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.

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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
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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
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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”.

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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.

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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.

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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.

The process of creating a team in Plaky project management software
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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.

Assigning teams to tasks in Plaky project management software
Assigning teams to tasks in Plaky

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.

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Using team tags in task comments in Plaky

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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LukaBogavac
Luka  Bogavac

Luka Bogavac is a project management author and researcher who focuses on making project management topics approachable and informative. Experienced in entrepreneurial projects, education, and writing, he aims to make articles his younger self would appreciate. During free time, he enjoys hiking trips, or staying indoors with a good film.

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