Narwhal Name Generator

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500 narwhal names for a plush toy, a mascot or a story animal: tusk and tooth puns like Tuskany and Snaggletooth, spiral names like Corkscrew and Fusilli, knightly names like Lancelot and Sir Joustalot, and Arctic names such as Polynya and Disko Bay.

About narwhal names

A narwhal's tusk is a tooth. In most males the upper left canine grows straight through the lip in a left-handed spiral, up to about ten feet long. Most females have none, and a few males grow two. In medieval Europe the tusks were sold as unicorn horns, which is why the animal is called the unicorn of the sea, and its scientific name, Monodon monoceros, means one tooth, one horn.

So the list starts with the tusk: tooth names (Tuskany, Snaggletooth, Sweet Tooth), spiral names (Corkscrew, Fusilli, Double Helix, plus Lefty and Sinistral for the direction of the twist), and lance names from the tiltyard and the Round Table, such as Lancelot, Sir Joustalot and En Garde. Sea unicorn names (Seanicorn, Alicorn, Not a Myth) and narwhal puns (Gnarwhal, Narwhalentine) follow.

Narwhals live in Arctic waters off Canada, Greenland and Russia, so there are places and sea-ice words such as Lancaster Sound, Disko Bay, Polynya and Floe Edge, and a few words from the people who know the animal best: Tuugaalik is the Inuktitut name for the narwhal, and in Greenlandic imaq is the sea, iluliaq an iceberg and sermeq a glacier. Soft plush names (Squish, Velveteen, Snugglefin) and names for the speckled gray coat (Dapple, Stracciatella, Old Whitey) close the list.

How to choose narwhal names

  • Name the tusk first. It is the one thing no other animal has, so Corkscrew, Tusketeer, Lancelot, Swizzle Stick or Sir Pokes-a-Lot will never be mistaken for a dolphin's name.
  • A narwhal without a tusk needs a name too. Calves are born without one and most females never grow one, so look at the coat and the water instead: Dapple, Freckle, Polynya, Ripple, Imaq.
  • For a plush toy, pick a short, soft word a small child can say at bedtime: Squish, Pookie, Bloop, Bitsy, Uni or Nar Nar.
  • For a mascot or a story character, a title does half the work: Captain Corkscrew, Admiral Tusk, Princess Polynya, Knight of the North Water.
  • If you choose a word from Inuktitut or Greenlandic, use it for what it means. Tuugaalik is the animal's own name and suits a story set in the Arctic, and Imaq, the sea, suits any sea creature.

Frequently asked questions

What are good names for a narwhal?

The names that fit best point at the tusk: Tuskany, Corkscrew, Lancelot, Helix and Sweet Tooth are all in this list. For a softer, plush feel try Squish, Snugglefin or Pookie, and for a sense of place try Polynya, Baffin or Disko Bay. Puns on the word itself, such as Gnarwhal and Narwhalentine, work well for a mascot.

Is a narwhal's tusk really a tooth?

Yes. It is a canine tooth, in most males the upper left one, that grows out through the lip in a long left-handed spiral. That is why the list has dental names such as Molar, Eyetooth and Long in the Tooth next to the spiral names, and why Lefty, Southpaw and Sinistral are in it.

Why is the narwhal called the unicorn of the sea?

Because of the single spiral tusk. In medieval Europe narwhal tusks were traded as unicorn horns, and the picture of a unicorn with a long twisted horn owes a lot to them. The list plays on that with Sea Unicorn, Honorary Unicorn, Not a Myth and Alicorn, an old word for a unicorn's horn.

What do the Inuit and Greenlandic words in the list mean?

There are only a handful, all common nouns. Tuugaalik is the Inuktitut name for the narwhal, Tariuq is the sea in Inuktitut and Nuna means land. Qilalugaq is the word used for both the beluga and the narwhal, with a second word to tell them apart, and in Greenlandic Imaq is the sea, Iluliaq an iceberg and Sermeq a glacier.

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A: 14 names

  • Abracadabra
  • Actual Unicorn
  • Admiral Tusk
  • Admiralty Inlet
  • Alicorn
  • Alphorn
  • Ammonite
  • Appaloosa
  • Aquacorn
  • Aramis
  • Arctic Bay
  • Athos
  • Auger
  • Auntie Alicorn

B: 26 names

  • Baby Narwhal
  • Baby Tooth
  • Baffin
  • Barber Pole
  • Baron von Tusk
  • Baroness Brine
  • Bass Note
  • Beanbag
  • Bedivere
  • Beluga Cousin
  • Bendy Straw
  • Bicuspid
  • Big Grin
  • Bitsy
  • Bloop
  • Blub
  • Blubbers
  • Blue Raspberry
  • Bobber
  • Bowsprit
  • Braid
  • Brash Ice
  • Brine
  • Bugle
  • Buoy
  • Button

