350+ Famous Horse Names from Movies, Books, History and More

Are you looking for the perfect horse name? Whether you are a new or experienced horse owner, this list of 350+ famous horse names is sure to inspire you.

From celebrities and athletes to historical figures and fictional characters, this comprehensive list has something for everyone.

So saddle up and get ready for some serious name inspiration!

Famous Race Horse Names

• Kingston
• Night Raid
• Zippy Chippy
• Goldsmith Maid
• Bernborough
• Sunday Silence
• Moifaa
• Eclipse
• Whirlaway
• Allez France
• Pleasant Colony
• Peter Pan
• Phar Lap
• Nijinsky II
• Yeats
• Hurricane Fly
• California Chrome
• Invasor
• Northern Dancer
• Tanya
• Quevega
• Black Caviar
• Brigadier Gerard
• Jay Trump
• Voltaire
• Longfellow
• Dawn Run
• Sunline
• Archer
• Cardigan Bay
• Desert Gold
• Kissin George
• Beholder
• Zev
• Seabiscuit
• Tiznow
• Zenyatta
• Exterminator
• Best Mate
• Shergar

• Sea Bird
• Bold Forbes
• Aristides
• Tonalist
• Animal Kingdom
• Roy Olcott
• Genuine Risk
• Ajax
• La Troienne
• Deep Impact
• Citation
• Funny Cide
• Cigar
• Sir Winston
• Fair Play
• War Of Will
• Mahubah
• Smarty Jones
• Gloaming
• Tuscalee
• Zabeel
• John Henry
• Storm Cat
• Nasrullah
• Your Host
• Unbridled’s Song
• Assault
• Seattle Slew
• American Pharoah
• Bold Ruler
• Kingston Town
• Curlin
• Johnstown
• Kindergarten
• Kelso
• Alydar
• Native Dancer
• Sleipnir
• Orfevre
• Secretariat
• Crisp
• Isonomy
• Castleshane

• Varenne
• Flyingbolt
• Mr. Prospector
• Unbreakable
• Vo Rouge
• Hyperion:
• Needles
• Isinglass
• Easy Goer
• Big Brown
• Queensway
• Might and Power
• War Admiral
• I’ll Have Another
• Rachel Alexandra
• Adios
• Sardar
• Spectacular Bid
• Affirmed
• Kincsem
• Dr. Fager
• Unbridled
• Niatross
• Country House
• Maximum Security
• Overdose
• Frankel
• Bret Hanover
• Makybe Diva
• Hastings
• Iroquois
• Man o’ War
• Eight Belles
• Winning Colors
• Rock Sand
• Adios Butler
• Sea the Stars
• Gainsborough
• Ruffian
• Galileo
• Desert Orchid
• Regret
• Justify

• Bucephalus
• Buckpasser
• Skewball
• Red Rum
• Silky Sullivan
• Danehill
• Xaar
• Golden Miller
• Round Table
• Lottery
• Arrogate
• Dan Patch
• Twenty Grand
• Go Man Go
• Hambletonian 10
• Irish War Cry
• Carbine
• Greyhound
• Winx
• Swale
• Real Quiet
• Whistlejacket
• Lookin At Lucky
• Ribot
• Vain
• Zaccio
• Steel Dust
• Xtra Heat
• Dance Smartly
• Incitatus
• Barbaro
• Ruthless
• Whisk Broom II
• Two Lea
• Sadler’s Wells
• Lexington
• The Duke
• Arkle
• Doncaster
• Lonesome Glory
• Master Charlie
• Albatross
• Kalgoorlie Kid
• Wise Dan
• Ben Nevis

For more name ideas, view our complete list of famous racehorse names.

