Group Names for 5 People, and for 6, 7 or 8

Five names a press with the head count built in: Take Five, Half a Dozen, Seven Seas, Table for Eight.

Platonic FiveThere are only five Platonic solids, from the tetrahedron to the icosahedron.
The PentathletesThe modern pentathlon is a contest of five events.
Great Lakes FiveThe five Great Lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario.
Starfish FiveA starfish usually has five arms.
Five Fingers, One Hand

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How it works

These group names for 5 people are each built on the number five, most with the word itself, and the menu has lists for six, seven and eight. A name that leans on a counted fact carries a one-line note.

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Group names for 6 people, 7 or 8

Choose Groups of six, seven or eight in the menu, or end the address with #six, #seven or #eight. Group names for 7 people include Seven Seas and Seven in Sync; group names for 8 people include Eight Pawns and Lazy Eight.

Built on the number

Most names say their number outright, so the same lists answer a team name with number 5, team names with number 6 and team names with 8: Fearless Five, Solid Six, Straight Eight. The rest count another way: The Handful, Half a Dozen, The Octet.

What the notes say

Seven Summits, Six Dots and Eight Furlongs each print the fact behind the name: the highest mountain of each continent, the six dots of a braille cell, the eight furlongs in a mile.

Questions and answers

What is a good name for a group of 5?

Take Five, Gimme Five, Fearless Five, The Quintet and The Handful. For group names for five friends, Cinco Amigos and Hive of Five are on the same list of 38.

What is a group of eight called?

An octet. In music an octet is a group of eight instruments or voices, and the names for a group of 8 here include The Octet beside Octo Squad, Eight Mates and Eighth Wonder.

What is a name for a group of six?

Half a Dozen, The Sextet, Super Six and Six in the Mix. A name for a group of seven: The Septet, Seven and Counting or Sevens on the Rise.

Are there team of 5 names from a sport?

Yes. Five on the Hardwood and Five Positions come from basketball, which is played five a side. Six a Side at the Net is volleyball, Six on the Ice is hockey, and Eight on the Rope is tug of war.

Why are the best-known numbered titles missing?

None was taken from a film, show, band, book series or team, so the famous fives, sevens and eights of screen and shelf were left out. An everyday saying may also be somebody's title, and no trademark register was checked.

All 143 names

Groups of five 38

Cinco Amigos
The Cinquain A cinquain is a poem of five lines.
Count to Five
Fearless Five
Fifth Gear
Five Alarm Crew
Five and Dime
Five by Five
Five Corners
Five Deep
Five Fingers, One Hand
Five Lines of the Staff Music is usually written on a staff of five lines.
Five Oceans The ocean is divided by convention into five: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic.
Five on the Hardwood Basketball is played by two teams of five players each.
Five Positions Basketball's five positions are point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center.
Five Senses Wide Awake The five senses of tradition are sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing.
Five to Thrive
Five Ws Who, what, when, where and why are the five Ws that reporters are taught to answer.
Five-Cent Nickels A nickel is the five-cent coin of the United States.
Five-Pin Bowlers Five-pin bowling is a form of bowling played in Canada.
Five-Spice Blend Five-spice powder is a mix of five or more spices used in Chinese cooking.
Five-Tone Scale A pentatonic scale has five notes to the octave.
Gimme Five
Great Lakes Five The five Great Lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario.
The Handful
Hive of Five
Iambic Pentameter A line of pentameter has five metrical feet.
Limerick Five A limerick is a poem of five lines.
Open Fifths In music a fifth is an interval that spans five staff positions.
Pentagon Five A pentagon is a shape with five sides.
The Pentathletes The modern pentathlon is a contest of five events.
Platonic Five There are only five Platonic solids, from the tetrahedron to the icosahedron.
The Quincunx A quincunx is a pattern of five points: four in a square and one at the center.
The Quintessence In ancient science the quintessence, or aether, was the fifth element.
The Quintet A quintet is a group of five.
Starfish Five A starfish usually has five arms.
Take Five
The Whole Hand

