300+ Unique, Funny, and Creative Team Names for Work

When working on a project, there are a number of issues that can crop up with your team — most notably, collaboration or motivational issues.

So, what do you do? 

Essentially, you should strive to create a sense of belonging to help your team work better together.

A simple and effective solution? Give them a team name! It’ll become something personal to them that they can take pride in with every accomplishment they achieve.

Choosing a team name, though — that’s a different story. It can be painstaking, frustrating, and sometimes, it feels downright impossible. 

We’re here to inspire you by sharing some of the most unique team names we could compile.

But, if you don’t have time to read through the entire list of names, you can just check out our team name generator.

Top 10 best team names for work

Before we show you the full list of the work team names we’ve gathered, we’d like to introduce you to our personal top 10. The winners are:

1. Brain-Stormtroopers,
2. Night Owls,
3. Server Savers,
4. Pen Pals,
5. Backup Backup,
6. Brush It Off,
7. It’s SE-Over,
8. Team Name 2: Electric Boogaloo,
9. Zero Blunders, and
10. TikTok on the Clock.

Even though we’ve listed our favorites, they might not turn out to be yours as well. So, in the following lists, you’ll find tons of fun work team names to choose from. 

Team members can connect with each other based on various things — an emotion, their coolness, or their sense of humor. Alternatively, they could connect based on the department they work in. 

Either way, to boost team satisfaction and facilitate their collaboration, rely on these lists when choosing a team name people can actually identify with.

38 funny team names for work

The most likable and memorable names are usually the ones that make your team laugh. So, we’re starting off with the funniest team names we could think of.

1. Power Nappers
2. Night Owls
3. Busy Bugs
4. Early Birds
5. KPI Annihilators
6. Seasoned Scrummers
7. Crisis Averted
8. Have You Seen This File?
9. Break Creep
10. It’s SE-Over
11. Hanging in There
12. Fashionably Late
13. One More Iteration
14. Tomorrow’s Problem
15. Silver Timelining
16. Not Scheduled
17. Reschedulers
18. Managing to Get Up
19. Workaholic Recovery
20. Last-Ditch Effort
21. Work Breakdown, No Structure
22. Easy Come, Easy Go
23. Panic! At the Deadline
24. The Wild Bunch
25. Wacky Workers
26. The Watercooler Gang
27. Slack Slayers
28. Network Nerds
29. Microsofties
30. Corporate Crusaders
31. The Escalation Station
32. Late-Bloomer Boomers
33. ProcrastiNOTers
34. Fab Collab
35. TikTok on the Clock
36. The Wittynators
37. The Last Minutemen
38. Clickity-Clackers

30 powerful team names for work

If your team wants to feel powerful and mighty while doing their work, one of these names might be right up your alley. Release your inner force!

1. The Scrum Pack
2. Golden Coins
3. Receipt Masters
4. Powerful Points
5. Star Scrum
6. Eyes on the Prize
7. Project Perfecters
8. Shark Attackers
9. High Caliber
10. Future CEOs
11. Six Sigmas
12. Flying High
13. Backlog Backup
14. Crushin’ Milestones
15. Smooth Sailing
16. Brain Buds
17. Code Red
18. Mildly Amused
19. Power Creep
20. Eager Eagles
21. Lean Leaders
22. Zero Blunders
23. On the Beat
24. Cost Reductors
25. Straight Aces
26. Schedule Stompers
27. Rising Stars
28. Goal Crushers 
29. Progress Chasers
30. Done & Dusted

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24 cool team names for work

With a catchy name, your team will feel as cool as ever. Here are some team name ideas to match your impeccable group vibe.

1. Lightning Typers
2. Always Prepared
3. The Wicked Crew
4. Office Ninjas
5. Work Wizards
6. Screen Warriors
7. Mingle Masters
8. Freelancin’ Furies
9. Breakroom Bears
10. Annihilators
11. Sprint Runners
12. Synergy Syndicate
13. The One-Punch Bunch
14. The Management Mobsters
15. Feedback Fighters
16. Taskforce Titans
17. Backlog Sweepers
18. Multitask Force
19. Fierce Fam
20. Backlog Refiners
21. ProcratiHaters
22. Business as Usual
23. Powered by Coffee
24. Water Cooler Bros

28 unique team names for work

It’s easy to feel as if you’ve come up with a pretty basic name — one that so many other teams already have. So, we’ve compiled a bunch of names that you won’t be able to find anywhere else!

