Cyborg Name Generator
Names for augmented humans and half-machine soldiers
Generate cyborg names in every style the genre uses: model designations like RK800 and T-800, human names that survive the surgery (Motoko Kusanagi, Alex Murphy), unit callsigns, and street names for the heavily chromed. Built for sci-fi writers, TTRPG players, and game designers.
About cyborg names
A cyborg is a human who has been rebuilt with machine parts, and its name usually tells you which side of that line the character lives on. Some keep the human name because the person survived: Alex Murphy is still in there under RoboCop's armor, Motoko Kusanagi keeps her name through a full-body prosthetic, and Adam Jensen never asked for his augmentations. Others are known by what was done to them: the T-800 and RK800 are model numbers, Seven of Nine is a Borg designation, and Grey Fox and Winter Soldier are program codenames that replaced a person.
That gives you four workable styles. Model designations combine letters and numbers (MK-9 Vanguard, CX-19, RX-78) and suit corporate or military builds. Military callsigns use the phonetic alphabet or a plain number (Delta-Six, Zero-One, Thirteen) and imply a unit of identical soldiers. Function or material names (Aegis, Sentinel, Tungsten, Ceramite) fit shock troops and bodyguards. Human names with a chromed-up nickname (Marcus 'Ironhide' Steele) work for street cyborgs and mercenaries in cyberpunk settings, where the nickname is often about the visible augment: Redeye, Blackarm, Steeljaw.
The list covers all four, plus surgical and mechanical vocabulary (Graft, Suture, Servo, Overclock) that reads as a nickname a half-machine person might earn. Program codenames, titled street handles and versioned names (Elias 2.0) complete it.
How to choose cyborg names
- Decide whether your character thinks of themselves as a person or a product, then name accordingly: a surviving human name for the former, a model number or callsign for the latter.
- Number designations are strongest when they imply others exist. Subject 17 and Unit 88 raise the question of what happened to the rest.
- For a cyborg who is losing their humanity, use both names and let the human one appear less as the story goes on.
- Nicknames based on the visible augment (Redeye, Coldhand, Steeljaw) are how other characters would realistically refer to a heavily modified person.
- Mythological smith and giant names (Talos, Hephaestus, Colossus) give a heavy-combat cyborg gravitas without sounding like a product code.
Frequently asked questions
What are some famous cyborg names?
RoboCop (Alex Murphy), Motoko Kusanagi, Darth Vader, General Grievous, Seven of Nine, the T-800, Adam Jensen, Cable, Cyborg (Victor Stone), Raiden, Nebula, Alita, and the Winter Soldier are among the best known.
What is the difference between a cyborg, an android, and a robot?
A cyborg is a living organism with mechanical parts, an android is a fully artificial machine built to look human, and a robot is any autonomous machine. Cyborg names therefore often keep a human element, while android names lean toward model numbers.
How do I choose a good cyborg name for a video game or D&D character?
Pick a real human name for the person they were, then add either a designation or a chrome nickname to show what they became. The gap between the two names is where the character lives.
Can I use these cyborg names commercially?
The original names and designations are free to use in games, fiction, and products. Well-known characters listed as examples, such as RoboCop or the T-800, are trademarks of their owners.