Groups of six 33

Carbon Six Carbon is the element with atomic number 6.
Half a Dozen
Hexagon Six A hexagon is a shape with six sides.
Hit for Six In cricket a ball hit over the boundary without touching the ground scores six runs.
Honeycomb Six The cells of a honeycomb are hexagonal, so each has six walls.
Roll a Six A traditional die has six faces, marked from 1 to 6.
The Sestina A sestina is a poem of six stanzas of six lines each, usually with a three-line ending.
The Sextet A sextet is a group of exactly six.
Sextuple Threat
Six a Side at the Net Volleyball is played by two teams of six.
Six at the Table
Six Cylinders
Six Dots A braille cell is six raised dots in two columns of three.
Six Faces of the Cube A cube has six square faces.
Six Handshakes Away Six degrees of separation is the idea that any two people are six or fewer connections apart.
Six in the Mix
Six Legs Insects have three pairs of jointed legs.
Six on the Ice An ice hockey team has six skaters on the ice at a time, the goaltender among them.
Six Pick-Up Sticks
Six Seats Taken
Six Sharp
Six Sides, One Story
Six Squared
Six Strings A guitar typically has six strings.
Six Ways to Sunday
Six-Pointers
Six-Sided
Sixes All Round
Sixfold
Sixth Row Center
Sizzling Six
Solid Six
Super Six

Groups of seven 35

Handball Seven A handball team is six court players and a goalkeeper.
Heptagon Seven A heptagon is a shape with seven sides.
The Heptathletes A heptathlon is a track and field contest of seven events.
Kabaddi Seven Kabaddi is played by two teams of seven.
Netball Seven Netball is played by two teams of seven.
Neutral Seven At 25 degrees Celsius a solution with a pH of 7 is neutral.
Rainbow Seven A rainbow is commonly described as seven hues, from red to violet.
The Septet A septet is a group of exactly seven.
Seven and Counting
Seven Base Units The SI system of measurement defines units for seven base quantities.
Seven Bridges The Seven Bridges of Königsberg is a famous puzzle: walk across every bridge of the city exactly once.
Seven Continents Most English-speaking countries count seven continents.
Seven Hills The seven hills of Rome, east of the Tiber, are the heart of the old city.
Seven in Sync
Seven in the Pool Water polo is played by two teams of seven.
Seven Notes A diatonic scale, such as the major scale, has seven notes.
Seven Seas The Seven Seas is an old figure of speech for all the seas of the known world.
Seven Seats, One Minivan
Seven Sisters The Seven Sisters is another name for the Pleiades, a cluster of stars in Taurus.
Seven Snoozers
Seven Spots The seven-spot ladybird's Latin name, septempunctata, means seven-spotted.
Seven Stars of the Dipper The Big Dipper is made of seven bright stars.
Seven Summits The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of the seven continents.
Seven to the Rescue
Seven Wonders The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a list of seven notable structures of classical antiquity.
Seven-Layer Dip
Seven-League Boots In European folklore, seven-league boots carry the wearer seven leagues at each step.
Sevenfold
Sevens on the Rise
Sevens Side Rugby sevens is played seven a side, in halves of seven minutes.
Seventh Chords A seventh chord is a three-note chord plus a note a seventh above its root.
Seventh Grade Lunch Table
Stretch in the Seventh The seventh-inning stretch is a baseball tradition, a break between the halves of the seventh inning.
Twenty-Four Seven
Week of Seven A week is seven days.

