DAO Name Generator

Names for DAOs, web3 guilds and onchain collectives

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Generate names for a decentralized autonomous organization or any web3 community. The list mixes classic names ending in DAO, such as Stone Soup DAO and Tool Library DAO, with guilds, collectives and protocol-style names like Wayfinders Guild and Open Quorum Protocol, plus governance wordplay such as Temperature Check.

About DAO names

A DAO, short for decentralized autonomous organization, is a group that coordinates through shared rules and member votes, usually recorded on a blockchain. Its name works differently from a company name. It has to look right as a Discord server, a forum header and a line in a proposal, and it should tell a newcomer what the group is for. That is why so many follow one simple convention: a plain, memorable word or phrase followed by DAO, written either as a separate word or fused onto the end.

This list covers that convention and the alternatives. There are evocative nouns plus DAO (Stone Soup DAO, Barn Raising DAO), guild and order names for working groups, collectives, co-ops and commons, protocol and network names, purpose-led names for grants, science, art, local and gaming communities, governance vocabulary such as Temperature Check and Rough Consensus Club, names borrowed from historic assemblies like Folkmoot and Ekklesia Onchain, short coined brandables, and a run of jokes and DAO puns for groups that do not take themselves too seriously.

Choose a name that describes the community's purpose, not a promise about outcomes. A name is also not a legal structure: how a DAO is organized and which rules apply depend on where its members live, so take proper advice before money is involved.

How to choose DAO names

Say what the group does. Purpose-led names such as Peer Review DAO or Community Orchard DAO recruit the right contributors because nobody has to read a whitepaper to understand them.
Decide whether DAO belongs in the name at all. It is instantly clear today, but if the group may later become a co-op, a nonprofit or a company, a name like Doorstep Collective or Wayfinders Guild survives the change.
Test the short form. The name will be shortened to a three to five letter tag in chats, forums and governance dashboards, so write out the abbreviation and make sure it does not spell something awkward or match a project that already exists.
Leave out hype words and anything that sounds like a promise about money. They date quickly, put off serious contributors and can cause trouble later.
Search before you settle. Look the name up with and without DAO on social platforms, Discord, GitHub and governance forums, because two communities with near-identical names confuse voters and delegates.

Frequently asked questions

Does a DAO name have to end in DAO?

No. The suffix is a convention, not a rule, and plenty of groups call themselves a guild, collective, commons or protocol instead. The list includes both kinds, from Longtable DAO and Tidepool DAO to Ledger Guild and Kindred Commons. Use the suffix when you want the structure to be obvious, and drop it when the purpose matters more than the mechanism.

What are some good DAO name ideas from this list?

For a serious community, try Headwaters DAO, Stewardship Protocol or Circle of Stewards. For a working group, Auditors Guild or Docs Writers Guild says exactly who belongs. If the group has a sense of humor, Cat Herders DAO, Seize the DAO and Quorum Not Reached are all in the list.

Is this generator for Daoist or Taoist names?

No. This page reads DAO as decentralized autonomous organization, the web3 kind of community. If you are looking for names from the Daoist tradition, use the Taoist Name Generator linked in the related generators.

Can we simply call our group The DAO?

It is better not to. The DAO was the name of a widely known Ethereum project launched in 2016, so the bare phrase still points to it in search results and in crypto history. Put a distinctive word in front, as in Cairn DAO or Saltmarsh DAO, and the name becomes yours.

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All 500 DAO 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: 20 names

Abstain Gang
Accord Network
Accordia
Ad Hoc Assembly
All in Favor Say gm
Alliance of Open Builders
Allthing Collective
Anon Knitting Circle
Ant Hill Assembly
Anvil DAO
Any DAO Now
Arcade Cabinet DAO
Archipelago DAO
Archive Fever DAO
Assembly Hall Labs
Assembly of Keys
Athenaeum Collective
Audit Bench DAO
Auditors Guild
Ayes Have It

B: 20 names

B-Side Collectors DAO
Backyard Commons
Ballast Protocol
Ballot Protocol
Ballotbox
Barn Raising DAO
Beaconfire DAO
Bench Science DAO
Big Tent DAO
Bike Lane DAO
Bikeshed DAO
Block Party DAO
Blueprint DAO
Bonfire Network
Book Swap DAO
Boule Circle
Bounty Board Guild
Braid Protocol
Breakwater DAO
Bylaw and Order

C: 55 names

Cairn DAO
Call and Response Network
Call It a DAO
Campfire DAO
Canopy DAO
Cantons United
Capybara Council
Caravan DAO
Cartographers of the Commons
Cat Herders DAO
Charter Protocol
Charterly
Chess Park DAO
Ciao DAO
Circle of Seven Keys
Circle of Stewards
Citizen Science DAO
Civitas Commons
Clanhall
Clear Ledger Commons
Coalesce
Cohesion Works
Cohort Nine
Collectiva
Committee of the Whole Internet
Common Ground Protocol
Common Pot Co-op

