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Mountain dog names

Peaks, ranges and alpine words, and a natural fit for the big mountain breeds.

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Girl names (34)

Alpina
Of the mountains, the Latin feminine for alpine · Latin
Alta
Spanish and Italian, high · Spanish
Annapurna
A great Himalayan peak, giver of food · Sanskrit · big dogs
Bernina
Piz Bernina, the highest peak of the Eastern Alps · Romansh
Blencathra
A Lake District fell with a famous saddle shaped ridge · Cumbric
Breccia
A rock of broken angular fragments cemented together · Italian
Calcite
A clear crystal mineral found in limestone and marble · Latin
Chamonix
The French valley town under Mont Blanc
Chogolisa
A Karakoram peak once called Bride Peak · Balti
Cortina
The Dolomites resort town
Culebra
Culebra Peak in Colorado, Spanish for snake · Spanish
Etna
The great volcano of Sicily · big dogs
Gingera
Mount Gingera in the Brindabella Ranges · Ngunnawal
Illimani
The snowy mountain that watches over La Paz in Bolivia · Aymara
Jungfrau
A famous snow peak in the Swiss alps · German
Kaolin
A fine white china clay, from a Chinese hill name · Chinese
Kebnekaise
Sweden's highest mountain · Sami
Kimberlite
The volcanic rock that carries diamonds to the surface
Meije
La Meije, a jagged peak of the French Alps · French
Mesa
Spanish for a flat topped steep sided hill · Spanish
Mica
A glittery mineral that peels into thin sheets · Latin
Orizaba
Mexico's highest mountain, a snow capped volcano · Nahuatl
Pihanga
A bush clad mountain beside Lake Taupo, beloved in Maori legend · Maori
Rakaposhi
A beautiful snow peak above the Hunza valley · Burushaski
Rila
The Rila Mountains of Bulgaria · Bulgarian
Roseberry
Roseberry Topping, a little peaked hill of North Yorkshire
Scoria
A dark bubbly volcanic rock · Greek
Shispare
A sharp peak of the Karakoram in Pakistan · Burushaski
Silverheels
Mount Silverheels in Colorado, named after a dancer of the gold rush
Tahoma
The native name for Mount Rainier · Lushootseed
Tatra
The Tatra Mountains of Poland and Slovakia, also a sheepdog breed · Polish
Tufa
A soft porous limestone formed in springs · Italian
Zermatt
The Swiss village under the Matterhorn
Zugspitze
Germany's highest mountain · German

Boy names (102)

