Only the Best Hen Names Will Do for Your Clucky Girls

Terri Robertson
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Move over, farmers! All over suburbia, keeping up with the Joneses has come to mean becoming more self-sufficient than the guy next door.

The homesteading hobby is inspiring people to explore growing their own food, taking up beekeeping, and figuring out composting. Speaking of the latter, more folks than ever are also adopting flocks of chickens. Sure, the eggs are a perk, but chickens are also great composters for leftovers—they eat almost anything, including bugs!—and then you can use their waste in the compost pile or as fertilizer.

Before you join the cluck-cluck club, it’s important to do your due diligence—make sure that your neighborhood association allows for chickens and that you have the room and bandwidth to care for them. Once you get the green light and have a pretty good idea of what goes into caring for happy feathered friends, you can start looking at fancy coops, figure out what breeds you want, and load up on egg cartons.

It’s also high time to think of chicken names for your flock, and of course only the best hen names will do. Lucky for you, we’ve done some of the heavy lifting and put together an eggcellent list, including plenty of cute and funny names for hens, from clever puns to famous celebrities and characters to name them after.

The Best Hen Names A – Z

  • Adrienne Broody

  • Audrey Henburn

  • Beak Arthur

  • Beakyonce

  • Bellatrix Lestrange

  • Betsy Ross

  • Betty Draper

  • Blue Ivy

  • Brahma Mama

  • Bubbles

  • Buttercup

  • Chick Lit

  • Chicken Little

  • Clarice Starling

  • Cluck Norris

  • Coco Chanel

  • Daisy Duke

  • Dear Prudence

  • Debra Winger

  • Egga Swiatek

  • Eggery Peck

  • Eggin’ Trainor

  • Eggy Azalea

  • Ellen Leghorn

  • Emma Woodhouse

  • Fancy

  • Feather Locklear

  • Featherette

  • Flossiex

  • Fluff Stuff

  • Foxy Brown

  • Franny

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  • Gertrude

  • Ginger Spice

  • Gwyneth Poultry

  • Gypsy Rose Lee

  • Hen Solo

  • Henjamin Button

  • Hennesse Williams

  • Hennifer Lopez

  • Henn Close

  • Henn Garner

  • Hennah

  • Henna Hopper

  • Henny Lamar

  • Henny Penny

  • Henrietta James

  • Holly Combs

  • Jody Wattles

  • Kate Bockensdale

  • Kid Amrock

  • Kim Deal

  • Kris Henner

  • Lady Cluck

  • Lady Gaga

  • Lady Lay

  • Lady Marmalade

  • Lay Bailey Hutchison

  • Layla

  • Little Miss Sunshine

  • Liz Lemon

  • Mabel

  • Madame Bovary

  • Madge

  • Maria Von Flap

  • Megg March

  • Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

  • Miss Marple

  • Miss Piggy

  • Miss Scarlett

  • Mona Lisa

  • Mother Clucker

  • Mrs. Cooper

  • Mrs. Robinson

  • Nesting Doll

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  • Oprah Wingfree

  • Pecky (with the good hair)

  • Plume Sykes

  • Posh Spice

  • Princess Layer

  • Queenie

  • Rosemary

  • Ruth Brooder Ginsburg

  • Sadie Hawkins

  • Sassy

  • Scary Spice

  • Shelly Silverstein

  • Silvia Silkie

  • Speedy Chick

  • Sporty Spice

  • Squawky Balboa

  • Tammy Wynadotte

  • Teri Hatcher

  • Tres Chick

  • Tweety Pie

  • Usain Molt

  • Virginia

  • Waka Flocka Flame

  • Yolko Ono

  • Zooey

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