237 Cute Girl Horse Names for Your Filly or Mare.

My granddaughter needs to choose a name for her first girl horse and is determined to nail down the perfect one. She wants a name that’s feminine and cute. So we worked together and came up with a strategy and found the best girl horse names.

Exalted Horse Names	Mystical Horse Names	Flower Horse Names	Colorful Horse Names
Angelic	Andromeda	Lily	Amber
Celestial	Aphrodite	Violet	Cherry
Countess	Athena	Daisy	Cocoa
Divine	Echo	Rose	Sienna
Empress	Calliope	Bluebell	Sky
Goddess	Delia	Holly	Jade
Khaleesi	Fauna	Petunia	Pear
Legend	Iris	Heather	Raven
Miracle	Juno	Ivy	Giada
Princess	Luna	Jasmine	Ginger
Queen	Venus	Wildflower	Scarlette

Choosing a great name for your mare or filly is a big undertaking. While it can be fun, it’s also essential to get it right and pick a name that fits your animal.

Best horse names for a girl horse.

Choosing a name for a girl horse.

Many people choose to name their horses based primarily on how it sounds. If it’s short and appeals to them, that’s all that matters. But others want to recognize the horse’s pedigree or name their horse on something personally significant to them.

Others want a name to have a nice meaning or be unique yet capture the horse’s demeanor or convey a vital trait. It’s a challenge to choose the perfect name for your filly — do you go for traditional names, human names, or lean towards the unique?

What about popular names? There is a reason people like them. Or do you want a rare name for your horse?

However you decide to approach naming your girl horse, our list of names will hopefully not only help you choose a name but make the search fun, and hopefully, you can begin to widdle down your options until you end up with the perfect name.

Naming tips for female horses.

Look at the pedigree.

For centuries, owners have named their horses using their sires or dams’ pedigree. For example, Dash for Cash, a superior racing quarter horse, his offsprings frequently have either dash or cash in their name, such as Dashingly and Queen for Cash.

You can also make a play on the names of the baby’s ancestors; here is one of my favorite examples, the great racehorse “American Pharoah” was the son of “Pioneer of the Nile” and “LittlePrincessEmma.”

And yes, I know Pharoah is misspelled, but that is the owners’ spelling when they registered their horses with the Jockey Club. You can come up with many unique names by looking to a horse’s pedigree for inspiration.

Name the horse after someone or something special.

Naming a horse after a person or something extraordinary in your life is a way to recognize the important people and events in your life. Did you ever wonder how the owners of Zenyatta came up with her name?

Jerry Moss, a music producer, famously signed the Police to A&M records and produced their album Zenyatta Mondatta. He purchased a yet-to-be-named yearling and honored the band and their album by calling her Zenyatta.

Zenyatta went on to become one of the greatest racehorses of all time. She won her first 19 races before ending her career with a loss at the Breeders Cup Classic.

We had a filly born the same year we lost our grandmother, so we named her a nickname we called my grandmother. The name fits our filly perfectly; she is a tribute to our grandmother’s memory.

Look to your girl horse’s personality for a cute name.

Horse names can be chosen by watching your new addition. A good example comes from another one of the greatest racehorses of all time, Ruffian.

Ruffian doesn’t invoke the picture of a dainty girl horse, and she wasn’t. Ruffian was a huge bay filly that would often bully her grooms. She did things the way she wanted to and when she wanted

Her aggressive personality led her owner to name her Ruffian. On the race track, she bullied her opponents and won ten straight races, each by a vast margin.

Then tragically, in her eleventh race, a match race against Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure, she was spooked by a bird, which startled Ruffian and caused her to take a bad step and break her leg.

Funny horse names.

Funny horse names are ok to use for registering your horse, but I don’t suggest you use one for everyday use. And if you decide to go with a funny name, make sure there is another meaning tied to it.

The Jockey Club is the authority that sets the requirements for Thoroughbred names. These requirements are strictly enforced and often result in some pretty weird and funny horse names.

Be creative with the spelling.

Many horse owners use popular culture and unique spelling to come up with horse names. Here are a few examples: Junkinthetrunk, Turducken, Odor in the Court, Where’s the Beef, Whatamichoppedliver, and Seinfeld Nosupeforyou.

Best exalted names for your girl horse.

Exalted names are ones like Queenie, Princesses, or Goddesses. I know a few horses named Duke, but few Duchesses, which I think would make an excellent name for a filly.

Also, you can include Angel, Countess, and Khaleesi.  I would even include Black Caviar as an exalted name. Black Caviar was a big dark bay Australian-born filly that was undefeated in 25 races.

She took on all comers, boys, and girls, and even traveled to Europe to win the year’s prize race, the Diamond Jubilee. We can include many exalted names; I don’t shy away from using them.

Exalted names may burden a child, but it adds to their personality and mysticism for horses. Here are some great words that capture a horse’s winning persona.

Angelic Celestial Chosen Countess Divine Divinity Empress Glory Goddess Halo

Heaven Heavenly Hero Khaleesi Legend Miracle Princess Queen Queena Queenie

Regal Regina Reign Royal Royale Rule Saint Trinity Victory Queenette

Czarina Glorious Grand Haylo Highness Holy Lady Winner Champion Champ

Best mystical horse name for fillies and mares.

