NBA Name Generator
Realistic basketball names for fictional pros and rosters
Generate NBA-style names that sound like they belong on a real roster: modern American first names, international stars, and the kind of surnames you hear on draft night. Built for sports fiction, basketball sims, and fantasy leagues.
About NBA names
NBA names have a sound. Read any current roster and you'll notice the same ingredients: modern American first names that peaked in the late 1990s and 2000s (Jaylen, Trey, Amari, Cam, Zaire), a steady stream of Serbian, French, Nigerian, Canadian and Australian imports, and surnames that range from plain (Reed, Walker, Hill) to memorable regional family names (Broadnax, Ogletree, Fontaine). Suffixes like Jr., III and IV are more common in basketball than in almost any other sport because so many players are sons of former pros.
A good fictional NBA name reads like a scouting report line, not a superhero. If you're writing a sports novel, running a basketball sim, or filling out a fantasy league of made-up players, aim for names that would look natural on a Basketball Reference page. Hyphenated European surnames, French-Senegalese combinations, Baltic endings like -ins and -kus, and Balkan -ic and -vic endings all signal a real-world pipeline that fans instantly recognize.
The list here mixes those pipelines deliberately: American guards, Balkan bigs, French wings, Nigerian centers, Canadian and Australian imports, and draft-class-style names for rookies. Italian, Georgian, Filipino and Haitian names, initials like AJ and throwback veterans round it out. Pull one for a single character, or grab fifteen and you have a believable roster with the right international spread.
How to choose NBA names
- Build a roster the way the real league looks: roughly 70 percent American names, the rest split across Europe, Africa, Canada, Australia and Latin America.
- Use a Jr., III or IV sparingly; one per roster feels authentic, five feels like a joke.
- For a superstar character, pick a first name that shortens well (Jaylen to Jay, Kendrick to Ken) so announcers and teammates have something to call him.
- Match name origin to position stereotypes only if you want them: a 7-foot Serbian center named Nikola Stankovic reads instantly, but a French point guard or Nigerian shooting guard adds realism.
- Avoid names that are one letter off from a real star (no Lebron Jones); readers notice, and it breaks the illusion.
Frequently asked questions
Are these real NBA player names?
No. They are fictional names constructed to sound like current and recent NBA players, mixing modern American first names with realistic surnames from the countries that feed the league. Any resemblance to a real player is coincidental.
Why do so many NBA names have hyphens or suffixes?
Hyphenated surnames often reflect a player carrying both parents' names or a European double-barrelled family name, while Jr., III and IV are common because basketball talent runs in families. Both features make a fictional name feel more current.
Can I use these names in a published book, game or sim?
Yes. The names are invented and free to use in fiction, video games, fantasy leagues and simulations. If a generated name happens to match a real person, do a quick search before publishing.
What makes a basketball name sound realistic?
Consistency with a real pipeline. American first names from the 1995 to 2005 birth cohort, surnames that appear in the US South and Midwest, plus a share of Balkan, French, West African and Canadian names will read as an NBA roster; random fantasy-style names will not.
