What Minecraft names are listed at
This is a gray market with no exchange and almost no public sales. What's public is the quote: what sellers ask and what buyers offer. This board shows both, grouped the way our model prices names.
| Group | Listed around | Likely sale |
|---|---|---|
| 3-letter words thin | $5,400 | $3,600 |
| 3 letters | $395 | $265 |
| 3 characters with a digit or _ | $250 | $130 |
| 4-letter words thin | $4,250 | $2,835 |
| 4 characters | $40 | $6 |
| 5–7 letter words | $3,000 | $2,000 |
| 5–7 characters | $80 | $12 |
| 8+ letter words | $425 | $285 |
| 8+ characters | $60 | $9 |
Names seen listed, by length: 3-letter · 4-letter · 5–7 letter · 8+ letter · real words
One number per name (the median of its distinct asks), so a name listed by three sellers counts once, and in groups of 8 names or more no seller carries more than a quarter of the group's weight. "Likely sale" = the group's median ask × the bid/ask ratio at that price level. Words are names with a real English word frequency; 3-letter words must also be in the dictionary (acronyms are not words).
Recent asks by group
3 characters with a digit or _
| 2l5 | $300 | 2026-10-29 |
| c8a | $200 | 2026-10-29 |
| eu1 | $750 | 2026-10-29 |
| vp8 | $280 | 2026-10-29 |
| x3z | $235 | 2026-10-29 |
4-letter words
| else | $5,000 | 2026-10-23 |
| joan | $2,500 | 2026-10-11 |
| blog | $3,000 | 2026-08-24 |
| dawn | $20,000 | 2026-08-24 |
| jaws | $2,500 | 2026-08-02 |
4 characters
| yoph | $30 | 2026-10-28 |
| cooz | $60 | 2026-10-24 |
| llll | $2,500 | 2026-10-11 |
| adle | $30 | 2026-10-07 |
| awwo | $30 | 2026-10-07 |
5–7 letter words
| anger | $12,000 | 2026-10-30 |
| plastic | $3,500 | 2026-10-23 |
| walks | $900 | 2026-10-23 |
| stalk | $10,000 | 2026-10-21 |
| cashier | $2,700 | 2026-10-11 |
5–7 characters
| komachi | $300 | 2026-10-31 |
| gotye | $500 | 2026-10-24 |
| camote | $20 | 2026-10-22 |
| coarser | $30 | 2026-10-22 |
| zenless | $800 | 2026-10-22 |
8+ letter words
| hopelessly | $500 | 2026-10-28 |
| recesses | $30 | 2026-10-28 |
| apparently | $800 | 2026-10-23 |
| thumping | $60 | 2026-10-23 |
| intramural | $40 | 2026-10-22 |
8+ characters
| chalking | $180 | 2026-10-29 |
| amputates | $100 | 2026-10-28 |
| quantumania | $100 | 2026-10-27 |
| atomized | $250 | 2026-10-26 |
| jaegerbomb | $2,500 | 2026-10-25 |
How namenab prices a name
1 · The ask curve
Every public asking price we track is reduced to one opinion per name and seller — their latest price; asks with no known seller count once per name, so an echo of one listing on several sites is one opinion, and the same price from two sellers counts once (a username belongs to one account, so that is one account relisted by a proxy). A price 20× below another ask or offer for the same name is treated as a parse error, and so is a bare year, level or count read where a price should be. Listings sold with a cape, rank, stats, codes or other extras are excluded — they price the bundle, not the name. A regression on length, 3-character status, letters vs. any digit or underscore, real-word strength, game/culture recognition and pronounceability (which, fitted, carries almost no weight) fits the asks, with constraints that must hold: shorter is never worth less, a real word never less than a non-word. In any group of 8 or more names, no single seller may carry more than a quarter of it.
2 · Bid / ask
Many forum listings post the best current buyer offer next to the asking price. Those pairs measure how far below the ask names trade: offers run about 67% of the ask on listings of $300 and up (59 pairs from 20 sellers). Below $100 we use 15% — a judgment, stated as one: unremarkable names mostly draw no offer at all.
3 · The name itself
A name's own asks pull its quote toward them, by how much depends on how many independent opinions there are (never more than 60%), and a listed name is “listed around” a price within its own listings. Buyer offers count once per listing (the latest one), and the likely sale is never below the best offer posted on the name in the past year. A recorded clean sale of the name pulls the likely sale toward the price paid. An unclaimed name with no market history has no resale value — it may be free to register.
4 · Ranges and confidence
Ranges are the middle half of what comparable names ask, measured separately for each length and word group — wide, because prices vary a lot within every group. Every quote says what it rests on: a listing marked sold, buyer offers on the name, its own listing, or — for almost every name — comparable names alone.
The evidence behind the current calibration (2026-10-04)
| Distinct asking prices | 267 |
| Names with asks | 256 |
| Sellers | 49 |
| Bid/ask pairs (offer next to ask, same listing) | 59 |
| Held-out test: typical error vs. a name's own ask | ×1.7 |
| Held-out test: within 2× of the ask | 56% |
| Share of held-out names inside their quoted middle-half range | 58% |
| Stricter test, a whole seller held out: typical error / within 2× | ×1.7 / 54% |
Known limits. Asks exist only for names someone chose to list, so names nobody would list — long random strings, obscure words — are priced from names that were listed, and probably sit high. Word strength is measured by how common a word is in English, which is not the same as how cool it is as a handle. Prices vary a lot within every group.
The calibration is re-fit on purpose as evidence accumulates, never silently. Sources: the OGUsers username forum (read daily, incrementally) plus a June 2026 snapshot of other marketplaces. Most deals close privately in Telegram and Discord, so public data is a floor on the market, not all of it.
Questions
Where are Minecraft usernames bought and sold?
Mostly on the OGUsers forum and in private Telegram and Discord deals; smaller volumes on other gaming-account marketplaces. All of it is unofficial — Mojang's terms do not allow account sales. namenab reads public listings; it does not buy, sell or broker.
What is the difference between an asking price and a sale?
An asking price is what a seller lists a name for; a sale is a closed deal at a known price. Almost no clean name sales are public, which is why namenab measures how far below asks buyers actually bid, instead of pretending asks are sales.
How accurate are the estimates?
Tested by leaving each listed name out and predicting it from the rest, the model lands within 2x of that name's asking price 56% of the time. Names vary a lot even within a group, which is why every quote is a range.