Naming Contest - Friends of Big Bear Valley

THE VOTES ARE IN!
The winners are SANDY and LUNA

The Big Bear Valley 3rd grade has chosen…

The winners are SANDY and LUNA

Chick 1’s name is Sandy with 30 student votes.

Chick 2’s name is Luna with 25 student votes.

The remaining top 5 votes are as follows:

Star with 22 votes
Chip with 22 votes
Phoenix with 18 votes

Sandy was the most popular name entered with 3,706 of the 63,915 names submitted!

Please know that although Sandy would not have wanted us to outright name one of the eaglets Sandy, she would have been honored that you and the students went through the process and named one of the 2026 eaglets after her.

Thank you for your participation and your generous support of Friends of Big Bear Valley from the entire FOBBV team. You are much appreciated!

We will be issuing certificates to the winners soon.

The following is the entire list of the 30 randomly drawn names that were sent to the students:

Windy
Luna
Kazoo
Wohali
River
Whimsy
Hazy
Camelot
Artemis
Hickory
Mopsy
Phoenix
Star
Chip
Glory

Mako
Willow
Sandy
Dakota
Penguin
Nova
Liberty
Orion
Raycee
Chace
Echo
Hope
Scorpious
Snugs
Atlas

Contest is now closed
& results will be posted by May 1st.

Thank you for your support.

$5.00

Submit One Entry

$10.00

Submit Three Entries

$25.00

Submit Ten Entries

How it works

You have until Sunday, April 26 at 11:59 PM Pacific time to submit your names. A computer program will randomly draw a list of finalists for the Big Bear third graders to vote on.

When the votes are cast and tallied, we will announce Jackie and Shadow’s new chick names on our official Facebook page, Instagram, YouTube, website and other social media channels.

Anyone that enters a winning chick name will receive a special certificate of recognition from Friends of Big Bear Valley. Runners up will also receive a certificate for their participation.

Contest rules

Since we don’t know gender yet, please provide neutral name suggestions only.
Anything inappropriate (explicit, derogatory language, etc.) will be automatically filtered out.
Your data is safe and will not be shared with anyone.

Why donate

Friends of Big Bear Valley is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 20-0650845. As a nonprofit, we rely on donations to provide the Bald Eagle Cam livestreams 24/7/365 as a public benefit, free from advertisements. All donations are tax deductible and fund FOBBV’s programs which includes the nest camera, education and advocacy. You can find more information on our programs here.