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Whenever I hear a cool phrase somewhere, I like to exclaim "That would make a cool band name". This page is a list of such names.
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Entries Beginning with O, Page 2
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Name | Origin | Submitted by: | ||
| One Punch and Down | It's from World's Dumbest. When someone was knocked out after one punch on an episode. Brendon Walsh would say "one punch and down" | JeReMy | ||
| One Single Rose | I just think it sounds like a good name for some band with a female singer (named Rose?), and the rest of the band guys. | mdpsinger | ||
| One Step Down | i just thought of it on a bus when i was coming home from rugby practise | Sam McCourt | ||
| One String Missing | I was using the crapper and realized that my buddy was playing on a guitar that had only five strings. One of the strings were broken so I just thought it as a band's name. I might use it for my band. heh! | Emo | ||
| One Trick Phony | This cover band only plays one-hit-wonders. | RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| One Versus World | I thought about it at church one day thinking that to live for God, you must keep yourself from becoming a part of the negative, and slowly but sadly un- Christian world where religion is a thing of the past. This name really rises above the rest I think, mainly because you're on your own when living and representing Jesus Christ in a world of chaos, and you must identify yourself seperately. | Zach J.-Magnolia, TX | ||
| One-Man Fag Parade | My brother's friend likes to say random things. | IHaveNoBrain | ||
| One-Nostrilled Snorkel Thief | Comes from an episode in Weird Al Yankovic's song "Albuquerque" | Richard Wetfuss | ||
| Oneforfour | I have three best friends, so in all we're four. I chose a slight spin off of the 3 Musketeers ("all for one and for all"). But instead one for four! | Camden | ||
| ONEOFOUR | Its just a thing that stuck with me because it was the first three digits of the license plate # of a chick I deflowered in her Ford Explorer. | head stomp | ||
| The Ones That Got Away | Has anyone ever heard of Lady and the Tramp 2? That was the Tramp's nickname, 'the one that got away'. It would be for a band like Snow Patrol. I made it up sitting here! | Umiyuri | ||
| Onestone | Onestone - for obvious reasons. but also a cool analogy for 'once stone(d)'. | Meghdutt | ||
| Oni | i heard it,, some where. Oni means i think Diablo, or a gang somewhere in japan | Carl Ramos | ||
| Onionhead | It just has been in my head for a week with no purpose...having it on this site will give it purpose. | G | ||
| Onka Donka Tonka | I play today hooray!! | Bone Stien | ||
| The Only Alternative and the Other Possibilities | I thought it up in the 60s and hearing a lot of other acid-inspired wacky band names. I'm not sure of their repertoirs, but all of their songs make a very positive pro-choice statement and that's definitely cool. | slyfox1 | ||
| Only Heaven Knows | When someone doesn't know the answer, they say "Only Heaven knows" sometimes right? It's a good phrase. | Aly McGugan | ||
| Onward Crispin Glover | Who doesn't remember the actor Crispin Glover?!?! I was walking up the street one day, and saw some dude with a t-shirt that said, "Onward Christian Soldier," and the name Crispin Glover just popped in my head. A good name for a punk band, don't you think? | Elizabeth | ||
| Onyx Sorghum | The main ingredient in a cereal called Grain Berry that gets advertised on the local radio programs. I don't know if it's healthy or even safe. But I wouldn't trust any product that contains an ingredient named after a gemstone. | Opie M. | ||
| Onyx Toll | I went through the thesaurus looking up synonyms for two words. (If you can guess them you win an interwebz cookie.) It came out with Onyx Toll, which is a cool name all by itself. | LordBlumiere | ||
| OOM! | I read it off my friends top in a mirror, with a picute of a cow on it :) it's just the coolest | Enid | ||
| The Oopses | How many bands were ever good? These guys were accidents. | Ian | ||
| Oozing Pus | Wouldn't this be a cool name for a metal band? Maybe what would happen to your ears from listening to them? | Mr. Tinkles | ||