C: 36 names

  • Cable Knit
  • Camelot
  • Candle Ice
  • Candy Cane
  • Canine
  • Capricorn
  • Captain Corkscrew
  • Captain Narwhal
  • Captain Tusk
  • Cavalier
  • Cavatappi
  • Cetus
  • Champion of the Tiltyard
  • Cheesy Grin
  • Chevalier
  • Chirp
  • Chocolate Chip
  • Churro
  • Cinnamon Twist
  • Click
  • Clicker
  • Coil
  • Commodore Floe
  • Compass Needle
  • Cookies and Cream
  • Corkscrew
  • Corny
  • Count Curlicue
  • Cracked Pepper
  • Crazy Straw
  • Creak
  • Cruller
  • Cuddles
  • Cumberland Sound
  • Curlicue
  • Curly Fry

D: 25 names

  • D'Artagnan
  • Dalmatian
  • Dame Dapple
  • Dame Pointy
  • Dapple
  • Davis Strait
  • Deep Dive
  • Dentin
  • Dervish
  • Devon Island
  • Dewdrop
  • Dinghy
  • Disko Bay
  • Divining Rod
  • Doctor Helix
  • Dot Dash
  • Dotty
  • Double Helix
  • Dove Gray
  • Dr. Molar
  • Drill Bit
  • Duchess of Baffin
  • Duke of Disko Bay
  • Dunk
  • Durendal

E: 10 names

  • Earl of Ellesmere
  • Echo
  • Eclipse Sound
  • Einhorn
  • Ellesmere
  • En Garde
  • Enamel
  • Épée
  • Excalibur
  • Eyetooth

F: 28 names

  • Fable
  • Fairy Tale
  • Fang
  • Fathom
  • Fencer
  • Fibonacci
  • Fife
  • Finley
  • Finnegan
  • First Mate Fluke
  • Fleece
  • Flip
  • Floaty
  • Floe
  • Floe Edge
  • Floss
  • Flugelhorn
  • Flukey
  • Foghorn
  • Foil
  • Foxe Basin
  • Frazil
  • Freckle
  • Freelancer
  • Freezer Pop
  • French Horn
  • Frost Flower
  • Fusilli

G: 20 names

  • Galahad
  • Gauntlet
  • Gawain
  • General Joust
  • Gimlet
  • Glitter Spout
  • Glub
  • Gnarls
  • Gnarly
  • Gnarwhal
  • Golden Spiral
  • Grandpa Ghost
  • Granite
  • Graphite
  • Greenhorn
  • Grise Fiord
  • Guinevere
  • Gunmetal
  • Gyoza
  • Gyre

H: 15 names

  • Halberd
  • Halibut
  • Halocline
  • Helix
  • Her Pointiness
  • Hippocampus
  • His Tuskness
  • Hocus Pocus
  • Honorary Unicorn
  • Horn of Plenty
  • Horn Section
  • Hornpipe
  • Hummock
  • Hush
  • Hvalur

I: 10 names

  • Ice Blink
  • Ikkaku
  • Iluliaq
  • Ilulissat
  • Imaq
  • Incisor
  • Inkblot
  • Ivor
  • Ivory
  • Ivory Tower

J: 4 names

  • Javelin
  • Jib Boom
  • Joust
  • Jouster

K: 7 names

  • Kangerlussuaq
  • Kebab
  • Keeper of the Polynya
  • King of the Pack Ice
  • Knight Errant
  • Knight of the North Water
  • Knightwhal

L: 24 names

  • Lady of the Lake
  • Lancaster Sound
  • Lance
  • Lance Corporal
  • Lancelittle
  • Lancelot
  • Lancer
  • Lathe
  • Left-Hand Thread
  • Lefty
  • Lemon Twist
  • Licorice Twist
  • Licorne
  • Licorne des Mers
  • Lieutenant Lefty
  • Lightning Rod
  • Linnaeus
  • Little Lancer
  • Little Tusk
  • Long in the Tooth
  • Long Tooth
  • Lord of the Leads
  • Lord Tuskington
  • Lucky Charm

M: 31 names

  • Madame Monodon
  • Maelstrom
  • Magic Wand
  • Major Molar
  • Make Believe
  • Marble
  • Marquis de Mer
  • Maypole
  • Meltwater
  • Melville Bay
  • Merlin
  • Mermaid's Pony
  • Mermicorn
  • Midnight Sun
  • Milk Tooth
  • Minky
  • Mint Chip
  • Miss Twist
  • Mister Pointy
  • Molar
  • Monoceros
  • Monodon
  • Monty Monodon
  • Morse
  • Mother of Pearl
  • Mottle
  • Mr. Narwhal
  • Mrs. Narwhal
  • Murmur
  • Musketeer
  • Myth

