Fox Names Generator

This fox name generator deals five names a press, each with a line on the fox it fits.

Fox Names Generator

GoupilThe old French word for fox, which renard replaced.
Barn ShadowSeen for a second beside the wall.
GrizzledA gray fox has grizzled upper parts, hairs of dark and light mixed.
KitsuneJapanese for fox, and in Japanese folklore a fox spirit that can change its shape.
LagopusThe second half of the Arctic fox's scientific name, Vulpes lagopus.

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Press for five fox names sorted by the fox's own kinds: red, Arctic, fennec and gray foxes, the silver and cross coats, the word for fox in other languages, and the foxes of fable and folklore.

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Names from the word for fox

Choose The word for fox in the list under the button. Tod is an old English word for a male fox, Vixen is the female and Kit the young. Renard is French, Volpe Italian and Sionnach Irish. Wales has two: Llwynog in the north and Cadno in the south.

Foxes of fable and folklore

Reynard is the trickster of the medieval beast fables, Kitsune the shape-changing fox of Japanese folklore and Gumiho the nine-tailed fox of Korean folktales. The Teumessian fox of Greek myth was destined never to be caught. Each card says where its tale comes from.

Questions and answers

What is a good name for a fox?

A good fox name fits the kind of fox. Whitetip suits a red fox, whose tail ends in white. Two Coats suits an Arctic fox, brown in summer and white in winter. Radar suits a fennec, the smallest fox, with unusually large ears.

What is a female fox called?

A female fox is called a vixen. A male is a tod or a dog, and the young are kits or cubs. Vixen, Tod and Kit are all on this list as names.

What does Kitsune mean?

Kitsune is the Japanese word for fox. In Japanese folklore it is also a fox spirit that can change its shape.

What is the word for fox in other languages?

Renard in French, Volpe in Italian, Vos in Dutch, Räv in Swedish, Kettu in Finnish, Lis in Polish and Tilki in Turkish. Each card in that group names its language as the word's dictionary entry gives it.

Are these fox names from films or games?

Not on purpose. We wrote the names for each kind of fox and left out any found in Wikipedia's lists of fictional foxes and canines. Reynard and Tod are old words for a fox that storytellers have also used.

All 149 fox names

For a red fox 23

Autumn Hedge Red leaves with something watching from inside.
Barn Shadow Seen for a second beside the wall.
Brushfire A streak of red through dry grass.
Cache A red fox stores found food in caches and comes back for it.
Cinder Path Glowing a little at the edges.
Clay Pot Baked orange-red.
Dark Ears The backs of a red fox's ears are black or brownish-red.
Dawn Trot The steady pace of a fox heading home.
Fallfire The color of the woods in October.
Fence Hopper Red foxes are agile enough to jump over high fences.
Firethorn A shrub covered in red-orange berries.
Gingerroot Knobbly, warm and a little sharp.
Hedgerow Where a fox slips through and is gone.
Henhouse A joke name for a fox who looks innocent.
Orchard Thief For a fox who knows where the windfalls are.
Pangram A sentence with every letter of the alphabet. The best known stars a fox.
Quickbrown From the sentence that uses every letter: the quick brown fox.
Rowanberry The orange-red berries of the mountain ash.
Russet Lane A red-brown path through the fields.
Tangerine Dusk Orange fur in orange light.
Vole Watch Small rodents are the red fox's main food.
Whitetip The tip of a red fox's tail is white.
Wow Wow The red fox's contact bark is written down as "wow wow wow".

