Squid Name Generator

Squid names cluster around four things people notice first: ink, tentacles, squishiness and the deep sea. Ink gives you Inky, Inkwell, Sepia, Rorschach and Sumi (the Japanese word for ink); the ten arms give you Decapod, Tentacle Tess and Suckers; the texture gives you Squish, Noodle, Wobble and Mochi; and the deep ocean gives you Fathom, Abyss, Luma and Vampyro, after the vampire squid that lives in the twilight zone. A squid that glows, like the Minecraft glow squid or a real firefly squid, can borrow Hotaru, Glowbert or Watasenia.

Fandom supplies the best-known squid names: Squidward and Squilliam from SpongeBob, Inkay and Malamar from Pokemon, and Splatoon's Callie, Marie, Pearl, Marina, Shiver and Frye, plus community words like Woomy and Booyah. For something grander there are the sea monsters (Kraken, Lusca, Akkorokamui, Gezora) and the Greek teuthis, from which every scientific squid name descends.

If you want a name that sounds like a squid without being a pun, look at real squid words in other languages: Lula (Portuguese), Totano and Calamaretto (Italian), Chipiron (Spanish), Ika and Geso (Japanese), Ojingeo (Korean). They are short, soft and unmistakably cephalopod.