Funny Bar Name Generator

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Funny bar names built on drink wordplay and pub puns, for real bars, home bars, quiz teams and fiction. The list runs from title parodies like Tequila Mockingbird and Yeast of Eden to Pint Taken, Absinthe Minded, The Confused Badger and Sorry We're Open.

About funny bar names

A funny bar name is nearly always a pun, and bar puns come from a small set of sources. The richest is the drinks list itself: ale sounds like all, hail and I'll, rye like wry and eye, pint like point, pour like poor and four, cider like side, and cask like ask. That is how you get Ale Be Back, Rye Humor, Pint Taken, Pour Reception, Cider Hustle and Cask Me Anything. The second source is a title everyone knows with one word swapped, such as Tequila Mockingbird, Yeast of Eden or The Empire Strikes Bock.

This list also covers three kinds of joke that are not drink puns. Compound words that already end in bar (Crow Bar, Space Bar, Loading Bar) work well on a sign because the building finishes the joke. Mock traditional pub names (The Confused Badger, The Fox & Fax Machine, The Beige Lion) poke fun at the old British habit of naming pubs after animals and objects. Deadpan names (The Office, Jury Duty, Sorry We're Open) get their laugh from how they sound in a sentence.

Everything here is wordplay only. The jokes are about words and drinks, not about drinking too much, so they suit a sign, a menu or a quiz team sheet.

How to choose funny bar names

  • Say the name out loud the way a customer would: "Meet me at Pint Taken." A pun that has to be seen in print to work, such as Caskablanca, is better on a menu or a T-shirt than over the door.
  • Match the pun to what you pour. Ale, stout and lager jokes suit a beer bar, Syrah and Riesling jokes suit a wine bar, and rye or bourbon jokes suit a whiskey list. A cocktail bar called Lager Heads confuses people.
  • Keep the joke on the words. Names that joke about heavy drinking or about driving home put off landlords, neighbors and advertisers, and they age badly.
  • Popular puns get used by more than one bar. Before you print anything, search the name with your city and state, look at the business register for your area, and check the domain and social handles yourself.
  • Deadpan names such as The Office or The Library are hard to find in a search engine. If you pick one, add your street or town to the sign and the listing so people can find you.

Frequently asked questions

What are some funny bar names?

Well-worn favorites include Tequila Mockingbird, Pour Decisions, Bar Humbug and Gin and Bear It. Less common picks from this list are Stout of Office, Absinthe of Malice, Statute of Libations, The Horse Walks Inn and Closed (Just Kidding).

Can I use one of these names for a real bar?

You can use the list for ideas, but nobody has compared these names with existing bars or business registers. Many bar puns are already in use somewhere, so search the name in your area and look at the registers for your state or country before you order a sign.

How do bar puns work?

Most swap a drink word for a word that sounds like it: pint for point, rye for wry or eye, pour for poor, ale for all, cider for side. Pint of View, Private Rye and Pour Timing all work that way. The closer the two sounds, the quicker people get the joke.

Do these work for a home bar, a quiz team or a story?

Yes. Short puns like Tap Secret or Wine Not fit a home bar sign, and quiz teams often borrow bar puns such as Rhythm and Brews. The mock pub names, The Apologetic Bear or The Coach & Hoarse for example, suit a comic novel, a sitcom script or a tabletop game.

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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: 22 names

  • A Bar Has No Name
  • A Farewell to Tabs
  • A Game of Steins
  • A Midsummer Night's Draught
  • A Tale of Two Ciders
  • Absinthe Minded
  • Absinthe of Malice
  • Agave It a Go
  • Ale and Hearty
  • Ale Be Back
  • Ale in a Day's Work
  • Ale Mary
  • Ale Together Now
  • Ale You Need Is Love
  • Ale's Well That Ends Well
  • Alement of Surprise
  • Alementary
  • Alt Tab
  • American Rye
  • Any Porter in a Storm
  • Apple of My Rye
  • Awkward Silence

