Finding the perfect chicken names for your flock can be quite a daunting task. There are so many names to choose from, how do you pick one that perfectly reflects that little ball of fluff?
Well, over the years we’ve named our fair share of chickens and have come up with a great list to choose from.
From comical to classic, we’ve compiled all of the best names on the planet, right here in one place.
So get those creative juices going and name those chickens!
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The Essential List of Chicken Names
Famous Names for Chickens:
- Albert Eggstein
- Amelia Egghart
- Attila the Hen
- Big Bird
- Chicken Little
- Cluck Rogers
- Cluck Norris/Chick Norris
- Dixie Chick
- Egghead
- Foghorn Leghorn
- Gandalf the Gray
- Goldie Hen
- Hen Solo
- Henneth Paltrow
- Princess Lay-a
- Woodstock
- Yolko Ono
Cute Chicken Names:
- Beaker
- Buck Beak
- Griffin
- Hedwig
- Henrietta
- Henny Penny
- Iago
- Mordecai
- Mother Clucker
- Pigwidgeon
- Pox
- Phoenix
- Robot Chicken
- Zazu
Classic Chicken Names:
- Anastasia
- Annie
- Arabella
- Beatrice
- Bessie
- Betsy
- Edna
- Charlotte
- Clarabelle
- Daisy
- Daphne
- Dorothy
- Dottie
- Estelle
- Eloise
- Felicity
- Florence
- Francis
- Genevieve
- Georgia
- Geraldine
- Gladys
- Gloria
- Harriet
- Holly
- Iris
- June
- Loretta
- Mabel
- Maude
- Minnie
- Matilda
- Myrtle
- Opal
- Pearl
- Penelope
- Polly
- Stella
- Sadie
- Tillie
Food Chicken Names:
- Benedict
- BBQ
- Bon Bon
- Buffalo
- Burrito
- Cacciatore
- Cashew
- Colonel Sanders
- Cordon Bleu
- Curry
- Custard
- Divan
- Dumpling
- Drumstick
- French/Frenchie
- Frittata
- Jubilee
- Kabob
- Kiev
- Noodle
- Nugget
- Omelette
- Pattie
- Piccata
- Pollo
- Ranchero
- Roast
- Schnitzel
- Scramble
- Sesame
- Stu
- Taco
- Tandoori
- Teriyaki
Check out these other great foodie-inspired names for your chickens!
Color Names for Chickens:
- Blanca
- Bluebelle
- Buttercup
- Caramelita
- Clementine
- Dandelion
- Dusty
- Goldie
- Ghost
- Ginger
- Hazel
- Honey
- Maple
- Olive
- Raven
- Rose
- Ruby
- Rusty
- Sandy
- Scarlet
- Sunny
- Sienna
- Truffle
- Velvet
- Violet
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I’ve named my chickens Lola & ChaCha
Rooster=Beckham.
Becky all other names were already listed.
My chickens are named Sonny, Owl, Fury, and Mimi
Jethro Rhubarb Strickland, Summer Savory, Elle Mae, Rosie, Bella, Stella, Amber Boc, weezy willow, Gypsy. Our new legbars are Reggie & Buttercup
Chick Filet, Chicken Little, Rooster Cogburn, Mother Hen, Poacher,
I forgot Chicken George! From the great book “ROOTS”!
I named a chicken Bohemian Flapsody
OMG hahahahaha
My chicks names are Sunny, Shadow and Ozzie
Ozzie is my cats name
Oh my gosh that was random
i plan to name my chicks, patty, strip and nugget
Ive had lots of chickens over the past 10 years. So far there has been Lucky, Henry, Hetty, Henrihetta, Lulu, Halo, Henny-penny, Toto, Betsy, Bettibops, Bubble, Squeak, Tikka, Peri-peri, Nugget, Flash, Pip, Pop, Wade, Pita and Ginger. At the moment I have Rosa, Alba, Lottie, Callie, Pepper, Pearl, Berry, Nutmeg, Parsley and Melvyn. The ducks are Draco, Uno and Bonnie. I hope tplo hatch eggs again this year! 🙂
I named my chick Lilly
My chickens are named Pepper, Flower, Angle, Popeye, Ostrige.I am still deciding my new hatchlings name is going to be hopefully it will be one of those!
My names betsy well my nickname is
That is A LOT of chicks, I haven’t named my 3 chicks yet ;-;
It is so mean to name your chickens after food!!! It’s basically naming them after what they are gonna turn into… 😢
Ahaha so true! XD
I name my chicks Sariel, Cinder, Kestrel, Myrtle and Bok Bok Choy
My chickens are named Scarlet, Honey, Sunny, Ginger and Bluebelle. Thankyou!! ❤️🐓🐥
I named one of my chickens friendly
i named my bantam chicks(2 hens) Gypsy and Unicorn.
Wow you have Bantam chicks! Wow so do i! I got mine yesterday its name is Popcorn😁
I have them too, so cute! Mine is called Coconut, Cheezel, Lily and Noodle
I Named roosters Elvis, Murgatroyd, Harry Potter, Attilla, Killer, Silver Hawk, Butterscotch, Rascal, and Pervert.
I have named hens Ponyo, Royal Lady Jessica, Lady J for short, Clover, Chicken Jane, Trouble, Creamy, CoCo, Sassy, Scarlet, Maybellene,
PONYO!!!
Rooster Russell Crowe, but he is quite and doesn’t crow much
That is so funny! My chick was Sarah… then it was Sammy Hagar… then he went to live at the feed store cause he was super mean. They changed his name to russel Crowe! I still get to see him all the time.
I had a rooster that lost an eye to infection. His name became (of course) Rooster Cogburn.
That’s awesome!
That is possibly THE BEST rooster name ever, although I’m sorry about his eye!
We had a rhode island red we named Red, kinda like Red from Orange is the new black!
Our RIRs are Redrum and Blondie, RIW is Mike lee, there’s nigel, pepper, rusty, houdini and our former rooster’s name was zombie head.
We have no gender boundaries on our girls! I have a half dozen I just call chicken too. Haha
Lola nico patio and palio
Lola is my name haha!
You might add Fajita to your list of food names and also we named one Ham that came from a green egg. Huevos is a kinda cute name. My son calls one Fowl Ball.
David Beekam, Chickaletta(paw patrol)
I also have an Ozzy and Harriet
MY CHICKEN IS BETTER HER NAME IS DAVID PECKHAM.
Bc they run like lil t-rex’s, I called one rexie and the other roxie.
We called our Blue Orpington pullet Stormy because she hatched in the middle of a storm and she’s a beautiful Stormy grey
Hot Lips and Nugget, Pricilla and Hazel are some of our chickens.
Mine are Mrs. Green Jeans, Ferdinand, Fuzzy, Pete (Pete’s a hen), Fred, Ginger, Frizzle, Buffy, Silver and Goldie
I named mine Olive and (Salmon)Ella
I threatened my son I was going to name one of the boys Sal Monella after he read an article about salmonella in chickens.
General Gau. Peppercorn. In my sh*t (b/c that’s where she always was). Hootie.
My chicks are named: Females: Wilbur 2.0, Groot, Bernadette, Amy, Penny, Halley, Raj. Rooster: Sheldon. My daughter loves the big bang theory, lol. She also just watched Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 before we named them. Wilbur is named after my childhood chicken.
Hahahahaha I have a small dog named Leonard and a hen named Penny!! Naming the new buff orpingtons after Bernadette & Amy! LOVE Big Bang 😛
mine are floppsy and moppsy
My beauty Sophia LorHen.
Hi, my four chickens are called spring, summer, autumn and winter and the coop is called the four seasons. Spring is so funny, she always seems to be alone and in the most parcular places.
Love this! Mine are Tulip, Buttercup and Daisy. I had a Serama rooster, the world’s smallest rooster, a hawk got him. His name was Mr Big. So full of himself!
I’ve named almost all my chickens. some of their names are-
Henny penny
Matilda
bolto
motley
caramel
Lilly
my roosters names are- little mate and fizz
Mine are Laverne and Shirley.
My favorite hen: Eggatha Christie 😄🐔🐥
My chickens are Goldie, Sweetie, Tweedy, Custer, Curly, Jujube, Laverne and Shirley, Mama Brahma, and Chickasaurus.
Pixie, winkle, dusty, brownie, luna, ciel and sol. Jasmine, ebony and Cinnabuns.
Hello
I have named my two hens Silver she is a ( phenix /old English game mix ) and Carmel she is a ( Orpington /Burnham mix )!
I named my chickens Amelia egghart,Ariana blonde,daisy and hazel
Our chook yard is Fowel Manor
mine are:
daisy
peep
feather
nugget
butter cup
I don’t like feather he seems like he is so pretentious. Feather seems like he is such a selfish chicken.
Mine are Dolly, Gertrude(Gertie), Penelope(Penny), and Marceline(Marcie)
My family just got 6 hens today and we’re naming them Fry, Sunny, Ella, Chickpea, Lulu and Patty!! I’m so happy that we got them!
