Demon Names

Q: What is the most famous demon name?

Lucifer, by reach. Beelzebub, Satan and Asmodeus follow, each documented in the sources named on its row. The 72-name goetic catalog is the deepest single list, and every entry on this page carries its citation.

Q: Who named the demons?

Compilers, scribes and the traditions themselves. The goetic list was fixed by 17th-century compilers working from Weyer's 1563 catalog. 1 Enoch names the watchers. Dante named his own Malebranche. World epics named theirs centuries earlier. Every row here shows its source.

Demon names have receipts. Bael is King, Ars Goetia 1. Here are the names for demons from every documented tradition: the goetic catalog, scripture, 1 Enoch, the epics, Dante, and the trial records. A source on every row.

Open these in the generator →every name comes with a receipt

What are demon names?

Documented names with their rank, office and source. Names bold, sources flat, nothing between the rows. No entry on this page is invented: the criterion for this list is source-cited only. Variant spellings are labeled as variants.

Demon names with their ranks, offices and sources
Name	Rank or class	Office or meaning	Source
Bael	King (66 legions)	invisibility; the first entry	Ars Goetia
Agares	Duke (31 legions)	teaches languages; causes earthquakes	Ars Goetia
Vassago	Prince (26 legions)	declares things hidden	Ars Goetia
Samigina	President	teaches the liberal sciences	Ars Goetia
Marbas	President	causes and cures disease	Ars Goetia
Valefor	Duke	tempts men into theft	Ars Goetia
Amon	Marquis	reconciles friends and foes	Ars Goetia
Barbatos	Duke	understands the songs of birds	Ars Goetia
Paimon	King (200 legions)	teaches arts and sciences	Ars Goetia
Buer	President	heals	Ars Goetia
Gusion	President	reconciles friendships	Ars Goetia
Sitri	Prince	inflames love	Ars Goetia
Beleth	King (85 legions)	causes love	Ars Goetia
Leraje	Marquis	causes battles	Ars Goetia
Eligos	Duke	discovers hidden things; war	Ars Goetia
Zepar	Duke	love	Ars Goetia
Botis	President	reconciles foes	Ars Goetia
Bathin	Duke	carries men swiftly	Ars Goetia
Sallos	Duke	causes love	Ars Goetia
Purson	King (22 legions)	reveals hidden things and treasure	Ars Goetia
Marax	President	astronomy and the liberal sciences	Ars Goetia
Ipos	office varies by edition	boldness and wit, per the source	Ars Goetia
Aim	Duke	sets cities on fire	Ars Goetia
Naberius	Marquis	makes men cunning in speech	Ars Goetia
Glasya Labolas	President in some editions	incites bloodshed	Ars Goetia
Bune	Duke	gives riches	Ars Goetia
Ronove	Marquis	teaches arts and languages	Ars Goetia
Berith	Duke	known for alchemy in the source	Ars Goetia
Astaroth	Duke	teaches the liberal sciences; reveals secrets	Ars Goetia
Forneus	Marquis	teaches languages; wins goodwill	Ars Goetia
Foras	President	teaches the virtues of herbs and stones	Ars Goetia
Asmoday	King (72 legions)	teaches arithmetic and craft; the Tobit destroyer	Ars Goetia
Gaap	President	teaches philosophy and the liberal sciences	Ars Goetia
Furfur	Earl	causes love; thunder and lightning	Ars Goetia
Marchosias	Marquis	a strong fighter in the source	Ars Goetia
Stolas	Prince	teaches astronomy and the virtues of herbs	Ars Goetia
Phenex	Marquis	poetry; hopes to return to the seventh throne	Ars Goetia
Halphas	Earl	builds towers; sends warships	Ars Goetia
Malphas	President	builds towers; accepts sacrifices warily	Ars Goetia
Raum	Earl	carries off treasure; destroys cities	Ars Goetia
Focalor	Duke	drowns men	Ars Goetia
Vepar	Duke	guides the waters; storms at sea	Ars Goetia
Sabnock	Marquis	builds towers; torments men	Ars Goetia
Shax	Marquis	steals money; takes sight	Ars Goetia
Vine	Earl and King	discovers hidden things; builds towers	Ars Goetia
Bifrons	Earl	the sciences; lights candles on graves	Ars Goetia
Vual	Duke	declares past and future; wins friendship	Ars Goetia
Haagenti	President	transmutation, water to wine	Ars Goetia
Crocell	Duke	the mystic art; the great noise of waters	Ars Goetia
Furcas	Knight	philosophy, astrology, rhetoric	Ars Goetia
Balam	King	true answers; invisibility	Ars Goetia
Alloces	Duke	teaches astronomy	Ars Goetia
Caim	President	gives understanding of birds	Ars Goetia
Murmur	Duke and Earl	philosophy; obliges souls to appear	Ars Goetia
Orobas	Prince	true answers; faithful to the caller	Ars Goetia
Gremory	Duke	love; treasures	Ars Goetia
Ose	President	per the source, makes men seem other than they are	Ars Goetia
Amy	President	astrology and the liberal sciences	Ars Goetia
Orias	Marquis	dignities; the favor of friends and foes	Ars Goetia
Vapula	President	teaches crafts and philosophy	Ars Goetia
Zagan	King and President	transforms things; makes men witty	Ars Goetia
Valac	office varies by edition	hidden treasures; serpents, per the source	Ars Goetia
Andras	Marquis	sows discord	Ars Goetia
Flauros	Duke	destroys and burns enemies	Ars Goetia
Andrealphus	Marquis	geometry; astronomy	Ars Goetia
Cimeies	Marquis	grammar, logic, rhetoric	Ars Goetia
Amdusias	Duke	music; causes trumpets to sound	Ars Goetia
Belial	King	distributes dignities and favors	Ars Goetia
