Names -> Cool Band Names -> N, Page 1
Whenever I hear a cool phrase somewhere, I like to exclaim "That would make a cool band name". This page is a list of such names.
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Name | Origin | Submitted by: | ||
| N.O.D. (Nation of Domination) | We came up with this during a school project. We thought it was cool because its original and sounds heavy metalish. | mike and tyler | ||
| N.W.S. ( No Warning Shots ) | Well me and my friends had decided to make a band. Our first name had been Caution. But we said no because well it was gay. So we thought of No Warning Shots and then abbreviated it to N.W.S. Its cool cuz well it just sounds cool !!! | Zak | ||
| N/A | Of course that would mean "Not Applicable", as in when asked what kind of music they play. For one of those eclectic alt-pop bands. | rocky | ||
| n00ps and KRoF | spoon and fork...backwards...n00ps is my nickname | VooDooXII | ||
| Nabobs Of Negativism | I think it was President Nixon who once referred to the media as nattering nabobs of negativism. I just took off the word nattering because that's just too long. I like it because I like alliteration for one thing. I think it sounds like a punk rock, hard rock kind of band name. I'm not exactly sure what a nabob is. But, with lots of these punk rock bands with their songs that are all about being unhappy and how life sucks and being rebellious because the world (in their minds) is a miserable place, it's a great name for a band with that musical style. You know, for people who think everything is hopeless. | Edward | ||
| Nada Dada | This would have been a 'real band name' had I ever been in a 'real band'. We practised a few times in a cellar and talked about it a lot. I chose the name to wind the 'bassist' up, but since found out it means 'Nothing Given' in Spanish (thanks to Babel Fish translator) and that there is some sort of Festival named Nadadada. Why is it cool? Well apart from it's meaning in Spanish, the allusions to the Dada anti-art movement, and the silly childish 'dadada' sound. Is this a legitimate entry? Well the 'band' don't exist and never really did, and as far as I'm concerned the name is up for grabs | Chris | ||
| Nadir | Means the lowest point on Earth. | Alex | ||
| Nah, That's A Bit Obvious!!! | It suits my personality. I came up with it, as I'm grumpy and rude and stroppy. But, I am kind hearted. | Samia | ||
| The Naifes | there this dude at school that my friends call naife or naifie its so funny...they even changed the lyrics to stacy's mum (good times good times) | Strange Polly | ||
| Nailbreaker | Another riot-grrl group, along the lines of Hole or Kittie. With a name like Nailbreaker, their songs might be about dispelling gender stereotypes. Or something. | Olvan The Terrible | ||
| The Naked Barbie Hour | What is it with kids taking the clothes off of Barbie dolls? Everytime I see a Barbie she is nude and her hair is all messed up. | Mitch | ||
| The Naked Flames | When my brothers band first got together, they had to come up with a name for their first gig. I looked down at my lighter and it said something like, 'Be careful around naked flames.' So I said, 'How about The Naked Flames?' They have a different name now, but I still think that ones cool. | Cat | ||
| Naked Potato | I think it's cool because it's just so random. It's not expected. It's also got the word 'naked' in it, which is usually reason enough. I came up with it when I was searching for the perfect sn with my friends..I decided on someting similar, but it now reminds me of the mango charactor on snl..(I don't know why, but it's cool enough to me..A wrinkled old man with no clothes on and with a russian accent mutteriung things like, 'I am the very much will be sexy. I being am too sexy for you..) olk, a bit off subject, but to sum it all up, the naked potato could kick darth vader's ass. | Ali Morgan | ||
| Naked Toast and the Butter Knives | I have an obsession with toast and toasters. (I even wrote a song called "Toaster") My friend Jill and I were talking about what would happen if toast was "naturally buttered"....then we started talking about toast in the wild....wild, free, and naked. Naked toast being toast that isn't buttered, of course. So out of that came Naked Toast and the Butter Knives. Their hit-"Lay Some Butter on Me" | amanda | ||
| Name and the Adjective Blanks | I was telling my brother that if I ever have a band that I would name it something using the structure of Name and the Adjective Blanks (ie. my personal favorite, Saint Genevieve and the Sexy Opossums). I then realized that it's cool by itself! | saint genevieve | ||
| Name Withheld | It's not really that cool. A friend and I had a brief, doomed acoustic duo act in college and this is what we called ourselves. We thought that if anyone ever called our college radio station and requested our music, the DJ would then be able to say "And now...Name Withheld, by request." No one ever called. | Jess | ||
| Nameless | I just think it sounds cool. Like you don't need to be grouped by your name. | Rosa | ||
