good rest in endless gardens

Each press gives you 8 names. "Show 8 more" adds 8 you haven't seen yet. Once you've seen them all, "Start again" shuffles the whole list again.

Good plane names, in the D&D sense of planes of existence rather than aeroplanes, describe what the place is made of or what it's for: The Brine Ocean for an elemental plane, The Ivory Terraces for a heaven, The Tiers of Sealed Fates for a hell. This plane name generator names D&D planes of existence and other dimensions: elemental planes, heavens, hells, fey and shadow realms, astral and dream planes, and planes of pure chaos, with a short description if you want one.

Eight good plane names

All eight came from the generator, across its six styles:

Caldira, Plane of Boiling Seas: an elemental plane with a name and a title, so players can say either.
The Twelve Floating Mountains: an earth and air plane described in four words.
The Ivory Terraces, where the souls of the good rest in endless gardens: a heaven built in levels, which gives the party somewhere to climb.
The Tiers of the Tally, where the air smells of sulphur and old parchment: a hell run on paperwork.
The Glimmering Courts, where travellers who eat the food can never leave: a fey plane with the oldest fairy rule of all.
Palehollow, a grey echo of the world where colours drain away and sounds grow faint: a shadow plane in a single word.
The Drift of Waking Dreams, a starry void crossed by ships with silver sails: an astral plane for travelling through.
Skrelurra, where gravity is a suggestion rather than a rule: a chaos plane with harsh sounds to match.

Planes in D&D and before it

The idea of an astral plane is older than the game. It came from 19th-century occultism and Theosophy, which described layers of existence beyond the physical world. D&D took the word and built a whole cosmology on it.

The Inner Planes are the elements: fire, water, air and earth, and the places where they meet.
The Outer Planes are the realms of gods and the afterlife, from the heavens to the hells. Earlier editions arranged them in a ring known as the Great Wheel.
The Feywild and the Shadowfell are the 5th edition's echoes of the mortal world: one brighter and wilder, the other grey and drained of life.
The Astral Plane is the silvery space between them, crossed by travellers and their ships.

The generator follows the same divisions, so its names slot into a D&D cosmology or your own. Choose With a description for a line about what's there.

Building your own cosmology

Name planes after what they're made of or who lives there. Players remember "the hell of contracts" better than an invented word.
Use a short name and a long one: Caldira in conversation, Plane of Boiling Seas on the map.
Give each plane one rule that makes it different, like not eating the food, or gravity that changes.

For the hells in more detail, try the Demon Realm Name Generator, and for the powers who rule the planes, the God Name Generator. For the world they all surround, there's the World Name Generator.

For more, see all the world-building name generators.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are some good D&D plane names?

Names that describe the plane, like The Brine Ocean for an elemental plane, The Ivory Terraces for a heaven, or Palehollow for a shadow realm. Choose a style for elemental, heavenly, infernal, fey, astral or chaotic planes.

What is a plane of existence?

In D&D and other fantasy, a separate world or dimension beyond the ordinary one: the elemental planes, the heavens and hells, the realm of the fey, or the starry Astral Plane between them.

Are these the official D&D planes?

No. They're new names in the same style, so you can add them to an existing D&D cosmology or build your own without borrowing from a published setting.