I’m Struggling to come up With a Good Mythical Creature Name! Help!

Have an awesome mythical creature in mind but can’t come up with a good name?

Maybe it’s like similar creatures on earth but just a little different or has magical abilities compared to our normal creatures.

Good for you, not using the typical dragon or unicorn. How did they name those things anyway?!

Coming up with good names for our mythical creatures is tough. And when it doesn’t feel right, you just can’t get it out of your mind.

Hopefully, these tips will help you think through it.

Google translate.

Try a variety of different languages to see if you can pull something out of it.

If your creature is wolf-like, maybe try looking up “wolf” in many different languages and write down the ones that stick out to you.

Remember you don’t have to use the entire word. Even if just a shortened version of it sounds good to you that’s better than having a blank slate to work with.

Look at other mythical creatures.

Find more mythical creatures like yours from other stories around the world and see what they are called. No reason to reinvent the wheel.

If someone has come up with a good name for what your thinking of you may be able to shorten or expand on that name. It could even be a subspecies of that type.

A subspecies of dragons could be “dragonaus” or “dragoons” or anything like that. Be creative and know that it might feel funny at first because it’s brand new, but give it time and it’ll either grow on you or fade away.

Try Latin and root words.

Latin is an awesome language and it can have some really cool sounding words to use for all kinds of fantasy and mythical creatures.

Again you can use root words as is or you can shorten or expand them. For example, let’s say you had an Elk-like creature.

Elk is in the genius of Cervus. That’s probably a Latin root word. Cervus and cervi could be good choices for a new elk-like creature. Or twist it a little and call them “Servus.”

Where is its region?

You can make creatures based on where they’re from. For example, the “Elderwood Badgers” or the “Murroks of Bercilli.”

Take where your creature is from into consideration. Sometimes their region can make them more valuable or rare in your story culture. Or it can give them distinct characteristics compared to others of their species. Sometimes it can mean they have magical abilities, whereas ones in the world not from that specific region don’t.

Think about its characteristics and combine words.

Try an exercise like this wolf + cat + energetic=

“caterolf” or “waterg” or “wolfnergat.”

Mix it up many times and give yourself more to work with.

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Hope this helps!

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