160 Name Ideas for Your New Goat

Coming up with a name for your new pet can be challenging! Name inspiration can come from the animal’s appearance, personality, or an event associated with their arrival. Here are 160 name ideas for your new goat or other four-legged friend.

A brown baby goat with a tie dyed coat on.
Moxie, a Boer doeling, in her colorful coat.

Maybe your favorite doe just gave birth to twins or you are in the process of bringing home a new friend who’s current name just doesn’t fit them.

Whatever the case may be…. CONGRATULATIONS on your new goats!!!

Coming up with a name can be challenging! Name inspiration can come from the animal’s appearance, personality, an event associated with their arrival, or if you have human kids like I do… pure, creative genius!

Most of the names you will find here were suggested by my elementary-aged children and their friends. My daughter asked her entire 5th grade class for name ideas for our most recent kidding, and they came up with some good ones!

The names are alphabetically ordered and classified by gender, but a lot of them could work for either a doeling or buckling.

Girl Goat Name Ideas

  1. Abby
  2. Aspen
  3. Black raspberry
  4. Blossom
  5. Bossy
  6. Carmen
  7. Caramel
  8. Charlotte
  9. Charmer
  10. Cherry
  11. Cinnamon
  12. Clementine
  13. Clover
  14. Cotton
  15. Cocoa
  16. Cricket
  17. Crimson
  18. Daisy
  19. Dazzler
  20. Dixie
  21. Dora
  22. Dream
  23. Duchess
  24. Eclipse
  25. Fancy
  26. Fanny
  27. Fern
  28. Firefly
  29. Flossie
  30. Gem
  31. Georgia
  32. Gingersnap
  33. Gretta
  34. Gypsy
  35. Hazel
  36. Honey
  37. Ice cube
  38. Jasmine
  39. Junie B
  40. Juniper
  41. Lark
  42. Lemon
  43. Libby
  44. Lily
  45. Lucille
  46. Lucky
  47. Luna
  48. Maeve
  49. Magnolia
  50. Magpie
  51. Meadow
  52. Moon
  53. Moxie
  54. Nova
  55. Nutmeg
  56. Patchouli
  57. Peach
  58. Poppy
  59. Primrose
  60. Queen
  61. Rose
  62. Ruby
  63. Shine
  64. Snowflake
  65. Sprinkles
  66. Spice
  67. Star
  68. Sugar
  69. Superstar
  70. Sunflower
  71. Swifty
  72. Tango
  73. Taylor
  74. Tulip
  75. Ursa
  76. Valentine
  77. Vanilla
  78. Vanna
  79. Vidalia
  80. Violet
Mom and baby goat
Lucille and her son, Hero, enjoying the grass

Boy Goat Name Ideas

  1. Apollo
  2. Anchor
  3. Arby
  4. Bandit
  5. Black jack
  6. Bash
  7. Bean
  8. Beast
  9. Blaze
  10. Boom
  11. Boomerang
  12. Brick
  13. Buck
  14. Bumper
  15. Camo
  16. Cannon
  17. Captain
  18. Clyde
  19. Coconut
  20. Cole
  21. Comet
  22. Copper
  23. Cougar
  24. Cowboy
  25. Dandy
  26. Danny
  27. Flame
  28. Flynn
  29. George
  30. Graham
  31. Gus
  32. Hank
  33. Hercules
  34. Hero
  35. Hopper
  36. Jake
  37. Jasper
  38. Jet
  39. Juke
  40. Jupiter
  41. Junior
  42. Kevin
  43. Kip
  44. Leo
  45. Lightning
  46. Marlo
  47. Montana
  48. Oliver
  49. Onyx
  50. Orion
  51. Oscar
  52. Phoenix
  53. Prism
  54. Randy
  55. Ranger
  56. Rex
  57. Roberto
  58. Rocky
  59. Rowdy
  60. Rufus
  61. Rusty
  62. Sergeant
  63. Slinky
  64. Spyro
  65. Stewart
  66. Storm
  67. Surge
  68. Tank
  69. Tex
  70. Thumper
  71. Thunder
  72. Titan
  73. Toby
  74. Tonka
  75. Tornado
  76. Travis
  77. Tucker
  78. Turbo
  79. Wes
  80. Willie
Mom and baby goat
New mom, Daisy, and her buck kid, Dandy

Be sure to check back, because this list will be updated as we get new arrivals on the farm!

We would love to hear your unique goat names too, drop them in the comments below!!

For directions to make a no-sew baby goat coat, click here. For our bottle-feeding schedule, click here!

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