Demoness names, female demon names: same search, this page. The oldest named one in the stack is Lilith, the night-demoness of the tablets and the Talmud, and every name after her comes with its citation: the grimoire by number, the text by name, the tradition by region. This table holds 100 of them, every row with its source stratum.
Named female demons cluster in five documented textual strata, and every row here cites one. The grimoires contribute the female-form exceptions, cited by their entry numbers. The Testament of Solomon names the oldest she-demons in a single text. The Mesopotamian and rabbinic layers hold the night-spirit words and the four queens, tractates named. The Greek and Roman sources hold the classical she-demons. World folklore holds the named figures of documented regional traditions, cited as literature. The medieval manuals add their two named demonesses, cited by title and year. A small coined lane carries the shortfall to the count, and says coined on every row.
Grouped by stratum. The stratum column is the citation.
Female demon names with roots, meanings and source strata
Name
Root
Meaning
Source stratum
Copy
The grimoires, cited by number: the female-form exceptions of a male-reading book
Gremory
the goetic entry 56, the -ory shape of the book
appears as a beautiful woman riding a camel; the citation is the receipt
grimoire, Goetia 56
Vepar
goetic entry 42, the waters word of the book
appears as a mermaid; guides the waters, by the book’s own line
grimoire, Goetia 42
Beleth
goetic entry 13
rides a pale horse with music before him; a queen-form reading exists, CONTESTED, and flagged
grimoire, Goetia 13
Astaroth
the male demon-form of the goddess Astarte
the disambiguation receipt: a goddess renamed and regendered by the grimoire; the male form’s row lives on the demon list
grimoire, Goetia 29
Dantalion
goetic entry 71
appears with many faces, of men and women; the book’s own line is the female-form exception
grimoire, Goetia 71
The Testament of Solomon: the oldest text that names she-demons
Onoskelis
Greek-shaped name in the Testament of Solomon; onos, ass, plus skelos, leg
a fair face and an ass’s legs; she speaks of caves and flax, the oldest named she-demon in one text
Testament of Solomon
Obyzouth
the Testament’s own name for her
the disheveled one who harms children at birth; bound by name in the text
Testament of Solomon
Enepsigos
the Testament’s moon-bound name
the three-headed one questioned about the decrees; the text stages the dialogue, and the page stages the citation
Testament of Solomon
Mesopotamian and rabbinic: the night-spirit layers and the four queens, tractates named
Lilith
Akkadian lilitu, the night-spirit word
the layered receipt: the tablets, the Talmud’s Lilith, the later Kabbalistic queens; each layer dated in its own section below
tablets to Kabbalah
Lilitu
the older Akkadian form itself
the wind-and-night spirit class the later name grew out of
Akkadian
Dimme
the Sumerian name of the child-snatcher
the same figure the Akkadian texts call Lamashtu; one child-snatcher, two language layers
Sumerian
Naamah
the pleasantness word of Hebrew
a name in the Genesis line of Cain; the demoness reading is the rabbinic layer, cited as such
rabbinic literature
Agrat bat Mahlat
Agrat, the daughter-of line of the tractate
a named queen of the shedim, tractate Pesachim, with her retinue counted in the text
Talmud, Pesachim
Iggeret bat Mahlat
the sister name in the same family line
named beside Agrat in the later rabbinic tradition; the receipt is the line itself
rabbinic tradition
Machlath
the mother name in the tractate line
the name survives; the story does not; the row says exactly that
Talmud, Pesachim
Eisheth Zenunim
the woman-of-fornication phrase of the Zohar
one of the four queens of the later Kabbalistic layer; the text names her, the page dates the text
Kabbalah, the Zohar
Mazikeen
the mazikin, harmful shades of Jewish folklore
one of the twilight ones; a modern comic and its TV run borrowed the word and boosted it, which is the receipt, not the source
Jewish folklore
Alukah
the leech word of Proverbs 30:15
the sucking-one gloss tradition reads her as a blood spirit; CONTESTED, flagged, not asserted
gloss tradition
Estries
the medieval Yiddish word of Sefer Hasidim
the blood-spirits of the medieval text; the name is the class, the class is the receipt
Sefer Hasidim
Greek and Roman: the she-demons of the classical sources
Empusa
Greek; linked to the one-footed phantom word
the shape-shifting daughter of Hecate in the attested myth; she changes faces in Aristophanes and the philosophers
Greek sources
Lamia
Greek; the great shark word is one old tie, CONTESTED
the child-taker; Libanius stages the debate where she tells her own story
Greek sources
Mormo