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All 1,000 NBA names
A: 68 names
- Abdoulaye Gueye
- Ace Hargraves
- Achille Guidi
- Adama Keita
- Ademola Afolabi
- Adir Shalev
- Agustin Ledesma
- Ahmad Singletary
- Aidan Fitzgerald
- Aitor Goikoetxea
- AJ Fenner
- AJ Okpara
- Akeem Rainey
- Akol Bol
- Akwasi Sarpong
- Albin Ekstrom
- Aleksa Zivkovic
- Aleksi Virtanen
- Alessandro Zorzi
- Alex Ferrer
- Alfredo Perez
- Aliou Gaye
- Alioune Diop
- Aliyu Danjuma
- Alonzo Gathings III
- Alonzo Vines
- Alperen Aydin
- Alvin Trammell
- Amadou Sow
- Amare Frierson
- Amari Ballard
- Amauri Hatchett
- Amedeo Barbieri
- Amine Belkacem
A, continued
- Amir Sallis
- Amos Threlkeld
- Anders Vestergaard
- Anderson Costa
- Andre Fortune
- Andrei Agbayani
- Andrew Hale
- Andrija Dimitrijevic
- Angelo Evangelista
- Angus McCallum
- Ante Loncar
- Antoine Mosley
- Anton Lindqvist
- Antonio Bledsoe
- Antwan Rucker
- Antwone Gaskins
- Archie Dunstan
- Ariel Weiss
- Aristide Tchoua
- Armani Pegues
- Armel Kouyate
- Arnas Butkevicius
- Arne Goossens
- Arturs Balodis
- Asa Hendrix
- Assane Ndour
- Assem Farouk
- Atem Madut
- Ater Deng-Ryan
- Aurimas Vaicekauskas
- Austin Shaughnessy
- Avery Stubblefield
- Axel Hedlund
- Ayodele Fashola
B: 46 names
- Babacar Ndiaye
- Babatunde Ojo
- Bailey Sheppard
- Balsa Vujosevic
- Baptiste Lemaire
- Bartosz Nowicki
- Bautista Villalba
- Baylor Whitcomb
- Bazoumana Kouassi
- Beau Landry
- Ben Krueger
- Bence Lukacs
- Bennet Gerlach
- Bennett Reed
- Benoit Pierre
- Berk Kilic
- Bilal Camara
- Bilal Toure
- Birame Tall
- BJ Whatley
- Blake Ostrander
- Blaz Rozman
- Boban Milutinovic
- Bodie Hartsock
- Bogdan Vukovic
- Bojan Grujic
- Bolaji Akinola
- Brady Schuler
- Brady Sikes
- Braian Mosquera
- Brant Swenson
- Braxton Maddox
- Brayden Sundberg
- Braylon Mayfield
- Brecken Lutz
- Brice Etoundi
- Briggs Ferrante
- Brock Halloran
- Brodie Trevaskis
- Brooks Walker
- Bruno Reis
- Bryant Engstrom
- Bryce Vandiver
- Bryson McClendon
- Byron Custis Jr.
- Byron Mouzon
C: 50 names
- Cade Wexler
- Caio Siqueira
- Caleb Lindholm
- Callum Fitzgibbon
- Cam Hoeksema
- Cameron Frizell
- Cameron Latimer
- Camron Ledbetter
- Carlos Ruiz-Towns
- Carson Aldrich
- Cash Ellingson
- Cason Whitaker
- Cassius Delacroix
- Cassius Kirkland
- Cedi Yilmaz
- Cedric Tubbs
- Cedric Yelverton IV
- Cedrick Ouellet
- Chadrack Tshimanga
- Chase McCallister
- Chauncey Mabry
- Cheikh Diallo
- Cheikh Tidiane Ba
- Chen Haoran
- Chibuzo Anyanwu
- Chidi Okorafor
- Chidozie Ike
- Chinanu Okonkwo
- Chinedu Ezeani
- Choi Yun-seo
- Christian Ndeh
- Chukwudi Madubuike
- Chukwuma Nwosu
- Chuol Wek
- CJ Montague
- CJ Shumate
- Clement Rousseau
- Clifford Pegram
- Cody Rasmussen
- Colby Wentworth
- Cole Brannon
- Cole Nordstrom
- Collin Stoltzfus
- Colt Whittaker
- Connor Rafferty
- Cooper Halstead
- Corey Holloway
- Cory Amankwah
- Craig Mumford
- Cristian Mejia
D: 74 names
- Da'Vion Oglesby
- Daichi Okamoto
- Daiki Yamazaki
- Dajuan Stallworth
- Dale Kittrell
- Dalton Garrity
- Damarion Abernathy
- Damilare Babalola
- Dane Yoder
- Daniel Osayande
- Dante Rowe
- DaQuan Wilkerson
- Darcy Hetherington
- Darian Wilfred
- Dario Kovacevic
- Darius Ogletree
- Darnell Culbreath Jr.
- Darnell Pinkston
- DaRon Whitfield
- Darrell Stroman
- Daveon Yarbrough
- Davide Cattaneo
- Davis Ozolins
- Dawson Kettler
- Dax Wilhoit
- De'Marr Mangum
- DeAndre Pruitt
- Deion Merritt
- Delano Charles
- Dell Rutledge
- DeMarco Arrington
- Demarcus Alston
- Demba Mbengue
- Deng Majok-Reid
- Deni Levi
- Dennis Bauer-Schulz
- Deonte Ferrell
D, continued
- Dereck Lyle
- Derrick Toussaint
- Deshawn Merriweather
- DeShawn Tillery
- Desmond Sonnier
- Devante Sherrod
- Devante Whittington
- DeVaughn Rideau
- Devin Sallee
- Devon Blackwood
- Devonte Rankin
- Dieudonne Ilunga
- Dillon Ambrose
- Dimitris Karagiannis
- DJ Kowalewski
- DJ Leathers
- Djordje Ristic
- Dmytro Bondarenko
- Domantas Kairys
- Domas Rutkauskas
- Dominik Grabowski
- Dominique Hargrove
- Donovan Gilchrist
- Dontae Rideout
- Dontavious Nettles
- Dontrell Massey
- Dontrell Massey Jr.
