300+ Unique and Funny Team Names for Work

You ever imagine how awkward a team huddle would be in any sport if they had no name? Just a group of hands put together with a chant “Go, us!”.

Safe to say that team names are super important — in team sports, but also in the workplace.

Nothing will give your team a sense of belonging and inspire them to work together as a team name. It’s something personal to them that they can take pride in with every accomplishment they achieve.

Thinking of one 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.

Try out our team name generator to quickly find a suitable name.

And read our list below.

10 Ultimate 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:

• Brain-Stormtroopers,
• Night Owls,
• Server Savers,
• Pen Pals,
• Backup Backup,
• Brush It Off,
• It’s SE-Over,
• Team Name 2: Electric Boogaloo,
• Zero Blunders, and
• TikTok on the Clock.

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Those were our favorites — but, they might not turn out to be yours as well. In the following lists, you’ll find tons of other fun work team names to choose from — whether you’re looking for a powerful, cool, unique, creative name, or one suitable for various teams, such as IT, writing, or design ones.

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 by compiling the funniest team names we could think of.

• Power Nappers
• Night Owls
• Busy Bugs
• Early Birds
• KPI Annihilators
• Seasoned Scrummers
• Crisis Averted
• Team Name 2: Electric Boogaloo
• Have You Seen This File?
• Break Creep
• It’s SE-Over
• Error 404: Lunch Break Not Found
• Hanging in There
• DOs and Mostly DON’Ts
• Fashionably Late
• One More Iteration
• Tomorrow’s Problem
• Silver Timelining
• Not Scheduled
• Reschedulers
• Managing to Get Up
• Workaholic Recovery
• Last-ditch Effort
• Work Breakdown, No Structure
• Easy Come, Easy Go
• Can’t Say the Team Name, NDA
• Panic! At the Deadline
• The Wild Bunch
• Wacky Workers
• The Watercooler Gang
• Slack Slayers
• Network Nerds
• Microsofties
• Corporate Crusaders
• The Escalation Station
• Late-Bloomer Boomers
• ProcrastiNOTers
• Fab Collab
• TikTok on the Clock
• The Wittynators
• We Were on a Break
• The Last Minutemen

Powerful team names for work

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

• The Scrum Pack
• Golden Coins
• Receipt Masters
• Powerful Points
• Star Scrum
• Eyes on the Prize
• Project Perfecters
• Predictable Outcome
• Shark Attackers
• High Caliber
• Future CEOs
• Six Sigmas
• Can-Ban
• Still Got It
• Flying High
• Backlog Backup
• Crushin’ Milestones
• Give Us Lemons
• Smooth Sailing
• No-Scope Creep
• Brain Buds
• No WBS
• Code Red
• Mildly Amused
• Power Creep
• Eager Eagles
• Lean Leaders
• Zero Blunders
• On the Beat
• Cost Reductors
• Straight Aces
• Schedule Stompers
• Rising Stars
• Goal Crushers 
• Progress Chasers
• Done & Dusted
• Hocus Focus

Cool team names for work

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

• Lightning Typers
• Always Prepared
• The Wicked Crew
• Office Ninjas
• Work Wizards
• Screen Warriors
• The Knights of the Round Desk
• Mingle Masters
• Freelancin’ Furies
• Breakroom Bears
• Annihilators
• Sprint Runners
• Synergy Syndicate
• The One-Punch Bunch
• The Management Mobsters
• Feedback Fighters
• Taskforce Titans
• Backlog Sweepers
• PMOnsters
• Multitask Force
• You Better Werk!
• Fierce Fam
• Backlog Refiners
• The Key Board
• ProcratiHaters
• Business as Usual
• Powered by Coffee
• Water Cooler Bros

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 compiled a bunch of names that you won’t be able to find anywhere else.

• It’s a Wonderful Scrum
• Table Flippers
• Lean Cuisine
• No Risk All Rewards
• Scrum ‘til It’s Done
• Waterfall Rafters
• Lean-Mowers
• Lean on Us
• Tree Huggers
• Trust Fall
• Kickin’ Backlogs
• PEST Control
• Milestone Markers
• Hundred Meters
• Earned Value Emperors
• I-Queue That Task
• Yes, and
• Backup Backup
• QA Q&A
• Boiling Backlog
• Critical Cruise
• Faster Than Hermes
• Note Quotes
• Never Back Down, Always Back-Up
• Office Dynamos
• Rock’n’Rollers
• The Computer Mafia
• Remote Rebels
• Skype Hype
• Reboot Revolution
• Bonus Seekers
• Deadline Disco
• Deepwork Choppers

One-word team names for work

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

• The McDucks
• The Deliverers
• The Contingency
• S-Ranks
• Impenetrables
• Invaluables
• Believers
• Codemen
• Idealists
• Brainiacs
• Accountinators
• Portfoliers
• Scrumptious
• The Prestige
• The Handlers
• Teambuilders
• Taskmasters
• Quotebringers
• Roadmappers
• SMARTies
• Unfailures
• Stand-alones
• The Gardeners
• The Architects
• Ramshackles
• Sightseers
• Predictors
• Perfectionists
• The Lightning
• The Telecommuters
• The Wunderkinds
• Tsunami
• Deskstoppers
• Restartors
• Truthseekers

Reference team names for work

It’s easy to find common interests over a TV show, movie, or anything of the sort. That’s why we compiled a bunch of pop culture reference names for your team’s interests.

