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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Questions & Answers
Have any band names that you'd like to share? Please do, below!
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
Flak Jacket
papercut
Our band id made up of Rock and Blues Dinosaurs, in our2 in our Sixties and a 45 year old, we are a Rock/Blues originals band, we are looking at Prophecy Kings, Zombie Killers off your list or devils Advocate or Devils Anthem as possibilities we made up.
Can I have Hellbound?
i want zero effect
PLEASE no one steal the name I made, Its Four Last Events
what kind band names will be good
You can do the six volcanos I guess
Zero Effect is taken
checkmate i suggest
This was useless
Friction IS MINE!!!
Can my band take Digital Divide ?
Gypsy School Girls should be a Heavy metal band with rough looking
bearded dudes
Layers of Space could be a nice one
Friction has now been taken.
Out of control is taken
Smoking Gun is possibly taken
Naughty sausages - Bob & the Road Apples - Peter Dragon - Skyline Drive - Sunshine hollow - Mr. Slate - Electra -
EZ-Peace - Nut-n-honey - Fine and Dandy - USB Keepers - Dash Riprock - Powder Keg - Harsh mello D - Ben Dover - Polished knobs - Betty Ford - Atomic Angel - Casanova
I was thinking divided by. I don’t know.
I was thinking Hot Sauce
Can I use space cadet
We can't settle on a single style, so we're thinking something like Culture Wars.
i like band geeks, band clicks, squeak, bubbles, any name that would suit just me and my buddies club of music im going to all state and honor band next week!
can my band take Hiding in Plain Sight?
Weed isn't Bad
I don't know which one to chose
ok,i found my punk band name (Albino Love Slave)
can my band name be blackberry
Can my band use 4 roses?
my band love the name blood bath do you mind if we take it?
we are a bunch of multi cultrual girls and we thought of a name that you could use in your list and it is called the skulls
Hey, we are a bunch of 4 Aussie chics and we love this name! Mind if we use it??
- Often Wrong
this names r all bad so go screwurselfs
I need a fun name that's also cool
the skelatons
Bad Dog is only half way respectable name on that list. Yard Byrds has been done. ''Out of State Billionaires." Sorry I wouldn't use any of those lame word combos in a song lyric, much less go see a band that uncreative.
i'm 14 and in a band with my cousin we will mainly do rock and alternative any suggestions ?
secret hearts or the alchemists or vanilla static
Stinky Pinky
sabertooth lion lady
I have a good name idea but i might use it it's The Fallen Moon but im gonna use it lol
IN MY SCHOOL,WE ARE HAVING A TALENT SHOW BY THURSDAY AND my. Group of five are auditioning and we can seem to think of a group name,we are in 5th grade,any help please??
I need a name like constellation
UrbanXTREME
this really helped me
How about unbelievable love 009
4 roses is a good band name
Hello jacket
lost souls or lone tragedy
Loded Diper
why are you putting the band name if you don't want anyone to take the band name
Uhh I don't know what to pick
screaming cucumbers?
I Have New Dawn..need more ideas
amputee cherub
Need a name for My band.. We are 6 pieces female
Love HOT MESS for hot girls like my band
need a name for 4 guys and a girl band
im starting a one person DEATH METAL band wat do u guys think of **faith trust and pixie dust** as my bands band name :) would appresheate ur advice thnx xoxo Anna
What about The Crimson Curse
@anonymous: i really like hit the deck, smile inc., punk mafia, and the re doubts
Gigahertz
Lokust Swarm
Hit The Deck
Martha's Revenge
Smile Inc.
Killing in Suits
Punk Mafia
The Re-Doubts
Thy Bloodyheart
Zodiak
Morbiscent
which one i should choose guys???
Tornado Puppets (if I had an indie band it would be named that)
The Sharps
Purulent Discharge (has to be a heavy metal band to use that one lol)
DEATHREAT (again, heavy metal)
kindly let me know if any of these get used
---todd
@anonymous: Tornado Puppets -
if I had a band it would be named that, let me know if you would like to use it : )
October Red......midnight blue.....killer carisoul.......light leader...white dragons.......20 locked doors......moonlit mirror just made these up at the top of my head
beautiful nightmares AND perfect imperfections
@anonymous: Zero Gravity is Drake's favorite band from Drake and Josh. You could use it, but then you'll have to hack your way through all that copyrighting red tape.
Forgetting our sorrow is a good name for a punk band
It's important, but I think people make it more difficult by thinking too much about it. The thing to remember is something simple. That way it can stick out in a person's mind. Which is what a band should want, and what promoters do want. I think your ideas for brainstorming are good. It's easier to do if its fun.
One Art
@anonymous: I think you should choose No Evidence
I would choose the band name Area 52
@george williams 3: no turn on red is now my band name thanks!
@anonymous: The band that i am in has been called downfall since 2010
4 Roses is taken, or at least 4 Ruusua, which is their name in finnish.
Noticed you had "Yardbirds" listed,are you kidding?Surely you know The Yardbirds was Eric Claptons' old band!
no turn on red or damaged goods - i am in a band and we didn't select one of those, but somebody should. for us it was an opportunity lost lol!
masqurade
My band (in our mid 20s-early 30s) is a blend of all genres basically (mostly indie/alternative)- any ideas for us?
@anonymous: i'd go with vintage 39
Me and my friend are starting a band and we came up with Twice the Action.
Sweet lens.
Ultimate Zero
Rock Bottom.
Paul Atreides.
Double-Dog Dare
Astro Cat and the Coliseum Lovers
The Fit Glory
No Evidence
Mainstream
Scenario 3
Virtually There
Backyard Rejects
Inavailable
Greater outlook
Point of Youth
Rising Dream
Amplified Beliefs
4seen
Unmanageable
Half Classy
Vintage 39
Which one should I use for a female pop trio?
Feel free to use them after you tell me! :P
Zero gravity
What do you guys think of
Downfall??
i came here to ask that haha that's currently our band name well the band that i created been a success
and please someone tell me if tehre is already a band name like that
Taking Back Sunday is a great name (but obviously currently in use)
i think maroon 5 is an awesome band name!
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