Decarabia	Marquis	virtues of stones and herbs	Ars Goetia
Seere	Prince	swift travel; brings things	Ars Goetia
Dantalion	Duke	knows all minds and changes them	Ars Goetia
Andromalius	Earl	recovers thefts; punishes thieves	Ars Goetia
Lucifer	the light-bearer	pride; Isaiah 14 by Latin translation	Binsfeld 1589; earlier texts
Mammon	riches	greed; the word itself, Matthew 6	Binsfeld 1589; earlier texts
Asmodeus	the fury root	lust; the Book of Tobit	Binsfeld 1589; earlier texts
Leviathan	the sea-coil	envy; Psalms and Job	Binsfeld 1589; earlier texts
Beelzebub	the lord-of-flies title	gluttony; 2 Kings 1	Binsfeld 1589; earlier texts
Satan	the accuser	wrath; the Hebrew Bible	Binsfeld 1589; earlier texts
Belphegor	the Baal-Peor name	sloth; Numbers 25	Binsfeld 1589; earlier texts
Samyaza	fallen watcher	chief of the fallen watchers	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Azazel	fallen watcher	named in Leviticus and 1 Enoch	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Kokabiel	fallen watcher	star of God, fallen	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Tamiel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Ramiel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Danel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Chazaqiel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Baraqiel	fallen watcher	lightning of God, fallen	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Armaros	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Batariel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Bezaliel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Ananiel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Zaqiel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Shamsiel	fallen watcher	sun of God, fallen	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Satariel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Turiel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Yomiel	fallen watcher	fallen watcher	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Sariel	fallen watcher	command of God, fallen	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Gadreel	fallen watcher	named among the teachers of error	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Penemue	fallen watcher	named as the teacher of writing	1 Enoch 6-7, 69
Abaddon	the destroyer	Revelation 9	Revelation 9
Apollyon	the destroyer, Greek form	Revelation 9	Revelation 9
Legion	the many in one man	Mark 5	Mark 5
Moloch	the child-fire god	Leviticus 18; 1 Kings 11	Leviticus 18; 1 Kings 11
Chemosh	the Moabite god	Numbers 21	Numbers 21
Dagon	the fish-god	Judges 16	Judges 16
Nisroch	the Assyrian deity	2 Kings 19	2 Kings 19
Adrammelech	the Sepharvite deity	2 Kings 17	2 Kings 17
Mastema	the accuser spirit	the Book of Jubilees	the Book of Jubilees
the python spirit	the divination spirit	Acts 16:16	Acts 16:16
Nergal	the Cuthite deity	2 Kings 17:30	2 Kings 17:30
Ashima	the Hamath deity	2 Kings 17:30	2 Kings 17:30
Nibhaz	the Avvite deity	2 Kings 17:31	2 Kings 17:31
Tartak	the Avvite deity	2 Kings 17:31	2 Kings 17:31
Lilith	the night-creature	Isaiah 34:14; grown in Talmudic folklore	Isaiah 34:14; grown in Talmudic folklore
Naamah	named demoness	Talmudic tradition	Talmudic tradition
Agrat bat Mahlat	named demoness	Talmudic tradition	Talmudic tradition
Rahab	the sea's insolence	Psalm 89 usage; rabbinic reading	Psalm 89 usage; rabbinic reading
Ketev	the noonday demon	midrash on Psalm 91	midrash on Psalm 91
Lucifuge Rofocale	prime minister of the infernal court	Grimorium Verum	Grimorium Verum
Satanachia	commander of the deep	Grimorium Verum	Grimorium Verum
Agaliarept	keeper of secrets	Grimorium Verum	Grimorium Verum
Fleurety	night commander	Grimorium Verum	Grimorium Verum
Sargatanas	brigadier of the deep	Grimorium Verum	Grimorium Verum
Nebiratos	named officer	Grimorium Verum	Grimorium Verum
Amenadiel	emperor of the west, aerial	Ars Theurgia (Lemegeton book 2)	Ars Theurgia
Carnesiel	chief emperor, aerial	Ars Theurgia	Ars Theurgia
Caspiel	emperor of the south, aerial	Ars Theurgia	Ars Theurgia
Demoriel	emperor of the north, aerial	Ars Theurgia	Ars Theurgia
Pazuzu	king of the wind-demons	Mesopotamian tradition	Mesopotamian record
Lamashtu	the child-snatching demoness	Mesopotamian tradition	Mesopotamian record
Asag	the plague-demon	Sumerian tradition	Mesopotamian record
Rabisu	the croucher at the door	Akkadian tradition	Mesopotamian record
Alu	the night demon	Akkadian tradition	Mesopotamian record
Ardat-lili	the lili-kin demoness	Akkadian tradition	Mesopotamian record
Iblis	the refractory one	the Qur'an	the Qur'an
Ifrit	the powerful djinn	the Qur'an, Surah an-Naml	the Qur'an, Surah an-Naml
Marid	the sea-djinn class	Arabic folklore	Arabic folklore
Ghul	the grave-haunter, source of ghoul	Arabic folklore	Arabic folklore
Ahriman	the destructive spirit	Zoroastrian tradition	Zoroastrian tradition
Aeshma	the fury	Zoroastrian tradition; the Asmoday root	Zoroastrian tradition; the Asmoday root
Ravana	the rakshasa king	the Ramayana	the Ramayana
Kumbhakarna	the sleeping rakshasa	the Ramayana	the Ramayana
