Korean for butterfly · Korean
Mother of pearl, the shimmering lining of shells · French
Means dew in Arabic · Arabic
A town on Fiji's main island and the gateway to its resorts · Fijian
Russian name meaning hope · Russian
French name meaning hope · French
Russian pet form of Nadezhda, meaning hope · Russian
Japanese name meaning beach or shore · Japanese
Hawaiian for dolphin · Hawaiian
The innermost moon of Neptune, named for the water nymphs · Greek
A cosy, milky sweet sounding Mandarin pet name · Chinese
Means wide-eyed in Arabic, for a dog with big eyes · Arabic
Means palm tree in Arabic · Arabic
Swahili origin, often given as gift
The heavens, the skies · Hawaiian
Tswana and Sotho for star · Tswana
A moon of Haumea named for a Hawaiian sea goddess · Hawaiian
The Japanese word for wave · Japanese
Japanese for seven · Japanese
Turkish for mint · Turkish
French diminutive of Anne · French
Hawaiian, beautiful · Hawaiian
Norse goddess and wife of Baldur · Norse
Victorian pet form of Ann, grace
A woman employed to look after children
A windswept island off Massachusetts of grey shingled houses
Hebrew for pleasantness, Ruth's mother in law · Hebrew
Wine growing valley and town in California
Old Japanese capital known for its tame deer · Japanese
Spanish for orange · Spanish
Means daffodil or narcissus in Persian · Persian
Australian and British favourite, a softened form of Nala, Swahili for gift · Swahili
A great river of central India · Sanskrit
Japanese for pear, the crisp round Asian pear · Japanese
Means wild rose in Persian · Persian
Means dog rose in Persian, a fitting flower for a dog · Persian
A peppery garden flower in orange and red · Latin
Russian pet form of Anastasia · Russian
Portuguese for cream · Portuguese
From Latin natale domini, Christmas Day · Latin
Spirited heroine of Tolstoy's War and Peace · Russian
Japanese for summer · Japanese
A white half-flower of Hawaiian beaches with a legendary love story · Hawaiian
A soft form of the Korean word for butterfly · Korean
Spanish for Christmas · Spanish
Means flower or blossom in Arabic · Arabic
Means sweetheart or darling in Persian · Persian
Means coy or delicate in Turkish · Turkish
Irish name meaning champion · Irish
Italian for fog · Italian
Swahili for grace · Swahili
A tart with two colours of icing
Greek name meaning cloud · Greek
Favourite queen of Ramesses II, meaning the most beautiful · Egyptian
Egyptian queen whose name means the beautiful one has come · Egyptian
Means gemstone set in a ring in Persian · Persian
Affection, also rain · Hindi
Early Egyptian goddess of weaving, hunting and war · Egyptian
The vulture goddess who protected Upper Egypt · Ancient Egyptian
Pet form of Eleanor or Helen, light
Italian short form of names like Antonella · Italian
Also for Dame Nellie Melba
Nelly Dean, the housekeeper who tells the story of Wuthering Heights
Greek goddess who balances the scales · Greek
Spanish for little girl, a fond nickname · Spanish
The tough kind of jade carved for thousands of years · Greek
Egyptian goddess whose name means lady of the house · Egyptian
Italian for black, feminine · Italian
Spanish and Basque name, possibly from Basque for mine · Spanish
Distant moon of Neptune on a long stretched orbit
Delicate bean paste sweets shaped like flowers for tea ceremonies · Japanese · small dogs
Italian name tied to the sea nymph Nerine · Italian
Greek roots, of the sea · Greek
The most distant moon of Neptune, named for an island nymph · Greek
Mother of King Conchobar in Irish legend · Irish
Means plant or sapling in Hebrew · Hebrew
Pet form of Henrietta or Antoinette
A soft heart shaped cheese from Normandy · French
After the Neva River in Saint Petersburg, or Spanish nieve, snow · Russian
Welsh name meaning brightness · Welsh
The great falls on the border of Canada and the United States · Iroquoian
