I name my chickens the oddest names sometimes, and other times they're really common. I just posted this in another thread so... Copy and Paste!!!
Hen names used in the past: I can’t remember them all honestly.
Rhode Islands: Phoenix Birds, Mey Rin, Red birds, Rot (german for red)
Black Sex Links: Kuu (name came from a crow in a Japanese comic, and also, the Hiragana for “ku” isく which looks like a bird beak.)
Australorps: Sweetie/Iza (came from “eyes, because she had such huge cute eyes), Zombie Chicken (dad gave her a twist because she was ill, was up and walking about 5 hours later)
Wyandottes: Silver/Argentine, Gold,
New Hampshire Reds: Riza, Setta (from the words Rise and Set from sunrise and sunset)
Buff Orpington: forgot it, but it was probably Sonne, German for Sun
Ameracaunas: Eagle (brown with a white head), Dusk (brown head and grey body), Galileo (thought was a rooster)
Barred Rocks: Dinner and Evil (didn’t like these guys, hence the poor names)
Welsummer: Frappe
Bantam: Kurohime (Kuro is black and Hime is princess in Japanese. It fit because she was the only chick I got that year. The others were all ducks)
Roosters get specialty names. I look hard for something in Greek myths, old names, or origin names.
Ameracauna rooster: Aristotle AKA Ari, Galileo (which turned out to be a hen)
Ameracauna/Buff Orpington mix- Ari’s sons [2]: The boys (these are the only ones who didn’t get specialty names because we were supposed to get rid of them so I never came up with anything)
Ameracauna [2] (which were supposed to be pure but looked more like the buff mixes I had hatched the previous year- which were pale yellow white with a few black spots on their wings) Argo and Caesar
French Black and Copper Marans: Pierre
Names for my 2013 chicks
Black Sex Links: Ninja, Shinobu Yui (ninja because she was all black as a chick and jumped… a lot. Shinobu Yui is a character whose name is very close to Shinobi, which is Japanese for ninja. It’s just fun to say. My mom hates it)
ISA: Isa (award winner for creativity right here)
Wyandottes: Heart and Soul (my cousin gave me the idea from the heartgold and soulsilver pokemon games. I couldn’t call them gold and silver since I still have Gold alive from the last set).
New Hampshire Reds: Alba (Italian for sunrise- I wanted to keep it similar to Riza, my favorite hen that I eventually lost due to the 2008 flood)
White Leghorn: unnamed. Originally I had Kuroko, which is a character in a Japanese Anime who is all white despite his name meaning black (kuro).
Australorps: Midori (Japanese for Green, which is for the green shine on her feathers), unnamed
Black Jersey Giant: unnamed