Unusual Dog Names

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.