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Clan Name & Tag Generator

Short names that survive being cut to four characters — because the tag is the part your opponents actually read. Choose the length, get two candidate tags per name, and copy either without the brackets.

Most clan name generators stop at the name, which is the easy half. The tag is where clans actually live: it is what sits in front of every member's username, what appears in a kill feed, what gets typed into a search box, and — in a lot of games — the only part of your clan anyone ever reads. A great name with an unusable tag is a rename waiting to happen.

So this tool does both at once. Every name it rolls comes with the tags it can wear at the length you choose, and both of them are uppercase A–Z and 0–9 only, which is the intersection almost every game's validator will accept.

What a tag field will actually accept

Caps vary by game and there is no universal one — three, four and five characters are the common limits, and a few games allow six. Rather than print a table of numbers that would be wrong somewhere the week it was written, this tool lets you generate at any length from two to five and leaves the cap to you. Three rules hold nearly everywhere, though, and they are the ones worth designing around:

• Uppercase ASCII letters and digits are the safe set. Accented characters, punctuation, spaces and symbols are rejected by some games, silently stripped by others, and rendered as boxes by a third group. Nothing this tool produces contains anything else.
• The brackets are not yours. Most games draw the [ ] themselves. On this page they are added by the stylesheet rather than by the text, so when you tap a tag to copy it you get CLDA and not [CLDA] — which is the single most common way a tag gets typed in wrong.
• Shorter is safer. A three-character tag fits every field that a five-character tag fits, plus the ones it does not. If you are choosing between two you like, the shorter one travels.

Two candidate tags, and why they fail differently

For every name you get up to two tags, because there are exactly two sensible ways to shorten a name and they are wrong in opposite directions.

• The squeeze — the consonant skeleton of each word, run together, with each word keeping its first letter. Cold Anvil becomes CLDA. It is ugly and it is unambiguous: almost nobody else will have it, and anyone who sees it beside your full name will connect the two immediately. Dropping vowels first is not a gimmick; it is what abbreviation does in every language that has one, because vowels carry the least information at short lengths.
• The front — the first letters, straight off the top. Cold Anvil becomes COLD. It reads instantly and it collides with everybody: every clan whose name starts with the same word wants the same tag, and in a mature game the good ones went years ago.

Pick the squeeze if you expect to be searched for, the front if you expect to be read at a glance. If the two come out identical the tool shows one, which is a good sign — it means the name shortens the obvious way.

There is one other reason you may see a single tag. Dropping vowels is also how slurs get spelled past a filter, and an innocent name can land on one by accident — a name starting Night cut to three letters is the obvious case. So every candidate is checked against a short list of slurs and hate terms before it is shown, with digits read as the letters they stand in for, and one that matches is dropped rather than shown. The page carries that list as hashes rather than as words, and every name this tool can produce has been checked at every length before the page was built.

Why the names themselves are short and hard

The word stock here is deliberately different from the guild and alliance lists. Clan names get shouted over voice while somebody is being shot at, and they get cut to four characters, so every entry is one or two syllables per word, front-loaded with consonants, and free of anything that needs a spelling. Cold Anvil, Rust Line, Ghost Column, Ricochet. Try saying a three-word clan name into a microphone during a fight; you will not do it twice.

One-word names get their own weighting because they are the ones that survive best — a single hard word is its own tag, its own channel name and its own logo brief. The trade is that they are the most likely to be taken.

Checking a tag is free, and it is worth the two minutes

Tags collide far more often than names do — there are only so many four-character strings people find pronounceable, and everybody reaches for the same ones. Before you commit, search the tag in your game's clan finder and see what comes back; a tag shared with a large, active clan in the same game means two years of being mistaken for them. This page cannot check for you, because the generator never asks a server: it runs in your browser, which is why it is instant and free.

The tag is half of an identity; the icon is the other half

A clan is a tag, a name and a picture, and the picture is doing most of the work in a member list. The Discord server icon generator on this site draws flat two-colour marks at 512 px and shows you what they look like at 32 and 16 pixels before you download them — which is the size a clan icon is actually seen at, and the size most designs die at.

Why the link matters more than the button

Naming a group is never one person's decision. The names above are a pure function of one number and your filters, and both are in the address bar — so the link you copy opens the same list for everybody you send it to, and the argument can be about the names rather than about which names each of you is looking at. Roll again and the link changes with it. Star the ones you like and they wait in the shortlist, which travels in the same link (the first twelve) and can be copied, saved as a text file or drawn as a picture for a pinned message.

Nothing you type or roll here is uploaded. Your shortlist is kept in this browser, in its own local storage on your device, so it survives a reload; a private window or cleared site data takes it away, and it never reaches us. There is no account and the generator has no server behind it. The page load itself is recorded by the site's own first-party analytics, though: a cookie, your IP address, your device, where you came from, and your account if you are signed in to the game. What we record, and why.

Sixty more, generated when this page was built

Baked into the HTML so there is something here with JavaScript switched off, and so you can skim a lot at once instead of clicking sixty times.

Can I use these clan names?

Yes — for anything, including commercial work, with no permission and no credit required. Short strings like a name or a two-word motto are not the kind of thing anyone can own, and the crest you compose is your composition, not ours. Take it to a novel, a tabletop campaign, a stream overlay, a band, a boat, a business card.

We ask for exactly nothing in return: no account, no email, no sign-up, no watermark. Nothing you type or make here leaves your browser — these tools have no server behind them that could keep your design. Opening the page is recorded like any page on this site: what we record. If you want to tell somebody where it came from, a link back is kind, but it is not a condition.

The rest of the kit

alliance names · guild names · team names · war cries & mottoes — all free, all instant, all working with the network switched off. The guild banner maker draws the crest that goes beside the name, and the naming index lists the lot.

Once the name exists it needs a picture: the Discord server icon generator and the profile picture maker both export a square 512 px PNG designed to survive the circular crop, and the coat of arms forge will draw the full crest if you want one for a banner.