1. Table Flippers
2. Lean Cuisine
3. No Risk All Rewards
4. Scrum ‘til It’s Done
5. Waterfall Rafters
6. Lean-Mowers
7. Tree Huggers
8. Trust Fall
9. Kickin’ Backlogs
10. PEST Control
11. Milestone Markers
12. Hundred Meters
13. Earned Value Emperors
14. I-Queue That Task
15. Backup Backup
16. QA Q&A
17. Boiling Backlog
18. Critical Cruise
19. Note Quotes
20. Office Dynamos
21. Rock’n’Rollers
22. The Computer Mafia
23. Remote Rebels
24. Skype Hype
25. Reboot Revolution
26. Bonus Seekers
27. Deadline Disco
28. Deepwork Choppers

23 creative team names for work

Leave a lasting impression on everyone in the office by letting your creative juices flow and giving your team a catchy, memorable name. Here are some of our suggestions you might want to use as inspiration.

1. Yes, and
2. Faster Than Hermes
3. Never Back Down, Always Back-Up
4. Lean on Us
5. The Key Board
6. The Knights of the Round Desk
7. PMOnsters
8. You Better Werk!
9. Predictable Outcome
10. Can-Ban
11. No WBS
12. Give Us Lemons
13. Still Got It
14. Team Name 2: Electric Boogaloo
15. Error 404: Lunch Break Not Found
16. Can’t Say the Team Name, NDA
17. We Were on a Break
18. DOs and Mostly DON’Ts
19. On Cooldown
20. Coffee’s in the Backlog
21. Not a Sprint, Just a Light Jog
22. Perpetuum Mobiles
23. Follow the Trail of BreadScrums

38 one-word team names for work

Keep it simple, cool — and straight to the point. These one-word wonders are sure to delight you.

1. The McDucks
2. The Deliverers
3. The Contingency
4. S-Ranks
5. Impenetrables
6. Invaluables
7. Believers
8. Codemen
9. Idealists
10. Brainiacs
11. Accountinators
12. Portfoliers
13. Scrumptious
14. The Prestige
15. The Handlers
16. Teambuilders
17. Taskmasters
18. Quotebringers
19. Roadmappers
20. SMARTies
21. Unfailures
22. Stand-alones
23. The Gardeners
24. The Architects
25. Ramshackles
26. Sightseers
27. Predictors
28. Perfectionists
29. The Lightning
30. The Telecommuters
31. The Wunderkinds
32. Tsunami
33. Deskstoppers
34. Restartors
35. Truthseekers
36. Unstoppables
37. The Whizzes
38. The Reserve

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21 holiday-themed team names for work

All work and no play gets pretty dull pretty fast. So, this holiday season, get into the holiday spirit the right way by trying out some of these team names.

1. It’s a Wonderful Scrum
2. Hocus Focus
3. The Nightmare Before a Sprint
4. Scrum Actually
5. Mrs Clause’s Helpers
6. The Elves
7. Santa’s Reindeers
8. ‘Tis the Season to Be Agile
9. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Scrum
10. The Holidayers
11. The Grinch Squad
12. Holiday Heroes
13. The Scrum Monster Squad
14. The All-Day Laborers
15. A Holly Jolly Sprint Gang
16. Have Yourself a Merry Little Sprint
17. Secret Santas
18. The Christmas Three
19. Holi-daily Scrum
20. Sleigh, Queen!
21. The Wise Men

54 reference team names for work

It’s easy to find common interests over a TV show, movie, or anything of the sort. So, here’s a bunch of pop culture reference names your team will absolutely love.