French feminine of Nicholas, victory of the people · French
Italian form of Nicole · Italian
French diminutive of Nicole · French
Spanish for fog or mist · Spanish
Spanish name meaning snows · Spanish
Black seed scattered over naan and flatbreads · Latin
A plain brown bird with a famous song · small dogs
The Japanese word for rainbow · Japanese
Greek for victory · Greek
Tamil for the moon · Tamil
Means water lily in Persian · Persian
The Lady of the Lake who enchanted Merlin · Welsh
Spanish name meaning little girl · Spanish · small dogs
Chinese for peaceful, calm and serene · Chinese
A cheerful French pet name · French · small dogs
Sanskrit, night · Sanskrit
A small moon of Pluto named for the goddess of night · Greek · small dogs
Italian for hazelnut · Italian
A dreamy piece written for the night · French
Means misty rain in Hawaiian · Hawaiian
Hawaiian, heavenly mist · Hawaiian
French for Christmas, for a December puppy · French
Emmy Noether, the German mathematician of symmetry · German
Means sunset glow in Korean, dreamy and soft · Korean
Means beautiful in ancient Egyptian, wife of Prince Rahotep · Ancient Egyptian
Means silver in Persian · Persian
French word for hazelnut · French
Short form of Fionnuala, white shoulder, also a nickname for New Orleans · Irish
Irish for Christmas · Irish
Breton name of a sixth century saint, the holy one from Noyal · Breton
Latin for ninth, also Italian for grandmother · Latin
Italian for grandmother · Italian
Dutch short form of Eleonora, and Arabic for light · Dutch
Beach town on the Sunshine Coast
Short form of Honora, common a century ago · Irish
Latin for rule or pattern, the heroine of Bellini's opera · Latin
One of the three Norse weavers of fate · Norse
Means gift in Zulu and Xhosa · Zulu
The French Pacific capital of New Caledonia, with lagoon beaches · French
Means sweet or pleasant in Persian · Persian
Latin, new, and a star that suddenly brightens
Italian for new, also a short novel · Italian
Latin for night, and the Roman goddess of night · Latin
Means peace in Xhosa · Xhosa
Japanese for hope, a wish · Japanese
Short for Fionnuala, fair shouldered · Irish
Chinese for warm · Chinese
Spanish for cloud · Spanish
The ancient land south of Egypt along the Nile · Ancient Egyptian
German for noodle · German
Means water lily in Hebrew · Hebrew
A bright star of Sagittarius with a Babylonian name · Babylonian
Means buttercup in Hebrew · Hebrew
Swahili for light · Swahili
Egyptian goddess of the sky · Egyptian
A warm brown spice from the seed of an Indonesian tree
Italian for cloud · Italian
Chinese goddess who made people out of clay · Chinese
A striped spiral horned antelope of southern Africa · Venda
Perhaps Arabic for winner, or a form of Nila, blue · Arabic
Swahili for star · Swahili
Russian pet form of Anna · Russian
Greek goddess of the night
Warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba · Angolan
The Babylonian god of wisdom and writing · Akkadian
A Mexican corn chip dish, also a Spanish pet form of Ignacio
Means whale in Persian, for a very big dog · Persian · big dogs
Hawaiian for forest · Hawaiian
The calling, the one who is called · Hawaiian
After James Naismith, the Canadian who invented basketball
Means star in Arabic · Arabic
An ancient Egyptian name meaning strong, from a famous painted tomb · Ancient Egyptian
Inuit master of the bears · Inuit · big dogs
Honest tree, upright · Japanese
French emperor and general · French · small dogs
Spring bulb flower named after a figure in Greek myth · Greek
Early ruler seen as the first pharaoh, his name means fierce catfish · Egyptian
An Arctic whale with a long spiral tusk · big dogs
English surname, at the ash tree
An old Mississippi River town of antebellum mansions
Short form of Nathan or Nathaniel, he gave
Hebrew for he gave, a prophet in the Old Testament · Hebrew
