Free chatbot name generator

How to use the chatbot name generator

1. Type your site’s name the way your customers say it. A third set of names, built from it, appears with the other two.
2. Choose a tone and your industry. Each changes a different set. The tone picks the people’s names and the endings added to your site’s name, and the industry picks the words.
3. Press More names for the next four in each set. There are three rounds before they repeat, and the same choices always bring back the same names.
4. Tap any name to read it in a greeting. Copy the name on its own, or the whole greeting to paste into your chatbot.

Four kinds of chatbot name

Most chatbot names are one of four kinds. The generator covers the first three, and the fourth is worth weighing before you choose.

Our chatbot examples include three of the four. Lemonade named its bot Maya, Zalando calls its own Zalando Assistant, and Vercel’s docs have a button marked Ask AI at the top of every page.

How to pick the right name

Shortlist three names, then run each one through these checks.

• Say it out loud. If you have to spell it for someone, pick another.
• Keep it to one or two short words, so it fits on a button and in the first line of a chat on a phone.
• Match it to how your site already sounds. A playful name on a serious product reads as a joke at the customer’s expense.
• Stay clear of famous assistants, such as Siri or Alexa, and of anything that sounds like a real person on your team.
• Search it with your industry’s name before you print it anywhere, in case another product already uses it.

Whatever you choose, let the first line say it’s an AI. Cursor’s support bot answered emails as Sam, and a user who didn’t suspect it was a bot believed a policy it had made up. That story is the last of the failures in our chatbot examples.

Naming your chatbot in Deacon

Deacon introduces itself in its greeting, and out of the box that greeting reads “Hi! I’m Deacon, Acme’s AI assistant. How can I help you?”, with your company’s name where Acme is. Here’s where a name you picked above goes.

• The greeting. On the Appearance page you can replace the default with your own, up to 300 characters, such as a greeting copied from this page. The page treats the greeting as the chatbot’s AI disclosure, so keep the word AI in yours, as every greeting above does.
• The button. The button in the corner of your site reads Help until you change it, and its label takes up to 24 characters, so Ask Theo fits. You set both against a live preview of your own site, and nothing changes for visitors until you publish.
• Not the rest of the widget. Deacon’s mark opens every message it writes, the box visitors type in reads Ask AI while Deacon is answering, and the widget’s other words are fixed and in English. When you reply to a visitor yourself, your message carries your own first name and your company’s, as in Priya from Acme.

A name earns a visitor’s first look. What keeps them trusting it is the reply. Deacon answers from your own docs, in seconds, at any hour and in the visitor’s language. When your docs don’t cover a question, it says it doesn’t know rather than guessing, and offers a box for their email. Ask it for a person and it tells the visitor your team will reply right there in the chat.

Each question your docs didn’t cover waits in your dashboard with an Answer this button, and what you write there becomes something Deacon answers from. Topics group what people ask and count the people behind each group, so you see what to fix first. The website chat widget page shows the colours, corners and placement you can set, and how to add an AI chatbot to your website walks through the one script tag it takes. The free plan has every one of these features, asks for no card and has no end date.