Mythology horse names invoke tradition and strength. Obvious choices include Greek and Roman mythology figures, but great names can be found in other cultures, such as Celtic, Irish, Norse, Hindu, and other classic myths and legends.

You can find great names for horses in mythology, legends, and ancient tales of wonder and magic. Because myths abound in so many different cultures, you have a seemingly endless supply of names to choose from.

For example, let’s look at Maya; she is most often associated with Central American culture so that it would be a fitting name for a Spanish horse. However, Maya was also the legendary Greek mother of Hermes by Zeus.

And in Sanskrit and Eastern Pantheism, Maya stands means “illusion” when translated to English. So it would be a suitable name for a dapple gray foal. To Romans, Maya represented the goddess of spring, so they named the month of May after her.

Andromeda Aphrodite Althea Athena Daphne Echo Calliope Delia Eos Fauna

Enid Isis Iris Juno Luna Nyx Venus Tara Uma

Best flower names for girl horses.

Nature provides a bounty of flowers, and with that comes many unique and fitting words we can use to name our horses. Here are some of my favorites:

Lily Violet Daisy Rose Amaranth Acacia Azalea Belladonna Bluebell Buttercup Blossom Clover Camellia Dahlia Daffodil Daisy Dalia Daphne Delphine Dianella Diantha Erica Evanthe Fleur Fiorello Flora Hana Heather	Holly Hyacinth Indigo Ione Iris Ivy Jacinda Jacinta Jasmine Jessamine Jonquil Kalina Kamal Kantuta Liana Lilac Liliane liana Lilly Linnea Lita Magnolia Manuka Marguerite Marigold Marilla Maryam Rosemary	Myrthe Myrtle Nanala Narcissa Neeja Orchid Pansy Peony Petal Petunia Poppy Posey Primrose Prunella Rada Rayen Ren Rhoda Rhodes Rhoswen Romy Rosa Rosalie Rosalind Rosamel Rosanna Rose Rosella	Rue Sanne Senna Shoshana Sigal Sireli Snapdragon Snow flower Spruce Susan Susannah Suzanne Suzette Tancy Thistle Tulip Veronica Viola Violet Wildflower Wisteria Yasmin Zahara Zalie Zaria Zariah Zaynab Zinnia

Best girl horse names based on colors.

Colors can inspire a horse’s name, it may be the baby horse’s coat color, or it may be a color you love and is represented in the young foals’ personality. Regardless here is our list of favorites:

Alani-Orange in Hawaiin dialect Alba-White in Latin, Ancient Roman Amber-Yellowish Arabic Apple-Bright yellowish Germanic Ash-Grey, Old English Auburn-Reddish-brown-Old French Azure-Blue Old French Beryl-Pale green-Greek Latin Bianca-White-Italian Blue-Blue-Germanic Carmine-Crimson Red-Arabic, French Cerise-Cherry-French Cherry-Bright Red-Latin, Greek Cinnamon-Reddish-brown-Greek Clementine-Orange, French Latin Cocoa-Chocolate brown, Nahuatl, Spanish, English

Indigo-Deep violet-blue, Greek Ivory-White, English Ivy-A deep green with a hint of blue, Old English Jade-Green or blue-green, Spanish Kelly-Bright green, Irish Lavender-Light purple, Latin Lilac-Pale bluish-violet, Arabic, French Mahogany-Dark reddish-brown, Spanish Maize-Yellowish, Arawakan/Taíno, Spanish (Haiti) Mauve-Pale blue-purple-pink, Latin, French Nila-Dark blue, Sanskrit Onyx-Black, Greek Pearl-Off white or cream, Latin, French Phoenix-Reddish-purple or dark red, Greek Pink-Pink, English Raven-Black bird, Germanic, Old English

Coral-A pinkish-orange to reddish-orange hue, Latin Crystal-Ice, clear glass, Greek Latin Dove-Warm gray or soft white with a hint of gray, English Ebony-Black, Greek, English Emerald-Green, Greek Fawn-Beige, French Fern-Green, German, Old English Fiona-White or fair, Gaelic Fuchsia-Bright, deep pink, Latin Garnet-Dark red, English Giada-Jade, Italian Ginger-Reddish-brown, English Gray-A color between black and white, Old English Gwen-White, Welsh Hazel-Brown to Green, Germanic Heather-Muted shades of gray with flecks of other colors English

Raven-Black bird, Germanic, Old English Rose-Dark pink, Latin Ruby-Red, Latin Sage-Gray-green, Latin Sapphire-Deep blue, Greek Scarlette-Red, English Shani-Red, Hebrew Sherry-Red, English, French Sienna-Reddish-brown, English Sky-Blue, Old Norse, English Sunny-Yellow, English Tawny-Light brown or tan, Old French Teal-Greenish-blue, English Topaz-Golden yellow, Greek Violet-Purple, Latin Willow-Soft pale green with blue, gray, or yellow Old English Wisteria-Soft purple, English

Conclusion

Often you can get too much information and input from people; ultimately, the decision for your horse’s name is yours and yours alone, so make a choice; you’ve done the research.

Below is a YouTube video that provides some ideas for horse names.

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