Adopting a well-suited team name for you and your colleagues is a great way to boost morale and cultivate a sense of community than by adopting a well-suited team name for you and your colleagues? Sometimes, all it takes is a bit of creative brainstorming to come up with the name that perfectly summarizes both your job and mission. If you work in the field of analytics or data, chances are you’ll probably need to work in a team on some occasions. Below, we list some tips to consider for picking a great analytics team name, and we also provide several name ideas and examples that you can use for your team.

Before You Choose a Team Name

A great team name both embodies the group’s purpose and allows you to tap into your creative resources. There are, however, a few things to take into consideration when choosing a name.

First and foremost, take note of what’s considered appropriate in your setting. For example, a team name among friends might be quite different than a team name for the formal setting of a workplace. One can be casual and even suggestive, while the other likely requires some degree of discretion. In either case, it’s best to always be mindful of others. You shouldn’t pick a name that might discriminate against anyone’s race, gender, religion, sexuality, or nationality. Team building means bringing people up, not putting them down.

Second, have fun and be innovative. Try incorporating your profession or relevant jargon into the team name. Are you the type that has a propensity for puns? Or perhaps a poetic attraction to alliteration? Both of these devices can help make your team name distinctive and memorable.

Analytics Team Names

Data analytics can often involve a lot of work with numbers instead of words. If you’re worried about coming up with analytics team names, we’ve compiled several ideas — categorized by team type — to help spark your creativity. You can choose a name directly from our list, or use the names as ideas to help you come up with something unique.

Big Data

  • The Aggregators
  • A Walk in the Spark
  • Clickstream of Consciousness
  • Confab-ulous
  • Flume Platoon
  • Hadoop Hotshots
  • Shoop Hadoop
  • Team Machine

Business Intelligence

  • The Augmenters
  • Blockchain in the Membrane (a play on the song title “Insane in the Membrane”)
  • The Blockchain Brigade
  • The Blockchainers
  • The Catchy Apaches
  • Cloud Chroniclers
  • Domo Work
  • Internet of Kings (a play on “internet of things”)
  • KPI-a (a play on the saying “yippee ki yay”)
  • Loud ‘N Cloud
  • The Self-Serve Reverb
  • Tableau my Life (a play on “time of my life”)

Data Analytics

  • A Walk in the Spark
  • Abraca-data
  • Another Day, Another Data
  • Cluster Champs
  • Don’t Mess With SPSS
  • Exploratory Territory
  • Hook, Line, and Thinker
  • It Ain’t Ova Until ANOVA
  • Lock, Stock, and Neural
  • The Miner League
  • Model Behavior
  • The Regression Profession
  • The Scala-wags
  • Shoop Hadoop
  • The Sons of Analysts
  • STATA-sphere
  • The Stat Pack (a play on The Rat Pack)
  • The Vector Victors
  • We R
  • YAS SAS (based on the popular slang saying, “Yaaas”)

For even more ideas, see our lists of Agile team names and technical team names.


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