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All 1,000 cyborg names
A: 54 names
- Abel Restored
- Achilles
- Actuator
- Adaeze Okpara
- Adam Jensen
- Adam Smasher
- Aegis
- Aerogel
- Ajax
- Albert Heinrich
- Alex Murphy
- Alita
- Alloy
- Alpha-Seven
- Alpha-Zero
- Alternator
- Amara 'Chromeskull' Diallo
- Amara Diallo
- Amber Wasp
- Amos Mk V
- Amygdala
- Android 17
- Android 18
- Angle Grinder
- Anika Bose
- Anna Navarre
- Anselm Krieger
- Antaeus
- Anubis
- Anya Rev B
- Aperture
- Aramid
- Arbiter
- Arc Welder
- Ares
- Argus
- Arjun 'Stator' Menon
- Arvid Solheim
- Ash
- Asset 12
- Asset Nine
- Atlas
- AUG-3
- Augustin 'Legacy' Roche
- Auntie Ampere
- Aurelio 'Bastion' Vance
- Aurelio Vance
- Awl
- AX-12
- AX-15
- AX-21
- AX-7
- Axon
- Ayumi 'Low-Light' Fujita
B: 65 names
- Ball-Peen
- Balor
- Bandsaw
- Bao 1.1
- Barbican
- Bare Metal
- Baron Ballast
- Bartholomew Kuma
- Basalt
- Basilisk
- Bass
- Bastion
- Batch Nine
- Batou
- Battlement
- Bearing
- Beatrix Lonsdale
- Behemoth
- Berserker
- Beryllium
- Big Hinge
- Billet
- Bishop
- Bishop 341-B
- Bismuth
- Black Lathe
- Black Oxide
- Blackarm
- Blackbox
- BLD-21
- Blood and Coolant
- Blowtorch
B, continued
- Blue Ember
- Bluescreen
- BN-18
- Bodhi 'Standby' Rourke
- Bolt
- Boltcutter
- Boltneck
- Bone Lace
- Bonesaw
- Bootstrap
- Borg Queen
- Borma
- Borrowed Eyes
- Borrowed Pulse
- Borrowedhand
- Bosun Drill
- Brainiac
- Brainjack
- Brainstem
- Bram Aldridge
- Brass Shrike
- Brassknuckle
- Bravo-Nine
- Bravo-Seven
- Breaker
- Briareos
- Brigid 'Marrow' Keane
- Brother Bellows
- Bryan Fury
- Bucky Barnes
- Build 14
- Bulwark
- Bypass
C: 86 names
- Cable
- Cadmus
- Cain
- Call
- Callum Strand
- Cameron
- Camshaft
- Candidate 8
- Capacitor
- Capstan
- Captain Coolant
- Carbide
- Carbon
- Carbon Fiber
- Carbonrib
- Casimir 'Rollback' Zielinski
- Casshern
- Cassius Bell
- Cataphract
- Catherine Weaver
- Cattle Prod
- Cautery
- Centurion
- Ceramic Kidney
- Ceramite
- Cerberus
- Charlie-Two
- Chassis 9
- Chief Chainlink
- Chimera
- Chisel
- Chloe
- Chrome
- Chromefist
- Chromeskull
- Chromewick
- Chromium
- Chromoly
- Cinder Heron
- Citadel
- Clampfinger
- Clara Version Three
- Claw Hammer
C, continued
- Clean Slate
- Cobalt
- Cobra
- Cochlea
- Cog
- Cohort 9
- Cold Boot
- Cold Marrow
- Coldhand
- Colonel Crankcase
- Colossus
- Composite
- Connor
- Conscript 208
- Copper Hound
- Copperlung
- Cordon
- Cormac 'Rebar' Doyle
- Cornea
- Corporal Clamp
- Cortex
- Corwin Ashby
- Cottus
- Count Zero-Sum
- Crank
- Crankshaft
- Cromartie
- Crosshair
- Crusader
- Custodian
- CX-19
- CX-21
- CX-33
- CX-4
- CX-9
