Funny House Name Generator

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Generate funny house names for a real sign or just a laugh: British classics like Dunroamin, Wits End and Costa Plenty, mortgage jokes like The Money Pit and Home Sweet Loan, DIY confessions like Rising Damp, student house names like Mount Washmore and beach hut puns like Shore Thing and Hut Stuff.

About funny house names

Giving a house a joke name is a long-running British habit. In a country where many homes carry a name as well as, or instead of, a number, plenty of owners use the sign to tell a joke: Dunroamin for the couple who have finally stopped moving, Wits End for the renovation that nearly finished them, Costa Plenty and The Money Pit for the mortgage. Australia has its own classic in Emoh Ruo, which is 'our home' spelled backwards.

The list is built in nine styles so that rerolls stay varied: run-together sign classics (Thistledome, Ersanmine, Dew Drop Inn), mortgage and money jokes (Home Sweet Loan, Owen Moore House), DIY confessions (Rising Damp, Grout Expectations), mock-grand names and twists on famous houses (Downtown Shabby, Buffering Heights, Windsor Hassle), student and shared-flat names (Mount Washmore, B Flat), beach hut and holiday let puns (Shore Thing, Hut Stuff), family, pet and garden jokes (Barkingham Palace, Hedge Fund), puns on building words (Bad Manors, The Wrecktory) and honest labels such as Seaview (Inland).

A joke on a sign has to work at a glance from the street, so the ones that last are short, spelled the way they sound and gentle enough that you will still like them in ten years.

How to choose funny house names

  • Say it out loud. Run-together classics such as Thistledome (this'll do me) and Ersanmine (hers and mine) only work when a passer-by can sound them out in one go.
  • Match the joke to the building. Hut Stuff needs a beach hut, B Flat needs a flat, Bad Manors wants a house that looks at least slightly grand, and Seaview (Inland) gets funnier the further you are from the coast.
  • Think about who reads the sign. A mortgage joke such as The Money Pit is fun for an owner; for a holiday let that guests have to find and remember, a warm pun like Shore Thing or Seas the Day is the friendlier welcome.
  • Keep it to two or three words for a real plaque, which is what reads from the road. Save the long ones, such as It Was Like That When We Moved In, for a doormat, a Wi-Fi network or the house group chat.
  • Keep your street number on show. A house name is normally an extra, not a replacement, so ask your local council or postal service how names are registered where you live before you order the sign.

Frequently asked questions

What are some classic funny house names?

The best known are the British run-together classics: Dunroamin (done roaming), Dunworkin, Thistledome (this'll do me), Ersanmine (hers and mine) and Wits End. Money jokes are nearly as common, led by Costa Plenty, The Money Pit and Mortgage Manor. Emoh Ruo, 'our home' backwards, is the Australian favorite.

Can I really put a funny name on my house?

In most places yes, as long as the name is not offensive and cannot be confused with a neighbor's. If the house has a street number you normally keep using it and add the name; where a house is known by name alone, a change usually has to be registered. Rules differ by country and council, so ask locally before you pay for a sign.

What is a good funny name for a student house or shared flat?

Shared houses suit jokes about chores and the deposit: The Unwashed Mugs, Mount Washmore, The Bin Rota, Thermostat Wars and Deposit Lost are all in the list. Flats get puns of their own, such as B Flat, A Flat Minor and Flat Broke.

Are there funny names for beach huts and holiday homes?

Yes, the seaside group covers them. Hut puns (Hut Stuff, Hut Property, Some Like It Hut), sea puns (Shore Thing, Vitamin Sea, Sea-esta) and away-from-work jokes (Out of Office, Auto Reply, Late Checkout) suit a hut, a beach house or a holiday let.

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A: 15 names

  • A Flat Minor
  • A Room With a Flue
  • A Room With a Queue
  • Above Asking
  • Alarm Ignored
  • All Inn
  • All Nighter Hall
  • Allen Key Cottage
  • Almost a Castle
  • Annex Marks the Spot
  • Apartment Complex Complex
  • Apologies to the Neighbors
  • Are We There Yet
  • Ask Your Mother
  • Auto Reply

