Bird Names - Perfect Names for Your Feathered Friend

Find the perfect name for your bird! From parrots to finches, canaries to cockatiels.

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Altair

Meaning: The flying eagle (brightest star in Aquila)

A sharp name for a fast, agile pet with a tendency toward dramatic entrances.

Breeze

The kind of pet who moves through a room without disturbing anything — except the one thing you needed.

Aerodactyl

A prehistoric name for a large, winged creature with an attitude problem.

Aidan

For a fast, flashy performer — born to perform and knows it.

Mango

For a bright, tropical, enthusiastic pet who is impossible to resist and slightly messy.

Aquila

For a large, watchful pet who surveys everything from the highest available surface.

Butterfree

For a delicate, winged pet with a wandering attention span.

Robin

Meaning: Bright fame

For a quiet, well-read pet who survived things she doesn't mention and uses history as a weapon.

Chocobo

For a large, yellow, fast-moving pet who is friendly and extremely popular at festivals.

Dodrio

For the household with three birds who share one chaotic brain.

Iago

For a talkative pet that repeats what it hears and causes disproportionate damage.

Cloud

For a spiky-haired, brooding pet with a very large sword and unresolved identity issues.

Doduo

Suits a pet with two very strong opinions at once.

Coda

A musical name for a pet who always has to have the last word.

Kevin

Unusually good on a tall, colourful pet of unknown gender who ignores most people.

Scuttle

For a seabird or talkative pet who delivers confident information that turns out to be completely wrong.

Escarole

Suits a ruffled, pale green pet who is underappreciated and deserves better.

Farfetchd

For a pet who carries one specific object everywhere and will not explain why.

Fearow

Suits a large, sharp-beaked pet with a personal grudge.

Falco

For an arrogant, sharp-tongued pet who is the best pilot on the team and will not stop mentioning it.

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Aria

For a vocal one who sings in full sentences and expects an audience.

Flit

For a tiny, fast hummingbird or small pet who is protective, suspicious of strangers, and in constant agitated motion.

Cadence

For a pet whose movements have a rhythm, even when they're just walking to the food bowl.

Hawks

For a fast, wing-brained pet who moves before thinking and is usually right.

Chirpy

The name for a pet who has never been quiet, not once, not ever.

Heihei

Reserved for a small pet with a demonstrably vacant expression and zero survival instincts.

Khonshu

Best on a large, demanding pet who considers the human a vessel and the nighttime their domain.

Mercy

For a caring, winged pet who keeps everyone alive and whose patience is occasionally tested.

Harmony

Best on a pet who is, in fact, the opposite of harmonious but sounds lovely anyway.

Moltres

Suits a large, fiery pet with legendary presence and a dramatic wingspan.

Nimbus

For a grey, overhead pet who follows you from room to room and occasionally drops on you.

Pidgeot

A majestic name for a large, fast pet with impeccable aerodynamic form.

Jay

For a bright, loud pet who announces every arrival, including its own.

Pidgeotto

Suits a mid-sized pet who is working their way up and taking it seriously.

Pidgey

For a small, common pet who is underestimated and entirely fine with that.

Pip

One syllable of pure smallness. For a pet who is brief in every dimension.

Kiwi

For a small, round, low-to-the-ground pet who shares those particular qualities.

Radagast

For a nature-loving, slightly scattered wizard type — a pet who clearly prefers animals to people.

Lyric

For a pet who communicates primarily through sound and finds silence personally offensive.

Raven

Meaning: Black bird (symbol of intelligence)

For a dark-cloaked, atmospheric pet who appears suddenly and means something ominous is about to happen.

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Magpie

For a pet attracted to glinting objects who will take them without asking.

Revali

For a proud, technically brilliant pet who reminds you regularly that they are the best one here.

Ridley

For a large, winged, terrifyingly ancient pet who is technically too big to be here.

Martin

A grounded, no-nonsense name for a swift, sociable creature who gets things done.

Melody

For a pet who sings the same song all day, every day, and genuinely loves it.

Scyther

For a green, blade-armed pet who moves with surgical precision.

Peep

The only appropriate name for a very small creature with a very small voice and very large feelings.

Sparrow

For a small, fast, remarkably ordinary-looking pet who is somehow always around.

Sparx

For a small, glowing dragonfly pet who circles Spyro and shows his health at all times.

Spearow

Suits a small, sharp-beaked pet with a disproportionate sense of grievance.

Stratus

For a flat, grey pet who covers everything at low altitude and makes the day feel shorter.

Sunny

Meaning: Bright like the sun; cheerful

The kind of pet who makes every room feel slightly brighter just by being in it.

Swift

For a small, fast pet who makes the name irresistibly on-the-nose.

Watto

For the greedy, winged pet who is harder to charm than he looks.

Sky

A wide-open name for one who would rather be somewhere higher than wherever they currently are.

Wren

Best on a tiny, loud pet who punches well above their weight in every respect.

Song

For a pet whose entire personality is sound.

Zapdos

A jagged, electric name for a large pet who arrived in a storm and never left.

Zazu

A fussy, duty-bound name for an uptight pet who enforces rules no one else respects.

Zephyr

Suits a fast, light pet who passes through a room without being fully seen.

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Treble

For one who operates exclusively in the high register and has no interest in coming down.

Trill

For one whose voice wavers pleasantly, like water over small stones.

Tweety

For a small yellow creature with enormous eyes and an inflated sense of personal safety.

Warble

For one whose singing is technically continuous but defies conventional notation.

Whistle

For one who communicates exclusively by pitch and expects to be understood.

Ella

Suits a pet with an exceptional memory and a compulsive need to recite information at length.

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