115 Names That Mean Gluttony or Hungry

Hungry for names that mean glutton or relating to gluttony? Well, check no further because this list is on feast mode! From mythical creatures to deities to fictional characters in arts and history to real-life people rumored to be gluttons, we’re featuring them in this collection of names that mean gluttony. 

Boys’ Names That Mean Gluttony or Hungry

Here are name ideas for boys that are all about indulgence and the insatiable hunger for excess.

Adolf

Adolf means noble wolf. A different connotation can be drawn from the name since wolves are known to be hunters and heavy eaters too. A wolf can consume 20 pounds of food in a single meal. Because of its association to Adolf Hitler, this name has also been linked to being greedy and excessive.

Alsharuh

Alsharuh is Arabic and means glutton.

Asuom

Asuom is an Islamic name for boys with several meanings including hungry. Another Arabic name that bears the same meaning is Aysoom.

Banchetto

This is the Italian word for banquet which may be a great idea to name a character who gets excited in attending big feasts and celebrations.

Bingeon

This name is a giveaway for anyone who loves anything, and Bingeon does have the Greek meaning to indulge excessively. Binge-On!

Cai

Cai is of Welsh origins and means feast or rejoicing. This may be an apt name for a character who frequents and indulges himself in parties and festivities.

Cibo

Cibo means food in Italian.

Drincan

Drincan is Old English for gulping, swallowing or drinking.

Edgar

Edgar means wealth, fortune and spear. “Gar” can also mean to devour or consume. A combination of these three meanings can be associated with excessiveness and gluttony- like a hunter (spear) greedy for more (wealth and fortune).

Epulo

Epulo means banquet or feast in Latin.

Feaston

Feaston is just a clever wordplay of the term feast, creating a name for someone who loves attending feasts.

Fuego

Fire can consume anything on its way rapidly if not controlled. That is why I think Fuego, the Spanish term for fire, fits on this list of glutton name ideas.

Ghadyan

Also Gharban and Ghursan are Muslim names that mean hungry. 

Glutton

Glutton is a straightforward way to name or describe someone who has excessive eating habits.

Gourmand

Gourmand is French for someone who is a lover of good food and often eats too much.

Gutton

Now this is a subtle name idea for a glutton.

Guzzler

Guzzler refers to a person who eats or drinks greedily or in haste.

Hedon

Taken from the term hedonic eating which is the habit of consuming food just for pleasure.

Jahan

Jahan means world or may refer to having an appetite for worldly pleasures.

Khabbaz

Khabbaz means bread or baker. Though it doesn’t directly mean gluttony, it may be a considerable name for someone who overly loves bread.

Kulin

Kulin means eater in Sanskrit.

Lahum

Lahum has Arabic origins and means hungry.

Lance

The name Lance or Lancel is German and actually means land or territory. The term lance can also refer to weapons usually long and sharp or the act of slicing. Because of its association to phrases such as “lance a piece of meat” or “lance a loaf of bread”, the name Lance now bears the imagery of consuming or eating food. In the book series A Song of Ice and Fire (the basis of Game of Thrones series), Lancel Lannister was portrayed as a glutton.

Mangione

Mangione means glutton in Italian.

Muncher

I think this is a witty way to describe or name a character who is prone to mindless eating and munches endlessly. They just have to have peanuts or raisins in their pockets.

Naveen

Naveen is a Sanskrit name that means indulgent eater on feasts.

Nosh

Good Food is Good Mood. The name Nosh means eating enthusiastically. Nosh means to snack for leisure in Yiddish.

Nuhima

Nuhima means to be gluttonous in Arabic.

Ravenous

Ravenous is an on point name idea for glutton. It means having excessive hunger and handling food in almost a violent way to satiate an appetite.

Refeicao

Refeicao means food in Portuguese. It can be a subtle name idea for someone who keeps on asking when’s the next meal or a nickname for an impatient and rude customer who can’t wait for their food to be served.

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Soren

Soren is Danish for someone who indulges excessively.

Tuck

Tuck is an informal term that means eating or drinking heartily, especially food and cakes. In Old English British, a “tuck shop” refers to a bakery of cakes and sweets.

Vorus

Vorus means “I ate” in Latin. It can also be a shorter form of the term voracious which means devouring great quantities of food and being insatiable and uncontrollable.

