A vampire on their own is a monster; a vampire with a clan has history, rivals and rules. This vampire clan name generator names noble houses, dark courts and orders, ancient bloodlines and modern societies of the night, with a motto to carve over the door.
How vampire clans got their names
Vampires became aristocrats in fiction long before they became clans.
- The noble vampire arrived with John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), whose Lord Ruthven moves through London society. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) kept the titles and the old family names.
- Clans and bloodlines came later, above all from the tabletop game Vampire: The Masquerade (1991), where every vampire belongs to a clan with its own nature and its own enemies.
- Houses, courts and orders borrow from real history: noble houses, royal courts and religious orders, each with a hierarchy and a motto.
The generator makes new names in those patterns. It leaves out clans that belong to other stories, like Vampire: The Masquerade's, or the Cullens and Volturi of Twilight.
Choosing a clan name
A clan name should tell you how old the clan is and how it hunts.
- A house (House Severin) is old money: a family with a castle and a portrait gallery.
- A court or order (the Order of the Last Candle) is about rules and rank.
- A bloodline traces everyone back to one sire, so it's named for them.
- A modern society (the Neon Union) meets in a club rather than a crypt.
- Add a motto to give the clan something to live by, and to break.
To name the vampires themselves, try the Vampire Name Generator. For their rivals, there's the Werewolf Pack Name Generator, and for a gathering of witches, the Coven Name Generator.