100 Wizard Names with Meanings for Your Fantasy Character

Old ruler; from Old English eald (old) + ric (power). Suggests a wizard who has ruled through centuries of accumulated wisdom.

Far-seeing one; from Greek thale (to flourish) and the Sindarin suffix -dor (land). Evokes a wizard whose sight reaches beyond mortal horizons.

Treasurer of secrets; inspired by Persian Caspar, one of the three Magi. A name fitting a wizard who hoards forbidden knowledge.

Golden mountain; from Latin aurum (gold) and Old English heal (hall). Suggests a wizard of immense wealth and lofty ambition.

Will of the sea; from Germanic wil (will) and Latin mare (sea). A name for a wizard who commands tides and tempests.

Swift watcher; from Old Irish er (swift) and Brythonic ban (peak). Implies vigilance and rapid magical response.

Sun protector; from Old Norse sol (sun) and mund (protection). A wizard who channels solar power as both shield and weapon.

Song of power; from Old English galdor (incantation) and ric (ruler). One who rules through spoken spells.

Raven's cliff; from Old English hraefn (raven) and scar (rocky outcrop). Evokes a solitary wizard dwelling in high, wind-battered places.

Servant of Marduk; from Akkadian, originally a Babylonian theophoric name. Carries the weight of ancient priesthood and celestial devotion.

Hunter; from Greek therion (wild beast). A wizard who tracks and binds magical creatures.

Cold friend; from Old English ceald (cold) and wine (friend). Suggests a reserved but loyal wizard of frost magic.

Defender of men; Persianized form of Alexander. Historically associated with the legend of Alexander the Great as a sorcerer-king.

Marsh dwelling; from Old English fenn (fen) and wic (dwelling). A hedge wizard of bogs and wetlands.

Light-bringer; from Latin lux (light). Evokes a wizard devoted to illumination magic and dispelling shadow.

Raven of fire; from Welsh bran (raven) and Old English aeth (fire). A wizard who fuses divination with pyromancy.

Of the forest; from Latin silva (forest). A druidic wizard drawing power from ancient woodlands.

Of the raven; from Latin corvus. Associated with prophecy and death magic, as ravens were omens in Roman augury.

War god; from Slavic Dazbog (giving god). A battle-mage who channels divine fury through arcane means.

Splendor of God; from Hebrew hadar (splendor) and el (God). A celestial wizard serving higher powers.

Chief lord; from Brythonic cyn (chief) and tigern (lord). Historically the name of a Scottish saint associated with miracles.

Prince; from Welsh mael (prince). A wizard of noble lineage and courtly magic.

Formed from Astaroth with a scholarly suffix; connotes a wizard who has trafficked with dangerous otherworldly entities.

Rune protector; from Old Norse run (secret) and hjalmr (helm). A wizard-warrior who inscribes protective sigils.

Golden star; inspired by Zarathustra (golden light). A name suggesting prophetic vision and celestial fire.

From the Greek region famed for witchcraft; in classical antiquity, Thessalian women were considered the most powerful sorceresses in the Mediterranean.

White fortress; from Welsh caer (fortress) and gwyn (white, blessed). A wizard whose power is anchored in a stronghold of protective wards.

Evening star; from Latin vesper. A wizard who draws power from twilight and the liminal space between day and night.

Noble serpent; from Old English aethel (noble) and Latin indra (a powerful suffix). Suggests wisdom coiled within grace.

Burning one; from Hebrew seraphim, the six-winged angels of fire. A wizard of divine flame and purification.

Great queen; from Old Irish mor (great) and rigan (queen). The Irish goddess of war, fate, and death — a powerful sorceress archetype.

Beautiful blossom; from Greek kalos (beautiful) and anthos (flower). A wizard of nature magic and healing arts.

Snowdrop; from Welsh eir (snow) and lys (plant). A wizard of winter magic and gentle but persistent power.

Fame and joy; from Old English hrod (fame) and wynn (joy). Associated with the legendary British queen and Ravenclaw founder.

Night; from the Greek primordial goddess of darkness. A shadow mage of immense, primal power.

Healer; from Greek althainein (to heal). A wizard specializing in restorative and protective magic.

Armored battle-maiden; from Old Norse brynja (armor) and hildr (battle). A Valkyrie-wizard who merges martial prowess with sorcery.