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For an Arctic fox 20

Bluecoat Some Arctic foxes are the blue morph: dark in summer, a little lighter in winter.
Coldsnap A sudden drop that suits this fox fine.
Frost Fern The white leaf shapes ice draws on glass.
Hailstone Small, white and fast.
Iceberg Most of it is fluff.
Icicle Thin, bright and cold.
Lagopus The second half of the Arctic fox's scientific name, Vulpes lagopus.
Lemming The small animal at the top of an Arctic fox's menu.
Midwinter When the coat is at its thickest.
Northwind Blows in from where this fox lives.
Pack Ice The frozen sea a white fox walks across.
Polar Fox Another name for the Arctic fox.
Polar Night The long dark of an Arctic winter.
Powder Day Fresh snow, deep and light.
Sleetfall White weather coming in sideways.
Snow Den Arctic foxes raise their young in complex underground dens.
Snowberry A small round white fruit.
Two Coats The white kind of Arctic fox is brown in summer and turns entirely white for winter.
Warm Paws An Arctic fox keeps its paws warm separately from the rest of its body.
White Night For a pale fox under a pale sky.

For a fennec 22

Apricot Sand Pale orange, like the fur along its back.
Black Tip A fennec's tapering tail ends in a black tip.
Burrow Fennec families dig their burrows in the sand.
Caravan For a fox who travels the dunes by night.
Cool Ears A fennec's unusually large ears also get rid of heat.
Date Palm The tree of the desert oasis.
Dune Hopper Light enough to cross soft sand.
Dustdevil A small whirl of sand on a hot day.
Fennec The word came into English through French, from Arabic fanak.
Listening Ear A fennec's huge ears pick up prey moving underground.
Mirage There one moment, gone the next.
Night Sand Fennecs are mostly active in the cooler hours of the night.
Pocket Fox The fennec is the smallest fox species.
Radar Ears up, turning, missing nothing.
Sahara The fennec lives in the deserts of North Africa, from Western Sahara to Sinai.
Sandgrain Sand-colored and very small.
Sandstorm Small fox, big entrance.
Satellite Dish For ears that turn toward every sound.
Sinai The eastern end of the fennec's range.
Sundial Rests by day and tells the time by shade.
Wadi A dry desert riverbed.
Zerda The second half of the fennec's scientific name, Vulpes zerda.

For a gray fox 18

Ash Tree Smooth gray wood.
Ashen Silver The gray fox's species name, cinereoargenteus, means ashen silver.
Barkline Gray on gray, hard to pick out.
Black Stripe A gray fox wears a black stripe down its tail.
Climber The gray fox is built to climb trees.
Grizzled A gray fox has grizzled upper parts, hairs of dark and light mixed.
High Branch The view a gray fox likes.
Hooks Strong, hooked claws take a gray fox up a trunk.
Limb Walker Sure-footed where other foxes will not go.
Oak Fork A resting place off the ground.
Pewter Branch Dull silver in the leaves.
Scramble How a gray fox goes up a tree to get away.
Second Story Sleeps one floor up.
Squirrel Road The route along the limbs.
Sycamore A big tree with patchy gray bark.
Treetop Where you do not expect to see a fox.
Twilight Gray The color of the hour this fox comes out.
Urocyon The gray fox's genus, which holds only it and the small island fox.

For a silver or cross fox 20

Black Frost A dark coat with white-tipped hairs over it.
Charcoal Sketch Dark strokes on a lighter ground.
Crosshatch Lines over lines, like the marks on a cross fox.
Crossroads A cross fox has a dark stripe down its back that crosses another over the shoulders.
Four Corners The four quarters a cross makes.
Glossy Some silver foxes are completely glossy black but for a white tail tip.
Hematite A mineral that is black and silver at once.
In Between A cross fox is rarer than a red one and more common than a silver one.
Littermate A silver fox can be born in the same litter as red ones.
Melanistic The silver fox is a melanistic form of the red fox: the same animal in a dark coat.
Midnight Frost Black under a dusting of white.
Moonshadow Black with a silver edge.
Nightsilver For a fox who shines only when it moves.
Northern Cross Cross foxes are more abundant in the northern regions of Canada.
Plus Sign The shape on a cross fox's shoulders.
Silver Lining The bright edge on a dark coat.
Smoke Blue Some silver foxes are bluish-gray.
Soot and Snow Black fur, white tail tip.
Tin Star Dark with one bright mark.
Tinsel Dark fur with bright tips.

