Puppy names
Looking for name ideas? Browse our list, which we keep adding to, or look up the history behind your pup's name. Suggest a name we are missing.
Swipe names
Keep or pass one name at a time, and the deck learns what you like. Send your shortlist to your partner and see the names you both liked.
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That is every name in this deck.
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Names you both liked
Suggest a name
Know a good one we are missing? Send it in. We read every suggestion each week and add the ones that fit, with their history.
Name lists
Every theme, coat colour, size and letter as its own page, with the meaning of every name.
Girls, boys and either
By coat colour
By size
By breed
Languages and cultures
Places
Food and drink
Nature
Stories and culture
Character
Seasons
By first letter
How to pick a name that works
- Two syllables is the sweet spot. Long enough to carry across a park, short enough to say a hundred times a day.
- Avoid names that sound like commands. Kit sounds like sit, Bo sounds like no, Ray sounds like stay.
- Hard consonants and a bright ending vowel cut through background noise better than soft, trailing sounds.
- Say it out loud in the voice you would use to call the dog back off a beach. If you would be embarrassed, pick another.
- Check nobody in the house has the same name, and that it does not rhyme with one.
- A puppy learns a new name in a few days, so if the shelter name is not working, change it.
What is in this list
11063 names across 74 themes. 7 coat colours are tagged, 210 languages of origin are noted, and the names that suit a very small or a very large dog are flagged, so nobody calls a Great Dane Peanut by accident.
- Classic: 239
- Human names: 657
- Famous dogs: 166
- Cities: 189
- Korean: 150
- Cute: 201
- Tough: 124
- Funny: 209
- Vintage: 290
- Royal: 152
- Food: 543
- Drink: 285
- Herbs and spices: 140
- Nature: 187
- Plants and flowers: 202
- Weather: 133
- Ocean: 174
- Mountains: 183
- Birds: 236
- Gemstones: 107
- Space: 229
- Colour: 150
- Mythology: 333
- Books: 223
- TV and film: 19
- Pop culture: 62
- Gaming: 24
- Comics: 20
- Music: 231
- Sport: 144
- Places: 149
- Jobs: 111
- Cartoon duos: 25
- Australian: 141
- British: 144
- American: 129
- Irish: 158
- Welsh: 147
- French: 177
- Italian: 148
- Spanish: 158
- German: 161
- Nordic: 180
- Greek: 171
- Japanese: 168
- Indian: 175
- Hawaiian: 169
- Scottish: 90
- Chinese: 115
- Russian: 87
- African: 167
- Arabic: 91
- Egyptian: 103
- Biblical: 42
- Desserts and sweets: 257
- Outdoors and hunting: 102
- Farm and country: 89
- Cowboy and western: 85
- Christmas: 42
- Halloween: 42
- Animals: 111
- Art: 120
- Science: 115
- History: 55
- Latin: 66
- Portuguese: 76
- Dutch: 83
- Slavic: 97
- Turkish: 91
- Persian: 92
- Hebrew: 110
- Southeast Asian: 102
- Canadian: 77
- New Zealand: 43