200+ Dragon Names from Countries, Regions & Movies

An interesting point to be noted here is that there is a distinction between female and male dragon names. Additionally, dragon names vary according to their type. Yes! You read it right. There are different types of dragons, and their names are given accordingly.

List of Dragon Names

For easy reference and quick lookup, we have enlisted some of the most popular dragon names irrespective of their types below. These names are mostly derived from religious texts, mythologies, legends, and folk stories of the world.

Dragon Names by Country/Region

Dragon Names by Movies

The list compiled above consists of both male and female dragon names. Female dragons have a legacy and fan base of their own throughout media and cultural folklore. Irrespective of their gender, dragons are regarded as power beasts, which either help people win wars or cause chaos in their lives and need to be slain by the ‘chosen one.’

Regardless of their genders and cultural interpretations, the dragon remains mysterious, daunting, and majestic to many people worldwide. Dragon lovers go to lengths in designing the cover, graphics, and art about them.

History of Dragon Names

Dragons are mythical creatures that have been part of world literature and folklore for a long period. Characterized by their strength and power, dragons in history and culture represent beasts, which are masters of earthly, aerial, fire, water, and ice-related battle skills. Combine all of these with their magical powers, and it adds so much aura to their mysterious demeanor.

Dragons are perceived differently across various cultures and religious streams. Each culture and religion perceives dragons according to their beliefs. For example, dragons are depicted as evil beasts in Christian texts and symbolize chaos and turmoil. On the other hand, many spiritual schools of thought and Eastern cultures perceive them as wise and holy deities.

These differences lie not only in perception but also in the physical portrayal of these mighty beasts. This contrast can be categorized according to Eastern and Western cultures. Dragons in Eastern Cultures are wingless and highly intelligent creatures that may breathe fire or ice, whereas dragons in Western cultures have wings and breath fire only.

In real life, oftentimes people refer to a person as ‘Dragon’ because of their ability to overcome challenges in life and self conquering skills. Similarly, the phrase ‘to awaken the dragon within’ signifies waking up or sharpening of one’s intellectual abilities to overcome obstacles and hardships in life. Thus it is safe to conclude that dragons symbolize and signify moral character, physical strength, the actualization of intellectual abilities, wisdom and mysterious powers regardless of the culture they belong to.

The concept of dragons, either aiding the humans in a noble cause or acting as the aides of villains and then being slain by their chosen slayers, found its way to Hollywood and cinema across the globe too. Some of the most famous cinematic adaptions of dragons in both evil and noble avatars have been explored in the next section alongside their names.

Cinematic Adoption & Literary Portrayal of Dragon Names

Throughout literary and cinematic history, dragons have been given some of the most interesting names. How these names are conceived, or the criteria of applying them on a particular dragon remain unspecified. Nevertheless, let’s take a look at some of the most popular and interesting cinematic dragon names of all times.

Let’s begin exploring dragon names with the most popular dragons of television. The 3 dragons portrayed as Daenerys’s children in the famous television show, Game of Thrones, were named Dragon, Rhaegal, and Viserion. All three of them could initially breathe fire but later breathed ice and eventually died. Daenerys’s dragons symbolized her courage, strength, and power she gained over time.

Other cinematic dragon names include Night Fury from the 2010 animated kids’ movie How to Train Your Dragon. The movie shows how the lead character, Hiccup, adopts and bonds with his dragon pet defying his tribe’s cultural norms, which require him to kill a dragon to step into manhood. Hiccup, on the contrary, not only saves Night Fury from other Vikings instead of trains it to fight the ones who refuse to give up killing dragons for a sport.

In addition to the already mentioned, dragon characters such as Falcor (The Never Ending Story, 1984), Smaug (The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, 2013), Mushu (Mulan, 1998) and Eragon are some of the most famous and memorable cinematic dragon names of all times.

The famous music band ‘Imagine Dragons’ have their name inspired by dragons, and various anime mangas and video games such as ‘Dragon Ball Z’ etc also have names inspired by these mighty and majestic beasts.

A very interesting interpretation of dragons as powerful entities in Western cultures includes them as being greedy. Despite the power they possess, dragons are shown as greedy hoarders of treasures of the world unless they are killed, and the human race is freed from their vices. Dragons have been given interesting names stemming from mythology or religious texts. Some of these names have mentioned in the section below.