To avoid the boilerplate for every different type of error, I combined the wisdom of some of the solutions into a createErrorType function:

function createErrorType(name, init) {
  function E(message) {
    this.name = name;
    if (!Error.captureStackTrace)
      this.stack = (new Error()).stack;
    else
      Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor);
    this.message = message;
    init && init.apply(this, arguments);
  }
  E.prototype = new Error();
  E.prototype.name = name;
  E.prototype.constructor = E;
  return E;
}

Then you can define new error types easily as follows:

var NameError = createErrorType('NameError', function (name, invalidChar) {
  this.message = 'The name ' + name + ' may not contain ' + invalidChar;
});

var UnboundError = createErrorType('UnboundError', function (variableName) {
  this.message = 'Variable ' + variableName + ' is not bound';
});

To avoid the boilerplate for every different type of error, I combined the wisdom of some of the solutions into a createErrorType function:

function createErrorType(name, init) {
  function E(message) {
    if (!Error.captureStackTrace)
      this.stack = (new Error()).stack;
    else
      Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor);
    this.message = message;
    init && init.apply(this, arguments);
  }
  E.prototype = new Error();
  E.prototype.name = name;
  E.prototype.constructor = E;
  return E;
}

Then you can define new error types easily as follows:

var NameError = createErrorType('NameError', function (name, invalidChar) {
  this.message = 'The name ' + name + ' may not contain ' + invalidChar;
});

var UnboundError = createErrorType('UnboundError', function (variableName) {
  this.message = 'Variable ' + variableName + ' is not bound';
});