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Names borne by real dogs that made history: explorers, rescuers, film stars and loyal companions. Each entry says who the dog was.

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Girl names (39)

Albina
A Soviet space dog who flew twice and came home both times · Russian
Baillie
A Border Collie on Canada's heavy urban search and rescue team
Belyanka
Russian for little white one, a Soviet space dog of 1958 · Russian
Bounce
Alexander Pope's Great Dane and constant companion · big dogs
Bretagne
Last surviving search dog from the Ground Zero response
Candy
Dorgi kept by Queen Elizabeth the Second
Chaika
Russian for seagull, a Soviet space dog of 1960 · Russian
Chaser
Border collie who learned the names of over a thousand toys
Chernushka
Russian for blackie, a space dog who orbited Earth in 1961 · Russian
Damka
A Soviet space dog of 1954, from the Russian for little lady · Russian
Faith
Two legged dog who learned to walk upright
Gabi
A guard dog at Belgrade Zoo who stood up to an escaped jaguar · Serbian
Jofi
Sigmund Freud's chow chow who sat in on his sessions
Judy
Pointer who survived a prisoner of war camp in Sumatra
Kabang
Philippine dog who lost her snout saving two girls
Kabosu
Shiba inu whose photograph travelled the world · Japanese
Knopka
Russian for button, a Soviet space dog of 1955 · Russian · small dogs
Kometa
Russian for comet, a space dog who survived a landing in the Siberian snow · Russian
Lisichka
Russian for little fox, a Soviet space dog of 1960 · Russian · small dogs
Lucca
A US Marine Corps search dog who won the Dickin Medal
Lucky
Bouvier des Flandres who lived in the Reagan White House · big dogs
Malyshka
Russian for little one, a Soviet space dog of 1955 · Russian · small dogs
Palma
Russian for palm tree, a Soviet space dog · Russian
Patsy Ann
A deaf Bull Terrier who greeted every ship as the official greeter of Juneau
Pestraya
Russian for spotted, a Soviet space dog of 1958 · Russian
Pinka
Virginia Woolf's cocker spaniel, a gift from a friend
Pushinka
Puppy of the space dog Strelka, given to the Kennedy family · Russian
Reveille
The Rough Collie mascot of Texas A and M University
Roselle
Guide dog who led her owner down eighty flights of stairs
Sallie
Bull terrier mascot of a Pennsylvania regiment
Sarbi
Australian explosives dog lost for a year in Afghanistan
Sasha
Labrador who found weapons and bombs in Helmand province
Shutka
Russian for joke, a space dog who survived an emergency landing in Siberia · Russian
Smelaya
Russian for brave, a space dog who ran away the day before launch and came back to fly · Russian
Snezhinka
Russian for snowflake, a Soviet space dog of 1959 · Russian · small dogs
Susan
Corgi given to Princess Elizabeth on her eighteenth birthday
Sweetlips
An American Foxhound owned by George Washington
Taca
A Siberian Husky of President Ronald Reagan
Tich
A Dickin Medal winner who served with the King's Royal Rifle Corps · small dogs

Boy names (125)

