History Main / EgocentricTeamNaming

* Music/AliceCooper, believe it or not, is actually ''an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]'' as "Alice Cooper" was just a name the band members happened upon while playing with a ouija board. Vincent Furnier didn't adopt it as his actual name until he left the band.

* Music/BenFoldsFive (a trio).

* Music/SelenaGomez and The Scene. Note that "The Scene" part comes from the fact that Selena has been called a "[[http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/08/13/selena-gomez/ wannabe scene]]" and thus ONLY refers to Selena. Selena actually wanted to form a band with a band identity, a la Music/{{Paramore}}; [[ExecutiveMeddling it was her label]] that wanted her name in the group's name.

* In ''Manga/{{BECK}}'', when the main characters are trying to come up with a name for their band, lead guitarist Ryuusuke spends a moment on the floor writing ideas. When he's finished, he holds it up proudly, and every suggestion contains his name, like [[Music/JimiHendrix "The Ryuusuke Experience"]] and so on. Of course, no-one was impressed, though the fangirls that hang around them were amused.

* Also subverted by Music/{{Blondie}}. Although Debbie Harry had often been called "Blondie" prior to the band being formed, the name technically referred to the entire band and not just to her.

* Music/VanHalen, named after [[BandOfRelatives brothers]] Eddie (lead guitar) and Alex (drums), inspired by Santana, below.

* Lukas Graham, named after lead vocalist Lukas Graham Forchhammer.

* Famous Free Jazzist Peter Brötzmann always perfomed his songs with his band ''The Peter Brötzmann Band'', in which he was the leader.

* Music/VanHalen, named after [[BandOfRelatives brothers]] Eddie (lead guitar) and Alex (drums), inspired by Santana, below.

* Music/AliceCooper, believe it or not, is actually ''an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]'' as "Alice Cooper" was just a name the band members happened upon while playing with a ouija board. Vincent Furnier didn't adopt it as his actual name until he left the band.
* Also subverted by Music/{{Blondie}}. Although Debbie Harry had often been called "Blondie" prior to the band being formed, the name technically referred to the entire band and not just to her.

* Music/MeatLoaf Soul aka just Meat Loaf.

* Music/{{Santana}}, named after lead guitarist Carlos Santana.
* Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets (cf. Halley's Comet).
* Music/TheBeatles used in their early years both "[[Music/JohnLennon Johnny]] and the Moondogs" and "Long John and the Silvermen" (referencing [[Literature/TreasureIsland Long John Silver]]).
* Music/BenFoldsFive (a trio).
* Music/SelenaGomez and The Scene. Note that "The Scene" part comes from the fact that Selena has been called a "[[http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/08/13/selena-gomez/ wannabe scene]]" and thus ONLY refers to Selena. Selena actually wanted to form a band with a band identity, a la Music/{{Paramore}}; [[ExecutiveMeddling it was her label]] that wanted her name in the group's name.
* Music/{{Rainbow}} was originally referred to (it's even on the first album's cover) as [[Music/DeepPurple Ritchie Blackmore]]'s Rainbow.

* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine - Florence Welch and Isabella "Machine" Summers started as a duo, but eventually got more band members, though the songs are usually written just by them - or just Florence and another person.
* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject, named after producer and keyboardist Alan Parsons.

* Von Hertzen Brothers. They were originally just the three brothers, but they have since added a drummer and keyboardist who are not related.
* [[JapanesePopMusic J-Pop]] group Hinoi Team is named after the member Asuka Hinoi.

* Lukas Graham, named after lead vocalist Lukas Graham Forchhammer.
* Dave Clark Five, who were unusually named after [[LeadDrummer their drummer]] rather than their front man.
* Rather common among classic jazz groups: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, Count Basie and his Orchestra, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, the Cannonball Adderly Quintet, the Miles Davis Quintet, etc.
* Music/BreakingBenjamin named after the singer Benjamin Burnley.
* Before they became Music/TheBeachBoys, the Wilson brothers (and cousin) had a band under the name of "Carl and the Passions". Interestingly, Music/BrianWilson came up with the name ''before'' his brother Carl joined the group, in order to entice him to join.
* Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons were initially known as the Four Seasons, then as "The 4 Seasons featuring the "sound" of Frankie Valli" (yes, that was the actual artist credit), then as "Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons". One of Frankie Valli's solo singles featured "The Valli Boys" on the instrumental B-side.
* Famous Free Jazzist Peter Brötzmann always perfomed his songs with his band ''The Peter Brötzmann band'', in which he was the leader.