• We’ll Be Back
• T-9000’s
• Moonwalking on Sunshine
• Jelly Staplers
• Texas Task Massacre
• Backlog Park
• The Lean King
• Pirates of the Critical Chain
• ETC — Extraterrestrial to Complete
• Finding OKR
• SPI Redemption
• The Scheduling
• More Remakes Than Disney
• Brain-Stormtroopers
• Top Scrum
• Get to the Check-in!
• Boss Babies
• It Happened One Quarter
• Forrest Scrum
• One Phase
• Scrum Wars
• World of Waterfall
• Open Season
• Notorious C.S.M.
• Return of the Deadline
• Milestone Morales
• Sorting Hats
• Mind-Players
• Dungeons and Deadlines
• We’ll Float Too
• Hogwarts Professors
• Workbusters
• The Office Lunch Club
• Risky Business
• Avengers: The Office Pack
• Raiders of the Lost Task
• New Kids on the Block
• You’ve Got E-mail
• Star Chores
• Big Bang Masters
• Agile and Fragile
• The Scrumpuff Girls
• The B2Beatles
• She’s Everything, They’re Just Devs
• Midsummer Night’s Team
• Team of Endearment 

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.

• Back to Pascal
• Non-Artificial Intelligence
• Off and On Again
• Server Savers
• One String to Rule Them All
• See Sharp
• Productivity Collectors
• Sorting It Out
• Semicolon Haters
• The Penguins
• Monitor Monitors
• String of Success
• Why-Fi
• Nothing Pirated
• The Java-lins
• Bug Swatters
• DevilOps
• DevOops
• Cloud Orchestrators
• ASaaSins
• SaaSsy Sisters
• Pro-Testers

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.

• Paint-Killers
• Adobers
• Brush It Off
• Layer Slayers
• Figmas of Imagination
• The Squids
• Photoshopping Spree
• Brush Warriors
• Happy Accidents
• Waterfall Colors
• Canvas Crushers
• Color Pickers
• Graphic Giants
• The Focal Pointers
• Procreators
• Hex Gon’ Give It to Ya
• Hex Machines
• 2B or Not 2B

Writing team names for work

Ironically, a writing team has the best ability to think up a name for themselves. Still, if your creative juices are all poured into your project, we got you covered.

• Old Men and the Screen
• Masters and Profit Margins
• No Copy No Paste
• Aristotally Productive
• The Other One, Not Simpson
• Sher-Locked In
• Blacklisted
• Pen Pals
• Nonsense and Sensibility
• WordPlayers
• Pun-kers
• Writer’s Unblock
• Grammar Police
• Editors-in-Chief
• Quill Quest
• The Garden of Readen
• The Demablogue Squad
• Copywriter Delighters
• Oxford Comma Crew
• Only Proofreading Can Hurt Like This
• A Court of Commas and Semicolons
• Before Grammarly Gets Cold
• The Oxymorons
• Type-O Negatives
• Santa Clauses
• The Author-ities
• Cliffhangers
• Spellcasters
• Alphabet-Soup Makers
• We Have the Last Word
• Spelling-Bound

Game design team names for work

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

• On the Shadows of the Colossi
• Full Knighters
• A Classy Creed
• Bright Souls
• MyCraft
• Game Team Aces
• Sorting Blocks
• We Wii-ll Handle It
• Pocket Designers
• Level Complete
• The Skyrim’s the Limit
• Skill Maxxers
• The Carries
• The Exclusives
• Retro Respect
• Collision Detectors

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 on 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, to like it, and to stand by it by doing upstanding work. 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.

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 start. 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.

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.

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

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 likes The X Files, you could call yourself “Team X”, “Call Moulder”, or something similar.

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 framework, 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 example, if your team joked around using healing flasks from video games in order to keep up productive work, you could name them “Tasks From a Flask”.

As you can see, the first tip still applies — combine these two 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. It’s most 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 at your first team-building activity.

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.

We like to use a D&D party name generator, as it often comes 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 Plaky can help your renamed team boost project collaboration

Unique team names can improve project collaboration and boost team satisfaction. You can even incorporate them in your project management software.

As a project and team management tool, Plaky allows you to track your projects with ease, assign tasks to people and teams, and have all the relevant information and resources neatly organized in a single place.

Plaky allows you to group people into teams and give them unique names.

When you create a team, you can add specific team members to it. From there, any time a team is mentioned, subscribed to an item or board, or assigned to a task, every team member will be notified. 

Any time you create a task, you can add an assignee field — and instead of adding every member of your team individually, you can assign it to the entire team.

Furthermore, instead of tagging 15 individual people in a task comment, you can tag the whole team, speeding up the communication process.

This way, Plaky improves your project collaboration, and it gives your team an excuse to use their name in their daily work — whether they wear it with pride or with laughter.

On that note — a huge thank you to our entire content team for contributing their ideas to this list!