Names That Mean Bird

One of the rare cases where spelling a name with a y makes it less rather than more feminine. Birdie might be the freshest choice in this aviary.

One of the bird names that's more appropriate for a boy, though it works for a girl too.

Pacific island member of the currently-in-favor Lila/Leila family and one of the most attractive and unique girls' names starting with P.

The name of the teenaged son on the dear departed television show "Huff."

Delicate and lacy, with less emphasis on the jar syllable.

Spelling variation of Tziporah.

Avian name with cool nickname potential in Blue or Jay.

One of the many unusual avian names, Avianca is the name of the official airline of Colombia.

Faigel is a secret nature name deriving from the Yiddish word for "bird". Variants include Faiga and Faige.

Skylar may be mainstream now, but Skylark is fresh and offbeat. With Lark gaining more attention as a name — following in Wren's footsteps — Skylark feels fashionable yet distinct. Skylark debuted on the US charts in 2022.

Sacagawea (or, sometimes, Sakakawea or Sacajawea) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who was instrumental to the Lewis and Clark Expedition across what is now the western part of the USA. She traveled thousands of miles with the men, helping to make contact with local indigenous populations and providing valuable information about the natural history of the region.

The kittiwake is a black, white and grey seabird which takes its name from its distinctive call. A dramatic nature-inspired middle name or a super quirky route to the nickname Kit.

Though unrelated, this would probably be taken as a fanciful spelling of Patsy.

Used as a name as well as a compound in many Cherokee words, including the clan name Anitsiskwa, or "Bird Clan."

Lihini is a word name from Sri Lanka. When used as a name, it is often interpreted as meaning "free as a bird"

This upstanding Old Testament name of the wife of Moses would almost inevitably provoke some tricky zipper teasing.

The kittiwake is a black, white and grey seabird which takes its name from its distinctive call. A dramatic nature-inspired middle name or a super quirky route to the nicknames Kit and Kitty.

Ptarmigan is the common English name for the genus Lagopus, in the grouse family of birds. The name is derived from the Scottish word for the bird, tàrmachan (meaning unknown), with the initial P- added by erroneous association with the Greek pteron ("wing").

For the boyds. Er, boys, if only judging my the statistics, which have this rare bird name given to a handful of baby boys in the US but no recent baby girls. But it certainly would make a majestic choice for a child of either gender.