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Girls’ Names That Mean Gluttony or Hungry

As Virginia Woolf said, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well”. But gluttons probably go beyond this life wisdom. Here are some name ideas that evoke indulgence and abundance for girls.

Aisha

Aisha means alive and living. It also means being well-fed.

Ambrosia

Ambrosia means immortal. This is also the name of a famous fruit dessert and might make a great name for a girl who likes sweets.

Caramella

Caramella is Italian for candy.

Cassia

Cassia is a Greek name and means cinnamon. Its association with food makes it a good name idea for a character who loves to eat, particularly whose favorites are cinnamon buns.

Desideria

Want to sugarcoat gluttony into a name that sounds feminine and sweet? Desideria is Latin for craving and would make for a subtle name idea for gluttony.

Devorah

Or Deborah has the Hebrew meaning bee. But this can also be a witty wordplay for a name with the term devour or to consume completely.

Dulce

Dulce means sweet or refers to candy. This can be a subtle name for a glutton with an unstoppable sweet tooth. A silly double name idea would be Sangue Dulce which means blood sugar respectively.

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Dunya

Gluttony is associated with having a weaker spiritual discipline and being indulgent to worldly pleasures. Dunya means attachment to the worldly life in Arabic.

Eudocia

Eudocia or Eudokia means to be well-pleased or seeking to be satisfied.

Fiona

Fiona means fair and blessed. Shrek’s bride is one of the famous bearers of this name in pop culture. This ogre couple somehow relates this name to being huge and a glutton.

Gargantua

Like a super ultra glutton – black holes grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings. Gargantua is a fictional massive black hole in Interstellar and can be a great name reference for a gluttonous character.

Gharbaan

Gharbaan is a girl’s name that means hungry.

Gula

The name Gula has various meanings in different origin cultures. It is the name of a Sumerian and Akkadian goddess of healing. Gula also has Latin origins and translates to gluttony.

Gulosa

Gulosa in Portuguese refers to a gluttonous woman. For boys, the term is Guloso. It also means having a sweet tooth. 

Hedda

Hedda means battle and combat. It can also be a derivation from the word hedonic which means indulgence to pleasure.

Jovita

Jovita is of Latin origins and means being satisfied or satiated. It is also related to the Latin for Jupiter which means being supreme.

Kara

Kara or Cara means beloved in Italian. It can also mean being spoiled or given whatever pleases them.

Lavinia

Lavinia has no known meaning but it is of Roman origin. The first recorded bearer of this name is the ancestor of Romans and is considered as ‘mother of the Roman people’. Lavinia sounds closely with the term Lavish which means extravagance and having so much and usually artistically represented by lavish big banquets.

Merenda

Merenda is the Italian word for snack time, and can be a goofy and subtle name idea for a glutton. It sounds closely similar with girl names like Merlinda and Miranda.

Preta

Preta refers to a wandering soul said to be tormented by hunger and unquenchable thirst.

Tsunami

Tsunami is another phenomenon included in this list because of the similarities with gluttony – how it consumes and destroys everything on its way and then as the water returns to the sea, it takes its victims and debris with it.

Gender Neutral Names That Mean Gluttony or Hunger

These names can be given to either gender, they would still bear the meaning of gluttony, indulgence and craving for more.

Banquet

No explanation needed. Just give this name and rightaway they can get a hint about what the character is all about.

Binge

Another straight to the point name for an indulgent eater.

Boushoku

Boushoku is gluttony in Japanese.

Chomp

Means chewing loudly, an eating manner most gluttons are known for.

Cram

Cram is Old English for eating hastily.

Devour

Devour means to consume greedily as if there’s no tomorrow or nothing else matters. This may be a harsh name idea but it does hit the spot for summing up gluttony.

Edacious

Edacious means voracious in Latin. This name idea is subtle for gluttons.

Famish

Famish means being extremely hungry.

Festin

Festin is feast or banquet in French.

Fresser

Der Fresser means the eater or the glutton in German.

Gobbler

No explanation needed- the person carrying this name most probably gobbles a lot.

Gorger

Another fitting name title for a glutton.

Graze

Like the mindless and continuous munching of grazing cattle.

Gulp

Refers to the act of swallowing. This can be a modern-sounding name for a glutton who most of the time forgets to chew and enjoy their food.