- Dorian Pichon
- Dragan Petkovic
- Dre'Shaun Lumpkin
- Dreshad Ledet
- Drew Cavanaugh
- Dusan Radulovic
- Dut Mayom
- Dwayne Fraser
- Dwight Holcombe
- Dyson Reid
E: 33 names
- Easton Whitford
- Ebuka Nwankwo
- Eddie Tarpley
- Edgars Ozolins
- Eduardo Salinas
- Eetu Makinen
- Ege Arslan
- Ehab El-Sayed
- Eirik Bakken
- Eitan Golan
- EJ Zollicoffer
- Ekene Achebe
- El Hadji Diatta
- Elden Purifoy
- Eli Vaughns
- Elian Taveras
- Elijah Vashon
- Ellis Thackeray
- Emanuel Rossi
- Emeka Balogun
- Emil Sundqvist
- Emile Charbonneau
- Emir Kapetanovic
- Emmanuel Adjei
- Emmett Tully
- Emoni Kirkpatrick
- Enrique Manansala
- Enzo Delorme
- Ervin Gandy
- Ethan Gunderson
- Etienne Gagnon
- Evan Lecomte
- Exauce Kazadi
F: 19 names
- Fabrice Njoya
- Facundo Vega
- Felix Krause
- Felton Scales
- Femi Adewumi
- Fiifi Acheampong
- Filip Bogdanovic
- Filip Radovic
- Filip Zeman
- Finn Coburn
- Florian Kessler
- Flynn Pendlebury
- Frandy Lantigua
- Frank Mbala
- Frantz Valcourt
- Franz Lacson
- Frederik Holm
- Fritz Dorsainvil
- Furkan Demir
G: 32 names
- Gabriel Molina
- Gabriele Fumagalli
- Gage Hollister
- Gao Zhenyu
- Garrett Lindsey
- Garrison Jeffcoat
- Garvin Moxey
- Gary Edgerson
- Gavin Erdmann
- Gbenga Ogunleye
- Georges Ntumba
- Georgios Kalaitzakis
- Gerald Pinkard
- Giacomo Benedetti
- Giannis Papadopoulos
- Giorgi Kapanadze
- Giovanni Carrasquillo
- Girts Liepins
- Gleb Antipov
- Glen Hostetler
- Goran Djordjevic
- Gorgui Sarr
- Gradey Sikes
- Graham Whitten
- Grayson Whitlock
- Griffin Hill
- Guillem Roca
- Gunnar Halvorsen
- Guo Zihan
- Gustavo Trejo
- Guy Kabongo
- Gytis Paulauskas
H: 25 names
- Haakon Myklebust
- Hamish Gillespie
- Haris Sulejmanovic
- Harrison Dugas
- Haruki Ando
- Haruto Ishii
- Hayato Ueda
- Heath Cartwright
- Hector Laboy
- Hemi Tamihana
- Hendrik Thiessen
- Henrik Dahlgren
- Herbert Chenier
- Heritier Mwamba
- Herve Kasongo
- Hiroki Nishimura
- Holden Eckstein
- Horace Gadsden
- Hrvoje Barisic
- Hu Mingze
- Hubert Ruffner
- Hudson Feldkamp
- Hugo Delmas
- Hunter Lindahl
- Hwang Geon-woo
I: 22 names
- Ibrahim Djimrangar
- Ibrahima Diagne
- Ido Gabay
- Ifeanyi Ubaka
- Ignacio Zarate
- Ignas Venskus
- Ikenna Adebayo
- Iker Aguirre
- Ilan Cohen-Attias
- Ilyes Benali
- Inigo Sumulong
- Irakli Tsiklauri
- Isaac Whitcombe
- Isaiah Fontaine
- Isaiah Fontaine Jr.
