We didn’t intend to name our RV. In fact, we’ve had three previous RVs and none of the three were christened with any type of moniker. As we’ve traveled, I’ve noticed that many folks do name their rigs. In fact, some even display their RV’s name on the rig itself. I remember the huge diesel pusher that proudly displayed “Big Bertha” in fancy, colorful lettering across the back of the coach. There was also the ultra-small teardrop trailer dubbed “Tiny Tim” that once parked in a site near us.
Our current rig received its name purely by accident. Our 3-year-old granddaughter named our rig “Harvey.” You can read about it here.
Back in February 2020, RVtravel.com asked our readers if they had named their RV. 39 percent said yes, their RV has a name, while 61 percent said no.
How important is it to name your RV? It probably isn’t critical or absolutely necessary, but it can be fun. Here are a few hints about naming your RV.
Incorporate your own
Many folks like to include their last name into what they call their RV. For example, the Smiths chose “Smith’s Swifty.” They like that it’s alliterative, with both names beginning with “S.” It’s also a mild tongue twister. Dave called his “Dave’s Dream Keeper.” That has a nice ring to it, too.
Include favorite activities
I’ll bet you can guess what these RVers like to do, simply by the names they’ve given their rigs. There’s “Seymour” (see more), “Trout Trailer,” and “Party Bus,” just to name a few rig names I’ve seen.
Model type or manufacturer
Some RVers like to demonstrate their allegiance to a specific manufacturer. They’ll include the make and/or model into the name they give to their RV, like: “Redwood Rider” or “Airstream Annie.” Other names aren’t so obvious, however. Take for instance, “Mo” for Momentum RVs or “Loner” for the Solitude line of RVs.
Favorite places
Still other RVers name their rigs with a nod to their favorite places. There’s “Old Faithful” or “Beach Seeker.” If your favorite vacation spot is the Smoky Mountains, perhaps “Smoky” would make the perfect name for your RV.
Artificial Intelligence
If you simply cannot come up with a name for your RV, let artificial intelligence help you. That’s right! There’s a computer algorithm that will generate a vehicle name for you. Just click here. You’ll be asked a few questions and then voila! Based on your answers, AI will spit out a potential name for your RV. If you don’t like the name, just adjust your answers a bit and generate a new moniker. Note: There are RV-specific AI name generators out there. You can Google them. I found the car name generator to be more user-friendly and I liked the results better.
What about it? It’s your RV, after all. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to give it a name!
Does your RV have a name? If so, please tell me in the comments below.
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Yes, we named ours “the Puma Pit”, can you guess what kind of 5th wheel we tow…..
We have a Grand Design Solitude and we named it Solley. It is part of the family.
We bought a Grand Design Imagine XLS shortly after my father died. In memory of him, we named it Figment. Figment (from the Epcot Imagination pavilion) was my father’s favorite Disney character. We just replaced Figment with a larger Reflection 5th wheel that we named “Figment Too” but that has morphed into “Big Fig.” Silly, I know, but it makes us smile!
I named my 2016 Roadtrek SS Agile Class B “Foley” (as in Matt Foley living in a van down by the river).
2016 Coachmen Concord named Brünhilde from Wagner’s Ride of The Valkyries. She even has LED “horns” on the front cap.
We have a 5th wheel and named her Lila. We also named our F250 Diesel, Vin.
“I have sought thee, sung thee, dreamed thee, Dulcinea” From Man of La Mancha. I definitely did all three in my pursuit of the RV life.
We never named the tent trailer or travel trailers; however, since 2004 we have put a name to each of our class motorhomes.
Harvey the RV was our motor home, but Lucy is our new trailer, short for “Lucille, the 5th Wheel”
Our RV is a 2-tone grey. Being a lover of the Lord of the Rings, the name is Mithrandir “the grey wanderer”
Every vehicle I’ve ever owned included the name Bessie some way. I now have Bessie Bago (motorhome) and Bessie J (Jeep).
We named our Thor motorhome “The Happy Ours” Chateau. (You have to say it out loud.)