Hebrew name meaning gift of God · Hebrew
A shelled deep water relative of the octopus
Means good news in Persian · Persian
Largest island of the Greek Cyclades · Greek
Another Swahili word for elephant, for a large dog · Swahili · big dogs
Irish for strength · Irish
The red grape of Barolo, named for the autumn fog · Italian
For the bushranger Ned Kelly
Scots word for turnip · Scottish
The ancient Egyptian god of the lotus flower and perfume · Ancient Egyptian
A bitter red Italian cocktail of gin, vermouth and bitters · Italian
Irish Niall, champion or cloud · Irish
For the admiral on the column in Trafalgar Square
The Himalayan kingdom · big dogs
The eighth planet, named for the god of the sea · Roman · big dogs
Greek old man of the sea · Greek
Mesopotamian god of the underworld and summer heat · Mesopotamian
A Roman emperor, and Italian for black · Latin
The wise old king of Pylos in the Iliad · Greek
Means wolf in Korean · Korean · big dogs
A nerve cell of the brain, for a clever dog
A tiny, ghostly particle that passes through almost anything · small dogs
The particle with no charge in the heart of an atom
The raven's one word in Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 poem The Raven
Norman surname from Neuville, new town · French
The highest mountain in Britain · Scottish · big dogs
English place name, new town, after Isaac Newton
Niall of the Nine Hostages, a legendary High King of Ireland · Irish
Saint Nicholas, the gift giver behind Santa Claus, Greek for victory of the people · Greek
A hard silvery grey metal
Short for Niccolo · Italian
Greek for victory of the people · Greek
A night flying nightjar of the Americas
Means small in Punjabi · Punjabi · small dogs
Greek short form of Nikolaos · Greek
A steamed pork filled bun · Japanese · small dogs
English surname from Neil, champion
Scandinavian form of Nicholas · Swedish
Spanish for boy or child · Spanish · small dogs
Terrier painted in 1898 listening to a gramophone horn
The little gnome of Scandinavian folklore · Norwegian · small dogs
Norse god of the sea and the wind · Norse
Hebrew name meaning rest or comfort · Hebrew
French word for Christmas · French
Irish surname meaning noble · Irish
The greedy elder brother of Korean folk tale · Korean
The Alaska town that the famous sled dog serum run reached in 1925
Italian for grandfather · Italian
Germanic name meaning bright north · German
Old French, a man from the north
Norman French for northerner · French
English place name, north town
French for a teddy bear · French
Yellow retriever behind the first golden retriever line
Irish king who wore a hand of silver · Irish
A small lump of gold, also a small piece of fried chicken · small dogs
Hawaiian for big · Hawaiian · big dogs
Great Dane formally enlisted by the Royal Navy in South Africa · big dogs
The huge flat treeless plain along the Great Australian Bight; the name means no tree · Latin
Name of the second king of Rome · Latin
Small striped termite eating marsupial · small dogs
Portuguese name of uncertain origin, gentle with deep heritage · Portuguese
After Paavo Nurmi, the Flying Finn of distance running · Finnish
The toy soldier of Tchaikovsky's Christmas ballet The Nutcracker
After Tazio Nuvolari, the daring Italian racing driver
Means buffalo in Swahili, for a resilient dog · Swahili · big dogs
Soft leavened flatbread baked in a tandoor · Persian
Calm, a still sea · Japanese
A wild river national park in the Northwest Territories
Means milk tea in Mandarin, for a creamy tan dog · Chinese
A Finnish and Swedish word for teddy bear · Finnish
Hawaiian, wave · Hawaiian
A mountain range and national park near Canberra · Ngunnawal
The giant catfish said to cause earthquakes by thrashing · Japanese
The coastal desert of Namibia with some of the tallest dunes on earth · Nama
Means tree in Korean, grounded and calm · Korean
