Diablo 4: 8 Unique Ideas For Character Names (2025)

Ask any gamer about the most time-consuming part of starting a new adventure, and they'll tell you they spend more time on character creation than almost anything else. The most difficult part of that, in turn, is choosing a character name. Any game with RPG elements gives you a chance to name your character, and Diablo 4 is a prominent example.

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Sometimes it's fun to spend time naming a character, but we're wasting precious slaying time here. Once your character is perfect, right down to the eyebrows, here are a few ideas for an equally fitting name so you can spend more time wading through the gore of Sanctuary.

8 Literary Inspiration

Everyone has a favorite character from a book, even if they just know them from the movie or television adaptation. This is a popular method of choosing a name, which is why you see Necromancers named Sauron or Barbarians named Conan, but if you want something unique, you might have to dig deeper.

Think about works by horror authors, and although Lovecraft and Poe are some obvious names, like Azathoth and Lenore. Modern writers like Stephen King have written some fantasy novels, too, giving characters names like Roland and titles like Gunslinger. For those that know the longer and more complex lore of Tolkien's famous creation, there are some lofty names from the early history of Middle-earth, such as Ulmo and Nessa. That old story is eerily similar to the one found at the beginning of Diablo.

7 Anime Names

There are always the popular names that are inevitably trending, like Naruto and Usagi, for example, but we're not talking about those. These are the ones that are harder to find, hidden in the darkness of the world's best and most terrifying animated horror movies and shows.

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The dark and scary side of cartoons is filled with vampires, death gods, serial killers, murderers, and, naturally, demons. The genre goes back decades, with vintage classics like Vampire Hunter D and the more recent and very popular Demon Slayer. Any of them would make great sources for naming a new Diablo character.

6 Voices Of Nature

This is a simple but brilliant way to give your character a unique name. Not everyone is a book nerd or an anime fan, but there's plenty of inspiration right outside your window, in the yard, or maybe even sitting on your desk. Why not names like Lilac, Bluebell, or Hemlock?

What's the name of the plant sitting next to the coffee pot or the type of tree that looms outside the window? The Latin and Greek names of plants can also have a dramatic effect if you want something that looks old or intellectual. Solanum is the genus of the Nightshade plant, for example.

5 Blizzard Lore

There's a whole library of games from Activision-Blizzard that share the fantasy-horror genre, and there are a lot of names in that history that can inspire the name of a Diablo 4 character. That includes the famous heroes and the obscure local NPCs that go mostly unnoticed.

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World of Warcraft is the most obvious example, with names like Jaina and Sylvanas, and it's one of the few games in the Blizzard pantheon that is older than Diablo. Other titles under this brand name where players can find worthy names include Starcraft, Call of Duty, and Overwatch.

4 Biblical Names

Why not go back to the source for this whole Heaven versus the Burning Hells dichotomy and consult the Bible? This is where we can find the names of the angels that exist in our own human pantheon, located mostly in the Book of Enoch and the Book of Revelations, with a complex order of angels that have names and duties according to a strict holy hierarchy. Examples include Sarathiel, Apollyon, and of course the infamous Lucifer.

There's a whole list of angel names that you can find in the Bible or related "non-canon" stories. Aside from that there are also plenty of ancient human names in everyone's favorite Sunday school book that would be ideal for new Diablo characters, like Methuselah, Pontius, or Zipporah.

3 Punny Names

Charles Dickens was famous for this, with names like "Scrooge" for a person that scrounges everything, including money. Shakespeare liked to use puns as jokes and names, often to lewd and suggestive ends, but Diablo is a game for adults and we can play it that way.

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A Sorcerer might have a name related to typical magical accessories, like their wand, staff, or offhand, or the spells themselves. Necromancer names like Gravely or Fetid are other examples of punny Diablo character names.

2 Geography

Pull out Google Maps and use the name of your old hometown or the obscure name of a random geographic location as a character name. Why not the name of an isolated mountain range, a glacier, or a province in Canada somewhere? How about Boreal, Laurentian, or Ogopogo?

These can be some of the most unique names, but they don't have to be complicated or long. Naming a character something like Forest, River, or Boulder would also make sense for a Druid or Barbarian.

1 Other Languages

Something that sounds normal and dull in English might be a good character name once it's translated into another language. Aside from generating a unique name, this is also a handy way to signal to other players in a multiplayer game that you speak that language. A funny example is the name Zanahoria, which looks dramatic but is just Spanish for carrot.

Online translations are available in a variety of languages, and they don't have to be modern or even real-life ones. Even fictional tongues like Klingon or the Black Speech of Mordor have an online translator these days, so no matter where your fandom begins, this could be the most fun method of naming a Diablo character.

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