250+ Unique, Creative and Funny Car Names

If you need ideas on funny car names, we have shared several creative ways to come up with unique and funny car names.

There is nothing weird about naming a car. Car manufactures spend a lot of their creative budget on finding the most brilliant brand name for a car. Also, it is well documented that many car enthusiasts have nicknames and special names for their cars.

So, as a car owner, it is understandable that you’d want to personalize your car by giving it a name.

When naming a car, car owners opt for badass car names or car names based on color. However, another great way to come up with a nickname for a car is to use humor.

In this article, we show you how to come up with a funny nickname for your car and give you some funny car name ideas to help get your creative juices flowing.

How to Come Up with A Funny Name for A Car

A funny car name doesn’t have to be a pun or funny word; it could come from exaggeration, irony, or sarcasm.

For example, naming your car “Undertaker” because it always lets you down or naming your car after your sports team because they also regularly let you down.

A funny car name can be:

• Surprising: For example, naming your car Mr. Hank, because that was the name of your high school teacher.
• Audacious: Naming your car COVID because it always ruined your summer plans.
• Ironic: Naming a gasoline car, Tesla.
• Exaggerated: Naming a slow car, Flash.
• Descriptive: Naming your car Flattery because it doesn’t get you anywhere

Here are some ideas on how to come up with funny car names:

1. Color of the Car + Your Favorite Male or Female Name
   • Blue Bertha
   • Green Lily
   • Yellow Pheobe
   • Black Mark
   • Red John
   • Pink Cooper
2. Name your car after your favorite Car Part
   • Shaft
   • Wheels
   • Dash
   • Seats
   • Shy Brakes
   • Honk
3. Name your car after your high school Crush or Prom date
   • Bonnie
   • Julian
   • Jane
   • Henry
   • Brad
   • Han
4. Name your car after your favorite or worst city
   • Caracas
   • San Salvador
   • Acapulco
   • Valencia
   • Venice
   • Tulsa
5. Name your car the Name or Nickname of your favorite celebrity crush
   • Jennifer Lawrence: You can modify the name as well. e.g Jenny, Law, J.Law
   • Larry David
   • Ariana Grande
   • RiRi
   • Ellen
   • Arnold
   • Selena
6. Name your car after someone or something who never lets you down
   • Mad Mel (Mel Gibson)
   • Morgan (Morgan Freeman)
   • Bro
   • Glock (Gun lovers)
   • Whiskey
   • Cruise (Tom Cruise)
7. Name your car after someone or something who always lets you down
   • Prom Date
   • Buddy
   • Charm
   • Flattery
   • Downer
   • Red Light
8. Name your car after your favorite F1 Driver
   • Ayrton
   • Hamilton
   • Schumacher
   • Vettel
   • Rosberg
   • Alonso
9. Name your car after your allergy
   • Peanut
   • Shellfish
   • Soy
   • Lactose
   • Latex
   • Aspirin
10. Name your car after an Insect you Hate
    • Mosquito
    • Spider
    • Bee
    • Housefly
    • Bug
    • Moth
11. Name your car after something Scary
    • Homealone
    • Screaming Skull
    • Space Ghost
    • Zombie
    • Clown
    • Darkness
12. Name your car after something that moves
    • Tortoise
    • Snail
    • Lizard
    • Cheetah
    • Beetle
    • Falcon
13. Name your car after your favorite song
    • Billie Jean
    • Disturbia
    • Purple Haze
    • Footloose
    • Pink Cadillac
    • Despacito
14. Name your car after your most common experience with the car
    • Broken
    • Freedom
    • Ladies
    • Tickets
    • Premium
    • Rage
15. Name your car after your favorite beer brand
    • Guinness
    • Corona
    • Heineken
    • Budweiser
    • Blue Moon
    • Bud Light
16. Name your car after your favorite sport team
    • Yankees
    • Dallas
    • Red Sox
    • Lakers
    • Gunners
    • Knicks
17. Name your car after your favorite movie character
    • Jack Sparrow
    • Gandalf
    • Joker
    • Bond
    • Hannibal
    • Atticus
18. Name your car after your favorite Author
    • Shakespeare
    • Rowling
    • King
    • Grisham
    • Toni
    • Orwell
19. Name your car after your favorite Wrestler
    • Undertaker
    • Kane
    • Ric Flair
    • Bret Hart
    • Triple H
    • The Rock
20. Name your car after your favorite Animal or a badass animal
    • Beetle
    • Blackhawk
    • Bluebird
    • Charger
    • Cobra
    • Cougar
21. Name your car after a popular name from the car’s country of origin
    • Müller (German)
    • Schmidt (German)
    • Kim (Korean)
    • Park (Korean)
    • Sakura (Japanese)
    • Yuto (Japanese)
22. Name your car after something annoying or useless
    • Belly Button
    • Government
    • Enron
    • WorldCom
    • COVID
    • Madoff
23. Name your car after something tough
    • Kevlar
    • Diamond
    • Graphene
    • Bison
    • Desert
    • Buffalo
24. Name your car after something fast
    • Quicksilver
    • Godspeed
    • Flash
    • Sonic
    • Bolt
    • ​Light
25. Name your car after your favorite musician
    • Elvis
    • MJ
    • Adele
    • U2
    • Kanye
    • Bob
26. Name your car after your favorite food
    • Banana/Banana Wheels
    • Berry/Berry Blast
    • Taco/Taco Truck
    • Steak
    • Red Velvet
    • Soda
27. Name your car after a fictional car
    • Lightning McQueen
    • Flintmobile
    • Mario Kart
    • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
    • Herbie the Love Bug
    • Batmobile
28. Name your car after a popular buzzword
    • Algorithm
    • AI
    • Hacker
    • Cloud
    • Big Data
    • Deep Dive
29. Name your car after a Greek or Roman God
    • Hermes
    • Mercury
    • Zeus
    • Hercules
    • Hera
    • Ares
30. Use the character on your number plates to generate a name
    • JZ
    • KZ
    • JK
    • CJ
    • Winston Mars (WM)
    • Annie Piston (AP)

