Fisherman Name Generator

Weathered names for fishermen and fishing villages

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Generate fisherman names with the feel of real fishing communities, from New England lobstermen and Cornish trawlermen to Norwegian, Portuguese, and Japanese fishing families, plus dockside nicknames like Salty Pete and Old Man Halloran. Suited to coastal fiction, fishing games, and seaside NPCs.

About fisherman names

Real fishermen do not have names like 'Wave Rider Wilson'; they have the names of the families who have fished the same waters for generations. Down East Maine and Cape Cod are full of Nickersons, Beals, Alleys, Doanes, and Eldredges, many still carrying biblical first names like Ezra, Amos, Obed, and Hosea. Scottish fishing towns produce Buchans, Watts, and Ritchies; Cornwall gives you Pascoe, Penrose, and Nancarrow; the west of Ireland has O'Malleys and Fahertys. Norway's coast is Hansens, Eriksens, and Solheims, Iceland uses patronymics like Guðmundsson, and Portuguese, Galician, Sicilian, Greek, Japanese, Filipino, Polynesian, and West African fishing cultures each have their own recognizable surnames.

On top of the family name comes the dockside nickname. Small harbors have too many men with the same names, so fishermen become Old Man Halloran, Cap'n Elmer, Salty Sam, Red Rab, Portugee Manny, or Big Sig. Nicknames also come from the boat or the catch (Trawler Tom, Longline Lars, Kipper Kit) and from mishaps (Peg-Leg Percy, Rope-Burn Rufus).

The names below combine authentic regional surnames with the nickname styles you actually hear on a wharf, so a fishing-village cast can feel lived-in whether it is set in Gloucester, Peterhead, Lofoten, or a fantasy port. The list also reaches Newfoundland, the Outer Banks, Alaska, Shetland, Brittany, the Adriatic, India, and Latin America.

How to choose fisherman names

  • Pick a region first, then keep surnames consistent: a Maine harbor of Beals and Nickersons, a Cornish one of Pascoes and Trewins, a Norwegian one of Hansens and Solheims.
  • Give older fishermen biblical or old-fashioned first names (Ezra, Obed, Alton, Delbert) and younger crew plainer modern names to show generations on the same boat.
  • Nicknames should point to something concrete: a body, a boat, a catch, an origin, or an accident. Fishermen rarely get nicknamed after weather or waves.
  • Use 'Cap'n' before a first name for a skipper who owns his boat, and 'Old Man' plus surname for the retired patriarch on the wharf.
  • For a fantasy port, choose one real culture's naming pattern and stick to it; borrowing from Cornish or Icelandic names is a shortcut to authenticity.

Frequently asked questions

What are typical old fisherman names?

In New England and Atlantic Canada, biblical first names with regional surnames are the classic pattern: Ezra Hallett, Obed Snow, Jonah Beal. In Britain, look to Scottish (Hamish Buchan), Cornish (Jenkyn Pascoe), and Irish (Padraig O'Malley) fishing families; in Scandinavia, Ola Hansen or Sigurd Bakke.

Why do fishermen have so many nicknames?

Fishing communities are small and names repeat, so nicknames tell people apart: Big Sig and Little Leif, Old Man Nickerson and his grandson. They also mark origins (Portugee Manny, Dutch Klaas), boats or gear (Longline Lars), and memorable incidents (Peg-Leg Percy).

Are these good names for a captain in a fishing game or novel?

Yes. Use 'Cap'n' or 'Captain' plus a regional name for a boat owner (Cap'n Ike Sorensen), and give the crew nicknames. If you also need a name for the vessel, the Boat Name Generator linked below is the natural next step.

Can I use these names commercially?

Yes. They are combinations of real given names and regional surnames with invented nicknames and are free to use in books, games, and other projects. As always, avoid naming a character after a real, identifiable person in the community you are depicting.

