Jockey Name Generator
Realistic rider names and weighing room nicknames
Generate fictional horse racing jockey names, from realistic full names like Cormac Hanlon and Haruto Igarashi to weighing room nicknames like Lucky Eddie Moran and The Curragh Kid.
About jockey names
A jockey's name does a lot of work on a racecard. It sits beside the horse, the weight and the draw, it gets called at full speed by the commentator, and it often hints at where the rider learned the trade. Racing is international, so a believable field mixes Irish and British names with riders from Latin America, France, Japan, Louisiana's Cajun country, Australia, Italy and South Africa. This list pairs given names and surnames that are common in those places, so it suits novels, screenplays, tabletop campaigns and racing management games.
The nicknames come from the language of the sport. In Britain and Ireland the changing area is the weighing room, while American tracks call it the jocks' room. Apprentice riders get a weight allowance to offset their inexperience, and in the United States they are known as bug boys because of the asterisk printed beside their weight in the program. In Britain a new apprentice typically claims seven pounds, dropping to five and then three as the winners add up. Amateur riders there appear on the card with a title such as Mr or Miss.
Mix the styles to build a realistic meeting: mostly plain full names, a few sets of initials, and one or two riders with a nickname the whole betting ring knows.
How to choose jockey names
- Match the name to the circuit. A card at the Curragh or Cheltenham leans Irish and British, a Kentucky or Louisiana meet can carry plenty of Cajun and Latin American surnames, and Tokyo or Kyoto calls for Japanese riders.
- Say the name the way a race caller would. A surname of two or three clear syllables carries best over a fast finish.
- Save nicknames for a handful of characters. One Lucky Eddie Moran in a field of plain names feels real, while ten nicknames in one race reads like a cartoon.
- Use racecard style for background riders. Initials and a surname, such as D. J. Moriarty, fill out a field without pulling focus from your leads.
- Search any full name before you publish. These are ordinary given name and surname pairings, so a real person, or even a real rider, may share one.
Frequently asked questions
Are these the names of real jockeys?
No. They are fictional pairings of given names and surnames that are common in racing countries. Because the parts are ordinary names, some pairings will match real people by coincidence, so search a name before using it in published work.
What is a weighing room nickname?
Jockeys weigh out before a race and weigh in after it, and the room where they change is a tight community with its own humor. Nicknames tend to come from a riding style, a home track, a lucky streak or a rider's size. Examples from this list include Two Lengths Tommy Dwyer, Bug Boy Bobby Cates and El Rayo Ruben Zamora.
Why do some names use initials or titles like Mr and Miss?
That is racecard style. Cards and results often shorten riders to initials and a surname, and in Britain and Ireland amateur riders are shown with a title such as Mr, Ms or Miss. Names like Mr P. W. Rochford and Miss E. J. Summerhayes suit amateur races and hunt meetings in your story.
