Username Generator
Make up a username that gives nothing away about you, from ordinary words and a few numbers. It is put together on your device and never leaves your browser.
A username follows you around. One built from your real name, your initials or the year you were born quietly tells every site — and every other user — something about you. This puts one together from ordinary words instead, so it is easy to say out loud and says nothing at all.
Your username
Uniqueness: Common
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One word on its own is almost certainly taken already. Two is usually plenty; three makes the name harder to mistype but very hard to clash with.
Digits are added at the end, and they are drawn at random — so they never end up being a birthday or a year the way hand-picked ones do.
Length
Most sites accept somewhere between 15 and 30 characters. If yours is too long for the box, drop a word or a couple of numbers.
Word source
Short everyday words of four to six letters, picked so they stay easy to say and to type even when they run together. Built by Passkal, from the EFF Long Wordlist.
Recent usernames
Nothing here yet. Usernames you generate are kept on this device only, so you can look up which one you used where.
What a random username is for
Each word here is drawn at random from 2,048 short everyday words, and each number is drawn separately. Two words and two numbers is one of 419 million — distinctive enough that the name is almost certainly free, and far too many for anyone to work through and see who is behind them.
The point is not to be hard to guess. A username is public: you type it where people can see it, and it sits on your profile. The point is that it carries nothing — no name, no initials, no birth year, nothing that links the account back to you or hints at an answer to a security question.
It is worth using a different one on each site. A name reused across ten accounts is what lets someone search for it and find all ten, which is exactly the thread a random one leaves nowhere to pull. The list above keeps the recent ones on this device so you can check which you used where.
One thing this does not do is protect the account. A username is not a secret and is never a substitute for one — the password is what keeps people out, so pair this with a strong one from the password generator.
Everything happens on your device. Your usernames never leave this browser.