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Browse 500 names for woolly mammoths and mastodons, for Ice Age stories, tamed mounts in survival and fantasy games, mascots and plush toys. The list runs from Curltusk, Permafrost and Wrangel to Wintermother, Fuzzball, Stompy and Sir Tusks-a-Lot.

About mammoth names

A mammoth name has more to work with than an elephant name. Woolly mammoths had long curved tusks, a shaggy coat and a high, domed head, and they lived on the cold, dry grassland that scientists call the mammoth steppe, which once ran across northern Europe and Asia into North America. The first sets in the list use exactly that: Curltusk, Old Ivory and Shaggy for the animal, then Tundra, Moraine, Permafrost and Beringia for its country.

Like elephants today, mammoths are thought to have lived in herds led by an older female, so there are matriarch names (Wintermother, Long Memory, Hildegard), bull names (Tuskfather, Lone Bull) and calf names (Fuzzball, Tusklet, Wobble). You will also find names for whole herds, heavyweight and gentle giant names such as Juggernaut and Big Softie, and short names that suit a tamed mount in a survival game: Stompy, Dozer, Lug.

One set borrows real words. Mamont is the Russian word for mammoth, Jökull is Icelandic for glacier and Merzlota is Russian for frozen ground. Another uses places where mammoth remains were found, such as Wrangel, the Arctic island where the last woolly mammoths lived until about 4,000 years ago. Mastodons, the stockier cousins that browsed in forests and swamps, have a share of their own, with names like Sprucebrowser and Boglord.

How to choose mammoth names

  • Pick by age and rank first. Wintermother, Matriarch or Hildegard suits the old female who leads the herd, Tuskfather or Lone Bull a big male, and Fuzzball, Tusklet or Peewee a calf.
  • For a mount in a survival or fantasy game, keep it short enough to type and shout: Stompy, Dozer, Lug and Chonk are quicker than a long title, and war beasts can take Battering Ram or Warhorn.
  • Use the landscape for a serious story. Tundra, Moraine, Yedoma and Beringia sound right for an Ice Age setting without leaning on jokes.
  • Tell a mammoth from a mastodon. Mammoths were grazers of the open steppe, mastodons browsers of spruce forest and swamp, so Steppe and Permafrost fit the first and Sprucebrowser, Boglord and Old Bog fit the second.
  • For a museum mascot or a plush toy, the puns are the easy win: Sir Tusks-a-Lot, Woolliam, Multi-Tusker and Mammoth Undertaking all work on a name tag.

Frequently asked questions

What are good names for a woolly mammoth?

Names built on tusks, wool and cold country fit best: Curltusk, Old Ivory, Shaggy, Tundra, Permafrost and Moraine. For a gentler animal try Big Softie or Marshmallow, and for a herd leader try Wintermother or Long Memory.

What should I name a tamed mammoth in a survival game?

Short, heavy-sounding names are easiest to read on a name plate and quick to type: Stompy, Dozer, Lug, Chonk, Brick and Thud. If your mammoth hauls wood or leads raids, Lumberjack, Hauler, Wallbreaker and War Drum say what it does.

Are there names for mastodons too?

Yes. Mastodons were a separate family from mammoths, shorter and stockier, and they fed on trees and shrubs. Their set includes Sprucebrowser, Twigmuncher, Boglord, Flatbrow and Old Bog, and the dig-site names Cohoes, Kimmswick and Snowmass come from places where mastodon remains were found.

What do the foreign words in the list mean?

They are words for mammoth, ice and cold from northern languages. Mamont (Russian), Mammutti (Finnish) and Mammouth (French) all mean mammoth, Jökull is Icelandic for glacier, Schnee is German for snow, Routa is Finnish for ground frost and Kholod is Russian for cold.

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All 500 mammoth names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 9 names

  • Agatha
  • Ambler
  • Americanum
  • Anorak
  • Arctic Poppy
  • Auburn
  • Aucilla
  • Auntie
  • Avalanche

B: 39 names

  • Babushka
  • Bad Fur Day
  • Barge
  • Bark Peeler
  • Barn Door
  • Battering Ram
  • Behemoth
  • Bellows
  • Berelekh
  • Bergschrund
  • Bering
  • Beringia
  • Big Freeze
  • Big Friendly
  • Big Moth
  • Big Sister
  • Big Softie
  • Big Woolly
  • Biggun
  • Bitsy
  • Black Ice
  • Blackwater
  • Blanket
  • Blue Glacier
  • Bog Walker
  • Boglord
  • Bonk
  • Borghild
  • Boxcar
  • Brakka
  • Bre
  • Brick
  • Bristle
  • Broadbrow
  • Broadtusk
  • Browser
  • Brum
  • Burlap
  • Burr