- CY-07
- Cyber
- Cyberdemon
- Cyberman
- Cyborg
- Cyborg Superman
- Cyrax
- Cyrus Final Build
D: 41 names
- Dae-ho Yoon
- Daedalus
- Damascus
- Damper
- Daniel
- Daniyar-12
- Darth Maul
- Darth Vader
- David 8
- Davros
- Deadbolt
- Deadlift
- Deadlock
- Deathlok
- Declan Thorne
- Delphine 'Scalpel' Armand
- Delta-Six
- Dendrite
- Deprecated
- Dermal Plate
- Detent
- Dialtone
- Diego Marquez
- Dieselthroat
- Dmitri 'Camshaft' Lazarev
- Doc Splinter
- Doctor Octopus
- Dominic 'Redeye' Hale
- Dominic Hale
- Donor 16
- Double-Zero
- Dr. Gero
- Dragoon
- Dreadnought
- Drill Press
- Drive Knight
- Driveshaft
- Duchess Dial
- Duralumin
- Dusk Falcon
- DV-9 Halberd
E: 22 names
- Echo-Nine
- Echo-Seven
- Eighty-Eight
- Elena 'Warden' Voss
- Elena Voss
- Elias 2.0
- Elspeth 'Reticle' Graeme
- Ember Wolf
- Emeka Udeh
- Emil 'Gasket' Sandoval
- End of Life
- Endoframe
- Enforcer
- Enkidu
- Enzo 'Half-Day' Marchetti
- Erebus
- Esme-04
- EX-26
- Executor
- Exoframe
- Ezra 'Reboot' Cole
- Ezra Cole
F: 24 names
- Factory Reset
- Failover
- Farah Daneshvar
- Felix Mk IV
- Fenrir
- Ferrite
- Ferrum
- Firmware
- First Build
- Flatline
- Flesh and Alloy
- Flywheel
- FN-3
- Foreman Flux
- Forge
- Forty Percent Flesh
- Forty-One
- Four of Twelve
- Foxtrot-Five
- Frame 6
- Franky
- Freya Lindgren
- Fulcrum
- Fusetemper
G: 44 names
- Gamma-Five
- Ganglion
- GD-11 Falchion
- Gearbox
- Gearshin
- General Grievous
- Generation Five
- Generation Two
- Genji
- Genos
- Geryon
- Ghost in Chrome
- Ghost Nerve
- Ghostlimb
- Gideon Pryce
- Gilgamesh
- Gimbal
- Gladiator
- Glass Jackal
- Glass Liver
- Glasseye
- Golem
- Goliath
- Gorgon
- Governor
- Grace 'Bastion' Okafor
- Grace Okafor
- Graft
- Granny Gearshift
- Graphene
- Graphite
- Grenadier
- Greta 'Throttle' Eklund
- Grewishka
- Grey Fox
- Grey Matter
- Grey Shepherd
- Greyknuckle
- Guardian
- Gunmetal
- Gunther Hermann
- Gusset
- Gyges
- Gyro
H: 41 names
- Hacksaw
- Hafnium
- Halberdier
- Half-Measure
- Half-Tom
- Halfsteel
- Halfway Human
- Halfwire
- Halima 'Failsafe' Yusuf
- Hana Sato
- Harbinger
- Hard Reset
- Hardwire
- Heavystep
- Hector 'Sawbones' Arriaga
- Hedda Again
- Heimdall
- Helios
- Hephaestus
- Hexbolt
- Hingeback
- Hiroshi Endo
- HK-24
- HK-47
- HK-51
- HMN-02
- Hollow Kestrel
- Hollowchest
- Hoplite
- Horus
- Hotfix
- Hotsocket
- Hugh
- Hull 15
- Humbaba
- Hussar
- HX-2
- HX-5 Partisan
- Hydra
- Hydraulic
- Hyperion
I: 33 names
- Icarus
- Icheb
- Idris Halloran
- IG-11
- IG-2
- IG-72
- IG-88
- Imogen Slate
- Implant
- Impulse
- India-Seven
- Ines 'Tourniquet' Carvalho
- Infrared
- Ingrid Vasquez
- Injector
- Inquisitor
