Food-inspired Fish Names

Food names cover ingredients, dishes, sweets, and drinks. They are popular because they carry colour, size, and warmth in a single familiar word.

In the fish library that tag covers 83 names, or about 29% of the fish names on this site. 2 of them carry no other style tag, so they appear only on this page; the tag overlaps most with cute fish names (47 shared).

By length: 17 one-syllable names, 46 two-syllable, and 20 with three or more — averaging 6.4 letters. The shortest options are Oat, Yam, Chai, Chip, Kiwi; the longest are Marshmallow, Strawberry, Cappuccino, Butterbean, Tangerine. Syllable counts here are estimated from spelling, so treat them as a rough guide rather than a phonetic analysis.

Worth thinking about: Food names date faster than most, and some read very differently outside their original language or region. Say it out loud somewhere public before deciding.

Fish do not respond to names, so a fish name is entirely for the keeper and for anyone looking at the tank. That frees you to use longer or more elaborate names than you would give an animal you have to call.

Style tags are editorial browsing aids. They are not popularity rankings, and nothing on this page describes how common a name is nationally — this site has no data that would support that claim. How the data works