- Isaiah Kilgore
- Isaiah Renfro
- Isaiah Vogel
- Ismael Doumbia
- Ismaila Coulibaly
- Ivica Zubek
- Izaiah Kimbrough
J: 88 names
- Ja'Kobe Winters
- Ja'Marcus Royster
- Ja'Vonte Hollins
- Jabari Sneed
- Jabril Speight
- Jace Duffy
- Jack Tollefson
- Jacoby Auguste
- Jaden Strickland
- Jadiel Ocasio
- Jaheim Wardlaw
- Jahleel Hester
- Jahmir Gaddis
- Jaka Zupan
- Jakeem Eubanks
- Jakub Sedlacek
- Jalen Corbin
- Jalil Winbush
- Jamal Fenwick
- Jamal Ridley
- Jamir Blackshear
- Jamison Wadley
- Jancarlos Negron
- Janis Zvirbulis
- Jannik Strobel
- Jaquan Bynum
- Jaquez Hardaway
- Jarace Holliman
- Jaren Thibeaux
- Jarrett Sowell
- Jarrod Whitcombe
- Jarvis Pettigrew IV
- Javi Lumibao
- Javion Barksdale
- Javonte Bass
- Jaxon Falkner
- Jayden Ngata
- Jaydon Prather
- Jaylen Broussard
- Jaylen Whitmore
- Jaylin Crowder
- Jaylon Battle
- Jayvon Echols
- JC Tyndall
J, continued
- JD Hargis
- Jeison Almonte
- Jelle Veenstra
- Jensen Wolters
- Jeremiah Narcisse
- Jeremie Pelletier
- Jericho Tolentino
- Jermaine Ledford
- Jerome McDuffie II
- Jerrell Landrum
- Jesper Nyberg
- Jett Ostrowski
- Jevaughn Mullings
- Jevon Barrington
- Jhornan Briceno
- JJ Varner
- Joaquin Panganiban
- Jock Hartley
- Johannes Albrecht
- Johnathan Metoyer
- Jolo Katigbak
- Jonas Kristensen
- Jonas Vaitkus
- Jonas Weidmann
- Joonas Rantanen
- Jordan Lavergne
- Josh Halvorsen
- Josh Marsh
- Josiah Kimble
- Josip Matkovic
- Josue Ortiz
- JP Devlin
- JR Bellamy
- JT Grandberry
- Juan Toscano-Rivera
- Juancho Ruiz-Hernandez
- Juhann Sidibe
- Julian Vossberg
- Jung Woo-jin
- Jurre Kuipers
- Justus Eichhorn
- Jusuf Begic
- Juwan Dunlap
- Jye Thornley
K: 89 names
- Kadeem Fulton
- Kaden Bouknight
- Kaine Tuilagi
- Kaito Fujimoto
- Kaito Watanabe
- Kaleb Grigsby
- Kamar Joubert
- Kamari Ravenel
- Kane Rutherford
- Kang Tae-yang
- Kannon Shipp
- Kareem Moultrie
- Karolis Mockevicius
- Kashief Dacres
- Kaspar Tammik
- Kavon Chisholm
- Kayode Fairclough
- Ke'Andre Quarterman
- Keaton Lockwood
- Keenan Bethea
- Keisuke Tanaka
- Kelan Threadgill
- Kelan Threadgill III
- Kelechi Adeyemi
- Kelechi Anozie
- Kelechi Obiora
- Kellan Sawyer
- Kellen Hollingsworth
- Kelvin Threatt
- Kemar Blake
- Kenan Hadzic
- Kendall Sturdivant
- Kendrick Sable
- Kenechukwu Okeke
- Kenta Hasegawa
- Kentrell Dozier
- Kentwan Rolle
- Kenyatta Faison
- Kenyon Faulk
- Keon Ellison
- Keontae Hebert
- Kerem Aksoy
- Kervens Belizaire
- KeVaughn Edmonds
K, continued
- Keyon Middlebrooks
- Keyshawn Pinckney
- Khalil McCants
- Khem Grant
- Killian Dubois
- Kim Do-hyun
- Kingston Averett
- Kirill Vorontsov
- KJ Pickens
- KJ Tuitele
- Klavs Krastins
- Klemen Mlakar
- Knox Tidwell
- Koa Kahale
- Kobe Bufford
- Kobe Marchand
