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Dog names starting with V

Every name in our list that starts with V, for girls, boys and either, with the meaning of each. A name that starts with a hard sound carries further across a park than a soft one.

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Girl names (65)

Valdis
Norse name meaning goddess of the slain · Icelandic
Valencia
Spanish port city known for oranges and paella · Spanish
Valentina
Italian for strong and healthy · Italian
Valentine
French name meaning strong and healthy · French
Valeria
Spanish name meaning strong and healthy · Spanish
Valerie
French form of Valeria, to be strong · French
Valkyrie
The choosers of the slain in Norse myth · Norse
Valletta
The golden stone capital of Malta, built by the Knights of St John · Maltese
Vanilla
The cured pod of a climbing orchid
Vanilla Slice
A custard slice between pastry layers
Variscite
A pale green stone that resembles turquoise · Latin
Varya
Russian pet form of Varvara · Russian
Vasiliki
Greek name meaning royal · Greek
Vasilisa
Russian feminine of Vasiliy, meaning royal, a fairy tale heroine · Russian
Veena
A plucked stringed instrument of South India · Sanskrit
Veer
Dutch for feather · Dutch · small dogs
Vega
A brilliant blue white star in Lyra
Vegas
Short for Las Vegas
Vela
Constellation of the ship's sails
Velda
Germanic for ruler, or a seer in old Norse tales · German
Velma
An American given name, popular in the 1920s
Velum
A veil of cloud draped across a cumulus tower, Latin for veil · Latin
Venice
Italian city built on canals · Italian
Venus
Roman goddess of love · Roman
Vera
Latin, true, and Russian, faith
Verbena
Lemon scented herb brewed as a tea · Latin
Vered
Means rose in Hebrew · Hebrew
Veritas
Latin for truth, the Roman spirit of truth · Latin
Verity
Virtue name meaning truth · Latin
Vermilion
A bright orange red pigment
Verna
Latin vernus, of spring · Latin
Verona
The northern Italian city of Romeo and Juliet · Italian
Veronica
The wealthy Riverdale girl
Veselka
Ukrainian for rainbow · Ukrainian
Vesna
Slavic goddess of spring · Slavic
Vespa
Italian, wasp · Italian · small dogs
Vesper
Latin for evening, the evening star · Latin
Vesta
One of the brightest asteroids in the belt · Latin
Vicky
Pet form of Victoria, victory
Victoria
Latin, victory
Vicuna
A slender wild relative of the llama with the finest wool · Quechua
Vida
Spanish for life · Spanish
Vidya
Sanskrit for knowledge · Sanskrit
Vienna
Capital of Austria
Vigdis
Icelandic name meaning war goddess · Icelandic
Vignette
A small decorative picture that fades softly at the edges · French
Viognier
A fragrant white grape from the Rhone · French
Viola
The alto voice of the string family
Violet
A small woodland flower
Virga
Rain that fades before it reaches the ground · Latin
Virginia
Roman family name Verginius, maidenly · Latin
Virgo
The maiden constellation of the zodiac · Latin
Viridian
A blue green pigment, from Latin for green · Latin
Visne
Turkish for sour cherry · Turkish
Vista
A long pleasing view, from Italian for sight · Italian
Vita
Latin for life · Latin
Vittoria
Italian for victory · Italian
Vivianite
A blue green crystal named after the mineralogist John Vivian
Vivien
From the Latin vivus, alive, borne by the actress Vivien Leigh
Vixen
A female fox
Vlinder
Dutch for butterfly · Dutch
Volga
Longest river in Europe, flowing through Russia
Voula
Greek pet form of Paraskevi or Vasiliki · Greek
Vulpecula
The little fox constellation · Latin · small dogs
Vulpes
Latin for fox · Latin

Boy names (75)

