40 Southern Chicken Names for Your Favorite Bird

Four score and seven years ago, a stately chicken ruled the roost.

A name for only your most stylish chicken.

The friendliest chicken in the house.

Good old Billie—save this name for the friendliest chicken on the block. 

Because Billie needs a lady friend. 

Alternatively, go for Beau if you're feeling particularly inspired by Margaret Mitchell. 

The only prerequisite is that the chicken must be positively dashing.

This chicken is sure to be a national treasure.

A name for your sassiest, sultriest chicken, and no less.

This is a chicken who has moves.

All we can say is we hope the meat isn't chewy.

Superhero chicken? Don't mind if we do.

The ideal moniker for the chicken that's always getting into fights.

Don't keep your chickens too cooped up, though. 

A fun name for a spring chicken. 

Does it get more Southern than this? 

Fit for your preening rooster. 

Save this one for the dirtiest chicken. 

This chicken is possibly old, but not unkind. 

For the chicken crafting the novel about the missing eggs.

Alternately, your darker feathered friends could be known as Raven.

We're imagining this chicken is the motherly hen of the house. 

A fitting name for the most flaxen chicken of the flock. 

Friendly, solid, and rolls nicely off the tongue. 

A nice, proper name for your favorite pet. 

This chicken will need a sidekick, and you can name it Millennium.

We're not laughing, you're laughing. 

Like the capital of Mississippi. 

Eggs are the essential ingredient, after all. 

Let's just say this chicken may have woken up on the wrong side of the hen house.

For the hen that won't stay quiet. 

Should we say...Pâté?

Save this one for your grouchy, touchy chicken. 

How fast can you say chicken sandwich?

In color only. 

Gone With the Wind fans, this is for you. 

The literary types will appreciate the nod to the beloved narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Short and sweet.

Calling this name makes it impossible not to smile. 

An artistic bird would be deserving of the name…perhaps the one that lays the most colorful eggs.