100 Orc & Goblin Names with Meanings for D&D and Fantasy

Giant's Heart; a name suggesting immense courage and physical endurance

Thunder Strike; named for the sound of his blows in battle

Blood Fury; one who enters a berserker rage on the battlefield

Iron Fist; unyielding and merciless in combat

Bone Breaker; feared for devastating strength

Dark Chieftain; a name reserved for those who lead through fear

Ash Walker; survivor of scorched lands and burned villages

Skull Boaster; one who wears the skulls of defeated chieftains as trophies

Fire Fang; one whose bite is as dangerous as flame

Terror; a name spoken as a curse by enemies

War Born; delivered on the battlefield, destined to fight

Storm Bringer; associated with destruction and chaos

Skull Keeper; collects trophies from fallen foes

Death Howl; his war cry signals slaughter

Relentless; one who never stops advancing

Mountain Jaw; unbreakable, immovable in defense

Bitter Blade; a warrior whose weapon has tasted too much blood

Burning One; from the old tongue for dragonfire

Tower of Ash; from Black Speech lug (tower) and dush (sorcery). A warrior-shaman who channels dark power through brute force.

Gut Ripper; named for his preferred method of killing

Tower of Chains; a slaver and captor of enemies

Slave; an ironic name given to the fiercest warrior -- one who enslaves others

Old Scar; a veteran whose body maps every battle he has survived

Binding Will; an orc shaman who bends spirits to his command

Ragged Claw; a hunter who tears prey apart bare-handed

She-Wolf; fierce protector of her clan's young

Steel Mother; unbreakable matriarch of a warband

Blood Song; her voice carries orcish war chants into battle

Burning Eye; a seer whose visions come through fire

Hammer Maiden; first to breach enemy walls

Smoke Weaver; a shaman who reads omens in fire

Night Blade; an assassin who strikes under cover of darkness

Serpent Tongue; a diplomat feared for her cunning words

Crow Caller; a battlefield scavenger and omen reader

Spine Snapper; known for her brutal finishing moves

Shadow Walker; moves unseen through enemy camps

Bitter Root; an herbalist who brews both medicine and poison

Red Hand; her hands are always stained with battle

Iron Will; an unbreakable matriarch whose stubbornness outlasts every siege

Fierce Speaker; her words cut deeper than blades

Fire Keeper; guardian of the clan's sacred flame

Thorn Queen; a leader whose defenses are impenetrable

Wound Stitcher; a healer who keeps warriors fighting

Song of Pain; a bard whose music drives orcs into frenzy

Dawn Fang; strikes at first light when enemies sleep

Wide River; unstoppable force that carves through everything

Bone Reader; divines the future from cracked bones

War Daughter; born during a siege and raised on the march

Swamp Mother; matriarch of a clan that dwells in marshlands

Iron Song; a smith who forges weapons while chanting war prayers

A clan or title earned by defeating an enemy champion bare-handed

Clan known for chewing the bones of fallen enemies as a ritual

Clan whose warriors stain their tusks with warpaint before battle

Tribe feared for their blood-soaked fighting style and red banners

Clan whose warriors wear almost no armor, trusting their toughened skin

Nomadic clan bonded to giant wolf mounts, raiding across open plains

War-name earned by disemboweling three enemies in a single charge

Clan from volcanic lands who breathe in soot and spit cinders

Title given to the strongest wrestler in a tribe's proving grounds

Clan that poisons their blades with decaying flesh

Ancient clan whose ancestral weapon is a crimson greataxe

Clan famous for their devastating cavalry charges that shake the earth

War-name for a siege specialist who starves out fortress defenders

Clan whose war-chief filed his teeth into razor points as a sign of rank

Title earned after surviving a trial of being wounded by every clan member

Clan that marks allegiance by dipping their right hand in tar and ash

Clan that slew a wyvern and mounted its skull on their war-banner

War-name for a berserker who broke through an enemy shield wall alone

Clan executioner title passed down through generations

Elder clan whose warriors sharpen their tusks before every battle

Quick Cut; a goblin rogue known for his speed with a knife

Little Demon; a cunning trickster who thrives on mischief

Finger Thief; named for his habit of stealing rings -- fingers included

Mushroom King; a goblin alchemist who brews potions from fungi

Scratch; a goblin whose claws leave marks on everything he touches

Nothing; a goblin so small he was nearly overlooked at birth

Informant; a goblin spy who sells secrets to the highest bidder

Broken Bite; a goblin whose teeth never grew in properly but bites anyway

Candle Keeper; the goblin responsible for maintaining tunnel lights

Marsh Ghost; a swamp goblin who ambushes travelers from the mud

Lucky; named sarcastically after surviving a cave collapse

Bomb Maker; a goblin engineer obsessed with explosive devices

Iron Discipline; a hobgoblin commander who tolerates no disorder

Shield Wall; a hobgoblin tactician famous for defensive formations

Red Banner; a hobgoblin warlord whose standard has never fallen

Law Speaker; a hobgoblin judge who enforces the iron code

Poison Drip; a goblin assassin who coats everything in venom

Weed Witch; a goblin herbalist with an unsettling knowledge of toxins

War Scholar; a hobgoblin who studies battle as an academic discipline

Trap Master; a goblin who builds elaborate snares and pit traps

Unknown Tolkien coinage; the Defiler, pale orc chieftain who slew King Thrór and waged war against the Dwarves at the Battle of Azanulbizar

Possibly from Old English "bolga" (to swell); son of Azog, led the goblin army at the Battle of Five Armies in The Hobbit

Black Speech derivation; Uruk-hai captain of Isengard who captured Merry and Pippin, known for his leadership and cruelty

Black Speech; orc captain from Mordor who pursued the hobbits and was killed by the Riders of Rohan

Dread Voice in Sindarin; lieutenant of Minas Morgul who commanded Sauron's forces at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields

Film-original creation by Peter Jackson's team; the first Uruk-hai, who slew Boromir at Amon Hen

Old Norse for slave; Warcraft's most famous orc, born Go'el, who freed the orcs from demonic corruption and founded Durotar

Warcraft's legendary Warsong chieftain who drank Mannoroth's blood then redeemed himself by slaying the demon lord

Son of Grommash; Warchief of the Horde in World of Warcraft whose tyranny led to civil war

D&D Forgotten Realms orc king who forged an unprecedented orc kingdom through diplomacy and military genius

Warhammer Fantasy's greatest Black Orc warboss, whose name combines "grim" ferocity with an "iron" hide of near invulnerability

Warhammer 40K's most feared Ork warlord; name roughly translates from Orkish as "I am slaughter" -- a prophet of the Waaagh!

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion NPC who aspired to become a knight; name from Orcish language, meaning uncertain

Elder Scrolls: Skyrim's Orsimer librarian at the College of Winterhold; "gro" prefix means "son of" in Orcish naming

Tolkien's unnamed-yet-titled ruler of Goblin-town beneath the Misty Mountains, slain by Gandalf during the events of The Hobbit