1. We’ll Be Back
2. T-9000’s
3. Sprintbusters
4. Moonwalking on Sunshine
5. Jelly Staplers
6. Texas Task Massacre
7. Backlog Park
8. The Lean King
9. The Scrum Chronicles
10. Catch Us if You Can
11. Naruto Sprints
12. The Iteration Game
13. Pirates of the Critical Chain
14. ETC — Extraterrestrial to Complete
15. Finding OKR
16. SPI Redemption
17. The Scheduling
18. More Remakes Than Disney
19. Brain-Stormtroopers
20. Top Scrum
21. Get to the Check-in!
22. Boss Babies
23. It Happened One Quarter
24. Forrest Scrum
25. One Phase
26. Scrum Wars
27. World of Waterfall
28. Open Season
29. Notorious C.S.M.
30. Return of the Deadline
31. Milestone Morales
32. Sorting Hats
33. Speak No Scrum
34. Mind-Players
35. Dungeons and Deadlines
36. We’ll Float Too
37. Hogwarts Professors
38. Workbusters
39. The Office Lunch Club
40. Risky Business
41. Avengers: The Office Pack
42. Raiders of the Lost Task
43. New Kids on the Block
44. You’ve Got E-mail
45. Star Chores
46. Big Bang Masters
47. Agile and Fragile
48. The Scrumpuff Girls
49. The B2Beatles
50. She’s Everything, They’re Just Devs
51. Midsummer Night’s Team
52. Team of Endearment 
53. Breaking Good
54. The Minions

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22 IT team names for work

IT is a broad industry, with many different types of work involved. So, pick something that your team interacts with most and make a name out of that. Here are some of our suggestions.

1. Back to Pascal
2. Non-Artificial Intelligence
3. Off and On Again
4. Server Savers
5. One String to Rule Them All
6. See Sharp
7. Productivity Collectors
8. Sorting It Out
9. Semicolon Haters
10. The Penguins
11. Monitor Monitors
12. String of Success
13. Why-Fi
14. Nothing Pirated
15. The Java-lins
16. Bug Swatters
17. DevilOps
18. DevOops
19. Cloud Orchestrators
20. ASaaSins
21. SaaSsy Sisters
22. Pro-Testers

18 design team names for work

If you want to put some color into the name of your design team, we’ve picked out some creative names just for your work group.

1. Paint-Killers
2. Adobers
3. Brush It Off
4. Layer Slayers
5. Figmas of Imagination
6. The Squids
7. Photoshopping Spree
8. Brush Warriors
9. Happy Accidents
10. Waterfall Colors
11. Canvas Crushers
12. Color Pickers
13. Graphic Giants
14. The Focal Pointers
15. Procreators
16. Hex Gon’ Give It to Ya
17. Hex Machines
18. 2B or Not 2B

31 writing team names for work

Ironically, a writing team may find thinking up a name for themselves the easiest thing ever. Still, if their creative juices are all poured into your projects, we’ve got you covered.

1. Old Men and the Screen
2. Masters and Profit Margins
3. No Copy No Paste
4. Aristotally Productive
5. The Other One, Not Simpson
6. Sher-Locked In
7. Blacklisted
8. Pen Pals
9. Nonsense and Sensibility
10. WordPlayers
11. Pun-kers
12. Writer’s Unblock
13. Grammar Police
14. Editors-in-Chief
15. Quill Quest
16. The Garden of Readen
17. The Demablogue Squad
18. Copywriter Delighters
19. Oxford Comma Crew
20. Only Proofreading Can Hurt Like This
21. A Court of Commas and Semicolons
22. Before Grammarly Gets Cold
23. The Oxymorons
24. Type-O Negatives
25. Santa Clauses
26. The Author-ities
27. Cliffhangers
28. Spellcasters
29. Alphabet-Soup Makers
30. We Have the Last Word
31. Spelling-Bound

17 game design team names for work

Game design is a mixture of every type of creative work imaginable. So, your game design team must want a creative name — and we’ve got plenty!

1. On the Shadows of the Colossi
2. Full Knighters
3. A Classy Creed
4. Bright Souls
5. MyCraft
6. Game Team Aces
7. Sorting Blocks
8. We Wii-ll Handle It
9. Pocket Designers
10. Level Complete
11. The Skyrim’s the Limit
12. Skill Maxxers
13. The Carries
14. The Exclusives
15. Retro Respect
16. Collision Detectors
17. No-Scope Creep

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What to avoid when naming your team

Naming your team is lots of fun, guaranteed to get some laughs. However, there are some things to be wary of when naming your work team:

• Mind what’s work-appropriate — your team name isn’t for your team’s eyes only. It’ll likely be seen by other members of the company as well. So, even if your team is okay with blurring the line of work-appropriate names, you should tread carefully in this territory. Even subtly alluding to something that’s not work-appropriate is still inappropriate.
• Don’t exclude your team from the naming process — you want your team to be attached to their name, like it, and stand by it by doing outstanding work. But if you exclude your team from the name-making process and give them a name they don’t like, they won’t feel as motivated to work in that team.