N: 54 names

  • Nacre
  • Náhvalur
  • Nancy Narwhal
  • Nar Nar
  • Narbert
  • Narchibald
  • Narcissus
  • Nardo
  • Narhval
  • Narla
  • Narluga
  • Narnold
  • Nartholomew
  • Narval
  • Narvalo
  • Narwal
  • Narwally
  • Narwhal Nugget
  • Narwhalbert
  • Narwhaldo
  • Narwhaleigh
  • Narwhalentine
  • Narwhalexander
  • Narwhalicious
  • Narwhalicorn
  • Narwhalina
  • Narwhalloween
  • Narwhalnut
  • Narwhalter
  • Narwhaltz
  • Narwhat
  • Narwho
  • Narwhy
  • Narwilla
  • Narwin
  • Narwonderful
  • Natasha Narwhal
  • Nautilus
  • Nelson Narwhal
  • Neptune's Unicorn
  • Nico Narwhal
  • Nigel Narwhal
  • Nilas
  • Nimue
  • Noodle the Narwhal
  • Nora Narwhal
  • Norbert Narwhal
  • North Water
  • Northwest Passage
  • Not a Myth
  • Not a Swordfish
  • Numero Uno
  • Nuna
  • Nuuk

O: 8 names

  • Odontocete
  • Old Corkscrew
  • Old Whitey
  • Oliver Twist
  • Once Upon a Tide
  • One Horn
  • One Tooth
  • Open Lead

P: 39 names

  • Pack Ice
  • Paint Fleck
  • Paladin
  • Pan Flute
  • Parfait
  • Parry
  • Pearly White
  • Pebble
  • Pebbledash
  • Peel Sound
  • Pendragon
  • Pennant
  • Peppercorn
  • Pickle
  • Pike
  • Pillow
  • Pinto
  • Plop
  • Plot Twist
  • Plushy
  • Pod
  • Podcast
  • Podrick
  • Pointer
  • Pointy
  • Pokey
  • Polar Cod
  • Polar Night
  • Polka Dot
  • Polynya
  • Pom Pom
  • Pond Inlet
  • Pookie
  • Poppyseed
  • Porthos
  • Pressure Ridge
  • Presto
  • Princess Polynya
  • Professor Spiral

Q: 6 names

  • Qilalugaq
  • Quail Egg
  • Queen of the Floe Edge
  • Quicksilver
  • Quill
  • Quixote

R: 12 names

  • Radar
  • Rainbow Wake
  • Rapier
  • Real Deal
  • Really Real
  • Ringlet
  • Riposte
  • Ripple
  • Rocinante
  • Rock Candy
  • Rotini
  • Round Table

S: 61 names

  • Sabre
  • Sastrugi
  • Scepter
  • Scooter
  • Scoresby
  • Screwball
  • Sea Myth
  • Sea Salt
  • Sea Smoke
  • Sea Song
  • Sea Unicorn
  • Seanicorn
  • Sergeant Skewer
  • Sermeq
  • Shanty
  • Shoehorn
  • Shuga
  • Sinistral
  • Sir Cumference
  • Sir Joustalot
  • Sir Lance-a-Lot
  • Sir Pokes-a-Lot
  • Sir Prise
  • Sir Swims-a-Lot
  • Sir Tusks-a-Lot
  • Skewer
  • Skipper Spike
  • Smidge
  • Smith Sound
  • Smudge

S, continued

  • Snaggletooth
  • Snowcone
  • Snuggle
  • Snugglefin
  • Soft Serve
  • Soggy Unicorn
  • Solo
  • Southpaw
  • Sparkle Tooth
  • Spearmint
  • Speck
  • Speckled Egg
  • Spike
  • Spindle
  • Spiral
  • Splatter
  • Splish
  • Splosh
  • Sprinkle
  • Spritz
  • Squeaky
  • Squire
  • Squish
  • Stormcloud
  • Storybook
  • Stracciatella
  • Stuffing
  • Sugar Cone
  • Sweet Tooth
  • Swizzle
  • Swizzle Stick

T: 45 names

  • Tall Tale
  • Tariuq
  • Tasiilaq
  • Tater Tot
  • Terrazzo
  • The Deep Diver
  • The Ice Whisperer
  • The One and Only
  • Thule
  • Thunderhead
  • Tide Crack
  • Tilt
  • Tiltyard
  • Tin Whistle
  • Tooth Be Told
  • Tooth Fairy
  • Tooth Hurty
  • Toothpick
  • Toothsome
  • Toothy
  • Top Spin
  • Tornado
  • Touché
  • Tourney
  • Trill
  • Tristan
  • Turbot
  • Tusk Force
  • Tusk Master
  • Tusk Tusk
  • Tuskadero
  • Tuskaloo
  • Tuskany
  • Tuskarella
  • Tusker
  • Tuskerton
  • Tusketeer
  • Tusky
  • Tuugaalik
  • Twilight Zone
  • Twirl
  • Twist
  • Twist and Shout
  • Twister
  • Twizzle

U: 12 names

  • Uncle Uni
  • Under the Tuskan Sun
  • Uni
  • Unicorn Adjacent
  • Unicorn Cousin
  • Unicorn of the Sea
  • Unicorn Swirl
  • Unicornio
  • Unicorny
  • Uno
  • Upernavik
  • Uummannaq

V: 2 names

  • Velveteen
  • Viscount Vortex

W: 11 names

  • Waffle Cone
  • Waggle
  • Warden of the Floe
  • Water Sky
  • Wavelet
  • White Knight
  • Whorl
  • Wintergreen
  • Wisdom Tooth
  • Wishbone
  • Wriggle