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A: 70 names

  • Abbi Jógvan
  • Abe Snook
  • Abel Pillar
  • Abílio Trocado
  • Abner Crowell
  • Adam Shiel
  • Afi Bjarni
  • Afonso Barreto
  • Åge Larsen
  • Agnelo D'Souza
  • Ahmed Sayyad
  • Ahmed Sayyid
  • Ahmet Karadeniz
  • Aitona Txomin
  • Åke Lindqvist
  • Alasdair MacIsaac
  • Albano Vieira
  • Alcide Hebert
  • Alcide Thibodeaux
  • Alden Philbrook
  • Alec Reid
  • Alec Sutherland
  • Alfio Randazzo
  • Ali Rıza Dalgıç
  • Ali Sayyad
  • Alphée d'Entremont
  • Alpheus Wass
  • Alton Pettegrow
  • Amadou Ndiaye
  • Amasa Sawyer
  • Ambrose Coyne
  • Ambrose Pengelly
  • Ambrosio Loureiro
  • Amos Pettengill
  • Anastasio Canul

A, continued

  • Anders Bloch
  • Andrew Blackhall
  • Andro Skansie
  • Angus John MacPhail
  • Angus MacLeod
  • Aniello Scotto
  • Ansel Bridges
  • Anselmo Freire
  • Ansis Zvejnieks
  • Ante Marincovich
  • Antoine Verdin
  • Antonino Marzano
  • Antony Xavier
  • Archie Sim
  • Ari Magnússon
  • Aristide Hebert
  • Arlindo Pacheco
  • Arne Otness
  • Arnfinn Myklebust
  • Arvid Sivertson
  • Arvo Niemi
  • Asa Perkins
  • Asbjørn Pedersen
  • Ásgeir Halldórsson
  • Aslak Rønning
  • Ato Ekumfi
  • Aubrey Mosher
  • Augustyn Budzisz
  • Auld Geordie Flett
  • Auld Lowrie Mouat
  • Auld Wullie Mair
  • Aurèle Chiasson
  • Aurélio Pescada
  • Axel Hendrickson
  • Azariah Budgell

B: 55 names

  • Babacar Mbengue
  • Babu Juma
  • Baldassare Giacalone
  • Baldur Kristinsson
  • Ballard Bernt Aadland
  • Bangka Dodong Villarin
  • Banker Basil Knickle
  • Barba Šime
  • Barba Stratis
  • Barnabas Jelbert
  • Barnabas Kelsey
  • Barnacle Bert Ames
  • Bart Robson
  • Bartley Faherty
  • Barzillai Paine
  • Basil Risser
  • Baxter Fudge
  • Bayman Stuart Bennett
  • Beau Thibodeaux
  • Belmiro Sardinha
  • Beñat Etcheverry
  • Benigno Sabatino
  • Bennett Middleton
  • Bepi Boscolo
  • Bernt Haugen
  • Bertie Pottinger
  • Bertie Tait

B, continued

  • Bertram Knowles
  • Bestefar Trygve
  • Beto Murillo
  • Big Amos Alley
  • Big Ola Solheim
  • Big Sig Bakke
  • Bilge Ben Trundy
  • Billa Craske
  • Bittor Iturbe
  • Bjarni Guðmundsson
  • Bjørn Solheim
  • Blackie Byrne
  • Bloater Bennett Cooper
  • Bluefin Bjarni
  • Bluenose Byron Tanner
  • Bosun Barney Alley
  • Bosun Bert Bunker
  • Bosun Bill Hatch
  • Botter Hendrik Kramer
  • Boudreaux Landry
  • Bowpicker Axel Mattson
  • Bradford Lunt
  • Bragozzo Gino Tiozzo
  • Brais Castiñeira
  • Bram Kessell
  • Brendan Lavelle
  • Butterfly Fleet Toivo Salmi
  • Byron Schnare

C: 86 names

  • Cadan Trembath
  • Caique Mitsos Vasilakis
  • Caleb Alley
  • Callum Watt
  • Calogero Esposito
  • Calum Iain MacInnes
  • Calum MacAskill
  • Camille Comeau
  • Canoe-Man Kweku Aidoo
  • Cap'n Alden Philbrook
  • Cap'n Arvo Lahti
  • Cap'n Delbert Haskins
  • Cap'n Elmer Kittredge
  • Cap'n Ike Sorensen
  • Cap'n Jago Trewin
  • Cap'n Lemuel Mosher
  • Cap'n Leonce Pitre
  • Cap'n Merle Sprague
  • Cap'n Nate Look
  • Cap'n Obadiah Hussey
  • Cap'n Ola Berg
  • Cap'n Purnell Dize
  • Cap'n Roy Beckwith
  • Cap'n Sverre Enge
  • Cap'n Thurston Daniels
  • Cap'n Titus Zinck
  • Cap'n Vito Marino
  • Capelin Cecil Tucker