Can I use these names in a horse racing game or novel?
Yes. They suit racing management games, tabletop campaigns, fiction and race night party games. Pick a spread of nationalities for a big international meeting, or use the starts with filter to find a name that sits well next to your horse's name.
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All 500 jockey names
A: 23 names
- A. R. Pennington
- Abelardo Montoya
- Adrien Bellanger
- Aidan Scanlon
- Aine Meagher
- Aintree Annie Birch
- Aisling Power
- Akira Hamasaki
- Alejandro Barrios
- Alexis Carpentier
- Alfie Ashworth
- All Weather Al Whitby
- Amelie Fontaine
- Anais Girard
- Anderson Queiroz
- Andile Mkhize
- Andres Quintero
- Angus Carruthers
- Antoine Vasseur
- Aoi Yamaguchi
- Aoife Costello
- Archie Bickerstaff
- Aurelien Tessier
B: 27 names
- B. A. Culhane
- Backstretch Baptiste
- Backstretch Benny Russo
- Bantam Barry Shields
- Baptiste Langlois
- Barney Haworth
- Barry Kinsella
- Bastien Marchand
- Bayou Rene Guillory
- Beau Thibodeaux
- Ben Oldroyd
- Benicio Acevedo
- Benoit Guerin
- Beth Lumley
- Blake Rowntree
- Blinkers Billy Oakes
- Bluegrass Beau Tanner
- Breandan Halpin
- Brendan Fahy
- Brice Robichaux
- Brodie Lonergan
- Bruno Vasconcelos
- Bryce Cavanagh
- Buddy Tolliver
- Bug Boy Bobby Cates
- Bullet Work Buck Raines
- By a Nose Nora Keating
C: 37 names
- C. E. Hawksworth
- C. J. Mulqueen
- Caio Nogueira
- Callan Rutledge
- Callie Mouton
- Callum Dalby
- Camila Escobar
- Camille Renard
- Camilo Zambrano
- Caoimhe Bolger
- Carolina Medrano
- Cathal Behan
- Cedric Lemoine
- Celine Bonnet
- Cerys Probert
- Cesar Urbina
- Charlie Entwistle
- Cheltenham Chaz Webb
- Chiquito Chuy Aguilar
- Cian Mullally
- Ciara Sweeney
- Ciaran Rafferty
- Cillian Hartigan
- Clement Roussel
- Clint Guidry
- Clodagh O'Keeffe
- Closing Kick Kit Harlan
- Cody Broussard
- Colby LeBlanc
- Colm Treacy
- Comeback Connie Ward
- Connie Threlfall
- Conor Slattery
- Cool Hand Colm Reilly
- Corentin Aubert
- Cormac Hanlon
- Curragh Kev Lawlor
D: 25 names
- D. J. Moriarty
- D. P. Fitzmaurice
- Daiki Nakagawa
- Daily Double Dave Rourke
- Daisuke Takeda
- Daithi Cronin
- Dale Fontenot
- Damien Perrin
- Daniela Peralta
- Danny Rudkin
- Darcy Whitford
- Dario Santoro
- Darragh Kehoe
- Dead Heat Desmond Pike
- Dead Heat Donnelly
- Declan Furlong
- Deirdre McGrath
- Delphine Vidal
- Dermot Cleary
- Diarmuid Sheehy
- Diego Arrieta
- Donal Mulcahy
- Donncha Leahy
- Dougie Fairclough
- Dusty Calloway
E: 26 names
- E. L. Fanshawe
- Eamonn Lenihan
- Earl Pruitt
- Early Speed Earl Dobbs
- Eduard Noguera
- Eiji Sugiyama
- Eilidh Rutherford
- Eimear Crowley
- El Flaco Freddy Ortega
- El Gato Gustavo Pena
- El Mago Mauro Solis
- El Rayo Ruben Zamora
- El Zurdo Lalo Mendez
- Eliseo Camacho
- Ellie Kershaw
- Elodie Lavigne
- Emiliano Tapia
- Emmet Roche
- Emre Aksoy
- Eoghan Lyster
- Eoin Kavanagh
- Epsom Alf Turner
- Esteban Rivas
- Etienne Garnier
- Even Money Manny Cruz
- Ewan Galbraith
F: 22 names
- F. X. Delahunty
- Fabian Ocampo
- Fabien Mercier
- Fabio Conti
- Featherweight Frankie Nolan
- Felipe Bustamante
- Fergal Tierney
- Fiadh Corrigan
- Finbarr Tuohy
- Finlay Arbuthnot
- Fintan Brophy
- Fionn Delaney
- Flemington Flynn Archer
- Flora Stanhope
- Florian Caron
- Flyweight Flo Bennett
