Cowboy Name Generator

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Generate cowboy names with genuine Old West flavor: frontier given names like Jedediah and Clem, ranch-hand nicknames like Slim and Dusty, and outlaw handles like the Laredo Kid, drawn from real 1870s naming patterns rather than Hollywood cliches.

About cowboy names

Real cowboys of the 1860s to 1890s carried names that were mostly Anglo-American, with a heavy dose of Old Testament first names their parents had picked in Kentucky, Tennessee or Missouri: Jedediah, Ezekiel, Josiah, Silas, Amos, Elias. Everyday nicknames replaced those quickly on the trail. A cowhand was Slim, Shorty, Red, Curly, Tex or Dusty, and the surname often dropped off entirely because a drover might not offer it and nobody asked. Many trail hands were Black (Nat Love, Bill Pickett, Bass Reeves) or Mexican vaqueros, so names like Ignacio Vega or Ramón Ortega belong on a working ranch as much as Buck Landon.

Outlaws and gunfighters followed a different pattern: place-name handles (Texas Jack, the Durango Kid, Cimarron Kate), physical descriptors (Three-Fingered Jack, Big Nose Kate) and "the ___ Kid" for any young shooter. Lawmen were usually known by title and surname, Marshal Earp or Sheriff Garrett, which is why pairing a rank with a hard-sounding surname reads instantly as "the law."

A good cowboy name is short, easy to shout across a corral, and hints at where the man came from or what he looks like. Mix a biblical or plain first name with a two-syllable English or Scots-Irish surname (Caleb Strother, Wade Rutledge), then add a nickname if the character has earned one.

How to choose cowboy names

  • Use the nickname most of the time and reveal the full name only in a formal or emotional moment; nobody called Slim "William Pickens" unless he was in trouble.
  • Give heroes plain, hard-consonant surnames (Call, Nash, Slade) and villains longer or sibilant ones (Rudabaugh, Sizemore, Vermillion) to signal roles without exposition.
  • Place-name handles (Amarillo Slim, Laredo Lou) tell readers where a drifter came from and are period-accurate.
  • For an 1870s setting avoid modern-sounding names like Brayden or Kayleigh; stick to names that appear in 1850 to 1880 census records.
  • Remember the frontier was diverse: mix in Spanish surnames for vaqueros and German or Irish ones for homesteaders and railroad men.

Frequently asked questions

What are typical cowboy names?

Common working-cowboy names were plain and biblical (Jeb, Clem, Zeke, Josiah, Amos) paired with English or Scots-Irish surnames, then overwritten by nicknames like Slim, Tex, Dusty, Curly and Red. Outlaws picked up handles such as Billy the Kid, Black Bart or the Sundance Kid.

Are these names good for Red Dead Redemption 2 or a western tabletop campaign?

Yes. The list is written to match RDR2's naming style (Arthur Morgan, Sadie Adler, Micah Bell) and classic Deadlands or Boot Hill characters: short first names, sturdy surnames and a nickname or place-name handle for gunslingers.

Can I use real historical cowboys like Wyatt Earp in my story?

Historical figures are public domain, so you can write about them freely. Fictional characters from films, TV and games (Rooster Cogburn, Arthur Morgan) are included here for inspiration only and should not be copied into commercial work.

Where do the nicknames like Slim and Tex come from?

Trail crews were made up of strangers who often knew each other for a season at most, so men were tagged by appearance (Slim, Red, Shorty), origin (Tex, Arizona, Dutch) or a habit (Whiskey Pete, Poker Alice). Those nicknames stuck and frequently ended up on gravestones.

