Baseball Player Name Generator

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Generate realistic baseball player names that sound like they belong on a big-league roster: modern American prospects, Dominican and Venezuelan stars, Japanese and Korean imports, and old-time nicknames. Built for MLB The Show created players, sports novels and fictional leagues.

About baseball player names

A believable baseball name depends on the roster it sits on. Modern big-league clubhouses are roughly two-thirds American and one-third international, so a realistic list needs homegrown first names like Tucker, Cade, Brady and Hunter paired with plain, sturdy surnames, alongside Dominican, Venezuelan, Cuban, Puerto Rican and Mexican names (Yefri, Wilkin, Lázaro, Leobardo) with double surnames and accents intact. Japanese and Korean imports round out the pitching staff, and the occasional Curaçao, Quebec or Australian name adds texture without feeling forced.

Era matters too. Old-time baseball ran on nicknames, so a 1930s ballplayer sounds like Whitey Bascomb, Lefty Marzano or Smoky Burrell, while the 1970s produced Roosevelt, Otis and Dwight, and today's draft classes are full of Jaxon, Easton and Knox. Clubhouse nicknames still exist but are rarer and usually riff on the surname.

Every name here is invented to pass the back-of-the-jersey test: it looks right on a lineup card, a baseball card or an MLB The Show Diamond Dynasty roster, but it does not belong to a real player. Mix the blocks below to build a full 26-man roster, name a Road to the Show character, or populate the league in a novel.

How to choose baseball player names

  • Build a roster in realistic proportions: about 17 American names, 6 to 8 Latin American names, and 1 or 2 from Japan or Korea mirrors a typical MLB 26-man squad.
  • For MLB The Show's Road to the Show, choose a surname the commentary team can pronounce; short, common-sounding names like Hollins, Reyes, Marsh and Kimball get called cleanly.
  • Match the name to the position stereotype if you want instant recognizability: knuckle-draggers at first base get old-school names, slick shortstops get Latin names, and closers get something that sounds good shouted over a walkout song.
  • Keep nicknames to one or two per team, and tie each to a habit or body type. A whole roster of Mooses and Gooses reads as parody.
  • Search the full name before publishing fiction; the combinations here are fictional, but common surnames can coincide with minor leaguers.

Frequently asked questions

Are these real MLB players?

No. Every name is a fictional combination built to sound like a plausible pro, prospect or old-time ballplayer. Surnames like Reyes, Hernández or Kimball appear in real baseball because they are common, but the full names do not belong to actual players.

Can I use these in MLB The Show or other baseball video games?

Yes, that is one of the main uses. They work for Road to the Show characters, Diamond Dynasty created players, Franchise mode draft classes and Out of the Park Baseball fictional leagues. Pick shorter names if you want the in-game commentators to say them.

Why do some names have accents and double surnames?

Because real Latin American rosters do. Dominican, Venezuelan and Cuban players often use accented names and occasionally both paternal and maternal surnames, and keeping those details is what makes a fictional roster feel authentic instead of anglicized.

How do I get an old-timey baseball name?

Pair a short nickname with an ordinary surname: Whitey, Lefty, Dutch, Moose, Red or Sparky plus something like Bascomb, Tillman or Delahunt. The block of period names in this list covers the dead-ball era through the 1950s, and the given-name block (Orville, Virgil, Odell) fits the same decades without a nickname.

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All 500 baseball player names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 24 names

  • Abel Marquez
  • Adam Westergaard
  • Al Kaminski
  • Aldo Ferrigno
  • Alexis Rivas
  • Alfredo Figueroa
  • Alfredo Passarelli
  • Ambiorix Feliz
  • Amos Brightwell
  • Amos Whitby
  • Anderson Peralta
  • Andre Kingsley
  • Andy Kirkwood
  • Angelo DeLuca
  • Anthony Capuano
  • Anyelo Lindero
  • Anyi Mogollón
  • Archer Tennyson
  • Arístides Paulino
  • Arnoldo Mejía
  • Asahi Morita
  • Asher Kowalski
  • Austin Villalobos
  • Axel Whitacre