Lovely names. We have Dilys, Hope, Milly, Molly, Poppy, Pearl, Betty, Bridget and Liquorice
I named my chickens nugget, Star, Jenny, Whitey, Dumplin, Dolly, Reba, Elvis, Johnny, June, Dixie, Pedro, Loretta, Pumpkin, and noodle (we have 3 unnamed)
Our chicken names:
Peck, Poke, Roo, Dora, Red, Roan, Peep and Cheep.
David Peckham
Our chicken names for our girls are Ómra( gaelic for amber, my teenagers name), Paddy, Finn, McDougal, Charley, Wilson( after the volleyball), Pepper, and Dermot( after an Irish you tuber).
Chickira
So cute!
Crowbar
Growing up, my dad’s favorite comic was the Peanuts Gang. So I named my chickens after some of the characters. My rooster is Schroder and my girls are Sally, Lucy, Violet, and Pepperment Patty.
I love it! Those are great chicken names!
My chickens are lily and Luna
Our chickens are:
Hens; Chicken Little, Betty, Penny, Seven, Chicken Pox, Fatty Annie, Loki, Houdini, Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Scarlet, Winifred, Henrietta, Maggie, Pearl, Phriney, Dottie, Lucky & Sir Henry Highheels.
Ducks; Quack, Gabbie, IJ, Don Don, King Wally, Molly, Tilly, Tilda Mae, Molly Jr, Lady Sif, Marty, Edwina, Peter, Bessie & Sir Maudrake
My original four hens were named after the Golden Girls:
Rose Egglund
Blanche Nevercreaux (took four chickens before we found one that “nevercreauxs”)
Dorothy Zbornchick
Sophia Pecktrillo
I was completely in love with that show when I was a kid, and now I have no idea why! They certainly do make some great chicken names!!
We’ve had fun with our chickens’ names… Our roo is “Rocky the Rhode Island Red” (from Chicken Run), and my beautiful “Golden Girls” (3 buff orps & 1 GLW) are Bea, Betty, Estelle, & Rue.
Our first three chics were named: Tikka (for tikka masala), General Tso (know as “the general” and turned out to be a rooster so the name was fitting) and then Coq a Vin (coco for short). We thought food names were funny, little did we know that naming them was the first step to loving them and wanting more chickens!
My first chicken were 6 ex battery hens. Because of their bad start in life, i thought they needed strong names: Amelia Earhardt, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Emily Pankhurst, Marie Curie and Sophie Scholl! Shortly after we received another 3 rescues, this time from a kosher chicken farm. We named them Anne Frank, Barbara Streisand and Mary Christmas! We also have two chicks, Madonna and Billie Holiday, though it seems Billie will be a Billy! Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald ars our little black Bantams. Sony & Cher, Gloria, Esmeralda, Teresa and Ottilia make it a full coop! I love my ladies. Sadly Ella and Emily Pankhurst have passed on now, but they had a happy life, scratching for worms and running around!
My black sex-linked hens are Ella, Rosa, and Whoopi.
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We have Alfredo, Waffles and Speidie. They fit perfectly on the food list.
my girls are (all hens some have boy names) Mary, Clara, Trixie, (No So) Sweetie, Ginger, Max, Carter, Robin, Jamie (named after James Alexander Malcolm MaKenzie Fraser of Outlander novels; she’s a RIR and very brave) Poopsie, and finally, my silkie, Afro-ski.
Okay, I’m in love with the fact that you named one of your chickens after Jamie Fraser. Amazing!
I’m loving that one too!
We have chickens and are in the process of naming them. This List was a great help!
We have Dopey, Hotwheels, Rocky Roads and Ginger and Eswina(from chicken run), Blondie, and Chickaletta
Hotwheels!! That has to be the most hilarious chicken name I’ve ever heard!!
@Alyssa Moore – I laughed when I saw your chicken names! I’ve got several of them!
So, when I first got my 4, they were tiny and straight run, so I called them “Our Sisters of Perpetual Poultry” but as they grew, it was clear one was a rooster. Since “sisters” are normally nuns, I thought about a good male counterpart and came up with ‘Frier.’ So instead I spelt it ‘fryer’ and he’s now Fryer Tuck! Then one of the females is distinctively *not* an Americauna like the rest, so her name is Henrietta. So the two remaining females became Chickoletta (from Paw Patrol which my 4 yr old granddaughter watches,) and Chickorita, named after the Pokemon which my 8yr old grandson watches.
Then, today, my husband gets a case of chicken math and brings home two more. One is completely blond, so she got named blondie (not sure if my inspiration was the Blondie from the comics or the band from the ’80s) and the little brown striped one that’s very shy Bebe. That one just came to me while holding her.
I named one hen Penelope then when she hatched a chick I named her Penelopeep. Another year, I named my hens after the women on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. Of course, the queen of my coop is Michaela Quinn, then I had Grace, Colleen, Myra and Dorothy.
Yes. Love that show
My wife has a salmon favoreau”?” that is rather loud. Started calling it Cinderella,but soon changed it too “Salmonella”! Recently Salmonella hatched three eggs – Sam, Eli,and Ella.
Hahaha that’s too funny!!
Lol!
I have a brahma hen named Mother Clucker
Cocky Balboa and Punky Rooster ? Lavern and Shirley
I have/had a Laverne (EE) & Shirley (PBR), too! Sadly, Shirley was killed by my Jack Russell Terrier @ 3&1/2 weeks. I also have Holly (Hobbie -a BO), Pippi (Longstocking- a RIR) & Mama (an older RIR I adopted)
I had Thelma and Louise, silver wyandottes, Lavern and Shirley EE and Goldie Hawn golden Wyandotte that turned out to be an EE. Alas all my girls have new homes as someone turned us in to the HOA. Sure miss those cluckers
I named by two RIR s Loran and Linda
we have a mongoloid, Buffy, Lucy, snake, cupcake, Oreo, and we used to have a cat my boys lovingly named apple tree knocker..
We have 4 hens named: White, Red, Little and Blue. Not too good with first batch.
We just got 4 new chicks and began naming them. Luna, Camille, Marigold and still deciding on the fourth.
Hilda the Hendu for a Brahma hen.
My favorites are in the Classic and Colors list but I noticed neither had Marigold, not one of our hens names but I see it a lot on BYCs and love it. We have an Amelia, Cornelia, Victoria, Clara, Snow, Pema and Baby
We have a pair of pullets that are inseparable….we named them Laverne and Shirley.
The only one on the list that we have is Goldie who is a Buff Orpington. We also have Minnie (Easter Egger), Lucille (Red Sex Link), Big Bertha (Buff Brahma), and Guera (White Plymouth Rock; Spanish slang for white girl)
We have six chickens names are:
Xena
Kung pow
Rainbow
GSY (we call her gussy) stands for goldie snakey yellowy
Sally
Drooley
The last four were named by our kids ages, 7,5,2, and the older kids named the babies Drooley because he drooled in the box of chicks when we got them. 🙂
My girls are named: Ruby Mae, Matilda, Lucy, Maisy, Izzy, Zelda and Josie.
Our two are Henny (we have a one year old, thought henny would be an easy name to say lol) she was dumped (thrown over the fence) where I work, too old to lay eggs… And our pullet is called Dinosaur, because chickens are the closest living relative to the T-Rex. ?
our girls are Rhoda the Rhode Island Red (that turned out to be a buff Orpington), Dixie, Rex Rooster, Bustle, and Peticoat (bantam Cochins bc they look like they came from the Victorian Era), Polly Polish and Liberaci (both Polish and his top knot is completely over the top and gaudy), Love and HannahChuck (silkies my daughter named. She didn’t know if it was a hen or a roo so she gave it a name that would go either way ?), Reginald Rooster (blue Marans), Martha and Magda (copper Marans), Ophelia, Odette, and Octavia (VERY large black and grey orps), Eagle and Lola (Amerasians my son named ?)
This list is hilarious and so are the comment names. My 1st 3 Easter Eggers were named Pickle, Butter, and Tater. I decided I needed to keep a food theme with the names. Then I just had to have more so I added 4 more 2 Buff Orpingtons named Banana and Beans and 2 Barred Plymouth Rocks named Oates (like Hall and Oates but still a food) and Jelly. I of course needed more (cause once you start chicken raising you can’t stop) so I received 3 Barred Cochin Bantams named Sprout, Pepper, and Jam and 3 more Easter Eggers named Sushi, Toast, Cinnamon.
I name all mine after the First Ladies. We have had Martha, Sarah, and Ida. We currently have Abigail, Lou, Lady Bird, and Edith. If I could have roosters they would be named after the presidents.
You’re missing the classic: HENrietta. That is our easter egger. We also have a Wanda, Penelope, Florence, and Pecky-Chippy.
We have Chickadee, Rovette, Blanche, Harriet, Cookie, Hennie, Reba, Cheyenne, Lily, Vann, Kira, Frieda, Broccoli, Octavia, Frosty, Rocky, Anna, Elsa, Penelope, Juliet, Mabel, Lana, Nora, Rosie, Gracie, Checkers, Sister Sue, Ruby & Kacey. All hens and all fabulous, plus Chickadee is currently laying on 8 eggs due to hatch in 10 days, so I will be using this list to name some of our new babies!
