Bird Names - Comprehensive List

Both offbeat and upbeat, this evocative traditional Irish name that runs through Celtic mythology is known here via award-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy (born Charles). The author's adopted name is related to Cormac Mac Airt, one of the great legendary high kings of Ireland.

Cormorant is definitely one of the most unusual of the newly fashionable animal names, and one of the rare bird names for boys.

Corvina sounds too much like a car model.

This elegant surname has great potential to turn into an unusual first name, especially with its literary associations to both Stephen and Hart Crane.

A surname associated these days with Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston.

A common surname in Scotland, but a starchy first name choice.

From Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, the story of a boy named Kafka -- crow in Czech.

In the currently popular solid, serious, two-syllable mold.