Your Secret Santa match should never be yourself
A succesful paper draw often takes two or three attempts. Each time someone draws their own name, the group must either start again or let only those people redraw, making the final draw less secret and less random.
drawnames automatically prevents self-draws, keeping every Secret Santa draw fair, secret, and final.
Designed so everyone draws someone else
Your own name is excluded by default
The draw always completes
Works with every exclusion rule
Demo draw without self-matches
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What are our fans saying?
Kylie
It was amazing, no names were pulled twice and neither did anyone get there own name.
Beba
I loved this!!! It made our family gift exchange so easy and everything went smoothly. Last year we made papers and picked out of a bowl and we had to re do it too many times as we kept getting ourselves. This made everything so easy.
NiJonna
We absolutely loved it! Our department tried to draw names manually in a paper cup and someone drew their own name. I searched online and your company appeared. Just a great concept for people to share their interest, highlight actual items that can be purchased and shipped so you don't have to guess if you made the right choice. We had so much fun exchanging gifts and agreed that it will be a new tradition to use your app. Cuddos!!
Mihla
Everything went on smoothly, it's the best website to draw names for Secret Santa. The system generated names perfectly.
Other helpful Secret Santa features
Set exclusions
Secret Santa for large groups
Organize Secret Santa in ChatGPT
Common questions and answers
Yes, the names are drawn randomly. It works just like the traditional method of drawing names from a hat, but you'll never draw your own name. If you draw names with us year after year, the organiser can re-use last year's celebration. Then we make sure that everyone draws a different name than they did last year.
If the celebration has at least four members, the organiser can enable the option for everyone to draw two names. This can be set on the celebration by selecting 'Manage settings' and then choosing 'Draw two names'. Each person will then be able to draw a second name. Note that exclusions do not apply in this mode and different gift amounts cannot be specified.
Yes, that's no problem. We'll draw a different name for each person! It works the same way as the old-fashioned method of drawing names from a hat, but you'll never draw your own name.
Only the organiser can view the list of drawn names, and only after the celebration date has passed. Until then, the list remains hidden. The organiser can view the list by going to the celebration, selecting 'Manage settings', and choosing 'View drawn names'.
Unfortunately, you can't redraw the names. And you also can't change any exclusions after the names have been drawn. It is possible to add a member or remove someone from the group, even after the draw.
If you still want to redraw the names, the organiser can set up a new group with a different name. Just make sure you delete the previous celebration if you're not using it again.