Back-of-shirt nicknames for pairing up with friends: a roundup of recommended class T-shirt ideas
When making class T-shirts for sports festivals or cultural festivals, many people also add a name on the back.
Speaking of back names, the classic style is to put a name above the jersey number.
Recently, though, it’s become common to use nicknames, catchphrases, or even little jokes that make people chuckle.
There are surely many who want matching back names that pair up with close friends, too!
In this article, we’ll introduce ideas for paired back names that friends can use together.
Use them as inspiration to create class T-shirts that will make lasting memories.
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Back-of-shirt nicknames to pair with a friend. Recommended class T-shirt ideas (11–20)
In my next life, I’ll be the child of ◯◯!
It’s a phrase that conveys a powerful, almost explosive sense of family-like trust between the two.
By each imagining themselves as wanting to be the other’s child, their reliance on one another comes through clearly and directly.
While expressing mutual trust, it also suggests they don’t back down from their own positions, highlighting how they elevate each other.
It evokes a lighthearted, fun back-and-forth over who wants more to be the “child,” delivering a positive sense of trust.
The Woman of XX
These are phrases that deliberately use roundabout expressions to show deep affection for your fave.
You depict their catchphrase or signature words and convey that you find them attractive.
The key is to avoid writing the name clearly—steer clear of overly explicit wording and create a cipher-like vibe.
People in the know will understand who it is, and if someone notices your fave, they can strike up a conversation and you can bond over a shared topic.
Instead of a catchphrase, you can also illustrate the specific qualities you love, which lets you highlight your unique perspective and what you focus on.
○○-type beautiful girl
Even among beautiful girls, not everyone is the same—each one has her own individuality.
Taking those unique traits into account, this piece is about showcasing what kind of “direction” each person embodies as a beautiful girl.
Don’t just highlight the direction of your beauty; also express, in a single, clear phrase, what you’re good at and the aspects you feel are your strongest individuality.
If it’s hard to promote your own uniqueness and appeal, a recommended approach is to draw on how others perceive you as a reference.
Past life: ◯◯
Back name prints not only express the bond of a group, but also serve as a chance to showcase your individuality, right? To convey both, the idea is to create a sense of unity with the shared phrase “In my past life,” while freely filling in the “___” to boldly express your desires and personality.
Although it sounds like a serious statement about what you were reborn from, let’s deliberately make it comical by depicting desires like being a part of someone, and so on.
The key is to think from various angles about asserting who you are—what you like, what you think, and more.
Deeply in love / Firmly refuse
Even when one person is wholeheartedly expressing their affection and the other just brushes it off, you can still feel a bond there, right? How about capturing that unique, unbalanced relationship—where their feelings don’t quite align—through the names on their backs? The words written seem to be talking past each other, but the fact that they share the same number expresses the bond that exists between them.
Precisely because the words aren’t the same, the ones they carry on their backs stand out even more strongly.
Queen of ◯◯
The characters you wear on your back don’t just convey the bond with your teammates—they’re also an important way to show how strong you are.
While expressing that strength and nobility as a “Queen,” make sure to assert your individuality in the kind of queen you choose to be.
Since it pairs with the four katakana letters for “Queen,” it’s a good idea to choose hiragana or katakana of about the same length.
If you can’t come up with something yourself, it might be fun to ask people around you what they find appealing about you and build from there.
Back-of-shirt nickname pairs for friends. Recommended class-T shirt ideas (21–30)
Complete stranger / White Lover
It’s a witty exchange that lines up two words that wouldn’t normally be related, giving the impression they form a pair.
It’s a clever combination that spotlights the similarity in sound and visual impression between “aka no tanin” (a complete stranger, literally “a red stranger”) and “Shiroi Koibito” (a famous confectionery brand, literally “white lovers”).
If you also force a reason—like saying the auspicious red-and-white imagery expresses enthusiasm for the event—then even words that are actually unrelated can be made to look like they carry deeper meaning.
The phrase feels as if the two are a matched set, evoking the idea of a bond between them.