Antis
Alsatian who flew RAF bombing missions with a Czech airman
Augie
Golden retriever who held five tennis balls in his mouth
Balto
Sled dog who led the last leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome · big dogs
Bamse
St Bernard mascot of the free Norwegian forces in the war · Norwegian · big dogs
Barry
Alpine hospice dog credited with over forty mountain rescues · big dogs
Beauty
Terrier who dug out animals buried by bombs in the Blitz
Benedictine
A Saint Bernard recognised as the heaviest dog ever, at 162 kg · big dogs
Bing
A dog who parachuted into Normandy on D Day and won the Dickin Medal
Boatswain
Lord Byron's Newfoundland, honoured with a long epitaph · big dogs
Bobby
Skye terrier who kept watch in Greyfriars Kirkyard · Scottish
Bobik
Russian for little dog, a would be space dog who ran away before his flight · Russian · small dogs
Bosco
Labrador cross elected honorary mayor of a Californian town
Bothie
Terrier who visited both the North and the South Pole
Boye
Prince Rupert's poodle, notorious in the English Civil War
Brian
Paradog who jumped into Normandy with British airborne troops
Bummer
One of a famous pair of stray dogs in 1860s San Francisco
Capitan
An Argentine German Shepherd who kept watch by his owner's grave for years · Spanish
Carlo
Emily Dickinson's Newfoundland and writing companion · big dogs
Caruso
The dog of President William Taft, named after the great tenor · Italian
Charley
John Steinbeck's poodle on his drive across America
Checkers
Cocker spaniel at the heart of a famous 1952 speech
Chesty
The bulldog mascot of the US Marine Corps, named after a Marine legend
Chips
American war dog who charged a machine gun nest in Sicily
Commander
German shepherd who lived in the Biden White House · big dogs
Davie
The Airedale Terrier of President Woodrow Wilson
Dezik
One of the first two dogs to reach space and come home safely, in 1951 · Russian
Dookie
First royal corgi, brought home by the Duke of York
Dzok
The faithful dog of Krakow who waited a year for his late owner, honoured with a statue · Polish
Endal
Labrador assistance dog who could work a cash machine
Faithful
The Newfoundland of President Ulysses S. Grant · big dogs
Fala
Scottish terrier who went everywhere with President Roosevelt · small dogs
Feller
A Cocker Spaniel puppy given to President Harry Truman
Fido
Tuscan dog who met the same bus stop for fourteen years · Italian
Flush
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel
Fred
E B White's dachshund, written about with great affection
Freddy
Great Dane recorded as the tallest dog in the world · big dogs
Gander
Newfoundland who carried a grenade away from Canadian troops · big dogs
Gelert
Hound of Welsh legend, mourned too late by Prince Llywelyn · Welsh
Grits
Border collie given to Amy Carter at the White House
Gunner
Kelpie whose ears warned Darwin of incoming air raids
Hachiko
Akita who waited nine years at Shibuya station for his owner · Japanese
Handsome Dan
The bulldog mascot of Yale University since 1889
Hemp
Border collie regarded as the founding sire of the breed
Higgins
Shelter mutt who became a much loved screen dog
Horand
Horand von Grafrath, the first registered German Shepherd and father of the breed · German · big dogs
Horrie
Egyptian stray who served with Australian troops in the war
Igloo
Fox terrier who travelled to both poles with Admiral Byrd
Jiggs
An English Bulldog who was an early mascot of the US Marine Corps
Just Nuisance
A Great Dane who was the only dog ever officially enlisted in the Royal Navy · big dogs
Khan
Alsatian who swam a canal to rescue his handler in 1944
King Buck
A Labrador who won the US National Retriever championship in 1952 and 1953
King Tut
The Belgian Shepherd of President Herbert Hoover
Kostya
A German Shepherd in Russia who waited seven years at the spot his family was lost · Russian
Kuga
An Australian special forces dog awarded the Dickin Medal
Kuno
Military working dog wounded clearing an enemy compound
Kurt
A Doberman credited with saving many Marines at the Battle of Guam in 1944
Lad
The Rough Collie of Albert Payson Terhune, star of Lad, A Dog
Laddie
Airedale terrier of President Warren Harding
Laddie Boy
The Airedale Terrier of President Warren Harding, a White House favourite
Lazarus
Bummer's partner, a famous stray of 1860s San Francisco
Le Beau
The Italian Greyhound of President John Tyler · French
Leoncico
Spanish for little lion, a famous mastiff of the early sixteenth century · Spanish
Leuk
A French special forces dog awarded the Dickin Medal · French
Lex
Marine bomb dog adopted by his fallen handler's family
Luath
Robert Burns's dog, named in his poem The Twa Dogs · Scottish
