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500 platypus names for a plush, a mascot, a story character or a zoo animal: bill puns like Electric Bill, odd-one-out names like Spare Parts and Paradox, egg names like Custard, puggle names, and Australian rivers such as Derwent and Murrumbidgee.

About platypus names

The platypus looks as if a committee designed it: a duck's bill, a beaver's tail, an otter's body and webbed feet. When the first specimen reached Britain around 1799, naturalists suspected a hoax and looked for stitches. It is real, and stranger than it looks. It is a monotreme, one of the few mammals that lay eggs, it finds food underwater with its eyes shut by sensing electric signals with its bill, and the male carries a venomous spur on each hind ankle.

Each of those facts is a strand of this list. The bill gives Electric Bill, Fits the Bill and Snooter. The mixed-up body gives Odd One Out, Spare Parts, Paradox and Not a Duck. The eggs, and the milk that follows them, give Good Egg, Nest Egg and Custard, and the electric sense gives Sparky, Faraday and Sixth Sense.

The rest is home. Platypuses live in the rivers and creeks of eastern Australia and Tasmania, so the list has waters and towns from that range (Murrumbidgee, Derwent, Eungella, Latrobe), creek and dusk words (Riffle, Bubble Trail, Gloaming) and friendly Australian slang (Bonzer, Little Battler, You Beauty). A baby platypus is popularly called a puggle, hence Puggle, Pugglet and Jellybean, and the word itself gives Splatypus, Platypup and Platypodes.

How to choose platypus names

Pick the fact you like best and name from it: Electric Bill for the sensing bill, Custard for the eggs and milk, Spurs for a male, Spare Parts for the whole design.
For a plush toy, the puggle names are the softest: Puggle, Pugglet, Jellybean, Butterbean, Snuggle Puggle.
A river name is a quiet choice for a story character or a zoo animal. Derwent, Tumut, Kiewa and Meander are short and easy to say, and a long one such as Murrumbidgee is worth saying out loud before you commit.
For a pair, take two names from one strand: Volt and Watt, Hatch and Clutch, Dusk and Daybreak, Eggbert and Eggward.
Australian slang reads as friendly, but look a word up before it goes on a sign. Ratbag and Scallywag are affectionate at home and may need explaining elsewhere.

Frequently asked questions

What are good names for a platypus?

The best ones use something only a platypus has. Electric Bill, Paradox, Good Egg, Sparky and Not a Duck are all in this list, along with river names such as Derwent and Yarra. For a small or soft one, try Puggle, Jellybean or Platypup.

What is a baby platypus called?

There is no official word, but puggle is the popular one, borrowed from the name used for baby echidnas. A newly hatched platypus is about the size of a bean, which is why the list has Jellybean, Lima Bean and Butterbean next to Puggle, Puggles and Pugglet.

Why are there so many electric names?

A platypus hunts underwater with its eyes, ears and nostrils closed. Receptors in its bill pick up the faint electric signals that small animals give off when they move, so it can find a meal in muddy water. That sense is behind Sparky, Volt, Faraday, Live Wire and Sixth Sense. Glow and Blacklight come from another oddity: platypus fur glows blue-green under ultraviolet light.

Is the plural platypuses or platypi?

Platypuses is the standard plural. Platypi treats a Greek word as if it were Latin, and the strictly Greek plural would be platypodes. All three are in the list as names, Platypuses, Platypi and Platypodes, for anyone naming a set.

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All 500 platypus 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: 6 names

Acorn
Albumen
Ampere
Anatinus
Ankle Biter
Atherton

B: 45 names

Backwater
Baker's Dozen
Bank Manager
Bank Teller
Barbie
Baron von Bill
Barrington
Barron
Barwon
Battery
Battler
Bean Sprout
Beaverduck
Beavertail
Bellinger
Bellyflop
Bemboka
Benedict
Beta Version
Big Bill
Bill Me Later
Bill of Sale
Billable Hours
Billboard
Billiam
Bits and Bobs
Black Stump
Blacklight
Bombala
Bonzer
Boogie Board
Bow Wave
Brickie
Bright Spark
Broken River
Brook
Bubble Trail
Bubs
Burnett
Burnie
Burrows
Bush Telegraph
Bushwalker
Butterbean
Buzzer

C: 30 names

Caddis
Canoe
Captain Custard
Carnarvon
Charger
Check Please
Chimera
Chippy
Chockers
Chrissie
Circuit
Clarence
Clean Bill
Clutch
Combo Meal
Committee
Condamine
Conundrum
Cork Hat
Cotter
Cowboy Boots
Coxswain
Cradle Mountain
Creekbed
Crème Brûlée
Crepuscular
Crumb
Curio
Current
Custard

D: 28 names

Damselfly
Daybreak
Deep End
Deep Pool
Deloraine
Democracy Sausage
Derwent
Design by Committee
Detector
Digger
Dimmer
Dinky-Di
Doctor Monotreme
Dog Paddle
Dollar Bill
Doohickey
Dot Com
Dowser
Dragonfly
Drover
Duck Dive
Duck Face
Duck-ish
Duckbill
Dugout
Duke of the Derwent
Dusk
Dynamo

E: 25 names

Easter Egg
Echidna's Cousin
Egg Custard
Egg Roll
Egg Timer
Eggbert
Eggcellent
Eggcup
Egghead
Eggnog Latte
Eggplant
Eggs Benedict
Eggshell
Eggstra
Eggward
Eggy
Electric Bill
Electrode
Enigma
Esky
Eucumbene
Eungella
Evening Dip
Excavator
Eyes Shut

