The game provides random names to both ships and crew. This page aims to provide and insight into how the naming convention works, especially for those looking for the perfect name for a ship or crewmember.
The prefix/suffix pairs for both ships and crew are kept for the sake of the references, phrases and/or puns some provide. Additionally, some prefix/suffix pairs are kept verbatim purely because they do not work with other names outside of their reference pairs.
Ship Naming Convention
The standard names. These can come in any pair of prefix and suffix:
| PREFIX | SUFFIX | PREFIX | SUFFIX | PREFIX | SUFFIX | PREFIX | SUFFIX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | Wind | Unexpected | Loss | Heavenly | Chord | Incompetent | Buffoon |
| South | Star | Layered | Onion | Damned | Cat | Dancing | Jester |
| East | Sky | Crying | Sailor | Jumping | Fox | Gunmetal | Grave |
| West | Dawn | Lying | Bastard | Lazy | Dog | Loving | Mother |
| Inevitable | Betrayal | Beryllium | Event | Fat | Cow | Gentle | Father |
| Bold | Explorer | Sturdy | Harvester | Raging | Bull | Playful | Brother |
| Rusty | Bucket | Liquid | Core | Exploding | Fist | Caring | Sister |
| Slim | Runner | Vapor | Fusion | Way of the | Leaf | Brutal | Tyrant |
| Giant | Leak | Plasma | Drive | Crimson | Tide | Insane | Despot |
| Leaky | Hauler | Bleeding | Mary | Disturbed | Force | Foppish | Democrat |
| Old | Destiny | Quiet | Secret | Bridged | Lion | Mindless | Oligarch |
| Trustworthy | Moon | Subtle | Requiem | Distant | Thunder | Sundered | Proletariat |
| Shining | Hope | Silent | Song | Fusing | Atom | Cruel | Overseer |
| Ultimate | Despair | River | City | Atomic | Rocket | Undying | Faith |
| Tungsten | Impact | Watchful | Eye | Royal | Pain | Naive | Republican |
| Dark | Void | Cold | Frost | Broken | Arrow | Sightless | Supervisor |
| Bright | Ring | Young | Diamond | Lost | Rat | Devil's | Advocate |
| Iron | Hammer | Splintered | Zeal | Neverending | Story | Forsaken | Whimsy |
| Steel | Sword | Zealous | Rage | Useless | Drone | Light | Heart |
| Bronze | Anvil | Arctic | Tundra | Serene | Serenity | Open | Hand |
| Tin | Can | Antarctic | Ocean | Heavy | Burden | Zero | Industry |
| Slow | Descent | Polar | Express | Millennial | Falcon | Declared | Stuff |
| Quick | Ascent | Forgotten | Price | Bald | Eagle | Redundant | Redundancy |
| Helium | Rain | Prideful | Terra | Work | Horse | Gregarious | Spacefellow |
| Profitable | Enterprise | Jovian | Life | Hybrid | Propulsion | Merciful | Saviour |
| Hydrogen | Flame | Fractured | Mars | Wicked | Witch | Closed | Beta |
| Nuclear | Fallout | Oceanic | Europa | Pale | Horizon | Limited | Alpha |
| Fusion | Torch | Oily | Ganymede | Rising | Storm | Punchy | Marsupial |
| Hot | Lady | Unbearable | Radiation | Faithful | Wanderer | Beware the | Kraken |
| Dank | Meme | Lacking | Gravitas | Another | Piercer | Invalid | Target |
| Glowing | Light | Solar | Sail | Lunar | Silver | Psychological | Warfare |
| Nostalgic | Sea | Dauntless | Optimism | Silver | Sliver | Friendly | Staff |
| Hopeful | Redemption | Sand | Dune | Reluctant | Success | Bitter | Rival |
| Grim | Reaper | Living | Youth | Specific | Impulse | Umbral | Squid |
| Black | Rock | Plague | Gripe | Platinum | Dive | Prismatic | Whale |
| White | Cloud | Void | Terminus | Fading | Contact | Chromatic | Dragon |
| Red | Plume | Independent | Development | Apparent | Typhoon | Metallic | Ray |
| Blue | Dusk | Snow | Crash | Axial | Drift | Molten | Steelsmith |
| Green | Memory | Flying | Brick | Leeward | Beacon | Blind | Hermit |
| Yellow | Delirium | Ravenous | Wolf | Furious | Puppy | Gilligan's | Tour |
| Faint | Rainbow | Lone | Rider | Tranquil | Spleen | The Professor's | Cruise |
| Huge | Hole | Blunt | Trauma | Lightning | Juggler | The King's | Crown |