Our top 4 tips for naming your team at work

Making up so many team names can be exhausting, and after a team-naming brainstorming session, your team will probably feel that way too. 

But, after coming up with so many names ourselves, we’re able to give you some great tips for naming your team.

Tip #1: Use inside jokes

Team names are unique to every team — that’s what makes them special. So, start with what it is about your team that stands out. 

Inside jokes are a great option. Using an inside joke or a reference to a previous situation is endearing to everyone and shows that your team has shared some kind of bonding experience. Remember, a good name needs to reflect your team’s personality.

In your team’s first (or first few) meetings, see if there was anything of note that your team found super funny or interesting, or even found out they have in common. For example, a movie everyone likes or a hobby everyone enjoys. That’ll become the backbone of your team name.

For instance, if your team likes The X Files, you could call yourself “Team X”, “Call Mulder”, or something similar.

Likewise, if your team likes saying no in German as a funny bit (“nein”, pronounced as nine), you could call yourself — “Team 9”.

Or, if your team has frequent Agile meetings, for example, you can use a name that has links to Agile, like “Backlog Sweepers”.

Tip #2: Use wordplay

Everyone loves to hate puns. Your team will groan and complain jokingly but still love their name if wordplay is involved.

For example, if everyone in your team likes to paint as a hobby, a team name like “Brush It Off” would be perfect.

Or, if your team uses the Scrum methodology, you could use our name “Seasoned Scrummers”.

If you find it difficult to think of puns, don’t worry — wordplay doesn’t rely solely on them. You can just find a word that rhymes with another and slap them together.

For instance, if your team often jokes about using healing flasks from video games in order to stay productive at work, name them “Tasks From a Flask”.

As you can see, the first tip still applies — combine these 2 for the perfect effect.

Tip #3: Use a voting system or a hat pull

More often than not, your team will not be able to agree on a team name. So, you’ll have to find a way to decide.

There are 2 great methods to use here — a hat pull and a voting system.

A voting system feels the most just, as it’s literally a majority rule. Plus, it’s more likely that no one in your team will complain if a team name is voted for.

However, voting can result in a tie. If you choose one from a tie, it might feel biased or unfair, so the solution — fairness in unfairness — is to choose randomly.

Put all suggestions in a hat (or any object that can hold tiny pieces of paper) and randomly pull one from it. This way, the name is chosen purely by luck, and there are no hard feelings.

You can even turn this into a game as part of your team building activities.

Tip #4: Use a name generator

If push comes to shove, and you can’t think of any name for your team, you can always use a random name generator for your team.

If you missed it, we built one for you — right at the top of this article. We might be a bit biased, but it’s our favorite name generator out there.

However, if you want to check out more name generators, we also found D&D party name generators effective, as they often come up with some fun and adventurous names.

For example, with just one click, we got the names “Helping Hand”, “New Myths”, and “Blue Moons”. You can just scroll through enough clicks, and you’re sure to find a name you’ll like.

How to use Plaky to boost team collaboration

We already mentioned that collaboration and team morale issues can be fatal to your project — and that you can use team names to mend these problems.

But, if you just create a team name and never use it, your team will forget about it, and it’ll make no difference! 

To make your team names stick, you need to incorporate it in your actual work! And that’s exactly what you can do in our project management software — Plaky.

Plaky allows you to work with the team as a whole, so it naturally fosters team collaboration. That said, to help your team connect further, you can give them a unique name in Plaky.

Once you have your teams all set, you can treat them as a single entity whenever you need to communicate updates or collaborate in real time. 

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Adding every single team member to a Plaky task, or mentioning everyone in a comment is just tedious. Instead, you can use the team name you’ve just created — everyone will be notified, and you’ll speed up the communication process.

Still, teams also need to collaborate internally — and with a team collaboration software like Plaky, they have plenty of features to do so. 

Task-specific comments and @mentions give your team a space to communicate task-specific info. So, no one’s inbox will be unnecessarily cluttered, and the right people will always be notified.

Additionally, since it’s a real hassle to constantly ask fellow team members to share project-related files, all files in Plaky can be attached to their respective items.

Remember — all your team needs is an environment where collaboration comes naturally. With Plaky, they’ll find the perfect spot to work closely as a team and boast their name as they do it.

P.S. A huge thank you to our entire content team for contributing their ideas to this list!

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