RV Names: 70 Ideas for Your Motorhome, Camper, or Travel Trailer

An RV is a second home that happens to have wheels: part vacation house, part road trip, part retirement plan. Whether you drive a 40-foot motorhome or tow a vintage trailer, it deserves a name worth painting on the campsite sign. These RV names and camper names cover the classics, the snowbirds, the vintage trailers, and the big rigs.

Road-trip classics

• Home on the Road
• Wander Wagon
• Happy Camper: the all-time favorite.
• The Mothership: for the big one the whole family piles into.
• Wanderlust: a strong desire to travel, from German.
• Destination Anywhere
• Not All Who Wander: from Tolkien's line, "Not all those who wander are lost."
• Miles of Smiles
• Home Sweet Road
• Roam Sweet Roam
• The Road Home
• Open Road

Retirement and empty-nest favorites

• Spending the Kids' Inheritance: the classic RV bumper-sticker joke, made official.
• Empty Nest Express
• Snowbird: for those who head south every winter.
• Chasing 70 Degrees: follow the weather, all year long.
• Endless Summer
• Permanent Vacation
• The Grand Tour
• Golden Road
• Kids Moved Out
• Retirement Plan: this is the plan.
• Southbound: the direction every snowbird drives come November.
• Follow the Sun

For vintage trailers and silver classics

• Silver Bullet: a classic nickname for a polished aluminum trailer.
• Silver Lining
• Chrome Home
• Silver Moon
• Canned Ham: the collector's term for the classic rounded vintage trailer shape.
• Tin Can Tourist: after the early-1900s camping club of the same name.
• Glamper: for camping with every comfort.
• Boondocker: boondocking is camping without hookups, far from the crowds.
• Full Hookup: a campsite with water, power, and sewer. For campers who prefer it that way.
• Vintage Vagabond

For the big rigs

• The Land Yacht
• The Ark: room for everyone, two by two.
• Road Whale
• Rolling Mansion
• Casa Rodante: Spanish for "rolling house."
• Highway Hotel
• Captain's Quarters
• The Flagship
• Class A Act: Class A is the biggest category of motorhome.
• Fifth Wheel of Fortune: a fifth-wheel trailer hitches into the bed of a pickup.

For professionals on the road

• Mobile Asset: an accountant's favorite.
• Road to Retirement
• Fixed Income on Wheels
• Rolling Balance
• Home Loan Rover: for the banker who finally took the long way home.
• Habeas Camper
• Change of Venue: a legal term for moving a case to a new location. Also, every campsite.
• Mobile Home Rule: home rule is local self-government. This home rules itself.
• Circuit Court: judges once "rode circuit," traveling town to town to hear cases. You're carrying on the tradition.
• Remote Office: technically, still working.
• Out of Office
• Per Diem: a daily travel allowance, and a daily adventure.
• Adjourned: court is out of session, and so are you.
• Recess: the court takes a break. So does the counsel.
• Sabbatical
• Portfolio Tour: visiting every state you're invested in.

Just for fun

• Wheel Estate
• Are We There Yet
• Home Is Where We Park It
• Gone Glampin'
• Why Fly
• Tow-tally Awesome: for a travel trailer.
• Rolling Home
• Happy Trails
• Hitch Hiker: for anything you tow.
• Pack Rat: for an RV with every gadget ever sold.

Tips for naming an RV

1. Think about the campsite sign. RV names often live on a sign or mat at every campsite, so pick one that reads well at a glance.
2. Include the whole crew. RV trips are usually family or couple adventures. A name everyone helped choose gets used a lot more.
3. Keep it friendly. Campgrounds are full of families, so your name will be read by kids and grandparents alike.
4. Consider a family-name twist. "The Reyes Express" or "Casa Reyes" is personal, and easy for new campground friends to remember.
5. Match the name to the rig. "The Land Yacht" is funnier on a 40-foot Class A than on a teardrop trailer. Small trailers deserve small, sweet names.

Towing something along? Browse our golf cart names and ATV and UTV names. If the RV is your retirement plan, our retirement boat names have plenty of names that work on land too.