Tiger Name Generator

Press for five tiger names, each with a line: stripes, strength, a cub, a white tiger or another language.

  1. TierAfrikaans for tiger.
  2. ThunderpawLands heavily.
  3. LeucisticThe white tiger is a leucistic form of the tiger, most often the Bengal tiger.
  4. RimauA word for tiger in Central Melanau, a language of Borneo.
  5. Pocket TigerComes everywhere.

How it works

Press for five names for a story, zoo, mascot or toy tiger: from stripes and color, from strength, soft names for a cub or a plush tiger, names for a white tiger and the word for tiger in other languages.

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Stripes and white tigers

A tiger's stripes are uniquely patterned in each animal, so One of One fits any tiger. A white tiger keeps the black stripes on a white or near-white coat and has blue eyes: Ink on Snow, Sapphire Eyes.

The word for tiger

Tigre is tiger in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. Harimau is Malay and Indonesian, Kaplan is Turkish and Tora is Japanese. Each was read in a dictionary entry.

Questions and answers

What is a good name for a tiger?

A good tiger name comes from the stripes or the strength. Brushstroke, Goldstripe and Bamboo Shadow are for the coat. Thunderpaw, Ironclad and Locomotive are for the power. Prusten is the real word for a tiger's soft, friendly snort.

What do you name a white tiger?

Try Snowstripe, Ink on Snow, Milk and Ink or Line Drawing. Mohan was a real white tiger, caught in 1951 by the king of Rewa.

Is this a big cat name generator?

It is written for one big cat, the tiger. The names from strength and the soft names for a cub would suit a lion or a leopard as well. The stripe names and the words for tiger would not.

Are these the names of tigers from films and cartoons?

Not on purpose. We wrote the names, cut any that stand in Wikipedia's list of fictional big cats, and left out the tigers of well-known films, books, cartoons, food packets and sports teams by hand.

All 144 tiger names

Names from stripes and color 30

  • Amur The Siberian tiger is also called the Amur tiger.
  • Apricot Jam A warm orange.
  • Awning Broad stripes over a shop window.
  • Bamboo Shadow Thin dark lines on gold.
  • Bonfire Orange and black and hard to look away from.
  • Brushstroke Each stripe looks painted on.
  • Bumblebee Coat The same two colors, much larger.
  • Burnt Orange The color exactly.
  • Butternut A warm, pale orange.
  • Butterscotch Ripple Gold with darker ribbons.
  • Caramel Swirl Sweet brown bands.
  • Carrot Cake Orange, with a white front.
  • Deckchair Striped canvas, stretched out in the sun.
  • Fade to White A tiger's orange fur fades to white in parts.
  • Firecracker Orange, loud and sudden.
  • Goldstripe Gold where it is not black.
  • Ink Stripe Black on orange, as if drawn with a pen.
  • Lantern Stripe Glows between the dark bands.
  • Marmalade Stripe Orange with darker bands.
  • One of One A tiger's stripes are uniquely patterned in each individual.
  • Persimmon A deep orange fruit.
  • Prusten Prusten is the soft, low snorting sound a tiger makes in a friendly mood.
  • Railroad Track Ties laid across at even spaces.
  • Rust and Soot The two colors of the coat.
  • Satsuma A small bright orange.
  • Sumatra A population of tigers lives on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
  • Tangerine Dream Orange, and half asleep in the sun.
  • Tiger's Eye A striped gold-brown stone.
  • Venetian Blind Slats of shadow.
  • Vertical A tiger's black stripes run mostly up and down.
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Names from strength 31

  • Bastion The strong point of the wall.
  • Big Engine You hear it idling.
  • Brawn All muscle.
  • Bulwark A wall you cannot push over.
  • Citadel The last place to fall.
  • Conqueror Has never lost the valley.
  • Dynamo Never runs down.
  • Full Throttle No half speed.
  • Hammerfall Comes down hard.
  • Heavy Paw You would know the print.
  • Imperator A commander's title.
  • Ironclad Armored all over.
  • Ironpaw Nothing moves it.
  • Juggernaut Junior Small now, unstoppable later.
  • Locomotive Heavy, fast and on its way.
  • Low Rumble Felt as much as heard.
  • Maharaja A great king.
  • Paramount Above all the others.
  • Powerhouse Where the power is kept.
  • Rampart Stands between you and everything else.
  • Rockslide A hillside in motion.
  • Sinew What the strength is made of.
  • Soft Thunder A low sound from a long way off.
  • Stalwart Strong and steady.
  • Steelheart Does not scare.
  • Thunderclap One loud note.
  • Thunderpaw Lands heavily.
  • Tremor The ground feels it first.
  • Turbine Spins up to a roar.
  • Valor Courage, in one word.
  • Vanguard Goes first.