C, continued

  • Captain Hedley Squires
  • Captain Jake Sullivan
  • Captain Tomás O'Sullivan
  • Careful Calvin Lupton
  • Carlo Frontiero
  • Cathal Kilbane
  • Cecil Hiscock
  • Ċensu Farrugia
  • Cheikh Ndiaye
  • Chen Jin-shui
  • Ches Durdle
  • Chesapeake Charlie Tawes
  • Chester Wass
  • Choi Bada
  • Chowder Seth Atwood
  • Chum Charlie Bunker
  • Chum Chuck Alley
  • Cícero dos Santos
  • Ciro Marino
  • Clam Clem Nickerson
  • Clarence Rideout
  • Clayton Dize
  • Clébert Trahan
  • Clem Legassick
  • Cletus Guidry
  • Clifton Thurlow
  • Clovis Cheramie
  • Coble Dick Storr
  • Cockle Eifion Rees

C, continued

  • Cod-Splitter Ches Penney
  • Codfish Cyrus Look
  • Coffee Onni Koskela
  • Colby Merchant
  • Colm Sweeney
  • Colman Folan
  • Conal Gallagher
  • Conch Cecil Knowles
  • Coracle Twm Griffiths
  • Corentin Le Berre
  • Corliss Kelley
  • Cormac Ó Sé
  • Cornelis Kuiper
  • Cornelius Trelawney
  • Cosimo Cataldo
  • Crab Catcher Chris Turner
  • Crab-Pot Teddy Farrow
  • Crabber Chris Wass
  • Crabber Jowan Hicks
  • Crawfish Clébert Naquin
  • Creel Erlend Harcus
  • Creel-Boat Kenny John MacKinnon
  • Crisanto Dalisay
  • Curly Carl Titus
  • Currach Mikey Flaherty
  • Curro Gallardo
  • Custódio Rosa
  • Cuthbert Ebanks
  • Cyrus Dyer

D: 44 names

  • Dai Beynon
  • Daideó Páidí
  • Dallas Daniels
  • Dana Pettegrow
  • Dara Conneely
  • Davie Ritchie
  • Davy Chambers
  • Deacon Peleg Gardner
  • Deckhand Danny Rourke
  • Delmont Wass
  • Delroy Bodden
  • Denzil Tregear
  • Denzil Trewin
  • Deolindo Freitas
  • Désiré Surette
  • Dewey Scarborough
  • Dhaku Tandel
  • Dhow Khamis Haji
  • Diarmuid O'Driscoll
  • Dick Leadley
  • Dickon Pezzack
  • Digory Nancarrow

D, continued

  • Dimitri Psaras
  • Dinko Bujacich
  • Dirk Haring
  • Dockside Davie Cardno
  • Dod Stephen
  • Doddie Whyte
  • Dogger Bank Dick Cappleman
  • Donal Kavanagh
  • Donald John MacSween
  • Dorna Lois Otero
  • Doryman Dan Corkum
  • Dougald Gillis
  • Dowsey Pegg
  • Dragger Dan Nickerson
  • Dragger Dave Doane
  • Drifter Sidney Capps
  • Dry-Dock Darrell Thurber
  • Dudley Chauvin
  • Duje Vitaljić
  • Duncan Cardno
  • Dutch Klaas
  • Dwight Doane

E: 42 names

  • Éamonn Gielty
  • Earle Rhodenizer
  • Early Earl Guthrie
  • Eben Thurlow
  • Edgar Spurrell
  • Edmond LeBlanc
  • Edwin Kitto
  • Efim Kuzmin
  • Efisio Piras
  • Efren Bangka
  • Eikichi Shimabukuro
  • Eilert Grytten
  • Einar Guðmundsson
  • Eino Lahti
  • Ekow Amissah
  • Elden Bunker
  • Eli Penney
  • Elias Nickerson
  • Ellsworth Coombs
  • Elmo Fulcher
  • Elnathan Atwood

E, continued

  • Elvin Whynacht
  • Elwood Crockett
  • Elwood Sprague
  • Emery LaFond
  • Empty-Net Edgar Petten
  • Emrys Griffiths
  • Enoch Bunker
  • Eoin Drever
  • Ephraim Bickford
  • Ephraim Stinson
  • Erland Beal
  • Erlend Rendall
  • Erling Havik
  • Ertie Mouat
  • Erwan Guillou
  • Eusebio Pech
  • Évariste Arsenault
  • Everett Cannon
  • Everett Nickerson
  • Ewan Ritchie
  • Ezra Hallett

