Random Name Picker — Spinner Wheel & Fair Draws
Paste a list of names and spin a colorful wheel to pick a winner — or switch to Pick-N mode to draw several at once. Winners can be removed and the wheel respun for runner-up draws. Your list is saved in this browser only, and the randomness comes from your device’s cryptographic generator, so every name has an exactly equal chance.
Use Cases
How to pick a random name with the wheel
Type or paste one name per line — students, teammates, raffle entrants. The list saves to this browser automatically.
Click Spin. The wheel accelerates and eases out over 4–6 seconds, landing on a segment chosen by cryptographic randomness.
The name under the pointer pops up in a winner card and is logged to the history list with a timestamp.
Remove the winner and respin for second place, or switch to Pick-N mode to draw several distinct names at once — great for picking teams.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is my name list uploaded anywhere?
- No. The list lives in your browser’s local storage only — nothing is sent to a server, and clearing it removes it completely.
- Is the wheel actually fair?
- Yes. The landing angle comes from crypto.getRandomValues — the same generator used for cryptography — with rejection sampling to avoid modulo bias. Every segment has an identical probability.
- Can the same person win twice?
- Only if you leave them on the wheel. Use "Remove & respin" after each draw to guarantee unique winners round after round.
- How many names can the wheel hold?
- There’s no hard cap. Labels stay readable to around 30–40 names; beyond that, segments get thin — Pick-N mode handles big lists better.
- What does Pick-N mode do differently?
- It skips the wheel and draws N distinct names at once using a cryptographically shuffled copy of your list — instant and guaranteed no duplicates within a draw.
- Will my list still be there tomorrow?
- Yes, on the same device and browser — it persists in local storage across visits. It won’t sync to other devices, by design.
Private by design. Names are drawn entirely in your browser and the list is saved only in this browser’s local storage — nothing is sent to a server.