A name with an oath inside it
A paladin's power source is a sworn word, and the name usually shows the seam where the oath went in. Knightly cultures attach Sir or Dame at the accolade. Orders grant epithets at the oath ceremony, names like Oathkeeper, Lightbringer, or the Steadfast that work as public promises. From that day the name is collateral: break the vow and everyone who ever heard the name knows exactly what was broken. That weight is the flavor every paladin name should carry.
Formal sounds for formal souls
Paladin names run formal even before titles arrive. Full-length given names rather than nicknames, family or order names spoken in full, and epithets in the high register. The generator above pairs names with titles like Sir, Dame, and Vow-Knight at a measured rate, the way an order hands them out. Subclass shades the result: Devotion suits the cleanest, brightest names, Vengeance pulls toward grimmer epithets, and an Oathbreaker keeps the old epithet as an open wound.
Playing the named promise
Decide what your paladin's epithet promised, and to whom. The Vigilant swore to watch something. Stormward stood between a storm and someone smaller. The title is also a lever others can pull: an enemy using Sir with a sneer, a child using it with total faith, and the paladin must answer both. Roll above until an epithet sounds like a promise your character is still keeping, then build the oath backward from the name.
This generator's paladin flavor includes epithets like the Bold, the Just, the Pure, and titles like Sir, Dame, Vow-Knight. About a third of rolled names carry one; the rest stay clean. Click any result to copy it.