Liberator of men; from Greek lysis (release) and andros (man). A wizard who breaks curses and frees the bound.

Elf friend; from Old English elf and wine (friend). A wizard with deep ties to the fae realms.

Love; from Welsh caru (to love). A wizard whose enchantments work through emotional resonance and empathy.

The sea; from Greek thalassa. The primordial spirit of the sea — a wizard who commands oceanic forces.

Named for the medieval French poetic form; a wizard who casts through song and verse.

Fiery; feminine form of Ignatius, from Latin ignis (fire). A pyromancer of fierce temperament and controlled destruction.

Little wave; from Latin unda (wave). From Paracelsus's classification of water elementals — a wizard bound to water spirits.

Black; from Old French, originally from Slavic sobol (sable fur). A wizard cloaked in darkness and mystery.

Of the midday; from Latin meridies. A solar wizard whose power peaks at high noon.

White spirit; from Gaelic fionn (white) and a feminine suffix. A wizard of spectral and ethereal magic.

Desired; from Germanic avi (desired). Echoes Avalon, the mystical island of Arthurian legend.

Dark counsel; from Old English hraefn (raven) with a Latinate ending. A wizard of augury and strategic foresight.

Blessed, white; from Welsh gwyn (white, fair). A wizard of purity and light magic, associated with sanctified power.

Shadow weaver; from Old English neth (below) and Latin obscurus (dark). A wizard who draws power from the spaces beneath the world.

Of the night; from Latin nocturnus. A wizard who operates exclusively in darkness, drawing power from moonlessness.

The tormentor; from Latin vexare (to torment). A wizard who specializes in curses and hexes.

Twilight pool; from Old English dox (dark) and mere (lake). A necromancer who communes with the dead through still water.

Withered crown; from Greek xeros (dry) and anthos (flower). A lich-wizard whose power has consumed their mortality.

Great crow; from Welsh mor (great) and brain (crow). A death wizard attended by carrion birds.

Shadow oath; from Latin umbra (shadow) and Old English ath (oath). One who has sworn binding pacts with dark entities.

Fierce brightness; from Greek Charon, ferryman of the dead. A necromancer who guides souls across the boundary.

Enchantment; from Basque lilura (fascination). A dark enchantress who beguiles and ensnares.

Heavy, grave; from Latin gravis. A wizard whose very presence weighs down the living and stirs the dead.

Death gift; from Greek thanatos (death) and Latin ara (altar). A priestess-wizard of death rites.

Of the void; combining English void with Old English ren (secret). A wizard who studies the emptiness between planes.

Variant of Asmodeus; from Avestan aeshma (wrath) and daeva (demon). A wizard who has bound themselves to demonic forces.

Field of the dead; from Old English croft (enclosed field). A necromancer who raises armies from ancient battlefields.

Poison hemlock; from Old English hemlic (the plant that killed Socrates). A dark enchantress of herbal venoms and whispered death.

Cursed wasteland; from Germanic hex (witch) and Old English fealg (fallow land). A wizard whose presence blights the earth.

Death counsel; from Old English morth (death) and raed (counsel). Echoes Mordred, the treacherous knight.

Wicked; from Latin nefarius. A wizard who has embraced evil as a philosophical position, not merely a tool.

Of the River Styx; from Greek. A wizard who has waded through the waters of the dead and returned transformed.

Ghost, apparition; from Scottish wraith. A wizard who has partially crossed into death and exists between states.

Star arranger; from Greek astron (star) and nomos (law). An archmage who orders the heavens themselves.

Secret stone; from Latin arcanus (secret) and Greek lithos (stone). A high wizard whose power is anchored in an ancient monument.

Of great worth; from Latin valor. An archmage whose name itself commands respect and allegiance across kingdoms.

Heavenly strength; from Latin caelestis (heavenly) and Greek sthenos (strength). A supreme wizard who channels celestial forces.

Elder fire; from Old English eald (old) and a fire suffix. An ancient wizard whose power predates recorded history.

First divine; from Latin primus (first) and Greek theon (of gods). An archmage who stands at the threshold between mortal and divine.

Golden flower of power; from Latin aurum (gold) and Greek anthos (flower). A high wizard of radiant, life-giving magic.

Supreme authority; from Latin superanus (supreme) with a scholarly suffix. An archmage whose title has eclipsed her birth name entirely.