Shuten-doji	the oni chief of Mount Oe	Japanese folklore	Japanese folklore
Ibaraki-doji	the oni lieutenant	Japanese folklore	Japanese folklore
Malacoda	Malebranche demon	the hook-tailed captain of Malebranche	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Alichino	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche, the falcon-named	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Barbariccia	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche, the curly-bearded	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Cagnazzo	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche, the dog-faced	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Calcabrina	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Ciriatto	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche, the pig-tusked	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Draghignazzo	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Farfarello	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Graffiacane	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche, the dog-scratching	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Libicocco	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Rubicante	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Scarmiglione	Malebranche demon	a Malebranche	Dante, Inferno 21-22
Mulciber	the smith who built Pandemonium	Paradise Lost	Paradise Lost
Thammuz	named in the fallen host	Paradise Lost, from Tammuz	Paradise Lost
Rimmon	the Syrian deity in the host	Paradise Lost, from 2 Kings 5	Paradise Lost
Oriens	king of the east	the Book of Abramelin	Book of Abramelin
Ariton	king of the north	the Book of Abramelin	Book of Abramelin
Amaimon	king of the south	the Book of Abramelin	Book of Abramelin
Magot	named subordinate	the Book of Abramelin	Book of Abramelin
Ornias	the first demon bound	Testament of Solomon	Testament of Solomon
Onoskelis	the demoness of the caves	Testament of Solomon	Testament of Solomon
Tephros	the ash-gray one	Testament of Solomon	Testament of Solomon
Enepsigos	the moon-bound demoness	Testament of Solomon	Testament of Solomon
Obyzouth	the child-harming demoness	Testament of Solomon	Testament of Solomon
Lix Tetrax	the whirlwind demon	Testament of Solomon	Testament of Solomon
Ruax	the headache demon, first of the decans	Testament of Solomon	Testament of Solomon
Empusa	the shape-shifting demoness	Greek sources	Greek sources
Lamia	the child-haunting demoness	Greek sources	Greek sources
Mormo	the frightener of children	Greek sources	Greek sources
Gello	the infant-haunting demoness	Greek sources	Greek sources
Ephialtes	the nightmare that leaps on sleepers	Greek sources	Greek sources
Bes	the general demon of the Slavic record	Slavic folklore	Slavic folklore
Ala	the storm-and-harvest demoness	Slavic folklore	Slavic folklore
Chort	the Slavic devil-figure	Slavic folklore	Slavic folklore
Mare	the night-rider behind the word nightmare	Germanic folklore	Germanic folklore
Ammit	the devourer of the weighed heart	Egyptian tradition	Egyptian tradition
Mara	the tempter beneath the tree	Buddhist tradition	Buddhist tradition
Verrier	named in the Loudun classification	the 1634 Loudun account	the 1634 Loudun account
Gresil	named in the Loudun classification	the 1634 Loudun account	the 1634 Loudun account
Aman	named in the Loudun classification	the 1634 Loudun account	the 1634 Loudun account
Mephistopheles	the scornful negotiator	the Faustbuch, 1587	the Faustbuch, 1587
Baphomet	the Templar-accusation name	trial record; the 1854 icon	trial record; the 1854 icon
Behemoth	the gluttony beast	demonological lists, from Job	demonological lists, from Job
Verdelet	master of ceremonies	the Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863	the Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863
Yan-gant-y-tan	the torch-carrier	Breton folklore; the Dictionnaire Infernal	Breton folklore; the Dictionnaire Infernal
Abraxas	the Gnostic name, later demonized	Gnostic tradition	Gnostic tradition
Uzza	the fallen angel of the rabbinic list	Jewish tradition	Jewish tradition
Dumah	the silence-prince of the deep	rabbinic tradition, later demonology	rabbinic tradition, later demonology
Surgat	the opener of locks	the Sworn Book of Honorius tradition	the Sworn Book of Honorius tradition
Aamon	variant spelling of Amon	across grimoire editions	across grimoire editions
Baal	variant spelling of Bael	across grimoire editions	across grimoire editions
Ham	variant spelling of Amon	across grimoire editions	across grimoire editions
Asmodeus	the Tobit form of Asmoday	Book of Tobit; grimoire editions	Book of Tobit; grimoire editions
Sydonay	variant spelling of Asmoday	across grimoire editions	across grimoire editions
Paymon	variant spelling of Paimon	across grimoire editions	across grimoire editions
Bileth	variant spelling of Beleth	across grimoire editions	across grimoire editions
Asteroth	variant spelling of Astaroth	across grimoire editions	across grimoire editions
Allocer	variant spelling of Alloces	across grimoire editions	across grimoire editions