C: 29 names

  • Captain Thaw
  • Cardigan
  • Catkin
  • Cedar Swamp
  • Chauvet
  • Chestnut
  • Chill Factor
  • Chipped Tusk
  • Chonk
  • Chopper
  • Chukotka
  • Cirque
  • Clomp
  • Clovis
  • Cohoes
  • Colby
  • Cold Shoulder
  • Cold Steppe
  • Colossus
  • Columbi
  • Columbian
  • Conifer
  • Copper
  • Cordelia
  • Cottongrass
  • Crescent
  • Crevasse
  • Curltusk
  • Cuvier

D: 19 names

  • Dawn Herd
  • Dawn Mastodon
  • Defrosted
  • Dent
  • Dogger
  • Doggerland
  • Dolní Věstonice
  • Domehead
  • Dowager
  • Dozer
  • Dr. Deepfreeze
  • Drumlin
  • Drumlin Dan
  • Durn
  • Dustbath
  • Dustbunny
  • Dustmop
  • Duvet
  • Dwarf Willow

E: 12 names

  • Earmuffs
  • Earthmover
  • Earthshaker
  • Easy Does It
  • Eiszeit
  • Elder
  • Eldest
  • Empress of the Steppe
  • Ermintrude
  • Erratic
  • Eudora
  • Exilis

F: 24 names

  • Far Call
  • Fescue
  • Fimbul
  • Fimbulwinter
  • First Mother
  • First Thaw
  • Flatbrow
  • Fleece
  • Fluff
  • Foghorn
  • Forest Giant
  • Freydis
  • Frieda
  • Frost Flower
  • Frostbeard
  • Frostcharger
  • Frostnatt
  • Frozen Asset
  • Frozen River
  • Fur Real
  • Furnace
  • Furrow
  • Fuzz
  • Fuzzball

G: 21 names

  • Galumph
  • Gatecrasher
  • Gentle Giant
  • Ginger Coat
  • Glacial Gail
  • Glacial Maximum
  • Glaciär
  • Glacier's Edge Herd
  • Gletscher
  • Granddam
  • Grandmother Frost
  • Grandmother Tusk
  • Great Aunt
  • Greatfather
  • Grinder
  • Griselda
  • Ground Blizzard
  • Grum
  • Guard Hair
  • Gudrun
  • Gunnhild

H: 28 names

  • Hairy Situation
  • Half-Ton
  • Halvard
  • Hammerfall
  • Hard Frost
  • Hauler
  • Haystack
  • Heavy Tread
  • Heavyweight
  • Henrietta
  • Herd Bull
  • Herd Call
  • Herd Mother
  • Herd of the Long Ice
  • High Shoulder
  • High Withers
  • Highback
  • Highcrown
  • Hildegard
  • Hillside
  • Holocene
  • Holocene Hal
  • Hooktusk
  • Hot Springs
  • Hrim
  • Hroth
  • Hruum
  • Hundred Winters

I: 18 names

  • Ice Dam
  • Ice Margin
  • Ice Sheet
  • Ice to Meet You
  • Icefall
  • Icefield
  • Icicle Beard
  • Ikirouta
  • Imperator
  • Imperial
  • Incognitum
  • Indigirka
  • Iney
  • Interglacial
  • Isbre
  • Istid
  • Ivory
  • Ivory Column

J: 9 names

  • Jää
  • Jääkausi
  • Jäätikkö
  • Jefferson
  • Jeffersonii
  • Jökull
  • Jotun
  • Juggernaut
  • Junior

K: 11 names

  • Kälte
  • Keeper of the Trail
  • Kettlebog
  • Kholod
  • Kiddo
  • Kimmswick
  • Knock-Knees
  • Kostenki
  • Kulde
  • Kyla
  • Kylmä

L: 27 names

  • La Brea
  • Land Bridge
  • Landslide
  • Last of the Herd
  • Lead Cow
  • Lednik
  • Lehner
  • Little Brother
  • Little Tusk
  • Loess
  • Logger
  • Lone Bull
  • Long Ice
  • Long Johns
  • Long Memory
  • Long Reach
  • Longback
  • Longhair
  • Low Rider
  • Low Rumble
  • Lug
  • Lullaby
  • Lumberjack
  • Lummox
  • Lyakhovsky
  • Lyod
  • Lyre

M: 46 names

  • Madam Mastodon
  • Major Tusk
  • Mammo
  • Mammoth Mike
  • Mammoth Steppe
  • Mammoth Task
  • Mammoth Undertaking
  • Mammouth
  • Mammut
  • Mammuthus
  • Mammutti
  • Mamont
  • Manis
  • Marshfoot
  • Marshmallow
  • Marty Mastodon
  • Masto
  • Mastodon
  • Mathilda
  • Matriarch
  • Matron
  • Matted Mane
  • Maud
  • Mellow
  • Meltwater
  • Meridionalis
  • Merzlota
  • Mezhyrich
  • Milk Tusk
  • Minnow
  • Mister Mammoth
  • Monty Mammoth
  • Mop
  • Mop Top
  • Mophead
  • Moraine
  • Moraine Marchers
  • Moraine Maureen
  • Mosey
  • Mossy
  • Mother of Herds
  • Mother Tundra
  • Mountain Avens
  • Mountain That Walks
  • Mud Wallow
  • Multi-Tusker

