Seating Plan Generator

What this generator does

Assigns a list of names to numbered seats in a random order — seat 1, seat 2, seat 3 and so on. It suits any situation where the seats are already numbered and any arrangement will do: a wedding table plan, exam seating, an assembly. If you need to control who sits where, the classroom seating chart generator draws an actual room grid and can keep pairs apart, keep pairs together, and pin individuals to fixed seats.

How to use this tool

1. Enter names, one per line.
2. Generate to assign a random seat order.
3. Reshuffle any time for a new plan.

Understanding the controls

Guests

One name per line. Each name is assigned to exactly one seat number, and the number of seats matches the number of names.

Worked examples

A wedding table plan draft

Paste the full guest list and generate to get a first-pass seat order — a starting point to hand-adjust for the couples and families who do need to sit together, rather than a finished plan.

Common use cases

• Wedding or event seating drafts
• Randomising exam or assembly seating
• Any list of names that just needs numbered seats, with no rules to respect

Randomness and fairness

The name list is shuffled with a Fisher-Yates shuffle over your browser's cryptographic random number generator, so every possible seat assignment is equally likely and no name is more likely to be given a low seat number than a high one.

For how randomness is produced across the whole site, see how Generate Random works.

Limitations and good to know

• Seats are numbered 1 upwards only — there is no room shape, table grouping or aisle to place around. For an actual room layout with keep-apart or keep-together rules, use the classroom seating chart generator instead.
• The plan is not saved once you leave the page, so copy it out or screenshot it before moving on.

Common mistakes

Expecting the tool to respect seating rules

It has no notion of who should or should not sit together — every arrangement it produces is purely random. Use the classroom seating chart generator when rules matter.

Privacy and your data

The guest or student list stays in your browser, is not uploaded, and does not appear in the page address. It is kept between visits only if you save it from the panel on this page, which writes it to this browser's local storage and nowhere else.