Ours is named Loretta. Not named after anyone, just a name we came up with.
Mine is named Big Gurl because when I was widowed I had to put on my big girl panties and continue 😊
The Raven, Thor Freedom Elite 23H for all the mystical very special places she has carried me to over the past five years. The Journey continues……..
Our motorhome is named SHEILA. It is an acronym for Summer Heat Escape In Luxury Accommodations. We lived in Florida and only RVed May – October. We are now full timers but we still winter in Florida and meander in the summer.
My Airstream is “Curious”, my Aliner is “kismif” , my old Coleman Gettysburg was “Summer Place”, and my F-150 is “tired of waiting”. We never did name our tents or the car top tent that was built by Air Camper of Indianapolis.
Dixie Pixie. It’s a little 17’ Casita and it lives in the south.
Our motorhome is named Chester, a nod to our home base of Chesterland. A friend nick-named our toad, the Blue Bullet. So we have the traveling adventures of Chester and the Blue Bullet.
We had not named any of our previous campers from pop ups to pull behinds. When we purchased our 2016 Lance 1995, we had told each other we were making it our last camper purchase and take care of it as such. We did not give it a name. Six years later, however, we purchased a 2021 Lance 1985, that we had, jokingly referred to it as our second to the last camper. It has now been christened with the name Second Last!
My Coachmen Freelancer Elite is Fern. Short for fernweh, a German word, that means (roughly) “wanderlust”. Which suits me and my travel style to a T. It also adds to my bag of precautionary tricks. When a stranger asks if I am traveling alone, I can honestly say “Oh no, Lic and Fern are here.”. (I.e., ” the cat and the RV are here too”).
Our Keystone Laredo is called Gypsy. Our truck that pulls her is Smokey Joe.
We have been RV,ing, /Camping, Traveling SINCE OUR TWENTY’S. IN 1993 WE STARTED LEAVING FOR THE WINTER. AND WANDERING OUR WONDERFUL USA.🇺🇸 The NAME ON OUR CLASS. RV’S HAVE ALWAYS BEEN “MEMORY MAKER” AND BOY WE HAVE MEMORY’S.
2016 Winnebago Solei – The Looney Bin
Ours is a 13′ fibreglass egg…..named Osokozy. Because, it is!
We have named our truck and rv! Our truck is silver in color so the truck is named silver like the lone rangers horse and our rig is named scout after the name of Tonto’s horse.
I’ve finally named my 2015 Itasca Sunova “Murphy” for obvious reasons.
We named our ’22 Precept ‘Hyacinth’, for her blue-forward full paint scheme (Jayco’s Alpine). (Our toad color nearly matches her, and we call her ‘Bluebird’.)
My wife named our Casita Bubbles, does something of look like a bubble.
Blue Ice..No explanation needed.
Our coach is named SHEILA. It is an acronym for Summer Heat Escape In Luxury Accommodations. We originally bought it to get out of the Florida heat in the summer. Now we are full timers.
Naming (at least larger) watercraft is a centuries old tradition. I guess RVs are the land equivalent. That said, our seasonal use 34′ travel trailer is named “RV” and our SUV towable 21′ is named “camper” and sometimes “rolling hotel room”. We use the same philosophy as livestock farmers – family pets get names, animals that will be disposed of for either income or because they are no longer useful and will be replaced, don’t.
My 2016 Serenity is called the Fort. Any young boy can explain it for you.
We had a 2022 Wolf Pup and called it “Wolfy”.
We call our Montana the Montana. So, is that a name?
Our 5th wheel is called TORTUGA TOO. Years ago my parents 5th wheel was named TORTUGA.
We named our RV ‘Harry’ as a nod to Harry Bosch, the fictional character for no particular reason other it just seems to fit and we like Harry! 🚙
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We named ours Turtle as we always have our home with us (like a shell on our backs).
