"Man Gave Names to All the Animals" is a song written by Bob Dylan that appeared on his 1979 album Slow Train Coming and was also released as a single in some European countries, becoming a chart hit in France and Belgium.

[2] A 2013 reader's poll conducted by Rolling Stone magazine, ranked "Man Gave Names to All the Animals" as being the fourth worst Bob Dylan song, behind "Gotta Serve Somebody" (the hit single from Slow Train Coming) in second place.

[4] Despite the obvious biblical source for the song, Dylan avoids any explicit mention of Adam and Eve, which (to author Oliver Trager) seems to pin the blame for the fall of man solely on the snake.

[2] Music critic Michael Gray finds it interesting that Dylan avoids blaming Eve for man's fall, appreciating that he stops 'the song short on a beautifully hungover note at the arrival on the scene of the serpent'.

[6] According to back-up singer Regina Havis Brown, originally Dylan was not sure if he wanted to include "Man Gave Names to All the Animals" on Slow Train Coming.

[6] Cash Box said that the song combines "gospel-tinged theme and backup singing with reggae-inspired rhythmic approach" and that "there is subtle humor here in the lyrical, child-like rhymes.