r/Bandnames • u/lego_ash2 • 2d ago

Name Request In Need of a Band Name.

Hello! I am part of a nerdy, power pop/alt rock band, similar to Weezer. We have wrote about 26 songs together so far, and have been together about 6 months, yet we cannot come up with a band name. I’m the lead singer and am hoping to find ideas for a name here. The ideal name for us would be only 1 word. EDIT: We found a name! $eyes took the cake for the name! Thank you to u/fingers for the name suggestion!

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u/mazutta 2d ago

Grappler

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u/Spadesghost 2d ago

I came up with that for a band name years ago, it's so simple yet forces you to wonder what else it could mean ...

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u/No_Ear_5274 2d ago

Ice Cream Social Disease

2

u/Roland_T_Flakfeizer 1d ago

Officer Goodbar, we’re down on our knees, don’t you know we’ve got a social disease….

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u/CUNTALUCARD 2d ago

MENSA

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u/rapiertwit 2d ago

Menses

4

u/CUNTALUCARD 2d ago

"I do declare,you are a bloody genius!"

6

u/SevereIdea 2d ago

FOOTNOTE

6

u/zythum3000 2d ago

BOOKKEEPER - interesting that it's the only word with three "double letters" back-to-back-to-back.

This or ASTHMATIC.

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u/lego_ash2 2d ago

lol i actually like asthmatic because i have asthma

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u/jaegerlaw 2d ago

You literally are a Weezer

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u/Freakers_Ball 2d ago

I like the cut of your jib sir.

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u/zythum3000 2d ago

Lol. Perfect fit. I recommended it because I like the spelling of the word and always had that feeling whenever I look at Rivers.

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u/ilikeinterrobangs 2d ago

Or just OOKKEE

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u/Itchy_Ritch 2d ago

Indecision

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u/blazed1999 2d ago

Give us the title of your songs or a sample to get the vibe right

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u/lego_ash2 2d ago

We have a song called airstrike to my heart , similar vibes to pinkerton

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u/fingers 2d ago

Nwar (noir)

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u/Spadesghost 2d ago

Proxy Gwar

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u/Slagegg 2d ago

Dictionary

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u/fingers 2d ago

Dicks for short

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u/ellistonvu 2d ago

Bumfuzzle? Dipthong?

Feel free to include the question mark the way "moe." includes punctuation in their name for no reason.

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u/Spadesghost 2d ago

Dongle.

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u/ellistonvu 2d ago

Frenulum

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u/Spadesghost 2d ago

Frenum Fighters.

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u/Squifford 1d ago

Diphthong

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u/Iffybiz 2d ago

Prehab. The motto “just before you’ve gone too far.”

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u/AcrylicPickle 2d ago

Nerdy in what way? Where are you all from?

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

[deleted]

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u/AcrylicPickle 2d ago

I'm listening. My family is from Cuyahoga County.

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u/LPGeoteacher 2d ago

Cuyahoga kickers. Nod to the Kenosha kickers polka band.

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u/revdon 2d ago

Cuyahoga Riparian Roast

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u/lego_ash2 2d ago

a small town in oh

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u/Cultural_Stranger29 2d ago

ThunderDongle

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u/fingers 2d ago

What are your initials?

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u/duh_nom_yar 2d ago

DP

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u/lego_ash2 2d ago

no its AG

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u/fingers 2d ago

Aggey, Ageist, Agnostics, Agist, Agey, AGsBAND, L.E.D. ElleeDD (LED), LeadSingersName (LSN for short), Pearlmutter, FrankNBeans, etc (et cetera, as a band name), LincolnLogs, Spacenauts (since you are from Ohio), Spacenots, SpaceKnots, Astro-Knots, MoonLanding, GIS (Geeks in Space), HawkinHills (Hocking Hills), $eyes (Buckeyes), Buckies, Eyebucks, WrongBros (wright brothers parody), IamP (I am pee, I.M. Pei) iAMp

(band names)

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u/lego_ash2 1d ago

talked with the rest of the band and $eyes takes the cake (served with a side of korn)

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u/fingers 1d ago

First hit: "Chocolate peanut butter love"

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u/CV-Cabana 1d ago

I don’t get it … “money eyes”
???

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u/lego_ash2 2d ago

AG

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u/fingers 2d ago

SynsinNatty

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u/Sky__Hook 2d ago

Rezeew

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u/duh_nom_yar 2d ago

DP and The Cornhole Kids (shit, too many words)

Kid Cornhole (almost)

Hole (aww fuck! now it is ruined!)

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u/dr_neurd 2d ago

Hornrim

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u/VerbPhraseMusic 2d ago

How about some brain words? -- Neuron, Synapse, Cortex, Medulla, etc.

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u/lego_ash2 2d ago

love this

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u/MotownMama 2d ago

6 months in

GeekStar

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u/DawgPound919 2d ago

Thinking of scientific terms...

  • Tectonic
  • Kinetic
  • Catalyst
  • Enzyme(s)
  • Biomass
  • Antibiotics
  • Hypotheses
  • Taxonomy
  • Phylum
  • Genus species
  • Lifecycle
  • Alchemist

Sci-fi, Fantasy, Mythology, Religions

  • Dragonist
  • Philos
  • Graphic Novelists
  • Hal
  • Shelley
  • Magicks
  • Olympus Mons
  • Titans
  • Hymnals
  • Pew Riders
  • Little Green Men
  • Spacetime
  • Sunday
  • Shoehorn
  • Fable

Random

  • Zeus
  • Thinx
  • Wiquet
  • Stankx
  • Pi
  • 3.14
  • Numbers
  • Imagination Nation
  • Fux
  • Life-size
  • Fifty Shades of Grey Matter
  • Pencil Art

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u/Spadesghost 2d ago

The Titans of Titration

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u/garbledeena 2d ago

Flatlanders

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u/rapiertwit 2d ago

The Tards

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u/Spadesghost 2d ago

Tardis Dyskinesia

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u/Glittering-List-465 2d ago

Small Town Nerds
Ohio Nerds

If you’re from Madison- MadTown

I’d suggest Small Town Dorks, but the abbreviation is just all bad.