My chickens names are: Elvis, Elvin, Bobbie, Julio, Pompom and Kiko.
We have a rooster named Clyde & a hen named Bonny. A nosy Easter egger named Gerty, A huge white hen I call Fog Horn Leg Horn, Fat Mamma, Buffy, Domino, & Hattie (a top hatter),
I don’t have any chickens yet, but hope to in the near future. I have made two gourd chickens though, and named the 2nd one Gertie
My granddaughter named a rooster Peter Pecker
I have a rooster, Rebel, and his Dixie Chicks, Lucy, Chick Little and Henny Penny.
We have (all hens):
Princess Layer
Beyonce
Chick-Han
Olive
Carden
Wanda
Tina Turner (polish)
Phyllis Diller (polish)
Penny
Bernardette
I have 4 girls. Lucy, Lily, Lilac & Luna
My hen had a beautiful marking around her neck, it looked like an ornate necklace. She was “Elizabeth Taylor”. Another chicken I had was literally a rescue who fell from a chicken truck on the interstate. He was “Deerfoot” from the name of the exit ramp. I also had a “Chickpea”.
I have 4 gorgeous girls… But my favorite is the tiniest one. She was so small and I decided to call her Chicken Mini!! She’s an Americana who lays precious little blue eggs!
I have Billie, Betty, Millie, Hetty, Bridget and Poppy, along with Ginger that is already on the list. We also have a little cockerel called Charlie
I once had a little red rooster called Mick. Also a small cockerel who we called Neddy because he was a little hoarse! Legba named after Baron Samedi’s cockerel in Terry Pratchett books.
Love for science influenced my choice of chicken names: The metallic brown one became Copernica, followed by Andromeda, Calliope, Halo, Calypso, and (Alpha) Centauri–the mean girl. I guess space, space stations, satellites were part of it….
These comments are hilarious! I can’t go without leaving my chicken names too. We try to let the personalities of the new chicks tell us their names so they might go weeks nameless.
We have: Sheriff the roo, 3 polish mixes that we call the 3 stooges or the afros, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Queen Bee, Lady Dedlock, Little Gray, Red, Miss Colombus, Arie, Speckles, Aleggsander, Bumbles, Cash, Dash, Eggbert, Flim Flam, Rocky, Igloo, Butterball, Goldie locks, Road runner, Mini Cash, and a giant red leghorn rooster named Frank(enchicken). There are currently 5 nameless babies running around that have yet to tell us their names.
These are great names! I especially love butterball! ?
I have a “pot-pie” and “kabob” and 6 lovely girls with female country song names.
Love the hen names. One of my first hens was named 2pek. My son loved Tupac at the time.
My fave chickens names are Nemo, Peep, Bruce, Rojo, Azul, Andi, Old Coot, and Ding Dong.
We have Sweet Pea, Pebbles, Lemon Lime Lollipop (Lolli for short) and Hash Brown.
We have 3 Babcocks called Cluck Noris, Victoria Peckham and Margaret Hatcher.
Chicken Nugget
Tater Tot
Mrs. Prim
Foxy
Little Blue
My original bunch of hens were all named after female singers. We called them the Divas. We had Aretha, Dolly, Loretta, Patsy, Adele, Reba, Bette to name a few. Then I added three French Marans and they are Collette, Fluerette, and Georgette. Last spring we added some bantams. My favorite bantam silkie was Nancy as she had feathered boots. Sadly Nancy turned out to be Frank and soon after one of the other babies turned out to be Deano.
I have 4 hens that live up to there name everyday! There is Dumplin, Gizzard, LaLaPoopsie, and the one that jumps up to knock all food I’m serving them out of my hands-my husband named her-(FN chicken). Going through a molt right now, so FN is really more fistey than usual. Gotta love me!
I have 3 hens, Fifi, Gigi and Lula (from the character in the Stephanie Plum books).
my best hen is named polly anna
I was given a one eyed chicken(born that way). I named her Wink.
I have 30 hens and 2 roosters. 3 are named.
Gracie
Nosey ( Always in your pocket trying to find something)
Goober ( Rooster husband named)
Oh I do have a rhode island red named you guessed it (Red)
Have 12 girls, different varieties. I call them : Hazel, Laverne, Penny, Mable, Myrtle, Spring, Summer, Midnite, Blackie, Ebony, Cindy, Sunshine. Used to have 2 roosters named Cricket & Henry. My husband laughs at me because I know who is who.
This list and the comments are great! Our chickens are Mille, Attila, Abigail, Little Foot, Sparta and our silkie was Feathers McGraw however she turned out to be a he so we renamed him Wolfgang.
Rooster is called Anton du beak
Pumpkin
Darcy( 50 shades of grey)
Shadow
White snow
Sunshine
We started with True Blood names: Bill, Tara and Sookie (bantams), Jess and Pam (name never stuck, became Ivory), #1 #2 #3 #4, Maurella, Sam.
Food names: Bacon, Peach, Mr. Plumm
Bird names: Goose, Gull, Sparrow, Hawk
Flower names: Blossom, Rose
Color names: Rouge, Goldie, Noir
Patty. (Chicken Patty)
My niece helped me name my 8 buff orpingtons after Disney/movie Princesses. Their leg bands correspond with the princesses dress colors.
Ariel, Fiona (from Shrek), Belle, Aurora, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow White (aka “Red”), and Jasmine
I only have 3 so far, all three barred rocks. One was given to me and started the chicken fever, so have dove into this adventure! Her name is Henrietta and we have two pulleys whose names are Lucille and Violet. I hope to have more soon, maybe black australorps named Thelma and Louise!!
Honeycomb and June
All RIR, unfortunately I no longer have this flock, a fox got in and killed them all.
Houdini (he was always escaping the brood box)
Henny Penny
Lucy
Sally
Peppermint Patty
Marcy
Little Redheaded Girl
Lala
Nina
Henrietta
Our girls are, Blackie, Whitey Bulger(she’s the escape artist), Dottie, Spotty, Goldie,and Rue Blue, Little Gray Crazy Legs, Queenie and Henrietta. Love our girls!
We have a frizzle hen, “Delilah”, a silkie hen, “Puff-Mama”, a frizzle rooster named “King of Everything”, and a group of 12 buff Orpingtons called the “Adventure Chickens”
Our names are Della Mae, Lucy and Ethel, big mama, and a rooster named Fabio (he’s a lemon blue Cochin and knows he’s handsome). I’m still working on some other names as I get to know their personalities…
Our Rooster is called Big Jake, our five girls are: Henrietta, Gertrude, Lady, Speckles and Chicken Hawk.
Love these name! We have a few favorites in our hen house: Margery, Mrs. Beasley, Ellenore “Ellie”, Beatrice, Roster Cogburn (such as the character from True grit, haha!)
A few names my family has picked for our girls and boys are: Cocky, Caramel, Cheeseburger, Blessed (born with a bum foot, I had to sling it and work with her to get it fixed), Curious George, Captain Ming Ming (momma), Starbucks, Oreo, Diamond and Ice to name a few.
We have nine chickens and I think only four have been given names (one changed too fast while we were gone and I can’t figure out which one she is though).
Goofball
Peewee
Helicopter
Slow Poke
The first one was “Goofball”. She did something funny to start with and my son called her Goofball and it stuck till she changed too much. Our one buff is named Peewee for her tiny size. She was always about a week behind the rest of my birds yet she was born at the same time. Helicopter got her name because she flies straight up when she gets excited. and Slow poke…well, she was the chicken who didn’t start laying eggs till she was seven months old and we threatened to make her chicken soup if she wasn’t laying by the time we got back from Thanksgiving. I got a text saying I had two brown eggs from our friends who were watching them. She also likes to move really slowly around you when you’re trying to collect eggs, clean the coop, etc.
We have 9 in our flock.
Colonel Sanders- dark Brahma Roo
Lt., But goes by Roo-dog. He follows me around like a dog. He is Colonel and Rebel Burgers son. Was one of the nuggets when he was little.
Rebel Burger- dark Brahma hen. There is a truck stop N of here called The Rebel that is famous for their burgers. She is a rebel and gets on the porch even though she knows its off limits. Last spring she brooded 4 chicks and we called them Rebel burger and the nuggets.
Caramella- buff Brahma
Zelda- barred rock, came with the name.
4 unnamed.
Gumbo, falcon, Mabel, Adel, Goldie, we had an Alfredo, but it ended up being a rooster, so I took him to a friend!
I named mine Unique, Melody, Floppy, and Sneaky.
My son named his 2 white Silkie hens Billie & Freddie. We added a black Silkie rooster that he decided needed to be named Sue after Johnny Cash.
Ours are food related…Buffalo, Paprika, Half Baked, KFC, Beer Can and we had a sebright named Nugget (lost her to Mareks)
We have two red/white hens named Henny Penny & Cinnabon.
