Dog Names
 

So I am 99% sure I'm going to get a dog here within the next week or so after 8 months of consideration. I really give my dog a cute southern name since I'll be getting one down here, and my coworker just stole Duke and Dixie when she got 2 Boston terriers last weekend!

I'm thinking if I get a boy I'm gonna go with Jackson, but any suggestions for a girl? I don't want to do Belle because my dog at home is Bella and it's too close.

My brother and his family are getting a baby golden retriever in about a week or so. They're planning on the name "Barkley."

ETA--they had another golden years ago named "Bailey" so they're staying with the "B" names!

Obviously, the breed and/or how the puppy looks will play a huge role in his/her name. You can always name a female "Princess Something" or "Lady Something". Here's something that was posted on Dogster, but not linked:

Top Dog Names: Ranked in order

Male....................... Female

1 MAX......................MOLLY
2 BUDDY.................. BELLA
3 JAKE......................LUCY
4 BAILEY...................MAGGIE
5 ROCKY...................DAISY
6 CHARLIE.................SADIE
7 JACK......................CHLOE
8 TOBY.....................SOPHIE
9 CODY.....................BAILEY
10 BUSTER.................ZOE
11 DUKE....................LOLA
12 COOPER................ABBY
13 HARLEY................GINGER
14 RILEY...................ROXY
15 BEAR...................GRACIE
16 MURPHY...............COCO
17 LUCKY.................SASHA
18 TUCKER...............ANGEL
19 SAM....................LILY
20 OLIVER................PRINCESS
21 OSCAR................EMMA
22 WINSTON............ROSIE
23 TEDDY................LADY
24 SAMMY...............ANNIE
25 RUSTY................RUBY
26 SHADOW.............MISSY
27 GIZMO................KATIE
28 ZEUS..................MIA
29 BENTLEY.............MADISON
30 BAXTER..............ZOEY
31 JACKSON............CASEY
32 BANDIT...............LILLY
33 SAMSON.............PENNY
34 GUS...................BELLE
35 HUNTER.............SAMANTHA
36 RUDY.................BRANDY
37 MILO.................HOLLY
38 CASEY...............SANDY
39 SPARKY.............JASMINE
40 JOEY.................STELLA
41 BEAU.................LEXI
42 LOUIE................SHELBY
43 DAKOTA.............ROXIE
44 ROCCO..............PEPPER
45 BRUNO..............HEIDI
46 BOOMER............LULU
47 MAXIMUS..........MISTY
48 LUKE................HONEY
49 MICKEY............MADDIE
50 ROMEO.............SASSY
51 HENRY..............DIXIE
52 COSMO.............DAKOTA
53 LEO.................PRECIOUS
54 REX.................SYDNEY
55 SPIKE..............LUNA
56 DIESEL............COOKIE
57 CHESTER..........HANNAH
58 OTIS................SHADOW
59 TYSON.............SUGAR
60 COCO...............PHOEBE
61 JASPER.............NIKKI
62 PEPPER.............AMBER
63 SPENCER...........MAYA
64 SCOOTER..........CASSIE
65 SIMBA..............RILEY
66 DUNCAN............MOCHA
67 SIMON..............CHELSEA
68 PEANUT.............BABY
69 BRUTUS.............NALA
70 PRINCE..............PEBBLES
71 CHANCE.............ELLIE
72 GEORGE.............MANDY
73 SAMPSON..........JESSIE
74 BUBBA..............CLEO
75 MARLEY............TRIXIE
76 SCOUT.............SIERRA
77 MAXWELL..........LUCKY
78 RUFUS..............HARLEY
79 ELVIS...............COCOA
80 BARNEY............ISABELLA
81 TAZ.................MILLIE
82 SMOKEY...........CALLIE
83 CHICO..............MINNIE
84 BO...................PEANUT
85 KOBE................ABBEY
86 BOSCO.............SHEBA
87 BEN.................BONNIE
88 BLUE................GIGI
89 BRADY.............SCOUT
90 OREO...............LIBBY
91 CHASE.............LACEY
92 GUINNESS........TASHA
93 SNOOPY...........PIPER
94 CHAMP.............SOPHIA
95 DEXTER............MUFFIN
96 ROSCOE...........CALI
97 SEBASTIAN.......MORGAN
98 HARRY.............HALEY
99 MOOSE............LEXIE
100 RASCAL..........XENA

Have fun!

