Pet Bat Names

Press for five bat names, each with a line: a night word, a sound, a kind of bat, a joke.

Pet Bat Names

  1. Mosquito PatrolWelcome on any porch.
  2. Little CapeWrapped up for the day.
  3. StalactiteHangs from the ceiling of a cave.
  4. LaviaThe yellow-winged bat is the only known species of its genus, Lavia.
  5. UltrasonicToo high to hear.

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How it works

Press for five names for a bat: night words, sound words, kinds of bat, old words for a bat and jokes. Bats are wild animals; the names are for a toy, a story or a bat in a rescuer's care.

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Kinds of bat as names

Each kind of bat comes with one true line. The common pipistrelle is a small bat found across most of Europe. Kitti's hog-nosed bat is also known as the bumblebee bat, and the vesper bats are a whole family.

Old words for a bat

Flittermouse is a word for a bat now heard mostly in dialect, and Reremouse is a rare, poetic one. Fledermaus is German and Chauve-Souris is French.

Questions and answers

What are good names for pet bats?

Good names for a bat come from the night or from its voice: Lamplight, Candle End, Moth Hour, Ultrasonic, Bounce Back. Pipistrelle and Noctule are real kinds of bat that make good names too.

What is a funny name for a bat?

The joke group has Wombat, Batter Up, Cricket Bat, Just Hanging, Gravity and Stalactite. Gravity's line says the bat has a different opinion of it.

What is a baby bat called?

A baby bat is called a pup. In most kinds of bat a mother has a single pup at a time, which is why Single Pup is on the list.

Are these the names of bats from comics and films?

Not on purpose. We wrote the names and left out the bats of well-known comics, films, books and games by hand. The kinds of bat and the words in other languages are real.

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All 112 bat names

Night words 14

  • Candle End The last of the light.
  • Crepuscule A long word for twilight.
  • Dimmer Switch Turns the day down.
  • Half-Light Not day, not night.
  • Lamplight The glow the moths come to.
  • Last Light The cue to wake up.
  • Late Shift Clocks on at sunset.
  • Moth Hour When supper comes out.
  • Night Flight Leaves at dusk.
  • Penumbra The soft edge of a shadow.
  • Sleeps by Day Most bats are nocturnal.
  • Streetlamp The best hunting on the block.
  • Sunset Flyer Out as the sky turns orange.
  • Velvet Night Soft, dark and close.

Sound words 21

  • All Ears Mostly true.
  • Beacon Sends a signal into the dark.
  • Bleep A short high note.
  • Blip One small sound on a screen.
  • Bounce Back What the sound does.
  • Call and Response Sends a sound, gets an answer.
  • Click Track Keeps perfect time.
  • Echo Chamber Where every sound returns.
  • Flitter A quick uneven flight.
  • High C Higher than that, in fact.
  • Kilohertz The unit for a very high note.
  • Loop-the-Loop A circle in the air.
  • Night Whistle High, thin and far off.
  • Pin Drop Would hear one.
  • Quiet Wings Barely a sound.
  • Shush A quiet word for a quiet flier.
  • Signal Sent out and read back.
  • Sound Map How it sees in the dark.
  • Squeak Toy Small and high-pitched.
  • Ultrasonic Too high to hear.
  • Wingbeat The only sound it makes that you can hear.

Kinds of bat 29

  • Barbastelle The western barbastelle has a short nose, small eyes and wide ears.
  • Big-Ears Townsend's big-eared bat has extremely long, flexible ears.
  • Bumblebee Bat Kitti's hog-nosed bat is also known as the bumblebee bat.
  • Chiroptera Chiroptera is the order all bats belong to.
  • Fisherman The greater bulldog bat is also called the fisherman bat.
  • Free-Tail The Mexican free-tailed bat is named for a tail that can be almost half its length.
  • Hoary The hoary bat is a kind of vesper bat.
  • Horseshoe Horseshoe bats are a real family of bats.
  • Lavia The yellow-winged bat is the only known species of its genus, Lavia.
  • Long-Ear The brown long-eared bat has distinctive long ears with a fold in them.
  • Megabat The largely fruit-eating bats are called megabats.
  • Microbat Bats were traditionally divided into megabats and microbats.
  • Mouse-Ear The mouse-eared bats are a diverse and widespread group of bats.
  • Myotis Myotis is the genus of the mouse-eared bats.
  • Noctule The common noctule hunts at a rapid flying speed.
  • Painted The painted bat, or painted woolly bat, is a kind of vesper bat.
  • Pale Wings Natterer's bat is a European bat with pale wings.
  • Pallid The pallid bat ranges from western Canada to central Mexico.
  • Patagium The thin skin stretched over a bat's long fingers is called the patagium.
  • Pipistrelle The common pipistrelle is a small bat found across most of Europe.
  • Pteropus Pteropus is the genus of the flying foxes, some of the largest bats in the world.
  • Rousette The Egyptian fruit bat is also called the Egyptian rousette.
  • Serotine The serotine is a large Eurasian bat with large ears.
  • Silky The serotine bat is also known as the silky bat.
  • Single Pup In most kinds of bat, a mother has a single pup at a time.
  • Tent-Maker The Honduran white bat is also called the Caribbean white tent-making bat.
  • Three Spots The spotted bat has three white spots on its black back.
  • True Flier Bats are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight.
  • Vesper The vesper bats are a real family of bats, the Vespertilionidae.

The word for a bat 26

  • Chauve-Souris French for bat.
  • Denevér Hungarian for bat.
  • Fladdermus Swedish for bat.
  • Flagermus Danish for bat.
  • Flaggermus Norwegian for bat.
  • Fledermaus German for bat.
  • Flindermouse An obsolete English word for a bat.
  • Flittermouse A word for a bat, now heard mostly in dialect.
  • Ialtóg Irish for bat.
  • Kelawar Malay for bat.
  • Lepakko Finnish for bat.
  • Leðurblaka Icelandic for bat.
  • Liliac Romanian for bat.
  • Morcego Portuguese for bat.
  • Nahkhiir Estonian for bat.
  • Netopýr Czech for bat.
  • Nietoperz Polish for bat.
  • Paniki Tagalog for bat.
  • Pekapeka Māori for bat.
  • Pipistrello Italian for bat.
  • Rattlemouse Another obsolete English word for a bat.
  • Reremouse A rare, old and poetic word for a bat, also used in heraldry.
  • Vespertilio Latin for bat.
  • Vleermuis Dutch for bat.
  • Yarasa Turkish for bat.
  • Ystlum Welsh for bat.

Gentle jokes 22

  • Batter Up A baseball name for the other kind of bat.
  • Brolly Folds up like a small umbrella.
  • Cave Dweller Home is dark and drips.
  • Chandelier Hangs from the ceiling and catches the eye.
  • Cricket Bat The wooden kind.
  • Fig Thief Takes one a night.
  • Flipside Sees the world the other way up.
  • Gravity Has a different opinion of it.
  • Headstand Holds it all day.
  • Just Hanging What it is doing, most of the day.
  • Leather Jacket The wings, when folded.
  • Little Cape Wrapped up for the day.
  • Mosquito Patrol Welcome on any porch.
  • Moth Chaser It is a living.
  • Night Kite Flies without a string.
  • Origami All creases until it opens.
  • Pinch Hitter Comes in off the bench at dusk.
  • Sky Puppy A furry face with wings.
  • Stalactite Hangs from the ceiling of a cave.
  • Steeple The highest roost in town.
  • Windchime Hangs under the eaves.
  • Wombat The wrong animal, with the right ending.