Add a spin to any of these words by combining the other elements such as the color of the car. Or by adding something ironic. For example, Slow Flash, Ugly Betty, Deep Drive, Tesla Cybertruck.

List of Funny Car Names

The following car names are submitted by readers, so it won’t exactly be unique but since most car nicknames aren’t protected by copyright, feel free to use any of these funny nicknames for your car.

Here are some funny car names:

1. Angry Bird
2. Banana
3. Big Booty Judy
4. Big Mac
5. Braking Bad – Wordplay on the TV series Breaking Bad.
6. Bromobile
7. Buddha
8. Candy Van
9. Chainsmoker
10. Chatty
11. Cheetos
12. Clementine
13. Crawler
14. Crush
15. Dark Digger – named after the character in Boogie Nights
16. Dented
17. Dirty Gerty
18. Distress
19. Doughboy
20. Drama Queen
21. DUI
22. Dump
23. Fart
24. Fattie
25. Ginger Jeep
26. Gold Digger
27. Gramps
28. Gypsy Queen
29. Hank
30. Hennessey
31. High Premiums
32. Hitchcock
33. Hot Dog
34. Killer Whale
35. Last Legs
36. Lazy Bones
37. Ma’s Grief
38. Makeout
39. Man Cave
40. Mistress
41. Money Pit
42. Moose
43. Mother’s Worry
44. Mountain Goat
45. Mud Monkey
46. Maddie
47. Mud
48. Nemo
49. Noise Maker
50. Nutjob
51. Oldie
52. Old Testament
53. Old Yeller
54. Patches
55. Penny Pincher
56. Piggie
57. Pipe Dream
58. Pork Chop
59. Porker
60. Problem Child
61. Pumpkin
62. Rhino
63. Slugger
64. SpongeBob
65. Squeaker
66. Steak
67. Stepchild
68. Stitches
69. Surf Slayer – definitely a beach babe and surfer
70. Taco
71. Takeout
72. Tic Tac
73. Tigger – named after the orange character in Winnie the Pooh
74. Tiny Dancer
75. Trick Tank
76. Ugly Betty
77. Vibrator
78. Wasted Days
79. Whiskey
80. Widowmaker
81. Wobbles

Now, it is your turn to tell us the funny nicknames you have for your car.