Zelda Horse Name Generator

Naming a horse in Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom is a small ritual: you sneak up on a wild mount in Upland Zorana or the Taobab Grassland, soothe it, ride it to a stable, and the stable hand asks what to call it. The game gives you very little room, so the best Zelda horse names are short and punchy. Epona is the obvious pick for a chestnut with a white mane, but Hyrule is full of ready-made names: regions like Akkala, Hebra and Tabantha, the Champions Mipha, Daruk, Revali and Urbosa, the three dragons Dinraal, Naydra and Farosh, and the Horse God Malanya himself.

BOTW players also reach for the game's ingredient list, which happens to be full of excellent horse names: Voltfruit, Stamella, Hydromelon, Rushroom, Sundelion. A spotted horse can be Freckle or Pinto, a black one Midnight or Onyx, and the big Ganon-style Giant Horse from Taobab is traditionally called something like Chonk, Bruiser or simply Ganondorf. Series veterans pull from older games too: Malon, Romani, Ordon, Ikana, Termina and the Ocarina warp songs Bolero, Minuet and Serenade.

The list mixes lore names from every era of the series with coat-colour and personality names that suit a real horse, so you can match the name to the animal you actually caught.