| Naming Convention | A term that is constantly used at work. to identify stuf. Sounds like technical speak - | Brandon Lovato | ||
| Namocatcat | My old roommate in college was dating a Filipino girl, and this was her last name. Before he started dating her, I knew of her. A bunch of guys were looking for a name for their band and I suggested this. It's very original and kind of futuristic sounding, maybe, but also amusing and fun to say. And it is not something you forget. | A | ||
| Nanook and the Blubberchewers | Yeah they could be the best jamming group north of the arctic circle. | badboybear | ||
| NaO2 | The chemical formula for sodium Hydroxide, the active corrosive agent in drainpipe cleaners. It just seems to have a pathological death meal vibe to it, kind of like a combo of Cannibal Corpse and Soylent Green. | rate of decay | ||
| Nap 'Til Nine | I was talking to a friend about our plans for the evening and he said "m going to have dinner, nap 'til nine, then we'll go out." It sounds like a good name for a Ben Fold Five or Morphine type band | Nick | ||
| Napolean and the Arsenics | Napolean died of Arsenic poisioning, but the autopsy was bodged and it said he died of stomach cancer. The truth about his death was'nt revealed until the 1960's and even then most people didn't beleive it. | Henry | ||
| Narcissus | the ultimate 80's style rock band. big hair, spandex and ,of course, mirrors everywhere. | mongoloid | ||
| Narcoleptic Insomniacs | A band with this name would almost certainly be indie/new wave; their big break would be earning a supporting slot for an Interpol tour. It's a fun name I came up with out of the blue. I'd say the words are contradictory in nature but are there actual N.I.'s out there? People who can't sleep apart from spontaneous, narcoleptic bursts? I'm curious... | Nerrticus | ||
| The Narcoleptic Security Guards | I got it after watching an episode of Seinfeld. Security guards must be on full alert, and for them to have a sleeping disorder, well, the humor is quite obvious... | joe b | ||
| Narcotics For Neurotics | When one of those words is misheard for another in conversation, as my brother and I discovered, things can turn out pretty hilarious... but anyway, that's what music's supposed to be, right, your own personal therapy? | Alex | ||
| Nards | I came up with this while i was looking at mine. | Dude | ||
| Narekevoli | Backwards it says "I love Karen" but the fans would never figure that out plus it sounds weird and cool! kinda foreign | Maggie | ||
| National Nipple Day | A random person shouted it at me in the hallway today. | Rahsar | ||
| Natural Disasters | It sounds cool. Instead of naming your band one type of weather, you can just call them natural disasters. | jason f | ||
| Natural Hair Colour | too many artists are dying their hair these days, can't they just be real? A band who's against fakes. | Tash | ||
| Nature Of The Beast | No explination necesary, it speaks for itself! My friend says, "Well that's the nature of the beast for ya". | Martin | ||
| Naughty Squirrels | One day I was sitting down and I look in a tree and I see three squirrels going at it, so I decided to name my band Naughty Squirrles... but we don't have three-somes, mostly because there's five of us. | Angilee | ||
| Naughty Zoot | I'm a Monty Python fan and in "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", one of the knights goes to a castle full of women and discovers that the twin zoot had faked that the grail was there. Bad naughty zoot. | Anthony Wagner | ||
| Naunie | In Walmart, I punched my brother in the stomach, and I felt bad. So I rubbed it. Then he said jokingly, "Now say 'Naughty, naughty'". But I thought he said, "Naunie". | Ashe | ||
| Naunie and the Pista Chios | I heard my brother say, "Naughty", but I thought he said, "Naunie". The second part is from a bag of pistachios that I misread, and thought it said 'Pista Chios'. | ASH | ||
| NAUSEA | i was sitting at the t.v and saw a cartoon and there was a turtle sitting down saying he was nausiouse or how ever u spell it and then it clicked that NAUSEA would be a kool name for my new band. | daniel | ||
| Nazarak | We were looking in the dictionary when we found the word 'Nazarak' it means jackass:) | Ryan McIntyre | ||
| Nazz T. Lixx | A Motley-ized soundalike for "Nasty Licks." Could be a solo performer or a great name for a guitarist. Hair, anyone? | Chuck Fensch | ||
| Nbdy-Crs | It's "Nobody Cares," without the vowels, and pronounced "nubbdy curse." It's the curse of nobody caring, but hey, nobody cares, right? | some weirdo | ||
| Near Death Experience | An NDE can change your outlook on life. This band's music should do the same. | Peter, Simon, and Toy | ||
| Near Miss | When reporters say two planes nearly miss colliding. Isn't it two planes nearly hit each other? | Aggerman | ||
| Neato Fritos | I just say it sometimes. I refuse to use ordinary slang that everyone in the world copies from everyone else and then some. oh yeah and then the first album could be "Fritos are Gross". | waverly | ||
| Nebula | A scientific name, sounds magical. | Haizie | ||