F: 23 names

  • Falkuša Miho Zanki
  • Fañch Quéméner
  • Feliks Ceynowa
  • Feodor Reutov
  • Fergus Byrne
  • Fernando Peixoto
  • Fiddler Hector Beaton
  • Fiete Lührs
  • Finlay MacRae
  • Finlo Teare
  • Fintan Ó Flatharta
  • Fish-Tug Emery Weborg
  • Flounder Frank Rogers
  • Foghorn Frank Faulkingham
  • Foghorn Freddy Graham
  • Folke Österberg
  • Foster Tanner
  • Fouled-Prop Fred Yetman
  • Frane Marinković
  • Frenchy Remy Fontenot
  • Fritz Fischer
  • Frode Skjelbred
  • Full-Hold Foster Risser

G: 36 names

  • Gaffer Gideon Snow
  • Gaffhook Gus
  • Gamela Anxo Piñeiro
  • Gansey Matthew Unthank
  • Garfield Hynes
  • Garnet Heisler
  • Gaspar Favazza
  • Gennaro Esposito
  • Genzō Uchida
  • Geordie Buchan
  • Georges Bank Gil Vieira
  • Gerren Bolitho
  • Gerrit Bakker
  • Gibbie Jamieson
  • Gideon Bunker
  • Gil Medeiros
  • Gildas Le Floc'h
  • Gillnet Eino Wirkkala
  • Gillnetter Gunnar Vik
  • Ginger Jeck Geddes
  • Gísli Sigurðsson
  • Giuseppe Sabella
  • Gorka Bilbao
  • Gösta Hermansson
  • Goulven Cariou
  • Grampy Aubrey
  • Grandda Callum
  • Grandda Murdo
  • Grandda Torquil
  • Grandsir Elnathan
  • Granfer Kit Curnow
  • Guðjón Einarsson
  • Guilherme Silveira
  • Gunnar Sjøberg
  • Gus Noseworthy
  • Gwilym Parry

H: 52 names

  • Haaf-Man Gibbie Polson
  • Habib Trabelsi
  • Haddock Hughie Gillis
  • Hafþór Sveinsson
  • Hake Harry Pascoe
  • Håkon Lofthus
  • Half-Decker Hugh Donnan
  • Halibut Hank Morris
  • Hallgrímur Pálsson
  • Halvard Hansen
  • Halvor Vik
  • Hamish Buchan
  • Hamisi Makame
  • Handline Harvey Greening
  • Handy Webster
  • Hanus Nolsøe
  • Harald Aadland
  • Harbormaster Hamish Reid
  • Harbormaster Harry Robinson
  • Hardtack Harvey Dawe
  • Harlan Colbeth
  • Harrison Somers
  • Harry Muggridge
  • Haruo Isozaki
  • Hasan Reis
  • Hatteras Hal Scarborough

H, continued

  • Hector MacNeil
  • Hedley Rowe
  • Hedley Tucker
  • Heinz Struck
  • Helmer Toftey
  • Heman Kendrick
  • Herring Hamish Cardno
  • Herring Harry Buchan
  • Hideo Funakoshi
  • Highliner Harald Thorstenson
  • Highwater Hosea Look
  • Hilaire Naquin
  • Hinnerk Petersen
  • Hiram Pettengill
  • Hjalmar Sundby
  • Hjalmar Weborg
  • Hone Wihongi
  • Honoré Bourgain
  • Hook-Hand Hosea
  • Hosea Ames
  • Høvedsmann Hilmar
  • Huer Zacky Perkin
  • Hughie McCallig
  • Hughie Rankin
  • Huig Pronk
  • Hüseyin Kılıç

I: 23 names

  • Iain Angus MacDonald
  • Iain Muir
  • Ibrahim Balık
  • Ibrahim Samak
  • Ichabod Eldredge
  • Idris Rees
  • Ieuan Pritchard
  • Ignatius Delacroix
  • Ikaika Kalua
  • Iker Zubizarreta
  • Ilídio Marques
  • Illiam Kermode
  • Iñaki Etxeberria
  • Ingolf Brekke
  • Ingvar Solheim
  • Isaac Storr
  • Isaiah Doane
  • Isao Uragami
  • Isidro Magbanua
  • Ismail bin Awang
  • Ivar Bakke
  • Ivey Tillett
  • Ivory Colbeth