Aconcagua
The highest mountain in the Americas, in the Andes of Argentina · Quechua · big dogs
Adirondack
The Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York · Mohawk
Apex
The very top of something
Arapaho
The Arapaho peaks of the Colorado Front Range · Arapaho
Ararat
The mountain where the ark is said to have landed · big dogs
Arrowsmith
Mount Arrowsmith, a craggy peak of Canterbury
Assiniboine
Mount Assiniboine, the Matterhorn of the Canadian Rockies · Ojibwe
Avalanche
A mass of snow sliding off a mountain · big dogs
Banff
A mountain town in the Canadian Rockies
Barrington
Barrington Tops, a high plateau of rainforest in New South Wales
Beerwah
The tallest of the Glass House Mountains of Queensland · Kabi Kabi
Ben
From Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain · big dogs
Bighorn
A Wyoming range named for its wild sheep · big dogs
Blanc
French for white, from the highest alp · French
Bluff
A steep cliff standing over flat ground
Bogong
Victoria's highest mountain, and a moth that gathers there each summer · Dhudhuroa
Buller
Mount Buller, a snowy peak of the Victorian Alps
Butte
A flat topped hill standing on its own
Cairngorm
A high windswept plateau range in Scotland · Scottish · big dogs
Catskill
The Catskill Mountains of New York · Dutch
Caucasus
The mountain range between the Black Sea and the Caspian
Cervino
The Italian name for the Matterhorn · Italian
Cheviot
The highest of the Cheviot Hills on the Scottish border, also a breed of sheep
Chimborazo
An Ecuadorian volcano whose summit is the farthest point from Earth's centre · Quechua · big dogs
Combin
Grand Combin, a huge glacier covered Swiss massif · French · big dogs
Cotopaxi
A perfect snowy volcano cone in Ecuador · Quechua
Couloir
A narrow snow gully on a mountain face · French
Crag
A steep rugged rock face
Dartmoor
The wild granite moorland of Devon, home of hardy ponies
Denali
The highest peak in North America · big dogs
Dhaulagiri
A Himalayan giant whose name means white mountain · Sanskrit · big dogs
Earnslaw
A snowy peak above Lake Wakatipu
Egmont
The old English name of Mount Taranaki
Eiger
The Bernese Alps peak with the famous north face · big dogs
Elbrus
The highest peak in Europe · Russian · big dogs
Everest
The highest mountain above sea level · big dogs
Exmoor
The rolling moorland of Somerset and Devon, home of wild red deer
Gabbro
A dark coarse rock from deep in the Earth · Italian
Haast
Mount Haast in the Southern Alps, named for the explorer Julius von Haast · German
Hallasan
The volcano at the heart of Jeju Island, South Korea's highest peak · Korean
Hikurangi
The North Island mountain that greets the sunrise first · Maori
Huascaran
The highest mountain in Peru · Quechua · big dogs
Ingleborough
One of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, with a flat top
Jagungal
A big lone peak in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales · Aboriginal Australian · big dogs
Kangchenjunga
The third highest mountain on Earth, Tibetan for five treasures of snow · Tibetan · big dogs
Karakoram
A severe range of the highest Asian peaks · big dogs
Katahdin
The highest mountain in Maine, the end of the Appalachian Trail · Penobscot
Kembla
Mount Kembla, a peak above Wollongong in New South Wales · Dharawal
Kilimanjaro
Africa's highest mountain, a snow capped volcano in Tanzania · Swahili · big dogs
Kinder
Kinder Scout, the high moorland plateau of the Peak District
Kosciuszko
Australia's highest mountain, in the Snowy Mountains · Polish · big dogs
Lhotse
A Himalayan giant standing beside Everest · big dogs
Loa
A vast Hawaiian shield volcano · Hawaiian · big dogs
Makalu
A high pyramid shaped Himalayan peak · big dogs
Mammoth
A high Sierra peak buried in deep snow · big dogs
Manaslu
The eighth highest mountain, Sanskrit for mountain of the spirit · Sanskrit · big dogs
Massif
A compact block of mountains · French · big dogs
Matterhorn
The pyramid peak above Zermatt · big dogs
Mitre
Mitre Peak, the pointed mountain rising from Milford Sound
Monte
Italian and Spanish for mountain · Italian
Monviso
A lone pyramid peak of the Cottian Alps in Italy · Italian
Munro
A Scottish mountain over three thousand feet · Scottish
Nevis
The highest mountain in Britain · Scottish · big dogs
Ouray
Mount Ouray in Colorado, named after a Ute chief · Ute
Ozark
The Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas
Pamir
The high roof of the world in central Asia
Paradiso
Gran Paradiso, the only Italian peak over 4,000 m entirely in Italy · Italian
Parnassus
The Greek mountain sacred to Apollo and the Muses · Greek
Pelion
A green Greek mountain, home of the centaurs in myth · Greek
Rainier
The glaciated volcano south of Seattle · big dogs
Rangitoto
The island volcano that guards Auckland's harbour · Maori
Robson
Mount Robson, the highest peak of the Canadian Rockies
Rockies
The Rocky Mountains of North America · big dogs
Ruapehu
The biggest active volcano in New Zealand, with ski fields on its slopes · Maori · big dogs
Sawtooth
A jagged range of peaks in Idaho
Scafell
The highest fell in England · big dogs
Schiehallion
A cone shaped Scottish mountain, the fairy hill of the Caledonians · Scottish Gaelic
Seorak
Seoraksan, a rugged mountain of South Korea, snowy peaks · Korean
Sgurr
A Scottish Gaelic word for a sharp rocky peak · Scottish Gaelic
Skiddaw
A big rounded fell above Keswick in the Lake District
Stromboli
A lively island volcano off Sicily that has been erupting for centuries · Italian
Suilven
A dramatic sugarloaf mountain of the Scottish north west · Old Norse
Talus
The loose rock heaped below a cliff
Tarawera
A volcano near Rotorua famous for its great eruption of 1886 · Maori
Teide
The volcano of Tenerife, Spain's highest mountain · Guanche
Teton
A sharp granite range rising in Wyoming · big dogs
Tongariro
A volcano and New Zealand's first national park · Maori · big dogs
Tor
A rocky hill top, common on Dartmoor
Torridon
An ancient red rock range in the Highlands · Scottish
Toubkal
The highest peak in north Africa
Triglav
Slovenia's highest mountain, Slavic for three heads · Slovene
Tryfan
A rocky Welsh peak climbed by scrambling · Welsh
Tuff
A rock made of volcanic ash, said like tough
Tutoko
Mount Tutoko, the highest peak of Fiordland · Maori
Ural
The range dividing Europe from Asia
Vesuvius
The volcano above the bay of Naples · Italian · big dogs
Weisshorn
A shining white Swiss peak, German for white peak · German
Whernside
The highest of the Yorkshire Three Peaks
Whistler
A snowy peak in British Columbia
Wrekin
A lone hill in Shropshire, a local landmark for miles around
Yukon
A wild northern land of ice and high peaks · big dogs
Zion
A high canyon country in Utah · Hebrew