| The Necco Issue | After I got an albino rat (Necco) as a pet, my dad's girlfriend said "Why would you get a rat? they're so disgusting??!!?!" And i said "Leave me alone. Necco's MY issue, get off my case!" So now we call him The Necco Issue.... it could have soemthing to do with the candy, who knows... | Dweezil | ||
| Necrophobic | A fear of the dead? Anything more wicked than that? | 1SiX | ||
| Necropolis | Well, I had a stupid spelling test, and it just happened that this word came up. It means "Land of the Dead" in Latin. | Erik Silveira | ||
| Ned So Crazy | In the Simpsons episode where Ned gets put in a mental institution, Homer says 'Ned, you so crazy'. I heard it the other day and thought it was cool. | Ragcard | ||
| The Need For Speed | Watching "Top Gun". Sounds like a speed metal band. cool... | Barney | ||
| Negative Creep | It's an awesome song so I thought it would be a cool band name. | Bryce Strecker | ||
| Negative Pink | We always thought this would make a good name for a female punk band (NeGaTiVe PiNk). It also brings pregnancy tests to mind. | BellaAsteria | ||
| Negative Sides Of A Square | This was one of the many chronic jokes of my 7th grade advanced math class. We were doing something with geometry and square roots, when I suddenly asked "But WHY can't you have a negative side of a square?" I guess this one says 'we do not exist,' or at least 'our existence is questionable.' | kelpylion | ||
| Negative Zero | Error message on a calculator and general overall humor. | simmade13 | ||
| Negative Zero | This was myband's name for 3 years. It was AWESOME.....Alot of people liked it because if makes no sense! You cannot have a negative zero but the logo looked cool ( Ex. -O ) and made all our fans actually THINK and use their math skillz... | Ian | ||
| Negitive Nancy | I heard someone call a person a "negitive Nancy" once, and it definatly stuck with me. With all the kooky band names out in the world, this one would fit in well. | bob | ||
| The Neglected | I think this is a cool band name for a band who are about complaining about important subjects like Rage Against The Machine (a kick a** band ). I can't remember how I made up the name because I was drunk at the time. | random-person | ||
| The Neglected | well im not sure if it's a band already but one day i was sitting at my friends houde and he was messing around saying that he got neglected and then his brother was like me too and then i said hey you two are the neglected kids | v.i.x | ||
| Negligenciado | I was thinking of 'Neglected,' but I went on this translation thing. I found it out in Portuguese. | Dunno | ||
| Neil Down and the Altar Boys | It has it all: religion, youth, implied inappropriate sexual activity.....what more could you ask for? | Birdie Cutlass | ||
| Nena Wapetona | I think this is cool cause it is Spanish for 'Baby Beautiful' so it should be a band name for a girl band or something like that. Or whatever u want i dont give a crap.......... | Marci | ||
| Neo | Means new, as I'm sure you know. It just sounds cool. | Princess Ana | ||
| Neon | IT WOULD GO VERY WELL WITH FLASHING LIGHTS EVERYWHERE ALL OF NEON COLORS. | Amanda | ||
| neon and the flouresents | you know how bands have all the fancy lights at thier concerts right well combine a type of light with a band looking for a name and you have neon and the flouresents. | kc | ||
| Nephilim | It's a human/demon hybrid, and it sounds so great!!! I'd use it, but I'm a Jesus freak! ^_^ | C! | ||
| Nerb | Kinda like nerd, kinda like Nerf but just not. It's Nerb. Has no meaning so that makes it easy. And spelled backwards it is Bern, which still isn't a word but its a hommonym of a word. | Jeff | ||
| The Nerdbombers | A stupid insult from the early years of "Full House." Would be pretty funny as a band name though. | MDanel93 | ||
| Nervous Rocks | My daughter said we should go collect "nervous rocks" one day. I think she had heard the phrase "nervous wreck" somewhere. There it was though, my perfect band name. | beajerry | ||
| Nessie and the Show Girls | well first of all, how many simpsons fans remember the episode where mr. burns, homer and groundskeeper willy go too scotland to catch the lochness monster? well i was watching it and i saw him in las vegas, and well las vegas has show girls so i put 2 and 2 together and got (no not 4) Nessie and the Show Girls! Also Napolean Dynamite! Call upon the local wizards to cast a spell over the lake and all the people who wish to keep our underwater allie | i wish i was cool | ||
| Neuter the Stupid | Not that I am into genocide at all, but if it would help with the traffic problem I'm all for it! | Mitch | ||
| Neutercane | Briefly in the 1970's, weather forecasters called strange storms outside the tropics that resembled hurricanes "neutercanes". | Johnny D | ||
| Neutered Rooster | while getting drunk at the local recording studio, i was asked what a capon was? hence my reply and a band was born. | connie payne | ||
| Nevaeh | This is heaven spelled backwards, i came up with this and you can say it like this ... " Na Vae ah " | Krissi S. | ||
