Fur Types:
Abyssinian:
Abby
Abigail
Flair
Helix
Jacuzzi- don't know why but I think it would be cool for an abby
Pretzel - especially for a brown or tan abby
Ripple
Rosetta
Ruffle
Sheridan - Irish - wild (for the wild nature of their fur)
Spiral
Struessel (as in Struessel swirl coffee cake)
Swirl
Swizzle (was once the name of a special cavy of a friend I have lost contact with)
Tangle, Tangler
Torque (rotation or twisting)
Twizzler (especially red or black pigs, since that is Twizzlers popular colrs)
Crested Pigs:
Apex - crest of a hill
Atara - Hebrew name meaning "crown"
Chink
Corona - German - "crown" in Latin
Crest
Diadem - crown or crowned
Dimple
Furrow - for their brows - Especially White Crested: (any color with white crest)
Groove, Groovy
Gwendolyn - Welsh - white browed (especially for a white crested)
Peaky
Pinnacle - the highest point or the culmination
Steven, Stephen - Greek - crowned
Tiara - crown
Zenith - High point
Ridgebacks:
Chevron (if you inverted the inverted V of a chevron you'd have a ridge)
Combs (like the last name, but also to denote the comb of fur along the back)
Crest
Dorsal
Dune
Finn, Fintan, Finley, Finster, Finnegan or Finnigan ( for the fin of fur along back)
Fringetop
Javelina (Wild pig-like animal with ridged back)
Mohawk
Montana - means mountain in Spanish
Pinnacle - tall pointed formation such as mountains, or the highest point; the culmination.
Panache - plume (the name of my first ridged sow)
Plume
Professor Plume (play on the old Proffesser Plum from the Clue game)
Pike - as in Pike's Peak or like the last name (British usuage: one definition of pike is a hill with a pointed summit)
Razorback (Wild pig-like animal with ridged back)
Ridge
Ridgemont (the name of my 2nd ridged boar)
Rhodesia or Rhodesian (after the Rhodesian Ridgeback dog, could use Rhoda for short with a female)
Rooster
Spike - typical response to naming ridged animal
Shark or Sharky (great for a grey, white or silver agouti Ridgy pig)
Wildebeest (Oxlike animal with a mane that stands up like a ridge)
Zenith - High point
People names for Ridgies:
Aaron - Hebrew - high mountain
Atara - Hebrew - crown
Beaumont - English - beautiful mountain
Corona - German - "crown" in Latin
Clairmont - English - clear or bright mountain
Cliff - English - cliff
Drummond - ridge.
Eldridge - old ridge
Ethridge - Saxon - noble ridge
Finn - Irish- means fair or white (so good name for light colored pig with a fin)
Finnegan or Finnigan - Irish - also means fair or white (good name for light colored finned pig)
Finlay, Finley - Irish, Scothish - means white warrior (good for finned white manly pig)
Fintan - Irish - means "white fire" or "white bull" (also good for finned white manly pig)
Finster (another good fin name for a male ridged pig)
Fremont - English,French - free or blooming beautiful hill or mountain
Landon - English - Long hill or ridge
Montague - French - pointed mountain
Monterrey - Place name
Montgomery - German - mountain of manpower
Parvati (female) Indian [Pronounced: PAHR-vah-tee] - Sanskrit meaning is: "daughter of the mountain"
Rigby - English -means "ridge farm" in Old Norse.
Shasta - a famous mountain
Sierra - Spanish - mountain range (especially one with jagged peaks)
Stephen - English - crown
Tara - Irish - rocky pinnacle or crag
Thatcher - English - Thatch is plant stalks used for roofing material
"Ridgified" people names:
(original or altered people or place names for ridgy pigs)
Bridget
Cambridge
Ridgeanne
Ridgina
Ridgedale
Ridgella
Ridgelynn
Ridgetta
Ridgemond
Ridgeby [ridge -bee]
Patridge
Talridge, Tallridge
Tamaridge
Waldridge
Color Oriented Names
Brown or Black
Red (orange colored)
Two or Three Color Combos
Dalmations or Roans
White or Gray
Yellow or Cream
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Abyssinians, Crested, and Ridgebacks
Satins , Teddies
Silkies or Peruvians
Texels or Alpaca
Skinny Pigs or Baldwins
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