| Vanilla | Ice | Electric | Ride | Capricious | Clown | The Queen's | Gambit |
| Hard | Bargain | Riven | Tail | Careless | Python | Sagan's | Exhaust |
| Variable | Thrust | Unhatched | Egg | Smiling | Sam | Dream | Gold |
| Dusty | Throne | Chained | Fury | Proud | Belter | Magic | Spear |
| Sudden | Death | Dinosaur | Adventure | Euler's | Vessel | You're not my | Boss |
| Darkened | Shadow | Last | Starfighter | Delta | Bee | Storm | Chaser |
| Remote | Outpost | Tired | Fighter | Vacuum | Crew | Fire | Killer |
| Anticipated | Profit | Tireless | Digger | Huygen's | Honor | Star | Lord |
| Earth's | Children | The Cant's | Remembrance | Impressive | Kaboom | Sardonic | Experience |
| Traitor's | Traitor | Soft | Science | Puppydog's | Paw | Failed | Experiment |
| Itching | Wound | Scientific | Fiction | Lowest | Bid | Dense | Water |
| Flaming | Dagger | Bad | Touch | Jealous | God | First Class | Praise |
| Modified | Carbon | Angry | Rant | Courageous | Trailer | Stunning | Authority |
| Slight | Error | Careful | Player | Unique | Revenge | Kittycat's | Whisker |
| Naked | Singularity | Tall | Tale | Asgardian | Settler | Omega | Receipt |
| Ringer's | Guild | Underground | Craft | Angel's | Thorn | Happy | Lie |
| Terran | Pride | Tough | Luck | Rapid | Patriot | Earned | Hate |
| Martian | Dream | Lucky | Shot | Preston's | Fall | Faraway | Poison |
| Belter's | Home | Descending | Orbit | Valiant | Armada | Impure | Covenant |
| Moon's | Watcher | Retrograde | Burn | Raven | Sapphire | Competent | Employee |
| Thunder | Child | Reliable | Companion | Aquarian | Scourge | Hateful | Word |
| Chocolate | Charlie | Trusty | Steed | Intrepid | Ceres | Valid | Criticism |
| Traumatic | Dancer | Goddard's | Titan | Juniper | Concord | Unfriendly | Attitude |
| Arachnophobic | Spider | Burning | Yggdrasil | Universal | Celerity | Second Class | Citizen |
| Haunted | Pumpkin | Wizard | Actual | Stygian | Comet | Third Class | Outsider |
| Existential | Angst | Waged | War | Midlothian | Spirit | Homeless | Hobo |
| Imaginary | Ore | Awakened | Sleeper | Highest | Flier | Ganymedian | Idiot |
| Insatiable | Geophage | Wrathful | Wraith | The Gods' | Resolve | Saturnian | Bird |
| Candy | Cane | Unlimited | Potential | Eternal | Suffering | Enceladian | Hawk |
| Uncontrollable | Laughter | Alpha | Omega | Swift | Resolution | Predatory | Predator |
| Cantankerous | Beast | Undeclared | Love | Space | Carp | Hunted | Prey |
| Blazing | Saddle | Yuletide | Joy | Tsolkovsky's | Whisper | Exploring | Exploder |
| Hysterical | Mania | Hedonistic | Rapscallions | Ancient | Stardust | Unyielding | Mercy |
| Unending | Scream | Masochistic | Crows | Contact | Reverie | Pure | Intention |
| Screaming | Banshee | Marvellous | Medicine | Insufficient | Darkness | Tiny | Threat |
| Windward | Journey | Unhappy | Unicorn | Sufficient | Velocity | Shattered | Shard |
| Midnight | Rendezvous | Breathless | Confidence | Altered | Function | Completed | Past |
| Faithless | Hedon | Unearned | Coinage | Constant | Enough | Korolev's | Soul |
| Weeping | Angel | Naughty | Elf | Little | Petunia | Vanishing | Truth |
| Grinning | Skull | Close | Community | Spherical | Turtle | Hopeless | Cause |
| Acid | Stain | Osakan | Takoyaki | Without | Regret | Ego | Trip |
The following ship names are verbatim and only come in their select prefix/suffix pair:
| PREFIX | SUFFIX | PREFIX | SUFFIX |
|---|---|---|---|
| What a | Disaster | Just Add | Water |
| No | Ragrets | This is | a Test |
| Triangle V | Colon | The One | Who Knocks |
| Crash to | Desktop | That Which | Was Given |
| Syntax | Error | Feature | Creep |
| Race | Condition | Event | Horizon |
| Boaty | McBoatFace | Song of | Silence |
| Dangling | Variant | Oh No, | Not Again |
Crew Naming Convention
The following names are the common names for workers in the rings. Can be a mix of any first and last names.