| Never Ending Stupidy | Its What I have So i thought to put it as a band name | Ryan 'RyKnow' gonzalez | ||
| Never Odd or Even | Well, it doesn't quite make sense. Plus, it is a palindrome, and the logo could be some sort of cool anagram. | Josh | ||
| Never the Same Place Twice | Based on a tv commercial ad for "TJ Max," women's clothing.store . They kept repeating: "TJ Max -it's never the same place twice". I kept wondering "how do you find out where the store is, if it is never at the same place twice?"! | MarjoMarjo | ||
| The Neverending Orgy-nators | Great for porno, don't you think? | Dark One | ||
| Nevermind/The Neverminders | These are two band names that I've come up with, both named after the famous Nirvana album. | Ned Riley | ||
| Nevermore | Kind of gothy? | Mandy | ||
| Neverwas And The Hasbeens | It's kinda funny and cute at the same time, like the band would be poking fun at themselves YEAH! | jay el dubbya | ||
| New Damage | To me it means, 'Oh s***! This band is reinventing music as we regret to know it, and their crushing everything in their path'. | Kevin | ||
| New Entries | Great for a band name. Informing the public that they have arrived. Never gets old, because their always "New". It was the first thing I saw when I looked to the left of this blog. | Elaine | ||
| New Kids Revenge | I think this is cool because everyone always picks on the new kid. This is his revenge! | Dylan | ||
| New Management | I saw on a door to this one local store that it is "under new management". I thought that new management sounded like a cool name for a band. | squirrelguy931 | ||
| The New Republic | a thing in a Star Wars book. | Junior | ||
| A New Scenario | The band that takes upon this name must be worthy of it's meaning. It represents being different and not being classified as your stereotypical musician. The band must take different routes to producing a sound like no other. It's been bred a different type of scenario....a new scenario | Uzgottafro2 | ||
| New Super Black Wolf | A parody of the most common words used in contemporary band names. | sean orr | ||
| New Year's Revolution | I was talking to my friend about new year's resolutions and I said "revolution" by mistake and then I thought "Hey, that should be a band name!" | Hawky | ||
| New York Knishes | A rejected name for New York City's XFL team, or a Manhattanite ska-jazz band with a sense of humor? Their first album could be called "Vicious Knishes." | Olvan The Terrible | ||
| New-Fi Glory | One of my friends is a newfie, and he wants to start a band, and he was thinking of names. I like New FOund GLory so i suggested this. | Alex Burpee | ||
| NEX | I looked it up on the internet. It apparently means "slaughter", which I think is quite a cool name for a band. | Bagginski | ||
| Next In Line | Do you need a reason? This ROCKS! Also gives the impression that you will get big (Famous). Came up with it from being in a queue!! | Matt Chinnock | ||
| Next of Kin | Because this is the person who gets notified when someone dies, so it sounds cool for a heavy band, or maybe someone like the Tea Party. | Archie Broughton | ||
| Next Week's Menu | me and my friend big Dave were walking out of the lunch hall at school and there was a pink sign that said next week's menu. we took it for our band but then the band kind of split up. so i joined another band and that's our name | Jonny C | ||
| NGR (Naked Girl Running) | A friend and I were talking about why guys like it when girls fight each other, and about what it looks like in their minds. Something about half-naked girls slapping each other and pulling hair, running away from each other. Then NGR somehow came up and we thing it's an awesome name for a band. | Emilio Coolio and Dingo | ||
| Nibblit | Hamsters nibble it... so, Nibblit kinda goes, doesn't it? And my name. Haha! My real name is Elizabeth, tho! | Zak, the Hamster Girl! | ||
| nic nac | I thought of this while I was with my friend. We were thinking of band names and she thought of tic tac but that sounded kind of stupid, so I said "What about nic nac?" It sounds really cool for a two-people only band. | Vegged One | ||
| Nice Marmot | And let's also not forget--let's not forget, Dude--that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city-- that isn't legal either. | DAX | ||
| NICer | I just thought it was cool. I heard this song by The Used and I didn't know the words to it so I checked them. At the end of the song they scream nicer! And it just kind of thought it was wierd the way it was spelled. I kinda souped up the name I made three uppercase and the other 2 lower case. Like I said, I don't expect you to think it's cool. This is free to anyone who wants to take it, I guess. | Seipher | ||
| Nickelboy's Third Eye | Everybody calls me "Nickelboy" cause I jumped on a nickel once around my friends cause i was greedy, but i ended up getting nothing in the end, thats what Nickelboy means, the Third Eye part: I had a band called MyThirdEye and i just put the two together...basically a speed punk metal disaster waiting to rip Avril Lavigne's head off | kevin |
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