| Opal Gauntlet | The name of an enchanted piece of armor in the video game "Final Fantasy," plus the expression "running the gauntlet" means going through a series of ordeals. The possibilities for this band name are limitless. | Olvan The Terrible | ||
| Opaque | Because that's what I am. | Ted Stone | ||
| Oparuffa | It's off of The White Stripes song 7 Nation Army. It sounds awesome! | Guitar Gy | ||
| Open Eyes | this boy in my class sits next to me and i lost my pen (it was in front of me and i didnt know that) i asked him were my pen was and he yelled "OPEN YOUR EYES....simplifyed to Open Eyes" | Delphia | ||
| Open Mike Knight | PLAY ON WORDS | HIPPI CHIC | ||
| The Open Pull Push Handle | Kinda catchy? Well I think so anyway. I read it on a sign on a bus and changed it all around a bit! | Gatesy | ||
| Open Rebellion | Sounds cool | Cpt. Neeb | ||
| Open Shutter | When I think of shutter I think of shut, but if this is an open shutter, it's unique. | Kevin | ||
| Open-Minded Twin Sister | think dating a twin is cool? imagine the possibilities | hamofthegray | ||
| Opening Page | While I was browsing this site, I look down the status bar and saw OP... and the rest is in my history button. | my name? | ||
| Operation Star | Well in math we were talking about operations. (Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) My teacher was making tables, and for one of them he made up an operation he called "star." Then he said something about the table and referred to the operation as "Operation Star." I thought it would make an interesting pop-rock band name. | amanda | ||
| Operation: Japanese Hippos | No, not from Master of Disguise. I was watching a local performance called 'Mirage' and one of the characters was talking on the phone...he said something about hippos in Tokyo, so...here we go. | therealdeepblue | ||
| Operatonica | Sounds musically. Many vocals. Elegant and important. | Jake | ||
| Opium of the People | A reference to what Karl Marx said about religion. Just hit me one day that it would be a good band name. | Fahad | ||
| The Opposite Effect | I was watching butterfly effect and I said opposite effect. | Gary S. | ||
| Oprah's Spirit Fingers | Two inside jokes among my friends combined to make this band name. My friend'll get a kick outta this. | Junior | ||
| oprige nina | I was in history and we were learning about Ivan the Terrible. He formed a group called Oprige Nina, which means "secret police". | dj | ||
| Optical Illusion | The band name comes from my favorite movie of all time, "Donnie Darko". The name just sounds really cool and is so original! You have to love original, because hardly anyone is these days. | Holden | ||
| Optical Rehash | opened up a dictionary, pointed a two words: optical, rehash. cool huh? | name248 | ||
| Optimism Enema | Have you ever met someone that just completely rids you of any ounce of happiness you had in your mind? | SpongeBob SquarePants's Lady Friend | ||
| Optimus Rhyme | A play of words on 'Optimus Prime' from Transformers. Could be the name of some rapper. | Geno | ||
| Optipossible | Old saying that I say to my friends when they are being stupid. | Alex | ||
| Opus 38 | Cool name for a punk band. Its taken from an essay by James Thurber about people who name their dogs things that don't mean anything. Its perfect for a band that doesn't want a meaningful name. | Spikenard38 | ||
| Opus; Life of a Penguin | Opus is a kickass cartoon. I think he's a penguin. Yeah, whatever. Rock on. | nobody | ||
| Oral Incident | I read it on some dental medication packaging. | PJ Redden | ||
| Oral Sextet | I was thinking of a group of six singers. What else? | Tess O. Gosset | ||
| The Orange Barrel Crew | Orange barrels, obstacles that close driving lanes under construction, are everywhere on interstates all across America. Here's a salute to the people who have to work by them. | party | ||
| Orange C | A fictional soda pop in a math book. Sounds like an obscure 80s group. | lix | ||
| Orange Fetusi | It sounds..odd..it came from meeting an orange, which looked like a fetus at the time....and my freind says "i" to pluralize anything..so fetusi.... | the incredible myself | ||