We also have 4 reds named Paprika, Cinnamon, Bertha Bootie & Big red. Love them dearly 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔
Or first hen was a little yellow barnyard mix named Waffle. That made her coop Waffle House. The kids named the little brown barnyard mix rooster Fudge. A white rooster with one black mark on his head became Spot.
My daughter named her boy chicken Gregory Peck.
Oreo for barred rocks, oh and I have a Henny Penny too!
We have to three,
Lacey girl ~ Silver lace Wyandotte
Luna ~ Leghorn
I have roosters named Winston Chirphill, Elvis, and Colonel Sanders. My girls are Millie, Henrietta, Ginger, & CoCo.
I have named mine, rose, lily, poppy, daisy, Violet, hyacinth, Adam and Eve, lottie, lorcan, and little jammy I saved after she was abandoned, hence the name jammy I was there ?
Our girls are named
Mama (black sex link)
Miss Muffet (easter egger with ear muffs)
Billina (after the hen in Return to Oz)
Dotte (Columbian Wyandotte)
Sylvia (Silver laced Wyandotte)
Peaches (Buff Brahma)
Frou Frou (Salmon Faverolles)
We have 5 chicks on order with the feed store for April so 5 more fun names to come up with. Not to mention 6 Appleyard duck eggs in the bator due to hatch in March. I was thinking the ducks could be named after different types of apples…
Rocky the Rooster (we are up to gen. 3)
Brood Hilda (the broody hen)
Peepers (the lone chick running around the adults. He became THE rooster)
My first three are
Goldilocks – buff Brahma
Winnie – gold laced Wyandotte
Penny – barred rock
My new babies are
Daisy Muffin – red laced blue Wyandotte
Cleopatra – Easter egger
Trouble – black Australorp (hopefully) – she’s been trouble from day one, but extremely friendly
What about Hotlegs or Kelloggs?
We named ours Freckles, Old Yeller, PIA (Pain in the A–). We have 2 other black ones that we will name Polly and June (we like those suggestions).
My favorite hen name is Layla.
Since our girls live in the “Creme de la Coop”, we felt it only fitting to give them French themed names. Our older girls are: Truffle, Beignet, Eclair, Soufflé, and Meringue. The babies we added this year are: Chardonnay, Syrah and Merlot.
I love it!! Upper echelon names!!
The chickens we have are Henny Penny, Chickaletta, and Fanny.
A Coon killed two of them and now we only have Fanny Left. A good friend of mine had a chicken named Henny Penny, but then it became Henry Penny. A really short chicken that my grandpa has is named Lord Farquad, from shrek, he is the really short king. Three orange Silkies that were hatched on halloween are named Trick, and Treat, and then pumkin. I really like the name Raven, then Robin, then Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg.
Just a heads up – female spelling is “Frances” with an e. Male spelling is with an i.
My favorite chicken name was bestowed on my lovely black Japanese Silky: Vera Wing.
Buff Orpington – Lady Godiva, nicknamed Divey
Golden laced Wyandotte – Princess Layalotte, nicknamed Lay-ah
Silver laced Wyandotte – Lady Sterling, nicknamed Stir Fry (yeah, I know…)
Columbian Wyandotte – Queen Chickita Lolita Andelay Andelay Eehah Arriba, nicknamed Keeta. (The vet just loved that name…)
My chickies are known as the “Fluffy Dozen” but we are down one. Batgirl (son named her) was taken by a hawk. 🙁 Fred is our rooster and his ladies are; Margett, Mille, Tonya, Tweety, Strom, Nugget, Rosie, Peep, Shadow, and finally Cocoa! Can’t wait to add more!— Chicken addict
We named our rooster after the Duke.
Cogburn.
I had a fancy looking black and white frizzle roster and a red hen. I named them Ricky and Lucy.
I had 3 ex-battery hens. Chilli, Chutney & Tuppence. Sadly Chutney has passed on, she was a very sick little girl. They are the sunshine in my day (‘)>
Flower chicken names! Daisy, Tulip, Lilac, Petunia, Lavender, Sunflower, Iris, Rose (y), Lily, Columbine, Sweet William (for your rooster!), etc. So many to pick from!
My rowdy rooster is named Rue-Paul. he is a fancy boy and wow can he strut.
Our 8 girls all have plant associated names:
Buttercup, Olive, Rosemary, Hyacinth, Jasmine, Marigold, Primrose and Violet.
My little bante rooster is Rocky, who just lost his mate Adrain. My peacock was Phillip. But in all reality, I now have 28 hens, chick, chick is normally what I call them as too many to remember. Thanks for the list, I do need a new name for my future bante girl. Thanks
Just got my flock. Went down the alphabet for names. Arabella, Beatrice, Caroline, Delilah, Ella and Francis
Our rooster was Peter Parker.
We named ours after movie and TV bff’s. Willow and Buffy and Thelma and Louise. My sister had two hens named Lunch and Dinner, she’s a vegetarian.
There is only one name I give all my chickens, I call them. Emile
Doesn’t sound so bad if you say it quickly
” Did you enjoy Emile ? ” See ! T
We have a rooster who came to us as one of our new “hens”. His name is Kaitlyn Jenner.
That’s pretty good. When we lost our rooster, one of the hens grew spurs and took over the rooster’s old job. We renamed her Bruce … gotta keep the universe in balance. don’t you know!
Mozambeak, princess laya,
I have 7 girls that are named miss melody, Buffy, Oreo, marshmallow, little pecker ( L.P ), eagle, and honey.
My girls are all named after pinup girls, my rooster is Roo Hefner, and they live in Chicken McMansion.
We have 6 golden Bantam silkies named: Rapunzel, Snow, Loud Mouth (she is very loud), Ron, Harry and Hermione. 2 black sex link chicks : Darth and Bella (Bellatrix ) … we are harry potter fans 😉
My original silkie flock was all Harry Potter too! We also added Cissa (Narscissa Malfoy) to your listed names. Harry Potter is an excellent source. We also used the Lord of the Rings movies and some Game of Thrones. Chickens are so cute with the heroic names. Our Orp Rooster is Stryder. Fits him so well
My flock has collective names. All 50 of my Buff Orpingtons are named Buffy. All 25 Barred Rocks are named Rocky. 5 Golden Comets are Goldie.
A good name could be nuzzle I aimed one of my chickens beaker to
i like pepper!
My 7 year olds first chick is an Easter egger named fluffy. My son named his vlad the impecker and darth egger (black australorps). His Easter egger fluffernutter. He hasn’t named the appenzeller spitzhauben yet. My Russian orloffs are Yana and Polina. My husband named our welsummer anycock’lldo :-/
Haven’t named our barred rocks yet so I’m loving this list!
We have 3 sweet hens: sunny, Lilly, milly, anny, & fanny
we have 5 chickens
Pesto
Noodles
Ruby
Lola
Daisy
I have 8 (so far!), mixed flock and their names are:
Penny
Fanci
Jersey
LulaBell
Mabel
Finley
Puffins
Evie
Our kids named the hens Noodle (aka Mad Scientist because of her crazy head feathers), Bella, Red Cherry, Cupcake, Moose, Hoppy, Black Beauty and the rooster is The Count.
WHAT ABOUT PEEP SHOW?
We named our Rooster Atook and two hens Lana and Tala. They are characters from the goofy old movie “Caveman”.
We have 9 ladies! Wanda, Lucy Danielle, Maude, Thelma, Louise, Millie, Trudy, Laverne & Edith!
Ours were Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup. PowerPuff girls
I have three hens named Stella (on list) Priscilla and Mitzy
Our son loved to play with a toy at the dr’s office: it was a firefighter female, hen!! So, my husband called it, “Barbie-Q, the Fire Fighting Fowl!” If we every get a chicken, that is going to be her name!
We have 7, all different breeds.
Rhode Island Red = Rosie
Americana = Flower
White Leghorn = Prissy (from the Foghorn Leghorn show)
Black Sexlink = Willow
Austorlorp = Big Mama
Golden Laced Wyandott = Goldie
Barred Rock = Speckles
We have three new babies Lavender Orpingtons named Parsley, Sage, and Rosemary and named our ‘farm’ If I Only Had Thyme Farm. They join RIReds Lucy and Ethel, Silkie Clementine, and Americaunas Rosie and Sofia.
Our girls are Ladyhawke, Goldie, Sadie, Gracie, Snickets, and our runty hen (actually a runt) named Pip, short for Pipsqueak!
I have Gucci, Louie, Prada, Channel, Coco
Fingers! More specifically a barred rock named Fingers Malone.
We have one named Ms. Kluck!
My niece named her chicken Henifer Anniston.
Our chickens names are Addison, Persephone, Theodosia, Nellie, and Clara
Our hens are:
Negro Modelo, Orlando, Garlic Parmesan, Jamaican Jerk, Asian Zing, and Happy Feet 1, 2 and 3, ( because they looked like cute little penguins as babies).