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A: 61 names

  • Aaron Sheffield
  • Abe Varner
  • Abel Grantham
  • Abigail Ashworth
  • Abijah Crutchfield
  • Abilene Abe
  • Abilene Ike
  • Abner Kincaid
  • Abraham Dockery
  • Absalom Greer
  • Aces Colfax
  • Ada Sutter
  • Addison Jones
  • Adelaide Bowen
  • Adoniram Pettigrew
  • Agapito Abeyta
  • Agnes Dalrymple
  • Al Teal
  • Alkali Abe
  • Almira Chambers
  • Alonzo Cheney
  • Alpheus Guthrie
  • Alvah Sperry
  • Amado Bustamante
  • Amarillo Ace
  • Amarillo Slim
  • Amasa Wick
  • Amaziah Gentry
  • Ambrose Keel
  • Ambrose Tull

A, continued

  • Ambrosio Leyba
  • Amos Tanner
  • Amos Yeager
  • Andrés Apodaca
  • Andy Coker
  • Angus McPhail
  • Aniceto Gallegos
  • Annie Oakley
  • Ansel Prewitt
  • Anselmo Chávez
  • Anton Geiger
  • Anvil Ivey
  • Apolonio Casados
  • Appaloosa Orr
  • Arabella Dearborn
  • Arch Stallings
  • Archibald Merritt
  • Archie Moncrief
  • Arizona Charlie
  • Art Pogue
  • Arthur Morgan
  • Asa Pendleton
  • Assayer Inskeep
  • Atanasio Mares
  • August Reinhardt
  • Augusta Harkness
  • Augustus McCrae
  • Aunt Zilpah Greenlee
  • Avalanche Renshaw
  • Axel Dahl
  • Azariah Lockhart

B: 94 names

  • Bacon Bob Tuttle
  • Badger Bill Cutter
  • Badlands Burl Tyson
  • Bailiff Rudd
  • Baldy Groom
  • Bandera Walt
  • Bangtail Lytle
  • Banjo Mulroney
  • Bar Seven Burleson
  • Barbwire Ferrell
  • Barkeep Dowdy
  • Barnabas Culp
  • Barney O'Dowd
  • Bart Kessler
  • Bartholomew Crane
  • Bartley Mulcahy
  • Bass Reeves
  • Bat Masterson
  • Beans Driscoll
  • Beau Larkin
  • Beaver Tail Budlong
  • Belle Starr
  • Ben Ogle
  • Ben Wade
  • Benaiah Stoddard
  • Benigno Cisneros
  • Beriah Stiles
  • Bernabé Fajardo
  • Bert Scoggins
  • Bessie Mae Killough
  • Beto Márquez
  • Big Bend Coy Leatherwood
  • Big Ears Kellum
  • Big Foot Wallace
  • Big Nose Kate
  • Bighorn Ben
  • Bill Pickett
  • Bill Tolliver
  • Billy the Kid
  • Bisbee Gabe
  • Biscuit Bramley
  • Biscuit Shooter Bodkin
  • Black Bart
  • Black Hills Tex
  • Blas Elizondo
  • Blaze Face Fant
  • Blizzard Burnet

B, continued

  • Bloody Bill Yancey
  • Blue Norther Lamar
  • Blue Roan Roby
  • Bluebonnet Belle Wingate
  • Bo Hightower
  • Boaz Hargrove
  • Bob Fuqua
  • Bobcat Whatley
  • Bones Halstead
  • Bonifacio Lucero
  • Boone Harlan
  • Bootheel Garland
  • Boots Delaney
  • Bose Ikard
  • Box B Beaumont
  • Box Canyon Dan
  • Boyd Meacham
  • Bozeman Bert
  • Brack Lomax
  • Brakeman Odell
  • Brand Inspector Keogh
  • Brazos Bill Rooney
  • Britt Johnson
  • Broken Nose Ike
  • Broken Spoke Isbell
  • Bronc Buster Bill
  • Bronc Peeler Pratt
  • Bronco Billy Tate
  • Bronco Layne
  • Bronco Sam Stewart
  • Broomtail Millett
  • Brother Lemuel Yoder
  • Buck Landon
  • Buck Ransom
  • Buckaroo Bess Hadley
  • Buckshot Coy Ramsey
  • Buckshot Roberts
  • Buckskin Frank
  • Bud Tackett
  • Buell Stanton
  • Buffalo Bill Cody
  • Bullfrog Brody
  • Bullwhacker Crump
  • Burl Yancey
  • Burro Bob Stansell
  • Butch Cassidy
  • Buzzard Wolcott