B: 37 names

  • Bárbaro Valdivia
  • Beau Lindstrom
  • Beaumont Landry
  • Ben Nowakowski
  • Billy Macklin
  • Biscuit Hagerty
  • Blake Anselmo
  • Bo Hebert
  • Bo Stovall
  • Boaz Hartley
  • Bobby Thornton
  • Bodie Rasmussen
  • Boog Lassiter
  • Booker Swindell
  • Boone Fulkerson
  • Boone Radcliffe
  • Brady Whitlock
  • Brandon Esquivel
  • Braulio Villanueva
  • Brayden Marsh
  • Brendan Hogan
  • Brennan Oakley
  • Brett Oduya
  • Brian Kaczmarek
  • Brice Lofton
  • Briggs McElwain
  • Brock Sandoval
  • Brody Kavanagh
  • Brooks Kettleman
  • Brooks Pettigrew
  • Bryce Tannehill
  • Bubba Trask
  • Buck Tillman
  • Bulldog Mrozek
  • Bullet Pettiford
  • Buster Vanderkolk
  • Byung-jin Lim

C: 47 names

  • Cade Marchetti
  • Caden Oakridge
  • Cal Whitaker
  • Caleb Rademacher
  • Camden Shipley
  • Cannonball Dixon
  • Carlos Arteaga
  • Carson Whitfield
  • Casey Bukowski
  • Cash Holliman
  • Cash Rivet
  • Cason Milligan
  • Catfish Dooley
  • Cayden Hiraoka
  • Ceferino Garrido
  • Chase Redmond
  • Cheng-en Wu
  • Chia-hao Kuo
  • Chick Morrissey
  • Chien-ming Tsai
  • Chili Stevenson
  • Chip Dellinger
  • Chris Dunbar
  • Clayton Sperry
  • Cleon Washington
  • Clyde Cuthbert
  • Cody Pruett
  • Colby Thibodaux
  • Cole Wainwright
  • Colin McGreevy
  • Colt Brennaman
  • Colt Pembrook
  • Colton Vickery
  • Connor Doyle
  • Connor Halvorsen
  • Connor Ulrich
  • Cooper Hargrove
  • Cooper Stallings
  • Corbin Hale
  • Cord Pinkston
  • Craig Lindqvist
  • Crew Ballinger
  • Cristiano Ruggieri
  • Cristofer Ozuna
  • Cuauhtémoc Ramírez
  • Curtis Granger
  • Cy Tolbert

D: 38 names

  • Daichi Matsumoto
  • Daiki Sugimoto
  • Dainier Herrera
  • Dale Pennington
  • Dalton Radford
  • Dalton Reyes
  • Danny Ocampo
  • Dante Jefferson
  • Dariel Encarnación
  • Darius Langford
  • Darwin Barrios
  • Dash Montero
  • Dave Rutherford
  • Davide Turchetta
  • Dawson Kirkpatrick
  • Dax Kenworthy
  • Deacon Wilkes
  • Deivy Ocanto
  • Derek Mahoney
  • Deshawn Pickett
  • Devin Hairston
  • Dillon Alcott
  • Dixon Ramsey
  • Dizzy Blankenship
  • Do-yoon Cha
  • Doc Pruitt
  • Dominic Ferrucci
  • Don Brickley
  • Dong-hyun Park
  • Doug Whitcomb
  • Drew Caruso
  • Drew Wojciechowski
  • Ducky Maldonado
  • Duke Ferrante
  • Dusty Falkner
  • Dutch Vanderberg
  • Dwight Pettaway
  • Dylan Okafor

E: 15 names

  • Eamon Fitzgerald
  • Easton Reinhardt
  • Edinson Urbina
  • Eli Ruhlmann
  • Eli Stavros
  • Elieser Guarate
  • Elijah Sweeney
  • Emmett Cardwell
  • Enrico Spallanzani
  • Enzo Bartolini
  • Ernie Slocum
  • Ethan Brightwater
  • Eudy Santana
  • Everett Sloane
  • Ezra Whitlock

F: 5 names

  • Finn Gallagher
  • Fletcher Dunmore
  • Ford Bannister
  • Frank Giordano
  • Frankie Lombardo

G: 17 names

  • Gage Huffman
  • Garrett Lindgren
  • Gary Lambrecht
  • Gator Lebeau
  • Gavin Stroud
  • Gelvin Germán
  • Gentleman Jim Lacey
  • Gianni Iannucci
  • Gino Santangelo
  • Goose Pemberton
  • Gorkys Escalona
  • Grady Pelletier
  • Grant Sorensen
  • Greg Mazzola
  • Gregori Salcedo
  • Griffin Pollard
  • Gunnar Sandquist

H: 19 names

  • Hambone Wexler
  • Hank Dorsey
  • Harrison Welk
  • Haruto Sakamoto
  • Hayato Nishino
  • Hayden Marlowe
  • Hikaru Ogawa
  • Hinata Shimamura
  • Hiroto Kuroiwa
  • Holden Nakagawa
  • Hollis Vandiver
  • Holt Brannock
  • Hoot Lanier
  • Hoss Delacroix
  • Hud Pennell
  • Hunter Fenwick
  • Hunter Lockridge
  • Hyeon-woo Lee
  • Hyun-woo Yang

