The Pirate Name Generator makes random and cool pirate names. The generator makes over 1 million random and unique names. Mixed male and female pirate names.
About the name generator project
"I wanna make easy to use generators and cool names." Read more about the project
Pirate Name Generator
The Pirate Name Generator makes cool pirate names. Names that are ready to use just for fun, theme parties, carnivals and theme days like the annual talk like a pirate day. Genuine and realistic names from the seven seas for true fans.
The Pirate Name Generator use real historic pirate names combined with expressions and lingo connected with the sea and sailors, sea robbers and mariners to make catchy and cool pirate names.
List of Pirate names
The pirate generator saves all the generated names to a list. The list is one hundred percent unique and is your personal list.
Just copy the list before you leave and you'll be ready for naming all your friends.
How to make pirate names
It's easy to make your own pirate names. You can use this generator as a source of inspiration to find names and expression connected to the pirate theme.
But you can also use you real name and just add the right pirate expression. You find lots of inspiration on Wikipediea and various dictionaries. You'll find links and resources further down this page.
Cool pirate Names
To make cool pirate names I use a mixture of good old English names, combined with surnames with the proper feel. To spice the names up, the random generator adds expressions, nouns, verbs etc. from a sailor and seaman's jargon.
The pirate names shows huge variation due to a complex random algorithm, that combines the different names, surnames and jargon into new names.
Huge variation guarantees lots of different, creative and cool pirate names.
Female names
Pirate names for girls
25% of the pirate names from the generator are female pirate names for girls. The female pirate names are generated with a girl name and a surname. Finally special words are randomly added to finish and refine the name.
In real life female were rare in the piracy business, but the female pirate names are the obvious choice for cool pirate ship names. Through all time sailors always has named their ships after females. Many fine lady has crossed the oceans, seven seas bays and straits.
Real female pirate names
For a list of real female pirate names check this list of historical female pirates. These traditional names is also a great source for inspiration for funny and cool pirate names for girls.
Male Pirates
75% of the of the names generated are male. The male ones are made from traditional English sailor names. These are combined with generic surnames and the special words.
Pirate ship name generator
You can easily use this application as a pirate ship name generator. Just choose the random female pirate names as pirate ship names. There you go, a build-in pirate ship name generator.
Historical ships and piracy
At the Wikipedia you can find a list of historical pirate ships at the piracy article. This article deal with every aspects of piracy from historical time and up till the piracy the world experience today.
You can find even more piracy ship names at the famous pirate ship names at piratenames.net.
Piracy definition
The United Nations definition of piracy sounds like this: "Piracy consists of any criminal acts of violence, detention, rape, or depredation committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or aircraft."
Piracy is indeed a dirty business. Both now and in the past. So even though the movie industry and literature usually glorifies piracy and the criminal acts on the sea, piracy has never been and will never romantic and heroic as described.
Random pirate names
The pirate name generator use random number function to make 100% random pirate names. Advanced random algorithms are responsible for combing pirate names, words and lingo into new creative combinations. The result is over 1 million unique combinations of words and names.
List of real pirate names
At Wikipedia you can find a huge list of pirate names.
The list covers real and original piracy names from 500 BC up to modern time. A great source of inspiration for making cool pirate names.
Talk like a pirate
For all pirate fans remember the annual talk like a pirate day. It's the September 19th. It's a day where we can live out our pirate spirit together with friends, colleagues and family.
John Baur and Mark Summers started this trend in 1995. In 7 years they were pretty much the only nerds in the world celebrating this great day. Today things luckily has changed. Today all of us nerds can enjoy and celebrate the good vibrations of the talk like a pirate day.
Visit the Talk like a pirate day for more information on the subject.
So ship ahoy! Please bookmark me and spread the word about September 19th.
Pirate dictionary
If you want to talk like a real salty dog you better visit the Pirate dictionary where you can learn the proper lingo. Shiver me timbers! The dictionary is also a great resource for further inspiration to make cool names.
Pirate nicknames
If you want funny nciks for pirates, you can check out the Nickname Generator. The nickname generator makes cool and funny nicknames. Lots of fun and cool nicks for salty dogs.
Vampire names
If you want a more bloody or evil pirate name visit the Vampire Name Generator. The Vampire makes east European inspired names with a darker end more evil feel.
Random names
If you looking for ordinary and real random names check the Random Name Generator. Real English and American that can form the base for your new sea robber identity. Just add the proper seaman expression yourself, and you are ready to rock the seven seas.
The Pirate Name Generator project
I aim to make cool names and web applications that are easy to use. Name generation should be a pleasure.
Easy to use
The generators are designed to be easy to use. User interface is easily over viewed and names are generated with a single click on a huge generate button. All the names are saved to a list, so they're easy to save for your future reference.
Fast programming
All my generators are programmed in JavaScript. JavaScript makes name generation extremely fast and simple. The name is generated locally on your own PC. The result is instant generation and no waiting.
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