| FIRST | LAST | FIRST | LAST | FIRST | LAST | FIRST | LAST | FIRST | LAST | FIRST | LAST | FIRST | LAST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abigail | Anderson | Eve | Wu | Priscilla | Shaw | Wanda | Worcester | Gabriel | Powell | Nigel | Nye | Lee | Zane |
| Addie | Green | Evelyn | Taylor | Rachel | Sheridan | Willow | Wilburn | Gavin | Kendall | Oliver | Reed | Leo | Hayes |
| Alice | Li | Florence | London | Raven | Thatcher | Winnie | McAllister | George | Bernard | Orlando | Kobayashi | Levi | Jenkins |
| Amelia | Wilson | Gabrielle | Ingham | Rebecca | Taft | Winona | Yarnall | Grayson | Coleman | Oscar | Oliver | Lutece | Takahashi |
| Angelica | Sakamoto | Georgia | Kendrick | Regina | Tucker | Winston | Coyote | Guy | Moreau | Osmond | Osborne | Madison | Rodriguez |
| Anita | Moon | Giselle | Keyes | Rhiannon | Thornton | Winter | Wayland | Harper | Moore | Oswald | Pierce | Mason | Murphy |
| Anna | Murakami | Grace | Lee | Rosa | Gregory | Xenia | Macgowan | Henry | Ward | Otto | Ritchey | Noah | Sanchez |
| Anne | Kondo | Hannah | Hill | Rosalie | Vance | Yvonne | York | Ian | Kingsley | Owen | Sanders | Pat | Choi |
| April | Baek | Hazel | Perez | Rosalind | Nakamura | Zoe | Carter | Irvin | Schmidt | Patrick | Raleigh | Presley | Cho |
| Aria | Martinez | Imogen | Randall | Rowena | Abrams | Zoey | Hernandez | Isaac | Perry | Paul | Selwyn | Riley | Young |
| Ariel | Tamura | Isabella | Jones | Roxie | Hart | Aaron | Escher | Jack | Wood | Percy | Jeong | Robin | Isherwood |
| Ashleigh | Hsiu | Kara | Kirk | Ruby | Graemme | Adam | Kimura | Jackson | Torres | Peter | Cole | Sam | Lau |
| Aubrey | Adams | Karen | Lamar | Sabrina | Hara | Aiden | Gray | Jacob | Richardson | Phillip | Seymour | Taylor | O'Hare |
| Audrey | Campbell | Katherine | Huang | Sally | Takagi | Alan | Sullivan | Jacques | Yamamoto | Pierce | Durand | Kim | Kim |
| Aurora | Turner | Kathleen | Chen | Samantha | Wong | Alexander | Rivera | Jonathon | Rogers | Preston | Shannon | Allen | Andes |
| Ava | Williams | Kathryn | Lawrence | Samara | Miyazaki | Alfred | Porter | Jasper | Liu | Ralph | Travers | Mickey | Roland |
| Avery | Martin | Kaylee | Lincoln | Sandra | Shimada | Alonso | Hasegawa | Jaxon | Flores | Richard | Traynor | Eric | Eshleman |
| Beatrice | Fletcher | Keith | Yoon | Sandy | Miyamoto | Andrew | Foster | Jeffery | Herschel | Rick | Underhill | Qianming | Rader |
| Bella | Evans | Kelly | Seoh | Sara | Sterling | Angelo | Nishimura | Joel | Radnis | Roger | Underwood | Cynthia | Neil |
| Bianca | Nakayama | Kirstie | O'Hannigan | Sarah | Sugiyama | Anthony | Hughes | John | Bennett | Ryan | Alexander | Hunter | Quinn |
| Bobbie | Chandler | Krystal | Northrop | Sasha | Murata | Antonio | Nakano | Joseph | Brooks | Samuel | James | James | Tiberius |
| Brook | Chiu | Larissa | Hu | Savannah | Phillips | Arthur | Fujiwara | Joshua | Butler | Scott | Manley | Cristoff | Pike |
| Brooklyn | Parker | Layla | Allen | Scarlett | Robinson | Asher | Russell | Julian | Long | Sean | Hirano | Montgomery | Scott |
| Cammy | Garcia | Leah | Mitchell | Serena | Anson | Benjamin | Cook | Kaidan | Wang | Sebastian | Peterson | Hikaru | Sulu |
| Camilla | Ma | Leila | Cheng | Serina | Takeda | Bertram | Hammond | Karl | Langley | Terence | Perkins | Nyota | Uhura |
