Device Name Generator

"Device name" means two different things, and this list covers both. The first is the name your phone, laptop, tablet, headphones, or router broadcasts over Bluetooth, AirDrop, Find My, and your home network. Those names are seen by friends, coworkers, and strangers in coffee shops, so people either keep them practical (Brett's MacBook Pro) or make them a tiny joke: "Battery at 3%," "Definitely Not Stolen," "Please Return to Owner." The second meaning is a product name for hardware you're building, where the conventions come from companies like Apple, Sonos, Google, and Nothing, which favor short, evocative single words (Nest, Pixel, Beam, Halo, Ember, Pebble) rather than model numbers.

System administrators and hobbyists have their own long-running tradition of naming machines by theme so that a whole fleet stays coherent: Greek and Norse gods, planets and moons, space probes, birds of prey, trees, spices, or coffee drinks. Picking a theme means every new device gets a name instantly, and you can tell at a glance whether "Ganymede" is a server or a Raspberry Pi. It's also the source of some real-world product names; Merlin, Falcon, and Raptor are all rocket engines named this way.

Below you'll find punny personal-device names, sysadmin-style theme sets, and clean product-line words you can put on a box.