- Kobe Wilkinson-Tau
- Kobie Satterfield
- Kofi Amponsah
- Kohei Matsuda
- Kojo Boakye
- Kolade Osunbunmi
- Kolby Rasmussen-Cole
- Kordell Ambrose
- Kostas Vasilakis
- Kosuke Nakamura
- Kresimir Skoric
- Kris Daigle
- Kristaps Berzins
- Kristers Dukurs
- Krzysztof Zielinski
- Kunle Adeniran
- Kuol Wal
- Kwabena Agyeman
- Kwadwo Danquah
- Kwaku Owusu
- Kwame Sturgis
- Kwesi Ashford
- Kwon Min-seok
- Kyle Bergquist
- Kyle Kowalski
- Kyler Stoddard
- Kyree Hampton
- Kyrese Ruffin
- Kyron Alleyne
L: 43 names
- Lachlan Brereton
- LaDarius Cheatham
- Lamine Kane
- Lamont Dargan II
- Landon Kessling
- Landry Kamga
- Lane Harlan
- Lanre Olatunji
- Lasha Gogoladze
- Lathan Batiste
- Latrell Denson
- Lauri Koskinen
- Lautaro Maidana
- Lavonte Bozeman
- Lawson Colbert
- Lazar Milosavljevic
- Leandro Silva
- Lee Seung-min
- Lennard Oldenburg
- Leon Steinbach
- Leonardo Grasso
- Lester Spivey Jr.
- Levan Gelashvili
- Li Xiaolong
- Lincoln Steffen
- Lindell Arceneaux
- Lionel Fauntleroy
- Lior Halevi
- Lisandro Bustos
- Liu Zhiqiang
- LJ Mims
- Logan Thibodeau
- Loic Celestine
- Lonnie Walcott
- Lorenzo Fabbri
- Lu Bastien
- Lucas Bertrand
- Ludvig Bergstrom
- Luka Petrovic
- Lukas Brazaitis
- Lukas Prochazka
- Luke Vandenberg
- Luo Wenbo
M: 79 names
- Mac Driscoll
- Mackenson Louissaint
- Mading Akec
- Makai Addison
- Makram Trabelsi
- Maksym Melnyk
- Malachi Whitehurst
- Malick Ndoye-Blanc
- Malick Sonko
- Malik Fairweather
- Malthe Lauridsen
- Malual Kuir
- Mamadi Soumah
- Mamadou Sarr
- Mamadou Sylla
- Manaia Fanene
- Mantas Petrauskas
- Mar'Keise Vance
- Marcel Mbala
- Marcellus Usher
- Marcin Kowalczyk
- Marcus Duplessis
- Marcus Tolbert
- Marcus Tolbert Jr.
- Marek Novotny
- Markell Lattimore
- Marko Jovicic
- Marko Simonovic
- Marlon Kingsley
- Marlon Standifer
- Marquavious Hairston
- Marquel Timmons
- Marquez Ellerbe
- Marquise Bracey
- Martins Eglitis
- Marvens Fleurimond
- Marvin Trotter
- Mason Kirchhoff
- Mason Trask
M, continued
- Mateja Cvetkovic
- Mateusz Wojcik
- Mathias Solberg
- Mathieu Lavoie
- Mathis Lefebvre
- Matteo Carraro
- Matvei Zubkov
- Max Niemann
- Maxence Beaulieu
- Maxi Roth
- Mayen Thiik
- Mekhi Yancey
- Melvin Lubin
- Melwin Sjoberg
- Messiah Zeigler
- Micah Sedgewick
- Michael Ogbeide
- Michele Rinaldi
- Miguel Dimaculangan
- Mihailo Trifunovic
- Mikael Jantunen
- Mikel Urrutia
- Mikus Zarins
- Miles Stockman
- Milos Rakocevic
- Mindaugas Stankus
- Miro Lehtinen
- Miroslav Zoric
- Mitch Burke
- Mladen Vasiljevic
- Modou Kebe
- Montez Dabney
- Montrell Crenshaw
- Moritz Falkenrath
- Moritz Ziegler
- Moussa Konate
- Moussa Kone
- Moustapha Seck
- Murilo Cavalcanti
- Mykhailo Kovalenko
N: 30 names
- Nadav Azoulay
- Naji Wooten
