Random Name Picker
Paste a list of names and pick one or more at random for classrooms, teams, raffles, giveaways, and quick fair decisions.
Enter your names
Great for student selection, giveaway winners, team assignments, and choosing who goes first.
Picker breakdown
How This Random Name Picker Works
This random name picker lets you paste a list of names and select one or more entries at random. It is built for quick, fair picks when you need a name chooser for classrooms, raffles, giveaways, meetings, games, or team selection.
Enter one name per line, choose how many names you want to draw, and click the button to generate your result. The tool can also shuffle the full list, remove duplicate names, and prevent the same name from being picked more than once in the same result.
If duplicate removal is turned on, repeated entries are treated as one unique name. If no-repeat mode is enabled, each selected name can only appear once in the draw. That makes the tool useful for winner selection, classroom participation, and any situation where you want a clean random result.
You can also copy the final result in one click, making it easy to paste winners or selected names into messages, documents, or notes.