Names for either (47)

Alp
A high mountain pasture and peak
Alpine
Of the high mountains
Alps
The great mountain range of central Europe · big dogs
Altai
A remote mountain range of central Asia
Andes
The long mountain chain of South America · big dogs
Arete
A thin sharp ridge between two valleys · French
Aspiring
Mount Aspiring, the Matterhorn of the Southern Alps
Bimberi
Bimberi Peak, the highest point in the ACT · Ngunnawal
Bluestone
A blue grey stone, famous from Stonehenge
Cairn
A stack of stones that marks a mountain path
Cirque
A steep rock bowl carved out by ice · French
Coolum
Mount Coolum, a rocky peak on the Sunshine Coast · Kabi Kabi
Cornice
An overhanging lip of wind blown snow
Corrie
A bowl shaped hollow high on a Scottish hill · Scottish
Crest
The top line of a ridge
Crevasse
A deep crack in a glacier · French
Cuillin
A jagged black rock range on the isle of Skye · Scottish
Dolomite
The pale rock of the Italian alps · Italian
Fairweather
Mount Fairweather in Alaska, named for a calm day
Feathertop
Mount Feathertop in the Victorian Alps, often topped with snow
Feldspar
The most common mineral in the Earth's crust · German
Fuji
The sacred volcano of Japan · big dogs
Glacier
A slow river of mountain ice · big dogs
Glencoe
A steep sided glen under Scottish peaks · Scottish
Gneiss
A banded rock made under great heat, said nice, for a very nice dog · German
Helvellyn
A famous ridge walk in the Lake District
Himalaya
The highest mountain range on Earth, Sanskrit for abode of snow · Sanskrit · big dogs
Kili
Short for Kilimanjaro, the roof of Africa · big dogs
Magnetite
A black magnetic iron mineral, nature's lodestone
Moraine
The rubble a glacier leaves behind
Namadgi
A mountain range and national park near Canberra · Ngunnawal
Peak
The pointed top of a mountain
Pendle
Pendle Hill in Lancashire, famous for its witch tales
Pinnacle
The highest sharp point of a mountain
Plateau
High flat land lifted above the plains
Porphyry
A purple rock prized by the Roman emperors · Greek
Pyrenees
The range standing between France and Spain
Saddleback
A ridge with a dip between two peaks, and a native bird of New Zealand
Sandstone
A golden rock made of sand grains pressed together
Schist
A sparkly layered rock that splits into flakes · Greek
Scree
The loose stone below a cliff
Sherpa
The Himalayan people known for high altitude climbing
Spire
A slender tower of rock
Summit
The highest point of a mountain, from the Latin summus
Tomah
Mount Tomah in the Blue Mountains, home of a botanic garden · Darug
Vail
Colorado ski town
Yeti
The legendary snow creature of the Himalaya · big dogs

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