- Fraser Drummond
- Freddie Garside
- Front Runner Fran Holt
- Fumiya Otsuka
- Furlong Finnegan
- Furlong Freddie Tate
G: 17 names
- G. H. Braithwaite
- Gael Ibarra
- Gaetan Brunet
- Galway Gerry Forde
- Garrett Stackhouse
- Gate Speed Gus Novak
- Gatebreak Gomez
- Gearoid Lalor
- George Hargreaves
- Georgia Ellwood
- German Saldana
- Gethin Bevan
- Gonzalo Paredes
- Goro Kinoshita
- Grainne Foley
- Guillaume Cordier
- Gus Holroyd
H: 23 names
- H. R. Winterbottom
- Half Length Harrigan
- Half Pint Hal Jennings
- Hamish Lockhart
- Hank Devereaux
- Hard Luck Larry Stubbs
- Harriet Fenwick
- Harry Illingworth
- Haruka Sasaki
- Haruto Igarashi
- Hattie Ingham
- Hayato Onishi
- Heavy Ground Hamish Baird
- Henrique Barbosa
- Hernan Lozano
- Hialeah Hector Pagan
- Hina Kobayashi
- Hiroto Kaneko
- Home Stretch Hattie Quinn
- Homestretch Hernandez
- Horacio Villanueva
- Hot Tip Harry Glynn
- Hugo Maillard
I: 6 names
- Iestyn Maddox
- Ignacio Figueroa
- Imogen Goodall
- Iron Seat Ike Walters
- Isamu Yokota
- Isla McAllister
J: 23 names
- J. J. Sheridan
- Jack Jessop
- James Kettlewell
- Jarlath Conneely
- Jarrod Treloar
- Jason Kwok
- Jazmin Cisneros
- Jean-Baptiste Lacombe
- Jemima Marsden
- Jerome Poirier
- Jesse Comeaux
- Jhonatan Vargas
- Joao Pedro Ferreira
- Joaquin Salazar
- Joe Lockwood
- Jonas Vogel
- Jonty Birtwistle
- Josh Metcalfe
- Julian Galindo
- Julien Sauvage
- Jun Uchiyama
- Justine Colin
- Jye Patterson
K: 17 names
- K. M. Devaney
- Kade Dalgleish
- Kaito Shimizu
- Kana Murakami
- Kazuki Aoyama
- Keisuke Mori
- Kendall Trahan
- Kenji Maeda
- Kenta Hirano
- Kid Fontwell
- Kieran Nestor
- Kildare Kate Mulhall
- Killian Redmond
- Kirra Buckley
- Kit Naylor
- Koji Tsuchiya
- Kosuke Hayashi
L: 28 names
- Lachie Pengelly
- Lachlan Sinclair
- Lady Longshot
- Lambourn Len Hobbs
- Lane McCrary
- Late Charge Charlie Boone
- Laurent Hamel
- Le Renard Lucien Dubois
- Leandro Cordoba
- Leg Up Lenny Marks
- Leonardo Machado
- Lewis Cartwright
- Liam Mulvany
- Lisandro Duarte
- Long Shot Louie Ferraro
- Longchamp Louis Ravel
- Longshot Lopez
- Lorcan Dempsey
- Luan Carvalho
- Luca Barbieri
- Lucas Joubert
- Luciana Arroyo
- Lucky Eddie Moran
- Lucky Silks Lavelle
- Lucy Hebden
- Ludovic Chauvin
- Lukas Brandt
- Luke Pickersgill
M: 37 names
- M. F. Gilsenan
- Madame Morning Line
- Maeve Cullen
- Mai Watanabe
- Mairead Dooley
- Makoto Nagai
- Malachy Doherty
- Manon Picard
- Marc-Antoine Besnard
- Marcelo Espinosa
- Marco Pellegrino
- Marcos Ribeiro
- Marcus Tsang
- Margaux Deschamps
- Mariana Villalobos
- Marlene Hutchins
- Masato Kikuchi
- Mathieu Pelletier
- Matias Olivares
- Matteo Ferrante
- Mauricio Lugo
- Max Sowerby
- Maxence Rolland
- Megan Llewellyn
- Micheal Considine
- Misaki Sakamoto
- Miss E. J. Summerhayes
- Mitchell Hargrave
- Monty Pemberton
- Morning Line Moe Carver
- Mr P. W. Rochford
- Mr R. O. Villiers
- Mr T. E. Ashdown
- Ms A. C. Rowlands
- Ms K. L. Harbottle
- Mudlark Mick Deegan
- Mudlark Murphy
N: 14 names
- Nahuel Medina
- Nanami Ishikawa
- Naoki Fujimoto
- Nathan Tattersall
- Neck and Neck Nakamura
- Ned Thackray
- Newmarket Nick Farrow
- Niall Coughlan
- Niamh Hartnett
- Nicanor Valdez
- Nicolas Texier
- Nine Stone Ned Bray
- Noboru Sekiguchi
- Noel Gilligan
O: 10 names
- Oceane Leclerc
- Octavio Rosales
- Odds On Ollie Finch
- Oisin Tobin