Valdemar
Name of several medieval Danish kings · Norse
Valens
Latin for strong and healthy · Latin
Valente
Portuguese for brave and valiant · Portuguese
Valerio
Italian form of Valerius, meaning strong · Italian
Valet
A gentleman's personal servant · French
Vali
A son of Odin who grew to full strength in a single day · Old Norse
Validus
Latin for strong and sturdy · Latin
Valjean
Jean Valjean, the reformed convict at the heart of Les Miserables
Valo
Finnish for light · Finnish
Van Dyck
Anthony van Dyck, the court painter of King Charles I · Flemish
Vance
English surname, fen dweller
Vanya
Russian pet form of Ivan · Russian
Vaquero
Spanish for cowboy or cattle herder · Spanish
Varenyk
Ukrainian dumpling · Ukrainian
Varg
Swedish for wolf · Swedish
Varjo
Finnish for shadow · Finnish
Vasco
Portuguese and Spanish name of Basque origin, carried by the explorer Vasco da Gama · Portuguese
Vasilis
Greek form of Basil, meaning royal · Greek
Vaughan
Welsh surname meaning small · Welsh · small dogs
Vaughn
Welsh fychan, little · Welsh
Vayu
The Hindu god of the wind · Sanskrit
Vector
A quantity with size and direction, for a dog who knows where they are going
Velazquez
Diego Velazquez, the Spanish court painter of Las Meninas, which shows a large dog · Spanish
Veld
The open grassland of southern Africa · Afrikaans
Veles
Slavic god of cattle, earth and the underworld · Slavic
Vento
Italian for wind · Italian
Vercingetorix
The Gaulish chieftain who stood against Julius Caesar · Gaulish · big dogs
Verdi
Italian composer of Aida and Rigoletto · Italian
Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer, the Dutch painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring · Dutch
Vermentino
A crisp white grape from Sardinia and Liguria · Italian
Vermiglio
Italian for vermilion red · Italian
Vermont
A green New England state of maple syrup and covered bridges · French
Vermouth
An aromatised fortified wine · Italian
Vern
Short form of Vernon, alder tree · French
Verne
Jules Verne, the author of Around the World in Eighty Days · French
Vernon
Norman place name used for boys around 1900 · French
Vesa
Finnish word for a young tree · Finnish · small dogs
Vespro
Italian for vespers, the evening hour · Italian
Vesuvius
The volcano above the bay of Naples · Italian · big dogs
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
Vetri
Means victory in Tamil · Tamil
Victor
Latin for conqueror · Latin
Vidar
Silent Norse god of the forest and vengeance · Norse
Vide
Swedish for willow · Swedish
Viento
Spanish for wind · Spanish
Viggo
Old Norse vig, war · Old Norse
Viking
First spacecraft to land and work on Mars
Vikram
Sanskrit, valour · Sanskrit
Vince
Short form of Vincent, conquering
Vincent
Latin Vincentius, conquering · Latin
Vincenzo
Italian form of Vincent, conquering · Italian
Vinnie
Pet form of Vincent, long popular as a dog name
Vino
Wine, the everyday Italian and Spanish word for it · Italian
Virgil
Roman family name Vergilius, the poet who wrote the Aeneid · Latin
Virtuoso
A performer of great skill · Italian
Viscount
A rank of nobility just below an earl · English
Viter
Ukrainian for wind · Ukrainian
Vito
Italian name from Latin vita, life · Italian
Vivaldi
Italian composer of The Four Seasons · Italian
Vizier
A high minister in the old Islamic courts · Arabic
Vlad
Vlad the Impaler, the Wallachian prince whose family name inspired Dracula
Vladimir
Slavic name from to rule and great or famous · Russian
Volcano
A mountain that pours out lava and ash, for a fiery dog · big dogs
Volk
Russian for wolf · Russian
Volt
The unit of electric potential, for a dog full of spark
Voltaire
The witty French writer of Candide · French
Vortex
The spinning core of a storm
Vos
Dutch for fox · Dutch
Vostok
Spacecraft that carried the first person into space · Russian
Vovchyk
Ukrainian for little wolf · Ukrainian
Voyageur
A French Canadian canoe paddler of the fur trade · French
Vronsky
Cavalry officer in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina · Russian
Vuk
Croatian and Serbian for wolf, also a boys name · Croatian
Vulcan
Dorgi kept by Queen Elizabeth the Second

Names for either (33)

Vada
A savoury lentil doughnut from South India · Hindi · small dogs
Vaffel
Norwegian for waffle · Norwegian
Vagabond
A wanderer with no fixed home · Latin
Vail
Colorado ski town
Vale
An old word for a valley
Valerian
Root herb used to help people sleep · Latin
Valhalla
The great hall of Odin where fallen heroes feast · Old Norse
Valparaiso
A colourful hillside port in Chile; the name means paradise valley · Spanish
Vang
Means gold in Vietnamese, for a golden coat · Vietnamese
Vanuatu
Volcanic island nation of the South Pacific
Vault
A gymnastics apparatus and event
Veda
Sanskrit, knowledge · Sanskrit
Veldt
Open grassland of southern Africa, from the Dutch for field · Afrikaans
Vellum
Fine calfskin parchment used for old manuscripts
Verdant
Lush and green with new growth
Verde
Spanish and Italian for green · Spanish
Verdigris
The blue green patina on old copper · French
Vernal
Belonging to the spring · Latin
Versailles
Grand palace outside Paris · French · big dogs
Vervain
Slender herb the Romans treated as sacred
Vetkoek
Means fat cake, a fried dough bread loved in South Africa · Afrikaans
Vibrato
A wavering, singing pitch · Italian
Vine
Climbing plant that winds its way upward
Vireo
A small green songbird, Latin for I am green · Latin · small dogs
Vitumbua
Small, sweet East African rice cakes · Swahili · small dogs
Vivace
Musical direction meaning lively and fast · Italian
Vogel
German word for bird · German
Volans
The flying fish constellation · Latin
Volley
Hitting the ball before it bounces
Volta
Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery, who gave his name to the volt · Italian
Vox
Latin for voice, for a dog who has a lot to say · Latin
Voyage
A long journey by sea or into space · French
Voyager
Probe that passed the outer planets and kept going

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