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Secret Santa Generator

Please enter each participant's email address

Gift exchange generator.

Drawing names for a gift exchange or Secret Santa? Here's a web app to make it easier! Simply:

• Add all participant names
• Sort people into exclusion groups (optional)
• Generate the list
• Send everyone an email with the name of their recipient (optional)

To keep the results a secret, click "Secret Santa Mode" instead.

This site will always be free to use, doesn't use any cookies, and your information will never be shared.

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Participant Names

Draw names for your Secret Santa gift exchange!

There have already been 30,279,654 names drawn this year.

drawnames ® is the best free Secret Santa Generator online for Christmas and other festivities!

• Secret Santa Generator with wish lists
• Search personal gift ideas in our Gift Finder
• Ask your Secret Santa anonymous questions

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 Secret Santa gift exchange easy with the free drawnames Secret Santa app . Download the Secret Santa app and organize 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 organize your Secret Santa with. You still can 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 out the invitations

You need to send out the invitations as soon as the group has been created. You can do this via email, text message, 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 drawing live, so that everyone sees whose name they’ve drawn at the same time.

Draw names for all occasions

December 25, 2024

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

During Hanukkah , we light hanukkiyah candles for eight days to commemorate this special time of year.

December 26, 2024

Between December 26th and January 1st it is time for Kwanzaa . Celebrate the end of Kwanzaa by exchanging meaningful gifts.

I enjoyed using your service - it made Secret Santa so easy, without spoiling the surprise for anyone! Thanks to you and your team for the brilliant work. Happy holidays! Althea

Honestly, this service is amazing. Draw Names makes my life so much easier. I can focus on the party itself rather than chasing down Secret Santa’s and providing gift ideas. The Wish Lists, anonymous questions and reminder emails are helpful without being overbearing. Keep up the great work! Lara

My only suggestion would be to not change anything to the way it is, it was very easy to use, instructions were very straightforward, it's a great stress relieved as it is all done for you, and it is all done in a way that it really add suspense to it. Thank you very much for this useful tool! Beatrice

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Secret Santa Generator

Draw names for your Secret Santa group in two simple steps.

john, [email protected], {jane} jane, [email protected], {john} mike, [email protected]

In the example above, John won't pick Jane and Jane won't pick John.

Excluded names are optional. Also, note that the excluded names are in braces {} .

What is Secret Santa?

It’s a free online Secret Santa gift exchange organizer / Kris Kringle generator ! Organize a Secret Santa party with friends, family or even co-workers. After receiving the Secret Santa mail you can add your own wishlist , which will be delivered to your Secret Santa.

Each year around Christmas time people all over the world exchange gifts. To keep things interesting though, you can randomly assign persons to each other to give a present to one another.

How does it work?

Create a party on the homepage . You need at least 3 participants, the first participant being the list administrator. The list administrator will receive a confirmation link by e-mail. Once validated, your Secret Santa list will be scrambled and all users will receive your message along with the name of their Secret Santa gift buddy. We demand a confirmation to prevent bots or trolls from ruining your Secret Santa party. The validation e-mail will provide a link to the Secret Santa event manager .

Your party in 3 easy steps

• 1 List your participants
• 2 Add a message

Add your participants

Add a personal message.

Create your event!

What makes a Secret Santa generator so much fun?

Seriously, is this a rhetorical question? Organizing a Secret Santa party guarantees you a fun night filled with surprises - I think we can agree on that.

Thanks to a special Secret Santa generator you won’t have to deal with all the pre-organizing yourself. You just fill in the blanks and the Secret Santa generator does all the work!

The only thing you have to do is sit back and relax (oh, and buy some snacks and drinks for your Secret Santa party).

Why go for Secret Santa online?

The best thing about Secret Santa online is that you don’t have to physically plan everything with all the participants. Assigning names, making and receiving wish lists, and so on: you can arrange everything with just an internet connection and a connected device.

This way, Secret Santa online makes all the organizing stuff way more easy. That means more time for you and your friends to enjoy the holiday season and look forward to the actual party!