Some of our hens :
Buffy, Goldy, Blondie, Ginger, and Galdy (she had an awful case of gall from a heatlamp sunburn, as a chick)…Buff Orpingtons
Rosie, Spice, Cinnamon, and Ruby… Rhode Island Reds
Queenie, Chippy, Coco, Buzzy, Bambi, Esmerelda, and Isabella…Aracaunas
Wynona, Maheetah, Maira, and Snow White… Silver-Laced Wyandottes
Bitsy, Betsy, Martha, and Dolly…Barred Rocks
Heckle and Jeckyl… Golden Sebrights
Fluffy Feet… Silky
Latifah… Rescue, believed to be Leghorn/Cornish mix
Wagner, Wags, Comet, Asteroid, and Hailey… Golden Comets
Maybelline and Mischief… Australorps
and Roosters?
Rudy… Buckeye
Tyson and Wilmer… Golden Sebrights
Rocky… Old English Game
Koppster…Leghorn crossed with???
Peeps… son of Latifah and Rudy
Felix… Silky (OCDC. I am not kidding. He cleans his pen each afternoon)
Oscar… Chanteclear (Felix and Oscar were dumped in the woods near our house, and rescued to join our flock)
Gimpy… Brown Leghorn (had a leg injury as a chick, and was recommended to be culled. Now walks just fine)
Astro… Australorp (suffered wry neck as a chick. Also recommended for culling, but was saved with supplements)
Jet….Black Cochin
The naming continues, as we have a new batch of pullets who are breaking out their personalities!
Our first two chickes are called Pink & Floyd. Last week we bought 2 babies and they are named Bowie & Prince
I named one of my cochin hens cluckers and my rooster peewee because he is so small.
Big Foot and Finger-Lickin’
Mine are named Nugget, Flappy Bird, Lemoncello and Wally. Wally stands for Walmart Ten Dollar Chicken Deal
I have
Camilla
Red Rose
Tetley
Hyacinth
Brin
Waffle for chicken and waffles
My chicken’s names are:
Porsche
Tequila
Margarita
Mojita
Salt
Pepper
Blue
Cheese
Monterey
Jack
Machete
Casanova
Coco
Chanel
Shreck
We got 4 barred rocks this spring. Bought leg bands but misplaced them & have yet to find them, so I can’t tell my girls apart anymore. The names I picked were: ‘Rietta, Roxie, Raquel,& Liberty. They just started laying and one has a rather high pitched squeaky voice so we call her “squeaky”.
My girls are Scarlett (on your list), Clara Mae, Hattie & Dixie (you have Dixie Chick.)
We named ours, Noodle, Nugget, Noodlezilla, Smores, Afro, Truffles and Repeka. 😉
Rocky (Barred Rock Rooster)
Spicey (Barred Rock Hen)
Raisin (Barred Rock Hen)
Confetti (Speckled Sussex)
Ariel (Speckled Sussex)
Jewel (Buff colored red headed Mixed Hen)
Amber (Copper colored, black laced, red headed Mixed Hen)
I have a Blue Maran hen (French Breed) that I named Blue Belle! I also had a Barred Rock Rooster that we named Butch. Butch beat the snoggins out of a red tailed hawk that flew into his pen. That hawk thought he was gonna get a meal. Well, Butch had other ideas, and he jumped on top of that hawk and tore him up. Every time the hawk would try to fly out, Butch would jump on top of him again. That went on for about 4 minutes before the hawk finally got a break and went airborne.
Our hens are Queenie, Jiggy, Lil Chick, Henny, Pearlie, Mrs. Featherbottom and Limpy. Rooster is Mr. Fancy Pants (he’s a light Brahma with feathers on his legs). Just hatched two chicks which are mixed between Buffs and the Light Brahma. If hens, they will be Daisy and Buttercup 😉
I have 5 ex commercial hens.
They are: Winnie, Spot, Blue, Wings and Roadrunner.
I am naming my chicken Chicken nugget
Here are some of ours:
Caramel, Mocha, Latte, Diamond, Ice, Cheeseburger, Captain, Ming-Ming and Blessed
Rooster = Cocky
Most of my hens will be named after Downton Abbey characters: Mary, Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Patmore, Rosemund, Daisy…???☕️
I have a hen named Skipper… Also, a really cute name for a Easer-egger is Easter. I also have a hen named Hawk (she really looks like a hawk!)
A roosters name can be Roo
I have a chicken named Skinny Jeans, thanks to my 5 yr old nephew.
My girls are named after my favorite old soap opera ‘All my Children’
All my Chickens::
Natalie
Janet
Jenny Gardener
Haylee
Opal
Angie
Dixie
Myrtal Fargate
Only have 1 laying hen now and we call her Mama, have 4 pullets that we want to name. When we had hens before we named them Poached, Scrambled, Fried, Boiled, and Salad.
My hubby said Margaret Hatcher
My hens names are Emma and Zoie. If I looked into getting another hen I’d probably name it Phoebe
Mine have been named after colors or artists
Jamie, Bonnie, Tara, Blanche, Cockie, Blondie, Alice, Joni, Kuki, Betje, Roosje, Carly. I just love and loved these ladies!
We have Willie Mae the bantam barred rock named after my grandmother. Then Sadie May the sexlink that was hatched in May, Henny Penny, Popcorn which is a beautiful white and tan American Game fowl, Wynonna the Golden Wyandotte , Chicklet, Scrambles, Miz Ella, Dottie and Dolly as well as Mr. Buttons and Omelet the roosters
Luna
Magic
Rosie
Daisy
Extra Crispy
Wings
Our chickens are named Mr. Roo Roo Fuzzybottoms, Coty, Kathie, Hettie and Crooked Hillary (my husband’s contribution). Mr. Roo Roo is an all white silkie bantam rooster, Coty and Kathie are ISA browns, and Hettie and Hillary are Plymoth Rocks. (Hillary has a crooked toe since she ran into our window covering grate when we first put them in the chicken barn.) We love them all!
I have two black hens I call Hickety and Pickety.
When we got our three hens, I named them after deceased rellies. The Black one – Lady Dy (my sister), Red one – Eddy (my Mother Edna) & white one Collie – (my husband Christopher’s Mother. A friend thought I was mad naming them. I grew up on a dairy farm, and all our animals had names. Chris
Wish I found this list eons ago. But we managed pretty well for names..
first batch of chicks…
lula.. became Lou the roo
Winnifred .. became Winston
Hetty .. became Harold
Edna ,, became Elmer
Stubby stella( had no tail feathers for ages) .. became Steve
Kingsley and then the new bertha… both eaten by a bear
Now we finally have
Wendy bird (bantam /Americana )
Gertie (golden Americana/ bantam)
Winnie and Hetty (Americana/brahma)
Tuppence and penny( copper Marans)
Oh and stew..the roo who is in love with 5:25 am
I’m looking to get an olive egger and a lavender ophington .who won’t be named violet lol ?
Lucille (Ball) Redhead
Rhonda (Birchmore) Redhead
Penguin had a chook as a child with this name but could only say Pengin
Love all the names have had a good laugh
Domino named Duce
2 RIR Thelma and Louise- always in everyone’s business and always in trouble!!
RIR Marcy and Darcy
Leghorns Fred and Scooter- because he can book it when the girls get tired of him!
The only chicken ( out of 26) with a name is the roo – Arnold Schwarzenegger. The turkeys, however are Bo (Pilgrim) and Buddy ( the elf)….They have way too much personality and have been given a pardon….for now….?
Blueberry, Marge, Betty Bop and Ruby
All my girls have botanical names.
Hazel, Willow, Apple, Cherry, Bramble, Heather and Honeysuckle.
I also have geese, Radar and Hotlips. I lost Hotlips one night and was running up and down the road, in the dark, with a fishing net, shouting “Hotlips, Hotlips where are you baby”! Something to consider when naming animal friends!
I name all my girls after flowers or shrubs. I currently have Dahlia, Heather, Zinnia, Iris, Marigold, Rosie, Buttercup and Chrys(anthemum). They are all as lovely as the flowers they are named after!
Kira’s back yard ladies are all RIR’s. Chad, Conrad, Ralph (my favorite lady), Penelope (Very common name here I see), Pricilla, Taco, Irene, Jezebel, and Gurtrude (RIP). We figured if we gave them “boy” names we had a better chance they would be hens. These are our first chickens and got lucky that all 10 were hens. we can’t have roosters in town. We just picked them from the unsexed bin of 2 day old chicks at the tractor supply in Feb 2015. This spring we will add some eastereggers to our flock. I really love all the fun names others have named there ladies.
We (my family and I) named our hens : Prarie and Lacy are Wyndottes Carlie-pop and Nutmeg are Red SexLinks ?
Love the list. I’m probably missing some names of ours, but here goes:
We started out ‘old’ alphabetical names with a few twists
Annabelle, Alfred, Bulah, Barbie Butters, Boots, Clara, Dave, DeeDee and DumbDumb Tweedle (silkies), DuckDuck, Ethel, Fred, Freida, Gertrude (Gert), GooseGoose, Helen, Judy, Kimmie, Lavern, Madge, Martha, Mary, Nadine, Patty, Partridge chicken, Rachel, Rachel, Ruth, Sara, Sophia, Ursula, Willomena.