Lump
A Dachshund who lived with Picasso for a time and appears in his paintings · German · small dogs
Major
German shepherd, the first shelter dog in the White House · big dogs
Mali
Belgian Malinois decorated after an assault in Kabul
Mancs
A Hungarian rescue dog who found a little girl after the 1999 Izmit earthquake · Hungarian
Mick
Greyhound who won the English Greyhound Derby twice
Moose
Jack Russell terrier who played a sitcom dog for ten years
Moustache
A brave poodle like Barbet who marched with French soldiers in Napoleonic times · French
Nipper
Terrier painted in 1898 listening to a gramophone horn
Nous
Yellow retriever behind the first golden retriever line
Nuisance
Great Dane formally enlisted by the Royal Navy in South Africa · big dogs
Obersten
Norwegian for the colonel, a Greenland dog on Amundsen's South Pole expedition · Norwegian · big dogs
Old Drum
A hunting dog whose court case inspired the famous Eulogy of the Dog in 1870
Owney
Terrier mascot of the American railway mail service
Pal
Rough collie who played the original screen collie hero
Pat
The Irish Terrier of Canadian prime minister Mackenzie King
Peritas
Dog of Alexander the Great, said to have a city named for him · Greek
Pete
Bull terrier of Theodore Roosevelt's White House
Peter
Collie who searched London rubble for trapped survivors
Philly
A mixed breed mascot and hero of an American infantry company in the First World War
Phiz
A Boston Terrier given to Helen Keller by her college classmates
Rags
Stray terrier who ran messages for American troops in 1918
Ricky
Welsh collie who cleared mines along a Dutch canal bank
Rinty
The nickname of Rin Tin Tin, the German Shepherd film star rescued from a battlefield in 1918
Rip
Stray who found survivors in the rubble of the London Blitz
Rob
Collie said to have parachuted on wartime special operations
Robot
Dog whose tumble led boys to the Lascaux cave paintings
Ruswarp
A Border Collie who guarded his owner for eleven weeks in the Welsh mountains in 1990
Ryzhik
Russian for ginger, a Soviet space dog who flew in 1951 · Russian
Sailor Boy
A Chesapeake Bay Retriever of Theodore Roosevelt
Scentwell
A foxhound of George Washington, named for a fine nose
Scipio
The St Bernard of the aviator Orville Wright
Scotty
Lead dog on Leonhard Seppala's Alaskan racing teams
Seaman
Newfoundland who crossed America with Lewis and Clark · big dogs
Sensation
The English Pointer on the logo of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Sharp
Queen Victoria's collie and favourite dog at Balmoral
Shep
Collie who waited years at a Montana railway station
Sinbad
Coast Guard cutter dog with his own service record
Sirrah
The clever black Border Collie of the Scottish poet James Hogg · Scottish
Snuppy
Afghan hound born in 2005, the first cloned dog · Korean
Station Jim
A Victorian dog who collected coins for railway orphans at Slough station
Stickeen
The small brave dog who crossed a glacier with John Muir in 1880 Alaska · small dogs
Strongheart
A German Shepherd film star of the 1920s, the first dog billed above the title · big dogs
Stubby
Most decorated American dog of the First World War
Swansea Jack
A black retriever who rescued people from the water at Swansea in the 1930s · Welsh
Sykes
A much loved British screen dog of adverts and Midsomer Murders
Tillman
Bulldog who set a skateboarding speed record
Timahoe
King Timahoe, President Nixon's Irish Setter, named after an Irish village · Irish
Togo
Siberian husky who ran the longest leg of the 1925 serum run
Trakr
Shepherd who found the last survivor at Ground Zero
Treo
Labrador who found roadside bombs in Afghanistan
Tubby
A Cocker Spaniel who was on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge when it fell in 1940
Uggie
Jack Russell terrier who charmed audiences in a silent film
Ugolyok
Russian for little ember, who spent 22 days in orbit with Veterok in 1966 · Russian
Veterok
Russian for light breeze, one of two dogs who spent 22 days in orbit in 1966 · Russian
Veto
The dog of President James Garfield · Latin
Vulcan
Dorgi kept by Queen Elizabeth the Second
Waghya
The loyal dog of the Maratha king Shivaji, remembered with a statue at Raigad Fort · Marathi
Wessex
Thomas Hardy's terrier, buried in the garden at Max Gate
Zanjeer
Detection dog who found explosives after the 1993 Mumbai blasts · Hindi
Zorba
English mastiff recorded as the heaviest dog on record · big dogs

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Baekgu
Korean for white dog, a Jindo who walked 300 km home to her owner · Korean
Terry
Cairn terrier who played the little dog in a 1939 musical · small dogs

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