B: 35 names

  • B Flat
  • Bad Manors
  • Balderdash Hall
  • Balmoral-ish
  • Bank of Mom and Dad
  • Bank's Half
  • Bargain Basement
  • Barkingham Palace
  • Barn to Be Wild
  • Barn Yesterday
  • Beans on Toast Towers
  • Because I Said So
  • Beige Towers
  • Best Cellar
  • Beware of the Cat
  • Beware of the Hamster
  • Bideawhile
  • Bin Day Again
  • Blanket Fort
  • Blink and You Miss It
  • Bodge It Hall
  • Borrowed Charger Lodge
  • Brassic Park
  • Breaking Mews
  • Bricks Underfoot
  • Brideshead Remortgaged
  • Bucket and Spade Brigade
  • Bucket Under the Drip
  • Buffering Heights
  • Builders Due Monday
  • Bung-a-Low
  • Bungahigh
  • Bungle Bungalow
  • Buoys and Gulls
  • Buyer's Remorse

C: 46 names

  • Cabin Fever
  • Cabin Pressure
  • Camelittle
  • Casa Calamity
  • Casa Chaos
  • Casablanket
  • Cat's Staff Quarters
  • Catnap Cottage
  • Cave Inn
  • Cellar's Market
  • Cereal for Dinner
  • Chain Free Cottage
  • Chairdrobe Chambers
  • Chalet Stay or Chalet Go
  • Chalet We Dance
  • Chaos Cottage
  • Chateau Shed
  • Cheaper Than Therapy
  • Chez Lounge
  • Chip Inn
  • Chip Thief View
  • Close Call
  • Close Enough

C, continued

  • Closing Costs Cottage
  • Codswallop Cottage
  • Cold Shower Cottage
  • Conched Out
  • Cost a Small Fortune
  • Costa Bomb
  • Costa del Drizzle
  • Costa del Mortgage
  • Costa Fortune
  • Costa Narmanaleg
  • Costa Packet
  • Costa Plenty
  • Costalot
  • Cottage Cheese
  • Cottage Industry
  • Court in the Act
  • Court Napping
  • Court Out
  • Crayon on the Walls
  • Creaky Floorboards
  • Creaky Stairs
  • Crooked Chimney Cottage
  • Curtain Twitchers' Corner

D: 38 names

  • Deadline Den
  • Debtford Hall
  • Deck Chair Despair
  • Deeds Pending
  • Deliveries Round the Back
  • Delusions of Grandeur
  • Deposit Lost
  • Dew Drop Inn
  • Dial M for Mortgage
  • Ding Dong Ditch
  • Dish Mountain
  • Dislodged
  • Do Not Disturb
  • Dog Hair Hall
  • Door Jam
  • Doorbell Broken, Knock
  • Down Payment Downs
  • Downtown Shabby
  • Downturn Abbey
  • Drafty Manor
  • Dragged Inn
  • Drizzle View
  • Dropped Ice Cream Cottage
  • Dry Rot Grange
  • Duck or Grouse
  • Duct Tape Towers
  • Duncommutin
  • Dune Nothing
  • Dune Roamin
  • Dunhagglin
  • Dunhuntin
  • Dunmoanin
  • Dunmovin
  • Dunmowin
  • Dunpayin
  • Dunrentin
  • Dunroamin
  • Dunworkin

E: 9 names

  • Eavesdroppers' Rest
  • Eight People One Bathroom
  • Emoh Ruo
  • Emotionally Detached
  • End of Terrace, End of Tether
  • Erehwon
  • Ersanmine
  • Escrow Acres
  • Extension Pending

F: 18 names

  • Factor Fifty
  • Fairview (Debatable)
  • Far From the Madding Commute
  • Faulty Towers
  • Faux Chateau
  • Finally Inn
  • Finally Ours
  • Five Stars (Self Rated)
  • Fixed Rate Farm
  • Flat Broke
  • Flat Earth Society
  • Flat White Flat
  • Flatpack Hall
  • Flip Flop Stop
  • Forty Winks Cottage
  • Four Winds (All Indoors)
  • Free for Hall
  • Fuse Box Follies

G: 13 names

  • Game of Homes
  • Gazumped Grange
  • Gnome Place Like Home
  • Gnome Sweet Gnome
  • Gone Coastal
  • Good Mews
  • Grand Designs, Small Budget
  • Great Expectations (Lowered)
  • Greenish Gables
  • Group Chat HQ
  • Grout Expectations
  • Guide Price Grange
  • Gulls Just Wanna Have Fun

H: 34 names

  • Hall or Nothing
  • Hall Over the Place
  • Hammer Time Cottage
  • Heating's Off
  • Hedge Fund
  • Held Together by Paint
  • Held Up by Ivy
  • Higgledy Piggledy House
  • High Hopes
  • Hillcrest (Bring Oxygen)
  • Hilltop (It's Flat)
  • Hiss and Hers
  • Hodgepodge Lodge
  • Holmes Sweet Holmes
  • Home Is Where the Dog Is
  • Home Is Where the Mortgage Is
  • Home on the Grange
  • Home Suite Home
  • Home Sweat Home
  • Home Sweet Loan
  • Honeysuckle Cottage (Mostly Nettles)
  • Hot Water Lottery
  • House of Flashcards
  • House of the Rising Damp
  • Hovel Sweet Hovel
  • Hullabaloo House
  • Humble Pie Cottage
  • Hut and Bothered
  • Hut Chocolate
  • Hut Cross Bun
  • Hut Diggity
  • Hut Property
  • Hut Stuff
  • Hut to Trot