J: 34 names

  • Jaan Kallas
  • Jago Pascoe
  • Jákup Djurhuus
  • Jan Vermeulen
  • Jangada Raimundo Lima
  • Jarle Remøy
  • Jean-Baptiste Thibodeaux
  • Jeck Noble
  • Jedediah Nickerson
  • Jeemie Isbister
  • Jelle Zeeman
  • Jenkyn Pascoe
  • Jens Christiansen
  • Jentoft Ellingsen
  • Jethro Alley
  • Jim Braund
  • João Ribeiro
  • Joaquim Bacalhau
  • Jock Watt
  • Jógvan Joensen
  • John Joe Dirrane
  • Jonah Beal
  • Jory Polglaze
  • Jory Tregenza
  • Josiah Crowell
  • Josiah Keeping
  • Jossy Verrill
  • Josu Arriola
  • Jowan Paynter
  • Juan Quayle
  • Juma Kombo
  • Jure Kordich
  • Jussi Rantanen
  • Justin Fontenot

K: 40 names

  • Ka'ai Kahale
  • Ka'eo Kahale
  • Kang Bo-ram
  • Kapetan Stelios
  • Kåre Gjerde
  • Karmenu Bugeja
  • Karsten Brodersen
  • Kattumaram Selvaraj Arul
  • Kees Visser
  • Kenji Hamada
  • Kenneth Wotton
  • Kenny Cardno
  • Kenta Hamaguchi
  • Kenver Trezise
  • Keoni Lawai'a
  • Killick Clyde Barbour
  • Kim Bada
  • Kimo Makua
  • King Crab Konrad Wikan
  • Kipper Kenny Buchan
  • Kipper Kit Penrose
  • Kirill Basargin
  • Kit Penrose
  • Kiyoshi Kaneshiro
  • Kjell Ingebrigtsen
  • Klaas de Visser
  • Klaus Sönksen
  • Klippfisk Kåre Hauge
  • Knud Vestergaard
  • Knut Havik
  • Ko Man-su
  • Kofi Boateng
  • Kojo Mensah
  • Konrad Sandvik
  • Koro Hemi
  • Kostas Manolis
  • Krabbenkutter Hein Paulsen
  • Krijn Tuijp
  • Kristján Hafsteinsson
  • Kwame Boateng

L: 41 names

  • Lachlan Morrison
  • Lafitte Skiff Pierre Dufrene
  • Langoustier Hervé Tanguy
  • Last-Boat Lennie Marsh
  • Le Van Song
  • Leander Stuckless
  • Lee Hae-sung
  • Lefteris Sifakis
  • Leif Sørensen
  • Lemuel Himmelman
  • Leonce Dufrene
  • Lester Blackwood
  • Leung Kam-shing
  • Levi Trundy
  • Lighthouse Lem Sprague
  • Lin Hai-sheng
  • Linwood Merchant
  • Lionel Cabral
  • Little Leif Strand
  • Little Rab Buchan

L, continued

  • Llewellyn Dawe
  • Lobster Larry Phillips
  • Lobster Lou Trundy
  • Lofoten Lars Ellingsen
  • Lolo Isidro
  • Long Lorne Peddle
  • Longline Lars
  • Lorenzo Gott
  • Lorne Vokey
  • Lost-Anchor Llewellyn Mercer
  • Loveday Hocking
  • Lovre Barcott
  • Lowrie Williamson
  • Lubbert Romkes
  • Lucky Lem Sawyer
  • Lucky Lorenzo Faulkingham
  • Luka Mardesich
  • Lum Gaskill
  • Luther Burrus
  • Luzzu Pawlu Camilleri
  • Lyle Hallett

M: 39 names

  • Mackerel Mick Sweeney
  • Magne Wikan
  • Magnie Halcrow
  • Magnus Goodlad
  • Magnús Ólafsson
  • Máirtín Ó Cualáin
  • Malachy Ó Cadhain
  • Malick Ndoye
  • Manolis Petrakis
  • Manolo Freire
  • Mansie Linklater
  • Manu Fifita
  • Manu Tuilagi
  • Manuel Fernandes
  • Marko Jerkovich
  • Masaru Amimoto
  • Mate Petrich
  • Mathurin Riou
  • Matthew Theaker
  • Matthey Jacka
  • Matti Nieminen
  • Mehmet Balıkçı
  • Merle Higgins
  • Merton Bridges
  • Mestre Zeferino
  • Micheal Óg Ó Conghaile
  • Michele Ferrante
  • Mikey Hernon
  • Milton Kelley
  • Molasses Max Whiffen
  • Momme Lorenzen
  • Monroe Styron
  • Morfar Gösta
  • Mose Barbour
  • Mossie Sheehy
  • Mullet Monroe Fulcher
  • Murdo MacIver
  • Musa Fofana
  • Mussel Emrys Pritchard

