Star Wars Gang Name Generator

Syndicates, swoop gangs and pirate crews of the Outer Rim

Pop CulturePart of: Star Wars generatorsPart of: guild, clan and faction generators500 names

0 of 500 seen

This or that?

7 picks, 1 winner

Tap the name you like more.

Tap a name to copy it. The arrows swap one name.

Or browse all 500 names, A to Z

Generate Star Wars gang names for tabletop campaigns, fan fiction and game guilds: syndicates like Ashen Eclipse and Hollow Star, Hutt-style outfits like Varro Kajidic, swoop gangs like the Afterburn Pack, spice rings like Kessel Dust Runners and pirate crews like the Marrow Fleet.

About Star Wars gang names

The Star Wars underworld names its outfits in a few recognizable ways. The big syndicates take two plain words, a color or mood plus something in the sky: Black Sun and Crimson Dawn set the pattern, and Ashen Eclipse, Hollow Star, Red Meridian and Silent Corona follow it. Hutt clans are called kajidics, so Varro Kajidic or Gorrumba Kajidic reads as a Hutt family business, while a place plus Cartel, Combine, Family or Table (the Rishi Maze Cartel, the Ord Mantell Table) suits a regional operation.

Smaller crews are named for what they do or what they ride. Swoop gangs sound like engine trouble: the Afterburn Pack, Throttle Jackals, Dead Stick Drifters. Smugglers borrow cargo and customs language (the Quiet Manifest, False Hull Freighters, Tariff Breakers), pirates borrow hulls and wrecks (Hullcutter Crew, the Marrow Fleet), and street gangs like anything with teeth: Krayt's Teeth, Nexu Claw, Womp Rat Pack.

The list also covers gambling dens and debt collectors (the Idiot's Array, the Lien Lords), slicers, fences and deserters, plus joke names built on famous lines. Ten canon outfits, including the Pyke Syndicate and Kanjiklub, sit in the list as style anchors. The rest are invented in the same style, though a few may echo a name used somewhere in the books, comics or games.

How to choose Star Wars gang names

  • Match the scale to the name. Two-word sky names (Pale Nova, Iron Twilight) sound like galaxy-wide syndicates, a place plus Cartel or Family sounds regional, and a nickname like the Repulsor Rats or Mos Eisley Dock Rats sounds like a dozen people and one bad speeder.
  • Anchor the gang to a world your players know. Swap the place in a name such as the Jakku Salvage Cartel or Nevarro Lava Flats Family for your own planet and the pattern still works.
  • Pick the racket first and the name second. Spice, salvage, gambling debts, stolen droids and forged transponder codes each suggest a different kind of name, boss and hideout.
  • For anything you plan to publish, skip the ten canon outfits in the list (Black Sun, Crimson Dawn, Pyke Syndicate, Hutt Cartel, Kanjiklub, Guavian Death Gang, Cloud-Riders, Ohnaka Gang, White Worms, Droid Gotra) and build on an invented one.
  • Say it the way a nervous cantina owner would: "I already paid the Lien Lords this month." If it sounds like a threat in that sentence, it works.

Frequently asked questions

What are good names for a Star Wars crime syndicate?

Follow the Black Sun pattern: a color or mood plus a sky word. Ashen Eclipse, Hollow Star, Red Meridian, Silent Corona, Dead Moon Consortium and the Umbral Hand all fit. For something colder and more corporate, try the Hollow Ledger, the Quiet Auction or the Favor Bank.

Which names in the list are from Star Wars canon?

Ten of them: Black Sun, Crimson Dawn, Pyke Syndicate, Hutt Cartel, Kanjiklub, Guavian Death Gang, Cloud-Riders, Ohnaka Gang, White Worms and Droid Gotra. They are included as reference points for the style. The other names are invented, although many borrow canon places, creatures and slang such as Kessel, Nar Shaddaa, krayt dragons, sabacc and coaxium.

What is a swoop gang?

A swoop is a stripped-down, very fast repulsorlift bike, and swoop gangs are the galaxy's answer to outlaw biker clubs. Names in that group lean on speed, heat and engine parts: the Afterburn Pack, Vaporline Reapers, Throttle Jackals, the Coolant Kings and Dead Stick Drifters.

