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Wizard Last Names

These wizard last names are mostly original surnames written for this site, with a few ordinary English ones, from old houses like Ashcombe and Hollowthorne to bookish, sinister and silly names, each listed A to Z with a meaning.

220 original surnames with meanings, A to Z.

A

  • Abacott

    Cottage of the counting frame

  • Ainsworth

    Ægen's enclosure, a Lancashire place name

  • Alchemsby

    Farmstead of the alchemists

  • Aldebury

    Ancient stronghold of the eldest house

  • Aldergast

    Ghost-grey alders of the old estate

  • Almsworth

    Worth of charity and learning

  • Ambleforth

    Slow river crossing of the elders

  • Applethwaite

    Clearing of the apple orchard

  • Ashcombe

    Old seat in the ash-tree valley

  • Ashgrave

    Grave of ashes and old fire

  • Astrolby

    Farmstead of the star-readers

B

  • Bagwell

    Possibly Bacga's spring

  • Baneworth

    Worth a curse in every coin

  • Beaumarchant

    Fair merchant princes of the old guild

  • Beddows

    Welsh pet form of Maredudd (Meredith)

  • Bibliothorne

    Thorn-guarded library of the ancients

  • Bitterwold

    Bitter forest of the exiled

  • Bleakley

    Bleak clearing of cold winds

  • Blightwood

    Wood withered by an old curse

  • Blunderby

    Farm of the well-meaning blunderers

  • Bogglesworth

    Worth a good boggling stare

  • Bramblecote

    Cottage estate ringed with brambles

  • Bramwell

    Spring where the broom grows thick

  • Brightmoor

    Moor lit by the family's old lanterns

  • Bumblecroft

    Buzzing little farm of the bees

  • Bumbleford

    Bee-crossing over the humming stream

C

  • Candlewick

    Farm lit by the late-night candle

  • Cantrell

    Possibly from a place name, or a singer (Old French chanterel)