Maker of all things; from Latin omnis (all) and fax (maker). A wizard who has mastered every school of magic.

Sun temple; from Latin sol (sun) and Greek Pantheon. An archmage who serves as a living temple of solar power.

Truth; from Latin. A high wizard devoted to the absolute truth that underlies all magic — reality itself.

Tower protector; from Old English torr (tower) and mund (protection). An archmage defined by their legendary stronghold.

Eternal one; from Latin aeternus. A wizard who has achieved a form of immortality through sheer magical mastery.

Crown of runes; from Old Norse run (secret) and English crown. The supreme authority among rune-casting wizards.

Ruling authority; from Greek archon (ruler). A female archmage who governs a magical order with absolute authority.

Sea fortress; from Welsh Myrddin, itself likely from the place name Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen). The archetypal wizard of Arthurian legend, first appearing in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136). Merlin is the counselor, prophet, and shapeshifter who orchestrates the rise of King Arthur.

Bird of prey; from Greek kirke (hawk). Daughter of Helios in Homer's Odyssey, she transforms Odysseus's men into swine. Circe represents the archetype of the enchantress — one who uses transformation magic and pharmaceutical knowledge (pharmaka) to dominate.

Cunning; from Greek medos (counsel, plan). Granddaughter of Helios and priestess of Hecate, Medea's mastery of herbalism and necromancy in Euripides' tragedy makes her one of classical mythology's most formidable sorceresses.

Wand-elf; from Old Norse gandr (wand, staff) and alfr (elf). Tolkien borrowed the name from the Dvergatal, the catalogue of dwarves in the Prose Edda. As Gandalf the Grey and later the White, he embodies the wise wanderer archetype — the wizard who guides rather than commands.

Prosperous, fortunate; from Latin prosperus. Shakespeare's wizard-duke in The Tempest (1611), who commands spirits and storms through his books and staff. Prospero represents the Renaissance magus — a scholar whose knowledge of natural philosophy grants supernatural power.

Uncertain etymology; the true name of Sparrowhawk in Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (1968). Le Guin's magic system hinges on true names — knowing the true name of a thing grants power over it. Ged's journey explores the shadow-self and the responsibilities of power.

Possibly from Proto-Slavic baba (old woman) and uncertain yaga (perhaps horror or serpent). The ambiguous witch-wizard of Slavic folklore who lives in a hut on chicken legs. She is neither wholly good nor evil — a terrifying crone who tests heroes and sometimes aids them.

Wide and slow-flowing river; from Finnish väinä (wide river). The central wizard-hero of the Kalevala, Finland's national epic. He is an eternal sage who creates through song — his magic is literally musical, chanting the world into shape.

Worker from afar; from Greek hekas (far off). Greek goddess of magic, crossroads, and necromancy. She bestowed magical knowledge on mortal witches and wizards, including Medea. Hecate is the divine patron of all practitioners of the arcane arts.

Possibly from Egyptian dhwty (he who is like the ibis). The Egyptian god of writing, magic, and wisdom. Credited with inventing hieroglyphics and authoring the magical texts that became the Hermetic tradition. Every scholarly wizard archetype traces a lineage back to Thoth.

Comic invention by Terry Pratchett; the spectacularly incompetent wizard of Discworld. Despite his cowardice and inability to cast spells, he survives everything — making him the archetypal reluctant wizard and Pratchett's satire of the genre.

Original creation by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman for Dragonlance (1984). Raistlin Majere, the frail golden-skinned mage with hourglass eyes, embodies the tragic wizard archetype — one whose hunger for power consumes everything he loves.

Morgan the Fairy; from Welsh/Breton mor (sea) and Old French la fée (the fairy). Half-sister of King Arthur, she is a healer, shapeshifter, and ruler of Avalon. Her characterization has shifted between benevolent enchantress and malicious sorceress across centuries of Arthurian retelling.

Simon the Magician; from the Acts of the Apostles (8:9-24). A Samaritan sorcerer who offered to buy the Holy Spirit's power — giving rise to the term simony. In Gnostic traditions, he is a divine figure; in Christian tradition, the archetypal false wizard.

Original creation by Ed Greenwood for the Forgotten Realms (1967 onwards). The Sage of Shadowdale, Elminster Aumar, is a 1,200-year-old Chosen of Mystra. He represents the D&D archmage — impossibly powerful, impossibly old, and impossibly well-connected.