A Vancouver Island city that gave its name to a layered chocolate bar
The nankeen kestrel and night heron, named for a buff cotton cloth · Chinese
A crumbly Indian butter biscuit · Hindi · small dogs
From the Greek for dwarf, meaning one billionth · small dogs
City on the Loire in western France · French
Means naughty in Mandarin, for a little troublemaker · Chinese
Southern Italian city, birthplace of pizza · Italian
Turkish for pomegranate · Turkish
Tennessee home of country music
Malay and Indonesian for cooked rice · Malay
A natural salt used in ancient Egypt to preserve and clean · Ancient Egyptian
British slang for a long chat
Sticky fermented soybeans, a Japanese breakfast staple · Japanese
The person who plots the route on a ship or plane · Latin
The deep dark blue of naval uniforms
The blue eye charm that wards off bad luck in Turkey · Turkish
Means bird in Swahili, for a small, chirpy dog · Swahili · small dogs
Means banana in Swahili · Swahili
German word for fog · German
Russian and Slavic for sky · Russian
A cloud of gas and dust where stars form
Sweet juice, in Greek myth the drink of the gods · Greek
Means beautiful in ancient Egyptian, a name given to real dogs in Egypt · Ancient Egyptian
Means cat in Japanese, a cheeky choice for a dog · Japanese
A forked tail cat spirit of Japanese folklore · Japanese
The striped royal headcloth worn by pharaohs · Ancient Egyptian
Latin, nobody · Latin · small dogs
The Hawaiian goose · Hawaiian
The glowing gas of bright signs, from the Greek for new
A headland or point of land running out into the sea
The stinging plant of the hedgerow
As in eye of newt, from the witches' brew in Macbeth · small dogs
Means mouse in Japanese, a funny name for a tiny dog · Japanese · small dogs
Means just right in Cantonese · Cantonese
The beast of Chinese New Year legend scared off by red and firecrackers · Chinese
Chinese new year rice cake, sweet and chewy · Chinese
One who takes small, quick bites · small dogs
Small bites, for a dainty eater · small dogs
A tiny nibble · small dogs
The coming of dark at the end of the day
A night bird with a churring call and wonderful camouflage
Hand pressed sushi with a slice of fish on top · Japanese · small dogs
New Zealand's only native palm · Maori
Slavic name long used on shepherds and huskies · Russian
Short form of Nicole or Nicholas, long popular on dogs
Mountain shrine town north of Tokyo · Japanese
The longest river in Africa · big dogs
Indian lime, the base of a cooling street drink · Hindi
A long coral reef off Western Australia where whale sharks swim
Japanese, a covert agent of feudal Japan · Japanese
Pleasantly cold, also quick and lively
Short for nitrous oxide, used to boost engine power
Means flower bud in Hebrew · Hebrew
Means star in Zulu · Zulu
Means pleasantness in Hebrew · Hebrew
A member of the aristocracy · Latin
Creamy egg and nutmeg drink served at Christmas
Handsome, lovely to look at · Hawaiian
French for walnut · French
Means bird in Thai · Thai
One who never settles in one place
A long strip of pasta, from the German Nudel
Long and wiggly, for a pup with legs everywhere
Scandinavian, north · Norse
A flat English county of broads and big skies, home of a terrier
Region on the north coast of France · French
Swedish for the northern lights · Swedish
Chewy sweet of whipped egg white, honey and nuts · French
Short for Art Nouveau, the flowing, plant inspired style of around 1900 · French
Means little in Lao and Thai · Lao · small dogs
Scottish slang for a well meaning fool
Means snow in Korean, for a white dog · Korean
Canada's Arctic territory; the name means our land in Inuktitut · Inuktitut
An old Korean word for the world · Korean
A small bird that climbs down tree trunks head first · small dogs
A dark, glittering stone from Greenland
Means bee in Swahili · Swahili