B: 40 names

  • Bar Association
  • Bar Belle
  • Bar Chords
  • Bar Code
  • Bar Humbug
  • Bar Minimum
  • Bar Necessities
  • Bar Not Found
  • Bar Trek
  • Bar Wars
  • Bar with Me
  • Barley Made It
  • Barley There
  • Barrel of Laughs
  • Be Gin Again
  • Be Right Back
  • Beauty and the Yeast
  • Behind Bars
  • Beside the Pint
  • Beyond the Pale Ale
  • Bitter Late Than Never
  • Bitter Together
  • Blanc Canvas
  • Blanc Check
  • Blanc Stare
  • Bohemian Hopsody
  • Book Club
  • Born to Rum
  • Bottle of the Bands
  • Bottle of Wits
  • Bottle Royale
  • Bourbon Legend
  • Bourbon Planning
  • Bourbon Renewal
  • Brew Do You Think You Are
  • Brews Brothers
  • Brews Flash
  • Bubble Trouble
  • Bubbly Personality
  • Burden of Proof

C: 23 names

  • Cache Bar
  • Cask and You Shall Receive
  • Cask Away
  • Cask Me Anything
  • Cask Only
  • Caskablanca
  • Catcher in the Rye
  • Cause a Stir
  • Charlie and the Cider Factory
  • Cider Car
  • Cider Effects
  • Cider Hustle
  • Cider Quest
  • Ciderella
  • Citizen Cane
  • Closed (Just Kidding)
  • Coaster Guard
  • Coaster to Coaster
  • Common Ground
  • Cork in the Road
  • Corks and Recreation
  • Crow Bar
  • Cut to the Chaser

D: 15 names

  • Dancing in the Dark and Stormy
  • De Vine Intervention
  • Decant Touch This
  • Dial M for Martini
  • Distill Life
  • Distill My Heart
  • Distill Waters Run Deep
  • Don't Stop Beerlieving
  • Down Pour
  • Draft Pick
  • Draft Punk
  • Dram Club
  • Dram Queen
  • Dramatic Pause
  • Dry Rum

E: 4 names

  • Ein Stein
  • Every Rosé Has Its Thorn
  • Everything's Coming Up Rosé
  • Exit Through the Bar

F: 24 names

  • Fair Shake
  • Famous Last Words
  • Fellowship of the Pint
  • Ferment to Be
  • Ferris Brewer's Day Off
  • Figure It Stout
  • Final Draft
  • Finding Vino
  • Fine, Here Then
  • First Draft
  • First Glass
  • Five More Minutes
  • Fizzical Education
  • Foam Alone
  • Foam Improvement
  • Foam on the Range
  • Foam Sweet Foam
  • Fool Proof
  • For Bitter or Worse
  • For Goodness Sake
  • For No Good Riesling
  • For Old Times' Sake
  • For Pete's Sake
  • Free Wifi, Expensive Peanuts

G: 20 names

  • Garnished Wages
  • Generic Bar & Grill
  • Get to the Pint
  • Gin & Platonic
  • Gin and Bear It
  • Gin It to Win It
  • Gin Rummy
  • Gin There, Done That
  • Ginuine Article
  • Glass Act
  • Glass Action
  • Glass Dismissed
  • Glass Half Full
  • Glassified Ads
  • Gone with the Wine
  • Good Libations
  • Grape Expectations
  • Grape Minds Think Alike
  • Grape Outdoors
  • Great Scotch

H: 12 names

  • Habeas Corkus
  • Handle Bar
  • Hickory Daiquiri Dock
  • Home Rum
  • Hop Scotch
  • Hop to It
  • Hop, Skip and a Pint
  • Hoppily Ever After
  • Hopportunity Knocks
  • Hoppy Go Lucky
  • Hoppy Hour
  • Hubbub Pub

I: 12 names

  • I Don't Mind, You Pick
  • Ice Ice Maybe
  • Ice to Meet You
  • If It Ain't Bar Oque
  • In Good Spirits
  • In the Long Rum
  • Inn Cahoots
  • Inn Decision
  • Inn Good Company
  • Inn the Doghouse
  • Insert Name Here
  • Intercellar

J: 5 names

  • Jailhouse Bock
  • Julius Cider
  • Jury Duty
  • Jury's Out
  • Just the One

K: 3 names

  • Keeping Tabs
  • Kegs Benedict
  • Kindred Spirits

L: 18 names

  • Lager Heads
  • Lager Rhythms
  • Lager Than Life
  • Last but Not Yeast
  • Last Call of the Wild
  • Last Orders of Magnitude
  • Leave of Absinthe
  • Let It Beer
  • Let the Fun Be Gin
  • Life Is a Cabernet
  • Lime and Reason
  • Lime Scene
  • Liquid Assets
  • Liquidity Event
  • Loading Bar
  • Long Story Short
  • Lord of the Gins
  • Love Me Bartender

