Peaky Blinders Name Generator

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Generate names in the style of Peaky Blinders: Birmingham and Black Country men and women of the 1920s like Alf Hadley and Florrie Hingley, Romanichal families like Shadrach Lovell and Kizzy Lee, Irish, London Italian and London Jewish names, army and racecourse nicknames like Nobby Clark and Tommy Tick-Tack, plus gangs, pubs and front companies. Canon characters are included for reference.

About Peaky Blinders names

Peaky Blinders runs from 1919 into the 1930s in Birmingham and the Black Country, and its names are plain on purpose. The Shelbys and their neighbors carry the working-class given names of the time, usually in the short form: Arthur, Ada, Polly, Lizzie, Alf, Bert, Sid, Florrie, Gertie. Surnames that sound right come from the same streets and forges: Hadley, Pritchard, Tranter, Hingley, Tromans, Raybould. Old Testament names such as Enoch, Eli, Jabez and Josiah were long-standing favorites in the Black Country and suit an older generation.

The show's world has other layers. The Shelbys have Romani roots and marry into the Lee family, so the list uses long-established English Romani surnames (Lee, Boswell, Lovell, Heron) with given names recorded in those families, such as Shadrach, Absalom, Britannia and Vashti. Birmingham's Irish families, the Italians of Clerkenwell and the Jewish families of London's East End fill out the cast, above all when the story moves to London.

Nicknames come from the army and the racecourse. Men back from the war kept the nickname that went with their surname (Nobby Clark, Dusty Miller, Tug Wilson), and the betting ring adds names like Tommy Tick-Tack, after the bookmakers' hand signals. The 500 names include canon fictional characters for reference, original people in every layer, and invented gangs, pubs and front companies.

How to choose Peaky Blinders names

  • Use the short form for anyone the family knows and the full name for the law. He is Alf Hadley in The Navigation Inn and Alfred Hadley on a charge sheet.
  • Give a character one layer and keep to it. A Black Country forge family, a Romanichal family on the canal, an Irish family in the back-to-backs and a Clerkenwell Italian firm each have their own first names and surnames.
  • Let nicknames be small and practical. Army nicknames follow the surname, racecourse names follow the job (Sixpence Sid, Odds-On Alf), and canal names follow the boat (Narrowboat Ned, Towpath Tom).
  • Name the business before the gang. A firm in this world hides behind something dull such as Hadley Brothers Coal Merchants or Pritchard & Sons Turf Accountants, and the gang name is what other people call it.
  • For a pub, pick a local trade. The Chainmakers Arms, The Forge Hammer and The Boatman's Rest tell the reader which street they are standing in.

Frequently asked questions

Are these names from the Peaky Blinders series?

About forty are fictional characters and places from the show, such as Thomas Shelby, Polly Gray, Ada Thorne, Johnny Dogs and The Garrison, and they are listed for reference. The rest are original names in the style of the series. The real historical figures who appear in the show are left out.

What are good Peaky Blinders style names for a character?

For a Birmingham or Black Country man try Enoch Tromans, Bert Pritchard or Jabez Fellows, and for a woman Ada Hadley, Florrie Hingley or Queenie Bloomer. For a Romanichal character the list has names like Shadrach Lovell and Britannia Boswell, and for an Irish one Paddy Rafferty or Bridie Flanagan.

How do nicknames work in this setting?

Most come from the army, the racecourse or the canal. British soldiers gave certain surnames a fixed nickname, so a Clark was Nobby and a Miller was Dusty. Around the betting ring and the wharves a nickname names the job or a habit, as in Tommy Tick-Tack, Billy Both-Ways and Coal Dust Dan.

Can I use these names for a story or a role-playing game?

Yes. The original people, gangs, pubs and front companies are written for fan fiction, 1920s tabletop games and murder mystery nights. Canon names such as Thomas Shelby belong to the series and its makers, so keep those for the characters themselves or for clear fan work.

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A: 29 names

  • Aaron Draper
  • Abe Hyams
  • Abel Tibbetts
  • Aberama Gold
  • Absalom Heron
  • Ada Hadley
  • Ada Thorne
  • Aidan Maguire
  • Alderman Josiah Whitehouse
  • Aldo Valente
  • Alf Hadley
  • Alfred Nicholls
  • Alfredo Donati
  • Alice Hackett
  • Ambrose Lee
  • Amos Bissell
  • Angelo Bertolli
  • Anna Gray
  • Annie Hickman
  • Annunziata Fusco
  • Anvil Arthur
  • Archie Perks
  • Arrow House
  • Arthur Shelby
  • Arthur Wall
  • Assunta Bernardi
  • Aston Export Bottling Company
  • Athalia Buckland
  • Aunt Lil