Our RV is named Summer Suit, after my parents’ last boat, which was named after a horse we had. I have photos of both the horse and the boat in the RV. J
OMG Yes! We named our Travel Trailers from the beginning. Back 99 we named our 1’st Camper “Rover”. With each New Travel Trailer, we grew a little in size, then named it ROVER 2 then 3,4 and now ROVER V. The ROVER 5 license plate wasn’t available from the Tag office, so we had to settle for a V on the plate. It’s easy to remember.
We named our Class A’s “LOOSE CABOOSE” as we were model RR hobbyists and made sure we rode on every Narrow Gauge RR wherever we traveled all over the Lower 48 and Alaska. We are presently on “LOOSE CABOOSE II”.
We’ve had three previous RV’s and never named them although we had lot’s of fun adventures with all of them. We recently purchased our fourth RV, a small, no nonsense, off-road bumper pull which my bride named “Opie”. For the life of me, I don’t know why she came up with this, but I’m kind of liking it now…
Our motor home’s registration truncates the manufacturer’s name . The Tiffin Allegro 33DA has become ” Tiffi “
With the last name being Bates, what else could the name be…The Bates Motel
We call our DRV toy hauler “The Rolling Doghouse”. We have friends that call their 5th wheel Lucy and the truck is Ricky…after the movie Long Long Trailer.
Being a firefighter, I think we are going to name our 35′ 5th wheel, “Fire Escape”.
I named our 2011 Coachmen Mirada “The Spotted Dog” after following it for 1800 miles from Elkhart to Colorado. We intended to drive separately for the break-in miles, then tow the car the rest of the way home. On “hook-up morning we discussed the electrical cord had the correct number of pins, but wrong configuration. So I followed it the entire way home, seeing the Dalmatian logo the whole way. Thus “The Spotted Dog”.
We name EVERYTHING! Our trucks, trailers, ATVs, RZR, RZR’s trailer.
Same here. Everything, including the chickens has a name.
Tow vehicle 1st. A Nissan Pathfinder. Fond of anagrams I came up with ‘Nathan Pissfinder’. (Didja know you can rearrange the letters in Episcopal to spell Pepsi Cola?) Now for the Rockwood GeoPro. I’m a rockhound (crazy person who searches for gems and minerals out in the wilderness) so follow this logic. Rock…wood… petrified wood… Hampton Butte petrified wood…Geo’s name is Hampton. Then renamed Nathan to Carson. It’s a car and as a lad my favorite pathfinder was, you guessed it, Kit Carson.
I named our Roadtrek “Rozinante” (after a boat that was named after a horse) but my DIL prefers to call it “the Love Shack” to my disgust.
Our first RV, bought in 2014, was a mistake. A 1976 Class C Sprinter that fell apart quickly. We named it “Matilda” because, like the Calypso song, “she took me money…” but didn’t go anywhere. Our current RV, a 2001 Bounder, is named “Bertha” for no reason other than it’s a Grateful Dead song and it seems to suit her
Ours is named “Camp Wannacocktail”. For obvious reasons!
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I jokingly refer to our 2001 CrossRoads 35′ as “Dale”, and our 2015 Ram 2500 MegaCab” as “Clyde”. Then when connected together, the CrossRoads becomes Clyde’s Dale.😄😄😄
Named my 5th wheel my POS because of all the problems we’ve had to deal with. It’s a piece of s–t.
I believe that is the most common name for an RV, boat, etc.
Our first RV was Bertha and our second RV was named Genie Ray! Our next one will be called Livie- which in Latin means blue! Blue because it’s my favorite color!
Our Class A is named Pearl. That is one of the colors of touch up paint we hope we never need!
We have a golden doodle dog, thus we named our Casita travel trailer Doodle Wag’in
My wife’s nickname is Pinky (another story for another day), so we named our 2012 Tiffin “Pnky’s Paradise”. Every time we turn the radio on, it greets us with “Welcome to Pinky’s Paradise!”
Our BayStar is Millie and our Jeep is Shorty named after my husbands grandparents who did not have the opportunity to travel so we are taking them with us!💜
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We call our 34ft. 5th.wheel “Rolling Condo”
Yes! Its called FREE BIRD! I inherited some property from my grandparents and I sold it and paid cash for my Rv. It is a Jayco Whitehawk, so FREE BIRD!!!😁
Best one yet. 👍👍
The Fiberglass Coffin.
