Exotic Pets

Female Goat Names

September 8, 2021

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We all have different ideas about the best female goat names. But whatever your tastes, we’re confident that we’ve got suggestions that will appeal to you in this giant compendium of nanny goat names!

We’ve got categories including:

The best female goat names
Old fashioned female goat names
Ancient female goat names
Regal female goat names
Unusual female goat names
Cute female goat names

We’ve got lots of awesome, inspiring, traditional, and offbeat suggestions coming up for you, but let’s start with 40 names that we think are the best of the best for female goats.

Best Female Goat Names

Here are our favorite names for female goats – enough to name a whole herd of them!

Alice
Annie
Ava
Bella
Bramble
Briar
Butter
Cora
Crash
Dolly
Elsa
Emma
Everly
Fiona
Grandma
Hannah
Hawthorn
Hazel
Holly
Jett
Josie
Juniper
Maggie
May
Molly
Olive
Pixie
Rebel
Rogue
Rose
Roxie
Ruby
Sprite
Suzie
Tig
Trixie
Vixen
Wilder
Willow
Zelda

But our ideas don’t end there – here are over 150 more suggestions to consider!

Old Fashioned Female Goat Names

Perhaps it’s because a female goat is called a nanny goat, but all of them suit old fashioned names. So to fit in with that theme, here are some of the most popular names from the 1920s, according to the Social Security Administration.

Alma
Beatrice
Bernice
Bertha
Bessie
Betty
Dolores
Doris
Dorothy
Edith
Edna
Ethel
Frances
Gertrude
Gladys
Gloria
Ida
Lucille
Margie
Marilyn
Martha
Mary
Maud
Mildred
Myrtle
Nellie
Nora
Norma
Pearl
Phyllis
Stella
Thelma
Vera
Virginia
Wilma

Of course, there’s ‘old’ and there’s ‘really old’. And that’s where our next category of females comes in.

Ancient Female Goat Names

Why have we chosen ancient names as a category?!

Well, goats were one of the first ever animal species to be domesticated. The first domestic goats were kept in the Middle East, around 10,000 years ago. And these human names are all thousands of years old too, so they make a fitting tribute to the millenia-long relationship between goats and humans.

Abigail
Agatha
Aurelia
Bathsheba
Cassia
Cecilia
Chloe
Damaris
Delilah
Dorcas
Esther
Euphemia
Eve
Flavia
Hypatia
Irene
Jemima
Leah
Livia
Miriam
Naomi
Octavia
Rachel
Ruth
Salome
Sarah
Tabitha
Valentina
Zillah
Zipporah
Zoe

Next up, we have some goat names with real gravitas.

Regal Female Goat Names

Wild goat herds choose a single dominant female to act as the ‘flock queen’. She’s picked mostly based on her age, but also partly on whether or not she has horns. The queen leads the herd to the best grazing areas, and decides where they will stop to eat. She teaches the younger goats which plants are inedible or poisonous, and she gets the best sleeping spot at the end of the day.

Captive coats – whether they are kept as pets or commercial dairy herds – are less likely to have a flock queen. But you might still have one special female living with you who’s bolder, more assertive and more regal than the rest. Maybe she just has the poise of a queen, and you want to celebrate it. If so, here are some names of human queens throughout the ages, to inspire you:

Alexandra
Anne
Artemesia
Augusta
Blanche
Brunhilde
Caroline
Caterina
Catherine
Charlotte
Claude
Constance
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Francoise
Hortense
Isabella
Joan
Juliana
Marie
Mary
Mathilde
Maxima
Noor
Rania
Silvia
Ulrika
Victoria
Wilhelmina
Zenobia

How many did you recognize from history class? If it’s unusual names you like, this next category is for you too.

Unusual Female Goat Names

One of the most fun things about naming animals is that you can be a bit less restrained than you’re likely to be when naming a human. Goats will never be asked to spell an unusual name, for example, or suffer years of seeing it misspelt on the side of a coffee cup.

So here are some unusual goat names, to celebrate your goat’s individuality, and make them even more unforgettable:

Autumn
Benedicta
Camilla
Cassia
Cobie
Cosima
Dakota
Drew
Duchess
Elowen
Emery
Fergie
Gaia
Heidi
Isolde
Jupiter
Kestrel
Liberty
Lorelei
Maple
Marigold
Mulligan
Nerisa
Pepper
Petra
Pia
Portia
Sumina
Tulip
Venus
Wallis

If nothing has caught your eye yet, don’t worry. We still have one more category of excellent female goat names for you to consider.

Cute Female Goat Names

There are somewhere in the region of 300 distinct goat breeds, but the breed most likely to be kept as a pet is the pygmy goat. This is partly practical – pygmy goats need less space, and less food. But generations of breeding for a nice temperament means that pygmies are also the most likely breed to be docile and affectionate.

Pygmy goats all have the same form of hereditary dwarfism which means that they only grow 16 to 20 inches tall. So these cute female goat names are a sweet nod to their scaled down size:

Blossom
Bree
Bridie
Buttercup
Cassie
Clove
Daisy
Daphne
Effy
Erin
Evie
Fleur
Indie
Joanie
Lily
Luna
Maisie
Mia
Paloma
Peanut
Penny
Pickle
Posie
Radish
Rowan
Sadie
Smudge
Viola
Winnie
Woolie

Of course, you could use them for larger goat breeds too!

Choosing Female Goat Names

That was the last of our name lists. Did you see anything you like for your female goat?

It’s pretty easy to teach a goat to respond to their name when you’ve chosen one. Just take them a special treat such as grapes, carrots, celery, pear or squash, and repeat their name several times as you feed it to them. Do this frequently, and they’ll soon be looking up and rushing towards you at the sound of their name. Of course, they won’t necessarily understand that their name refers to them and not the treats, but the outcome is still what you want!