Guinea Pig Names

Female guinea pigs make great pets and apart from buying all the bits and pieces you need for your new female guinea pig the first thing you ll want to do is to find a name that suits her whether you have a baby guinea pig or you ve just adopted a mature lady piggy and are looking to re name her we will have the perfect name for your pet somewhere in our list.

Guinea pig names. Their scientific name cavia porcellus is often shortened to simply cavy singular cavies plural or cavia. There are a couple of ways a guinea pig can help choose a name. Despite their common name of guinea pig guinea pigs are not actually pigs at all. He really suits that name as he has the colouring of a jaffa cake orange and chocolate.

This is because if you live with a guinea pig of each sex they will most likely breed frequently resulting in dozens of small guinea pigs. In fact they are more closely related to porcupines than pork. If you have an outgoing piggy have a few friends sit in a circle assign a name to each person and place the guinea pig in the middle. Unique guinea pig names curly fluffy frisky furball hop or hopper patches rumble scamper scooter scurry shaggy silkie squeak or squeaker toots tweety twitter wheek whistler whizzer zipper.

Now here are our favorite names for guinea pigs ideal for those individuals with peculiar personalities. Miss piggy pigfoot peppa or pork chop you can t go wrong with any of these monikers. Good guinea pig names ruffles teddy cleopatra noel butterscotch finn paco tiny sapphire efran sheeply amory taima. Guinea pigs aren t technically pigs but the names sure are adorable.

Remember that guinea pigs love to have a friend as they can be sad and lonely on their own. Examples include pig newton pigson ablanket and new guinea. Our favorite name guinea weasley miss piggy whiskey dave gnasher giganto squeaky tooty tank pippy podgeball rambo peppa guinea pig squealer meatball kurt bacon dumbo cheeks tic tac porky guinea and tonic jaws bonkers lion nibbles bruce groucho reeces guinea wijnaldum pieces princess snickerdoodle. The guinea pig takes on the name of the person it goes to first.

Some of the funniest most creative guinea pig names are punny. In case you want to have more than one ideally choose two females or two males. We ve rounded up the best guinea pig names for girls boys pairs and several.