LM FAO
We have named our motorhome (2017 HR Vesta) “Carolina.” One of our favorites songs is “Head Carolina, Tails California” made popular by Jo Dee Messina a few years back. BTW, our toad (Honda CRV) is named “Cali.”
Our travel trailer is named Sandy, after the Bruce Springsteen song 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy). Not only am I an obvious fan but 4th of July makes me think of everything Summer, which is when we do most of our RVing.
Named mine Gracie Rose. Loved watching George Burns and Gracie Allen💖💖 Gracie Rose is a beautiful 1999 Winnabago Brave. Some may see her as just an old RV but I see her quality and character🥰
My husband does a radio show and sometimes I sit in. When it’s time to sign off he says, “Say goodnight, Gracie” and I’ll obligingly reply, “Goodnight, Gracie.”. We don’t think any of our listeners (not all boomers) have any idea what we’re talking about.
“Happy Box”. (Inspired by a “Pearls Before Swine” comic)
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Named our Winnebago Vita “Dutch Boy” since my partner has that ethnicity.
I have a ‘63 Shasta Airflyte, painted it white and yellow and named her “Li’l Daisy” since shasta is a daisy.
My 2001 Lazy Daze motorhome is Daisy — a play on the brand name. Also, the daisy is one of my birth month flowers and I wanted to be able to say that I’m driving Miss Daisy. My car is Sweet Pea, my other birth month flower.
Back in the early 80s my husband and I designed and built a 24’ motorhome on the chassis of a bread truck. In Canada the parts were difficult to find back then, but it turned out great. Had lots of memories with the kids. We named her “Homegrown”.
We have a fifth wheel pulled by a Ram. We call them Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong and Bee Bop!
It is a long story which I won’t bother to explain now (I know…Thank God…lol) but our 1st trailer (Jayco Jay Flight 29RLDS) was called Moosie and our newest addition a 5er (Flagstaff 529IKRL) which is bigger is called The Moose…
We tow a 2012 Honda Fit that we affectionally call the “Mouse”. So it just went naturally to call our 2013 LTV Unity TB the “Mouse House”.
We too have a LTV Unity TB that we affectionately named Rita, an acronym for ‘Retirement Is Totally Awesome’! We tow an SUV named Jett because she’s black…relating back to my F117 days (they were called Black Jets in the day). Off we go into the wild blue yonder!
We also think retirement is totally awesome. Can’t believe it’s been 14 years already. Thank you for your service.
Plates are as follows
Coach: RROOM42
Jeep: TOW4TWO
My wife named ours Harriette. Some times it appears our vehicles have a mind/spirit of their own. Naming them makes us closer.
Count us in on naming our RV, as well as our truck. Our dog, Lucy, travels with us, named after Lucille Ball as we got her out of a shelter 12 years ago on Lucy’s 100th B-day. When we got our first truck and RV last year, it seemed like a no-brainer that the Ford became Fred and our 5th wheel Ethel.
Dragons Lair…in Game of Thrones font. Note: Dragons is plural because there are two of us. 😁
We named our chevy truck Bruiser and our Jay Flight is named Jake.
Our ’96 30′ Flair was originally named Maggie, after the Simpsons baby’s attributes.
1. she is our baby
2. she sucks gas (like a baby’s bottle)
Last spring we installed Banks system, and dramatically increased horse power.
My wife now calls her Maggie 2.0.
We call ours MoHo. It started when we had a 29 ft class C . Be both thought it was too small to be a full motorhome so called it Moho. Now 25 years later we still refer to our 36 ft class as the MoHo
We named our Ram 2500 Class B the Silver Surfer (it’s silver in color and I love Marvel comics). Our plates are WRKLOL and since Florida residents that full time have their tag number as their “address” we live at WRKLOL! 🙂
The only vehicle we’ve ever named earned it’s own title: “Stinking Volkswagen”.