Can I use these for a tabletop campaign or a game guild?

Yes. The list is written for underworld campaigns, fan fiction and guild or clan names, and the joke names (Maclunkey Mob, Bad Feeling Gang, Still Owe the Hutts) suit gaming groups and trivia teams. If you plan to sell something under a name, research it yourself first, because nothing here has been cleared for commercial use.

Related generators

More like this

Browse category

All 500 Star Wars gang names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

Plain text, one name per line.

A: 10 names

  • Acklay Talons
  • Aggressive Negotiators
  • Anchorhead Knuckles
  • Ancient Weapons Dealers
  • Anoat Sector Syndicate
  • Ashen Eclipse
  • Ashfall Accord
  • Asteroid Belt Brigands
  • Asteroid Cache Gang
  • Astromech Snatchers

B: 28 names

  • Backblast Boys
  • Bad Feeling Gang
  • Banking Clan Burglars
  • Bantha Fodder Boys
  • Battle Droid Reclaimers
  • Beggar's Canyon Boys
  • Black Comet Syndicate
  • Black Spire Brokers
  • Black Sun
  • Blackhull Boarders
  • Blasterhand Brokers
  • Bleak Star Collective
  • Blood Corona
  • Blue Dust Brotherhood
  • Blue Flame Brigade
  • Blue Milk Bandits
  • Blurrg Riders
  • Boarding Tube Brigands
  • Boonta Burnouts
  • Boonta Eve Bookmakers
  • Boring Conversation Anyway
  • Bracca Breakers
  • Breach and Plunder
  • Broadside Brotherhood
  • Broken Orbit
  • Brokers of the Blind Eye
  • Buckethead Bootleggers
  • Burnt Halo

C: 35 names

  • Can't Hit a Thing Crew
  • Cantina Bouncers Union
  • Canto Bight Skimmers
  • Canyon Screamers
  • Capital City Cutpurses
  • Carbon Freeze Couriers
  • Cargo Cullers
  • Carmine Star
  • Cartel of the Five Moons
  • Chance Cube Cheats
  • Chrome Krayt Riders
  • Cinder Dawn
  • Circuit Breakers of Malastare
  • Clan Vosadii
  • Cloud-Riders
  • Coaxium Cutters
  • CoCo Town Collectors
  • Cold Zenith
  • Colo Claw Crew
  • Comet Tail Corsairs
  • Contraband Choir
  • Copper Sun
  • Core Worlds Collection Agency
  • Corellian Dockside Family
  • Corellian Run Robbers
  • Coronet Shipyard Combine
  • Corsairs of the Cinder Belt
  • Coruscant Underlevel Combine
  • Corvette Killers
  • Council of Unseen Hands
  • Cracked Viewport Crew
  • Cracked Visor Club
  • Cred Chip Couriers
  • Crimson Dawn
  • Customs Dodgers Union

D: 24 names

  • Dark Apogee
  • Dark Cargo Collective
  • Datapad Bandits
  • Dead Drop Dealers
  • Dead Moon Consortium
  • Dead Star Privateers
  • Dead Stick Drifters
  • Deadmark Guild
  • Death Mark Holders
  • Deep Lane Runners
  • Deep Void Reavers
  • Deserters' Dozen
  • Dewback Drovers
  • Dianoga Depths Gang
  • Dim Nebula Buccaneers
  • Docking Bay 94 Regulars
  • Drift Dogs of Anchorhead
  • Drift Salvage Syndicate
  • Droid Chop Shop Crew
  • Droid Gotra
  • Dune Sea Burners
  • Duracrete Slugs
  • Dusk Covenant
  • Dust Devil Riders

E: 6 names

  • Ebon Tide
  • Ember Veil
  • Encryption Breakers Guild
  • Eopie Rustlers
  • Eriadu Quarter Syndicate
  • Eventide Syndicate

F: 9 names

  • Fading Light Consortium
  • Fallen Meridian
  • False Hull Freighters
  • Fathier Track Fixers
  • Florrum Dune Family
  • Florrum Freebooters
  • Fondor Yard Rats
  • Force Pike Breakers
  • Forged Transponder Gang