M: 19 names

  • Malt and Pepper
  • Malt Function
  • Mary Hoppins
  • Match Pint
  • Mead and Greet
  • Mead Me at the Bar
  • Mead Me Halfway
  • Merlot Out
  • Mezcal Me Maybe
  • Moment of Vermouth
  • Mon Sherry
  • Monkey Bars
  • Movers and Shakers
  • Muddle Ground
  • Muddle Management
  • Muddle of Nowhere
  • Mug Shot
  • Mule Britannia
  • My Other Bar

N: 7 names

  • Name Pending
  • Neat Freak
  • Never Agave Up
  • New Tab
  • No Brews Is Bad Brews
  • Not That Place Again
  • Nowhere Special

O: 12 names

  • Offsite Meeting
  • Olive and Let Live
  • Olive or Twist
  • Olive You
  • On Tap of the World
  • On the Cider Caution
  • Once in a Brew Moon
  • Open-ish
  • Order in the Quart
  • Original Zin
  • Out of Office
  • Overdraft

P: 45 names

  • Pale by Comparison
  • Part of the Solution
  • Partners in Lime
  • Passing the Bar
  • Pavlov's Bell
  • Petit Pour
  • Petty Cask
  • Pick Up the Tab
  • Pillar of Malt
  • Pint Blank
  • Pint Break
  • Pint Guard
  • Pint of Order
  • Pint of View
  • Pint Taken
  • Pint Well Made
  • Pints and Prejudice
  • Pints Make Prizes
  • Pints of the Caribbean
  • Plan Bar
  • Plausible Deniability
  • Plead the Fifth

P, continued

  • Pleased to Mead You
  • Porter Authority
  • Pour Connection
  • Pour Decisions
  • Pour Favor
  • Pour Reception
  • Pour Richard's Almanac
  • Pour Score and Seven
  • Pour Sport
  • Pour Taste
  • Pour Timing
  • Pourcupine
  • Pride and Pretzels
  • Private Rye
  • Probably Open
  • Progress Bar
  • Proof of Concept
  • Proof Reader
  • Public Domain
  • Public Relations
  • Public Transport
  • Publicity Stunt
  • Put a Cork in It

Q: 1 name

  • Que Syrah Syrah

R: 29 names

  • Raiders of the Lost Bar
  • Raising the Bar
  • Read My Sips
  • Reasonable Stout
  • Rhythm and Brews
  • Riesling to the Occasion
  • Romeo and Julep
  • Rosé Colored Glasses
  • Rough and Tumbler
  • Rough Draft
  • Round Numbers
  • Rounding Error
  • Rub-a-Dub Pub
  • Rum for Your Money
  • Rum Forrest Rum
  • Rum of the Mill
  • Rum Punchline
  • Rummage Sale
  • Rumor Has It
  • Rye and Mighty
  • Rye Hard
  • Rye Humor
  • Rye Me a River
  • Rye of the Storm
  • Rye of the Tiger
  • Rye Smile
  • Rye Spy
  • Rye Witness
  • Rye, Rye Again

S: 45 names

  • Saison Greetings
  • Salad Bar
  • Same Again
  • Sangria Management
  • Schrodinger's Tab
  • Scotch That Idea
  • Scraping the Barrel
  • Search Bar
  • Self Pourtrait
  • Shake, Rattle and Pour
  • Sherry on Top
  • Sherry Picked
  • Shiver Me Tumblers
  • Short and Wheat
  • Shot Clock
  • Shot in the Dark
  • Sidebar
  • Sip Ahoy
  • Sip Code
  • Sip of Fools
  • Sip Sip Hooray
  • Sippin' in the Rain

S, continued

  • Sipping Forecast
  • Small Talk
  • Smoke on the Porter
  • So Anyway
  • Some Like It Stout
  • Something's Brewing
  • Somewhere Else
  • Sorry We're Open
  • Space Bar
  • Spirit of the Law
  • Spritz the Difference
  • Stairway to Hefeweizen
  • Statute of Libations
  • Stein of the Times
  • Stir Crazy
  • Stop and Smell the Rosé
  • Stout and About
  • Stout of Africa
  • Stout of Office
  • Stout of Order
  • Stuck in Traffic
  • Sub Lime
  • Syrah Later

