The generator makes cool band names. It uses complex random algorithms to make creative and cool band names. Over 6 million unique and random names.
About the name generator project
"I wanna make easy to use generators and cool names." Read more about the project
Band Name Generator
The Band Name Generator is an online and free web application. It makes cool band names for you and your orchestra. Fast and easy. The generator makes creative and inspiring and cool band names.
Usability
The Band Name Generator is very easy to use. It has a clean and logical user interface. Big buttons and clear text. Very easy to overview.
Just hit the button and the generator will make a creative band name. If you don't like the first name, just give it another shot, and a new cool band name will be generated.
Generator speed
The Band Name Generator is programmed in JavaScript. It means generation is done locally in your browser. Locally generation gives great speed and absolutely no waiting time.
List of band names
All your names are saved to a list, so if you get a little trigger happy, and generate new ones too fast, you can still see them in the list. Just remember to save the list before you leave the page.
Cool ideas for band names
If the Band Name Generator don't make the cool band name you were looking for, you will find inspiration to create a cool name yourself.
You can't expect a machine intelligence too make the perfect name. But it sure can help you get your own ideas for cool names.
Metal Band Name Generator
I have adjusted the word lists to make more metal band names. So the generator is also a metal band name generator now.
The new "metal band name generator" make cool names for several heavy metal genres. Heavy metal genres like death metal, black metal and doom metal.
Cool Band Name Generator
I have added many new words to the word lists. Nouns, adverbs and adjectives. So the band names are now even cooler and variation in the is increased significantly.
Cool Band Names
Cool band names should:
- Express the soul and feeling of you group
- Describe the members
- Fire the audiences imagination
- Be a solid brand for your group
- Gather and unify the identity of the band members
How to create a band name
A cool band name can be created in many ways, and it is no easy task creating it.
Some times the name of an orchestra is carefully constructed after some higher ideas or even ideals. Other times it comes from a random sentence, a book, a song title.
Often the process of making a band name can be both painful and long. Everybody are looking for the perfection and everybody has a different taste and preferences for what is really cool.
And it difficult to say when you actually hit the real thing and have made the perfect name. In fact only history will tell.
A good way to test if your ideas is hot or not, is to ask people outside the band what they think..
- Is it a creative and exiting?
- Is it a trendy?
- Is it a hot?
- Is it a cool band name?
And also remember to ask your coming audience about the name. Not your mom, your auntie or sister, but people who listen to the kind of music your band plays.
Only your coming audience can really tell, if it sends the right signals, the right attitude, and express the feeling of the music that you play.
Historical Band Name
Here's a very short list with some of the best band names through history. This is just a few examples of great band names:
- ABBA
- The Beatles
- The Rolling Stones
- Nirvana
- Thin Lizzy
- Black Sabbath
- The Who
- Talking Heads
- Skid Row
- Pink Floyd
- Procol Harum
- Queen
- Led Zeppelin
- Iron Maiden
- ACDC
For a more complete list check the list of band name etymologi at the Wikipedia. The list is quite impressive and the band names origins are explained and referenced quite thoroughly.
Cool band names examples
Here are some examples on cool band names from real life:
Acronyms
REM, ACDC and ABBA are all pretty cool names for a band. All the bands used an acronym to make their name. REM is a acronym for "Rapid Eye Movement". It was was generated by a random look up in a dictionary.
AC/DC is a acronym from science, alternating current/direct current. AC/DC is also slang bisexual, but the band apparently didn't know that, when they created the name. AC/DC is definitely a cool rock name.
ABBA used the initials of the band members. And they're were pretty lucky with the ring of that.
Band names and every day things
U2 and UB40 are unemployment forms. The rock band U2 and pop orchestra UB40 both made their band names from these forms. Many musicians strives to make money early in their carrier, and it quite normal for rock band members to be in contact with social security systems in their home countries.
Also a lot of examples of of great band names inspired from animals, like The Animals themselves. ;) Other examples is The Yardbirds, The White Snakes and The Black Crows.
Inspiration from art
Many bands has found ideas and inspiration in art. It could be from movies, books , cartoons, paintings, theaters etc.
A couple of examples of cool examples is Coldplay and Collective Soul. Both names are created from books. Coldplay is from a collection of poems and Collective soul is the name of a novel.
Randomness
A random generator can not, by the very definition of random, make cool band names with hidden meanings. At least no by design. But with the help of random and randomness it sure can make cool rock band names by accident.
As history also shows many cool and great band names has been created by accident.
Band Names Origins
If you wanna read more about famous bands, their history and origin, visit the band names origins list.
The list contains lots of bands and explanations on how their names were created.
Alternative Band Names
For some alternative band names browse my site and try out some of my other name generators. Here's a handful that might give you that alternative expression you are looking for.
Evil names
You can start with the Evil Name Generator if you are looking for some evil heavy rock or metal names.
Code names
At the Codename Generator. Where you can find more humorious and surprising band names.
Heroic names
Or the Superhero Name Generator that makes more funny, heroic or epic band names.
Clan names
Or finally the Clan Name Generator that makes mysterious or surreal sounding names because it is based on a fantasy universe.
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