PUA Names – How To Pick The Perfect One

Geplaatst op 28-04-2026

While going over my search terms for the last 30 days for my post on Hilarious Search Terms, I realized that I get a lot of hits for things like “PUA names” and “picking cool PUA names“, so I thought, why the hell not? I like you guys good enough, so I figure I can go ahead and write a post on what it means to be a real Pick Up Artist.

The first thing you have to understand about PUA names is that they don’t just come out of nowhere. You have to pick something that’s cool, preferably one word, and describes you in a fun and interesting way – something to make women turn and look at you. Do you think Mystery just pulled his name out of thin air? Or what about famed PUA master – and great salesman – Neil Strauss? You think he just reached into a hat and pulled out ~~faggot~~ Style? Of course not! There are steps you need to take, important steps.

The Three Steps To Picking The Perfect PUA Name

1. List Your Characteristics - The first thing you need to do is sit down with a pen and a pad of paper and write out the pros and cons of your personality. Then, at the bottom of your thrice divided page, write down words that exemplify the awesome characteristics of your personality, but downplay the more negative aspects of who you are. You see for me, the pros would be “I’m hilarious, I’m fun, I smile a lot” and the cons would be, “I’m a huge asshole”.

2. Pick The Coolest Word - Just because you’ve found a word that fits your description perfectly, doesn’t mean its the perfect word to turn into your bad ass pick-up alias. For example, the perfect word to describe the attributes I listed in the above step would be, “Giggles” – but that’s a shit pick up name. This leads me to step three.

3. Realize that all pick up names are shit - Mystery? He does it for show. Style? He does it because he realizes that Mystery has perfected a sales formula – one that shouldn’t be changed because it isn’t broke.

Actual Pea-Cocking

The original purpose of a pick up moniker was for you to pea-cock. You show up to a party with cool earrings, acid wash jeans, a black shirt that maybe has the Fleur De Lis on it, and you introduce yourself by some fancy nick name that only a cool guy would have (Blaze Dashing, perhaps). Immediately she is intrigued and interested in you.

The problem with that is most of the time, people like you and I don’t have publicists or advertising firms working for us who can pick out a bad ass nick name (though I think Blaze Dashing is pretty good), and we end up looking like a chump who saw a few minutes of Mystery’s show, came up with a shitty nick name, and ran out to try and palm read someone.

You see, you don’t need a fancy pick up name because you have more to offer than just some gimmick you read in a book. The goal of game, real game, is to teach you how to get women legitimately interested in you. Not in some gimmicky, fake personality that you read in a book. Guy’s like Roosh, Roissy, and myself aren’t trying to give you some false personality to put up as a front – we’re trying to show you how to take your personality and showcase it in the best way.

By writing this blog for you, I don’t want to turn you into me. I want you learn how to display yourself like a boss.

Effective Pea-Cocking

That being said, what can you do to pea-cock if you aren’t going to be using a fancy nick name?

Well, you can change up your style for one. How do you know if a suit is going to improve your image? If I may quote The G Manifesto:

Are you in shape? You should wear a suit.
Are you out of shape? You should probably wear a suit.
Are you over weight? You should definitely wear a suit.

The point is, good clothes will look good on any man, and any man who can afford good clothes is a man worth talking to. If you carry a wallet, I suggest you invest the money in a real money clip instead and pay for everything with cash. Also, its not a bad idea to smoke – at least casually.

More than that, pea-cocking is about attitude, not just ruffly feathers. You have to hold yourself as a confident, outgoing, and inviting person, while conversationally revealing little to remain mysterious. This is where a lot of lesser deltas and gammas get it wrong, they act brooding and contemptuous to try and give off the look of a mysterious, bad ass loner (leather jacket, heart of gold sort of thing). Women don’t typically go for men like this because you don’t look bad ass, you look rapisty.

The way to be a mysterious stranger to a woman is by simply not divulging any real information about yourself in conversation. Don’t tell her what you do for work, or fun, if you’re taken, what your name is – keep it to yourself. If she asks, and you don’t have a playful way to evade it, simply smile and remain silent – trust me.

Back to the point, having a smile on your face and talking to people will get you noticed – especially if we’re all laughing together. You’ll find that if you’re energetic, out going, and fun, it works just as well for pea-cocking as having a goofy nick name. When it all comes down to it, you will eventually have to put the silly name aside, and tell her something about yourself. If you have a fake pick up personality constructed around this cheesy pick up name, she will find you shallow and lacking and probably wont be very interested in you.

My goal isn’t to get you to fake it until you make it, or develop some sort of alternate night life personality, or get you to put up a facade that will some how magically bring you pussy – my goal is to teach you how to show yourself, how to pea-cock properly, to make women want to mate with you.

Stupid nick names have no part in that.

Do you use a nick name and think I’m wrong? Go ahead and tell me in the comments. And please, feel free to defend MM and Style and how I’m wrong, and the names serve a great purpose. Also, you may have noticed, we’ve moved over to our own servers and our own dot com! Its very exciting, but there are still a few conversions and other things to be done, and we’re still a little short on all the bills! Please consider clicking the button up at the top if you haven’t already and sending a dollar.