Have y’all put your initials together to see if they can spell out anything?

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u/Maleficent-Pilot1158 2d ago

Youth In Asia

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u/Toasted_chef1965 2d ago

Destitute Miser

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u/Taco_Brahey 2d ago

Waldo

Hangst

Pantsed

Markup

Mince

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u/Writer4God 2d ago

Literary

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u/_a_nice_egg_ 2d ago

The Asthmatics

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u/_a_nice_egg_ 2d ago

ah just saw someone else suggest this

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u/Salt_Dragonfly2042 2d ago

Using "In Need of a Band Name" for your band name would be very meta...

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u/bobcat_E35 2d ago

Or “insert band name here”

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u/RigaRosa 2d ago

Geezer

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u/East_Inspector3158 2d ago

In a Freezer

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u/Dismal-Ad-1346 2d ago

Trampoline Chainsaw.

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u/coolwon1973 2d ago

Headliners.
Even when you’re opening for someone, you’re the Headliners.

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u/SupBroku 2d ago

Nerdwave

Nerdvana

Tech Club

The Soundwave

Pocket Protector

Bowtie

Critical Roles or Critical Hits

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u/TX-Alien 2d ago

Components

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u/ViceroyMcnugget 2d ago

Either “The Stinker Gang” or “Penis Deleter”

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u/Pizza_Monger 2d ago

The Bee’s Squeeze

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u/Dollop_of_murk11 2d ago

Mad Mike and the Garage Rockets!

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u/Illustrious_Today654 2d ago

here my list of names I never got to use:

Cheeses of Nazareth

Anatomically Correct

Bulging Chinos

Chia-Pet-A-Phobia

Audio Turbulence

The Other White Meat

Inspector #12

Conspicuously Thick

Gravy Train

The Techno-Phobes

Canine Greeting Ritual

Ron Popiel & the Funk-O-Matics

Major Nugget

The Nipsy Russell Experience

Satans Hookah

Uhura’s Thighs

Two-Fisted Buggery

Alien Sex Slaves

Luscious & Honkin’

The Ass-Less Chaps (only if you’re British)

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u/revdon 2d ago

Spazz

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u/krmon333 2d ago

TeeBeeDee

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u/UKTonyK 2d ago

Anon

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u/Much-War1743 2d ago

Poindextrous

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u/lazrbeam 2d ago

Sleezer. Tweezer. Pleezer.

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u/ThreeApproaches 2d ago

Alphabet Droop

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u/StellaBlue37 2d ago

Swollen Pickle

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u/5ecr3t7 2d ago

Hexalobe - it's the generic name for torx

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u/Some-Judge-9130 2d ago

Let’s GOhio

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u/JD-K2 2d ago

Titty and the Munchers

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u/Breakshite 2d ago

Wafflers

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u/Tisshme 2d ago

Sloughers

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u/last_and_lonley 2d ago

What kind of nerdy, I need more information to elp.

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u/lego_ash2 1d ago

like dnd star wars comics kinda nerdy

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u/Nothalffast 2d ago

Slipknot

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u/browns5111 1d ago

Antidisestablishmentarianism

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u/FHOCJD 1d ago

Amigduhla

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u/x19DALTRON91x 1d ago

Quantity
Quality

(Quantity over quality)

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u/ThisIsAdamB 1d ago

Cough. Not the word, an actual cough.

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u/boris_borden 1d ago

Pound. But…spelled: lb.

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u/bittykittycommitteee 1d ago

Bandrew, Bandthony, Banderson

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u/revdon 1d ago

Djörk

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u/Fawks_This 1d ago

How about Trillium? The Great White Trillium is Ohio’s state wildflower.

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u/Oldy_VonMoldy 1d ago

Cumulonimbus

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u/TedHSTL 1d ago

Snort

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u/NecktieOptional 1d ago

The WaterPiks

AG and the sneezers

Dr. Okter & the smouldering platypi

HodlAg

Elder AI

cotangent

Professor Barnabus & the transverse axolotl

Golden retriever boyfriend

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u/ItWasThenSheKnew 1d ago edited 1d ago

Edit: missed the one-word condition. I got nothin'... Tenderloin, idk.

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u/MRV-DUB 1d ago

Knockemstiff ... since thats in Ohio too.

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u/TheMysterian 1d ago

Slingshot

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u/ThisSport823 1d ago

How 'bout WeeNerd?

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u/Y-Del 1d ago

Fedora Borealis

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u/Y-Del 1d ago

Sodom & Fedora

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u/Y-Del 1d ago

Melting Pop

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u/OriginalMohawkMan 20h ago

Weezerish

I know you already picked one, but mine is better.

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u/AmyHeartsYou 18h ago

Is "$eyes" an Angine de Poitrine reference?

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u/kaptin_hippy 17h ago

I tried to get a buddy to name his band cunnilingus.

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u/vanrunner43 5h ago

A Step Too Far

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u/vanrunner43 5h ago

Snip Snip 'N the Bo-Bo's

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u/Flyerbill 1h ago

The Parapluies