Are you adopting a tegu lizard and looking for ideas on how to name your new pet? Have a look below for some inspiration, with our list of names suitable for black and white, red, blue and golden tegu of any gender.
We selected a few names inspired by lizards, dragons, pop culture and mythology, or which we simply found to be especially suited or funny for a pet tegu.

Male tegu names
- Alien
- Angel
- Basil
- Charmender
- Dino
- Draco
- Drake
- Eragon
- Fido
- Gordo
- Interceptor
- MacGyver (a Red tegu celebrity)
- Rambo
- Raptor
- Rex
- Ryuu
- Spyro
- Terror
- Yoshi
Female tegu names
- Arya
- Bianca
- Elizardbeth
- Hydra
- Lamia
- Lily
- Medusa
- Mothra
- Ryoko
- Venus
- Sakura
- Scylla
- Xena
Gender-neutral tegu names
- Azrael
- Bones
- Scales
- Dracarys
- Fang
- Godzilla
- Hachiko
- Ichigo
- Mochi
- Kiwi
- Koko
- Pitaya
- Viper

PetsWithScales.com is an informational website about big lizard pet care. We collect and provide information from different sources across the web on how to keep and care for reptiles as pets. The species we mainly deal with are tegus, monitor lizards, skinks and geckos. Our aim is to provide high quality information to help pet owners make better, more informed decisions about their animal’s diets, health and life.