Hipster Cowboy Names Buck Tradition
Hipster cowboy names seem completely right for our times. Yes, there are cowboys — babies whose car seats are buckled into the backs of pickups for a day of roaming the range. And then there are the hipster babies more accustomed to riding the L train, the little dudes who may wear jeans and boots but who’ve never seen a real live cow.
The Hipster Cowboy Names are a blend of the two types; urban cowboys, if you will. These names combine the image of rugged masculinity with a more modern definition of gender and of cool. Some names we might expect to hear on young hipster cowboys today:
Urban Cowboy Names
Yep, I’m from the slope. Park Slope.
- Abner
- Bowen
- Deacon
- Denver
- Jem
- Kit
- Levi
- Loyal
- Mack
- Nash
- Remington
- River
- Roscoe
- Sawyer
- Shane
- Shiloh
- West
- Wyatt
- Wylie
- Zane
Bookish Cowboy Names
As comfortable on a saddle as on an Ivy League campus.
- August
- Brooks
- Calvin
- Coleman
- Dexter
- Gus
- Jameson
- Judson
- Laird
- Otis
- Phineas
- Reeve
- Rufus
- Silas
- Sterling
- Thatcher
- Wade
- Walker
- Waylon
- Yale
Badass Cowboy Names
Are you lookin’ at me?
- Blaze
- Breaker
- Buck
- Buster
- Chance
- Colt
- Decker
- Duke
- Flint
- Gunner
- Hawk
- Justice
- Maverick
- Rancher
- Ranger
- Reno
- Romer
- Rye
- Tex
- Wilder
Funky Cowboy Names
For the dude who’s decidedly NOT the shy and quiet type.
- Boone
- Bronco
- Calhoun
- Destry
- Dice
- Dodge
- Dusty
- Early
- Hitch
- Houston
- Huckleberry
- Jericho
- Mccoy
- Montana
- Ode
- Quint
- Solo
- Tripp
- Utah
- Zalman
To explore even more Cowboy and Western Names, check out our master list of Cowboy Baby Names.