Funny Team Names for Work/Business in Sales, Programming, & More

Deciding on a team name for a work group or project can be more important than it seems. Choosing an amusing team name shows you’re committed to the project, it allows you to showcase your creativity, and it can give your team morale a boost. Also, it’s a great thing when your boss remembers your funny team name. Below, we list funny team names for work. We cover several areas and departments, including team names for sales, business, programming, accounting, and more, so you should be able to find something that will work for your team.

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Factors to Consider Before Choosing a Team Name

To make choosing a name easier, we’ve categorized them by department (with some names that can work cross-departmentally). You might want to stay away from funny team names for work that are racy; we’ve included a few that may be borderline inappropriate, depending on your workplace environment (with warnings).

It’s also a good idea to stick to work team names that don’t put others down. Remember that everyone at your company is on the same team, even if you have different team names for work groups. Using your team’s name to mock or exclude someone of a different gender, race, nationality, sexual orientation, or gender identity can hurt others, cause division, and result in you and/or your team getting in trouble.

Additionally, team names that only make sense to someone with a specific background may not work. For example, naming your team ‘Wii Work Hard’ might not be funny if your audience isn’t familiar with video games. It can be awkward when a judge or your boss is reading your team name out loud and you can tell they don’t get the joke or pun.

Funny, Work-Appropriate Team Names, by Department

Accounting and Finance

It’s Accrual World
Deficit Demolition Team
Let’s Get Fiscal (a play on ‘let’s get physical’)
Tax-manian Devils
Don’t Mess with Taxes (a play on the popular Texan recycling campaign, “Don’t mess with Texas”)
Everything’s Bigger in Taxes (a play on the saying, “Everything’s bigger in Texas”)
Death & Taxes
Mind the GAAP (GAAP refers to “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles”)
Team CPA: Certified Public Assassins
The Mighty Morphin Stock Exchangers
Audits Smash
Three Balance Sheets to the Wind
I Can’t Keep Calm, It’s Tax Season!
Kicking Assets and Taking Names (may be inappropriate, depending on the environment)
Between the Spreadsheets (a play on ‘between the sheets’, so it might be a little racy for some environments; use your best judgment)

See more accounting team names in our dedicated article about funny accounting team names for audit, etc.

Call Center

Dial It Up
Beck and Call
Call of Duty (a reference to the extremely popular video game series)
Calling the Shots
Caller Ballers
Hung Up On You
Call Control

Marketing and Advertising

Marketing Maniacs
Live Long and Market
Appetite for Analytics
B2-Bee Keepers (a play on B2B, or “business-to-business”)
B2-C You Later (a play on B2C, or “business-to-consumer”)
Don’t Lead Us On
Optimized to Win
Down with PPC? Yeah You Know Me (a reference to a 90’s rap song — O.P.P.)
The Target Markets

Human Resources and Payroll

Pay Rollers (or, Holy Payrollers)
Vitamin 401K
Recruiting Rampage
Compensation Nation
E-I-EEO (a play on Old MacDonald and EEO, or “equal employment opportunity”)
For Deposit Only
Friends with Benefits (may be inappropriate, depending on the environment)

Management and Leadership

Anger Management
Who’s the Boss?
Follow the Leader
Bossypants
Respect Our Authori-tay (This comes from the animated TV show South Park, so consider your audience — they may not fund it funny if they don’t know the show.)
Barely Managing
Managers of Mayhem
The Brain Trust

Sales

We’ve Got a Bridge to Sell You (a play on the saying “If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you!”)
Defcon-version
The Mighty Morphin’ Stock Exchangers
Risky Business
Team ABC: Always Be Closing
On a Mission for Commission
Bull Market Bunch
Sultans of Sales
Commission: Possible
Keep Calm and Sell On

See more in our dedicated article about funny sales team names.

IT, Programming, and Engineering

IT Phone Home (a play on the line from the movie E.T. — “E.T. phone home!”)
Nerds of a Feather (a play on the idiom “birds of a feather will flock together,” with a nod to the stereotype of IT pros as being nerdy)
Bandwidth of Brothers (in reference to the highly-acclaimed HBO series Band of Brothers)
Browser Arousers
Buffering…
SaaStars
Hexspeak
Cyberspace Cadets
Star Tech
Beta Bots
Internet Explorers
Keyword a la King (a play on the early 20th-century dish Chicken a la King)
Popping (and Locking) the Stack
GitHub Says What?
White Hats
Did It All For the Cookies
Bug Squashers
Hash it Out
Reboot Rebels
Access Denied
Brewing Java
Hunt and Peckers (referencing the rapid typing programmers do as they code; may be inappropriate, depending on the environment)

See more in our dedicated articles about tech team names for work and analytics team names for work.

Office Staff

Staff Infection (a play on staph infection)
Full-Time Winners
Business as Unusual
Out of the Cubicle, Into the Fire
Labor Force of Nature
Business As Usual
Business Casual
Killer Instinct
Wii Work Hard
Ingenious Geniuses
The Three Profiteers
Dollars to Doughnuts
Out of the Cubicle, Into the Fire
Worker Bees
Vision Quest

In Summary

Choosing a team name is an opportunity to let your creativity shine and make a memorable impression on your coworkers and superiors. If possible, select a name that reflects the specific nature of your work, as well as the interests or personalities of the team members. Alliteration, rhyming, and puns can take your team name to the next level. When you get the opportunity to have a little fun at work, you should take it. Even if your teammates seem nonplussed by the idea of putting some effort into choosing a great team name, encourage them to choose something funny. They’ll appreciate being on a memorable team like team Tax-manian Devils.