C: 81 names

  • Cactus Jack Poole
  • Cactus Pete Kilgore
  • Cade Shackleford
  • Cal Braxton
  • Calamity Jane
  • Caleb Strother
  • Caleb Vosburg
  • Calico Kate Rowan
  • Calixto Maestas
  • Calvin Buckner
  • Candelario Garza
  • Cap Renfro
  • Cap Rock Deke Massengill
  • Captain Elias Braden
  • Carl Weatherby
  • Cash Bonner
  • Cash McCready
  • Casimiro Barela
  • Cassius Blaine
  • Cathay Williams
  • Cattle Annie
  • Cattle Baron Whitlock
  • Cattle Inspector Bohannon
  • Charity Holt
  • Charley Parkhurst
  • Charlie Birdsong
  • Chauncey Rainey
  • Cherokee Bill
  • Chestnut Sterrett
  • Chet Ridley
  • Cheyenne Bodie
  • Chinook Vardeman
  • Chisholm Trail Chet
  • Chuckwagon Charlie
  • Chuy Delgado
  • Cicero Blanchard
  • Cimarron Kate
  • Cipriano Baca
  • Circle C Clendenin
  • Circle Dot Durham

C, continued

  • Claim Jumper Cobbett
  • Clara Jane Meeker
  • Claybank Ellison
  • Clayton Rusk
  • Clem Boggs
  • Clement Waddell
  • Clemente Mondragón
  • Clementine Hubbard
  • Cletus Bramble
  • Cliff Ragsdale
  • Clint Waverly
  • Cody Bramwell
  • Cole Tremaine
  • Cole Younger
  • Colonel Ambrose Vandergriff
  • Colonel Thaddeus Eckhart
  • Colorado Bill
  • Colt Sherwood
  • Concho Clem
  • Constable Enoch Weems
  • Constable Jarvis
  • Constance Wakefield
  • Cookie Simms
  • Cookie Skaggs
  • Cora Belle Hardin
  • Cornbread Eads
  • Cornelius Trask
  • Corwin Ashe
  • Cotton Ferris
  • Cottonwood Ace
  • Cow Pony Yantis
  • Coy Rankin
  • Coyote Cal Trask
  • Cripple Creek Cody
  • Cruz Aragón
  • Curly Bill Brocius
  • Curly Weaver
  • Curt Mabry
  • Cyclone Sealy
  • Cyrus Bell
  • Cyrus Whitfield

D: 57 names

  • Dab Hutto
  • Dakota Dan
  • Dalton Reeve
  • Dan Evans
  • Daniel Purcell
  • Daniel Wallace
  • Dapple Gray Dewees
  • Darius Claypool
  • Dave Killebrew
  • Deacon Jim Miller
  • Deadeye Dolan
  • Deadwood Dick
  • Deaf Charley Wells
  • Deke Farnsworth
  • Del Roebuck
  • Dell Farrow
  • Della Mae Cutter
  • Delphine Whitlow
  • Dennis Lonergan
  • Denton Whitby
  • Deputy Clay Macklin
  • Deputy Cy Bramhall
  • Deputy Wade Rutledge
  • Desert Rat Deveraux
  • Desiderio Cantú
  • Diamond D Dossett
  • Diamond Tail Eason
  • Diamondback Dell
  • Dick Cowan
  • Dietrich Schumacher
  • Dionisio Armijo
  • Dirty Dave Rudabaugh
  • Doc Fenwick
  • Doc Holliday
  • Doc Tanner
  • Dock Rainwater
  • Dodge City Dan
  • Dogie Spivey
  • Dolph Yount
  • Domingo Herrera
  • Donald Lennox
  • Dora Lee Pinkston
  • Dorcas Kimball
  • Dorsey Kilbride
  • Double Bar Gilliam
  • Dougal Menzies
  • Doughbelly Price
  • Doyle Ratliff
  • Drag Rider Dewberry
  • Drover Dan Wilkerson
  • Drusilla Loomis
  • Dry Gulch Dawson
  • Duke Wilcox
  • Dust Devil Zuber
  • Dusty Rhodes
  • Dutch Henry Borne
  • Dutch van der Linde

