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Wildlife inspired names

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wildestdreamss · 17/05/2020 18:27

DH and I are looking for suggestions of names that are wildlife/nature related but something other than the usual Fox, Bear, Sage, Hazel, Savannah, Tiger, etc. They are all beautiful names but we are trying to come up with other options.

There are plenty of words we are familiar with that we'd love to use as names but they're perhaps only familiar to us since we are on the field so our judgment is slightly clouded. Here are a couple of examples of what we are looking into:

Carey - Related to a type of turtle
Pongo - Genus for orangutans

(They'd probably be middle names anyway as we do know we'd want more regular first names). They can be for a boy or girl as we won't know the sex.

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AragornsManlyStubble · 17/05/2020 18:55

Found these from a quick google. Think they would work fine as middle names.

AragornsManlyStubble · 17/05/2020 18:54

Aureus
Physalus
Felis
Equus
Indri
Hyla
Nivalis
Tigris
Ursus

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/05/2020 18:38

Badgerella
Skunkeline
Weasella

Ohtherewearethen · 17/05/2020 18:37

Fawn is so pretty for a girl. I liked Heath and Hawk for a boy.

WreckTangle95 · 17/05/2020 18:37

Also I really like Fauna for a girl :)

Shannith · 17/05/2020 18:36

Beetle
Earwig
Stag
Hedgie

Sunbird24 · 17/05/2020 18:36

www.momjunction.com/articles/animal-names-for-babies_00402076/
some nice ones here OP?

WreckTangle95 · 17/05/2020 18:34

I know a little boy named Moss. At first I wasn't keen, in fact I didn't realise it was a name until I googled the meaning, but it's actually really grown on me (no pun intented.) Seriously though it really does suit him.

wildestdreamss · 17/05/2020 18:31

They're examples. We are not naming our child Pongo but just giving an example of how we are also thinking scientific names could be used as a name if they're nice enough (Pongo was the first thing that came to mind as I work with orangutans) or the name of an animal in another language.

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CurlyEndive · 17/05/2020 18:30

Carey is nice. Pongo means stinky!

Bleepbloopblarp · 17/05/2020 18:29

Ps. Dh’s brothers nickname at school was “Pongo” because he did the smelliest farts. Please do not inflict a name like that on your child!!

Illbedownatthegardenwithmum · 17/05/2020 18:29

Pongo isn’t going to get bullied... oh, wait.

Bleepbloopblarp · 17/05/2020 18:28

You had me until Pongo....

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