Bounty Hunter Group Name Generator

Bounty hunter groups are named the way small, dangerous businesses are named. They sound like law firms, family outfits, hunting lodges or debt collectors, with just enough menace to tell a runner that the paperwork is the least of their problems. The oldest real-world models are posses and skip tracers, so western groups tend to be named for a place or a leader (the Salt Creek Boys, Old Man Harlow's Boys), while sci-fi guilds in the Star Wars and Cowboy Bebop tradition use clean, corporate-sounding labels for an ugly trade: recovery, apprehension, retrieval, claims.

The vocabulary of the job gives you most of the raw material. Warrants, writs, ledgers, tallies, bonds and fees are the paperwork side; chains, cuffs, collars, nooses, leashes and lanterns are the hardware; hounds, crows, kestrels and wolves are the animals hunters have always compared themselves to. Good group names pair one of these with a structure that implies people: a pact, a lodge, a bureau, a brotherhood, a set of brothers or daughters, or a surname with partners attached.

The list below moves through classic western posses, space-lane crews, fantasy guild halls and neon-lit cyberpunk outfits, then into named firms and sworn circles. Match the register to your setting and read the name as a wanted poster would print it.