B: 35 names

  • Bargee Bill
  • Barmaid Rosie Mallen
  • Barney Spiro
  • Barney Thomason
  • Bart O'Rourke
  • Battling Bert Crump
  • Bendigo Lovell
  • Benny Da Costa
  • Bernadette Maguire
  • Bernardi Brothers Wine Importers
  • Bert Pritchard
  • Bessie Da Costa
  • Bessie Southall
  • Biddy Geraghty
  • Big Flo
  • Billy Both-Ways
  • Billy Downing
  • Billy Grade
  • Bilston Bert
  • Bissell's Motor Garage
  • Black Country Chain & Anchor Works
  • Black Country Jack
  • Bob Southall
  • Bogey Knight
  • Bonnie Gold
  • Bookie's Runner Bess
  • Bordesley Canal Carriers
  • Brass Button Bob
  • Brendan Hennessy
  • Bridie Flanagan
  • Brigid Brennan
  • Britannia Boswell
  • Brummie Bob
  • Bruno Capaldi
  • Bunny Warren

C: 34 names

  • Caleb Loveridge
  • Captain Edwin Fairclough
  • Carlo Zaccaria
  • Carmela Nardini
  • Cecil Onions
  • Cesare Tedeschi
  • Chain-Maker Kate
  • Chalkboard Charlie
  • Charity Loveridge
  • Charles Shelby
  • Charlie Strong
  • Charlie Worton
  • Charlie's Yard
  • Cheapside Import & Export
  • Chief Inspector Cecil Marston
  • Cinderella Stanley
  • Clara Wooldridge
  • Clarence Nock
  • Clay-Kicker Cyril
  • Clerkenwell Marble & Tile Importers
  • Coal Dust Dan
  • Colm Sheehan
  • Colonel Ben Younger
  • Con Sweeney
  • Concetta Falco
  • Conor Mulligan
  • Constable Bert Tipper
  • Constable Percy Nock
  • Cormac Tierney
  • Cornelius Lock
  • Corporal Jim Skidmore
  • Councillor Hubert Bayliss
  • Curly
  • Cut-Side Charlie

D: 25 names

  • Daisy Cashmore
  • Dan Lavender
  • Danny Whizz-Bang
  • Dario Nardini
  • Darklis Heron
  • Declan Moran
  • Deirdre Walsh
  • Delaia Lock
  • Denis Tobin
  • Deritend Cold Storage
  • Dermot Kearney
  • Desmond Farrell
  • Detective Sergeant Alf Rudge
  • Dodger Long
  • Dolly Bissell
  • Dolly Gray
  • Domenico Falco
  • Donal Riordan
  • Dora Myers
  • Dora Pearsall
  • Doris Raybould
  • Dr. Clarence Oakley
  • Dudley Dan
  • Duke Shelby
  • Dusty Miller

E: 26 names

  • Eamon Kavanagh
  • Edgar Priest
  • Edie Tromans
  • Eileen Kavanagh
  • Eli Heron
  • Eli Hingley
  • Elijah Boswell
  • Elijah Wakeman
  • Eliza Priest
  • Elsie Tranter
  • Elvira Zaccaria
  • Emilio Rea
  • Emily Jukes
  • Emmie Hipkiss
  • Ena Cotterill
  • Enoch Tromans
  • Enrico Coia
  • Ernest Detheridge
  • Ernesto Bernardi
  • Esme Nicholls
  • Esme Shelby
  • Esther Hyams
  • Ethel Pickerill
  • Evelyn Jevons
  • Ezekiel Yardley
  • Ezra Stanley

F: 22 names

  • Fanny Turley
  • Father Ignatius Doyle
  • Father John Hughes
  • Fausto D'Ambrosio
  • Federico Gallo
  • Fergus Lynch
  • Filomena Moretti
  • Finn Gallagher
  • Finn Shelby
  • Flat Cap Freddie
  • Florrie Hingley
  • Foreman Reg Hackett
  • Foundry Frank
  • Francis Egan
  • Frank Cashmore
  • Fred Hackett
  • Freda Bloom
  • Freda Crump
  • Freddie Danks
  • Freddie Thorne
  • Freedom Scamp
  • Furlong Fred

G: 21 names

  • Gas Street Lighterage
  • Gasworks George
  • Genti Draper
  • George Bunn
  • George Fereday
  • Gertie Rudge
  • Gil Shorthouse
  • Gilderoy Lee
  • Gin Palace Gertie
  • Gina Gray
  • Ginger
  • Giulia Rinaldi
  • Giuseppe Fabrizi
  • Gladys Fellows
  • Golda Lipman
  • Goliath Loveridge
  • Grace Burgess
  • Grace Worton
  • Grainne Egan
  • Granny Raybould
  • Guido Crolla

