Draw Names for your Secret Santa Gift Exchange!

There have already been 23,530,827 names drawn this year.

The best free Secret Santa Generator for any gift exchange. Draw names for Christmas and other festivities!

  • Secret Santa Generator with wish lists
  • Make exclusions: who shouldn’t draw whom
  • Search personal gift ideas
Draw names

How to use drawnames

It’s easy to make a wish list using the gift finder

Draw names for your Secret Santa or make a wish list group without drawing names. You can find the most popular gifts for men and women in our gift finder.

New: The drawnames App

Make your gift exchange easy with the free drawnames Secret Santa app. Download the Secret Santa app and organise your gift exchange with exclusions and wish lists. No ads, and no registration required.

How does it work?

Enter the names

Enter the names of people to organise your Secret Santa with. You can still add names or delete them after you confirm the group.

Add exclusions and group details

If there are enough group members, you can make exclusions: who shouldn’t draw whom. You can also add details like a group name and the date of the celebration.

Send the invitations

You need to send the invitations as soon as the group has been created. You can do this via email, WhatsApp or other social media.

Make your wish list

Don’t keep your Secret Santa guessing! Make a wish list of the gifts you’d like. Did you know that you can also set up a group just to share wish lists?

Draw the names

Now it’s also possible to watch the draw live, so that everyone sees whose name they’ve drawn at the same time.

Draw names for all occasions

Christmas

25 December 2024

Secret santa

With tinsel and cheer, Christmas is soon here! Plan a Secret Santa exchange to draw names with family and friends!

Hanukkah

25 December 2024

Hanukkah secret santa

During the Jewish Festival of Lights we light hanukkiyah candles for eight days to commemorate this special time of year.

Chinese New Year

29 January 2025

Chinese New Year

Gather with family to celebrate the new lunar year with dinner, fireworks and giving red envelopes to younger family members.

Secret Santa Generator is our go-to site for any Christmas gift exchange event! All has been great!

Kathleen

It’s very well designed and easy to use. Thank u very much for this free platform.

Benson

it's great! Using it for years now. Colleagues feedback that they're impressed the names are all in a full cycle, no 2 people has gotten each other's names.

Charissa

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