| Orange Fuzzy Balls | Over March Break we were playing pool, and we were talking about my friend's cat who is getting nuttered so that led to talking about Orange Fuzzy Balls. | Stephanie and Brittny | ||
| Orange Jew | My brother and I were walking in the city. We saw some rabbis drinking juice. I said, "They're drinking orange juice." My bro said, "Orange jews, pretty cool!" | maor | ||
| Orange Juice and Mayonnaise | Like NBA player O.J. Mayo | JeReMy | ||
| Orange Monkeflower | I was classifying flowers in AP Bio and found this one. A cool name for a punk/ska band. | BFW | ||
| Orange Ozzly | My friend JJ had his away msg up, and it said brb, practicing with Orange Ozzly. I was confused at first, but i'm not gunna say wat it means, u can figure it out for urself...somethin that would be orange afta doin sumthin to it..... ;-) | Keri | ||
| Orange Striped Jacket Hood | rachelle | |||
| Orange Twilight | It's cool because the name is the color twilight would be if it weren't before the haze. | Bob Barker | ||
| Orange-Up | I came up with it when I was drinking a can of orange soda, then I finished it and got a 7-Up. | Greendayrox | ||
| Orangutan Breakfast | cuz it sounds delicious | Mike | ||
| Order Sixty Six | This is the plan that Palpatine executes in Star Wars: Episode 3. This is the plan to kill all the Jedi. | Anonymous Cool Guy | ||
| The Ordinary Phenomenon | The Ordinary Phenomenon would be a cool name because it doesn't make sense. It's like an oxymoron, you know? Phenomenon means something extraordinary and unusual...so how could it possibly be ordinary? | MZ and Da BZ | ||
| Oregon Trail | From the title of the classic computer game. They could be a bluegrass or country band from Oregon. (Or Independence, Missouri, of course.) And they could sing about getting typhoid and dysentery, running out of food, or having thieves break into their trailers and steal their clothes. (Trust me. If you played the game, you'd find this hilarious.) | Olvan The Terrible | ||
| Organ Transplants | They would all play organs, of course! | Odie Garfield | ||
| Organized Conformity | Was an idea for the band I am in, good for political bands with negative views on religion. | anarchydude@oldschoolpunk.com | ||
| Organized Confusion | I came up with this because it's an oxymoron, that's why it's cool. | Melissa | ||
| Organized Confusion | I often tell my uncle Jorge (#1 Nirvana fan) jokes. He never gets the joke and is organized leading to his confusion | Joeisdope | ||
| The Orgasm Addicts | It's a song by The Buzzcocks. We like orgasm! Who doesnt? :) | buzzcock | ||
| Orgasm Spasm | I was in my bedroom on to my hooro my brother was watching porn and it looked like the woman in it was having an orgasm spasm..so i thought it would be cool for a band name, hehe | Nat | ||
| The Orgasmic Hamburgers | It's something a guy said on some lame reality show once. It just stuck in my head. | rachel | ||
| Orgasmic Pig and the Screaming Vomit Weenies | I post this in remembrance of my middle school band director. (The name actually came from his head) Sad thing is, it's the only thing I remember about him. I can't even remember his name. | Frizznank | ||
| Oricle | Spelt with an "A" and not an "I." But to make this one stand out, we added the "I" to give it an extra added mystery about it. It also sounds great with "the" infront of it as well. Got the idea from the Matrix. "The Oracle shall tell you your destiny." | Igotyagood | ||
| The Origin of Sound | I got the idea from the name of Muse,s album the origin of symmetry | Amy | ||
| Orpheus | Orpheus is the greek god of music! it sounds kick ass! does in not? | Krysten | ||
| Oryon's B3LT/Oryon | This is probably gonna be the weirdest explanation, but here goes. I was trying to think of a name for a band that I just drew on paper, made up of three characters from a show I like. That show is often crossed over as fanfiction with the Harry Potter series. I had just finished reading the fifth book, in which a character by the name of Sirius had died. Sirius is the 'dog star', and I learned about a few of the largest stars that day. So, turns out that there's a belt of three stars, Orion's Belt. Sounded cool to me! So, I cameup with 'Oryon' and 'Oryon's B3LT' so that it might stand out more. I might use just plain 'Orion' or 'Orion's Belt', however. So, I went from making a name for a fictional band, to naming mine after a star! Um...yeah. | Derakii (kume_angel@hotmail.com) | ||