C, continued

Common Thread DAO
Commongood
Commonplace DAO
Commonroot Protocol
Commonry
Commons Grants Assembly
Commonweal
Commune of the Public Record
Community Garden DAO
Community Mods DAO
Community Orchard DAO
Company of Builders
Compass Rose DAO
Conclave of Keys
Concordat
Concordia Assembly
Confluence DAO
Consensus Garden Labs
Contract Drafters DAO
Conviction Circle
Coopwise
Corner Store DAO
Cornerstone DAO
Couch Co-op DAO
Council of Signers
Council of Small Things
Counterpoint DAO
Crossroads DAO

D: 22 names

Dad Jokes DAO
DAO by DAO
DAO One
DAO or Never
DAO to Earth
DAO Tripper
DAO Wow
DAObreak Collective
DAOdreamers
DAOlight Hours
DAOntown
Delegate My Chores DAO
Delegates Lounge
Demos Collective
Design Desk DAO
Docs First Club
Docs for All DAO
Docs Writers Guild
Dog DAO Afternoon
Dog Park DAO
Doorstep Collective
Driftwood DAO

E: 6 names

Ekklesia Onchain
Ember Circle DAO
Ensemble DAO
Equal Footing Collective
Equalis
Estuary DAO

F: 27 names

Fair Share Co-op
Farmers Market DAO
Federation of Small Chains
Fellowship of the Fork
Field DAO
Field Station DAO
Film Club DAO
Flat Table
Flatarchy
Flockwise
Floor Is Open
Flotilla DAO
Folkmoot
Footnotes DAO
Forgot My Seed Phrase Club
Fork Friendly
Forkwell
Forum Lurkers Union
Forum of the Many
Four of Seven Signers
Foxglove DAO
Free City League
Freelance Bench DAO
Frens and Forks
Friendly Amendment
Frog Pond Assembly
Front Porch DAO

G: 21 names

Gallery Wall DAO
Game Masters DAO
Gas Fee Support Group
Gathering Point Labs
Gatherwell Protocol
Generative Garden DAO
Glasshouse Collective
gm Club DAO
Good DAO Sunshine
Good Neighbor DAO
Goodfork
Govgarden
Gremlin Town Hall
Groundhog DAO
Groundswell DAO
Group Chat With a Treasury
Guild of First Principles
Guild of Good Forks
Guild of Kind Strangers
Guild of Steady Hands
Guildhall Assembly

H: 16 names

Hackers Hearth Guild
Halyard DAO
Handclasp Protocol
Hashwrights Lodge
Headwaters DAO
Hearth Collective
Hearthside DAO
Helm Network
Herdwise
Here and DAO
Hivemind Commons
Hivewright
Holdfast
Holy DAO
Homestead Protocol
How Now DAO

I: 3 names

Indie Press DAO
Inglenook Protocol
Isonomia

J: 1 name

Just a Group Chat DAO

K: 11 names

Kelp Forest DAO
Keyholders Circle
Kindling Labs
Kindred Commons
Kinfolk Network
Kinhall
Kinwork
Kitchen Table DAO
Kith
Know-DAO
Kollektiv Nord

L: 22 names

Lamp Post Society
Lanternfish DAO
Late to the Vote
Lattice Commons Protocol
Lazy Consensus League
Leaderless League
League of Delegates
League of Loose Threads
Ledger Guild
Library Card DAO
Lighthouse Keepers Network
Liner Notes DAO
Little Republic
Lodestone DAO
Lodge of Late Builders
Long Haul DAO
Longform DAO
Longhouse Collective
Longtable DAO
Loot Table DAO
Lorekeepers Guild
Lowercase Collective

M: 27 names

Made My DAO
Main Street DAO
Maintainers DAO
Makerspace DAO
Many Hands Union
Many Rivers DAO
Manyvoice
Market Square DAO
Meadowlark DAO
Meeting Could Be a Vote
Meetinghouse Protocol
Meme Smiths Guild
Meow DAO
Mesh Assembly Network
Meshwork
Microgrant Mondays
Minutes Not Taken
Mod Makers DAO
Moiety
Moot Hall
Mosaic DAO
Motion Carried
Multisig and Snacks
Murmuration DAO
Mutual Aid Protocol
Mutualis
Mutuo

N: 12 names

Neighbor Node Co-op
New Agora Assembly
New Business
New Hanse League
Newsroom DAO
Night School DAO
Night Shift Guild
Nightwatch Guild
Noboss Collective
Node Runners Guild
Northlight DAO
Nothing to See Here DAO

O: 29 names

Octet DAO
Old Business Society
Omnia
Onboarding Guild
Onchain Artists Collective
Onchain Opera DAO
One DAO at a Time
One More Proposal
Open Books Co-op
Open Charter
Open Door DAO
Open Floor Protocol
Open Hands Collective
Open Harbor Network
Open Lab Notebook DAO
Open Museum DAO
Open Orchard DAO
Open Quorum Protocol
Open Source Stipend DAO
Open Syllabus DAO
Open Treasury Commons
Openhelm
Ops Crew DAO
Optimistic Assembly
Oracle Keepers Guild
Order of the Long Table
Order of the Open Ledger
Ostrakon Club
Otter Consensus