Greek; the frightener word itself
the bogey-woman nurses named to frighten children; the receipts are the comedy and the proverb
Greek sources
Mormolyce
mormo plus lyke, the wolf shape of the name
the same frightener under her fuller name; Plato cites the word as the thing children fear
Greek sources
Gorgo
the grim one, the Greek word
the bogey-word the nurses used, paired with Mormo in the sources
Greek sources
Strix
Latin; the screech-owl word
the night-owl that drinks; Ovid’s Fasti stages the striges at the cradle, and the word became the naturalist’s owl name
Roman sources
Gello
Greek; the name of a lost maiden-tale
the infant-harmer of the Greek and Byzantine tradition; the proverb kept her name, the scholia keep the tale
Greek-Byzantine
Eurynome
Greek; the wide-ruling name
the underworld demon Pausanias describes carved at Phigalia, chained in the sanctuary; the traveler’s account is the receipt
Pausanias
World folklore: named figures of documented traditions, cited as literature
Rangda
the widow word of Balinese
the demon queen of the dance-drama; the barong dance’s other half, documented as performed literature
Balinese folklore
Batibat
the Ilocano word for the nightmare at the tree
the sleep-suffocator of the Ilocos tradition; the folklore is cited as folklore
Philippine folklore
Aswang
the Philippine shapeshifter word
the class read female; the fear is documented, the page documents the name only
Philippine folklore
Manananggal
the self-severing word of the Visayas
she separates at the waist and hunts; the lower half stays, says the lore, and that detail is the receipt
Philippine folklore
Kuyang
the Bornean flying-head word
the head that flies with its lights trailing; Bornean tradition, named as such
Bornean folklore
Pontianak
the Malay woman-who-died word
the died-in-childbirth spirit of the Malay world; the frangipani and the cry are the tale’s own details
Malay folklore
Matianak
the child-of-the-dead name in the same lore
the sister name of the Pontianak line; one figure family, two documented names
Malay folklore
Langsuir
the Malay kite-hawk word, worn as her name
the mother who died at delivery, returned; the long nails and the green robe are the tale’s details
Malay folklore
Penanggalan
the detaching word of Malay tradition
the head that detaches with its lights trailing; Chams and Malays both claim the figure, and both are cited
Malay folklore
Churel
the South Asian word for the returned woman
the woman wronged in life, returning for the family; the folklore is stated neutrally, as literature
South Asian folklore
Pishachini
the flesh-eater word, in the feminine
the female of the pishacha class; the Sanskrit-literate tradition names her
South Asian folklore
Acheri
the hill-shadow name of the lower Himalaya
the girl’s shadow cast on the villages; cited from the compiled folklore, as folklore
Himalayan folklore
Likho
the Slavic misfortune word in the feminine
the one-eyed bearer of the bad turn; the tales count her into the proverb
Slavic folklore
Poludnitsa
the noon word, południe, in the feminine
Lady Midday; the field at noon, the heat-stroke hag, the farm warning wearing a name
Slavic folklore
Nocnitsa
the night word in the feminine
the night hag who presses sleepers; the Slavic cousin of the mare
Slavic folklore
Strzyga
the Polish shape of the strix word
the double-hearted one of Polish lore; the Latin word came east and took a Slavic dress
Polish folklore
Muma Padurii
the forest mother of Romanian
the mother of the woods in Romanian tale; the border guard of the trees
Romanian folklore
Samca
the Romanian nightmare name
the pressing one of Romanian ethnography; the charm tradition names her, and the name is the receipt
Romanian folklore
Gryla
the Icelandic ogress name, in the sagas by the thirteenth century
the ogress of the Christmas lore; the thirteenth-century verse already names her
Icelandic folklore
Black Annis
the Leicestershire legend name
the blue-faced hag of the Dane Hills; the local legend, documented as local legend
English legend
Jenny Greenteeth
the Lancashire water-hag name
the green-haired one under the duckweed; the brook warning wearing a name
English legend
Soucouyant
the Caribbean skin-shedder word
the old woman who sheds her skin and crosses the night as a fireball; the Trinidad receipt
Caribbean folklore
Patasola
the one-footed woman of the Colombian forest
the single foot, the forest edge, the hunting tale; Colombian Pacific lore, cited as such
Colombian folklore
La Llorona
Spanish, the weeping woman
the weeper at the river; the Americas’ best-known female legend, with the colonial tale behind it
Latin American legend
Tunda
the Colombian Pacific lure-word
the one who lures the lost with a borrowed voice; the Pacific coast tradition names her
Colombian folklore
Sayona
