Add names to the wheel and spin to pick a random winner. Perfect for teachers, giveaways, raffles, and classroom activities.
Add your whole class and spin to call on students fairly. No more awkward guessing who to pick next.
Paste in all your entrants and spin live on screen. Transparent and exciting for your audience.
Each winner gets removed from the wheel so you can keep spinning until everyone has had a turn.
Our random name picker wheel is the easiest and most satisfying way to select a name fairly and randomly. Just type or paste in your list of names, hit spin, and the wheel lands on a random winner with a smooth animation and confetti celebration. No login, no download, no cost — just open and spin.
It is used by teachers, YouTubers, event organisers, HR managers, and office teams every day to make fair, unbiased selections in seconds. Whether you need to pick one name from a list of 5 or 500, the name picker wheel handles it instantly.
Add names one by one using the input field and pressing Enter, or click Bulk Add to paste an entire list at once — one name per line. This makes it easy to import a full class list, subscriber list, or team roster in seconds. Once your names are on the wheel, click the big SPIN button and watch it land on a random winner.
Use Elimination Mode to remove each winner from the wheel after they are picked, so you can spin multiple times without the same name coming up twice. This is perfect for picking multiple raffle winners or calling on every student in a class before repeating anyone.
Your name list is automatically saved in your browser so it will be there next time you visit — no account needed.
Teachers are one of the most common users of the random name picker wheel. Instead of calling on the same students or feeling guilty about who you pick, the wheel makes the selection completely random and transparent. Students can see the wheel spin and land on a name, which feels fair to the whole class.
Use it to call on students to answer questions, assign reading roles, pick who presents first, or select students for classroom jobs. With elimination mode, you can guarantee every student participates before anyone is picked twice.
Content creators and event organisers love the name picker wheel for live giveaway draws. Paste all your entrants into the wheel, spin it on screen, and the result is visible and transparent to everyone watching. It makes giveaway draws exciting rather than just announcing a name — the spinning animation builds suspense and makes the moment feel special.
For large giveaways with hundreds of entries, the wheel handles it without slowing down. The text labels are hidden on very large wheels to keep them visually clean, but the random selection remains fully accurate regardless of how many names are entered.
Yes. The result is determined by a random number generator the moment you click SPIN, before the animation starts. The spinning wheel is a visual representation of a result that has already been chosen randomly. Every name has an equal probability of being selected on every spin.
Yes — use the Bulk Add feature to paste your entire list at once, one name per line. The wheel handles large lists accurately even when the name labels become too small to display on the segments.