N: 5 names

  • Naco
  • Niflheim
  • Northbound Herd
  • Northern Plain
  • Nunatak

O: 10 names

  • Old Bog
  • Old Bull
  • Old Ivory
  • Old Mother
  • Old Reliable
  • Old Trail Herd
  • On Thin Ice
  • One-Tusk
  • Outrider
  • Outwash

P: 23 names

  • Packed Trunk
  • Packer
  • Page-Ladson
  • Pancake Ice
  • Parka
  • Pathfinder
  • Patriarch
  • Peale
  • Peat Moss
  • Peewee
  • Permafrost
  • Permafrost Parade
  • Pingo
  • Pleistocene
  • Pleistocene Pete
  • Plodder
  • Plowboy
  • Polar Desert
  • Polar Night
  • Pond Lily
  • Primigenius
  • Professor Permafrost
  • Puddle

Q: 2 names

  • Queen of the Long Ice
  • Quilt

R: 15 names

  • Radiator
  • Ragnhild
  • Rearguard
  • Rememberer
  • Ringtusk
  • Rock Flour
  • Rockslide
  • Root Puller
  • Rouffignac
  • Roundfoot
  • Routa
  • Rugby
  • Rumble
  • Rumble Row
  • Russet Shag

S: 52 names

  • Santa Rosa
  • Saunter
  • Sawyer
  • Schnee
  • Scimitar
  • Sedge
  • Sedge Cutter
  • Sedge Meadow
  • Serac
  • Shag
  • Shag Carpet
  • Shaggy
  • Shaggy Maggie
  • Shaglet
  • Shearling
  • Sickle
  • Sigrun
  • Sigurd
  • Sir Tusks-a-Lot
  • Sloped Back
  • Small Ears
  • Small Fry
  • Snjór
  • Snöstorm
  • Snow Digger
  • Snow Problem
  • Snowcrusher
  • Snowfield
  • Snowmass
  • Snowpea
  • Snowplow
  • Snowplow Crew
  • Softheart
  • Spiraltusk
  • Spring Melt
  • Spruce Eater
  • Sprucebrowser
  • Squeak
  • Stalwart
  • Stampede
  • Steady
  • Steppe
  • Steppe Lord
  • Steppe Stan
  • Steppe Wanderers
  • Stocky
  • Stomp
  • Stompy
  • Stubs
  • Stuzha
  • Summer Molt
  • Sweeptusk

T: 53 names

  • Tagalong
  • Tamarack Tom
  • Tangle
  • Taymyr
  • Ten-Ton
  • Thatch
  • Thaw-some
  • The Big Thaw
  • The Frostmane Herd
  • The Last Winter Herd
  • The Long March
  • The Old One
  • The Shaggy Dozen
  • The Slow Thunder
  • The Thaw Chasers
  • The Tusk Line
  • The Woolly Mile
  • Thistledown
  • Thorvald
  • Thousand Winters
  • Thud
  • Thump
  • Timber
  • Ton of Fun
  • Toot
  • Tootsie
  • Torsten
  • Trail Boss
  • Trailbreaker
  • Trample
  • Trogontherii
  • Trumpet
  • Trundle
  • Trunk Call
  • Trunk Show
  • Tuft
  • Tug
  • Tundra
  • Tundra King
  • Tundra Tom
  • Tundra Walkers
  • Turtleneck
  • Tusk Force
  • Tusk Tusk
  • Tuskaloosa
  • Tuskany
  • Tuskfather
  • Tusklet
  • Tusky
  • Twigmuncher
  • Twin Crescents
  • Two Fingers
  • Two-Ton

U: 2 names

  • Underfoot
  • Underwool

V: 3 names

  • Vanguard
  • Vetur
  • Vyuga

W: 36 names

  • Waco
  • Wallbreaker
  • War Drum
  • Warhorn
  • Warren
  • Washboard
  • Wee Rumble
  • West Runton
  • White Horizon
  • Whitebrow
  • Whomp
  • Wide Load
  • Willow Flats
  • Windchill
  • Windswept
  • Windward Herd
  • Winter Caravan
  • Winter Coat
  • Wintermother
  • Wobble
  • Woodland Bull
  • Wool Power
  • Wool Socks
  • Woolbert
  • Woolfgang
  • Woolhelmina
  • Woolkin
  • Woolliam
  • Woolly
  • Woolly Bean
  • Woolly Wanda
  • Woolsey
  • Woolter
  • Wormwood
  • Wrangel
  • Wrecker

Y: 7 names

  • Yakutia
  • Yamal
  • Yana
  • Yedoma
  • Yellowtusk
  • Yenisei
  • Younger Dryas