Famous Horses in Movies

• Little Blackie (True Grit)
• White Cloud (Caravan Trail)
• White Feller (The Lone Ranger)
• Old Thunder (The Big Country)
• Thunderhead (Thunderhead, King Of The Herd)
• Sunny (Aces Wild)
• Apache (Devil Horse)
• Pie (National Velvet)
• Goliath (Ladyhawke)
• Silver Bullet (Shadows Of The West)
• Joey (War Horse)
• Conquistador (The Littlest Outlaw)
• Dollar (The Shootist)
• Dover (My Fair Lady)
• Gulliver (The Horse Whisperer)
• April Love (April Love)
• Two Bits (Two Bits and Pepper)
• Antares (Ben-Hur)
• Blue Boy (Wrong Again)
• Gunpowder (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
• Stormy (Great Adventures Of Wild Bill Hickok)
• Sunshine (Western Trails)
• Napoleon (The Black Stallion)
• Altair (Ben-Hur)
• Beric (Knights of the Round Table)
• Tornado (Zorro)
• Tolo (The Long Shot)
• Phantom (Trigger Junior)
• Spirit (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron)
• Shadowfax (Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring)
• Big John (For Richer or Poorer)
• Crazy Alice (Cowboys)
• Dynamite (Zorro)
• Checkers (Moondance Alexander)
• Black Beauty (Black Beauty)
• Aldebaran (Ben-Hur)
• Pal (Law Of The Ranger)
• Samson (Sleeping Beauty)
• Diablo (Cisco Kid)
• Don (Hot to Trot)
• Sweetheart (Stagecoach)
• Sugar (These Thousand Hills)
• Sunfish (Bucking Broncho)
• Angus (Brave)
• Zane (Billy The Kid In Texas)
• Copper (Eddie Dean)
• Sheik (Panamint’s Bad Man)
• Chico (Land Of Wanted Men)
• Phillip (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
• Hidalgo (Hidalgo)

• Achilles (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
• Rusty (Dynamite Canyon)
• Taff/Bo (Ride a Wild Pony)
• Pepper (Two Bits and Pepper)
• Rigel (Ben-Hur)
• Bucephalus (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Alexander)
• Zip Cochise (El Dorado)
• Cactus (Sheriff Of Cimarron)
• Chub (Bonanza)
• Pardner (Battling Buddy)
• Tex (The Legend Of The Lone Ranger)
• Bad Horse (Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)
• Old Dollar (The Shootist)
• Duke (Ride Him Cowboy)
• Tumbleweed (Tumbleweed)
• Ollie (Maverick)
• Mr. Ed (Mr. Ed)
• Cisco (Dances with Wolves)
• Lightning (Western Heritage)
• Old Speed (Goin’ South)
• Pilgrim (The Horse Whisperer)
• Denny (The Man From Snowy River)
• Dice (Duel In The Sun)
• Buster (Bronco Billy)
• Sonny (My Outlaw Brother)
• Khartoum (The Godfather)
• Captain (101 dalmatians)
• Cochise (El Dorado)
• Maximus (Tangled)
• Gypsy (Gypsy Colt)
• Little Champ (Beyond The Purple Hills)
• Seabiscuit (Seabiscuit)
• Flash (Flash)
• Bad Jim (Bad Jim)
• Ginger (Black Beauty)
• Flicka (Flicka)
• Artax (The NeverEnding Story)
• Smokey (Moonlight On The Prairie)
• Sprout (The Parent Trap)
• Nurah and Thebes (The Ten Commandments)
• Concorde (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
• Sylvester (Sylvester)
• Goldie (Concentratin’ Kid)
• Taco (Riders Of The Range)
• Bear (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)
• Oliver Hardy (Flying Deuces)
• Senator (Ranchers And Rascals)
• Beau (True Grit)
• Frou-Frou (The Aristocats)
• Bullseye (Toy Story)

Check the full list of famous horse names inspired by movies.

Famous Western Horse Names

• Tony (Tom Mix)
• Goldie (Hoot Gibson)
• Dynamite (Zorro)
• Amigo (Peter Brown)
• Gipsy (Martin Kiss)
• Phantom (Roy Rogers)
• Silver Cloud (Hardy Murphy)
• Allen’s Gold Zepher (Roy Rogers)
• Starlight (Tim Mccoy)
• Rusty (Tom Keene)
• Banner (John Wayne)
• Ollie (Maverick)
• Ponca (Tom Mix)
• Pal (Bob Allen)
• El Loaner (James Garner)
• Tony Ii (Tom Mix)
• Sunfish (Lee Martin)
• Pardner (Buddy Roosevelt)
• Copper (Eddie Dean)
• Duke (John Wayne)
• Red Buck (Emmett Dalton)
• Silver (Buck Jones)
• Loco (Pancho)
• Old Speed (Jack Nicholson)
• Pete (Gary Cooper)
• Paint (The Lone Ranger)
• Sunshine(Bill Patton)
• Tumbleweed (Audie Murphy)
• Scar (James Stewart)
• Silver (The Lone Ranger)
• Old Blue (Tom Mix)
• Topper (Hopalong Cassidy)
• Smokey (Dick Foran)
• Cactus (Sunset Carson)
• Silver Bullet (Whip Wilson)
• Flash (Eddie Dean)
• Crazy Alice (Cowboys (1972)
• Buster (Clint Eastwood)
• Tornado (Zorro)
• Stormy (Wild Bill Elliott)
• Knight (Rod Cameron)
• Red Fox (Jesse James)
• Feather (Allan Lane)
• Tony Junior (Tom Mix)
• Phantom (Guy Williams)
• Koko (Rex Allen)

