Your gamer name is a way to assert your identity in the gaming world. It can tell others about your personality, likes and dislikes. A great gamer name can be a good talking point, not to mention help to drive fans to your YouTube channel or other social media platform. So many people enjoy playing games online that many of the best gamer tags have already been taken. However, because our gamer name generator uses your input to come up with unique and original names, you'll find it easy to generate something brand new here.

A typical way to get a unique gaming name is to use modern spellings or replace letters with numbers. Just make sure if you do this, that the correct spelling hasn't already been taken by somebody high profile, or you'll find it difficult to break out of their shaddow.

Different games and console brands put different restrictions on their names. For example, Xbox gamertags must start with a letter, be between two and twelve characters long, free of special characters and not containing any consecutive spaces, whereas the PS5's online ID has a longer character limit and can include hyphens and underscores.

It is important to avoid choosing a potentially offensive gaming name because many mainstream gaming companies periodically ban users from using names that they deem to be offensive. In some cases these seem to have been identified using automated keyword checks. Something can look offensive to a bot without actually being offensive, so it's best to steer clear of any words that might be programmed into a filter looking for inappropriate names.

Another thing to consider is whether you want to use something personally identifiable. Many companies encourage you not to use any identifying information in a gaming name. This helps protect your privacy.