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Spin Results
Expecting and stuck on a name? Add your shortlist and let the wheel pick — not to decide for you, but to find out in three seconds which name you were secretly hoping for.
Paste your list below, one item per line
Add your options, spin, and share the winner in seconds.
Choosing a baby name is a decision with too many options and no wrong answer, which is exactly the kind of decision people get stuck on for months. The wheel breaks the deadlock not by choosing but by forcing a reaction. When the pointer slows and lands on “Arthur”, you feel something before you think anything — delight, relief, or a small “hm”. That flicker is data you cannot get from a list. Spin ten times, keep a note of which results made you smile, and your real shortlist reveals itself.
Before you paste anything in, run each candidate through the practical checks. Say it with the surname: do the sounds run together, does it rhyme, do the initials spell something unfortunate? Shout it across a playground. Say the likely nicknames, because the world will use them whether you like it or not. Check how it is spelled and pronounced by people who have never seen it. Then load only the survivors. A wheel of eight names you would all be happy with is far more useful than a wheel of forty maybes.
Five and five: each partner adds five, spin, and talk about the result for one minute. Veto round: spin with Eliminate on; each time it lands, either partner can veto and the name is gone for good. What survives is the real list. Middle-name spin: lock the first name and put the middle-name candidates on the wheel. Grandparents’ wheel: let the family add suggestions to a separate preset so everyone feels heard, then quietly never spin it. Sibling vote: let older children spin for fun — with the understanding that the wheel “advises”.
Loading names you do not actually like “to be fair” — the wheel will land on them. Treating a spin as binding when one of you is unhappy; the whole point is the reaction, not the verdict. Spinning in front of relatives who have opinions. And deciding too early: keep the preset, spin again a few weeks later, and see whether the same names still get the smile. Many parents find the name they chose at twenty weeks feels wrong at thirty-six, and a saved wheel makes it painless to revisit.
Need a starting pool rather than your own list? The girl, boy and unisex name wheels come preloaded. For pets, characters and everything else, there is the pet name picker and character name picker. For picking a person rather than a name, the random name picker handles class lists and giveaways.