Small and soft names, for a cub or a plush tiger 33

  • Bean Paws Filled with beans, soft to squeeze.
  • Bedtime Tiger Guards the pillow.
  • Butterscotch Drop Small, gold and sweet.
  • Button Stripes Small enough to sew on.
  • Candy Stripe Sweet bands of color.
  • Felt Stripe Cut out and glued on.
  • Fuzzy Stripes Blurred at the edges.
  • Half Roar Stops in the middle.
  • Lap Tiger Fits, for now.
  • Little Stripe One of many, and the smallest.
  • Marmalade Kitten Orange, sticky and small.
  • Pajama Stripes Dressed for bed already.
  • Paw Mitten Round and too big for the leg.
  • Pillow Tiger Flat from being slept on.
  • Plush Paw Stuffed and stitched.
  • Pocket Tiger Comes everywhere.
  • Roarlet A small roar.
  • Rugby Shirt Bold stripes in two colors.
  • Shoulder Tiger Rides along.
  • Small Thunder A rumble the size of a purr.
  • Snugglestripe Stripes made for hugging.
  • Sock Stripe Looks knitted.
  • Squeaky Roar Not frightening yet.
  • Stitched Smile The only expression it has.
  • Stripeling A very young striped thing.
  • Sunbeam Sleeper Finds the warm patch on the floor.
  • Sweater Stripe Wide bands, like a winter pullover.
  • Teacup Tiger The smallest size they make.
  • Tigerling A tiger, but only just.
  • Tigrotto Italian for a small or young tiger.
  • Toffee Stripe Brown on gold.
  • Velvet Stripe Soft to the touch.
  • Whisker Kiss A bump of the nose.

For a white tiger 24

  • Blue Eyes White tigers have blue eyes.
  • Bone China White, fine and cool.
  • Carrara A white marble with gray veins.
  • Chalk and Charcoal The two sticks an artist starts with.
  • Etching Fine black lines.
  • First Draft Before the orange was added.
  • Fogbank A wall of white.
  • Frost Stripe Pale, with dark bars.
  • Ghost Stripe There and not there.
  • Grayscale Every shade between black and white.
  • Ice Stripe Cold white, dark bars.
  • Ink on Snow The stripes, exactly.
  • Leucistic The white tiger is a leucistic form of the tiger, most often the Bengal tiger.
  • Line Drawing No color needed.
  • Milk and Ink Poured side by side.
  • Mohan A white tiger named Mohan was caught in 1951 by the king of Rewa.
  • Monochrome One color and its shadow.
  • Near-White A white tiger keeps a tiger's black stripes on a coat that is white or near-white.
  • Old Photograph In black and white.
  • Paper Birch White and peeling at the edges.
  • Pencil Sketch Drawn, not colored in.
  • Sapphire Eyes For the blue.
  • Snowstripe Black on white.
  • Woodcut Bold black on white.

The word for a tiger 26

  • Harimau Tiger in Malay and Indonesian.
  • Hổ Vietnamese for tiger.
  • Kaplan Turkish for tiger.
  • Macan A word for tiger in Malay, Indonesian and Old Javanese.
  • Maung Sundanese for tiger.
  • Rimau A word for tiger in Central Melanau, a language of Borneo.
  • Taika Māori for tiger.
  • Teigr Welsh for tiger.
  • Tier Afrikaans for tiger.
  • Tīģeris Latvian for tiger.
  • Tigras Lithuanian for tiger.
  • Tigre Tiger in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.
  • Tigresse French for tigress.
  • Tigris Tiger in Latin and in Hungarian.
  • Tigro Esperanto for tiger.
  • Tigru Romanian for tiger.
  • Tígur Icelandic for tiger.
  • Tiiger Estonian for tiger.
  • Tiigeri Greenlandic for tiger.
  • Tiikeri Finnish for tiger.
  • Tijger Dutch for tiger.
  • Tikari Faroese for tiger.
  • Tíogar Irish for tiger.
  • Tora Japanese for tiger.
  • Tygr Czech for tiger.
  • Tygrys Polish for tiger.

How this list was compiled: Own list of 144 names for a tiger of a story, a zoo sign, a mascot suit or a toy, made on 3 October 2026. Facts on the cards about stripes, color and the white tiger are from English Wikipedia's articles Tiger, White tiger, Siberian tiger and Sumatran tiger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger, CC BY-SA 4.0); the words for a tiger in other languages are each from that word's own entry in English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tiger). All were read on 3 October 2026. The other names and every line are ours. A name we wrote was left out when it stands on this site's lists of pet, dog, cat, horse, fish or teddy bear names or on another animal's name page, or appears in Wikipedia's List of fictional big cats as read that day; the tigers of well-known films, books, cartoons, food packets and sports teams were also left out by hand. 37 of the 144 names (26 in 100) also stand on another list of this site. 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/).