16 baby animal names rated "hard" difficulty — rare and surprising names like puggle, porcupette, and hoglet. Test your knowledge!
Baby: Puggle
"Puggle" — one of the cutest and rarest baby animal names! Originally used for baby echidnas (the other egg-laying mammal), it was later adopted for baby platypuses too. Both are monotremes — the only mammals that lay eggs.
🐋Baby: Calf
🐡Baby: Fry
"Fry" from Old English "fry" meaning offspring or seed. Used for baby fish because they emerge in large numbers like seeds.
🐙Baby: Hatchling
"Hatchling" literally means "one that hatches" — used for any animal born from an egg, from octopuses to turtles to birds.
🐿️Baby: Kit
🦡Baby: Kit
🦃Baby: Poult
"Poult" from French "poulet" (chicken) — originally meant any young domestic fowl. Turkeys got this name because they were classified alongside chickens as poultry.
🦡Baby: Kit (Cub)
🦡Baby: Cub
🐍Baby: Snakelet
"Snakelet" from "snake" + "-let" (diminutive suffix). Also called "neonates" in scientific contexts. One of the less commonly known baby names.
🪼Baby: Ephyra
🪰Baby: Nymph
🦅Baby: Eyas
"Eyas" from Old French "niais" (nestling) — a medieval falconry term for a young hawk taken from the nest before it can fly. One of the rarest baby animal names in English.
🦎Baby: Larva
🐦Baby: Squab
"Squab" from Old French "esquab" (fat pigeon) — originally meant a plump pigeon ready for eating, later narrowed to mean a baby pigeon.
🦟Baby: Wriggler