N: 25 names

  • Nakhoda Salim
  • Nana Kojo
  • Nane Penzo
  • Naoise Mullen
  • Nate Guptill
  • Nathaniel Eldredge
  • Ned Qualtrough
  • Ned Trevithick
  • Neil Macrae
  • Nestor Mangingisda
  • Netmender Nate Wass
  • Netmender Nils
  • Nguyen Van Bien
  • Nguyen Van Hai
  • Nikolas Sarantis
  • Nikos Manolis
  • Nils Berg
  • Nimal Fernando
  • Nine-Fingers Ned Doane
  • Nino Buscemi
  • No-Bait Nate Rich
  • Nonc Alcide Guidry
  • Nonno Turi
  • Norrie Mackay
  • Nunzio Marino

O: 58 names

  • Obadiah Swain
  • Obed Snow
  • Octave Authement
  • Odd Berg
  • Oddvar Nilsen
  • Oh Man-seok
  • Ola Hansen
  • Ólafur Þórðarson
  • Old Amos Perkins
  • Old Bill McBride
  • Old Eben Cahoon
  • Old Man Beal
  • Old Man Coombs
  • Old Man Faherty
  • Old Man Goodlad
  • Old Man Guptill
  • Old Man Halloran
  • Old Man Hamaguchi
  • Old Man Landry
  • Old Man Madruga
  • Old Man Midgett
  • Old Man Murakami
  • Old Man Nickerson
  • Old Man Niemi
  • Old Man Penney
  • Old Man Pettibone
  • Old Man Quayle
  • Old Man Robichaux
  • Old Man Skaggs

O, continued

  • Old Man Thibodeaux
  • Old Man Trewin
  • Old Man Verrill
  • Old Nils Havik
  • Old Salt Oscar Nelson
  • Óli Sigurðsson
  • Ollie Tulloch
  • Oluf Enge
  • Omari Shee
  • One-Arm Amos Bunker
  • One-Eye Obed Snow
  • Onni Salmi
  • Oom Arie
  • Opa Fiete
  • Orazio Balesteri
  • Orrin Sprague
  • Orry Cubbon
  • Oscar Headon
  • Osgood Joyce
  • Otis Pruitt
  • Ottar Sørheim
  • Otto Pardy
  • Ousmane Diop
  • Ousmane Sarr
  • Outrigger Kawika Kanahele
  • Overboard Otto Piercey
  • Ovide Pitre
  • Oyster Oliver Roberts
  • Oyster Ossie Sprague

P: 43 names

  • Padraic O'Malley
  • Padraig O'Malley
  • Páidí Flannery
  • Pak Ketut
  • Panagiotis Psaras
  • Panga Nacho Cota
  • Paolo Aliotti
  • Papou Stavros
  • Park Hae-sung
  • Paron Bepi
  • Parrain Octave
  • Pasquale Lubrano
  • Patron Yves
  • Patxi Etxeberria
  • Peadar Rourke
  • Peder Vaughan
  • Peeler Pete Somers
  • Peg-Leg Percy Doane
  • Pépère Désiré
  • Percy Crowell
  • Percy Guidry

P, continued

  • Perran Curnow
  • Petroc Hosking
  • Petter Karlsen
  • Piet Bakker
  • Pilchard Pete Pascoe
  • Pilchard Piran Trewin
  • Pipe-Smoke Peder Moen
  • Piran Nancarrow
  • Pirogue Modou Gueye
  • Placide Poirier
  • Placido Scibilia
  • Portugee Manny Fernandes
  • Portugee Tony Peixoto
  • Pot-Hauler Conal Doherty
  • Poul Hansen
  • Pound-Net Pernell Austin
  • Prasert Talay
  • Prawn Davy Adair
  • Preacher Luther Willis
  • Professor Francis Edwards
  • Purnell Bradshaw
  • Purse-Seine Pete Skansie