We also had a few groups: The Kids, The New Kids, The Lakeland group, The Sharks
Haha! Cute. 🙂
I had a RI Red hen I named Cora Cluckenhymer for 2 years until an unknown varmit took her from me. In her honor, my Pinterest Board of all my chicken interests bears her namesake.
Just came across this site while saving items of interest to my chicken board. I roared with laughter !!! I simply love the play on words, names, colors and so on. I am forever amazed at people’s creativities and imaginations. That is why I love Pinterest soooooo much. I had a RI Red hen that I named Cora Cluckenhymer. I had her for 2 years until some unknown varmit took her from me. My board of chicken interests bears her namesake.
I, too, have been laughing all morning at some of these creative chicken names….I have some white frizzle hens named FluffyButt, Q-Tip, Cotton, and Little Puff. A creme and gray frizzle named SugarBritches and a little black frizzle named Sniglett. My white frizzle Rooster is named Blizzard. Just hatched about 3 weeks ago are 6 more little white frizzles running around looking like little ballerinas in their tutus. So far named one PopCorn
My chickens are called:
Lucy
Ethel
Betty White
Mrs. Beasley
We had a hen that would peck the front door. We named her Avon.
We named our girls after Alfred Hitchcock’s leading ladies. They are Tippi (Hendren), Tallulah (Bankhen) and Ingrid (Berghen).
We have 7 chickens:
Henrietta (Big fluffy Cochin)
Tweet (A Maran who was always sweetly chirping as a chick)
Daisy (Sweet little Wellsummer)
Sunshine (was bright yellow as a chick, now a big, white curious Wyandotte)
Libby (Easter Egger who lays beautiful green eggs)
Lucy (Americauna who lays beautiful blue eggs)
Peaches (Super sweet Buff Orphington)
Our hens names were not found on your list
Tweety, Luna, Chica, Rebel, Yoshi and Blondie
My girls are Thelma and Louise, Lucy and Ethel, Laverne and Shirley. My rooster is Chantecleer
My grandson named one of our hens Cluckles. And we have a Barred Rock named Bernadette.
My chickens names are Peace, Banana Split, Butterscotch, and Talker.
My rooster is General Tso. Keeps him in line knowing he has avoided an alternative ending.
My parents have too many hens to name so Daddy calls them all Lucy, Lucy’s sister, and Lucy’s other sister. If the hen is a really cranky girl she is called Evelyn. The special ones sometimes get a unique name.
My chooks are all flower names;
Blossom, Peony, Tulip, Marigold, Lily, Primrose, Bluebell, Buttercup, Sweet-Pea, Snow-Drop, Tiger-Lily, Dahlia, Dandelion, Daisy, Daffodil & Thistle.
Had a chicken with a lame leg. We named her I-lean (Illeine). Had a rooster that had coloring or a tequila sunrise drink. Named him Jose Cuervo.
We have had: snowy peckers, Hank, Rumpelstiltskin, Harley, Poppy, Chloe, Benji, Charlie, Bo, Zebra, Sam (aka F****Ing A$$hole when he attacked me repeatedly), Rodney, Bruce, Trouble, Ghost, Orange Soda, Matilda, Kathrine, Katrina, lightning. We have too many now who look similar so they are nameless. However we just got ducklings and some of their names are Thackery Binx, chicken, Phoebe, Pinkey Pie Glitter-corn, nightmare Freddie,
My chickens names are Blanche, Ann & Nancy, and Lita.
I have 3 Roos mason, ariq and duck. 13 hens Flossie, mama, prissy, bambino, Lenny, penny, sheldon, Polly, Molly, Cora, Amelia, Henrietta and red. I have 14 baby chicks only a few named so far after family members Joannie, pat, Lucy, bronnie, sue, Wanda, still have others to name but waiting on their personalities to show so the name is fitting. And yes.. I know who’s who and they know their names. Love my chickens
I just got Black Jersey Giant pullets, and their names are Batman, Gadget (hints the smartest chick), Freddy flintstone, and I also have 3 chicks that don’t have names quite yet
We have our have had:
Marilyn MonCrow (she was an IsaBrown with a huge light colored breast)
Charlita
Feathers
Nugget (and her bff Anda Biscuit)
Gingy
Ginger
Lucy
Chick-stopher Columbus
Mo (because he was just a little Mofo)
Benny (and his shipment mate Joon)
Big Mama
Merida
Dani
Stormy
Beedle (he looked like a tiny beatle bug angry he was a baby)
Maximus (a pullet we though was a roo)
And 2 guineas named Gigi and Gigu
My hens are Lola the Buff Orpington, Gabby the Silver lace, Iris the plymouth barred rock, Gwen the australorp, Patunia gray ameraucana (blue eggs) and Eva white/bage ameraucana (green olive eggs)
Each have a unique personality.
Iris is the queen of all and kinda mean.
Patunia and Eva are the smallest and more scirash.
The friendliest and also the one that produces the most eggs is Gwen.
Gabby procracinates to go to bed like my kid and she will fly to my lap if I have something in my hands.
Lola is beautiful and fat. Her butt wiggle a lot when she runs.
My shepherd/Rottweiler mix Bella loves her chickens.
I wanted to name my girls old timey names to honor my grandma and great grandma who had chickens. We were watching the HBO series Deadwood when we got our first chicks and that gave me the idea to look up names of old west “soiled doves”. I had/have: Maddie (Silks), Big Nose Kate, Squirrel Tooth Alice, Lou, Trixie, Belle (Starr), Dora, Fanny, Dixie, Lola, Pearl, Ruby, Frenchie, Michelle, Rosie, Zerusha, and Dottie.
My son named our white hen Chickaletta from his fav cartoon Paw Patrol for which it had a white chicken named Chickaletta lol. Also named our barred Dominique, Flash, because as a chick & even now she’s super quick!! He’s huge into Marvel & DC comics & loves running around in his Flash cape which is why at 2 years old he came up with her name. Also we have a hen named Meg for Nutmeg because she just has this red blotch on her head as if Nutmeg fell on to her plus she truly is a Nut compared to the rest lol. We have Patty, after a peppermint patty because she’s black & white, Penny which is common, Henrietta, Dom for Domino who is our barred orphington roo & we haven’t named our female orphington but I’m thinking Cookie because she’s black & white like an Oreo.
I named my rooster, Daryl Chixon after Walking Dead character Daryl Dixon, his two hens are… Carol Peletiegg and Beth Greene eggs n ham, after Beth and carol, also TWD characters.
Our chickens are Addie, Bessie, Charlie(rooster), Dottie, Edie, Flossie, Ferdie, Heidie, and Indie.
mine are Cletus(named after my grandmother), Lady Glitter Sparkles(granddaughter is a trolls movie fan), Gray, and Gertrude
I love all the cute names people come up with! We have three older girls, two Ameraucanas, Betsy Ross (nine years old, still lays an occasional egg), and Harley, and one older Comet, Muffin. Our new chicks are: one Black Australorp, Big Foot, one Amberlink, Marshmallow, two Comets, Star and Twinkle (or Twinkie), and two Speckled Sussex, Cricket and June Bug.
I named our 2 Blue copper Marans June and Bug and of course I always called them together!!
My chicks names are Hordor, Johnni (after Johhny Cash), Chin Chin, Chicken Little and Baker.
Our first 3 girls were from a friend and she had already named them (but we changed the names):
The Henperor (Violet)
Hen Solo (Hattie – after my mom’s grandmother)
Princess Lay-a (Pearl)
Sadly they have all passed and our 3 new girls are:
Myrtle (aka Moaning Myrtle because she is so dang loud)
Hazel
Effie (after my husband’s grandmother)
I just love old fashioned names for our hens, can’t wait to get a few more once we build a new coop, hopefully in the next month or so. 🙂
My Rhode Islands are named Henny Penny and Rosy. And my Barred Rocks are Clara, Cloe, Charlotte, and Carley. But sometimes we call Cloe and Carley Houdini, as they are always escaping out of their yard for an adventure:) I have 3 Easter Eggers and 3 Goldenlaced Wyandotte chicks and that’s why I’m here to check out names for them! Thanks so much! I have gotten some great ideas!
We had a little white Banty rooster (he had the cutest crow!) named Julio Egg-lesias. Except my daughter could never remember that. She called him Gung Holio…
We have Durty Nelly (it’s after a pub in Limerick) and Durty Gertie, both are Brahma’s; 8-Piece (because she’s a *itch and will make a nice meal if she gets too fresh) and Gracie (she “graced us with our first egg), both are ISA Browns; Wendy and Chicken Little both Barred Rock; a new addition Bean (because she pops and jumps, it’s adorable) a Maran; and Betty an Australorp with black eyes (after the song Black Betty). We have seven more we’ve yet to name.
Our hens are named after queens/ divas.
Cleapatra, (Cleo for short), Khaleesi, Nicki Minaj, and Beyoncé.
One of our chickens is names Heidi Plume.
My girls are Cutie, Julia, Judy, Rose, Cheyenne, Red, Angelica, Maia, Shadow and Storm
We had a naked neck roo named twiggy after the super thin super model, a hen named rotisserie who loved being be the fire and would sprawl out and turn when she got to warm on one side, soggy bottom & friendly for obvious reasons.