- Nana Asante
- Naoki Shibata
- Nasir Whitlow
- Nassir Bowden
- Nate Hennessy
- Nathan Ashcroft
- Nathan Fournier
- Nathaniel Cadogan
- Nedim Mehmedovic
- Nehemiah Norfleet
- Nemanja Vukcevic
- Nestor Urdaneta
- Nickeil Baptiste-Lewis
- Nico De Guzman
- Nicolas Cruz
- Nicolo Brambilla
- Niels Rademacher
- Nikau Rangihuna
- Niklas Lehto
- Nikola Stankovic
- Nikos Mavridis
- Nils Hartwig
- Nnaemeka Onwuachi
- Nnamdi Okafor
- Noah Clowry
- Noam Sasson
- Nolan Whitcher
- Nonso Achara
O: 23 names
- Obinna Eze
- Octavius McElroy
- Odane Hylton
- Ognjen Jaramaz
- Ognjen Todorovic
- Okechukwu Nwafor
- Olumide Awoyemi
- Omari Roundtree
- Omer Ben-Ari
- Omer Kaya
- Omri Ben-David
- Ondrej Pospisil
- Onni Laaksonen
- Oriol Casals
- Osaze Igbinedion
- Oscar Tshibwe
- Oshae Callender
- Oskar Lindmark
- Otis Wingate
- Ousmane Ndiaye
- Ousmane Sarr-Dieng
- Ousseynou Sy
- Owen Halverson
P: 21 names
- Pacome Tounkara
- Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
- Paolo Macaraeg
- Papa Mbaye
- Parfait Atangana
- Park Ji-hoon
- Parker Denholm
- Patrick Cooper
- Patrik Bohacik
- Paulius Norkus
- Payton Lindgren
- Petar Tomasevic
- Peyton Ridgeway
- Pierce Sheridan
- Pietro Valentini
- Piotr Wisniewski
- PJ Rambert
- Pol Garriga
- Precious Nwachukwu
- Prince Mukendi
- Princeton Lawhorn
Q: 4 names
- Quadir Kendricks
- Quentin Varnado
- Quincy Beasley
- Quinn Flanagan
R: 54 names
- Radek Kucera
- Raekwon Burrell
- Rafael Magbanua
- Raffy Gatchalian
- Rahim Nesbitt
- Rangi Paora
- Rashaad Brumfield
- Rashard Peoples
- Rashawn Petty
- Rasheed Cofield
- Rasmus Norgaard
- Raul Fernandes
- Rayan Cherif
- Rayshaun Judkins
- Reece Akintola
- Reed Halvorsen
- Reggie Isom
- Reggie Thigpen Jr.
- Reid Calhoun
- Reid Sorenson
- Ren Ishikawa
- Ren Kobayashi
- Ren Sato
- Renz Manalo
- Reuben Ioane
- Rex Chilcutt
- Rhys Ashworth
- Ricard Rubalcava
- Riccardo Montanari
- Ricky Bass
- Rihards Vanags
- Riku Nagata
- Riku Sasaki
- RJ Douglas
- Rodions Kalnins
- Rodrick Haynesworth
- Rodrigue Mvondo
- Rokas Jankauskas
- Roko Culina
- Rolands Vitols
- Romaine Lindo
- Ronald Ekwueme
- Ronell Pippen-Lowe
- Ronnie Pipkin
- Roody Metellus
- Roshane Whyte
- Ross Mulcahy
- Rowan Demery
- Ryder Van Dyke
- Rylan Ostrowski
- Ryland Bosco
- Ryota Sakamoto
- Ryu Fujita
- Ryusei Kudo
S: 48 names
- Sacha Kalambay
- Sam Bettancourt
- Sam Okonjo
- Sam Vandermolen
- Sander Bjornsen
- Santi Prieto
- Savion Fortson
- Sawyer Zimmer
- Segun Bamgbose
- Sekou Bah
- Sekou Camara-Vidal
- Semaj Tarver
- Seppe De Smet
- Serge Kabongo
- Sergio Marti
- Serigne Fall
- Seth Bruggeman
- Seydou Samake
- Seyi Ogundipe
- Shamar Bostic
- Shane Rowe
- Shaquan Braxton
- Shemar Elmore
- Sherman Swain
- Sherman Tuggle Jr.