H: 19 names

  • Hadley Brothers Coal Merchants
  • Hannah Nathan
  • Hannah Rollason
  • Harold Pickerill
  • Harry Crump
  • Harry Plant
  • Harry Silver
  • Hattie Stokes
  • Hayden Stagg
  • Herbert Cotterill
  • Hettie Flavell
  • Hezekiah Buckley
  • Hilda Billingham
  • Hingley & Tromans Horse Dealers
  • Hobnail Harry
  • Honora Dolan
  • Hooky Walker
  • Hubert Rollason
  • Hugh McGrath

I: 13 names

  • Icknield Port Carriers
  • Ida Bertolli
  • Ike Stokes
  • Inspector Chester Campbell
  • Inspector Wilfred Greaves
  • Iris Downing
  • Isaac Mallen
  • Isaac Sugarman
  • Isiah Jesus
  • Issy Lipman
  • Italo Marchesi
  • Ivy Attwood
  • Izzy Goldstein

J: 19 names

  • Jabez Fellows
  • Jack Jukes
  • Jack Myers
  • Jack Partridge
  • Jasper Lock
  • Jeremiah Wooldridge
  • Jerry Mahon
  • Jevons & Rudge Bonded Warehouse
  • Jimmy McCavern
  • Jimmy Slater
  • Job Penfold
  • Jockey Freddie Tibbetts
  • Joe Fineman
  • Joe Hollis
  • Johanna Tobin
  • John Shelby
  • Johnny Dogs
  • Josiah Billingham
  • Jumper Collins

K: 9 names

  • Karl Thorne
  • Kathleen Nock
  • Keziah Lovell
  • Kid Lipman
  • Kid Tonks
  • Kitty Sheehan
  • Kitty Wakeman
  • Kizzy Lee
  • Knocker White

L: 24 names

  • Landlord Harry Fellows
  • Lavinia Loveridge
  • Leah Abrahams
  • Lementina Hearn
  • Len Tonks
  • Leonard Hipkiss
  • Levi Draper
  • Liam Joyce
  • Lias Hearn
  • Lil Bache
  • Linda Shelby
  • Little Elsie
  • Lizzie Stark
  • Lizzie Whitehouse
  • Lock-Keeper Len
  • Lofty
  • Logan Boswell
  • Lorenzo Tartaglia
  • Lottie Tibbetts
  • Lou Lazarus
  • Luca Changretta
  • Lucia Valente
  • Lucy Hodgetts
  • Luigi Tedeschi

M: 30 names

  • Ma Pritchard
  • Mabel Tonks
  • Madge Danks
  • Maeve Kearney
  • Maggie Skidmore
  • Magistrate Edgar Pearsall
  • Major Lionel Carrow
  • Malachy Brennan
  • Manny Isaacs
  • Marco Cavalli
  • Marjorie Millward
  • Martin Duffy
  • Maud Fereday
  • Maureen Tierney
  • May Carleton
  • May Slater
  • Mercy Penfold
  • Michael Gray
  • Mick Geraghty
  • Midland Counties Motor Haulage
  • Millie Lavender
  • Minnie Tipper
  • Miriam Isaacs
  • Mizelli Cooper
  • Moishe Rosenthal
  • Monty Franks
  • Mordecai Samuels
  • Morrie Nathan
  • Moses Burton
  • Mother Blewitt

N: 18 names

  • Nan Hadley
  • Naomi Scamp
  • Narrowboat Ned
  • Nat Jacobs
  • Ned Tandy
  • Nehemiah Cooper
  • Nellie Hollis
  • Nelson Buckland
  • Niall Dempsey
  • Nino Bianchi
  • Noah Raybould
  • Noah Scamp
  • Nobby Clark
  • Nora Detheridge
  • Nora Hennessy
  • Nosebag Ned
  • Nurse Edna Pickerill
  • Nutty Cox

O: 4 names

  • Odds-On Alf
  • Onions Brothers Removals
  • Ottavio Pagano
  • Owen Dolan

P: 17 names

  • Paddy Rafferty
  • Padraig Nolan
  • Pasquale Moretti
  • Patience Lee
  • Pearl Yardley
  • Peggy McGrath
  • Percy Bache
  • Peter Hogan
  • Philomena O'Leary
  • Phyllis Mallen
  • Pigeon Pete
  • Polly Gray
  • Polly Pritchard
  • Pritchard & Sons Turf Accountants
  • Private Tommy Bache
  • Prudence Hearn
  • Pyramus Lee

