Good Band Name Ideas: A Band Ain't A Band Unless You Have One
Need Awesome Band Name Ideas?
Welcome to my huge list of band name ideas.
This list was actually started several years ago when four friends and I bought some used musical instruments at a garage sale—we were convinced we were going to be the next Rolling Stones or AC/DC. Even though we sounded terrible, we spent hours trying to come up with a good name for the band and our little notebook became quite full of possibilities.
Certain things happened in our lives that derailed that dream (fate, perhaps), but I kept the notebook as a memory. Years later, I found it while digging through some things, and those memories came pouring back. Now, instead of throwing the band names back into storage, I've decided to share them with the rest of the world. I hope visitors will find this article useful and while you may not find the perfect band name, maybe the least you'll get from the list is some inspiration to come up with a good name. After all, any band knows that a band ain't a band unless it has a good name, right?
Good luck!
Feel free to add "the" in front of any of the band names below, make them plural, or put numbers in front of or behind them. Experiment.
An Extensive List of Band Name Ideas
Band Names 0-10, A-H
| Band Names H-P
| Band Names Q-Z
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|---|---|---|
007 Plus One
| Heatstroke
| Q2
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1000 Frames
| Hellbound
| Qabalah
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4 Roses
| Hiding In Plain Sight
| Quadrant
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5 Angry Women
| Holy Gamblers
| Quake Covered
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16 by Nine
| Hot Mess
| Quarter Life
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90 Proof
| Human Torso
| Quest Forever
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Action Slow Down
| In Between
| Queen Bees
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Admin
| In Debt
| Quicken
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Adult Insects
| Insane Sardines
| Quick Trilogy
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After The Apocalypse
| Instant Irregularity
| Rag Picker
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Agnostic
| Invisible Lover
| Random Dancing
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Ahead Full
| Iron Lightning
| Rated R
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A Is For Aftermath
| Jackaroo
| Reckless X
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Albino Love Slaves
| Jabberwocky
| Re-dress
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Algorithm
| Jam Blackberry
| Rubber Ducks
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A Little Disorganized
| Jar of Flies
| Sandwich Kings / Queens
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Area 52
| Jelly Smooch
| Sanitarium
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Bad Dog
| Just Beautiful
| Santa Clause Is Dead
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Bambi's Group
| K-9 Cat
| Sheep Eaters
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Battle Sequence
| Killing David
| Show Off
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Better Than Us
| Knight's Darkness
| Shutter
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Black Light Dreams
| Laugh Track
| Six Outlaws
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Blood Bath
| Last Knight
| Slap From A Loser
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Bloodlust Angels
| Lateral Move
| Smoking Gun
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Blooper
| Leader In The Making
| Soda Preachers
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Blue Fairies
| Leech
| Soiled Doves
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Born Victim
| Leftovers
| Something Strange
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Brick City
| Left Turn
| Spoon!
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Buzzkilled
| Leviathan Unlimited
| Stormtrooper's Lament
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Candy Corn
| Little Finger
| Strawberry Lumps
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Captivated
| Machine Gun Villains
| Sunset Patrol
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Cast Iron Cornbread
| Major Kronos
| Tabora
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Caterpillar
| Martyrs Henchmen
| Techno Eagle
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Celtic Ozone
| Mermaid Attraction
| Tease
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Checkmark
| Miami Hitmen
| The Third Coming
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Citrus Extract
| Mirror Racial
| Think Tank Threshold
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Clean Sweep
| Mob Rule
| Time Warp
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Cold Stare
| Molecular Muscle
| Triage
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Country Witch
| Monks On Call
| Twice The Action
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Crimson Carnation
| Mr. T's Mowhawk
| Twilight Stuntwork
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Crunch Dandies
| Mudflap
| Two Pair
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Crutch Offensive
| Naked Daydreams
| Uneven Emotion
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Daily Nightmare
| Narcissus
| Uniform
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Dark Horse
| National Anthem
| Union Of Evil
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Dead Skin
| Nebula
| Unisex
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Death Trap
| Necromancer
| United In Cause
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Devil In The Hallway
| Necronomicon
| Unkind Smile