We have had our 2017 Catalina since she was new. Miss Kitty, at 5 years old, is just reaching her peak!
GeeWhiz. The first was Goliath (so BIG at 33 feet:) Its replacement was G2 and 11 years later when I finally got my DP I said GeeWhiz! The common element was the G for Goldberg.
Our 14 foot Jayco is named ” Big Jake”. The truck that pulls it is “Ol’ Dollar”. Can anyone guess who and what they are named after? – M
Our coachman 195rbs is the Succubus, the F150 lariat is Larry. Larry and the Succubus
Vera View and Tobie Toad
It was easy to name my RV, because dogs out number humans in the
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One of my friends immediately asked what we were naming RV #1 when I told her we’d bought it. My wife’s equally immediate answer was that was a silly idea and that we would not name the RV. Within four years my wife rethought and named #1 Reva the Revolution (it was an American Coach Revolution). We further named our tow vehicle JT, short for “Jeep towed.” We ordered RV #2 and it was named Newton the New Aire (a Newmar New Aire) before we even got it. Newton now precedes JT as we go down the road.
Our Class A 43’ Newmar Ventana is Champagne & Blue so her name is: CHAMBLU
We were able to get that for her license plate too. Makes it so much easier to talk about. Our matching toad, a blue Jeep Cherokee is: Blue Jay. It has decals of Blue Jays on the back window and a stuffed toy Blue Jay inside.
20-some years ago we upgraded from a pop-up pull-behind to a self-contained Coleman Caravan. A friend, taking a tour of the new rig, commented that it must now feel like staying in a hotel, compared to where we started. We started playing with hotel names and, voila… “The Holiday Flinn” was born. Three campers later, and that’s still the name. We modified the old-school Holiday Inn logo and the custom plate is “HOL!DAY”.
We named our 32′ Travel Trailer “Haarrvey” (We say it using Pirate talk) Everytime we would do Google and YouTube internet searches for “RV” using voice recognition, the result was always “Harvey”. So we turned that into “Haarrvey” and have a Jolly Roger flag.
2022 grand design 260 rd named the garland after my wife’s grandfathers fishing schooner in new foundland at turn of 20th century and it means “ great adventures roaming land” tow vehicle 2022 f250 named the bat big a** truck
My “On Point Ontour”
Airstream – Sunday Grace. Sunday is the Lord’s day and grace because he gives us grace, we need to give ourselves grace at times, and we need to give others grace. It has a deep meaning for me. I have health issues and I’ve learned that there are times I need to give myself grace to just get thru the day.
I love this! Thanks for sharing.
Ours is called Big Bertha 11. She’s our second motor home.
Our Aliner is named “Perry’s Gift” after my dad. We bought it with some of my inheritance. Thanks, Dad!
Yeah, I’m on board. I call my Cougar 5th wheel, “The Trailer.” Hahahaha!
We always name our vehicles, RV included. We’ve had the Mystery Machine, Rocinante, and now, Serenity.
We name our cars, too.
We thought pigs would fly before we could get an Airstream, so Flying Petunia seemed an apt name for her when it happened. Happy trails, y’all.
Love the name and the story behind this.
Lovingly referred to as “the beast”
Our granddaughter named our dinosaur 1991 Jamboree, “Jammie.”
After 3 trailers, we named our 4th “Dawg Haus” as we travel with our pups 9 months out of the year. We added “Always in the Dawg Haus” as a fun name, and because I tend to be in the dog house with the wife:-)
Rockin’ Red as a tribute to a friend who passed. He called me Red!
We have a Tiffin Wayfarer after having several big rigs and just love ” Little Booger”
We have an older Hi-Lo trailer that we named “Harry Hi-Lo” He brings us much pleasure.
Absolutely! Class C was Ruby cause I bought on 40th wedding anniversary. Then the trailer was Pull Along Polly. Finally our 5th wheel is Wandering Wanda as we have been full timers for last 5 years just wandering around!
Reading through all of the comments reinforces my belief that RVers are so creative! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing your RV’s names.