E: 48 names

  • Earl Whitaker
  • Eb Bynum
  • Ebenezer Tibbs
  • Ed Stubblefield
  • Edmund Madigan
  • Effie Standish
  • El Paso Ed
  • Eldridge Cottrell
  • Eleazar Maddox
  • Eli Thornton
  • Eliab Rooney
  • Eliakim Burdette
  • Elias Mott
  • Elias Redding
  • Elijah Kemp
  • Eliphalet Swann
  • Elisha Dabney
  • Elkanah Rucker
  • Elvira McBride
  • Elwood Garrity
  • Emil Kothmann
  • Emma Lou Hartsell
  • Emmett Colby
  • Emory Sanders
  • Encarnación Griego
  • Enoch Sawyer
  • Enos Whitcomb
  • Ephraim Dawes
  • Ephraim Lassiter
  • Epifanio Córdova
  • Erastus Pennock
  • Erik Lindquist
  • Esteban Salazar
  • Esther Nesbitt
  • Ethan Edwards
  • Etta Place
  • Eudora Paxton
  • Eulogio Peralta
  • Eusebio Carrillo
  • Evangeline Rountree
  • Evaristo Pacheco
  • Everett Stroud
  • Ewan McCulloch
  • Express Agent Pike
  • Ezekiel Hardin
  • Ezekiel Vance
  • Ezra Holloway
  • Ezra Tillman

F: 21 names

  • Faro Lockett
  • Faustino Treviño
  • Feliciano Ruiz
  • Fence Rider Leggett
  • Fenton Ruggles
  • Fergus Carmichael
  • Fermín Olivares
  • Festus Haggen
  • Filomeno Esquibel
  • Fletcher Bodine
  • Flintlock Phipps
  • Flora Sinclair
  • Florencio Padilla
  • Flying V Vinyard
  • Ford Banning
  • Fort Griffin Fritz
  • Foster Devlin
  • Frank Sutton
  • Freckles Tidwell
  • Freighter Fenn
  • Friedrich Dreyer

G: 28 names

  • Gabby Hinkle
  • Gabe Purdy
  • Gabino Zamora
  • Gamaliel Overton
  • Garrett Boone
  • Genaro Maldonado
  • George Mosby
  • Gershom Applegate
  • Gideon Ashby
  • Gideon Payne
  • Gil Favor
  • Gingham Ginny Tobin
  • Gopher Tharp
  • Gottlieb Brandt
  • Grady Ballou
  • Grandpap Yocum
  • Granville Corbin
  • Greasewood Wes
  • Greasy Sack Grimes
  • Greenhorn Pilcher
  • Gregorio Arellano
  • Grizzly Seth Mangum
  • Grub Line Fambrough
  • Grulla Navarro
  • Gully Washer Ake
  • Gunnar Engstrom
  • Gunnysack Proctor
  • Gus Newcomb

H: 50 names

  • Hackamore Pennington
  • Hailstone Fannin
  • Hal Tarver
  • Half Moon Hazlitt
  • Halvor Knudsen
  • Ham Burnside
  • Hamilton Creed
  • Hammerhead Strickland
  • Hank Sutter
  • Hannah Yost
  • Hap Collier
  • Happy Oglesby
  • Hard Rock Hadlock
  • Hardluck Hanley
  • Hardtack Harmon
  • Harlan Bishop
  • Harmon Ostrander
  • Harmonica Skinner
  • Harriet Trimble
  • Harry Quillen
  • Harve Lusk
  • Hattie Denton
  • Hawk Worley
  • Hector Urquhart
  • Heinrich Steinbach
  • Henrietta Godfrey
  • Henry Dismuke
  • Herb Scruggs
  • Hermann Dietz
  • Hezekiah Lott
  • Hide Hunter Hewitt
  • High Lonesome Lundy
  • High Plains Harlan
  • High Pockets Boatwright
  • Hilario Longoria
  • Hipólito Chacón
  • Hiram Loftus
  • Hobart Tisdale
  • Hollis Renner
  • Homer Tuck
  • Hoodoo Brown
  • Horatio Biddle
  • Horse Trader Tolar
  • Horseshoe Pomeroy
  • Hosea Matthews
  • Hoss Cartwright
  • Hostler Hix
  • Hoyt Ballard
  • Hoyt Baskin
  • Hub Goforth