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Diarrhea Explosion
| Needle Envy
| Unprepared
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Digital Divide
| Negative Whiplash
| Unwanted Hair Machine
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Dirty Pillows
| Neighbors You Know
| Upper Management
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Disco Confetti
| Neptune Nerd
| Using Sarah
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Doom Lagoon
| Never Mind The Damage
| Vagabond
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Drops Of Water
| New Dawn
| Vampire Vixens
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Earthworm
| Nuclear Nation
| Vaporized
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Editor Of The Game
| Number Plug
| Variation 5
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Ego Multiplied
| Object Lesson
| Vaseline Fix
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Electric Ham
| Object Of A Verb
| Vegetarian Carnivore
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Eight By Eight
| Oblivion
| Vikings In Training
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Equilibrium
| Observing Mallory
| Walnuts, The
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Facade
| Occupational Hazard
| Watermelon Surprise
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Fade To White
| Ochre Eights
| WD-41
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False Alarm
| Often Wrong
| Wet Paint
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Final Event
| Old Colony
| Wingers' Devils
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Flush
| Onto Land
| X-Ray Undercover
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Flying Piranha
| Outbreak
| Yank The Cover
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Forever Clean
| Out of Control
| Yapper
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Four O'Clock Mix
| Pacified
| Yard Birds
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Franchise Alice
| Perforated
| Yawning Maniacs
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Friction
| Pink Barbies
| Yearning For Perfection
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Front Of The Line
| Pitchfork
| Yellow Jackets
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Future Gluttons
| Planet In Limbo
| Young Decay
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Glowing Darkly
| Platonic Allegory
| Youth Capable
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Greek Infection
| Playing Mantis
| Yuppy Commanders
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Groovy
| Pluggers
| Zealot Zodiac
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Gross Anatomy 108
| Pluto's Return
| Zelda And The Green Hornets
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Gung-Ho
| Private Property
| Zenith
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Gypsy School Girls
| Prophecy Kings
| Zero Effect
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Hard Times
| Protoplasm
| Zesty Zoo
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Hazmat
| Puppets For Hire
| Zombie Killers
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Heading For Two
| Put Up Wet
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Band status?
Have any band names that you'd like to share? Please do, below!
yes!!! Now my band is called The Yub Yubs, thank you, I would never have been able to do this by myself. THANK THANK YOU THANK YOU, I can almost taste the fame
My idea is sneaking quietly
I like nuclear nation my mascot is a skull breatheing blue fire and is on fire. So it is sort of nuclear. Has anyone else went to the Chicago misfits reunion concert. It was amazing
Suspicion and waffles
I am not a big fans of any of these names
I am black so I was thinking blackbirds or something…
Why do people post their band names on here but then say don’t steal them
I was thinking On the River Styx but idk
Awesome did you come up with all of them
Don't steal these please:
1.My shouty Romance
2.Less Smiles
3.Heart Failure
4Odd ones
5.Pool of blood red hearts
6.Deep Abyss
7.Today Kid
What about the name...Mistreater?
I think that would be a pretty cool name for a band, idk
THE UNDERTAKERS " We'll keep an eye on your dead ones! Hahaha..."
Gabi Cake, maybe Show Offs in Yellow?
I was think show off or yellow jackets which one????
iron lightning
Ur a crate
Albion Lowlander. The name of a bus that was sold in Britain during the 60s. Not very successful, but the first bus I remembered as a child. Feel free to pinch - it's not as though I'll be using it!
I got wet paint don’t steal it
The Crazy heros of mars. Please dont steal my name
The Future girls don't take my band name
I’m just doing this for fun
I have to do a band project thing for school i was going to make it "Why Don't we" but thats OG
i was thinking Stamina For Free ? i don't know if it sounds good or not
Maybe a band name like girls go fire or the rock group or fire
Traumatized mule ,. Or , spinup the dead
i'm starting a band with four girls and don't know if we should use the name
Heatstroke
or
Hot Mess
pls tell me which is better
i think its a good name idk tho
What about Robolands
Or
The Wonderlands
im starting a band with my friends were called The Lost Jems or TLJ for short
Evil ox spit
Stoned deaf
Smoking cigarette
Tarantula Meat sounds like a good band name for maybe an indie rock/alt/punk band thingy.
Hi my name is Abud and I’m just starting a band and if anyone who is new I’m always available to put more people in my band
could I have outbreak
my band name is called triad cos theres hree of us
Hi my band name is called HellGirls
The Lost legends or The Legends
All of these names are just random words that make me sad for the person that made them.
heart and soul
nevermore
mental medication
i want good name for band
Gsus (said like Jesus.)
