Guild Name Generator

Pick a theme, choose how many names you want (1 to 10), and press generate. Each result is a guild name from a curated list of 540, shown with the theme it belongs to, for example "Crimson Tides" under Pirate Crew or "Shadow Syndicate" under Cunning Rogues. The names were written for MMO guilds, clans and tabletop factions, so they are two to three words long and read as something you would actually see above a character's head in World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars 2 or ESO.

The 27 themes

The category menu defaults to Random, which draws from the whole list. The other 27 options each hold exactly 20 names. They split roughly into five groups:

• Classic fantasy factions: Noble Knights, Glorious Knights, Divine Warriors, Protectors of Light, Eternal Guardians, Loyal Companions. Expect names like Valiant Vanguard, Chivalrous Champions and Knight's Honor.
• Shady and mercenary: Cunning Rogues, Stealth and Espionage, Mercenaries for Hire, Vengeance and Justice, Pirate Crew. Silent Shadows, Hired Guns, Bounty Hunters, Skull and Crossbones, Sea Scourge.
• Magic and the arcane: Magical Arts, Mystic Arts, Alchemy and Potions, Supernatural Beings, Celestial Beings, Mysterious. Potion Masters, Elixir Creators, Astral Sentinels, Celestial Order.
• Nature, beasts and myth: Nature Themed, Fierce Animals, Mythical Creatures, Enchanted Forest, Desert Warriors. Sylvan Sentinels, Thorned Vines, Dragonborn Brotherhood, Kraken's Fury, Fenrir's Pack.
• Setting flavor: Ancient History, Forgotten Legends, Adventure Seekers, and one non-fantasy option, Technology and Innovation, for sci-fi and cyberpunk guilds (Cybernetic Innovators, Digital Architects, TechnoVanguard).

With a theme selected, asking for 10 names shows half of that theme in one go, and two presses will usually show you all 20. There is no free-text input, so the tool cannot build a name around a word you supply; it is a picker, not a mixer.

How to choose a guild name that lasts

A few practical rules, learned from watching guilds rename themselves six months in. Keep it to three words or fewer; most games cap guild names at 24 characters and truncate them in chat and on nameplates. Say it out loud, because voice chat will. Avoid names that pin you to one activity (a "Raiders" guild that ends up doing PvP has a problem). Check the spelling is unambiguous, since recruits will search for it. And check availability on your server before you fall in love with it: names on this list are short, common English phrases, so the popular ones may be taken on busy realms. Most MMOs let you add a tag or a definite article to work around that.

Game naming rules worth knowing

World of Warcraft guild names are limited to 24 characters, must be unique per realm, and cannot contain numbers or most punctuation. Final Fantasy XIV free companies get 20 characters for the name plus a separate 3-to-5-letter tag. Guild Wars 2 allows up to 30 characters and a 4-character tag, and names must be unique across the whole game, not just a server. ESO guilds get 32 characters and 5 members to found. Destiny 2 clans, which have their own picker on the Destiny Clan Name Generator, allow 25 characters for the name and 4 for the call sign. Nearly all of the names here fit these limits; the exceptions are a handful of longer ones such as "Order of the Philosopher's Stone" and "Guardians of the Supernatural", which you would need to shorten for WoW or FFXIV.

Ways people use it

• Founding a guild or free company and needing a name before the game will let you create it.
• Tabletop factions. A game master who needs a thieves' guild, a knightly order and a mage college for a city in one session rolls three themes and is done in a minute.
• Fiction and worldbuilding. The Mercenaries for Hire and Pirate Crew themes work as company names for a novel; the Mercenary Company Name Generator has more in the same vein.
• Placeholder names for game jams, mods and private servers.

If your group is less fantasy and more street, try the Gang Name Generator. For names in other categories, see all name generators.