• Trigger Junior (Roy Rogers)
• Little Trigger (Roy Rogers)
• Falcon (Buster Crabbe)
• Old Dollar (John Wayne)
• White Feller (Tonto)
• White Flash (Tex Ritter)
• Bingo (Don Durant)
• Senator (Leo Maloney)
• Tex (Daniel Reed)
• Traveler (Robert Fulle)
• Scout (Jack Hoxie)
• Smoky (Lee Marvin)
• Raider (Charles Starrett)
• Chico (Bill Cody)
• Lightning (Tim Holt)
• Champion (Gene Autry)
• Comanche (Tom Mix)
• Zip Cochise (John Wayne)
• Sugar (Don Murray)
• Apache (Lash Larue)
• Tonka (Sal Mineo)
• Goodeye(Nat Love)
• Pie (James Stewart)
• Sheik (Smith Ballew)
• Candy (David Carradine)
• Sunny (Harry Carey)
• Target (Annie Oakley)
• Apache (Bob Baker)
• Dice (Gregory Peck)
• Taco (Chito Rafferty)
• Old Thunder (Gregory Peck)
• Thunderhead (Mary O’hara)
• Stardust (Gene Barry)
• Sweetheart (Stagecoach)
• Trigger (Roy Rogers)
• Thunderbolt (Johnny West)
• Black Jack (Allan Rocky Lane)
• Mesquite (Allan Rocky Lane)
• Whiskey (Kirk Douglas)
• Little Champ (Gene Autry)
• Apache (Tom Mix)
• Bad Jim (Billy The Kid)
• Sonny (Wild Bill Elliott)
• Zane(Bob Steele)
• Diablo (Cisco Kid)
• Buttermilk (Dale Evans)
• Henry (John Wayne)

Famous War Horse Names

• Sergeant Reckless (Decorated war horse who held official rank in the United States military)
• Marengo (Napoleon Bonaparte)
• Palomo (Simon Bolivar)
• Comanche (Captain Myles Keogh of the 7th Cavalry)
• Traveller (General Robert E. Lee)
• Smiler (Theon Greyjoy’s warhorse from “A Song of Ice and Fire”)
• Chetak (King Maharana Pratap)
• Bucephalus (Alexander the Great)
• Copenhagen (Lord Arthur Wellesly)
• Topthorn (War Horse by Michael Morpurgo)
• Altivo (Cortez’s warhorse from DreamWorks’ The Road to El Dorado)
• Joey (“War Horse” by Michael Morpurgo)
• Kasztanka (Marshal Jozef Pilsudski)
• Stranger (Sandor Clegane’s warhorse from “A Song of Ice and Fire”)
• Argo (from “Xena: Warrior Princess”)
• Tencendur (Charlemagne’s warhorse in “The Song of Roland”)
• Cincinnati (General Ulysses S. Grant)
• Dora (A war horse of Đurađ Senković)
• Favorito (The personal horse of Charles Albert of Savoy, King of Sardinia)
• Blueskin (Washington’s horse during the American Revolutionary War)
• Black Jack (The last Quartermaster-issued U.S. Army horse)
• Nelson (Washington’s horse during the American Revolutionary War)
• Babieca (Horse of El Cid)