- Shin Jae-won
- Shota Ishikawa
- Shun Morita
- Sidney Luckett
- Silvio Quissanga
- Sincere Tillman
- Sindre Haugland
- Sione Fifita
- Soichiro Aoki
- Sora Kaneko
- Sota Maeda
- Sotaro Kobayashi
- Souleymane Samb
- Spencer Kilpatrick
- Stanislav Golubev
- Stanley Dorvil
- Stavros Chatzidakis
- Stedman Devereaux
- Stefan Kostic
- Stephon Ragland
- Stijn Hoekstra
- Sun Yiming
- Szymon Dabrowski
T: 78 names
- Tacko Diouf
- Tadas Urbonas
- Tahj Coney
- Tai Wetere
- Taichi Hara
- Taj Tunbridge
- Tajay Stennett
- Takumi Ono
- Tamir Rosen
- Tane Parata
- Tanner Kessler
- Taras Marchenko
- Tariq Pettway
- Tate Bridgewater
- Tavares Stovall
- Tavian Boone
- Tavion Boykins
- Tayo Braithwaite
- Terquavion Bell
- Terrance Bagwell Jr.
- Terrance Lockhart
- Terrel Sandifer
- Terrell Guyton
- Terrell Hightower
- Terrence Bland
- Terry Shropshire
- Tevin Brantley
- Tevita Vaipulu
- Thad Haverkamp
- Thanasis Georgiou
- Theo Blanc
- Theo Marchetti
- Thierno Ndao
- Thijs de Graaf
- Tiago Vasconcelos
- Tidjane Sangare
- Timothe Diarra-Morel
- TJ Brickhouse
- TJ Villanueva
T, continued
- Tobi Oyelaran
- Tobias Brunner
- Tochukwu Ugwu
- Tomas Kral
- Tomer Mizrahi
- Tommaso Sartori
- Toms Krumins
- Toni Rakic
- Tornike Lomidze
- Torrey Attaway
- Trace Whitehead
- Trayce Duval
- Tre'Shon Partee
- Tremaine Odom
- Trent Wexley
- Tresor Lukusa
- Trevaughn Mickens
- Trevon Mackey
- Trey Duckworth
- Treyvon Boatwright
- Tripp Castleberry
- Tristan Reyes
- Trystan Neale
- Tucker Voss
- Tunde Adeyinka
- Turner Gilbertson
- Ty Overstreet
- Tyjae Vinson
- Tyler Brandvold
- Tyler Brennan
- Tyquan Tolliver
- Tyree Spearman
- Tyrell Faulkner-Grey
- Tyrell Grandison
- Tyrese Boateng-Wright
- Tyrese Calloway
- Tyrin Slaughter
- Tyrique Tisdale
- Tyshawn Overby
U: 6 names
- Uchenna Nnamdi
- Ulises Castaneda
- Ulrich Fotso
- Unai Mendizabal
- Uros Stojanovic
- Uzoma Iwuchukwu
V: 16 names
- Valentin Godoy
- Vasilije Mitrovic
- Vassilis Economou
- Veljko Zdravkovic
- Vernon Akins III
- Vernon Honeycutt
- Viktor Hallberg
- Viliami Latu
- Ville Heikkinen
- Vit Prochazka
- Vitor Lacerda
- VJ Gaines
- Vlatko Novak
- Vojtech Kratochvil
- Vuk Lazarevic
- Vytenis Balciunas
W: 16 names
- Walt Kimbro
- Wang Junhao
- Wang Zhengyu
- Wayman Brockington
- Wendell Hargett Jr.
- Wilfredo Zayas
- Wilfried Louis-Marie
- Wilky Saint-Fleur
- Will Brekke
- Willie Glasper
- Winston Pichardo
- Wiremu Waaka
- Woodly Exantus
- Wout Claes
- Wyatt Pemberton
- Wyatt Snelling
X: 5 names
- Xavier Broadnax
- Xavier Broadnax II
- Xavier Puletua
- Xu Junjie
- Xzavier Goodwin
Y: 16 names
- Yadiel Marrero
- Yang Kaiwen
- Yao Zhengyu
- Yaroslav Savchenko
- Yassin Bouhaddi
- Yaw Frimpong
- Yonatan Barak
- Yoon Jun-ho
- Youssou Faye
- Yudai Nakashima
- Yuki Ishida
- Yuma Kojima
- Yunior Peguero
- Yuta Mori
- Yuto Shimizu
- Yves Mbeki