My rooster is named Conan, and my hens are Gina, Jema, Willow, June, Mrs Pearl, Ursula, Kali, Athena, and Jasmine.
We have 12 baby leghorns. Only one has a name yet. she is the largest of the bunch and tries everything first. So she was named hold my beer.
Love those chick-a-dees-
Alice, Betty, Cleo, Frida, Hettie, Scarlett, Yellow Girl
My son named one of our chickens Repecka and another Cinnamon!
We have a Buff Banty named Gracie and a Rhode Island Red, who is our sweetheart, named Dolly
What?? Not red??? I am one of many who has a RIR (cross in my case) named red let’s take a count. I know I’ve seen at least 4 so far lol?
We were recently given 40 chickens. They do not all have names yet, and perhaps never will (numbers!).I’m leaning towards Babe’s mother’s naming philosophy (“She called us all Babe”) and at the moment calling most of the flock Chook. The low hen on the pecking order is called Baldy (the children named her) and there are a few other names….
However, Hetty and Harriet are good and classic hen names from Graham Oakley’s wonderful book about the adventures of two runaway chickens.
How was Henrietta not on this list?!
I love my hens, they have a wonderful life!! I enjoy them so much….
I love the old school names,
Ms. Ethel
Hennie
Pennie
Dottie
Lola Belle
Agnes
They are so much fun, I’ve started about 3 years ago, I find all sort of ways to provide them with things for entertainment, they are hilarious!! Their eggs are just a bonus!!!
My girls are Ophelia, Melanie, Phyllis, Honey, Cinnamon, and Baby Butter.
We have a tall autralorp names Chiquille O’Neal. 2 Rhode Island Reds, one is Hei Hei (from Moana) & the other is Cluck Norris, and a Plymouth Rock named Hennifer Anniston.
Our first four birds were Blue, Charlie, Delta, and Echo (after the Raptor Pack from Jurassic World). We then got Nellie and Laura (Little House on the Prairie) and Ginger (New Hampshire Red). We then added Easter Eggers Eve and Esther, and have since added a third EE named Eunice. We have Austrawhites named Ebony and Ivory (one has some black feathers on her back), a Black Copper Marans named Cadbury, a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte named Windsor, Speckled Sussex named Pippa and Piper, a Welsummer named Fergie, a RIR named Rhoda, a Salmon Faverolles named Monet, an Olive Egger named Photina, and a Buff Laced Polish named Olga. Earlier this year, I got a beautiful Lavender Orpington chick and named her Princess Diana. Well, Diana developed quite a beautiful comb and wattles, and started sporting saddle feathers, so my son changed her (his) name to The Chicken Formerly Known as Princess.
We had a little black bantam Cochin that always came out of the coop like a streak. We called her Helen…short for *hell on wheels*.
This year is our first chicken adventure. I wasn’t supposed to name them, so they are all “Chicken”, but they have middle names. 4 ISA Browns are Caccaitorie, Dumpling, Salad and Alfredo. The Barred Rocks are Rice and Noodle. Golden Comets are Nugget and Stew. Black Australorps are Sandwich and Soup.
We have speckled Sussex named shake and bake;)
I was thinking Twitter and pecky!
Hi
I have a few to add to your list. They are…
Francis/Frances didn’t know it’s sex.
Houdini.. for obvious reasons
Chick-a-boo-boo..named by my 3yr old G/d
Charcoal..as in charcoal chicken
Frankie
Chickaletta
Chow Mein..my Chinese Willie
Specks..as in Spicks & Specks for a speckled hen.
Je’sus..as a chick it always walked on water.
Margo..always stretching it’s leg in a ballet move like Margot Fonteyn
Hope you enjoy these…
That should be “Chinese silkie ” not Willie
I had the country western chicks and they were named Reba, Loretta, Dolly and Patsy.
I had a big black star that I named Randall Flagg. I later renamed her Ms. Winfrey, much more appropriate. She was delightful.
We have Goldie, Patches, Holly, Chicken Little, Red, Peaches, Sadie, Bandy, Hey Hey, and a couple other hens that are nameless since they lall look identical. And our Cornish Cross roo is Meatball.
Ive named my easter egger hen easter, ive also used the name red on my oldest hen that was a shade of red she was hard to catch when we just started letting them roam free. Made me think of the country song old red. And last of unnamed names was little man i had this one rooster he was our only small one i got him cause i fell in love with his colors. Anyways he would wait till u turned around and then start after u and stop when u said anything or turned back around other than that he was a sweetie he’d jump on my shoulder( our coop was short so i was hunching over ) and let me pet him and eat out of my palm i wore gloves of course im not completly trustin of chicken due to them chasing me when i was a kid which is why my number one rule is u attact me i eat u. Plain and simple i make sure the kids are nice and handle them with lots of tlc when they are babies. So in my book they have no reason to be agressive.anyways thought id add some more ideas out there. Not many of our chickens get names of thier own we buy them in large groups often looking so simular to each other. But they are admired and called my ladies currantly we have 16 ladies and only four have names. Which reminds me my daughter named her first chicken ( she paid for with her own money) fluttershy she is a sweetie too. All the ladies are so fun to watch and very chubby sometimes i think they are over feed. With the way they waddle when they come running for the grains or scrapes.
We have Chicken, Chicken Little, Fuzzy Mango(silkie), Mumble, Bob(my grandsons), Beakley(she passed away here beak didn’t match up) Eden, PinBall, Harley Quinn(daughters favorite character), & Oreo. Everybody in our family named one girlie each. No roosters here. 🙂 I love my feathered kids.
I’ve had a Louise, Daisy, Ginger, a beautiful silkie/Cochin roster named sailor Moon, another silkie/Cochin rooster that was also frizzled, he was name Juaquin Phoenix, a silky named tipsy, a Pollock named voodoo (she’s steely gray edged with black and has orange eyes and blue waddles! And last I have a white chicken that is half swedish flower and I can’t think of a name for her which is why I’m here lol
I have four Chicken’s there name’s are Daisy, Delilah, Francine and Starr we had a rooster named Abraham had to get rid of him he was beating up the chicken’s and aggressive toward’s all of us in the house.We just bought ten baby chick’s can’t wait to see what there going to look like when full grown, five of them are Blue Sapphire Gems.
My birds are Taz, Wally, Earl, Willy Mae, Bo, Ozzy, Pixel, Messy Nessy, Jolene, and Lord Tyson Tibirus Tazer-Face
I have 9 little chicks under a hen, 4 are a bantam chocolate bard and 5 are bantam farm mix. The roo was a chocolate bantam. What would be some good names?
We have 3 ducks: Goose, Buttercup and Daffobill (Daffy) and then we have 21 chickens: Big Birtha and Betty Boop are our Blue Cochins, Buffy and Tonya Harding are our Buff Orpingtons, We have Teriyaki (Teri) and Sesame (MeMe) are our Speckled Sussex, Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers are our Red Productions, Cleopatra, Alexandria and Cairo are our Egyptian Fayoumi, Ligthning and Thunder (wish I knew native american for them) are our Americauna, Ducky is our cuckoo Maran, and Lil Ade is our Black Maran. We have Goldie…but we arent sure what she is yet? She was a random from Ideal Poultry. and we have 3 Salmon Faverolles and 2 Wellsommers that we have not named yet…. So I am on here looking for 5 more names for some cute chicks.
I just got six chicks. Named them Chickletta (from Paw Patrol), Charlotte, Reba, Mini Trex(son wants to be a paleontologist), Aviva (from Wild Kratts) and Violet. Can you tell I let the kids name them? 🙂
Our chicken names are Nugget and Stella both RIR, Daryl is a Golden laced wyandott, Carl- Black Australorp, Rosita- black jersey giant(the last 3 names are from the walking daed ?), Sadie Maude- Barred rock, Julia- Buff Orpington, then we have Claira, Delilah, and Clementine (clementine is from the walking dead game by telltale) which are all silkie bantams
We had Bacon, Helga, Hermione, Elisabeth, Chocolate and popcorn
My chickens are Henrietta and Gloria
I have a Maid Mary-hen, Tiff-henny, Lucy, Ethel, Bogie, & Isabella.
I named mine Chikaletta, Nugget, Chick Norris, Sunny, & Chikira (:
MY CHICKENS ARE CHIKALETTA, CHICKEN NUGGET, MRS. FLUFFY, YOLKY and CORNFLAKE IS MY ROOSTER
Named my Red Star Hen, Cackling Rose, my Salmon Faverole, Fuzz Butt.Then there is Hazel, Leona & Maggie.
I used a couple names,but i have over 300 chickens lol, so i named about 20 of them.
I love all the names
I have 4 chickens named nugget, autumn, pearl and Gloria. We also have to baby chick but are still figuring out names
I called my two Sam ‘n’ Ella.
We have 7 chickens we have named 2 of them so far Ruddy the rooster and ADHD is our littlest chick because she is always running around like she doesn’t know what is going on. We pronounce ADHD Addie.