Okawari

From the Japanese phrase Okawari kudasai meaning “refill please”. This can be a silly name for someone who’s a worthy comrade in eat-all-you-can buffets.

Nibble

Now this is an adorable sounding name for someone who has to keep their mouths busy all the time.

Nomnom

This simple name idea for glutton imitates the sound of eating.

Satiety

Satiety is being full and satisfied- a state gluttons have trouble reaching.

Vorax

Vorax is a shorter form of the word voracious and means gluttonous.

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Names of Gluttons In Myths and Fiction

Adephagia

Adephagia is the Greek goddess of gluttony and good harvest.

Ammit

Ammit is the Egyptian goddess also known as the devourer of the dead and the patron of death and execution.

Arimoanga

Arimoanga the Lion is a mythical monster believed to attempt to eat the sun or moon during eclipses.

Augustus

Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of the kids who got invited to Willy Wonka’s factory. He displayed gluttonous and greedy behavior, ended up falling in a chocolate river and getting sucked up and stuck in one of the pipes.

Bakunawa

The Bakunawa is a mythical dragon often visualized as a sea serpent in Philippine mythology. In ancient times, the Bakunawa was believed to be responsible for eating the moon during lunar eclipses.

Baron

Baron Harkonnen was a fat and gluttonous tyrant in the Dune franchise. Baron is probably a Latin- German name that means man or warrior.

Creosote

Mr. Creosote is a monstrously obese restaurant patron in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. He is served a great amount of food, repeatedly vomiting all over himself, his table and the restaurant’s staff during his meal.

Cronus

Cronus’ mythology is a dark one. He fathered the Greek gods and swallowed them fearing he would be overthrown by one of his children.

Davros

Davros means Taurus and mountains. Davros from Doctor Who is a megalomaniac who is obsessed with being the ultimate ruler of the Universe. The corpses of their victims are turned into life supporting sustenance which Davros uses to keep himself alive.

Demeter

Demeter is the Greek goddess of good harvest and good food.

Dionysus

Dionysus is the Greek god of parties, wine-making, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity and ritual madness.

Edmund

Edmund from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) gave in to temptation and ate a cursed Turkish Delight. He becomes enchanted and so desperate to get more Turkish Delight that he ends up divulging information that will endanger his family.

Erysichthon

In Greek myths, Erysichthon tried to prove the gods did not exist by cutting down a tree that was precious to Demeter. Demeter punishes him with insatiable hunger. Erysichthon exhausted his kingly fortune to feed himself and even sold his daughter to slavery so he could eat.

Galactus

Galactus, also known as Devourer of the Worlds, is a villain in Marvel comics. He was once a human who became a cosmic entity consuming planets to sustain his life force.

Jabba

Jabba the Hut  is the obese slug-like crime lord in Star Wars.

Lamia

Lamia was a queen and mistress of Zeus in Greek mythology. Hera got jealous and killed her children which drove her to madness. She turned into a half serpent demon devouring children.

Limos

Limos was the goddess of starvation and famine in Greek mythology.

Minokawa

Minokawa the Eagle is a dragon-bird monster in Philippine mythology. It was believed to swallow the sun during eclipses.

Nidhogg

Nidhogg is a giant, powerful and evil serpent dragon in Norse mythology. He eats the roots of a legendary tree that keeps the beasts from the world.

Polyphemus

Polyphemus was the son of Poseidon and was a man-eating cyclops in Greek mythology.

Stuart

Stuart Hope is a morbidly obese evil character in the Austin Powers series. His extreme size and weight gives him incredible strength. He is more popularly known by the name Fat Bastard.

Taotie

The Taotie is a famous legendary monster in Chinese mythology with horrible gluttony.

Thor

Maybe you’re imagining hunk Thor in Marvel movies, but in Norse mythology Thor is often described as a glutton. It was said that he drank half of the ocean as part of a challenge.

Wendigo

A Wendigo is a supernatural being who transforms, kills and eats their human victims.

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Famous Gluttons in Anime

Weebs will most probably agree that anime food can look unbelievably mouth watering (Hello, Studio Ghibli!). Here are some of the most popular gluttons in anime!

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Banica 

From the anime series The Evillious Chronicles. Banica Conchita devoured herself and the demon with her, becoming the new Demon of Gluttony.