Venezuelan Spanish, the white-dressed one
the woman in white on the road at night; the Venezuelan receipt
Venezuelan legend
La Cegua
the Central American rider name
the beautiful rider whose face turns horse-skulled; the night-road legend, named
Central American legend
Ciguapa
the Dominican mountain-woman name
the backward-footed woman of the cordillera; her tracks read backwards, says the lore
Dominican folklore
Xtabay
the Yucatec ceiba-tree name
the woman of the ceiba in Yucatec lore; the two-flowers tale is hers, and the tale names the tree
Yucatec folklore
Medieval and infernal literature: the named demonesses of the manuals and legends
Meridiana
the Latin noonword shape, meridies
the demoness of the Gerbert legend; William of Malmesbury’s Gesta sets the tale, the name comes with the legend
medieval legend, Gesta Regum
Abrahel
the name printed in the demonology of 1595
the demoness of the shepherd’s bargain in Remy’s Daemonolatreiae; the manual is the receipt
Daemonolatreiae, 1595
Coined: the infernal grammar: our builds, labeled coined, carrying the shortfall
Noxa
nox (night) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Noxina
nox (night) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Noxissa
nox (night) + -issa (the -issa feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Noxara
nox (night) + -ara (the -ara feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Atera
ater (black) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Aterina
ater (black) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Aterissa
ater (black) + -issa (the -issa feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Aterara
ater (black) + -ara (the -ara feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Tenebra
tenebr (darkness) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Tenebrina
tenebr (darkness) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Tenebrissa
tenebr (darkness) + -issa (the -issa feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Tenebrara
tenebr (darkness) + -ara (the -ara feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Cruora
cruor (gore) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Cruorina
cruor (gore) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Cruorissa
cruor (gore) + -issa (the -issa feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Cruorara
cruor (gore) + -ara (the -ara feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Cinisa
cinis (ash) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Cinisina
cinis (ash) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Cinisissa
cinis (ash) + -issa (the -issa feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Cinisara
cinis (ash) + -ara (the -ara feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Vespera
vesper (evening) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Vesperina
vesper (evening) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Vesperissa
vesper (evening) + -issa (the -issa feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Vesperara
vesper (evening) + -ara (the -ara feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Morsa
mors (death) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Morsina
mors (death) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Morsissa
mors (death) + -issa (the -issa feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Morsara
mors (death) + -ara (the -ara feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Luctusa
luctus (grief) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Luctusina
luctus (grief) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Luctusissa
luctus (grief) + -issa (the -issa feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Luctusara
luctus (grief) + -ara (the -ara feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Pallora
pallor (paleness) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Pallorina
pallor (paleness) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Pallorissa
pallor (paleness) + -issa (the -issa feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Pallorara
pallor (paleness) + -ara (the -ara feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Pavora
pavor (dread) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Pavorina
pavor (dread) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Pavorissa
pavor (dread) + -issa (the -issa feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Pavorara
pavor (dread) + -ara (the -ara feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Furora
furor (fury) + -a (the first feminine ending of Latin)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Furorina
furor (fury) + -ina (the -ina feminine ending)
a dark-root build on real feminine endings; ours, labeled coined
coined here, infernal grammar
Where do female demon names come from?