- Inspector Gadget
- Intake 8-A
- Iridium
- Iron
- Ironclad
- Ironfoot
- Ironhide
- Ironpulse
- Isabel 'Firmware' Fontaine
- Isabel Fontaine
- Ishikawa
- Iteration 12
- Iteration Four
- Ivan 'Piston' Petrov
- Ivan Petrov
- Ivo-21
- Ixion
J: 24 names
- Jackhammer
- Jackport
- Jaime Sommers
- Jaron Namir
- Jashugan
- Jasper Wolde
- Jax Briggs
- Jerry
- Jet Black
- Jet Link
- Jetstream Sam
- JN-5
- JN-8 Glaive
- Joe Shimamura
- Johnny Silverhand
- Jomo 'Heatsink' Kariuki
- Jonas Mk II
- Josefina Beta
- Judge Jumper
- Juggernaut
- Juliett-One
- Jun 'Sentinel' Park
- Jun Park
- Junkelbow
K: 24 names
- Kai 'Servo' Nakamura
- Kai Nakamura
- Kane
- Kano
- Kara
- Katya 'Nickel' Morozova
- Keloid
- Kenji Morita
- Kevlar
- Kid Carburetor
- Killswitch
- Kilo-Three
- Kira-00
- Kofi 'Girder' Mensah
- Kraken
- Kronos
- Kuro-chan
- Kuze
- Kwame 'Colossus' Asante
- Kwame Asante
- KX-11
- KX-14
- KX-2
- KX-27
L: 40 names
- Lady Deathstrike
- Lady Lathe
- Lambda-Two
- Lan Fan
- Laserwink
- Last of Six
- Last Prototype
- Latency
- Lattice Femur
- Lazarus
- Lead Sparrow
- Leadheel
- Lefthook
- Legate
- Legionnaire
- Leilani 'Optic' Kahale
- Lena Hoffmann
- Lensgaze
- Leon 'Torque' Brandt
- Leon Brandt
- Leviathan
- Liesel Brauer
- Lieutenant Latch
- Lima-Six
- Lin-88
- Linebreaker
- Little Dynamo
- LK-22
- LK-3 Trebuchet
- Lobot
- Locutus
- Long Winter
- Longreach
- Looseplate
- Lord Lugnut
- Lorenzo 'Clutch' Bianchi
- Low-Light
- Lucan Mercer
- Lukas Unit Six
- Luther
M: 74 names
- Madame Mercury
- Magnetpalm
- Major Overhaul
- Malachi 'Bonesaw' Tate
- Mama Diesel
- Man
- Mandrel
- Manganese
- Manticore
- Mara-7
- Marcus 'Ironhide' Steele
- Marcus Steele
- Marcus Wright
- Marisol Trevino
- Mark I
- Mark II
- Mark III
- Mark IV
- Mark IX
- Mark L
- Mark V
- Mark VII
- Mark X
- Mark XII
- Mark XLII
- Markus
- Marshal
- Matteo Lang
- Meat and Wire
- Meatgrinder
- Medulla
- Mega Man X
- Metal Knight
- Metallo
- Mike-Eleven
- Mimir
- Minder
M, continued
- Mindlink
- Minotaur
- Mira 'Suture' Sokolova
- Mira Sokolova
- Mirae 'Shutter' Seo
- Mister Clank
- Mistral
- Misty Knight
- MK-1 Prototype
- MK-12 Warden
- MK-13 Revenant
- MK-15 Aegis
- MK-20 Sovereign
- MK-25 Ravager
- MK-3 Warlord
- MK-5 Reaper
- MK-7 Sentinel
- MK-8 Praetorian
- MK-9 Vanguard
- Model 101
- Model 12
- Model 30
- Model 9
- Model K
- Model X
- Model Z
- Monofilament
- Monsoon
- More Machine
- Mostly Marta
- Mostly Metal
- Motoko Kusanagi
- Motorhand
- Muscle Weave
- Myelin
- Myofiber
- Myrmidon
N: 35 names
- Nadia 'Aegis' Reyes
- Nadia Reyes
- Nailgun
- Nasir Farouk
- Nathan Spencer
- Nearly Ned
- Nebula