Horses in Literature

• Black Beauty (“Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell)
• Figure (Justin Morgan Had a Horse)
• Oberon (The Mystery of Pony Hallow)
• The Phantom (Misty of Chincoteague)
• The Black (The Black Stallion)
• Glory (from Gene Markey’s short story)
• Boxer, Mollie, and Clover (from “Animal Farm” by George Orwell)
• Pollux (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)
• Monarch (from Jodie’s Journey)
• Glue-Boy (Dark Tower series by Stephen King)
• Jim (Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz)
• Ferd (This is Reality)
• Pilgrim (The Horse Whisperer)
• Snowfire (from Christopher Paolini’s “Eragon”)
• Shadowfax (Lord of the Rings)
• Cadoc (Eragon)
• Greatheart (from Robin McKinley’s novel “Beauty”)
• Fury (from John Steinbeck’s novel “The Red Pony”)
• Guido (a Pegasus from Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson”)
• Trojan Horse (Homer’s The Odyssey)
• Angharrad (Chaos Walking trilogy)
• Bless (Narcissus and Goldmund)
• Pips (Wheel of Time)
• Blessing (“The Secret Horse” by Gina Bertaina)
• Black Boy and Rapide (ponies from the series by Ruby Ferguson)
• Acorn (Chaos Walking series)
• Ginger (“Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell)
• Bronze (Creatures of Light and Darkness)
• Faran (The Elenium and The Tamuli)
• Flame (The Black Stallion series)
• Artax (The Neverending Story)
• Bela (The Wheel of Time series)
• Moonlight (the horse in the Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce)
• Sam and David (Little House on the Prairie)
• Sunchaser (The Unicorns Of Balinor)
• Kate and Bill (Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The First Four Years)
• Stayer and Stepper (The Wheel of Time series)
• Pied Piper (Misty of Chincoteague)
• Black Gold (from “Black Gold” by Marguerite Henry)
• Athansor (A Winter’s Tale)
• Binky (Discworld novels)
• Nara (The Dark Horse series by Mary H. Herbert)
• Persephone (House of Night)
• Thowra (Silver Brumby)
• Capilet (William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”)
• Sunfire (Ravenheart and Sorrowheart)
• Sunstorm (Ashleigh’s Hope)
• Secret (Gina Bertaina’s “The Secret Horse”)
• Whinney, Racer and Grey (from the Earth’s Children books)
• Smiler (warhorse from “A Song of Ice and Fire”)
• Joey (“War Horse” by Michael Morpurgo)
• Florian (Florian, the Emperor’s Horse)

• Silver Blaze (from the Sherlock Holmes stories)
• Lukas (in the Emil i Lönneberga series by Astrid Lindgren)
• Tencendur (warhorse in “The Song of Roland”)
• Trotsky (from the books by Betty MacDonald)
• Tug (a small horse/pony in the Ranger’s Apprentice series)
• Nana (the racehorse from novel “Nana”)
• Gypsy (Gypsy from Nowhere)
• Pylon (the Dark Tower series by Stephen King)
• Sham (King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry)
• Highboy (My Friend Flicka)
• Azarax (The Byerley Turk)
• Blaze (children’s books by Clarence William Anderson)
• Stranger (warhorse from “A Song of Ice and Fire”)
• Talat (The Hero and the Crown)
• Dagobaz (The Far Pavilions)
• Merrylegs (“Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell)
• Rusher (the Dark Tower series by Stephen King)
• Abelard (Ranger’s Apprentice series)
• Azul (the Blue Horse, from “The Alchemical Horseman”)
• Alfonso (Pippi Longstocking series)
• Tornac (from Christopher Paolini’s Eragon)
• Bess and Beauty (Farmer Boy)
• Napoleon (The Black Stallion)
• Cloud (the pony in “The Immortals quartet”)
• Miramis (from Astrid Lindgren’s book “Mio, My Son”)
• Blackjack (Percy Jackson series)
• Stormy (Stormy, Misty’s Foal by Marguerite Henry)
• The Pie (National Velvet by Enid Bagnold)
• Fru-Fru (“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy)
• Porkpie (Percy Jackson)
• Smoky (Smoky the Cow Horse)
• Prince and Lady (Little House books)
• Whirlwind (“Shadow Horse” by Alison Hart)
• Scipio (Heroes of Olympus series)
• Castor (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)
• Flicka (My Friend Flicka)
• Stardust (Ashleigh’s Hope)
• Thunderhead (son of Flicka in the book by Mary O’Hara)
• Pildarlick (Valley of Wild Horses)
• Barnum and Skip (Little House books)
• Gunpowder (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
• Morgenstern (“Chronicles of Amber” by Roger Zelazny)
• Peachblossom (Protector of the Small quartet by Tamora Pierce)
• Lark (The Berserker’s Horse by Lisa Maxwell)
• Arondel (Middle English romance “Bevis of Hampton”)
• Rocinante (Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes)
• Starlight (Farmer Boy)
• Rocket (My Friend Flicka)
• Banner (My Friend Flicka)