Lol, that's AWESOME I desperately want a Great Dane to name Max!!!

I don't have any help with names but I wanted to say yayyyyyy Bostons! And: I have a dog/know someone with a dog with the top 4 boy names and top 5 girl names. Dang! We have a Lucy. :p

ellie mae or daisy

minnie

pearl

Fifi, That ain't a name for this mutt.
So how about Champion?
Champion you're anything but.

We could call him Tiger, But there's no bite in him,
Tiger! Kittens would frighten him.
Rover! When you think it over,
Rover is the perfect name for this dumb look-in' dog.

Sandy, Sandy's his name if you please.
If you don't be-lieve me ask anyone of the fleas
Residing on Sandy,

True he ain't pedigreed, Sandy, there ain't no better breed.
And he really comes in handy,
'Specially when you're all alone in the night
and you're small and terribly frightened it's
Sandy, Sandy who'll always be there!

Honeychile, I'm a little bit disappointed in you. WVU alpha phi asked about a "cute Southern name." I though you'd be able to supply a few. (Shoot, how 'bout "honeychile"? ;))

My suggestions:

Bonnie (a black lab could be Bonnie Blue)
Scarlett (may be a bit trite, though)
Mellie
Scout (her "formal" name could be Jean Louise)
Eugenia
Eudora
Flannery
Sugar (or Shug)
Magnolia (call her Maggie for short, and get double points for the Tennessee Williams reference)
Tallulah
Beulah
Annabell
Liddie
Libba
Delta
Suellen
Sidie
Raney

If you want a Steel Magnolia's reference, Truvy, Clairee, Ouiser, M'Lynn or Annelle are all good choices.

If you really want to push the envelope, you could name her Varina. :D (BTW, it's pronounced Va-REE-na ;))

Can you tell I like names with a literary or historical connection?

I reckon I'll think of more later on.

Excellent list MysticCat! (I hate to follow that, but...)

Not necessarily Southern, but I've always thought it would be cute to name a dog after a vacuum clearner!

Kirby ?
Hoover ?

When I was 7 I named a dog Curtis Mathis (we had just gotten a new TV :o ). I also had a cat named JellyBean. :D *lol* So a vacuum cleaner name isn't weird to me... unless it's Electralux. *lmao*

But saying that, Electra is a cute name.

Moon Pie!
Acadiana (call her "Cady")
Praline
Beignet
Creole
Evangeline

I love these!

In the food vein:

Hushpuppy
Grits (a sometime acronym for Girls Raised In The South)
Gumbo
Ambrosia (wouldn't be Christmas without it)
Biscuit
Julep
Spoonbread
Benne
Puddin' (Banana or otherwise)

Miles and Greta for me. Chocolate Lab, German Short-Hair, respectively.

Not to be disappointed! I had seriously considered Magnolia, Sugar, Delta, Annabelle, Scarlett, and Varina, too. But once I saw my mother's name as a dog's name, I got a bit uppity! Jasmine, Shelby, Maybelle, and Velvet would be good, too. Not knowing the breed doesn't help, though.

Flowers?
 

Hydrangea, Azalea, Hyacinth, Myrtle (Crepe)

I thought about Jasmine, but unfortunately now too many people will think of the Disney princess and not the flower. :rolleyes:

And yes, knowing the breed would help.

And how could I have forgotten that in the original draft of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell's heroine wasn't named Scarlett -- she was named Pansy.

And as for flowers, perhaps WVU alpha phi would like Lily (of the Valley).

Continuing the literary and movie trend,

Clara or Eula ("The Long Hot Summer)
Zilphia, Adie, Jewel, Cora, Caddy, Dilsey (Faulkner)
Calpurnia or Maudie (but not Mayella) (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Blanche or Stella ("A Streetcar Named Desire")

oooh - Calpurnia! Callie would be the perfect call name! But now I like Lily, too. (Is the dog white?)

One of my favorite Southern names is Harper (Harper Lee - "To Kill A Mockingbird"). I see a couple of people have mentioned characters from the book, too.

I also love "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" - Maggie and Brick would make a good canine couple.

Beau would be a good boy name to go with Bella, too. I just realized you already had the female dog and were just looking for a boy's name.