Five strata, one receipt each. The grimoires: Gremory, entry 56, appears as a woman on a camel, and the citation is the receipt. The Testament of Solomon: Onoskelis, the fair face on an ass’s legs, questioned by the king. The rabbis: four queens, Lilith, Naamah, Agrat and Eisheth, each tied to her tractate or her Zohar layer. The Greeks and Romans: Empusa, Lamia, Mormo, the strix, the frighteners of children and cradles. World folklore: Rangda of the dance-drama, Batibat of the Ilocano night, each tradition named. The full two-gender list of the pair is the demon names page, and it links back here.
What does the name Lilith actually mean?
The decode runs layer by dated layer. The oldest layer is the Akkadian lilitu, a night-and-wind spirit word of the Mesopotamian tablets, with a Sumerian phrase on a Gilgamesh tablet often read into her line, a reading scholars still argue. The Hebrew Bible gives her one appearance, as a night creature in Isaiah’s wilderness, and the old translators rendered her three different ways, which is its own receipt. The Talmud’s Lilith appears in the bedside warnings of three tractates.
The later layers are later. The Alphabet of Ben Sira, a satiric text most scholars date well into the middle ages, makes her Adam’s first wife, and that story is the one modern retellings borrow. The incantation bowls of Iraq and Iran name her across centuries. Each layer is named and dated here, and no layer is endorsed or debunked. The decode is the receipt. The theology is not this page’s business. The demon name generator builds from these same traditions when you want the tool.
The demon pair and the female lane
This page is the female facet of a pair. The full list, both genders, is the demon names page. The demon name generator draws both lanes. The goetic majority reads male in the sources, so it stays on the pair’s pages; this page cites the female-form exceptions, by number, and routes the rest. Astaroth is the split done right: the goddess-origin receipt is hers here, the male demon-form’s row belongs to the demon list, and the routing line appears on both sides.
Can you generate a female demon name?
Yes. Open the demon name generator and draw from the attested strata, or pick from the table above and keep the citation with the name. A name without its stratum is just a sound. With it, you can say where the sound came from, and that is the whole point of this page.
Female demon names questions, answered
What is a female demon called?
Demoness is the plain English word, and the traditions have their own. Demoness names, female demon names: same search, and this page is built for both. The older texts say it their own way: the rabbinic material speaks of queens of the shedim, the Greek of lamiai and mormolykes as classes, the Latin of striges as a plural flock. The table keeps each name under its own stratum, so the word you take comes with the tradition that coined it.
Who is the most famous demoness?
Lilith, and her receipt is the deepest in the stack. The name decodes from the Akkadian lilitu, the night-spirit word of the tablets. The Hebrew Bible gives her one line as a night creature. The Talmud gives her the bedside warnings. The Alphabet of Ben Sira, a later and much stranger text, makes her Adam’s first wife, and the incantation bowls of the middle centuries name her again. Each layer is dated in its section below. Fame is a receipt too, and hers has twenty-five centuries of them.
Are goetic demons male or female?
Mostly male-reading in the sources, and the exceptions are exactly what this table cites. The book describes Gremory as a beautiful woman, Vepar as a mermaid, and Dantalion with faces of men and women; a queen-form reading of Beleth exists and is flagged CONTESTED in its row. Those five rows are the honest extent of the female lane in the Goetia. The rest of the male-reading majority belongs to the pair’s own pages, and the demon names list tables it there.
Where this data comes from.Every attested row cites its textual tradition: goetic entries by number, the Testament of Solomon, tractates and the Zohar for the rabbinic layers, Greek and Roman sources by author where the author names the figure, regional folklore as documented literature, and the medieval manuals by title and year. Contested readings are flagged in-row, never smoothed. This page documents these figures as literature and myth, named and dated. It contains no ritual, no invocation, and no instructions of any kind, and it passes no verdict on any tradition. The coined lane is invented here on documented Latin morphology and labeled coined in every row, because the attested supply, honestly verified, falls short of the binding count. Where every name's receipt comes from →