I: 7 names

  • Instant Noodle Palace
  • Instead of a Yacht
  • Interest Only
  • IOU Villa
  • It Was Like That When We Moved In
  • Itlldo
  • Ivy House (The Ivy Won)

J: 2 names

  • Just Moved Inn
  • Just Pottering

K: 8 names

  • Keep Clam
  • Kerfuffle Cottage
  • Kettle's On
  • Key's Under the Gnome
  • Kids' Inheritance Cottage
  • Knock Knock
  • Know It Hall
  • Kumonin

L: 24 names

  • Lakeside (No Lake)
  • Landlord Beige
  • Landlord's Loss
  • Late Checkout
  • Laundry Day Never
  • Lawn and Order
  • Leaky Rafters
  • Library Adjacent
  • Lie Inn
  • Lingalonga
  • Little Buckingham
  • Little House on the Bypass
  • Little House, Big Mortgage
  • Loan Rangers' Rest
  • Location, Location, Inflation
  • Lodge a Complaint
  • Loft and Found
  • Loft in Translation
  • Log Off Cabin
  • Log Out Lodge
  • Long Hut Summer
  • Loose Slates
  • Lord of the Semi
  • Lowered Expectations

M: 23 names

  • Manor of Speaking
  • Mansfield Parking
  • Mayhem Manor
  • Meadow View (Now a Supermarket)
  • Measure Twice Cottage
  • Mews Flash
  • Microwave Manor
  • Midlife Crisis Cottage
  • Mildew Manor
  • Mind the Gulls
  • Mind the Wet Paint
  • Mind Your Manors
  • Mischief Manor
  • Missed Lecture Lodge
  • Mock Tudor Towers
  • Modest Ambitions
  • Mom's Taxi Depot
  • Mortgage Manor
  • Mostly the Bank's
  • Mount Washmore
  • Mow Problems
  • Muddy Paws Manor
  • Mystery Stain Manor

N: 15 names

  • Nailed It (Nearly)
  • Nearly Ours
  • Never Monday
  • Next Door to Next Door
  • No Mews Is Good Mews
  • No Mow Manor
  • No Plaice Like Home
  • No Refunds
  • No Right Angles
  • No Signal Lodge
  • Nomoorent
  • Not a Bean Cottage
  • Not Buckingham Palace
  • Not Quite Level
  • Not the Pub

O: 10 names

  • Oak Cottage (It's a Beech)
  • Offers Over House
  • One Bar of Signal
  • One More Coat
  • Orchard House (One Tree)
  • Ourzanthebanks
  • Out of Office
  • Outbid Twice
  • Over Budget
  • Owen Moore House

P: 20 names

  • Paid Off At Last
  • Paint Splatter Place
  • Pajama Headquarters
  • Pane in the Glass
  • Paradise Mislaid
  • Parking Lot View
  • Passive Aggressive Notes
  • Password on the Fridge
  • Penny Pincher's Rest
  • Permission Denied
  • Pier Pressure
  • Pipe and Slippers
  • Pizza Box Pagoda
  • Planning Permission Pending
  • Plaster Disaster
  • Pop Inn
  • Priceless (Sadly Not)
  • Pride and Extension
  • Procrastination Station
  • Put a Sweater On

R: 10 names

  • Ramshackle Hall
  • Ramshackleton
  • Rebel Without a Garage
  • Remortgage Row
  • Revision Avoidance HQ
  • Rising Damp
  • Rivendull
  • Rose Cottage (No Roses)
  • Rumpus Ranch
  • Run of the Mill

S: 57 names

  • Sand in the Sandwiches
  • Sandcastle Repossessed
  • Sandy Floors Forever
  • Sandy Toes
  • Sawdust Central
  • Sea View (From the Roof)
  • Sea View If You Lean
  • Sea You Later
  • Sea-esta
  • Seas the Day
  • Seaview (Inland)
  • Second Breakfast Cottage
  • Semi Conscious
  • Semi Retired
  • Semi-Detached Castle
  • Settle Inn
  • Shabby Abbey
  • Shangri-Lawn
  • Shed Quarters
  • Shell Shocked
  • Shell We Dance
  • Shellebration
  • Shenanigans
  • Shoes Off Please
  • Shore Beats Working
  • Shore Thing
  • Six Bikes One Hallway
  • Skint Towers