- Olivier Barbier
- Ollie Underhill
- Orla McNamara
- Oskar Lindgren
- Osvaldo Pacheco
- Owen Cusack
P: 20 names
- P. T. Lanigan
- Paddock Paddy Noone
- Padraic Heneghan
- Padraig Lacey
- Paola Centeno
- Pascal Boucher
- Pascual Zuniga
- Paudie O'Dowd
- Pauline Moreau
- Peadar Shortall
- Pee Wee Pedro Rangel
- Percy Varley
- Photo Finish Finn Casey
- Photo Finish Fitzgerald
- Pierre-Louis Dufresne
- Pieter van Niekerk
- Pimlico Paulie Gallo
- Pocket Rocket Rosie Lane
- Poppy Crabtree
- Post Time Pete Malone
Q: 4 names
- Quarter Pole Quigg
- Quentin Faure
- Quick Hands Mickey Flynn
- Quiet Hands Hugo Marin
R: 26 names
- R. P. Shanahan
- Rail Rider Ricky Vance
- Rails Rafferty
- Ramiro Sandoval
- Randwick Reg Moody
- Reggie Broadbent
- Reinaldo Pineda
- Relampago Rico Varela
- Remi Chevalier
- Remy Boudreaux
- Ren Hoshino
- Renato Hidalgo
- Rhys Pritchard
- Riku Tamura
- Rina Miyazaki
- Rob Penhaligon
- Rocio Benavides
- Rodolfo Mejia
- Roisin Daly
- Romain Duval
- Ronan Quigley
- Rory Keogh
- Roscoe Whitlock
- Ruan Pretorius
- Ryo Nakajima
- Ryota Mizuno
S: 34 names
- S. W. Aldridge
- Sakura Morita
- Salvatore Rinaldi
- Sam Whitcombe
- Santa Anita Sonny Reyes
- Santiago Navarro
- Saoirse Flannery
- Saratoga Sal DeLuca
- Satoshi Kuroda
- Seamus Guilfoyle
- Sebastian Trejo
- Senan Whelan
- Shane Fogarty
- Shelby Doucet
- Shinji Ueda
- Short Head Shaughnessy
- Short Head Sid Parker
- Shota Nishimura
- Shun Nomura
- Silks Delacroix
- Silks Sally Pruett
- Sinead Hogan
- Siobhan Nolan
- Sipho Dlamini
- Snap Start Shin Aoki
- Soft Hands Sammy Keane
- Sorcha Moran
- Sota Yamashita
- Stan Ramsbottom
- Steady Teddy Marsh
- Stirrups McGee
- Stirrups Stevie Lomax
- Sure Thing Shay Brady
- Sylvain Gauthier
T: 55 names
- T. J. Hourigan
- T. P. Bermingham
- Tabitha Dunstan
- Tadhg Hennessy
- Taiga Imai
- Takeshi Kondo
- Takumi Okada
- Tatsuya Noguchi
- Tayla McKenzie
- Tessa Ridgeway
- The Apprentice Ace
- The Ascot Iceman
- The Baron of Belmont
- The Bayou Bullet
- The Bluegrass Bandit
- The Bug Boy Wonder
- The Chantilly Ace
- The Count of Deauville
- The Curragh Kid
- The Duchess of Doncaster
- The Duke of Del Mar
- The Flemington Fox
- The Galway Whip
- The Human Stopwatch
- The Kildare Rocket
- The Kyoto Comet
- The Lambourn Lad
T, continued
- The Newmarket Flyer
- The Pampas Express
- The Prince of Punchestown
- The Rail Skimmer
- The Saratoga Kid
- The Seven Pound Claimer
- The Sheriff of Sha Tin
- The Wizard of Warwick Farm
- Thiago Pinheiro
- Thibault Lefebvre
- Thierry Delaunay
- Tiernan O'Rourke
- Tilly Wainwright
- Tiny Tom Garrity
- Tipp Tom Heffernan
- Toby Yardley
- Tom Nuttall
- Tomas Guerrero
- Tomoya Endo
- Travis Melancon
- Trevor Kincaid
- Trifecta Trish Malloy
- Tristan Beaumont
- Tsubasa Arai
- Tucker Hebert
- Turlough Magee
- Two Lengths Tommy Dwyer
- Ty Arceneaux
U: 2 names
- Ulises Fuentes
- Ultan Brennan
V: 3 names
- Vagner Siqueira
- Valentin Delgado
- Valentina Cabrera
W: 12 names
- W. B. Ormerod
- Wade Landry
- Waldir Teixeira
- Wee Jimmy Lafferty
- Wes Holloway
- Whips Hanrahan
- Wilf Appleyard
- Wilfredo Herrera
- Will Beckwith
- Wilmer Jimenez
- Winner's Circle Wes Conlon
- Wire to Wire Walt Sims
X: 1 name
- Ximena Alvarado
Y: 7 names
- Yann Morel
- Yohann Lambert
- Yorman Colmenares
- Yui Kitagawa
- Yuma Fukuda
- Yusuke Kubo
- Yuto Ogawa