Did You Know?
- D&D's giant hierarchy — the Ordning — ranks types from Storm Giants at the top down to Hill Giants at the bottom, and that ranking doubles as a naming guide. Storm Giant names lean majestic (Hekaton, Serissa), Fire Giant names harsh and forge-related, and Hill Giant names simple and blunt.
- Greek myth names Titans for cosmic abstractions — Kronos (Time), Hyperion (He Who Goes Above), Prometheus (Forethought) — while Giants (Gigantes) get earthier, more brutal names like Enceladus, Polybotes, and Alcyoneus. The naming reveals what kind of giant you are: cosmic architect or earth-shaking brute.
- The Old Norse word for giant, 'jötunn,' doesn't actually mean 'big' — it likely comes from a root meaning 'devourer' or 'glutton,' and many jötnar were human-sized or even beautiful. They are defined not by size but by being the primordial 'other,' the chaos to the gods' order, with names like Hrungnir ('brawler') and Þjazi ('howler').
This giant name generator produces original names for frost, fire, storm, hill, cloud, stone, sea and titan-class giants, filtered by type and by cultural tradition (Norse, Greek, D&D, Celtic, Slavic, gothic, anime). Below are 44 attested giants from myth and D&D to browse first, then how the generator builds new ones. Unlike our troll and titan generators, this one separates giant kinds, so a hill giant and a cloud giant do not come out sounding alike.
Norse Jötnar
Descriptions state each figure's role in the sources; meanings are given only where a source supports them.
| Ymir | Progenitor of the jötnar; killed by the first gods, and his body was made into the world |
| Bergelmir | The eldest jötunn; he and his wife survived the flood of Ymir's blood on a lúðr |
| Þjazi | Kidnapped Iðunn and her apples of youth; the gods killed him and made his eyes into stars |
| Skaði | Daughter of Þjazi, associated with skiing; chose Njörðr as her husband |
| Hrungnir | Giant champion who challenged Thor to a duel |
| Suttungr | Keeper of the Mead of poetry, which Odin travels to obtain |
| Gerðr | Daughter of Gymir and wife of Freyr; described as beautiful |
| Gymir | Father of Gerðr |
| Hyrrokkin | A gýgr (giantess) shown riding a wolf with a snake for reins on the Hunnestad Monument |
| Surtr | Ruler of the fiery land of Muspelheim |
Greek Titans
| Oceanus | Personifies the great world-encircling river |
| Tethys | Wife of Oceanus; sheltered Hera during the war |
| Hyperion | Associated with the Sun; father of Helios, Selene and Eos |
| Theia | Wife of Hyperion, mother of Helios, Selene and Eos |
| Coeus | Husband of Phoebe; father of Leto |
| Phoebe | Wife of Coeus; mother of Leto and Asteria |
| Cronus | Youngest Titan; overthrew Uranus and fathered the Olympians |
| Rhea | Sister and wife of Cronus; mother of Zeus |
| Mnemosyne | Mother of the nine Muses by Zeus |
| Themis | Mother of the Horae and the Moirai by Zeus |
| Crius | Father of Astraeus, Pallas and Perses |
| Iapetus | Father of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus and Epimetheus |
| Atlas | Forced by Zeus to hold up the sky |
| Prometheus | Stole fire; punished by being chained to a rock |
Greek Gigantes and Irish Fomorians
| Alcyoneus | Immortal while fighting in his native land; killed by Heracles once dragged out of it |
| Porphyrion | Among the strongest Giants; Pindar calls him king of the Giants |
| Enceladus | Crushed by Athena under Sicily; his movements were blamed for Etna's tremors |
| Polybotes | Crushed by Poseidon under Nisyros, a piece of Kos thrown at him |
| Ephialtes | Blinded by arrows from Apollo and Heracles |
| Eurytus | Killed by Dionysus with his thyrsus |
| Mimas | Killed by Hephaestus with red-hot metal missiles |
| Pallas | Flayed by Athena, who used his skin as a shield |
| Clytius | Killed by Hecate with her torches |
| Agrius | Killed by the Moirai with bronze clubs |
| Balor | Warlike Fomorian chief on Tory Island; Lug's maternal grandfather |
| Bres | Half-Fomorian, son of Elatha; a bad king who forced the Tuatha Dé Danann into tribute |
| Elatha | Fomorian prince and father of Bres |
| Indech | King of the Fomorians |
| Conand | Fomorian leader in Conand's Tower on Tory Island |
| Cichol Gricenchos | Led a Fomorian group said to predate Partholón's arrival |
D&D Giant Lore
| Annam | The father of giants |
| Othea | Mother of all giants; conceived the ogre race with Vaprak |
| Vaprak | "Vaprak the Destroyer," tied to the ogre race |
| Ulutiu | Minor deity associated with the Great Glacier |
How the Generator Builds Giant Names
The prompt behind this tool pushes names toward scale: heavy clusters (TH, GR, KR, DR), deep vowels, and fused elemental roots like "frost" plus "maw." It rejects anything that could belong to a human or an elf, since a giant called Erik is just a tall man.
Each type gets its own sound palette. Frost leans on K, SK and FR, fire on R, GR and VR, hill giants on short blunt syllables, and cloud giants on softer L, M and S sounds. Old Norse diacritics appear only for Norse giants, never on Greek or D&D ones, and an "X the Y" epithet is capped at one per name.
A default batch of five mixes two compound-root names, one epithet name, one short blunt name and one with an authentic diacritic, so results do not all share one shape.
Choosing a Type for Your Table
D&D describes hill giants as hulking, dimwitted brutes, stone giants as reclusive, frost giants as fierce warriors, fire giants as master metalworkers, cloud giants as proud and extravagant, and storm giants as isolated seers. Match the name to that temperament: blunt for hill, aristocratic for cloud, forge-harsh for fire.
For setting-wide naming, see our D&D name generator, or the Old Norse names page if you want Norse roots to borrow from.
Sources
- Jötunn, Wikipedia
- Titan (mythology), Wikipedia
- Giants (Greek mythology), Wikipedia
- Fomorians, Wikipedia
- Giant (Dungeons & Dragons), Wikipedia
Common Questions
What are good cloud giant names for D&D?
Cloud giants are written as proud and extravagant, so aim for airy, aristocratic names built on L, M, S and N sounds with some giant weight underneath. Choose Cloud Giant and D&D in the form to generate a batch.
What is the difference between a giant, a titan and a jötunn?
"Giant" is the broad term. Titans are the Greek elder deities such as Cronus and Atlas, while the Gigantes are a separate Greek group of earth-born giants. "Jötunn" is the Old Norse word, and the sources do not tie it to size alone.
What are the types of giants in D&D?
There are six true giants: hill, stone, frost, fire, cloud and storm. Each has its own temperament, which is why the generator offers them as separate types.
Updated October 2026: added 44 sourced giants from Norse, Greek, Irish and D&D lore, a note on how the generator shapes names, and rewrote the FAQs.