Q: 1 name

  • Queenie Bloomer

R: 20 names

  • Rachel Samuels
  • Rattler Morgan
  • Rebecca Spiro
  • Reg Rudge
  • Reginald Hodgetts
  • Reuben Ayres
  • Reuben Pearlman
  • Reverend Amos Fereday
  • Rhoda Cooper
  • Righteous Hearn
  • Riley Buckland
  • Rivka Rosenthal
  • Roisin Farrell
  • Rosa Pacitti
  • Rose Perks
  • Rose Sweeney
  • Rose Woolf
  • Ruby Shelby
  • Ruth Jeavons
  • Ruth Pearlman

S: 43 names

  • Sabina Lock
  • Sadie Lazarus
  • Sally Shorthouse
  • Saltley Wagon Repair
  • Salvatore Fusco
  • Sam Jevons
  • Sam Woolf
  • Sapper Joe
  • Seamus Carroll
  • Selina Penfold
  • Sergeant Major Sam Wooldridge
  • Sergeant Moss
  • Sergeant Ted Hollis
  • Seth Tipper
  • Severn & Avon Shipping Agents
  • Shadrach Lovell
  • Sharkey Ward
  • Sheila O'Dowd
  • Shelby Company Limited
  • Shiner Wright
  • Shop Steward Bill Timmins
  • Sid Marks
  • Sid Tranter
  • Silas Turley
  • Silvio Rinaldi
  • Sinfai Buckland
  • Sister Agnes Rafferty
  • Sixpence Sid
  • Small Heath Brass & Button Co.
  • Smethwick Sam
  • Smudger Smith
  • Solly Abrahams
  • Solomon Bloomer
  • Spider Webb
  • Spike Sullivan
  • Spud Murphy
  • Stan Timmins
  • Steeplechase Stan
  • Stoker Stan
  • Superintendent Horace Lidgett
  • Susannah Tandy
  • Sybil Parkes
  • Sylvester Lovell

T: 68 names

  • Tadhg O'Leary
  • Tame Valley Scrap Metals
  • Tatiana Petrovna
  • Ted Hickman
  • Teresa Marchesi
  • Tess Nolan
  • The Anvil and Hammer
  • The Bargee's Arms
  • The Blue Brick Boys
  • The Blue Brick Tavern
  • The Boatman's Rest
  • The Bordesley Boxing Academy
  • The Bordesley Caps
  • The Brass Buckle Boys
  • The Brass Founders
  • The Brickyard Boys
  • The Bull Ring Barrow Boys
  • The Chainmakers Arms
  • The Clay Kickers
  • The Coal Wharf Lads
  • The Collier's Rest
  • The Cross Guns
  • The Cut-Side Boys
  • The Drover's Rest
  • The Flat Cap Firm
  • The Forge Hammer
  • The Foundry Row Firm
  • The Furnace Lane Mob
  • The Furnaceman's Arms
  • The Garrison
  • The Glassmakers Arms
  • The Gunmakers Arms
  • The Half-Crown Gang
  • The Horse and Jockey

T, continued

  • The Horse Fair Lot
  • The Iron Bridge Lads
  • The Jockey's Whip
  • The Lamplighter's Lot
  • The Lock and Lantern
  • The Marl Hole Mob
  • The Nailers Arms
  • The Navigation Inn
  • The Old Contemptibles
  • The Penny Whistle Boys
  • The Puddlers Arms
  • The Railway Tavern
  • The Rolling Mill
  • The Starting Gate
  • The Three Horseshoes
  • The Towpath Boys
  • The Tunnellers Arms
  • The Tuppenny Mob
  • The Whippet and Pigeon
  • The Winning Post
  • Thomas Shelby
  • Tim Cullen
  • Timber Woods
  • Tobias Penfold
  • Tom Millward
  • Tommy Jeavons
  • Tommy Tick-Tack
  • Towpath Tom
  • Trainer Wally Horton
  • Trainette Ayres
  • Tranter's Racing Stables
  • Tryphena Boswell
  • Tug Wilson
  • Turf Tommy

U: 3 names

  • Umberto Monti
  • Una Riordan
  • Unity Stanley

V: 6 names

  • Vashti Heron
  • Vera Onions
  • Vic Parkes
  • Vicente Changretta
  • Violetta Capaldi
  • Vittorio Pacitti

W: 12 names

  • Wally Skidmore
  • Walt Flavell
  • Walter Whitehouse
  • Warwick Bar Wharfage
  • Wednesbury Walt
  • Whippet Walt
  • Whitehouse & Daughter Milliners
  • Widow Hingley
  • Wiggy Bennett
  • Wilf Attwood
  • William Homer
  • Winnie Timmins

Z: 2 names

  • Zachariah Cooper
  • Zilpha Boswell