Random Name Picker

When you need to choose someone fairly — a giveaway winner, a student to answer, who goes first, which team member takes a task — a random name picker removes any hint of bias and makes the choice feel fair to everyone. Paste your list of names, one per line, press the button, and a short suspense animation lands on a randomly chosen winner.

The fairness here is real, not cosmetic: the pick uses your browser's cryptographic random number generator, the same quality of randomness used for security, so every name has a genuinely equal chance — no subtle weighting toward the top or bottom of the list. For raffles and giveaways where each person should win only once, the raffle mode removes each winner from the pool after they're drawn, so you can pick first, second and third place in sequence without repeats.

A running list of recent picks keeps track of who's been chosen, useful when selecting several in a row. It works for any list of any length, entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, no signup, no limits. Teachers use it for cold-calling and group selection, streamers and marketers for giveaways, teams for assigning tasks or deciding lunch. Fair, fast, and genuinely random.