I: 12 names

  • Ichabod Yarbrough
  • Ida Belle Norwood
  • Idaho Mack Sorrells
  • Ignacio Vega
  • Ike Braddock
  • Ira Chastain
  • Ironhead Kessler
  • Isaac Rowe
  • Isaiah Pruett
  • Isidro Valdez
  • Isom Dart
  • Israel Caudill

J: 53 names

  • Jabez Underhill
  • Jacinto Olguín
  • Jack Sloane
  • Jackrabbit Jones
  • Jacob Spurlock
  • Jailer Gault
  • Jake Spoon
  • Japheth Eubanks
  • Jared Hendricks
  • Jasper Ruddock
  • Jaybird Abbott
  • Jeb Callahan
  • Jed Bristow
  • Jedediah Cole
  • Jefferson Canfield
  • Jehu Abernathy
  • Jemima Oliphant
  • Jens Sorensen
  • Jeremiah Stroud
  • Jerkline Jeter
  • Jess Cordray
  • Jesse James
  • Jethro Hollis
  • Jim Beckwourth
  • Jim Cordell
  • Joab Trammell
  • Joaquín Escobedo
  • Job Satterfield
  • Joe Cantrell
  • Joel Dillard
  • Johann Weidner
  • John Marston
  • John Wesley Hardin
  • Johnny Ringo
  • Jonah Kirby
  • Jonah Whitlock
  • Josephine Marlowe
  • Josephus Hale
  • Josey Wales
  • Josh Tolson
  • Josiah Blackwood
  • Josiah Tolbert
  • Josie Bascom
  • Jotham Wainwright
  • Jubal Cade
  • Jubal Early Grimes
  • Jud Hawkins
  • Judd Kittredge
  • Judge Amos Redfield
  • Judge Horatio Trumbull
  • Judge Isaac Northrup
  • Judge Roy Bean
  • Juniper Jake

K: 12 names

  • Karl Eberhardt
  • Keno Epps
  • Keyhole Neely
  • Keziah Eastman
  • Kid Antrim
  • Kid Colt
  • Kid Cordell
  • Kid Curry
  • Kid Wade
  • Kip Marchand
  • Kit Bramley
  • Knut Solberg

L: 58 names

  • Lachlan Kinnear
  • Lafayette Brogan
  • Lafe Dunning
  • Lalo Benavídez
  • Landon Ricketts
  • Lane Whitsett
  • Lanky McCandless
  • Laredo Lou
  • Lariat Lettie Rollins
  • Lark Upshaw
  • Lasso Lil Sayles
  • Latigo Lindsey
  • Lavinia Chapman
  • Lawrence Muldoon
  • Lázaro Medrano
  • Lazarus Hobbs
  • Lazy Eight Lightfoot
  • Lazy J Jernigan
  • Leadville Lou
  • Leander Faulk
  • Leandro Tafoya
  • Lee Dunlap
  • Lefty Barlow
  • Lem Hatfield
  • Lemuel Barnes
  • Leonidas Vickers
  • Les Hooten
  • Letitia Upton
  • Levi Ashcroft
  • Levi Prescott
  • Lige Estes
  • Lightning Sizemore
  • Line Rider Kinsey
  • Link Thacker
  • Little Britches
  • Lobo Vinson
  • Lon Cutler
  • Lonesome Dove Dawes
  • Long Haired Jim Courtright
  • Longhorn Lyle
  • Longshanks Hensley
  • Lonnie Beck
  • Lorenzo Dow Perkins
  • Loretta Slade
  • Lottie Deno
  • Loyal Hurst
  • Lucas McCain
  • Lucinda Vail
  • Lucius Bragg
  • Lucky Peavy
  • Ludlow Ames
  • Ludwig Metzger
  • Luke Sheridan
  • Lula Kincaid
  • Luther Kane
  • Lydia Caldwell
  • Lyle Dobbs
  • Lysander Tatum

