Unusual Dog Names

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.

Again I will stay away from some of the really common ones like zeus… This list will grow quite long as mythology was always one of my interests so I keep thinking of names to add.

• ulysses - known to be clever
• poseidon - god of oceans
• Hades - god of the underworld
• cerberus - dog with 3 heads
• Pyrrhus - a king
• Ouranos - early god, father of the titans
• Pluto - another name of hades
• pollux - castor’s twin
• Tiresias - a priest and prophet
• Nestor - a king
• Hector - prince of Troy
• Midas - the gold touch
• Achilles - hero of the trojan war
• Agamemnon - king leading the trojan war
• Dionysus - god of wine and merriment
• Ajax - hero of the trojan war
• Apollo - god of light and sun
• Pegasus - a flying horse
• Hermes - messenger of the gods
• Diogenes -
• Herakles (Hercules)
• Homer (author, but part mythical)
• Morpheus - your dog might sleep a lot
• Perseus -
• Cyclops - one eye’d creature
• Orion - hunter turned into a constellation
• Titan - early supernatural creatures
• Mentor - linked to the Odyssey
• Nestor - a king
• Zephyr - a wind
• Pyrrhus - a king
• Triton - water deity
• Prometheus - stole fire from the gods
• Adonis - god of beauty