Yuki-onna Name Generator

Japanese 'yuki' (snow) + 'shiro' (white) — snow-white

She walks the pass when the snow falls thick enough to hide the road, and travelers who see her pale form ahead are said to be within an hour of the storm's heart.

Best for A snow-storm yuki-onna of the white-out

Japanese 'samui' (cold) reshaped + 'yuki' (snow) — the bitter-cold snow

She breathes once across the face of a sleeping traveler, and he does not wake — but those who wake before her breath find she has covered them with her sleeve against the wind.

Best for A cold-sleep yuki-onna of the long hush

Japanese 'tsumetai' (cold to the touch) reshaped + 'rei' (spirit) — the cold-touch spirit

Her hand on the shoulder is said to feel like river-stone in January, and the man she chose to spare carried the cold of that touch in his bones for the rest of his life.

Best for A yuki-onna of the frozen touch

Japanese 'yuki' (snow) + 'yama' (mountain) — the snow-mountain

She stands at the fork where the path forgets itself, and the traveler who speaks to her politely is shown the way down while the one who runs is shown nothing.

Best for A mountain-pass yuki-onna of the lost road

Japanese 'maboroshi' (illusion, phantom) reshaped + soft spirit-ending — the phantom-shelter

She appears as a woman waving from the lit window of a house that is not there, and only the traveler who hesitates at the door is spared the cold of walking through the wall.

Best for An illusion yuki-onna of the false shelter

Japanese 'jihi' (mercy, compassion) + 'hime' (princess, lady) — the lady of mercy

She let a woodcutter go because he had a child waiting at home, and the next spring the woodcutter found a single white flower growing on the exact stone where she had stood.

Best for A mercy yuki-onna who spares the kind

Japanese 'kōri' (ice) + 'tsu' (the sharp, the cutting) — the ice-edge

She moves across the frozen lake without a sound, and the children of the village are told never to follow the footprints that begin in the middle of the ice.

Best for A yuki-onna of the cutting frost

Japanese 'shiro' (white) + 'iki' (breath) — the white-breath

Where her breath meets the air the snow falls thicker, and the traveler whose own breath suddenly fails to show is said to be standing already in her presence.

Best for A snow yuki-onna of the visible breath

Japanese 'yobu' (to call) + 'kaze' (wind, cold wind) — the calling-wind

She calls a traveler's name from a few paces ahead on the path, and the one who answers is led safely down while the one who does not is found in the snow at dawn.

Best for A mountain yuki-onna of the voice in the storm

Japanese 'setsu' (snow, the older reading) + 'rei' (spirit) — the snow-spirit

She is the eldest of her kind on that mountain, and the snow that falls when she walks is said to be older than the trees it buries.

Best for An older yuki-onna of the deep winter

Japanese 'mugon' (silence, wordlessness, reshaped from 'mugon') + soft spirit-ending — the silent one

She passes the sheltering traveler without a word, and those who do not call after her are spared the question she would not have answered.

Best for A snow yuki-onna who never speaks

Japanese 'hiyayaka' (chilly, coldly calm) — the cold-calm

Her calm is said to be the last thing a freezing traveler feels before the cold stops hurting, and the families of the lost take comfort in the thought that she was gentle at the end.

Best for A mercy yuki-onna of the calm cold