M: 61 names

  • Ma Tuckerman
  • Macario Durán
  • Mack Grissom
  • Madame Moustache
  • Magpie Zeller
  • Mahala Fitch
  • Mahlon Quarles
  • Major Cyrus Dunaway
  • Malachi Denning
  • Malcolm Lamont
  • Malpais Mike
  • Marcelino Archuleta
  • Marcellus Gorham
  • Marcus Doolin
  • Marshal Cole Harlan
  • Marshal Dade Kirkland
  • Marshal Seth Hardesty
  • Marshal Tom Langford
  • Mart Bagley
  • Matías Saavedra
  • Matilda Brewer
  • Matt Dillon
  • Matt Granger
  • Matthias Kendrick
  • Mattie Ross
  • Maurice Donovan
  • Maverick Shumate
  • Medicine Bow Curly
  • Melquíades Tapia
  • Merle Haskett

M, continued

  • Mesilla Nick
  • Mesquite Mel
  • Micah Bell
  • Micah Fenwick
  • Micah Landry
  • Michael Dugan
  • Midnight Gorman
  • Miles City Shorty
  • Millicent Trout
  • Milt Runnels
  • Minerva Lacey
  • Missouri Mike
  • Mobeetie Gus
  • Mogollon Zeke
  • Molasses Stovall
  • Monroe Bostwick
  • Montana Pete
  • Monte Moody
  • Mordecai Blythe
  • Morgan Slade
  • Mort Pickering
  • Mose Fielder
  • Mossy Horn Swinney
  • Mountain Jack Lathem
  • Muleskinner Mahoney
  • Murdo Farquhar
  • Mustang Maggie Thorne
  • Mustang Mose
  • Mustanger Vann
  • Myles Gallagher
  • Mysterious Dave Mather

N: 25 names

  • Nacho Sandoval
  • Naomi Gilchrist
  • Narciso Ochoa
  • Nat Love
  • Nate Sherrod
  • Nathan Bramlett
  • Nathaniel Coombs
  • Nebraska Sid Vandiver
  • Ned Barlow
  • Ned Pruitt
  • Nehemiah Beasley
  • Nell Prescott
  • Nepomuceno Cortina
  • Nevada Sam
  • Newell Sparks
  • Newt Haney
  • Nick Cahill
  • Niels Rasmussen
  • Night Herder Nix
  • Night Horse Nail
  • Nighthawk Elkins
  • Nimrod Fife
  • Noah Crandall
  • Nueces Ned
  • Nugget Ned Corliss

O: 22 names

  • Obadiah Fisk
  • Obed Carmody
  • Ogallala Joe
  • Olaf Gunderson
  • Old Man Sutter
  • Old Pard Hathaway
  • Old Timer Trowbridge
  • Old Zeb Tollett
  • Ole Tollefson
  • Ollie Vaught
  • One-Ear Rafferty
  • One-Eyed Ned Crowley
  • Ophelia Shaw
  • Oregon Chet Applewhite
  • Orrin Blakely
  • Orson Dupree
  • Orval Peabody
  • Otho Merriweather
  • Otis Rawlins
  • Owen Ridgeway
  • Ozark Lem Fancher
  • Ozias Cantwell

P: 45 names

  • Pablo Ulibarrí
  • Paint Pony Pryor
  • Palo Duro Pete
  • Pancho Villalobos
  • Panhandle Pete
  • Panther Whipple
  • Pappy Burkhalter
  • Park Ingram
  • Parson Vinegar Sledge
  • Pat Garrett
  • Pathfinder Josiah Mabee
  • Patience Mead
  • Pay Dirt Dunphy
  • Pearl Hart
  • Pecos Bill Hollis
  • Peder Thorsen
  • Pedernales Lee
  • Peewee Loftus
  • Permelia Gable
  • Perry Voss
  • Pete Loudermilk
  • Philemon Jessup
  • Phineas Womack
  • Piebald Pruden
  • Pink Seagraves
  • Pinto Polly Mercer
  • Pistol Pete Ferris
  • Placer Jim Whitten
  • Platte River Lefty
  • Plug Kirkpatrick
  • Point Rider Cathcart
  • Poker Alice
  • Polecat Tyree
  • Porfirio Zavala
  • Possum Tipton
  • Pot Rustler Usry
  • Pothook Pettus
  • Powder River Jack
  • Prairie Dog Pete
  • Prairie Rose Hollister
  • Preacher Amos
  • Presidio Vic
  • Press Burris
  • Prudence Aldridge
  • Prudencio Madrid