| Candace | Yang | Lenore | Xiao | Shana | Sakurai | Bill | Mori | Ken | Burnside | Theodore | Gonzales | Pavel | Chekov |
| Cara | Zhou | Leona | Leung | Shannon | Varney | Bobby | Crier | Kenneth | Lucas | Thomas | Diaz | Jean Luc | Picard |
| Carina | Xu | Lillian | Scoville | Sierra | Archer | Bruce | Kirkham | Kevin | Lawson | Timothy | Dubois | Marius | Riker |
| Carlene | Zhao | Lily | Wright | Skylar | Collins | Caleb | Bryant | Kimball | Kinnison | Tobias | O'Brien | Geordi | LaForge |
| Celia | Yoshida | Lisa | Zheng | Sofia | Thompson | Kelley | Gatewood | Kingsley | Cassegrain | Tom | Corbett | Tasha | Yar |
| Chandler | Rowland | Lorelei | Lin | Sophia | Brown | Charles | Inoue | Lachlan | Sun | Travis | Bloom | Beverly | Crusher |
| Charlene | Yi | Lorraine | Zhu | Stella | Gonzalez | Chris | Ishida | Lawrence | Luo | Victor | Valentine | Deanna | Troi |
| Charlotte | Davis | Lucille | Violetta | Tabitha | Armstrong | Christopher | Simmons | Leeroy | Mahan | Van | Dru'gotti | Noonien | Soong |
| Charmaine | Rhee | Luna | Lewis | Talia | Tennyson | Colin | Wickham | Leon | Liang | Walter | Winchester | Wesley | Clay |
| Chloe | Walker | Lyn | Ng | Tamara | Austin | Corin | Yamazaki | Lewis | Laurent | Washington | Chrétien | Malcolm | Reynolds |
| Claire | Edwards | Lynette | Chow | Tatiana | Powers | Craig | Stavin | Lex | Kojima | Wayne | Wolf | Zoë | Washburne |
| Constance | Becker | Marie | Blackwell | Teresa | Palmer | Damien | Fraser | Liam | Stewart | Will | Nakajima | Inara | Serra |
| Cora | Nam | Mia | Miller | Tiffany | O'Bannon | Daniel | Howard | Lincoln | Washington | William | Morris | Jayne | Cobb |
| Crystal | Zhang | Mila | White | Tina | Smythe | David | Watson | Logan | Bailey | Winchell | Chung | Kylie | Frye |
| Dakota | Franklin | Miranda | Nielson | Tracey | Tracey | Dean | Winter | Lucas | Bell | Winfred | Yates | Simon | Tam |
| Dinah | Ikeda | Natalie | Nelson | Tracy | Tracy | Desmond | Ingram | Lukas | O'Shea | Wyatt | Price | River | Tamaris |
| Eleanor | Lopez | Natasha | Oakley | Ursula | Nicholson | Duncan | Mansfield | Linus | Barnes | Xander | Xavier | Derrial | Book |
| Elenora | Suzuki | Nora | King | Val | Meyer | Dwight | Fulton | Lyndon | Tsui | Zachary | Macdonough | Emmeline | Chan |
| Elizabeth | Jackson | Octavia | Newton | Valerie | Vaughn | Dylan | Henderson | Marc | Bertrand | Zack | Macdougal | Phoebe | Yamaguchi |
| Ella | Harris | Olivia | Johnson | Vanessa | Montgomery | Elijah | Morgan | Martin | Michel | Casey | Lim | Vivian | Wallace |
| Ellie | Baker | Paige | Park | Veronica | Roscoe | Elliot | Beaconsfield | Mateo | Patterson | Cassidy | Hong | Frederick | Irving |
| Emilia | Suen | Patricia | Reid | Mary | Chu | Ethan | Cooper | Matthew | Ramirez | Cody | Yau | Nathan | Griffin |
| Emily | Thomas | Penelope | Hall | Victoria | Clark | Frank | Alvarez | Max | Yeung | Iris | Kimberley | Kay | Lei |
| Emma | Smith | Petra | Kang | Violet | Roberts | Fred | Yamada | Michael | Cox | Jayden | Ross |
The following are specific verbatim names of various half-celebrities in the rings:
| FIRST | LAST |
|---|---|
| Aaron | Clark |
| Cesar | Cordova |
| Kaipo | Yamarinen |
| Luke | Firek |
| Malik | Klalib |
| Marlon | Hübner |
| Mike | Mudgett |
| Tytus | Rechs |
| Vincent | Star |