F: 22 names

Fabergé
Fairy Floss
Faraday
Fat Tail
Final Notice
Finch Hatton
Firie
First Draft
First Light
Fits the Bill
Flan
Flat Tail
Flatypus
Fluoro
Foots the Bill
Ford
French Toast
Frittata
Frogman
Fruit Salad
Fuse
Fusion

G: 19 names

Galoshes
Galvani
Geeveston
Gellibrand
Giddy Up
Gigawatt
Gippsland
Gizmo
Gloaming
Gloop
Glow
Glowstick
Glowworm
Good Egg
Good Onya
Good Sort
Goulburn
Grampians
Gumboots

H: 20 names

Half Dozen
Half Pint
Half Portion
Hard Boiled
Hatch
Hatchback
Hatchling
Hawkesbury
Healesville
Heaps Good
Hidey Hole
Highlighter
Hoax
Hodgepodge
Honker
Hornbill
Humpty
Hundreds and Thousands
Huon
Hybrid

I: 1 name

Icy Pole

J: 6 names

Jack of All Trades
Jellybean
Jenolan
Jindabyne
Joule
Jumble

K: 5 names

Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Valley
Kiddo
Kiewa
Kilowatt

L: 11 names

Lady Latrobe
Lake Elizabeth
Lake St Clair
Latrobe
Leather Bill
Leftovers
Lima Bean
Little Battler
Little Paddler
Live Wire
Logjam

M: 43 names

Mackintosh
Macleay
Maidenhair
Malanda
Maleny
Mashup
Mayfly
Mayor of the Mudbank
Meander
Meat Pie
Medley
Megawatt
Mersey
Metal Detector
Milk and Eggs
Milk Patch
Milkshake
Milky
Minnow
Mishmash
Mitta Mitta
Mix and Match
Mixed Bag
Molonglo
Monotreme
Monotreme Supreme
Moonrise
Morsel
Mossy
Mozzie
Mr. Platypus
Mud Pie
Mudbank
Muddle
Muddy Boots
Mudlark
Mudskipper
Multitool
Munchkin
Murky
Murrumbidgee
Muso
Mystery Box

N: 14 names

Neon
Nepean
Nest Egg
Nibble
Night Swim
Nightfall
Nipper
No Stitches
Not a Beaver
Not a Duck
Not a Duckling
Not a Hoax
Not an Otter
Nymboida

O: 14 names

Oar
Oarsman
Obi Obi
Odd Bod
Odd One Out
Oddball
Oddity
Odds and Ends
Ohm
Omelette
Ornitho
Ornithorhynchus
Ovens
Over Easy

P: 66 names

Paddle Steamer
Paddler
Paddlewheel
Paradox
Paradoxus
Part Duck
Parts Bin
Past Due
Peanut
Percival Platypus
Phone Bill
Piggy Bank
Pint Size
Pip the Platypus
Plat du Jour
Plateau
Platilda
Platinum
Platitude
Platonic
Platoon
Platricia
Platrick
Platter
Platterson
Platthew
Platty
Platty Cakes
Platty Melt
Platy
Platykins
Platypal
Platypaws

P, continued

Platypi
Platypie
Platypodes
Platypuddle
Platypuff
Platypup
Platypuses
Platypuss
Poached
Pocket
Polly Platypus
Possum
Postie
Potluck
Power Bill
Power Point
Prawn
Pressie
Professor Paradox
Proof of Concept
Prototype
Pudding
Puggins
Puggle
Puggle Bug
Puggle Wuggle
Puggles
Pugglet
Puggleton
Puggsley
Puggy
Punt
Puzzle

Q: 3 names

Queanbeyan
Quiche
Quirk

R: 19 names

Radar
Raincoat
Ratbag
Receiver
Reeds
Rellie
Remix
Riddle
Ridgy-Didge
Riffle
Rill
Ripples
Riverbank
Rivulet
Rough Draft
Rowboat
Rubber Bill
Rudder
Runnel

S: 61 names

Sample Platter
Sanga
Sausage Roll
Scallywag
Schnoz
Scramble
Scuba
Sculler
Sedge
Seeing Is Believing
Servo
Shallow End
Shallows
Shelly
Shoalhaven
Shoebill
Short Circuit
Short Stack
Shortcake
Shrimp
Signal
Silly Sausage
Silt
Sir Platsalot
Sixth Sense
Sleek
Slosh
Small Fry
Smorgasbord
Snag

S, continued

Snoot
Snooter
Snorkel
Snowy River
Snuggle Puggle
Socket
Soft Boiled
Some Assembly Required
Soufflé
Spare Parts
Spark
Sparky
Speck
Splatypus
Split the Bill
Splodge
Sploosh
Sprog
Spur
Spurs
Squelch
Static
Static Cling
Still Water
Stone the Crows
Stonefly
Stud Finder
Sunny Side
Swag
Swaggie
Sweet As

T: 30 names

Tadpole
Tambo
Tarkine
Tesla
Thimble
Thingamabob
Thingamajig
Three in One
Three Minute Egg
Tidbinbilla
Tiddler
Tingle
Tinny
Titch
Top Billing
Top Bloke
Tot
Trackies
Tradie
Trail Mix
Treasure
Tree Fern
Triple Threat
Trowel
Truckie
Tuckerbag
Tumut
Tunneler
Tuppence Worth
Twilight

U: 1 name

V: 4 names

Velvet
Volt
Volta
Voltage

W: 19 names

Warrawee
Water Bill
Water Boatman
Waterproof
Watt
Web Designer
Webb
Webbed Wonder
Webfoot
Webmaster
Wee One
Weir
Wetsuit
Whatsit
Widget
Wimmera
Wollondilly
Work in Progress
World Wide Webb

Y: 6 names

Yarra
Yeah Nah
Yes Really
Yolky
You Beauty
Yungaburra

Z: 2 names

Zap
Zappy