I: 4 names

  • Ian Wroblewski
  • Isaac Hyland
  • Isaiah Dozier
  • Isaiah Pruitt

J: 45 names

  • Jace Linares
  • Jace Oyelaran
  • Jace Prudhomme
  • Jackson Ellsworth
  • Jae-hwan Oh
  • Jagger Roybal
  • Jake Mulcahy
  • Jake Trzaska
  • Jalen Crowder
  • Jamal Dixon
  • Jared Stenberg
  • Jason Pietrangelo
  • Javier Acevedo
  • Jaxon Pellegrini
  • Jean-Luc Arceneaux
  • Jeff Tolliver
  • Jen-wei Hsu
  • Jermaine Fielder
  • Jerry Ostrowski
  • Jesse Adeyemi
  • Jett Ostrander
  • Jhoan Batista
  • Jhonatan Pulido
  • Ji-hwan Moon
  • Ji-hyun Kwon
  • Jimmie Lee Haskins
  • Jimmy Palazzo
  • Jocko Farrell
  • Joe Bertolucci
  • Joe Wisniewski
  • Joey Graziano
  • Joey Spinelli
  • Johan Marte
  • Johnny Dusek
  • Jonah Kirchner
  • Jonder Martínez
  • Jordan Nakashima
  • Jorge Luis Cartaya
  • Josh Laffey
  • Joshua Brackett
  • Josiah Beckett
  • Judah Templeton
  • Judge Talbot
  • Jun-seo Nam
  • Jung-min Seo

K: 26 names

  • Kade Wofford
  • Kaito Watanabe
  • Kash Dominguez
  • Kazuki Yabuuchi
  • Keegan Voss
  • Keiber Reynoso
  • Keivi Ureña
  • Kellan Oyelowo
  • Ken Yamaguchi
  • Kendall Bivens
  • Kentaro Nomura
  • Kevin Arrington
  • Khalil Beaumont
  • Kid O'Shaughnessy
  • Kieran Walsh
  • Knox Farraday
  • Kodai Senoo
  • Koji Uesugi
  • Koki Ueda
  • Kolby Strickland
  • Kolton Brewster
  • Konnor Griggs
  • Kurt Zielinski
  • Kwang-min Yoon
  • Kyle Vandermeer
  • Kyung-ho Ryu

L: 20 names

  • Lamar Stokes
  • Landon Mayfield
  • Landry Fontenot
  • Lane Cavazos
  • Larry Hendricks
  • Layne Hamby
  • Lázaro Iglesias
  • Leandro Cuevas
  • Lefty Marzano
  • Leobardo Zepeda
  • Leroy Pinkney
  • Levi Bracamonte
  • Liam Donnelly
  • Lisandro Quintana
  • Logan Ashworth
  • Lou Petrocelli
  • Luca Bianchi
  • Luis Yander Pérez
  • Luke Pettibone
  • Luther Dabney

M: 21 names

  • Maikel Zambrano
  • Malachi Thorpe
  • Malik Truesdale
  • Manolo Montalvo
  • Marco Ledesma
  • Marcus Ellerby
  • Mario Costanzo
  • Mario Prusinowski
  • Mark Gorecki
  • Marquise Dunham
  • Masanori Yoshino
  • Mason Trujillo
  • Matt Cordero
  • Maverick Sellers
  • Micah Bannon
  • Mickey Callahan
  • Mike Farnsworth
  • Min-seok Jang
  • Min-woo Kang
  • Montgomery Bloom
  • Moose Halligan

N: 8 names

  • Naoki Higashi
  • Nash Hollenbeck
  • Neftalí Altamirano
  • Niall Tierney
  • Nick Pawlowski
  • Nico Bravo
  • Noah Sandoval
  • Nolan Szczepanski

O: 6 names

  • Octavio Martínez
  • Oscar Deloach
  • Osniel Madera
  • Osvany Lazo
  • Otis Renfro
  • Owen Flanagan

P: 11 names

  • Paddy O'Rourke
  • Parker Gustafson
  • Pat Houlihan
  • Paulie Marchese
  • Paxton Dorsey
  • Peanuts Olivieri
  • Pepper Kincaid
  • Pete Dombrowski
  • Pieter Van Driel
  • Po-yu Liu
  • Preston Mulvaney