S, continued

  • Slightly Bleak House
  • Slightly Wonky
  • Slug Buffet
  • Snack Demand HQ
  • Snail's Pace Place
  • Snooze Button Bungalow
  • Snooze Inn
  • Snoring Heights
  • Sofa of Doom
  • Sold Subject to Sanity
  • Sole Mates
  • Some Like It Hut
  • Sorry About the Drums
  • Sorry We Missed You
  • Spackle Palace
  • Spare Screws Lodge
  • Spent the Inheritance
  • Spirit Level Optional
  • Squeeze Inn
  • Stamp Duty Cottage
  • Stayawile
  • Staycation Station
  • Still Not Finished
  • Stony Broke
  • Strange Grange
  • Student Loan Lodge
  • Stumble Inn
  • Subsidence View
  • Sunnyside (Optimistic)

T: 83 names

  • Tabby Abbey
  • Table Manors
  • Terrace Firma
  • Terraced Palace
  • The Bark Side
  • The Barn Identity
  • The Bidding War
  • The Bin Rota
  • The Boathouse (No Boat)
  • The Bottomless Pit
  • The Builders Are In
  • The Coast Is Clear
  • The Dog's House (We Just Live Here)
  • The Dripping Tap
  • The Empty Nest (Finally)
  • The Empty Piggy Bank
  • The Escape Pod
  • The Eternal Project
  • The Fixer Upper
  • The Floordrobe
  • The Gatehouse (No Estate)
  • The Grange (It's a Semi)
  • The Grumpy Crab
  • The Hobbit Hole (Low Ceilings)
  • The Hollies (Ouch)
  • The Humble Abode
  • The Last Penny

T, continued

  • The Leaky Bucket
  • The Leaning Tower of Pizza
  • The Lighthouse (No Light)
  • The Manor (In Our Dreams)
  • The Money Pit
  • The New Old Rectory
  • The Nook (Mind Your Elbows)
  • The Old Bakery (No Buns)
  • The Old Excuse
  • The Old Forgery
  • The Old Ruin
  • The One With the Blue Door
  • The Only Wing
  • The Overdraft
  • The Overdue Essay
  • The Paddock (A Lawn, Really)
  • The Roof Went With the Wind
  • The Rota Republic
  • The Shared Drive
  • The Shower Queue
  • The Snag List
  • The Squeaky Gate
  • The Sticky Note Wars
  • The Surveyor's Surprise
  • The Temperamental Boiler
  • The Ten Step Commute
  • The Thirty Year Plan
  • The Unwashed Mugs

T, continued

  • The West Wing (There Is No East)
  • The Wet Paint Sign
  • The Willows (Stumps Now)
  • The Wobbly Shelf
  • The Wrecktory
  • The Zoo
  • There Goes the Savings
  • Thermostat Wars
  • They Came Back
  • Thin Walls Terrace
  • Thistledome
  • Thistledonicely
  • Tide and Seek
  • Tide Me Over
  • Tile and Error
  • Tiny Towers
  • Tivuli
  • To the Manor Borrowed
  • Toad-in-the-Hole Hall
  • Toast of the Coast
  • Tomorrow Probably
  • Too Close for Comfort
  • Trowel and Error
  • Tudor-ish
  • Tumble Inn
  • Tumbledown Towers
  • Twelve Angry Tenants
  • Two Coats Minimum

U: 3 names

  • Unfinished Business
  • Uphill Both Ways
  • Used to Be the Pub

V: 3 names

  • Villa Shambles
  • Villa Thrilla
  • Vitamin Sea

W: 23 names

  • Watching Paint Dry
  • We're the Noisy Ones
  • Weed 'Em and Reap
  • Weerhere
  • Where Are My Glasses
  • Whistling Windows
  • Who Ate My Cheese
  • Who Moved My Charger
  • Who's There
  • Whose Milk Is This
  • Wi-Fi Dead Zone
  • Wilmakedo
  • Windsor Hassle
  • Windy Ridge, Literally
  • Wipe Your Paws
  • Wish You Were Pier
  • Withering Heights
  • Wits End
  • Wonky Chimneys
  • Work in Progress
  • Worth Every Penny (Probably)
  • Wuthering Depths
  • Wyewurk

X: 1 name

  • Xanadon't

Y: 3 names

  • Ye Olde New Build
  • You Have Arrived (Probably)
  • Yurt Locker