P: 35 names

Packwell
Paint the Bikeshed
Patchwork DAO
Pathfinder Protocol
Patron Circle DAO
Peer Review DAO
Peerhall
Permissionless Picnic Club
Pickup Game DAO
Pineapple Topping DAO
Pixel Masons Guild
Pixel Patron DAO
Pizza Day Society
Plain Text Society
Plebiscite Club
Plural Labs
Pluralis
Pnyx Onchain
Pocket Republic
Points of Order
Polis Protocol
Polity
Pollinator DAO
Polycentric Labs
Polyphony DAO
Poster Wall DAO
Potluck DAO
Potters Wheel DAO
Preprint Club DAO
Proposal Forty-Two
Proposal Season
Proxy Vote Club
Public Goods Commons
Public Square Collective
Puffin Burrow DAO

Q: 7 names

Quadratic Commons
Quadratic Quorum
Quilting Bee DAO
Quintet Signers
Quorum Call
Quorum Not Reached
Quorum Pending Club

R: 22 names

Ragequit Society
Rainy DAO Club
Reading Room DAO
Reef Survey DAO
Relay Commons Network
Republic of Keys
Res Publica Labs
Research Desk DAO
Respawn DAO
Retro Grants Circle
Rewilding DAO
Ridgeline DAO
Rivermouth Co-op
Roll Call Onchain
Rootwork DAO
Rough Consensus Club
Round Table Commons
Roundhouse DAO
Roundtable Labs
Rubber Duck Council
Rudder Protocol
Run Club DAO

S: 62 names

Saltmarsh DAO
Save Point DAO
Scaffold DAO
Second Shift Collective
Second the Motion Squad
Second Wind DAO
Seed Library DAO
Seedbed Grants DAO
Seedsavers Collective
Seize the DAO
Senate of Signers
Server Dwellers DAO
Shared Ledger Co-op
Shared Table Network
Shepherds of Cats
Shipwrights Guild
Show of Hands
Side Quest DAO
Signal Society
Signal Tower Network
Signal Vote
Signalfire DAO
Signalry
Signers Seven
Simple Majority
Sisterhood of Signers
Skatepark DAO
Sleepy Signers
Slow Burn DAO
Slow Web Collective
Small Grants Circle

S, continued

Small Hours DAO
Snack Treasury DAO
Soft Consensus
Soil Commons DAO
Solar Neighbors DAO
Solidaire
Solidarity Works
Solidity Smiths Guild
Songwriters Round DAO
Sortition Society
Speedrun Commons
Standing Committee Zero
Starling Flock DAO
Stepping Stone Collective
Steward Labs
Steward Rotation
Stewardly
Stewards Guild
Stewardship Protocol
Stoa Circle
Stone Soup DAO
Street Mural DAO
Study Hall DAO
Subsidiarity Labs
Sunday Governance Club
Sunday League DAO
Supermajority Club
Supper Club DAO
Supporters Terrace DAO
Surf Break DAO
Switchback DAO

T: 55 names

Table the Motion
Tabletop Treasury DAO
Take a DAO
Tandem Works
Tao of DAO
Tapestry Network
Telescope Time DAO
Temperature Check
The Amicable Fork
The Blocksmiths
The Cipher Guild
The Commons Table
The Contract Masons
The Delegation
The Evergreen Assembly
The Forkable Collective
The Friendly Fork Society
The Gas Lamp League
The Keysmiths
The Lyceum Circle
The Merkle Guild
The Multisig Society
The Open Roster
The Proofreaders Union
The Proposal Club
The Quiet Quorum
The Ratifiers

T, continued

The Second Motion
The Steering Circle
The Tokenwrights
The Unhurried Assembly
This Could Have Been a Proposal
Thousand Hands DAO
Three of Five
Tidepool DAO
Tiller Collective
Timelock Society
Tinderbox DAO
Togetherly
Tokenholders Assembly
Too Many Cooks DAO
Tool Library DAO
Touch Grass DAO
Town Hall DAO
Townsquare Labs
Trail Crew DAO
Trailhead DAO
Trailmark Protocol
Translators Guild
Treasury Stewards
Tree Line DAO
Trellis DAO
Tribune Assembly
True North DAO
Two Thirds Majority

U: 4 names

Unanimous Consent
Understory DAO
Union of Independent Nodes
Unison

V: 7 names

Village Green DAO
Vinyl Vault DAO
Voice Vote
Vote Yes on Snacks
Voter Apathy Anonymous
Votes and Notes
Votewell

W: 14 names

Watershed Stewards DAO
Wayfarer DAO
Wayfinders Guild
Waymark Network
Waypoint DAO
Weave Protocol
Wen Governance
Wen Minutes
What a DAO
Wildflower Commons
Windrose DAO
Witan Council
Workbench DAO
Working Group Seven

Y: 1 name

Yak Shavers DAO

Z: 1 name

Zine Machine DAO