T: 113 names

  • Tab-ula Rasa
  • Talking Pints
  • Tap Dance
  • Tap of the Class
  • Tap of the Morning
  • Tap Secret
  • Tap Shelf
  • Tap Water
  • Tavern a Laugh
  • Tee Total
  • Tequila Mockingbird
  • That's the Spirit
  • The Apologetic Bear
  • The Backup Plan
  • The Bar Barians
  • The Bar Exam
  • The Bar Gain
  • The Bar Is Low
  • The Beige Lion
  • The Big Lebrewski
  • The Bourbon Identity
  • The Breakout Room
  • The Bright Cider Life
  • The Bull & China Shop
  • The Cart Before the Horse
  • The Cat & Ukulele
  • The Cheeky Half
  • The Cheers Leaders
  • The Coach & Hoarse
  • The Compromise
  • The Confused Badger
  • The Conundrum
  • The Cover Story
  • The Duck & Cover
  • The Elephant & Bouncy Castle
  • The Embargo
  • The Empire Strikes Bock

T, continued

  • The Engin Room
  • The Evening Brews
  • The Fish & Bicycle
  • The Fox & Fax Machine
  • The Frog & Forklift
  • The George & Dragonfly
  • The Gin Crowd
  • The Goat & Satnav
  • The Gossiping Goose
  • The Grape Escape
  • The Grapes of Froth
  • The Grogfather
  • The Gym
  • The Hedgehog & Balloon
  • The Hoppy Prince
  • The Horse Walks Inn
  • The Indecisive Duck
  • The Inn Convenience
  • The Inn Crowd
  • The Inn Joke
  • The Inn Laws
  • The King's Armchair
  • The Last Straw
  • The Library
  • The Lime Light
  • The Little Merlot
  • The Long Way Home
  • The Malted Falcon
  • The Maltrix
  • The Merry Wines of Windsor
  • The Minibar
  • The Moody Mallard
  • The Moth & Lampshade
  • The Nag's Headache
  • The Off-White Hart
  • The Office
  • The Old Man and the Seltzer
  • The Optimistic Mole

T, continued

  • The Overdressed Otter
  • The Owl & Alarm Clock
  • The Periodic Table
  • The Pour Awakens
  • The Pour Horsemen
  • The Pour House
  • The Punctual Snail
  • The Reluctant Ferret
  • The Rose & Frown
  • The Sarcastic Stag
  • The Short Straw
  • The Sign Was Cheaper This Way
  • The Sin Bin
  • The Slightly Lost Sheep
  • The Smug Snug
  • The Squirrel & Spreadsheet
  • The Sun Also Rosés
  • The Swift Half
  • The Taming of the Brew
  • The Unimpressed Owl
  • The Usual Suspects
  • The Usual, Please
  • The Wizard of Ounce
  • The Wobbly Table
  • The Yeast I Can Do
  • Thirstbusters
  • This Is a Bar
  • Through the Grapevine
  • Tipple Threat
  • Tipple Word Score
  • To Be Continued
  • To Beer or Not to Beer
  • To Say the Yeast
  • Tonic Boom
  • Trial Rum
  • Turning Pint
  • Twelve Bar Blues
  • Twist and Stout

U: 3 names

  • Under Old Management
  • Undisclosed Location
  • Untitled Bar Project

V: 6 names

  • Vantage Pint
  • Veni Vidi Vino
  • Vine and Dandy
  • Vine Dining
  • Vintage Point
  • Vodkan I Get You

W: 16 names

  • Walks Into a Bar
  • We Ran Out of Sign
  • We Will Bock You
  • Wheat a Minute
  • Wheat Dreams
  • Wherever Is Fine
  • Which Cider You On
  • Whiskey Business
  • Why the Long Face
  • Wine Down
  • Wine Not
  • Within Riesling
  • Word of Vermouth
  • Working Late
  • Worth Your Salt
  • Wuthering Pints

Y: 5 names

  • Ye Olde Brand New Pub
  • Ye Olde Wifi Password
  • Yeast of Eden
  • Yeast Side Story
  • Yes We're Actually Open

Z: 1 name

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