Name Coloring Page Generator

Name coloring pages are one of the simplest personalized crafts around: a child's name printed in fat outline letters, sometimes surrounded by rainbows, dinosaurs, unicorns or trucks, ready to be scribbled over. Teachers use them on the first day of school so every desk has a name tag the kids made themselves, and parents use them for party favors, road trips and letter-recognition practice. Because a child colors each letter separately, the activity quietly reinforces spelling and letter order.

The names collected here are the ones currently most common on preschool and elementary rosters in the United States, which means they are the names most likely to be needed for a class set. Short names such as Mia, Leo, Ava and Max fit on a landscape page at a huge point size; longer names like Penelope, Sebastian and Josephine work better in two rows or a portrait layout, so it helps to plan the page around length.

Use the list to fill in a template for every student, to prepare a stack of favors for a birthday party guest list, or simply to test how a name looks in a bubble font before committing to a personalized gift.