The word for fox 33

Cadno The word for fox in South Wales.
Goupil The old French word for fox, which renard replaced.
Guineu Catalan for fox.
Kettu Finnish for the red fox.
Kit The English word for a young fox.
Lapė Lithuanian for fox.
Lapsa Latvian for fox.
Lis Polish for fox.
Liška Czech for fox.
Llwynog The word for fox in North Wales.
Louarn Breton for fox.
Lowarn Cornish for fox.
Lowrie A Scottish word for a fox.
Mbweha Swahili for a jackal or a fox.
Raposa Asturian and Galician for a fox.
Räv Swedish for fox.
Rebane Estonian for fox.
Refur Icelandic for fox, above all the Arctic fox, which is native to Iceland.
Renard French for fox, from the name of the fox in the medieval Roman de Renart.
Rev Norwegian for fox.
Róka Hungarian for fox.
Rubah Indonesian and Malay for fox, a word borrowed from Persian.
Ræv Danish for fox.
Sionnach Irish and Scottish Gaelic for fox.
Tilki Turkish for fox.
Tod An old English word for a male fox, and in Scotland for any fox.
Todd A surname from Middle English tod, fox.
Vixen The English word for a female fox.
Volpe Italian for fox.
Vos Dutch and Afrikaans for fox.
Vulpe Romanian for fox, straight from Latin vulpes.
Vulpecula Latin for little fox, and a constellation named in 1687.
Vulpes Latin for fox, and the scientific name of the true foxes.

Foxes of fable and folklore 13

Flattery Aesop's fable of the fox and the crow warns against listening to flattery.
Gumiho The nine-tailed fox of Korean folktales.
Hermeline Hermeline the Vixen is one of the animals of the Reynard fables.
Kitsune Japanese for fox, and in Japanese folklore a fox spirit that can change its shape.
Kitsunebi Fox-fire: the lights a kitsune is said to make in Japanese folklore.
Kuma Lisa Godmother Fox, the fox of Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian folk tales.
Lowrence The name the fox carries in old Scots fables.
Reineke The fox's name in German, as in Goethe's fox epic.
Renart The fox's name in Old French, as in the Roman de Renart.
Revontulet The Finnish word for the northern lights. It means fox-fires.
Reynard The trickster fox of the medieval beast fables told in Dutch, English, French and German.
Sour Grapes From Aesop's fable of the fox who cannot reach the grapes on the vine.
Teumessian In Greek myth, an enormous fox that was destined never to be caught.

How this list was compiled: Own list of 149 names for a fox, made on 2 October 2026 and sorted by the fox each was written for: the red fox, the Arctic fox, the fennec, the gray fox, and the silver and cross coats of the red fox. Facts about each kind on the cards are from English Wikipedia's articles Red fox, Arctic fox, Fennec fox, Gray fox, Silver fox (animal) and Cross fox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox, CC BY-SA 4.0), read 2 October 2026. The 33 words for a fox, in old English and in other languages, are from each word's own entry in English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 4.0), read the same day; a card says only what the entry says. The 13 foxes of fable and folklore are from Wikipedia's articles Reynard the Fox, Kitsune, Gumiho, Teumessian fox, Kuma Lisa, The Fox and the Grapes, The Fox and the Crow (Aesop) and Foxes in popular culture, read the same day, each with where its tale comes from. The other names and every line are ours. An own name was left out when it stands on this site's lists of pet, dog, cat, horse, fish or teddy bear names, or appears in Wikipedia's List of fictional foxes or List of fictional canines as read that day. 41 of the 149 names (28 in 100) also stand on another list of this site. Tod and Reynard are old words for a fox that later storytellers have used too; they are here as the words. Licence: The names we wrote and the line under every name are our own work. Meanings of real names and words draw on English Wiktionary, and facts about the animal and its folklore on English Wikipedia, both under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).