  • Carrionby

    Farmstead of the carrion feeders

  • Casterwell

    Castle spring of the ancestral seat

  • Chartwell

    Spring on rough common land, from Kentish chart

  • Chumley

    Spelling of Cholmondeley, Ceolmund's clearing

  • Clutterbuck

    Of uncertain origin, possibly Dutch; brought to England by Flemish settlers

  • Cobblewick

    Farm where the cobbles clatter

  • Cobley

    Possibly Cobba's clearing, from an English place name

  • Codexley

    Meadow of the bound codex

  • Coldharbour

    Cold shelter for the friendless

  • Corvesque

    Crow-like in shadow and cunning

  • Corvingale

    Crow-crested lords of the windy vale

  • Cotterill

    Little cotter, a tenant holding a cottage

  • Cravenmoor

    Moor of the cowardly betrayer

  • Cropley

    Possibly clearing by a hilltop

  • Crowmarsh

    Marsh haunted by black crows

  • Crumpton

    Crooked town of crumbly biscuits

D

  • Dawdleworth

    Worth a good long dawdle

  • Dawes

    Son of Daw, a pet form of David

  • Delamonte

    Of the old mountain court by ancient right

  • Deverell

    From the river Deverill in Wiltshire; keepers of the old wards

  • Dimmermere

    Lake where the light grows dim

  • Dithering

    Never quite deciding on a spell

  • Dolmoray

    Grief-stricken heir of the marsh

  • Drearwick

    Dreary farm of the shuttered windows

  • Dribblesby

    Farmstead of the dribbling teapot

  • Duckworth

    Possibly enclosure frequented by ducks

  • Dunmore

    Big fort, from Gaelic dùn mòr

  • Duskbane

    Ruin that falls at dusk

E

  • Ellingmoor

    Wide moor held since the first charter

  • Elmsworth

    Worth of the elm-shaded study

  • Everleigh

    Boar clearing, from an English place name

F

  • Fairbrother

    Nickname, possibly fair (handsome) brother

  • Farrow

    Possibly a variant of Farrar, ironworker

  • Fenwhistle

    Ancient line of the whistling fen

  • Ferncastle

    Fern-cloaked fortress of the old blood

  • Fiddlewick

    Farm of the fiddling musician

  • Fizzlewick

    Farm where every spell fizzles slightly

  • Folioford

    Crossing of the folded pages

  • Fontblanque

    White fountain of the founding blood

  • Fumblewood

    Wood where the wands are dropped

G

  • Gadsby

    Gaddr's farmstead; the Old Norse name means goad

  • Gallowsmere

    Lake beneath the hanging tree

  • Ghastmoor

    Moor where the ghasts wander

  • Gigglesworth

    Worth a fit of giggles

  • Glyphstone

    Stone carved with ancient glyphs

  • Gobbleton

    Town of the hasty eaters

  • Grammersby

    Farm of the grammar masters

  • Gravemoor

    Moor of the unmarked graves

  • Greenhalgh

    Green hollow, a Lancashire place name

  • Greythorpe

    Grey village of the elder families

  • Grimbottom

    Grim valley bottom of forgotten socks

  • Grimsbane

    Bane of the grim and fearless

H

  • Hatherley

    Hawthorn clearing, an English place name

  • Hawkesmoor

    Hawk-watched moor of the high family

  • Hemsworth

    Hymel's enclosure, a Yorkshire place name

  • Hexworth

    Worth a hex and more

  • Higglebottom

    Haggling valley of bargain hunters

  • Hobbleday

    One who limps cheerfully to work

  • Holloweather

    Weather-worn hollow of the ancestors

  • Hollowthorne

    House of the thorn-ringed hollow

  • Hourgless

    Keeper of the hourglass and its sand

I

  • Ingleby

    Farmstead of the English, named by Norse settlers

  • Inkwhistle

    Ink that sings across the page

J

  • Jessop

    Medieval English form of Joseph

K

  • Kimberlow

    Royal hill of a quiet market town

  • Kingsmere

    Royal lake held by the founding line

  • Kirkby

    Village with a church, from Old Norse kirkja and bý

L

  • Lachrymore

    Of the tears that never dry

  • Lambourne

    Stream where the lambs are washed

  • Lampstead

    Homestead of the reading lamp

  • Larkin

    Little Laurence, a medieval pet form

  • Learmont

    Scottish place surname, borne by Thomas the Rhymer

  • Lexworth

    Worth of the written law

  • Lisandre

    Liberator line of the southern manor

  • Lockhaven

    Sealed harbour of the guarded line

  • Lorimer

    Maker of bits and spurs for horse harness

M

  • Malgrave

    Ill grave of the cursed dead

  • Mallory

    Unlucky one, from Old French maloret

  • Malvoisin

    Old French for bad neighbour; a Norman family name

  • Marginby

    Farmstead of the margin scribblers

  • Marlowe

    Land left behind by a drained lake

  • Marrowby

    Deep-rooted house of the marrow fields

  • Merlingale

    Vale of the merlin and the wise

  • Mindwell

    Spring of the clear mind

  • Montrevelle

    Hill of the revelling wizard court

  • Morrowgast

    Ghost of the coming morning

  • Mortfen

    Fen of the dead waters

  • Mourncastle

    Castle of unending mourning

  • Muddlecombe

    Valley where everything is muddled

  • Mudgeworth

    Worth a grumble and a mumble

N

  • Nethergast