G: 14 names

  • Garbage Chute Gang
  • Gejalli Kajidic
  • Ghost Manifest Guild
  • Ghost Nebula
  • Gilded Eclipse
  • Gold Tooth Corsairs
  • Good Blaster at Your Side
  • Gorrumba Kajidic
  • Grav-Lift Ghouls
  • Gravity Well Gang
  • Gray Market Guild
  • Guavian Death Gang
  • Guild of Closed Mouths
  • Gundark Wrestlers' Guild

H: 14 names

  • Happabore Heavies
  • Hawk-Bat Roost
  • Hive of Scum
  • Holdout Pistol Club
  • Hollow Star
  • Hollow Sun
  • Holochess Hustlers
  • House of Broken Credits
  • House of the Bent Credit
  • Howlrunner Pack
  • Hullcutter Crew
  • Hutt Cartel
  • Hydian Way Highwaymen
  • Hyperlane Highwaymen

I: 4 names

  • Imperial Surplus Syndicate
  • Interest Compounded
  • Ion Trail Riders
  • Iron Twilight

J: 3 names

  • Jammed Signal Runners
  • Jedha Relic Runners
  • Jundland Waste Jackals

K: 9 names

  • Kanjiklub
  • Kessel Deep Cartel
  • Kessel Dust Runners
  • Kessel Twelve
  • Kijimi Thieves' Quarter
  • Kill Switch Club
  • Krayt Pearl Syndicate
  • Krayt's Teeth
  • Krykna Web Gang

L: 5 names

  • Let the Wookiee Win Club
  • Level 1313 Knives
  • Long Haul Spicers
  • Loth-Cat Alley Crew
  • Low Orbit Syndicate

M: 15 names

  • Maclunkey Mob
  • Maelstrom Threaders
  • Magnaclamp Marauders
  • Malastare Fuel Cartel
  • Massiff Hounds
  • Mimban Mud Dogs
  • Moisture Farm Dropouts
  • Monkey-Lizard Mob
  • Moonless Accord
  • Mos Eisley Dock Rats
  • Mos Espa Pit Bosses
  • Mudhorn Marauders
  • Mustafar Slag Cartel
  • Mynock Swarm
  • Mynock's Maw Crew

N: 17 names

  • Nar Shaddaa Combine
  • Narglatch Fangs
  • Nebula Wolves
  • Negotiations Were Short
  • Nerf Rustlers
  • Nevarro Lava Flats Family
  • Never Tell Us the Odds
  • Nexu Claw
  • Night Circuit Riders
  • Night Harvest
  • Nightfall Consortium
  • Nightside Haulers
  • Nightwatcher Worms
  • Niima Outpost Boys
  • Nitro Nexu
  • No Blasters Allowed
  • No Questions Freight

O: 8 names

  • Oba Diah Exiles
  • Obsidian Dusk
  • Ohnaka Gang
  • Oil Bath Bandits
  • Onderon Jungle Cartel
  • Ord Mantell Scrapyard Kings
  • Order of the Empty Holster
  • Overdrive Outlaws

P: 12 names

  • Palace Guard Dropouts
  • Pale Horizon Combine
  • Pale Nova
  • Parsec Shavers
  • Pazaak Den Boys
  • Pirates of the Rishi Maze
  • Pit Beast Bettors
  • Power Converter Pinchers
  • Probe Droid Poachers
  • Pure Sabacc Syndicate
  • Purrgil Chasers
  • Pyke Syndicate

R: 18 names

  • Rancor Tooth Collectors
  • Realspace Reavers
  • Red Dust Roughnecks
  • Red Meridian
  • Red Rancor Boys
  • Red Sand Runners
  • Redline Rancors
  • Reek Horn Brotherhood
  • Restraining Bolt Boys
  • Rim Rat Runners
  • Ring of the Red Chit
  • Roger Roger Rejects
  • Roggwart's Brood
  • Rogue Moon Marauders
  • Ronto Rustlers
  • Rooftop Racers Union
  • Rust Moon Cartel
  • Rust Nebula Riders