Groups of eight 37

Eight Arms An octopus has eight limbs.
Eight Bells
Eight by Eight A chessboard is 8 rows by 8 columns, 64 squares in all.
Eight Cylinders A V8 engine has eight cylinders in two banks of four.
Eight Furlongs A furlong is one-eighth of a mile, so eight furlongs make a mile.
Eight Legs Adult arachnids, the spiders among them, have eight legs.
Eight Mates
Eight O'Clock Sharp
Eight Oars A rowing eight carries eight rowers and is steered by a coxswain.
Eight on the Rope Tug of war is typically pulled by teams of eight or more.
Eight Pawns Each chess player begins the game with eight pawns.
Eight Queens The eight queens puzzle asks for eight queens on a chessboard with none attacking another.
Eight Slices, One Pizza
Eight Worlds, One Sun The Solar System has eight planets.
Eight-Bit Heroes In computing, 8-bit data is eight bits wide, which is one byte.
Eight-Thousanders The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains whose summits are higher than 8,000 meters.
Eight-Track Minds
Eighth Notes An eighth note lasts one eighth as long as a whole note.
Eighth Wonder
Elevate Eight
Figure Eights on Fresh Ice Figure skaters once traced a figure eight on the ice by joining two circles.
Heavyweight Eight
Lane Eight
Lazy Eight Lazy eight is the livestock brander's name for the infinity symbol.
Lucky Eight
Octagon Eight An octagon is a shape with eight sides, and in many countries the stop sign is one.
The Octahedrons An octahedron is a solid with eight faces.
Octane Eight An octane molecule has eight carbon atoms.
The Octave Octave comes from the Latin for eighth.
The Octet In music an octet is a group of eight instruments or voices.
Octo Squad
Octopals
Oxygen Eight Oxygen is the element with atomic number 8.
Pieces of Eight The piece of eight was a Spanish silver coin worth eight reales.
Straight Eight
Table for Eight
Wait for Eight

How this list was compiled

A list of 143 names written by Wheel of Teams on 2026-10-02 for a group or team of exactly five, six, seven or eight, each built on its number: most say it outright, and the rest count another way (The Handful, Half a Dozen, The Octet). Some are everyday sayings that nobody owns (Take Five, Half a Dozen, Six Ways to Sunday); the rest are our own. None was taken from a film, a show, a band, a book series or a team, so the best-known numbered titles are left out on purpose: the famous five and the secret seven of the children's shelf, the magnificent, the hateful and the furious ones of the screen, the fab ones of music and sport. An everyday saying may also be somebody's title. The one-line notes give the counted fact behind a name and were checked on 2026-10-02 against the opening section of English Wikipedia articles, among them Sense, Great Lakes, Staff (music), Limerick (poetry), Modern pentathlon, Pentatonic scale, Basketball, Basketball positions, Pentagon, Quintet, Five Ws, Cinquain, Iambic pentameter, Five-pin bowling, Nickel (United States coin), Five-spice powder, Aether (classical element), Ocean, Platonic solid, Quincunx, Perfect fifth, Starfish, Guitar, Hexagon, Honeycomb, Insect, Volleyball, Ice hockey, Cube, Dice, Sextet, Braille, Boundary (cricket), Sestina, Six degrees of separation, Carbon, Week, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Seven Seas, Continent, Seven Summits, Pleiades, Heptathlon, Rugby sevens, Netball, Water polo, Handball, Big Dipper, pH, Seven Bridges of Königsberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg), Pentatonic scale for the seven notes of the major scale, Seven hills of Rome, Seventh-inning stretch, Kabaddi, Heptagon, Septet, SI base unit, Seven-league boots, Seventh chord, Coccinella septempunctata, ROYGBIV, Compulsory figures, Octave, Octopus, Arachnid, Octagon, Stop sign, Planet, 8-bit computing, Furlong, Eight (rowing), Pawn (chess), Octet (music), Spanish dollar, V8 engine, Chessboard, Octahedron, Oxygen, Tug of war, Eight queens puzzle, Eighth note, Infinity symbol, Eight-thousander and Octane. Wikipedia text is under CC BY-SA 4.0. Compared by script the same day with every other list on this site: no name is repeated. Nothing was checked against a trademark register. Licence: own work