** This can be because of problems with registering more mundane names. For example, when long-serving politician Bob Katter founded his own party, his preferred name of "The Australian Party" was rejected as too generic and so the party was named "Katter's Australian Party" instead. In addition to Bob Katter himself in the federal House of Representatives, KAP candidates have consistently been elected to Queensland's state parliament – including Bob Katter's son Robbie Katter, who is the party leader.

* This has become frequent in UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics since the early 2010s, with independent politicians forming their own parties named after themselves. Some of these are genuine ventures at forming new political parties with others who share their views, such as the Nick Xenophon Team. However, because only registered political parties can gain an "above the line" position on the Senate ballot, independent Senate candidates are incentivised to form their own parties to get themselves elected. For example, independent David Pocock was in fact elected as the candidate for a party named "David Pocock".

* This has become frequent in UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics since the early 2010s, with independent politicians forming their own parties named after themselves. Some of these are genuine ventures at forming new political parties with others who share their views, such as the Nick Xenophon Team, named after the senator from South Australia. However, because only registered political parties can gain an "above the line" position on the Senate ballot, independent Senate candidates are incentivised to form their own parties to get themselves elected: for example, the ACT's independent senator David Pocock was in fact elected as the candidate for a party named "David Pocock".
** Nick Xenophon justified his use of this trope, saying that while he didn't like using his own name, name recognition was important in politics and his candidates would be elected on his own reputation. After his resignation, the party continued on and re-branded themselves as the Centre Alliance (and, on the state level, "SA-BEST").
** This can be because of problems with registering more mundane names. For example, when Queensland politician Bob Katter founded his own party, his preferred name of "The Australian Party" was rejected as too generic and so the party was named "Katter's Australian Party" instead. In addition to Bob Katter himself in the federal House of Representatives, KAP candidates have consistently been elected to Queensland's state parliament – including Bob Katter's son Robbie Katter, who is the party leader.
** When eccentric right-wing billionaire Clive Palmer was originally unable to register the name "United Australia Party" (named after the Liberal Party's predecessor), he instead named his party the "Palmer United Party". He was elected to the House of Representatives along with three Palmer United senators in the 2013 federal election. When Palmer United splintered, two of its senators ran for re-election by [[StartMyOwn starting their own]] political parties named after themselves: the "Glenn Lazarus Team" in Queensland went nowhere, but the "Jacqui Lambie Network" in Tasmania has successfully seen Lambie re-elected several times and even had a second senator from Tasmania elected in 2022.
** Media personality Derryn Hinch founded "Derryn Hinch's Justice Party" with a tough-on-crime political platform, and was elected as the senator from Victoria in 2016. Unusually, his party also had three representatives elected to the Victorian state parliament in 2018.

* This became popular in UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics in the early 2010s, partly because of problems with registering more mundane names. Examples in federal parliament have included the "Nick Xenophon Team", the "Palmer United Party", "Katter's Australian Party", the short-lived "Pauline's United Australia Party", and "Derryn Hinch's Justice Party". When Palmer United splintered, its senators Jacqui Lambie and Glenn Lazarus [[StartMyOwn started their own]] parties named after themselves; Lambie has been re-elected several times with the "Jacqui Lambie Network" but Lazarus was not re-elected with the "Glenn Lazarus Team".
** Nick Xenophon justified his use of this trope, saying that while he didn't like using his own name, name recognition was important in politics and his candidates would be elected on his own reputation. After his resignation, the party continued on and re-branded themselves as the Centre Alliance.
** Notably, only the Nick Xenophon Team and Palmer United Party ever managed to get candidates other than their leaders elected to federal parliament. However, KAP also has representatives in the Queensland state parliament (one of whom is Bob Katter's son) and Hinch's Justice Party has representatives in the Victorian state parliament.

* Daughtry, formed and fronted by ''Series/AmericanIdol'' season 5 finalist Chris Daughtry.

** This is the basic premise of ''VideoGame/MarioParty 2''. The ''Mario'' characters create a new world that is initially named "Mario Land", but each one wants to name the world after himself or herself, so they have a contest to determine who gets to name it. In fact, the whole squabble only begins because Wario was the first one to openly balk at the idea of calling it "Mario Land"; everyone else was going with it.

* This trope makes the titular band from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} And The Holograms'' stands out compared to The Stingers and The Misfits. Jem is the lead singer and undeniable FaceOfTheBand who is a celebrity in her own right. No one thinks it's cocky or awkward in-series, though the [[ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW IDW comics]] have Rio disapprove of the name (and Jem).

Note this '''doesn't''' include "[[ArtistAndTheBand X and the Ys]]" names unless Y is very strongly related to X which would be FaceOfTheBand, or instances like ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' where they named the team after someone else, in that case, to get that someone to sponsor them.