S: 51 names

  • Sabacc Pot Smugglers
  • Sabacc Sharks
  • Sable Moon
  • Sail Barge Boarders
  • Salt Flat Sprinters
  • Salvage Moon Scavengers
  • Sando Deep Syndicate
  • Sandstorm Swoopers
  • Sansanna Skimmers
  • Scarlet Horizon
  • Scipio Vault Crackers
  • Scomp Link Society
  • Scorched Fairing Crew
  • Scrap Code Collective
  • Scruffy Lookers
  • Scum and Villainy United
  • Scurrier Thieves
  • Sealed Crate Society
  • Second Notice Collectors
  • Second Sunset
  • Sector Line Slippers
  • Shadow Perihelion
  • Shadowport Runners
  • Shielded Hold Haulers
  • Ship Graveyard Ghouls

S, continued

  • Short Stormtrooper Society
  • Shrouded Sun
  • Signet of the Serpent
  • Silent Corona
  • Silver Umbra
  • Skyhook Raiders
  • Skylane Cutters
  • Slicer's Den Collective
  • So Uncivilized Club
  • Somehow They Returned
  • Spacer's Bane
  • Spacer's Luck Ring
  • Spice Lane Shadows
  • Spice Mine Strays
  • Stardrift Corsairs
  • Starhook Crew
  • Starless Pact
  • Steelpecker Scrappers
  • Still Owe the Hutts
  • Stuck-Up Half-Wits
  • Stun Setting Optional
  • Sublevel Nine Syndicate
  • Sullust Forge Family
  • Sundown Combine
  • Swoop Skulls
  • Swoopyard Strays

T: 193 names

  • Tariff Breakers
  • The Afterburn Pack
  • The Afterglow Gang
  • The Airlock Knockers
  • The Anooba Pack
  • The Ashen Court
  • The Aurodium Thieves
  • The Back Booth Boys
  • The Backdoor Hangar Boys
  • The Bad Bet Boys
  • The Bad Motivators
  • The Bantha Skulls
  • The Bar Tab Breakers
  • The Batuu Black Market
  • The Beskar Fences
  • The Bespin Tibanna Ring
  • The Black Aurora
  • The Black Ledger Ring
  • The Bleeding Ledger
  • The Blind Jump Crew
  • The Blockade Threaders
  • The Bogwing Flock
  • The Bonded Warehouse Boys
  • The Bulk Cruiser Bandits
  • The Burnt Coil Boys
  • The Carbonite Collectors
  • The Carrion Fleet
  • The Closed Fist Accord
  • The Code Cylinder Thieves
  • The Convoy Breakers
  • The Coolant Kings
  • The Credit Skimmers
  • The Crimson Carrack
  • The Dactillion Roost
  • The Daiyu Night Market
  • The Dealer's Hand
  • The Debt Eternal
  • The Decommissioned

T, continued

  • The Dejarik Table
  • The Derelict Kings
  • The Dewback Draggers
  • The Dimming
  • The Dragon Pearl Ring
  • The Drifting Noose
  • The Drop Point Dozen
  • The Dumped Cargo Club
  • The Dust Convoy
  • The Duty-Free Devils
  • The Electrostaff Enforcers
  • The Exhaust Wraiths
  • The Exogorth's Belly
  • The Favor Bank
  • The Final Notice
  • The Fixers of Canto Bight
  • The Freighter Eaters
  • The Fun Begins Gang
  • The Fuzzballs
  • The Gilded Grapple
  • The Gizka Problem
  • The Glass Tally
  • The Glitterstim Ring
  • The Gorg Eaters
  • The Gray Tribunal
  • The Gundark Ears
  • The Hidden Hold Ring
  • The High Ground Holders
  • The Hired Blasters
  • The Hollow Hulls
  • The Hollow Ledger
  • The Holonet Ghosts
  • The Hot Coil Hooligans
  • The House Always Wins
  • The Hushed Accord
  • The Hyperfuel Hijackers
  • The Idiot's Array
  • The Interdictor's Orphans
  • The Jakku Salvage Cartel