- Nell 'Recall' Whitaker
- Nemesis
- Neonvein
- Nerve and Steel
- Neural Lace
- Neural Port
- Neuron
- Ngozi 'Second Wind' Adeyemi
- Nia 3.5
- Nickel
- Nickelknee
- Nike
- Nikolai 'Steeljaw' Orlov
- Nikolai Orlov
- Nine-Nine
- Nineteen
- Niobium
- Noor Qabbani
- North
- November-Three
- Nuada
- Nuke
- Nurse Needle
- NX-01
- NX-08
- NX-11
- NX-19
- Nyx
O: 27 names
- Obsidian
- Oddeye
- Odessa Whitlock
- Odin
- Oilblood
- Old Hal Mk III
- Old Voltage
- OM-2
- OMAC
- Omar Rashid
- Omega-One
- One of Three
- Onyx
- Oona 'Wetware' Gallagher
- Open Wound
- Operative 6
- Optic
- Oscar-Eight
- Osiris
- Osmium
- Otto Falkner
- Otto Rebuilt
- Out of Warranty
- Overclock
- Override
- Overseer
- Overtkill
P: 54 names
- Pacemaker
- Paladin
- Pale Mantis
- Palladium
- Paloma Esquivel
- Papa Pneumatic
- Papa-Five
- Parapet
- Parity
- Part-Time Pete
- Patch
- Patchwork
- Patient Zero-Four
- Pawl
- Paz
- Peacekeeper
- Pelops
- Petra 'Hotfix' Novotny
- Phalanx
- Phantom Pain
- Piano-Wire Wrist
- Picket
- Pile Driver
- Pinion
- Pipe Wrench
- Piston
- Plasma Cutter
- Platform 11
- Platinum
- Plexus
- Polymer
- Polyphemus
- Praetor
- Praetorian
- Prefect
- Private Sparkplug
- Priya 'Actuator' Desai
- Priya Desai
- Professor Pinhole
- Prometheus
- Prosthetic
- Proto Man
- Prototype Eleven
- Prototype Nine
- Prototype Omega
- Prototype One
- Prototype Seven
- Prototype Six
- Prototype Zero
- PRX-6
- Pushrod
- PV-1 Ballista
- PV-8
- Pyunma
Q: 6 names
- QL-9
- QR-2 Arbalest
- QR-40
- Quebec-Zero
- Quiet Furnace
- Quietgear
R: 51 names
- Rafael Ibarra
- Raiden
- Railspike
- Ralph
- Rampart
- Rangefinder
- Rashad 'Winch' Okonkwo
- Ratchet
- Ravager
- Reaper
- Rearguard
- Reboot
- Rebuild
- Recall
- Receptor
- Recruit 52
- Red Loom
- Redeye
- Redoubt
- Reflex
- Regulator
- Relay
- Renata Kowalczyk
- Rented Skin
- Reticle
- Retina
- Retrofit
- REV-4
- Rev-9
- Revenant
- Revision 7
- Revision C
- Rhenium
- Rhys 'Delta-Six' Calloway
- Rhys Calloway
- Rivet
- RK800
- RK900
- RoboCop
- Robotman
- Rollback
- Romeo-Twelve
- Rosalind Achebe
- Royce
- Rust Orchid
- Rustjaw
- Rustlung
- Ruth Revised
- RX-12
- RX-78
- RX-93
S: 108 names
- Safe Mode
- Saito
- Salt Viper
- Salvage
- Samuel 'Graft' Kade
- Samuel Kade
- Sandayu Oda
- Santiago 'Deadlock' Paredes
- Sasha 'Coldhand' Volkov
- Sasha Volkov
- Sawbones
- SB-11
- SB-9
- Scalpel
- Scar
- Scrap
- Scrapshoulder
- Second Dawn
- Second Sasha
- Second Spine
- Sekhmet
- Sektor
- Seneschal
- Sentinel
- Sentry
- Sergeant Hex
- Series 1000
- Series 4
- Series 600
- Series 800
- Series 900
- Servo
- Servomotor
- Seven of Nine
- Shell 4
- Shieldbearer
- Shu-Fen Zhao
