Oh, man...

We have had so many names, it's scary. We were simply "The Pirates" for a lot of years. We tried on "The Singing Seadogs" for a time, and even bandied about the idea of "The Salty Seamen" (funny thought it may be, it would not have washed at many venues). We tried on a few Celtic sounding names, but, as we are not a strictly celtic group, they were all abandoned (though we still will haul out "The Hooligans" from time to time for some gigs).

In the end, we came back to our mostly nautical roots, and the one name that we had the longest, "The Pirates". We decided to put a bit of an historical spin on it by spelling it with a Y (Pyrates), and sliced a little from "Port Royal", a well known hang out of Caribbean pirates, and voila, "The Pyrates Royale" were born.