T, continued

  • The Jerba Drovers
  • The Jolly Mynock
  • The Kafrene Ring
  • The Kouhun Sting
  • The Kuat Drive Thieves
  • The Kyber Fence Ring
  • The Lane Wolves
  • The Laser Brains
  • The Last Bidder
  • The Last Broadside
  • The Lien Lords
  • The Lightless Fleet
  • The Lockpick Legion
  • The Long Credit
  • The Long Eclipse
  • The Loth-Wolf Pack
  • The Lothal Backstreet Combine
  • The Low Altitude Club
  • The Mach Marauders
  • The Mag-Rail Marauders
  • The Marker Holders
  • The Marrow Fleet
  • The Masked Table
  • The Maw Mules
  • The Memory Wipers
  • The Missed Shots
  • The Moonlight Lifters
  • The Mythosaur's Shadow
  • The Nal Kessa Cartel
  • The Nameless Guild
  • The Nebulon Knaves
  • The Ninth Ring
  • The Ninth Signatory
  • The Nub Nub Knuckles
  • The Oathbreakers' Guild
  • The Off-Book Haulers
  • The Open Hand
  • The Ord Mantell Table

T, continued

  • The Outer Rim Table
  • The Pale Broker
  • The Parts Bin Gang
  • The Patient Knife
  • The Pit Boss Pipeline
  • The Plank Walkers
  • The Podwreck Orphans
  • The Porg Nest Mob
  • The Protocol Breakers
  • The Quiet Auction
  • The Quiet Manifest
  • The Rancor Keepers
  • The Rathtar Feeders
  • The Red Zenith
  • The Repulsor Rats
  • The Requisition Thieves
  • The Rigged Chance Cube
  • The Rimma Route Ring
  • The Rimrunner Pack
  • The Rishi Maze Cartel
  • The Rusted Cutlass
  • The Ryll Road Ring
  • The Ryloth Dust Cartel
  • The Salvage Hounds
  • The Sarlacc's Table
  • The Savareen Coast Family
  • The Scrapped Battalion
  • The Sealed Bid
  • The Sensor Ghosts
  • The Separatist Leftovers
  • The Seven Signets
  • The Shadow Tariff
  • The Shot First Club
  • The Silent Partners
  • The Smuggler's Moon Family
  • The Space Slug Syndicate
  • The Spice Moths
  • The Stabilizer Snappers
  • The Starwreck Scavengers

T, continued

  • The Stone Mite Swarm
  • The Sunless
  • The Syndic's Shadow
  • The Tatooine Water Cartel
  • The Thirteenth Level
  • The Throne Room Toughs
  • The Tractor Beam Thieves
  • The Trapdoor Operators
  • The Trash Compactor Crew
  • The Turbolaser Thieves
  • The Two-Meter Club
  • The Umbral Hand
  • The Unmarked Door
  • The Uscru District Family
  • The Vapor Trails
  • The Vault Wardens
  • The Ventshaft Vandals
  • The Wager Lords
  • The Waning Crescent
  • The Whisper Exchange
  • The Works Wrecking Crew
  • The Wrecker's Dozen
  • The Writ of Silence
  • Third Moon Combine
  • Throttle Jackals
  • Throttlejaw Gang
  • Thrust Vector Vipers
  • Thunder Alley Tearaways
  • Tibanna Tappers
  • Tooka Street Strays
  • Trade Spine Thieves
  • Traffic Lane Terrors
  • Trinivii Kajidic
  • Truguts and Trouble
  • Tunnel Runners of 1313
  • Turbine Howlers
  • Tusk Cat Prowlers
  • Twelve Parsec Club
  • Twin Suns Syndicate

U: 4 names

  • Underlevel Drag Club
  • Unknown Regions Combine
  • Unwritten Accord
  • Utinni Shouters

V: 7 names

  • Vandor Rail Robbers
  • Vaporline Reapers
  • Varactyl Riders of Utapau
  • Varro Kajidic
  • Vibro-Axe Raiders
  • Void Jackals
  • Vulptex Runners

W: 13 names

  • Wampa Claw Gang
  • Wanted in Twelve Systems
  • We Don't Like You Either
  • Western Reaches Cartel
  • White Nebula
  • White Worms
  • Wild Bantha Bunch
  • Wild Space Syndicate
  • Wobani Breakouts
  • Womp Rat Bullseyes
  • Womp Rat Pack
  • Wreckfield Wolves
  • Wupiupi Pinchers

Z: 1 name

  • Zillo Scale Gang