Wildlife inspired names

[wildestdreamss]

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.

You had me until Pongo....

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

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!!

Carey is nice. Pongo means stinky!

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.

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.

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

Beetle
Earwig
Stag
Hedgie

Also I really like Fauna for a girl :)

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

Badgerella
Skunkeline
Weasella

Aureus
Physalus
Felis
Equus
Indri
Hyla
Nivalis
Tigris
Ursus

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

Beaver
Rattus
Pangolin
Shark
Hyrax
Sirenia
Mastodon
Ferret
Walrus

I'll probably get laughed off mumsnet but I love Bambi for a little girl.
It's so sweet. I love twee names. I'll hold hands up. I get they're not everyone's thing though. There again nothing is 'everyone's thing's is it.
Girls. (Wildlife/ Natrure names)
Meadow.
Lavender.
Sunshine.
Daffodil.
Tulip.
Sunrise.
Horizon.
Bee.
Heather.
Dove.
Lark.
Raven.
Maple.
Rainbow.
Valley.

Boys.
Wolf.
Oak
Forrest.
Woods.

Does the name have to be a word or can it be a name that means something nature related ?

For instance :

Kurt means wolf in Turkish.

Orel means eagle in russian (it's pronounced Aryol but well).

Lupus, wolf in Latin.

Loup, wolf in French (and also an actual first name, albeit a rare one).

Miel, not a name but means Honey in French, always thought it sounded quite pretty

Bjorn, bear in some scandinavian language (dont remember, swedish or norwegian ?)

Ursula - close to Ursus

Anyway, I could go on. It'd be easier to choose a specific theme (river, eagle, wolf, whatever) and look up the various translations and names related to it. Otherwise there really are too many names to list here.

Mariposa (butterfly)
Louve (Wolf)
Tora (Tiger)
Arth (bear)
Zorro (fox)

If you wanted some ideas in other languages

Ericius
Otter
Lepus

Wren
Bird
Agree Fauna is beautiful
Robin

Don’t call your kid lupus. It’s a disease!

Luna
Sky
Bryn (hill in Welsh - Gavin and Stacey knowledge there)

Domestic House Spider
Natterjack Toad
Slow Worm
Cockroach

Im not sure if this thread is serious, but assuming it is, my contributions are:

Bryony
Nerine
Eberhard (means boar in German)

Carey is a lovely name

Willow
Summer
Forrest if you're feeling brave

@Awwlookatmybabyspider, you have my undivided support in your liking the name Bambi. Adorable for a baby, rather suggestively sexy for a young woman, sweet for an old dear... all bases covered!

Sorry but Bambi sounds like it's trying too hard to be cute and naive and helpless. When I hear it I imagine a hooker past her prime with too much make up.

Also wasn't Bambi a male...?