Q: 2 names

  • Quiet Amos Look
  • Quiet Cyrus Snow

R: 35 names

  • Rab Cowie
  • Rab Findlay
  • Ragnar Þórðarson
  • Ragnvald Fenstad
  • Rais Habib
  • Ramón Costa
  • Ramon Dalisay
  • Rangi Ngata
  • Rasmie Laurenson
  • Recep Kaptan
  • Red Rab Findlay
  • Red Roddy Mackenzie
  • Redfish Remy Cheramie
  • Reidar Sævik
  • Reino Wirkkala
  • Remy Fontenot
  • Reuben Sawyer
  • Riekelt Hakvoort
  • Ring-Net Sandy Crawford
  • Riptide Ray Flores
  • Riptide Reuben Kessell
  • Robbie Innes
  • Robin Corlett
  • Roko Fiamengo
  • Roland Greening
  • Rolf Kvalvik
  • Rope-Burn Rufus
  • Rory MacKinnon
  • Rosario Cardinale
  • Ruairí Byrne
  • Ruaridh Nicolson
  • Rufus Wallace
  • Rui Pescador
  • Ryō Isobe
  • Ryūji Funakoshi

S: 106 names

  • Sabani Kamejirō Kinjō
  • Saburō Minato
  • Sal Lucido
  • Salim al-Bahri
  • Salmon-Cot Paddy Furlong
  • Saltfish Stan Snook
  • Salty Jack Rourke
  • Salty Pete Johnson
  • Salty Sam Whitcomb
  • Salvatore Lo Piccolo
  • Salvu Zammit
  • Sammy Uren
  • Sandbar Stacy Salter
  • Sanders Mair
  • Sandy Burgon
  • Sandy Strachan
  • Sardine Sal Marino
  • Saro Gancitano
  • Sævar Hjaltason
  • Scaffie Willie Farquhar
  • Scallop Sam Sørensen
  • Scalloper Steve Doane
  • Schipper Jaap
  • Seamus Rourke
  • Sean Óg Kavanagh
  • Seanair Ruairidh
  • Sebastiano Parisi
  • Segundo Huamanchumo
  • Seine-Boat Petroc Stevens
  • Seiner Stipe Petrich
  • Sekou Fofana
  • Selby Kearley
  • Selmer Stokke
  • Selwyn Ollivierre
  • Serafim Furtado

S, continued

  • Seth Cahoon
  • Severino Nascimento
  • Shetland Magnie Hutchison
  • Shigeru Amanuma
  • Shinji Hamaguchi
  • Shrimper T-Boy Guidry
  • Shubael Coffin
  • Sicilian Sal Cannizzaro
  • Sidney Catchpole
  • Sigurd Bakke
  • Sigurjón Hafsteinsson
  • Silas Coombs
  • Silver Stanley Wentzell
  • Šime Božanić
  • Singing Ifor Bowen
  • Sione Fonua
  • Sixareen Sydney Tulloch
  • Sixten Sjöström
  • Sjaak Roeleveld
  • Sjark Jarle Dahl
  • Skinny Ansel Bridges
  • Skinny Sean Rourke
  • Skipjack Sam Parks
  • Skipper Eli Blackwood
  • Skipper George Hiscock
  • Skipper Magnus Leask
  • Skipper Mose Kearley
  • Skipper Odd Berg
  • Skipper Piet Visser
  • Skipper Sam Martin
  • Skrei Torbjørn Falch
  • Slack-Tide Sid Sutherland
  • Slim Sal Esposito
  • Sma'-Line Joe Summers
  • Smacksman Abel Tucker

S, continued

  • Snapper Seth Reed
  • Snapper Sid Sawyer
  • Snorri Ólafsson
  • Snurrevod Svend Nørgaard
  • Sockeye Selmer Haugen
  • Solomon Ames
  • Somchai Talay
  • Somsak Chaolay
  • Søren Nielsen
  • Sosthène Melancon
  • Sotiris Halkias
  • Sponge-Boat Babis Galanis
  • Spyros Karras
  • Squall Sam Snow
  • Squeezebox Selby Vokey
  • Squid Sid Isobe
  • Squid-Jigger Gus Budgell
  • Stavros Delis
  • Steady Eddie Spurrell
  • Steinar Vik
  • Sternman Sam Look
  • Sternman Seth Sawyer
  • Stewart Flett
  • Stipe Stanovich
  • Stormy Petrel Pat Wood
  • Stratis Kontos
  • Striper Sherm Ridgway
  • Strömming Rune Öhman
  • Stubby Stan Snow
  • Sturgis Haskell
  • Sulo Ahola
  • Sumner Etheridge
  • Sven Fiskaa
  • Sven-Erik Åberg
  • Sverre Thorstenson
  • Swordfish Sebastiano Frontiero

