Unusual Dog Names

This is another list of inspiration for unusual dog names. I will keep adding to it.

Don’t forget to check the common sense rules of dog naming before you pick anything you might regret later.

Again, I am not aiming for a huge list, just a selection of nice ones to give ideas. If you want long lists there are sites out there which literally list 10% of the dictionary.

• muffins
• whiskey
• gumbo
• ginger
• peanut
• truffles
• berry
• vanilla
• pepper
• gulash

This is another list of inspiration for unusual dog names. I will keep adding to it. Don’t forget to check the common sense rules of dog naming before you pick anything you might regret later.

There are sites out there with entire dictionaries’ worth of names, I just collected a far smaller set of names I would consider using for one of my dogs (if I didnt get them from the shelter already named…)

• snowball
• ivory
• diamond
• ghost
• eskimo
• iceberg
• frothy
• vanilla
• bianca / blanche
• blizzard
• finbar
• flocon (snowflake in french)
• cotton
• cloudy
• avalanche
• chalky
• meringue
• ghostnose
• snowtail
• polar

This is another list of inspiration for unusual dog names. This time names that go well with black. I will keep adding to it. But don’t forget there is no reason to let the color block you - it could be fun to call a black dog snowball.

Don’t forget to check the common sense rules of dog naming before you pick anything you might regret later.

• licorice
• smoke
• shadow
• onyx
• anthracite
• charcoal
• pepper
• nightshade
• ebony
• raven
• ashes
• embers
• voodoo
• cinder
• midnight
• stealth
• nero
• ninja
• tattoo
• soot (too short but maybe with a combination, or as Sooty)
• ramoneur (french for chimney sweep)
• dark pooch
• vader (for the scifi geeks)
• spectrum

A list of inspiration for unusual dog names. As usual I will stay away from the really common ones.

• Thethis - titan linked to the sea
• Penelope - waited for Odysseus many years
• Persephony - daugther of demeter, spends 6 months of the year with the lord of the underworld, causing winter
• Eudora - a nymph
• Erato - a muse (poetry)
• Hecathe - underworld goddess
• Hestia - domestic goddess
• Calypso - water goddess
• Cassandra - could be a self fulfilling prophecy and give you a whiny dog
• Euridice - orpheus’ wife, died young
• Iphigenia - was sacrificed for the trojan war
• Calliope - a muse (poetry)
• Antigone - stubborn princess
• Andromache - princess of Troy
• Artemis - goddess of hunting
• Athena - goddess of war and knowledge
• Leda - seduced by zeus and turned into a swan
• Medea - linked to the golden fleece story
• Callisto - muse turned into a constellation
• Melpomene - a muse
• Nemesis - goddess of vengeance
• Pandora - opened the box
• Larissa - a nymph
• medea - sorceress linked to the golden fleece story
• Themis - goddess of wisdom
• Proserpine -
• Danae - mother of perseus
• Demeter - goddess of the earth
• Aglaia- one of the three graces
• Selene - goddess of the moon
• Andromeda - princess saved by perseus
• Ariadne - in the labyrinth

Don’t forget to check the common sense rules of dog naming before you pick anything you might regret later.

Scientists make good and unusual dog names because they often sound a bit exotic, and are less ‘loaded’ than other historical figures. Here’s a list of some (biased towards physics cause I know more of them) which i thinks sound good as a dog’s name.

Make sure you find out a one liner about who that scientist was in case people ask the question. Wikipedia is a good place to start, so I will add links when I have a bit more time.

• Einstein (great for a hairy dog)
• Newton
• Darwin (great for a mutt)
• Edison
• Millikan
• Hubble
• Halley
• Celcius (only if you dont use that temperature scale at home)
• Volta
• Maxwell
• Tesla
• Marconi
• Chadwick
• Fermi
• Cerenkov
• Copernicus
• Feynman
• Cousteau (good for a water dog)
• Faraday
• Dalton
• Archimedes
• Babbage
• Coulomb
• Cavendish
• Galvani
• Goedel
• Morse (a bit short and possibly sounds too much like other words)
• Shockley

Another idea for inspiration is to look at wikipedia’s list of inventors and pick one with a catchy name who has invented something you find rather cool.

Don’t forget to check the common sense rules of dog naming before you pick anything you might regret later.