I named my chickens : lemon , muffin ,brownie , peace , lilo , stitch , noodle and Fish
We have Dolly Parton (likely to be renamed “Donny Pardon”), Taser Face, Roberta, Ruff and Tuff (two Buff Orpingtons), Toothless, and Miss Frizzle.
Hens are named pom pom,fluffy,and velvet. Guinea fowl are ink and banshee,i need names for my roosters
Cassandra, Esmeralda, Priscilla
When I got three chicks, my niece named them “Snap, Crackle, and Pop.”
My chicken’s names are Daisy, Dandelion, Buttercup, Sunshine, Star, Boomy, (short for Boom Chicka pop, the popcorn) Sky, Special, Mashpotato, Jewel, Sugar, and Ocean!
I thought these are amazing names and wanted to share some so you can also use them if you are stumped on what to name yours! 😀
I used to have a hen named Eliza Jane Snow and a rooster named Ezekiel years ago. Last summer I hatched 8 chicks. The roosters are named Henry and Cedar, the hens are named Bearded Lady, Owl, Julia, Sandstorm, Buddy, Graybeard and I have a new hen named Maple.
My chicken names are Princess Laya and Kylo Hen
Roosters … Tyson was the baddest little Bantie ever
Captain Underpants … His favorite hen was Miss Panties. And Lil black Panties
Rudy was mean as hell
Hens so far … (we only name favorites)
Muana, Miss Panties,Lil BLack Panties, Bessie, Snowflake and Shake n Bake
My 3 hens are —– Sunni, Stormi and Sadie.
Igor two barred rocks henifer and dumpling and a gold comet with a ring around her leg and I call her jewels. Just added four more will name them soon
I have had chickens all my life! My chickens names now are Thunder, Rocket, Jesse, Flash, Chicksee, Soft, and Ray. Their names are a little cheesy!
Epic name for a chicken
CHICK FAYLAY
Our birds are freddy mercury(old english game bantam roo), salt, pepper, mayo, maple, fluffy, steve and alex (from minecraft-both hens), pigeotto(like the pokemon), taco, oreo, nugget, pancake, 2 old english game bantam hens name popcorn and pickle, silkie names are choco, Charlie, sheriff, bonnie and clyde. (4 are roos)
We have a drake name golduck(like the pokemon) and his 3 muscovy hens are T, L, and C. (Like the band bc they always shake they’re butts)
Hens that have passed were honey, molasses, sugar, Stanford (a salmon favorolle named from the cartoon gravity falls) and a duck named psyduck(like the pokemon)
I know this is an old post, but I had to respond. I wanted to name our chick “old biddy” names, but my mom refused. So three years ago, when we first got chickens – 6 golden sex-links – we named them:
Sage (aka “Sagey,” our alpha)
Cinnamon (aka “Cinnabon”)
Nutmeg (aka “Nutty,” “Nutty the Spazz,” and “Nutty McNuttNutt”)
Ginger (aka “Gingie” and “GinGin;” she only lived to be about 8 months old)
Lavender (died last Summer)
Rosemary (aka “Rosy,” “Rosy Posey,” “Rosy Posey Puddin’ ‘N Pie,” and “Wrong Way Rosy;” she also died last summer)
Last Spring, we added 4 ISA Browns:
Dandelion (aka “Dandy”)
Clover
Paprika (aka “Pappy”)
Marigold (aka “Goldie”)
The ISA browns are bigger than the Golden Sex-Links which has caused pecking-order problems and Paprika and Marigold tend to be a little bit mean to Cinnamon & Nutty. Sometimes I’ll refer to Pappy and Goldie as “Thelma and Louise” or “Frick and Frack.” My sister calls them “the honyawks.” I often wonder if people think we’re yelling at our dad when we yell “Knock it off, Pappy!” LOL
We’ve had a rough fall and winter 🙁
We lost ‘New Voices Woman’, ‘Nugget’ (pet rooster), ‘Little Red’, ‘Blinkie’ (Black Ink), and ‘Singer’ (sounded like an old sewing machine!) – we still have ‘Big Momma’, ‘Scruffy’ (perpetually looks like she’s had a rough night), and ‘Fabio’ (main rooster – very pretty, not so bright)
I’ll be getting a hatchling hopefully next weekend, thinking of ‘Bo Peep’ or ‘Beau Peep’ – time will tell 🙂
Also have ordered 8 RSL pullets
I had 6 chickens to begin with but two of them didn’t make it. I have had them since they were 5 days old and I love watching them play with each other and getting their own personalities as they get bigger. Their names are:
Goldie
Grace
Pidge
Star
Mischief (deceased)
Peep (deceased)
I named my chicken Buck Beak
I just got my 6 little chicks today and am so excited. I have named them:
NUGGET
IRIS
OPRAH
MYRTLE
COCONUT
TRUFFLE
Over the years, we’ve had:
Delila (who became Darryl), Delila 2, Smokey, Dusty, Agatha, Dannan, Nutmeg, Cinnamon (who became Solomon – the most beautiful rooster ever – Golden Laced Wyandotte), Dotty, Yolko, Honey, Cocoa, Lacy, Jersey, Frilly (frizzle looking bantam), Misty (grey bantam), Moses (brown Leghorn rooster), Hazel, Mini (the daughter of Moses and Misty)
Our current chooks are:
Nutella, Scarlett, Delia, Greta & Agnes and a Golden Laced Wyandotte yet to be named. We also have a duck named Dannan. Still have a golden laced Wyandotte to name.
I don’t have chickens anymore and I really miss them. When I did, I always had a rooster named Chanticleer and a hen named Partlet. Those names were from a book I read to my four children when they were small.
I love it!
three letters KFC
My friend and I hatched chickens in our Life Science class and ended up bringing home 10. I named mine Happy Feet, Raven, Angel, Sam, and Turkey. She named hers B-B-Q, Season, Pepper, Goldie, and Dusty. We have had so much fun with them and they are the cutest things ever!
I have ten hens and a rooster. Rooster is a buff Orpington named Brad. Hens are Gwyneth-buff Orpington, Freckles-speckled Sussex, Athena-light Brahma, Freya-buff Brahma, Lily and Candy- Easter Eggers, Lucy-white Cochin, Ethel-partridge Cochin, and a golden laced Wyandotte with no name yet.
Chirpy Boy and Mitch Jr.
( my name is Mitch and I love the Simpsons )
Ginger and Rose
My roster is anFrizzle, but he only frizzled.on one side of his body, the other side is smooth. So I call him Two Face. ( From Batman) I used to have a black silkie too and his name was Batman!
I like family names, and include among them family pet names. So far, there’s
Ester
Edith
Poppy (earned her name by jumping up on everything, including me)
Eloise (named after a tortoise), and
Alice (easier to say then LS for Little Sister)
We have:
– Curious Georgia (because she’s always the first to check anything out),
– Hennifer (a variation of Jennifer),
– Eggster (variation of Esther),
– Squakbox (for obvious vocal reasons),
– Muffy (because she has tufts over her ears that look like earmuffs)
How about Rosemary?
She ruled our roost! 😉
I’ve tried to convince my kids to go with The Office theme. Jim, Pam, Dwight, Michael Scott, Stanley, Kevin, Angela, Creed, Oscar etc. Maybe call it Dunder Mifflin Chicken Company. I don’t live that one but I could probably make it work.
We named one of our roosters Tyrannosaurus Pex.
I have 14 chickens, Their names are, Peach, Maple, Daisy, Hazel, Olive, Sunny, Pepper, Poppy, Lucy, Penny, Coco, Charlotte, Nutmeg, and Betsy.
My hens are named Pixie, Trixie, Dixie, Nixie, Guinevere, and Winifred (Buff Orpington, Speckled Sussex, Dominique, Golden Laced Wyandotte, and Silver Laced Wynadotte, respectfully).
Well I named my chicken WILDFIRE
I have named my chicks Evie, Chloe, Freya, Lily and Popcorn!
Mine are
Dumplin
Carrot
Wing ding
Ivy
McNugget
Goma
Boofy
Mr.Cheepers
Splat
Daphne
Little Sweet Meat
PJ(Peeps Jr)
I have 5 chicks and I choose the names, Daisy, Francis, Honey, coco, and Dandelion
Hello all!
I recently purchased a fertilised chicken egg from a farmer as I hoped to have it hatch in my presence so that the chick would imprint on me. I was successful in doing so however as my little chick has grown up I’ve come to realise that it is not a chicken at all! At first I thought it was just an ‘ugly duckling’ type of chick but it actually turned out to be an ugly duckling! I was furious with the farmer as he’d charged me £250 for this chick. He had pulled the feathers over my eyes and as you can imagine I was in quite a flap.
I now need to rename my DUCK with a more species appropriate name. Can you recommend any duck names?
Thank you x
My chickens names are Butter, Fatty, Lady, Jenny, Jan, Joey, Bluebelle, sunny, Bea, Hermione, Taylor swift, Jimima, Sally and Pingu! 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐥
this really helped! 10 out of 10!! my family just got 10 baby chicks and i got to name two of them and i wont lie, im horibal with names so thanks!!