T: 62 names

  • T-Boy Broussard
  • Tad-kozh Goulven
  • Tadao Hamano
  • Tadhg Faherty
  • Taid Gwilym
  • Takeshi Amimoto
  • Talan Penhaligon
  • Tam Findlay
  • Tammie Polson
  • Tamotsu Tasaka
  • Tane Parata
  • Tautai Pita
  • Tavita Leota
  • Teddy Grice
  • Temel Kaya
  • Ten-Toes Tobias
  • Terje Andreassen
  • Tetsuo Isobe
  • Teun de Vries
  • Teva Tetuanui
  • Tevita Fonua
  • Thaddeus Beal
  • Thanasis Vlachos
  • Théophile Boudreaux
  • Thonier Ronan Le Goff
  • Thorvald Isaksen
  • Thurston Midgett
  • Ti Albano
  • Tiago Peixoto
  • Tiny Tom Trundy
  • Tío Curro

T, continued

  • Titus Knickle
  • Tobias Grindle
  • Toivo Jarvi
  • Tok Awang
  • Tom Bawcock
  • Tomás Harrington
  • Tonći Matulić
  • Tonger Tom Pruitt
  • Tonnara Ignazio Lo Coco
  • Þorleifur Jónsson
  • Torn-Net Tony Brancaleone
  • Torquil MacLeod
  • Torstein Sjøberg
  • Torvald Eriksen
  • Þorvaldur Stefánsson
  • Tot Archbold
  • Tran Van Minh
  • Trawler Ted Trundy
  • Trawler Tom Bawcock
  • Trillukarl Sævar
  • Troller Reino Hendrickson
  • Trygve Nordvik
  • Tummas Poulsen
  • Tuna Clipper Joe Silveira
  • Tuna Tony Marino
  • Turi Cannizzaro
  • Turtle-Schooner Ezekiel Tibbetts
  • Twice-Sunk Tilman Ballance
  • Twm Bowen
  • Txalupa Joseba Egaña
  • Txomin Urresti

U: 13 names

  • Uncle Ezra Coombs
  • Uncle Jago Penrose
  • Uncle Josiah Rideout
  • Uncle Lum Tillett
  • Uncle Ola Hansen
  • Uncle Uriah Fudge
  • Uncle Zeb Sawyer
  • Unlucky Ulysses Bickford
  • Unlucky Uriah Coombs
  • Urbain Gallant
  • Urho Mattson
  • Uriah Pittman
  • Urias Garrish

V: 13 names

  • Vangelis Papadakis
  • Vasco Pereira
  • Vaughn Look
  • Veikko Korhonen
  • Vernon Faulkingham
  • Victor Annett
  • Viliami Taufa
  • Ville Kalastaja
  • Villy Kjærgaard
  • Vincent Faherty
  • Vincenzo Sanfilippo
  • Vito Pescatore
  • Vovô Manuel

W: 38 names

  • Waino Koskela
  • Waldo Dyer
  • Wallace O'Neal
  • Walter Stimpson
  • Waterman Willie Crockett
  • Wattie Duthie
  • Wayan Sudarma
  • Weir-Tender Wayne Ingersoll
  • Wendell Beal
  • Wendell Tyler
  • Wesley Wotton
  • Whaleboat Lincoln Hazell
  • Wharf Willie Clark
  • Whelk Willie Watt
  • Whistling Willis Crouse
  • Whitebait Albert Foad
  • Whitefish Helmer Sivertson
  • Whitey Wotton
  • Whitney LeBoeuf
  • Widow-Maker Wass
  • Wilbert Inkster
  • Wilbur Evans
  • Wilfred Tawes
  • Wilfred Tonkin
  • Wilfrid Aucoin
  • Will Cappleman
  • William John Chirgwin
  • Willie Geddes
  • Willis Zinck
  • Wim Ouwehand
  • Winfield Wotton
  • Winslow Bracy
  • Wiremu Ngata
  • Wiremu Tahana
  • Wistin Carabott
  • Woodrow Beal
  • Wrong-Tide Wade Shores
  • Wullie Slater

X: 3 names

  • Xoán Pereira
  • Xosé Lourido
  • Xurxo Vilaseca

Y: 9 names

  • Yann Le Bihan
  • Yannis Karras
  • Yaw Quaye
  • Yiorgos Koutsoukos
  • Yōhei Isokawa
  • Yoshio Murakami
  • Young Amos Thurber
  • Young Clovis Chauvin
  • Yusuf Balıkçı

Z: 8 names

  • Zack Cammish
  • Zacky Tregurtha
  • Zé Marinheiro
  • Zeb Hatch
  • Zeferino Pinheiro
  • Zenas Hallett
  • Zenkichi Higa
  • Zoël Cormier