Hybrid Name Generator

By convention the male parent's species supplies the first part of the name and the female parent's the last. A liger is lion father plus tiger mother, a tigon the reverse; a zonkey has a zebra sire and a donkey dam, while a hebra or zebra hinny has a horse or donkey sire. Grolar (grizzly sire) and pizzly (polar sire) follow the same pattern.

A hybrid is one organism whose parents were two different species, so every cell carries a mix of both. A chimera is made of cells from two different individuals, like the sheep-goat chimera produced in the lab. In fiction and myth the words blur, which is why this list includes griffins, manticores and other patchwork creatures alongside true crosses.

Yes. Owlbear, peryton and catoblepas are already staples of tabletop bestiaries, and the Latin-style names such as Lupavis or Draconolupus are original and free to use. The portmanteau names make good common names for a creature whose formal name is one of the Latin forms.

Ligers, tigons, leopons, zorses, zonkeys, mules, hinnies, beefalo, dzo, camas, wholphins, narlugas, grolar bears, coywolves, wolfdogs, savannah and bengal cats, splake, tiger trout, wipers and saugeye are all documented animals, as are hybrid macaws like the Catalina and designer dog crosses like the labradoodle. Portmanteau inventions such as crocoduck and sharktopus are imaginary, and the mythic entries come from folklore and heraldry.