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Once upon a time, I gifted my friend a housewarming fern and named her Jenni-Fern Ann-Stump.
It may have been one of my proudest moments to date.
So I decided to put my skills to use by creating this epic list of punny plant names.
Whether you are looking for a cute punny plant name for your own plant, or a plant name pun for a plant you’re soon to gift, this list has an unbe-leaf-able selection for you to choose from.
… I hope you find what you’re looking Fern!
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Basic Building Blocks for Punny Plant Names
Let’s start with some punnable plant words you can incorporate into your plant pun names. Using these, you can come up with your own creative ideas. You can do it – we’re Rooting for you!
(Or feel free to keep scrolling for more ideas!)
Here are some words to incorporate into your punny plant names if you so wish:
- Bud
- Fern
- Grow
- Leaf
- Pot
- Root
- Stalk
- Succ(ilent)
Celebrity Plant Pun Names
Wanting to name your plant after a celebrity/famous fictional character? Here are some celebrity-inspired plant names that don’t succ.
Orlando Bloom
Vincent van Grow
Fernie Mac
Fernie Sanders
Huckleberry Fern
Aloe Vera Wang
Robert Plant
Leaf Harvey Oswald
Spike Leaf
Hugh Plant
Leafam Neeson
Botany Spears
Bud-dy Valastro
Lucifern
Christopher Leaf
Leaf-Ann Grimes
Leaf-onardo DiCaprio
Leaf-onardo DaVinci
Pepper Pots
Harry Pot-ter
Flaura Croft
Oleafia Newton John
Growie Grace Moretz
Nataleaf Portman
Succmantha Jones
Mi-Grow Phelps
Grows Byrne
Paul Pots
Punny Male Plant Names
Celebrity names not what you’re looking for? Leaf it to us! Here are some male plant names with a lot of pot-ential.
Brody: Grow-dy
Bernie: Fernie
Christopher: Christofern
Grant: Plant
Lee: Leaf
Leif: Leaf
Leo: Leafo
Leonardo: Leafonardo
Liam: Leafam
Michael: Mi-grow
Generic Punny Female Names for Plants
How about some female plant name puns? Here are some that we’re sure will grow on you:
Abigail: Abudgail
Bernadette: Fernadette
Britney: Botany
Chloe: Growie
Eloise: Eloeaf
Jennifer: Jennifern
Laura: Flaura
Leanne: Leaf-ann
Molly: Mol-leaf
Natalie: Nataleaf
Olivia: Oleafia
Paisley: Paisleaf
Rose: Grows
Samantha: Succmantha
Unisex Plant Pun Names
Lastly, here are some ideas for unisex name puns that work for plants. You’ll love these Fern sure.
Charlie: Charleaf
Have Any More Plant Pun Names to Suggest?
Let us know in the comments!
How about Keanu Leaves?
Love it!!
Professor Snape is my Snake plant and my Raven ZZ is Edgar Alan Poe. My fiddle leaf fig is Scarlett O’Hara (Fiddle dee dee) and my two Boston ferns are LaFern and Shirley. My Bonsai is Big Butt Nancy lol