Q: 3 names

  • Quarter Circle Keeling
  • Quincy Adair
  • Quirt Rigby

R: 47 names

  • Rafe Cutter
  • Rafter H Henson
  • Railroad Detective Flint
  • Ramón Ortega
  • Ramrod Gillespie
  • Rance Holcomb
  • Ranger Boyd Catlin
  • Ranger Cash Bonner
  • Ranger Lute Massey
  • Ranger Wes Faulkner
  • Ransom Teague
  • Raton Roy
  • Rattlesnake Jake
  • Rawhide Rhoda Polk
  • Rawhide Riggs
  • Ray Bickford
  • Red Malone
  • Redmond Quinlan
  • Reese Cavanaugh
  • Refugio Ybarra
  • Reuben Sikes
  • Reverend Josiah Usher
  • Riley Groom
  • Rimrock Rosie Laird
  • Rio Grande Rudy
  • Rip Keaton
  • Roan Haskell
  • Rocking Chair Reddick
  • Rocking K Kuykendall
  • Rooster Cogburn
  • Rosalie Duquesne
  • Roscoe Yardley
  • Rose of the Cimarron
  • Rosendo Quintana
  • Ross Latimer
  • Rowdy Joe Lowe
  • Rowdy Talmadge
  • Rowdy Yates
  • Roy Vance
  • Rube Wiggins
  • Ruby Faye Tanner
  • Rufe Culver
  • Rufus Buck
  • Rufus Calloway
  • Rush Fallon
  • Rusty Rivers
  • Rutherford Judson

S: 78 names

  • Sadie Adler
  • Sagebrush Sally
  • Sagebrush Sam
  • Sallie Chisum
  • Sam Kettle
  • Sam Ledford
  • Samuel Barksdale
  • San Saba Lon
  • Sandstorm Kenedy
  • Sandy Culver
  • Santa Fe Sam
  • Santiago Quiñones
  • Sarah Beth Odom
  • Sarge Mattox
  • Sawbones McKenna
  • Schoolmarm Susannah Cass
  • Scout Jonas Kearney
  • Segundo Milam
  • Seth Ballinger
  • Severiano Rendón
  • Shadrach Mayfield
  • Shane
  • Shelby Garrison
  • Shep Crabtree
  • Sheriff Abel Stockton
  • Sheriff Ezra Holloway
  • Sheriff Luther Dunbar
  • Sheriff Owen Halsey
  • Sherman Peck
  • Shorty McGraw
  • Shotgun Messenger Knox
  • Si Babcock
  • Sid Prather
  • Sidewinder Sikes
  • Silas Cutter
  • Silas Kettering
  • Simeon Lathrop
  • Sixgun Sadie
  • Sixgun Sam Ridley

S, continued

  • Sixtoes Sullivan
  • Skillet Mapes
  • Skinny Roebuck
  • Slash Four Fortner
  • Sleepy Fairchild
  • Slick Danvers
  • Slicker Kerrigan
  • Slim Pickens
  • Sluice Box Simmons
  • Smiley Hammond
  • Smithy Venable
  • Smoky Hill Hal
  • Smoky Joe Duncan
  • Snake River Sal
  • Snuffy Blake
  • Sodbuster Ousley
  • Sol Whitmore
  • Solomon Ridge
  • Sophronia Clayborn
  • Sorrel Top Irvin
  • Sourdough Sam
  • Spurs Purvis
  • Squinty Osgood
  • Stagecoach Mary
  • Staked Plains Jud Harkey
  • Steeldust Hittson
  • Stock Detective Quade
  • Stockings Gunter
  • Stoney Bledsoe
  • Stray Man Nunley
  • Stretch Pritchard
  • Stumpy Doyle
  • Sugarfoot Brewster
  • Sundown Sherman
  • Sundown Sue Kittle
  • Sunup Ferguson
  • Sweetwater Hank
  • Swing Rider Hargis
  • Sylvanus Oakes

