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

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)

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)

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