Famous Cartoon Horses

• Samson (Disney’s Sleeping Beauty)
• Buck (Home on the Range)
• Lightning (Dinozaurs: The Series)
• Khan (from Disney’s Mulan)
• Cyril Proudbottom (Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
• Deablo the Horse (from “Johnny Bravo”)
• Ponycorn (from Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden)
• Major (Cinderella)
• Chet (The Littlest Pet Shop)
• Phillipe, Belle (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast)
• De Royal, Double Eight, Chestnut, Mikagehomare, Miyako, and Rosanna (from “Silver Spoon”)
• Angus (Disney’s Brave)
• Captain (Disney’s 101 Dalmatians)
• Spirit (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron)
• Princess (The Simpsons)
• Majesty (Barbie & Her Sisters in A Pony Tale)
• Mr. Horse (from “Ren and Stimpy”)
• Maximus (Disney’s Tangled)
• Sugarfoot (a Walter Lantz cartoon)
• Altivo (DreamWorks’ The Road to El Dorado)
• Donny the White Horse (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Starlight and Skydancer (from “Rainbow Brite”)
• Frou-Frou (from “Aristocats”)
• Rain (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron)
• Bullseye (Toy Story 2)
• James Baxter (from “Adventure Time”)
• Yato (from Legend of Basara)
• BoJack Horseman (BoJack Horseman)
• Bucephalus (Reign: The Conqueror)
• Achilles (Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Check the full list of famous horse names inspired by animated movies.

Famous White Horse Names

• Shadowfax (Lord of the Rings)
• Billy (The white horse, saviour of the 1923 FA Cup Final)
• Milton (A successful showjumping horse ridden by John Whitaker)
• Marengo (Napoleon’s horse)
• White Flash (The horse ridden by Tex Ritter in his western movies)
• Raider (Durango Kid’s horse)
• Topper (Hopalong Cassidy’s Horse)
• Phantom (Zorro’s white horse in the Disney series “Zorro”)
• Palomo (Simón Bolívar’s horse)
• Desert Orchid (Dessie) – famous English racehorse
• Falcon (Buster Crabbe’s horse)
• Pegasus (A mythical winged divine stallion)

Famous Black Horse Names

• Goliath
• Morgan
• Smoky
• Trojan
• Rival
• Guido
• Sefton
• Skydancer
• Rocinante
• Night Nurse
• Figaro
• Florian
• Sylvester
• Felix
• Bucephalus
• Morgenstern
• Bree
• Columbus
• Pollux
• Gunpowder
• Blaze
• Sea the Stars
• Eclipse
• Flicka
• Sceptre
• Black Widow
• Poacher
• Midnight Sun
• Tornado
• Rusher
• Fury
• Boomerang
• Warrior
• Misty
• Byerley Turk
• Nana
• Rocket
• Lark
• Pirata
• Fru- Fru
• Cornishman
• Flame
• Thunderhead
• Black Gold
• Mill Reef
• Black Jack
• Black Bess
• Black Hawk
• Black Beauty
• Gypsy
• Burmese
• Cherry
• Monarch
• Arion
• Pips
• Ruffian
• Dawn Run
• Top Moon
• Black Stallion
• The Black
• Arkel
• Pie
• Merrylega
• Stormy
• Blessing
• Nara
• Napoleon
• Pylon
• Boxer
• Sham
• Joey
• Moonlight

So there you have it, over 350 horse names to choose from the next time you’re looking for that perfect name for your new equine friend.

Whether you want something traditional or more contemporary, we’ve got you covered. And don’t forget, if none of these names appeal to you, check our complete horse names A – Z!