What do demon names mean?

A demon's name is its job description. The goetic catalog says what each one does; the scriptures say what each one is. Twelve meaning spotlights, sources attached:

Demon name meanings spotlight
Name	Rank or class	Office or meaning	Source
Bael	King (66 legions)	invisibility; the first entry	Ars Goetia
Paimon	King (200 legions)	teaches arts and sciences	Ars Goetia
Astaroth	Duke	teaches the liberal sciences; reveals secrets	Ars Goetia
Asmoday	King (72 legions)	teaches arithmetic and craft; the Tobit destroyer	Ars Goetia
Furcas	Knight	philosophy, astrology, rhetoric	Ars Goetia
Belial	King	distributes dignities and favors	Ars Goetia
Lucifer	the light-bearer	pride; Isaiah 14 by Latin translation	Binsfeld 1589; earlier texts
Beelzebub	the lord-of-flies title	gluttony; 2 Kings 1	Binsfeld 1589; earlier texts
Lilith	the night-creature	Isaiah 34:14; grown in Talmudic folklore	Isaiah 34:14; grown in Talmudic folklore
Pazuzu	king of the wind-demons	Mesopotamian tradition	Mesopotamian record
Iblis	the refractory one	the Qur'an	the Qur'an
Mephistopheles	the scornful negotiator	the Faustbuch, 1587	the Faustbuch, 1587

How do demon names work?