T: 75 names

  • Tabitha Sowell
  • Tad Conroy
  • Tascosa Jim
  • Teamster Tedder
  • Tenderfoot Agee
  • Tennessee Newt Clabough
  • Teodoro Montoya
  • Terence Fitzgerald
  • Territorial Marshal Tyrell
  • Tex Riley
  • Texas Jack Vermillion
  • Thaddeus Rourke
  • Thaddeus Wilkes
  • Thady O'Shea
  • The Abilene Kid
  • The Amarillo Kid
  • The Apache Kid
  • The Bannack Kid
  • The Cheyenne Kid
  • The Chugwater Kid
  • The Cimarron Kid
  • The Deadwood Kid
  • The Dodge City Kid
  • The Durango Kid
  • The Flagstaff Kid
  • The Gunnison Kid
  • The Kansas Kid
  • The Lampasas Kid
  • The Laredo Kid
  • The Magdalena Kid
  • The Pecos Kid
  • The Ruidoso Kid
  • The San Angelo Kid
  • The Silverton Kid
  • The Spearfish Kid
  • The Sundance Kid
  • The Tombstone Kid

T, continued

  • The Toyah Kid
  • The Waco Kid
  • Theophilus Gaines
  • Three-Fingered Jack
  • Thunderhead Rachal
  • Thurston Flagg
  • Tiburcio Lovato
  • Timothy Shaughnessy
  • Tin Cup Dancy
  • Tinhorn Suggs
  • Titus Farrell
  • Tobe Yoakum
  • Tobias Marlow
  • Tom Bragg
  • Tom Redfern
  • Tombstone Tuck
  • Top Hand Ansley
  • Toribio Cárdenas
  • Torvald Nygaard
  • Tracklayer Pugh
  • Trail Boss Boone
  • Trail Boss Riordan
  • Trapper Elihu Marsh
  • Travis Kimble
  • Trick Rider Tess Lyman
  • Trigger Tom Kelso
  • Trinidad Romero
  • Triple Link Lasater
  • Truman Delacroix
  • Tuck Harmon
  • Tularosa Carl
  • Tumbleweed Tom
  • Tumbling T Tankersley
  • Turkey Creek Jack
  • Twister Towers
  • Two-Gun Nan Sheppard
  • Twofinger Farley
  • Ty Ridgeley

U: 5 names

  • Ulysses Barr
  • Uncle Billy Thrasher
  • Uncle Dock Lovelady
  • Uriah Blount
  • Utah Jake

V: 8 names

  • Valentín Sepúlveda
  • Vance Ellery
  • Vern Shanks
  • Vernon Tice
  • Vic Darby
  • Vicente Trujillo
  • Virgil Coates
  • Virgil Nash

W: 43 names

  • Waco Wes
  • Waddie Roper
  • Wade Killian
  • Wade Rutledge
  • Wagon Master Haggard
  • Wagon Wheel McWhorter
  • Walt Grady
  • Warren Musgrove
  • Wash Tolliver
  • Waylon Briggs
  • Waylon Ferris
  • Web Chilton
  • Wes Culpepper
  • Wes Talbot
  • Wesley Hurd
  • Whiplash Wiley Dunn
  • Whirlwind Lubbock
  • Whiskey Jack Coombs
  • Whiskey Pete
  • Whistling Sturgill
  • Wilbur Skaggs
  • Wild Bill Hickok
  • Wildcat Grady
  • Wiley Cobb
  • Wilford Teasdale
  • Wilhelm Pfeiffer
  • Will Fenner
  • Will Kane
  • Wind River Dusty
  • Windmiller Joyner
  • Windy Bill Yates
  • Wineglass Wyrick
  • Winfield Daggett
  • Winifred Boone
  • Wint Radford
  • Wolf Fenner
  • Wolfer Dan Brockett
  • Wolverine Asa Shurtleff
  • Woodrow Call
  • Wrangler Jeb
  • Wrangler Ned Cutshaw
  • Wyatt Earp
  • Wyoming Red

Y: 2 names

  • Ysidro Sena
  • Yucca Pete

Z: 11 names

  • Zachariah Bledsoe
  • Zack Twombly
  • Zadok Winslow
  • Zeb Sanborn
  • Zebedee Huckaby
  • Zebra Dun Maxey
  • Zebulon Pike Harlan
  • Zeke Colton
  • Zeke Morrow
  • Zenas Haywood
  • Zephaniah Drummond