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About this tool
Generate swashbuckling pirate names with ships, bounties, and mottos. Find your perfect pirate identity for adventures, games, and cosplay.
Pirate Name Generator hands you a complete pirate identity rather than just a name: each roll returns one of fifteen written personas with its ship, crew size, bounty, home ocean, signature weapon and motto. Crews run from Scurvy Dog Smith's eight hands aboard The Rat Trap to sixty under Dread Pirate Hawkins on the Shadow Pearl, with bounties from $150,000 up to $4,500,000, so the identity comes with a built-in sense of rank. The whole card copies to the clipboard as one block of text, which is what you want when it is going into a character sheet or a party invite.
Open Pirate Name Generator on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Open the tool on the empty card that reads "Click generate to meet yer pirate self".
Press Generate Pirate to draw one of the fifteen personas, from Scurvy Dog Smith with a crew of 8 to Dread Pirate Hawkins with 60.
Read the Crew Size, Bounty, Ocean and Weapon tiles and the quoted motto, then press Copy Pirate to put all seven fields on the clipboard.
Seven linked fields come out together — name, ship, crew, bounty, ocean, weapon and motto — so the character is internally consistent instead of randomly recombined.
Because crews span 8 to 60 and bounties span $150,000 to $4,500,000, you can reroll for a lowly deckhand or a fleet-level terror depending on what the scene needs.
One tap puts the name, ship, crew, bounty, ocean, weapon and quoted motto on the clipboard, already formatted to paste into a character sheet or chat.
Press generate and you draw one of fifteen personas — Captain Black Beard of The Revenge, Mad Anne Flint of the Iron Kraken, Silent Kate of the Whisper Wind, and so on. Each comes with the crew, bounty, ocean, weapon and motto that go with it, so you get an identity rather than a label.
Epithets built on a physical mark or reputation — Blackbeard, One-Eyed, Redbeard — travelled faster than surnames and did half the work of intimidation before a ship ever fired. Many crews also sailed under an alias deliberately, since a legal name attached to piracy was a hanging matter.
Yes. They are invented personas built for tabletop characters, guild and crew names, costume backstories and party invitations, and the copy button gives you the full stat block to paste wherever it is going.
It is a flavour figure standing for the price on that pirate's head, and it scales with crew size — the $4,500,000 bounty belongs to the sixty-hand crew, the $150,000 one to the eight-hand crew. It is fiction, not a historical valuation.