- Shunt
- Shutter
- Sierra-Two
- Sigma
- Sigma-Four
- Silas Renner
- Silent Quarry
- Silvermane
- Simone Refit
- Sinew
- Sister Signal
- Sisyphus
- Six of Ten
- Sixty Percent
- Sixty-One
- Skirmisher
- Skull Socket
S, continued
- Slagtooth
- Smoke
- Socketbrow
- Softreset
- Sojourn
- Solder
- Solderlip
- Soledad Quintero
- Solenoid
- Solveig 'Flatline' Nygaard
- Sootbreath
- Sovereign
- Spare Heart
- Sparkeye
- Spartan
- Specimen 5
- Spinal Jack
- Splice
- Splint
- Springankle
- Sprocket
- Standard-Bearer
- Standby
- Staple
- Staticvoice
- Steel
- Steelgrip
- Steelheart
- Steeljaw
- Steelspine
- Stent
- Steve Austin
- Still Human
- Stitch
- Stockade
- Stone Lantern
- Stronghold
- Strut
- Subdermal
- Subject 17
- Subject 23
- Subject 41
- Subject 99
- Subject Alpha
- Subject Delta
- Subject Omega
- Subject Zero
- Sundowner
- Sunniva Dahl
- Suture
- SV-51
- Switchblink
- Synapse
- Synthskin
T: 61 names
- T-1000
- T-3000
- T-5000
- T-800
- T-X
- Takeshi Hongo
- Talos
- Tango-Four
- Tantalum
- Tapewrist
- Tariq Belhadj
- Tavita 'Breakwater' Leota
- Telemetry
- Templar
- Template B
- Tendon
- Tessa Varga
- Test Bed 2
- Thalamus
- Thanatos
- Thandiwe Radebe
- Theo Lindqvist
- Theta-Nine
- Thinwire
- Third Lung
- Third of Five
- Thirteen
- Thirty-Six
- Thorn Ledger
- Throttle
T, continued
- Tightwire
- Tin Ribs
- Tin Snips
- Tinlung
- Titan
- Titanium
- Tobias 'Ballast' Wexler
- Tomas 'Rivet' Reinhardt
- Tomas Reinhardt
- Tomoko-9
- Torque
- Tourniquet
- TR-19
- TR-33
- TR-8
- TR-9
- Transistor
- Transplant
- Triage
- Trial 18
- Triborg
- Tripwire
- Trunnion
- Tungsten
- Turbine
- Twenty-Two
- Twice-Built Tamsin
- Twinheart
- Two of Nine
- Typhon
- Tyr
U: 16 names
- UL-4
- UL-7 Onager
- Uncle Rust
- Uniform-Two
- Unit 01
- Unit 101
- Unit 1138
- Unit 117
- Unit 13
- Unit 303
- Unit 44
- Unit 616
- Unit 7
- Unit 88
- Upgrade
- Uplink
V: 20 names
- Vagus
- Valkyrie
- Vanadium
- Vanguard
- Vanquisher
- Variant D
- Veiled Oracle
- Version 3.1
- Victor Stone
- Victor-Nine
- Viktor 'Pig Iron' Dragan
- Vile
- Viola Castellanos
- Voltjaw
- Volunteer 3
- Vulcan
- VX-12
- VX-27
- VX-3
- VX-44
W: 24 names
- Walt Reassembled
- Walter
- Ward 5-B
- Warden
- Warpath
- Watchman
- Weld
- Wendell Reissued
- Wetware
- Whiskey-Four
- Whitenoise
- Wilhelm
- Winch
- Winter Anvil
- Winter Soldier
- Wire Lark
- Wired Twitch
- Wirehead
- Wirejaw
- Wiresinew
- WR-13
- WR-4 Culverin
- Wren 'Killswitch' Abara
- Wrenchhand
X: 5 names
- Ximena Duarte
- Xiu 'Parity' Feng
- XK-10
- XK-6 Mangonel
- Xray-Seven
Y: 5 names
- Yankee-Three
- Yara Sabbagh
- YS-7
- Yuki 'Zero-One' Tanaka
- Yuki Tanaka