Q: 1 name

  • Quincy Rutledge

R: 41 names

  • Rabbit Coughlin
  • Radhames Cabrera
  • Rafelin Betancourt
  • Raidel Morejón
  • Rainiel Candelario
  • Randy Stutzman
  • Rashad Oliver
  • Rawlins Fry
  • Red Calhoun
  • Reece Thorogood
  • Reed Garmendia
  • Reggie Lattimore
  • Reid Castellano
  • Reinier Sotolongo
  • Remy Boudreaux
  • Ren Kobayashi
  • Rex Gallardo
  • Rhett Calloway
  • Rhys Tanaka
  • Richelson Sosa
  • Ricky Alvarado
  • Ridge Nakamura
  • Rigoberto Terrazas
  • Riku Matsuura
  • Rob Esposito
  • Rocco Palumbo
  • Roel Bosma
  • Roman Oyebanji
  • Ron Hatcher
  • Ronaldo Espinosa
  • Roosevelt Hardy
  • Rory Sheehan
  • Royce Fennimore
  • Rubén Tejeda
  • Rusty Whitmore
  • Ryan Branigan
  • Ryan Ferraro
  • Ryder Oldham
  • Rylan Pomeroy
  • Ryota Iwata
  • Ryusei Takeda

S: 31 names

  • Sal Fiorentino
  • Sang-hoon Baek
  • Sawyer Caldwell
  • Scooter Fannin
  • Scott Halloran
  • Seamus Quinlan
  • Seiji Miyamoto
  • Seong-jun Koo
  • Seung-min Han
  • Shane Pacheco
  • Shao-ching Chen
  • Shorty Weinberg
  • Shota Kawabata
  • Shun Nakamura
  • Silas Demarco
  • Silvio Marrone
  • Skeeter Halsey
  • Slade Bettencourt
  • Slim Cavanaugh
  • Smokey Joe Wiggins
  • Smoky Burrell
  • Sonny Impellizzeri
  • Sora Nishimura
  • Sparky Delahunt
  • Spencer Abernathy
  • Spike Harlan
  • Sterling Moseby
  • Stetson Mabry
  • Steve Novotny
  • Stretch Voorhees
  • Sully Brennan

T: 34 names

  • Tae-yang Shin
  • Taiga Ishikawa
  • Taiyo Mizuno
  • Takeshi Arakawa
  • Tanner Espelien
  • Tanner Kessler
  • Tate McAllister
  • Tate Ruggiero
  • Tate Stroman
  • Terrell Coleman
  • Terry Whitlow
  • Thibault Guidry
  • Tim Castellanos
  • Titus Redford
  • Todd Breckenridge
  • Todd Lewandowski
  • Tommy Verhoeven
  • Tomoya Iwasaki
  • Tony Spadaro
  • Travis Oakes
  • Tre Whitehead
  • Trent Kowalczyk
  • Trevor Kimball
  • Trey Broussard
  • Tripp Ellerbee
  • Tripp Hagler
  • Truett Baxley
  • Tucker Hollins
  • Tug Brannigan
  • Ty Escalante
  • Tyler Macready
  • Tyree Blackmon
  • Tyson Ledbetter
  • Tzu-hao Wang

U: 1 name

  • Ulises Serrano

V: 4 names

  • Víctor Mata
  • Vida Whitmore
  • Vince Carbone
  • Vinny Rossetti

W: 18 names

  • Wade Cunningham
  • Walker Hensley
  • Walt Gribble
  • Wander Pimentel
  • Waylon Brister
  • Wei-chung Lin
  • Wells Carrington
  • Wes Harbaugh
  • Wesley Thibodeaux
  • Whitey Bascomb
  • Wild Bill Cousins
  • Wilfredo Guerrero
  • Wilfredo Ledezma
  • Wilkin Tavárez
  • Will Schaefer
  • Wilton Castillo
  • Woo-sung Ahn
  • Wyatt Delgado

X: 1 name

  • Xavier Bostic

Y: 22 names

  • Yadiel Martí
  • Yaisel Carbonell
  • Yamato Fujimoto
  • Yasmani Castellón
  • Yefferson Rosario
  • Yefri Balbuena
  • Yeison Guevara
  • Yermín Mejía
  • Yeuris Montaño
  • Yi-hsuan Chang
  • Yoendry Yepez
  • Yolmer Rondón
  • Yorbit Colmenares
  • Young-jae Hwang
  • Ysrael Almonte
  • Yu-cheng Huang
  • Yuki Hasegawa
  • Yunieski Domínguez
  • Yuniesky Vázquez
  • Yusuke Kawai
  • Yuto Kikuchi
  • Yuya Okabe

Z: 4 names

  • Zach Tomlinson
  • Zane Lutz
  • Zeke Hollander
  • Zeke Vanderhoof