Every name in the catalogue is tagged for the animals it suits, because the brief genuinely changes between species: a dog's name has to survive a windy field, a cat's has to survive being shortened four times, and a fish's has to survive nothing at all. These pages take each animal in turn, explain what actually matters for it, and list names with their origins and meanings.
🐶 Dog names
3,229 taggedNames chosen for the one thing that matters outdoors: whether a dog can pick the sound out of everything else going on.
🐱 Cat names
3,068 taggedCats learn their names. They just reserve the right to do nothing about it.
🦆 Bird names
4,744 taggedThe only pet that may end up saying its own name back to you, at six in the morning, indefinitely.
🐟 Fish names
3,082 taggedNobody is calling a fish across a field. This is the one category where the name is purely for you.
🐀 Small pet names
3,733 taggedRabbits and rats learn names readily. The trick is choosing one that never sounds like a hand coming towards them.
🦎 Reptile names
2,604 taggedSnakes and lizards aren't listening for a name, so this is a category that rewards ambition.
🐸 Amphibian names
2,527 taggedSmall, bright, faintly mythological animals that have been turning up in folklore for as long as there has been folklore.
🐴 Farm animal names
2,539 taggedWorking animals need calling names: short, carrying, and different enough from each other to survive a field at feeding time.
By theme
The other way to cut it. Each of these takes one corner of the catalogue, explains why people reach for it, and lists names with their meanings.
⚡ Mythology names
1,746 in the catalogueGods, heroes, tricksters and monsters from Norse, Greek, Egyptian, Hindu, Yoruba, Aztec and Polynesian tradition.
🐉 Fantasy names
321 in the catalogueDragons, elves, mermaids, werewolves and wizards. Invented languages and the people who invented them.
🍪 Food names
242 in the catalogueDesserts, spices, cheeses and dishes. The theme that produces the most affectionate names in the catalogue, and the most shortenable.
🌿 Nature names
288 in the catalogueTrees, blossoms, weather, stone and season. The theme that ages best, because none of it depends on how big the animal turns out.
🔭 Space and science names
240 in the catalogueStars, constellations, orbital phenomena, elements and the people who worked them out.
🌐 International names
984 in the catalogueTraditional given names across Romance, Slavic, Celtic, Semitic, Niger-Congo, Uralic and East Asian languages.
Or use the filters
The name quiz works across all 7,182 at once and stacks every filter: animal, gender, personality, theme, cultural origin, syllable count and sound character. Nothing is required, and the count updates as you go.