Baseball Player Name Generator

How this list was compiled: The nine fielding positions with their scorebook numbers (1 pitcher to 9 right fielder) and the grouping into battery, infield and outfield follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_positions (read 2026-09-23). The designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher and does not field, follows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_hitter (read 2026-09-23). The short forms are the usual scorecard ones; the lines are our own words. Licence: own work

How this list was compiled: Own list of given names common where big-league rosters come from: the USA and Canada, Latin America (the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico) and Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The groups say where a name is common, nothing more. Names are spelled without accents. No name here is on the football or hockey player name generator. Every first name was paired with every surname by script on 2026-09-23, and names were cut until no pair matched a real person in either of two sources, compared as first name plus last word of the surname with accents folded. One: the Chadwick Baseball Bureau register, which lists more than 520,000 people from professional baseball (major and minor leagues, Negro leagues, Japan's NPB, managers and umpires) and links players of other pro sports, https://github.com/chadwickbureau/register (people files, read 2026-09-23). Two: the English label of 36,000 of the 43,700 people Wikidata records with the occupation baseball player, https://query.wikidata.org/ (read 2026-09-23; the service timed out before the rest). The dated player lists on this site were screened too. A match with a private person, or with a player who signs after that date, is still possible and would be a coincidence. Licence: own work

How this list was compiled: Own list of nicknames made from baseball slang, each with a line in our own words on what the term means. Every meaning was checked on 2026-09-23 against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_baseball_terms. Terms that the Chadwick register (https://github.com/chadwickbureau/register, read 2026-09-23) records as the nickname of a major-league player were left out, and so was Hammer, a famous home run hitter's nickname. Licence: own work

How this list was compiled: Own list of family names from the same three regions. The groups say where a name is common, nothing more. Names are spelled without accents. No name here is on the football or hockey player name generator. Every surname carried by a big leaguer whose career spans ten seasons or more in that register was cut as well, so no result points at a well-known player. Every first name was paired with every surname by script on 2026-09-23, and names were cut until no pair matched a real person in either of two sources, compared as first name plus last word of the surname with accents folded. One: the Chadwick Baseball Bureau register, which lists more than 520,000 people from professional baseball (major and minor leagues, Negro leagues, Japan's NPB, managers and umpires) and links players of other pro sports, https://github.com/chadwickbureau/register (people files, read 2026-09-23). Two: the English label of 36,000 of the 43,700 people Wikidata records with the occupation baseball player, https://query.wikidata.org/ (read 2026-09-23; the service timed out before the rest). The dated player lists on this site were screened too. A match with a private person, or with a player who signs after that date, is still possible and would be a coincidence. Licence: own work