    Ghost from the lowest depths

  • Netherton

    Lower farmstead, a common English place name

  • Nibbleby

    Farmstead of the biscuit nibblers

  • Nightsorrow

    Sorrow that walks at night

  • Noctaire

    Of the night air and shadow

  • Norbury

    Northern fort, an English place name

  • Northgale

    Storm-facing house of the north wind

  • Numerby

    Farmstead of the number readers

  • Nutterbee

    Nut-gathering beekeeper of the copse

O

  • Oakes

    Dweller by the oak trees

  • Ormsby

    Ormr's farmstead; the Old Norse name means serpent

  • Osterwick

    Eastern farmstead of the pure line

  • Oxbury

    Fort of the oxen and the scholars

P

  • Parchmore

    Parchment gatherer of the great library

  • Pardoe

    From Old French par Dieu, by God, a nickname for someone fond of the oath

  • Penhallow

    Head of the moor, from a Cornish place name

  • Pennywhistle

    Tune played for a single penny

  • Pickersgill

    Ravine where the robbers once hid

  • Piffling

    Trifling matters of enormous fuss

  • Plumpworth

    Worth of the pleasantly plump

  • Plumtree

    Dweller by a plum tree, or from Plumtree in Nottinghamshire

  • Pocklington

    Farm of Pocel's people, a Yorkshire town

  • Ponderby

    Farmstead of the deep thinkers

  • Pottleworth

    Worth a small pot of something odd

  • Puddington

    Farmstead of Putta's people, an English place name

  • Puddlecombe

    Muddy valley of the puddle-jumpers

Q

  • Quibblesworth

    Worth a small argument at least

  • Quillfeather

    Feather cut for the scholar's quill

  • Quillon

    Guard of the quill and the blade

  • Quillonby

    Manor where the quill-pens were first cut

  • Quintwell

    Well of the fifth essence

R

  • Ravelmoor

    Moor of unravelled bindings

  • Readingham

    Hamlet of the reading folk

  • Ridley

    Reedy clearing or cleared land, an English place name

  • Rosendale

    Rose valley of the courtly line

  • Rowbotham

    Rough valley bottom, a northern English place name

  • Runewell

    Well where runes were first read

S

  • Sablecourt

    Black-robed court of the elder blood

  • Sableworth

    Worth of the deepest black

  • Sagebrook

    Brook of wise old counsel

  • Sallowmere

    Willow-shaded lake of the founding line

  • Scarmere

    Lake of scarred reflections

  • Scholey

    Possibly clearing with a hut, from Old Norse skáli

  • Scrimshaw

    From Middle English skirmisher, a fencer; also a word for carved bone

  • Scriptwell

    Well of the written word

  • Scrivenor

    Scrivener, a professional copyist of documents

  • Silverstrand

    Silver shore of the coastal manor

  • Skulderby

    Farm of the skulking watcher

  • Snodbury

    Neat little fort of tidy folk

  • Snufflewick

    Farm of the sniffing hedgehog

  • Sorrowfell

    Hill where sorrows are buried

  • Spectleby

    Farm of the spectacled scholars

  • Sprocklebee

    Spry beekeeper with a spring in step

  • Stanhope

    Stony hollow, from Stanhope in County Durham

  • Stanwycke

    Stone dwelling of the first wizards

  • Starwether

    Reader of stars and weather

  • Strathmourne

    Mourning valley of the highland seat

  • Stygmoor

    Moor of the river of the dead

  • Summerscale

    Summer hut of the hill shepherds

T

  • Tallowby

    Farm of the tallow candle readers

  • Tetley

    Tetta's clearing, later a famous tea name

  • Thackery

    Nook where thatching reeds grew, a Yorkshire place name

  • Thinkwell

    Spring of careful thought

  • Thistlewood

    Thistle wood; a real English place-derived surname

  • Thrallwick

    Farm of the enthralled servants

  • Tinctoris

    Of the tinctures and dyes

  • Tinkerton

    Town of the tinkering mender

  • Toadsbury

    Fort of the croaking toads

  • Tolliver

    From Taliaferro, Italian for iron-cutter

  • Tomeswick

    Farm of the heavy tomes

  • Tootlesham

    Hamlet of the tootling horn

  • Tremaine

    Stone homestead of the western coast

  • Tumblesham

    Hamlet of the tumbling acrobats

  • Tuttlebee

    Fussing beekeeper of the village edge

  • Twiddlecombe

    Valley of the thumb-twiddlers

U

  • Umberfell

    Shadowed hill of burnt earth

V

  • Vanderquist

    Of the twig-thin family tree well pruned

  • Vanterpool

    Proud family of the still dark pool

  • Vantross

    Vain crossing into forbidden arts

  • Vellumby

    Farmstead of the vellum makers

  • Velthrop

    Veiled village of whispered pacts

  • Venomere

    Poisoned lake of the marsh witch

  • Vexley

    Meadow of the troubled spirit

  • Vindicott

    Cottage of the vengeful

W

  • Waddington

    Settlement of Wada's people, an English place name

  • Waffleby

    Farm of the endless talkers

  • Wainwright

    Wagon-maker, a medieval trade

  • Wetherby

    Farmstead of the wether sheep

  • Whitlock

    White lock of hair

  • Widderfell

    Hill walked against the sun's path

  • Wiggenhall

    Wicga's nook of land, a Norfolk place name

