Unique and Sophisticated Names for Your Boat

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You have a new boat, a dream come true. It seems unbefitting such a vessel to have placed upon its stern some mash up of you and your wife’s names. Even worse, you cannot bear to give it any of the trite, pun filled, puerile and unimaginative monikers you have discovered thus far.

Face it, you have complex sensibilities. Common men name their boats “Jimmy’s Joy,” “Seaduction,” “Nauti Bouy,” or “Steady As She Goes.” What do you want emblazoned on the escutcheon of your quarter of a million dollar sloop? You already know it won’t be “Dock Holiday” or “Unsinkable III.”

You are articulate and maybe a Scrabble freak. You are reaching for something that is, as yet – undefined. Like naming children, it’s important. Boats and kids live up to the names we give them. Boating is an existential quest, defining you, the boat and your relationship with the sea.

You need something that, like you, is refined and enigmatic. The boat’s name must capture some undiscovered salient, embracing your thoughts, words and deeds that spring forth from your heart, mind and soul.

Lucky for you, the richness of language provides erudite and metaphorical terms which describe your state. Those spotting your stern with binoculars might well suspect that you have both a command of language as well as the sea. Yes, names such as these are conversation starters. They are archaic, obtuse, sometimes foreign and a few - snobbish.

Type them into Google Speak to pronounce them for you. Try them on. They will roll off your tongue soon enough.

See you out on the big water.

A List of Unique Boat Names for Your Yacht or Sailboat


Name	Meaning	Notes
PETRICHOR	The smell after rain
RIDENT	Cheerful
UBIQUARIAN	Someone who goes everywhere.
ZIRALEET	Expression of joy
GEGENSCHEIN	Dust in the sky opposite the sun’s position creating a night glow.
INTREPID	Hyper-adventurous
AXIOMATIC	A self evident outcome of an idea or action.
EPAGOMENIC	Spontaneous celebration for no worthy reason.
INSANGEIOUS	To be made equal to the angels.	A favorite
KAKIKSTOCRACY	A government run by the worst citizens
CERULEAN	Blue like the water around unspoiled tropical islands.	A favorite
BLOOTERED	Very drunk	Scottish
GOLIARD	Wandering student	(Aren’t we all?)
GLEEK	Sharp joke or a superb trick
WHIPJACK	A beggar who pretends to be an out of luck sailor
XIPHOID	Spear shaped	For medical people. Racing boat?
AMPHISBAENA	Mythical two headed serpent	Your mother in law?
CHANTICLEER	Rooster-like	For alpha males and kings of industry.
EUCATASTROPHE	Perfect ending or outcome of a story
OPEROSE	Displaying great ability and effort for all to see
OPSIMATH	A person who begins to learn late in life
RESOUNDING	Undeniable. Obvious and clearly marked
RIPARIAN	Of the river	Rights of water-usually drilling related. law term.
PANEMORFI	Beautiful	Greek
ZEITREISE	Time travel	German
ZENIT	Zenith	German
METANOIA	The process of changing your heart, mind and goals.
MERAKI	To do with creativity, passion and resolve
SIDEREAL	Determined by the stars
EMACITY	A fondness for buying things
APAIXONAR	Falling in love – like off a cliff.	Portuguese. Quaint term.
AEONIAN	Eternal and everlasting
VERKLEMPT	Overcome with emotion
DAEDALIAN	Deft, intelligent, crafty
ENHALO	To place a halo upon. To crown spiritually.
EPITOME	The perfect defining example of a type
LUCENT	Shining and hard to look at – gleaming brilliantly
DESABAFAR	Let off steam and in the process gaining balance.
MOEITY	Two equal parts. (husband and wife for instance)
RESPLENDENT	Sublime, full of color, dazzling and eye catching
SIGIL	Refers to a signet ring or a mark of one’s family.
SWEVEN	Dream, vision, premonition.
VISRIENT	Must see new things-one who requires visual stimuli
VULPINE	The characteristics of a fox	A favorite. From Latin.
ETOILE	Star	French
CARCANET	A jeweled necklace
VERGESSENHEIT	Oblivion	German
TRAUMSTAAT	Dream state	German
LAGOM	The right moment in time. Aligned.	Swedish.
INSUPERAVEL	Unsurpassed	Portuguese
GEHEIMGANG	Secret passage	German
PANTAGRUELIAN	Vast
PANURGIC	Able or willing to do most anything
THALASSIC	Referring to the sea
LEMNISCATE	Refers to the figure eight infinity symbol
VOORZIENE	Foreseen.	Dutch
VELSIGNET	Blessed
EKSAKT	Exact	Danish
SCINTILLATE	Emits sparks
ALGEDONIC	Pleasure and pain together
UENDELIG	Infinite	Norwegian
GLORIEUX	Glorious	French
UMANI	Salt, sweet, bitter, sour.	Japanese. Delicious.
LUCUBRATION	The product of laborious study.
OENOPHILE	A lover of wine. Not an alcoholic.
ZUGZWANG	A compulsion to move.	Chess term. German.
NIKHEDONIA	The elation that accompanies the moment of victory
BIMARIAN	Pertaining to two seas
DICAEARCHY	Fair and just government
EPHYDRIAD	Water nymph. Like Esther Williams.
EVENIENCY	Coming to pass. Inevitable.
DOSHEACHANTA	Inevitable	Irish
GIPESIAN	Pertaining to gypsies
HALATINOUS	Saline. Salty. (Applies to the boat owner?)
INOCCIDUOUS	A star that never dips below the horizon.
ISANGELOUS	Equal to angels.
NUBIVAGANT	Moving among the clouds.
SPARSILE	Pertaining to a star
THEOMENY	The wrath of God against evil
TRABBOCANT	Superabundant.
TROPAEAN	Wind blowing towards land
TROPHAEAL	Pertaining to trophies. Many.
ALIFORM	Shaped like a wing
ANEMOLOGY	The study of wind
CETOLOGY	The study of whales and dolphins
LAVEER	To sail against the wind
WEATHERLY	Able to sail close to the wind with little leeway.
OMNILEGENT	An omnivorous reader, bookworm.
MARISTO	Sailor	Esperanto
BEUNDRANSVARD	Admirable	Swedish
PRAXIS	Process in which a theory or skill is practiced and embodied
COGENT	A clear, logical and convincing argument
ANDIAMO	Let’s go!	Italian. Emphatic.
CONGRUENT	The matching of two geometric shapes.	Husband+wife?
ENDOXOS	Glorious	Greek