| Osama Been Skatin' | just look at it...self-explanitory. I'm a fashion design major and I ultimately want to make skatewear. So my buddy matt and I were conspiring (half-assedly) and that's what we got. Haha, YEAH! | emily | ||
| Osama's Magic Carpet | i got this frum an AIM buddy icon on quickbuddyicons.com, where osama bin laden wuz riding on a magic carpet with a missile right behind him | go me | ||
| Oscar Mayer Mayhem | It just...well, it sounds rad to begin with, but bologna can definately cause some chaos..."squeek" | Renee | ||
| Osmium (or Osmium/Iridium) | Just perfect for a "heavy metal" band, since this metal is the densest on the Periodic Table of elements. Actually the element Iridium is so close in density to Osmium, it could be used as well, or in combo. | Jim Eckert | ||
| Osmosis Jones | It was a 2001 movie with Bill Murray and Chris Rock. I thought of it's coolness as a band name when I was flipping throught the channels when it was on. | JeReMy | ||
| Otaku | Technically, it's Japanese for "you and yours." But currently, it's used to mean "nerd" or "geek". However Japan fans in America use it to mean "Japan fan". I'm a Japan fan. We need an Otaku band. | Amy | ||
| The Other Direction | For all the people who hate 1D, just to make your band sound cooler.... I just thought of it right now.... | joajdiuhihf | ||
| Other Natural Flavors | It's on a lot of soda's. That's about it. And they probably aren't even natural, they're probably artificial. | No One | ||
| The Other Shoe | Hmm...I just go around listening for things in conversations and when I hear something that sounds like a cool band name, I write it down. This is the best I've heard so far. | Eddie | ||
| Otherwise Saintly Heathens | it is cool cus it is just about people who don't neccesarilt believe in a GOD but still live a good life.... you don't have to believe in GOD to be good... okay... | spacecadet | ||
| Otterpoppy | This is my band name, we suck,and we have an accordian and harmonica in our tunes, but I have always loved the way Otters can swim so well, they are just kick a** animals | Otter | ||
| OU812 | I was playing PS3 with my friend and he singed in with OU812 as his password | Wal-Mart | ||
| Ouija | My grandma's friend told me that Ouija boards summon evil spirits, so it would be cool for a metal band. | Rachel | ||
| Ounce of Neptune | It was supposed to be our band's name, but our drummer suggested us to find a better one | Clarence | ||
| Our 7 Deadly Sin | It's scary to know you have done (some of the) seven deadly sins. It just sends tingles down your back, now wouldn't you want your fans to get tingles when they hear you? | India | ||
| Our Motive | It asks you the questionwhat is the motive, and to what. That is what my band is named. I came up with it while listing to The Offspring. | Ski | ||
| Ournamelooksintense | A name i came up with for poking fun at bands with spaceless names like Alexisonfire and Iwrestledabearonce. | Jonathan S. | ||
| The Ourselves | We had a gig coming up but no band name, we just decided that it would be cool if we said after the final song "thank you we've been ourselves" | DaveTHErave | ||
| Out Of Control Pina Coladas | Busss | |||
| Out Of Luck | It was a lyric, in one of the songs my band has written, and it is now our band name. | Brian Levey | ||
| Out of Nothin'ness | I dunno why the hell it's cool! It's just got a kick ass ring to it. | Chaos | ||
| Out Of Reach | me and my friend were sitting and the couch and he was like give me the remote! and i was like i cant it is out of reach! (hence the band name) | Cody | ||
| Out Of Tuna | Thought this one up after hearing an awful performance by a local band. | Anonymous Jones | ||
| Out On Bail | Recently, my mates and I got into some trouble with the police and to get things of our mind. We were thinking off starting a band, it hasn't happened yet though. However, I noticed that all of us have been on bail for the past 2 1/2 months because it kept getting extended and the name just came out. | Ech |
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