Cold Cabbage
Electro Eel
Flying Turtle
Drowned Squid
Goldfed
Powerhungry
Burning Clover
Im starting a heavy metal / emo punk band and i'm going to call it 'Fake Your Death' but i didn't see it on here so that's good news that nobody has taken it yet:D
Thx- Fake your death
i have these words that i want to use in our name, just dont know how to use them
bass
bee's
rumble
thumble
purple
angry
i still don't know
I just found out my new band name! Its Reckless X. we started our band a while ago without a name, we have a couple songs, but we dont have the band publicized
What about The Wise? is it ok?
The Blood reapers? Idk but I'm starting a band soon
starting a band soon
Cats on the Roids
the renegades
how about rabid lice as a punk band name?
So first my band was 'The Name We Wanted Was Taken' lol because it was, as ‘The Others’ is an English band, and right now I’m pushing for ‘The Cringe Factor’, or ‘Death In A Basket’, however I really like the suggestion of ‘Unisex'
Perfect name
we godi
Find music while roaming
I think these are the worst band names ever
I would like to be a Professional Musical Dance Variety Producer
I didn't get one from the list, but I've been thinking of two Band Names of my own. "Smoothed Out Murders", and "Minor Murderers". What do you think about it?
Hey, if you take any of these names suggested herein and a guy comes up to you and says, "Hey I'm the guy who suggested it to you"It's me and you owe me free tickets to your gig. Also, if someone else's name first...Oops, Sorry. In fact, that's the first one:
Oops Sorry, I'm the Guy, Selective Ambition, The Way Cools, The 6:00 AMs, Coffee Clutch, The Clatter, Stalwart Bulkwarts, The Spiggots, The Mist Cookies, Trick Ponies, Devil's IV, The Hopeless or The Hapless, Gunk, Shibboleth, Scared Something, Work Stop Order, Fer Real
We took glowing darkly
my band took eight by eight
The Magic Koualas
nice
If your band is from Sydney, you can name it Sydney Revival. If the lead singer's name is Maxwell, you can name it Maxwell Wonder. The one like the most that I made is called School of the 20 Lizards.
enjoying the moment
That name sounds really great to have for my rap band.
i really liked santa claus is dead :)
I really liked the names, they were fun and creative. My band picked a fun name even though it wasn’t from here :)!!
Perfect for a punk band.
bohemian rhapsody lol
me and my band really like this name it was perfect for us especially since the choice of music we play
My group name is cslled 2DN
Unlikely valentine is cool
death trap is mine
our band is called hyperlocked
Queen bees
3 Answers and They're All Wrong
Your Mother of Doom
After the Apocalypse is totally mine
My band name X HUBITION
Remnants of Tomorrow
Virtual Madness
this is one not on this list but i thick it is good
THE 5 ANDREWS
my band name is heavy beats
My band will be called 4ever yours
Black Cat Ritual I think is a good band name
My band will be called mstal mouth
Hillborn .Pistol Smoke. Hard Kiss. Wolfskin. Hard Candy. Angel Dust.Smash Face. Fade to Oblivion.Trigger Finger. Mongrel. Mr Bluster.Priss. Blond Patch. FatRooster. 3 Ounce Slab
mine is new dawn
my band is going to be called band
Wanted, designated, off topic, limited, respond, correspond, shouters, massive mess, reckless, we don’t care, all we got.
Proxies for Jesus
(as seen on a church sign years ago as the sermon of the week)
I Know Nothing Nick
(as just uttered by a colleague)
There is a great website called BandNameVault where you can check if a specific band name is taken, and you can also register band names. If you want to take a band name, then go register it on there to 1) see if it's taken and 2) claim it! LOL I'm not going to post a link because if I do, then everyone will assume that it is a scam or smth, I'm being serious. Also, I looked, Hiding In Plain Sight is taken. :((
Musical Krazy Case
I came up with a few like The Poison Ivy's AND Girl's On fire,
Disco Confetti
Out of Control
are mine back off
What about pop band names
Why is Yard birds on here, that name was taken in 1963. it was Jimmy Page's band with Eric Clapton before Led Zeppelin was a thing. I understand names on here being taken by small bands who not everyone would know, but this is a famous band that had the name over 50 years ago.
Iron Lightning is taken
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