Secret Santa all over the world

Secret Santa, Kris Kringle, Kris Kindle, Kris Kringel, White Elephant, Yankee Swap, Yankee Doodle, Wichteln, or even lootjes trekken, namen trekken or Monito Monita: all over the world people use different names for the same thing. So let us take you on a quick trip around the world! No worries, you’ll be home in time for your Secret Santa party .

Conclusion? Randomly giving gifts to people is fun! So wait no longer and start off with your own Secret Santa generator online .

Repository for my personal page. See https://ch-sa.github.io.

🎅 secret santa generator 🎄, secret santa assignment, ❄️ how it works.

• No Account Needed: Just enter names and date - that's it!
• Deterministic Matching: The same participants and date will always generate the same assignments. This means the organizer cannot manipulate the results as the same calculation is done every time the link is opened.
• Private & Secure: All matching happens in your browser - no data is stored on any server.
• Verifiable Results: Each assignment has a validation code. All participants should see the same code - if not, someone might have tampered with the assignments!

Created with the help of some ✨ and not yet reviewed, treat with care!

We Make Secret Santa Fun AND Easy

Secret santa generator.

When you organize a Secret Santa, you don't want it to be complicated. We strive to keep it simple to create your group, invite your friends and family, draw names, make wishlists, send each other anonymous Sneaky Messages, and get to the joy of gift-giving and having fun! Our Secret Santa generator tool makes it quick and easy, and we back all of that up with our personal support to make sure that everything goes smoothly for your group. We don't send spam or junk to your email, and we've been serving our customers for nearly two decades. Did we mention that you get all of that for free?

Wondering how your family can use Sneaky Santa or thinking about doing a Secret Santa at work? Take a quick video tour to see how our secret santa generator works and find out why it's fun to be sneaky!

Free and easy.

We make it easy for you to set up a group, invite others and have them join without jumping through a bunch of hoops. Your group members don't have to install an app, and Sneaky Santa works the same on any device. Just share your group invite link and go! When it is time to draw names, you can easily set up rules to prevent certain people from picking others (spouses for example).

You can set a fun group photo, have everyone get creative with their nicknames in the group, and each person can set their own profile pictures. You can even share the kids' wishlists without including them in the drawing!

Fun for Everyone

We have customers around the world who have made Sneaky Santa a part of their annual Christmas tradition for over a decade. We love adding joy to your Christmas!

We take the stress out of figuring out what to get for the person you pick. Everyone has their own wishlist, and they can add anything on their minds to the list. Your group members will also love sending anonymous "Sneaky Messages" to the person they picked!

With wishlists and Sneaky Messages, all the Sneaky Santas in your group will have confidence that they have picked out the perfect gift!

Unmatched Support

Support for a free site? Yep, you read that right. We do our very best to make everything easy so that you won't need support too often, but things always come up when you get people together.

When you organize a Sneaky Santa group, you can feel confident that we'll be there for you when you need help. Those emails to support or messages from our contact form won't go into some black hole like you've experienced with many websites.

I LOVE your site and the customer support is the best I have seen in a long time.

My family loves Sneaky Santa! Sneaky Santa has played an integral part in our family’s Christmas - thank you!

Love your awesome site!

We are three years strong with this tradition and we love it! Thank you so much!!

The easiest and bestest (that is a word) online Secret Santa platform!

I just love your website! Thank you for making it! It is the third year my family is using it. LOVE IT.

Victoria V.

Just wanted to share how great your site/service is and how wonderful it has been for our extended family. Thank you and Merry Christmas!!

Thanks so much for the site, we used it last year with success and fun and we love that you spread a lovely fun message of Christmas, and even more greatly appreciate that you don't spam and annoy. Thanks very much for creating it.

Thank you for this wonderful website – Our office really enjoys it!

You are great! All the best I have to say about SneakySanta and I feel sorry that I didn't find about it in some previous years. :D!

Natalija S.

Thanks a lot for the fast and helpful reply! And for making Christmas at work fun ;-)

I really love this app!

You were very quick in getting back to us. SneakySanta is an awesome site!

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