Deer Names
Names that mean deer, deer-like, buck, hind, doe, fawn, and other deer-related names.

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DEER NAMES: 

• UNISEX:

  1. DARBY: "Deer farm." English surname transferred to unisex forename use, composed of Old Norse diur "deer" and Danish -by or Old Norse býr "farm."

  2. DERBY: Variant of English unisex Darby, meaning "deer farm."

  3. HARTLEY: "Deer wood." English surname transferred to unisex forename use, composed of the Old English elements heorot "hart, male deer" and leah "clearing, wood."

  4. ISI: Unisex Native American Choctaw name meaning "deer." 

  5. OFRA: Variant of Hebrew unisex Ophrah, meaning "young fawn; young mountain." 

  6. OPHRAH: Hebrew unisex name derived from the biblical name of a descendant of Judah and a city in Manasseh, meaning "young fawn; young mountain." 
  7. OPRAH: Feminine variant of Hebrew unisex Ophrah, meaning "young fawn; young mountain."

• MALE:

  1. AYAL: Hebrew name meaning "deer, gazelle." 

  2. BUCK: From the American English nickname for a "high-spirited young man," itself from the word for a "male deer or goat." 

  3. DEVEN: Variant of English Devin, meaning "fawn."

  4. DEVIN: Irish surname transferred to English forename use, itself from Gaelic Ó Damháin, "descendant of Damhán," a byname meaning "fawn."

  5. EYAL: Variant of Hebrew Ayal, meaning "deer, gazelle." 

  6. HERSCHEL: Pet form of Yiddish Hirsh, meaning "deer."
  7. HERSH: Variant of Yiddish Hirsh, meaning "deer."
  8. HERSHEL: Variant of Yiddish Herschel, meaning "deer."

  9. HESHEL: Variant of Yiddish Herschel, meaning "deer."  

  10. HIRSH: Yiddish name meaning "deer." 

  11. HIRSHEL: Variant of Yiddish Herschel, meaning "deer." 

  12. HJORTUR (Hjörtur): Icelandic name meaning "deer." 

  13. OISIN (Oisín): "Little deer." Irish myth name of a son of Fionn mac Cumhail, composed of the element os "deer" and a diminutive suffix.

  14. ÓSCAR: Spanish form of Irish Oscar, meaning "deer-lover."  

  15. ÓSCAR: Spanish form of Irish Oscar, meaning "deer-lover."
  16. ŇSCAR: Catalan form of Irish Oscar, meaning "deer-lover."
  17. OSCAR: "Deer-lover." Irish name composed of the Gaelic elements os "deer" and cara "lover."
  18. OSHEEN: English form of Irish Oisín, meaning "little deer."
  19. ÓSKAR: Icelandic form of Irish Oscar, meaning "deer-lover."
  20. OSKAR: Polish and Scandinavian form of Irish Oscar, meaning "deer-lover."
  21. OSKARI: Finnish form of Irish Oscar, meaning "deer-lover."
  22. OSKARS: Latvian form of Irish Oscar, meaning "deer-lover."
  23. OSKU: Nickname for Finnish Oskari, meaning "deer-lover."
  24. OSSIAN: Variant of Irish Oisín, meaning "little deer."
  25. OSZKAR (Oszkár): Hungarian form of Irish Oscar, meaning "deer-lover."
  26. ROSCOE: "Roe-deer wood." English surname transferred to forename use, itself from a place name composed of the Old Norse elements rá "roe-deer" and skógr "copse, wood."

  27. TZVI: Hebrew name meaning "deer."  

• FEMALE:

  1. AWENTIA: Variant of Cherokee Awinita, meaning "fawn."
  2. AWINITA: Native American Cherokee name meaning "fawn."
  3. AYALA: Feminine form of Hebrew Ayal, meaning "deer; gazelle."
  4. AYALAH: Variant of Hebrew Ayala, meaning "deer; gazelle."

  5. AYELET: Hebrew name derived from a name for the morning star, meaning "deer; gazelle."

  6. CEREN: Turkish name meaning "young gazelle."

  7. DAMHNAIT: "Little fawn." Irish/Gaelic name composed of the word damh "fawn" and a diminutive suffix.

  8. DEVNET: English form of Irish/Gaelic Damhnait, meaning "little fawn." 

  9. DORCAS: Greek biblical form of Aramaic Tabitha, meaning "gazelle." See Acts 9:36 in the New Testament.
  10. DORCIA: Variant of Greek Dorcas, meaning "gazelle."
  11. DORKAS: Variant of Greek Dorcas, meaning "gazelle."
  12. DYMPHNA: English form of Irish/Gaelic Damhnait, meaning "little fawn."
  13. DYMPNA: Variant of English Dymphna, meaning "little fawn."
  14. ELAIN: Welsh name meaning "fawn."
  15. ELAINE: Old French form of Helen, meaning "torch" or "moon" or more likely "to elope." In Malory's Morte D'Arthur (Death of Arthur), this is the name of the tragic figure who dies of grief because Sir Lancelot is unable to return her love. Because most Arthurian legend names are of Celtic origin, some etymologists believe that the name Elaine may originally have derived from a Welsh element meaning "fawn, hind."

  16. ENEH (Enéh): Hungarian legend name of the mother of the Hungarian people, possibly meaning "deer."

  17. ENIKO (Enikő): Hungarian named derived from Enéh, possibly meaning "deer."

  18. FAWN: Rare but existing English forename derived from the vocabulary word meaning "baby deer."
  19. FAWNA: Variant of English Fawn, meaning "baby deer."

  20. MARAL: Armenian name meaning "deer." 

  21. NIABI: Native American Osage name meaning "fawn."

  22. OSSIA: Feminine form of Irish Ossian, meaning "little deer."

  23. RASHA: Arabic name meaning "young gazelle."

  24. SHIKA: Japanese name meaning "gentle deer."

  25. TABATHA: English variant of Aramaic Tabitha, meaning "gazelle."

  26. TABBY: English pet form of Aramaic Tabitha, meaning "gazelle."

  27. TABEA: German pet form of Aramaic Tabitha, meaning "gazelle."

  28. TABITHA: Aramaic biblical name meaning "gazelle." The Greeks translated this name to Dorcas in the New Testament. See Acts 9:36.

  29. TIBBY: English pet form of Aramaic Tabitha, meaning "gazelle." 

  30. YEGHNIG: Armenian name meaning "hind; red deer."

  31. ZIBIAH: Hebrew biblical name meaning "deer."