Whole names, fixed ranks, cited sources. The goetic layer numbers its 72 and gives each a rank and a legion count. The morphological layer runs underneath: -oth, -on and -iel endings from Hebrew and Greek roots filtered through Latin scribes. The naming-craft lesson lives on the how to name a character page; this is the demon chapter.

What are demon last names?

Demons carry ranks instead of surnames. The rank-and-office line does the work a family name does for a human. Six title forms, attested in the goetic source:

Demon rank titles with attested holders
Title	Attested holder	Office class
King	Bael, Paimon, Asmoday, Belial	commands legions
Duke	Agares, Astaroth, Bune	teaches arts and languages
Prince	Vassago, Sitri, Stolas	declares past and future
Marquis	Amon, Leraje, Marchosias	love and war
President	Marbas, Buer, Haagenti	knowledge and transmutation
Earl	Furfur, Raum, Andromalius	storms, thefts, vengeance

The grimoire index

Every row above cites one of these sources. That is the citation asset of this page: the library the names came from, in order of appearance, so you can check any entry:

The grimoire and tradition index
Source	What it holds here	Entries on this page
Ars Goetia (Lemegeton book 1)	the 72-name catalog with ranks and offices	72, plus 9 variant spellings
1 Enoch 6-7, 69	the fallen watchers, by name	20
the Hebrew Bible and New Testament	named powers and the destroyer	14
Binsfeld's classification, 1589	the seven princes paired with sins	7
Talmudic tradition	the named demonesses and the noonday demon	5
Grimorium Verum	the second hierarchy of named officers	6
Ars Theurgia (Lemegeton book 2)	the aerial emperors	4
Mesopotamian record	the oldest named demons in writing	6
Dante, Inferno 21-22	the Malebranche, named by the poet	12
Paradise Lost	the fallen host of the English epic	3
Testament of Solomon	the bound demons of the pseudepigraphon	7
World epics and folklore	the Ramayana, the Qur'an, Slavic, Germanic and Greek records	21
Later records	the Faustbuch, the Loudun account, the Dictionnaire Infernal	12

Where demon names come from

Four layers, oldest first. The world's epics named their demons first. The apocalyptic and Enochic texts named the fallen. The grimoires numbered and ranked the catalog. The poets and trial records kept adding after. No layer outranks another here; each carries its receipt:

The four layers of the demon record
Layer	Time depth	Example receipt
World myth and epic	the oldest written records	Pazuzu, king of the wind-demons
Scripture and 1 Enoch	Second Temple period onward	Abaddon, Revelation 9
The grimoires	1563 onward in print	Bune, Duke, Ars Goetia 26
Poets and records	Dante 1320, Loudun 1634, Faust 1587	Malacoda of the Malebranche

The demon name generator draws the goetic bank with citations, and its invented lane stays labeled.

Demon name questions, answered

What is the most famous demon name?

Lucifer, by reach. Beelzebub, Satan and Asmodeus follow, each documented in the sources named on its row. The 72-name goetic catalog is the deepest single list, and every entry on this page carries its citation.

Who named the demons?

Compilers, scribes and the traditions themselves. The goetic list was fixed by 17th-century compilers working from Weyer's 1563 catalog. 1 Enoch names the watchers. Dante named his own Malebranche. World epics named theirs centuries earlier. Every row here shows its source.

Are these demon names real?

Real in the only sense that matters: documented in named sources. Nothing on this page is invented. Where spellings differ across editions, the variant rows say so. Invented coinages stay in the generator, clearly labeled.

Where the meanings come from. Every entry names its source: the Lemegeton tradition, scripture, 1 Enoch, the epics, Dante, the Faustbuch, and the trial records. Variant spellings are labeled variants. Where every name's receipt comes from →