  • Wigglesby

    Farmstead of the wriggling children

  • Winchcombe

    Valley with a bend, a Cotswold town

  • Winterhame

    Home that stands against the winter

  • Wisenholm

    Island of the wise ones

  • Wobblethorpe

    Village of the unsteady cauldrons

  • Wolfsgrave

    Grave dug by the wolf

  • Wolverton

    Wulfhere's settlement, seat of the old lords

  • Wraithborne

    Born of the wandering wraith

  • Wrexhame

    Cold hall of the northern wizard-kings

Y

  • Yardley

    Wood where the rods were cut

  • Yeoman

    Free farmer with a steady hand

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  • Cotterill

    Little cotter, a tenant holding a cottage

  • Lorimer

    Maker of bits and spurs for horse harness

  • Fairbrother

    Nickname, possibly fair (handsome) brother

  • Corvesque

    Crow-like in shadow and cunning

  • Thrallwick

    Farm of the enthralled servants

  • Netherton

    Lower farmstead, a common English place name

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    Five moods of wizard last names

    The list is sorted A to Z, but the names fall into five moods. Old family names such as Ashcombe, Thistlewood and Malvoisin, the ill neighbour, suggest ancient lines with portraits on the walls. Scholarly names like Spectleby, farm of the spectacled scholars, suit librarians and professors. Dark names such as Wraithborne and Scarmere belong to people you should not trust, and whimsical names like Dithering and Crumpton belong to people you cannot help liking.

    The fifth group is deliberately plain. Names like Larkin, Greenhalgh and Ingleby are ordinary English surnames, which makes them right for a character from a family with no magic at all. Having a few of these in a cast makes the whole world feel more real, because it shows that magic turns up in unexpected homes. The meaning column tells you which mood each name belongs to.

    Original names, not borrowed ones

    None of these names is taken from Harry Potter or any other book, film or game series. Most were written for this site, and a few are real English or Norman surnames, so that you can use them in your own stories without borrowing another author's world. Most are built from pieces of real English place names: combe means valley, by means farmstead, mere is a lake, thorne is a thorn bush and wood is exactly what it sounds like. That gives them a believable, lived in feel.

    For grand old families, some names borrow from French in the way English aristocrats once did. Malvoisin, Beaumarchant and Delamonte suggest wealth, pride and a family tree that begins with a Norman knight. Comic names work the other way, taking an everyday English word like dither or crumb and treating it as a family name. Every entry includes a short meaning, so you know what a name is meant to suggest.

    Picking wizard last names for a school or guild

    If you are naming a whole class of students or a guild of mages, variety matters more than any single name. Aim for a mix of moods, lengths and first letters so readers can keep everyone apart. A register that reads Ashcombe, Crumpton, Greenhalgh, Malvoisin and Spectleby already tells a story about the students before any of them speaks. Use the letter filter to fill gaps in the alphabet.

    Test comic names carefully. A whimsical name like Dithering is charming for a minor character but can undercut a serious moment if the character matters to the plot. Likewise, a dark name on a hero sets up a mystery you will need to pay off. Read the full name aloud in a tense scene and a funny one. The small generator under the list pulls random picks when you need a new name quickly.

    Frequently asked questions

    Are these wizard last names taken from any book or film?

    No. None comes from Harry Potter or any other series. Most were written for this site, a few are ordinary English surnames, and the invented ones are built from English place name pieces, a little French and some invented words, so they sound at home in a magical setting without copying one.

    What makes a name sound like a wizard's?

    Old English place name endings like combe, by, mere and thorne give a name age and weight. Two or three syllables, a hint of the countryside and a slightly unusual combination of sounds do the rest. Whimsical names add an everyday word used in an unexpected way.

    Can I use these names in my own stories or games?

    Yes. They are original and free to use in fiction, games, fan projects and art. If you publish, a quick search is still sensible in case another author has since used the same invented name for a well known character.

    What do endings like combe and by mean?

    Combe comes from an Old English word for a narrow valley, and by comes from Old Norse for a farm or village. Mere means a lake and thorne a thorn bush. Knowing these lets you build new names that fit alongside the ones on this list.

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