Choji

From the Naruto and Boruto series. He is a powerful ninja also known for his appetite and the iconic chips he carries almost all the time.

Earl Tyrant

Earl Tyrant in Final Fantasy Unlimited is a chubby little kid who feeds on not just regular food but also the negative emotions of people surrounding him.

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Goku

Need we say more? Saiyans are known to be heavy eaters.

Kagura

Kagura in Gintama is known for her obsession on food. She takes on every opportunity to gorge herself in extravagant food.

Legato

Legato Bluesummers is the main villain in Trigun. His goal of eliminating humanity took an even darker turn when he started to encourage cannibalism by offering hotdogs made of you can guess what.

Majin Buu

Majin Buu turning people into chocolate bars, cartons of milk and candy was one of the scariest memories of every millennial kid growing up watching Dragonball.

Midora

Midora in Toriko is a master of Appetite Energy. He loved food so much he wanted to control all ingredients in the world.

Naruto

Naruto means roaring gate in Japanese. However, the protagonist Naruto’s name is claimed to be inspired by the narutomaki which is the fish cake roll usually served in ramen. Naruto also has an unbelievable appetite for ramen.

No-Face

No-Face was the deceptive and gluttonous character in the movie Spirited Away.

Polpo

Despite being in prison, Polpo was a high-ranking mafia leader who managed to get access to luxurious food. He loses his poise and manners in front of food, and because of his gluttonous habits he eats a gun disguised as a banana.

Kamiya

Prime Minister Kamiya in Speed Grapher is a corrupt politician who eats non stop. He was inflicted with a virus that transforms him into his fetish. He turns into a gluttonous monster who eats everywhere.

Rize

Rize Kamishiro also known as ‘The Binge Eater’ in Tokyo Ghoul. Unlike most ghouls who only eat enough to survive, Rize binges on humans whenever she gets the opportunity.

Sasha

Sasha Braus is an elite soldier against the titans in Attack of Titans. Though human, she matches the titans insatiable hunger and appetite, and even steals food from other officers.

Toriko

As a Gourmet Hunter, it was part of Toriko’s job to taste all the flavors and food he comes across in search of the best and rarest ingredients and flavors. He gorges himself often in appreciation for food.

Wapol

Wapol is a devil fruit eater in One Piece. After eating the Munch-Munch fruit, he gained the ability to literally eat anything including his own flesh in order to make himself thinner. Everything is possible in anime.

Famous People Who Are Rumored Overeaters

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great is said to be addicted to ‘frozen milk with honey and fruits’ a.k.a. ice cream. There’s a theory that he had been feasting and drinking for two days straight with no sleep before he died.

Adolf Frederick

King Adolf Frederick of Sweden was rumored to have eaten fourteen servings of his favorite dessert on top of the heavy meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut and champagne. That same night, he died of digestive problems.

Tarrare

Also spelled as Tarar, was known as the hungriest man in history. He was a French showman with an insatiable appetite in the 1800s.

Zachary Taylor

US President Zachary Taylor died of gastroenteritis or inflammation of the digestive system. It was said that days before he died, he consumed a great amount of ice cream and cherries that probably didn’t agree with him.

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was the author of the book Vanity Fair. He was a notorious glutton and had an addiction to spicy peppers. He died of a stroke.

Top Mukbangers and Heavy Eaters On YouTube

Their videos on the internet are company for those who can’t sleep on wee hours. Here are some professional heavy eaters who amuse their audience by consuming massive amounts of food.

• Keemi
• Steph Pappas
• Nikocado Avocado
• Zach Choi
• Trisha Paytas
• Yuka Kinoshita
• Veronica Wang
• Hyunee
• Beelzebubs
• Raina Huang (This queen has been conquering eating challenges left and right!)

Wrap Up – Names That Mean Gluttony or Hungry

Names relating to gluttony are mostly avoided in real life because of their negative association to greed, obsession with eating, grotesque eating habits and rude table manners. Nevertheless, we hope we’ve given you plenty of options and satisfied you with our list of name ideas fitting for a glutton!

Which of these names did you find interesting? Do you have other glutton name ideas you think we should include in this list? Share them in the comments!

Resource: The website Behind the Name is a fantastic resource for finding more names based on uniqueness, similarity to other names, and meaning.