Or...Nelle (as in Nelle Harper Lee)

or...Nell (as in Nell Carter)

or...Nell (as in the character from the movie of the same name depicting a girl raised in the backwoods of North Carolina!)

Other way around, I think -- she's looking for a girl's name.

If you get a female I think the name "Precious" is cute. If you get a male I think "Ramsey" is a cute name.:)

Since I was raised in Louisiana, southern always means Louisiana to me! You could name her Lagniappe and nickname her Laney. It means "a little something extra." Like MysticCat said, magnolia would be a good name. My dog's name is Willow (he's a red headed dachschund so we named him after the character from the movie Willow...Willow Ufgood.) Willow is sorta southern. Jolie is also a southern name...French for pretty. Any double name will sound southern, also...ie. Anna Kay, Billy Lee, Sally Ann. You get the idea.

I want a boxer named Harvey. (for the James Stewart movie about the guy with the 6ft tall invisible rabbit as a friend.)

Doo Drop or Fanny.

I would think Maggie might be more appropriate for a kitten - as in "Maggie the Cat".

I like the name Gracie for a female dog...and to me it can go with various breeds.

I just got a new puppy, a Pug, two months ago and due to his snorts, grunting and other odd sounds I decided to name him...



... piglet.

I mostly call him just pig - & everytime we go on walks he is such the star. I've never had a bad reaction to the name (yet).

In addition to the snorts, his tail is curly like a pig and he sure does eat like one!!

Anyway, for a girl..and you're in the south what about "Sweet Tea" or Sweet Pea"?

I had an English Springer Spaniel named Lily (brown & white).
We also had a beagle named Daisy (registered name: Daisy Duke).
I like flower names for dogs:
Carnie (Carnation)
Dahly (Dahlia)
Holly (Hollyhock)
Ivy
Peony
Posy
Poppy
You get the idea. But this dog is a boy, right? The flower names are definitely too girly. How about taking a sport & words from it as inspiration? :)

She asked for girl names:

I don't think you can name him/her until you see them... then a name will come to you.

this is soooo true! I remember when I got my current dog (a chihuahua) I was set on the name Ringo. When I got him however, he didn't strike me as a Ringo. Martini fit much better, and i'm happy with the choice!!

I just have to say, as someone who worked at a doggy daycare, and someone who now works at a vet clinic, please, PLEASE put some thought into your pets' names! I cannot tell you how many "Bailey"s and "Murphy"s there are out there! Show a little creativity, folks! And if I meet another terrier named "Jack"... I'll give it a nickname, I guess. Or "Stella" or "Bella" for girls= overdone! Think of something NEW!

But some good names I've come across at work:
Cat Benatar
Gunther (a German Shorthair Pointer)
Weiner (a female dachshund)
Tufts (a Chinese Crested)
Indiana (a dog, like where Indiana Jones got his nickname-from his own dog)
Tres (a 3-legged dog)

Our family has the most wonderful English Bulldog. DH and I had all kinds of UGA-related names (Arch, Henry, Grady, Sanford/Sandy, etc) when we were on the phone about to go look at him. All 3 kids asked what an English Bulldog was (oldest was 8!) so I showed them a particularly special 'portrait' of Uga VI. At that point, he became Uga the Wonderdog, and it stuck. He can't be bred (innocent heart murmer), so I didn't have to worry about registering his name. He's the BEST! Don't see us ever having anything other than this kind of Dawg :D
Family pet names we've had are Missy, Shelby, Princess, Frisky, Prince, Bitsy, Muffin, Ella (long story).
I don't like dogs having names of friends or their children...it's just weird to be out in the neighborhood and the gal across the street is calling her daughter at the same time someone is calling his dog from down the street--both with the same name!

hahaha

that's wrong.....funny, but wrong

My daughter's cat is named Piglet - for the character in Winnie the Pooh. You can see his picture in the Show Us Your Pets thread!

Black Lab whose CIA owner named her Spook!:)

She was a great dog, but after he was killed, I could not keep her!:(

Oh, Zoe and Sophie are not bad either! For small dogs only!

I like that! My cousin named his 3-legged dog Tripod.

I don't know about girl dog names, but my two dogs are Cleveland (chow mix) and Jackson(black lab, English shepard mix) (both rescue dogs found on the streets in which they are named)

Nothing to do with the South, but the Norwegian Elkhound we had for years was named Tonka.

We met a Golden tonight named Reba. There's a good Southern name.