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Damien
Damien is the French form of Damian, from the Greek meaning "to tame," which has obvious irony potential as a dog name. The other association is harder to escape: Damien Thorn, th…
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Dingo
Dingo ranks 2007 in the pet registry with 49 male animals. It's the name of Australia's wild canine, the dingo descended from semi-domesticated dogs brought to Australia roughly 3…
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Doobie
Doobie lands in pet registries from two directions: the Doobie Brothers, whose classic rock catalog makes the name feel warm and nostalgic, and the more obvious contemporary slang…
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Dotty
Dotty is a female pet name with two readings: a diminutive of Dorothy (meaning "gift of God"), or a British colloquial word for slightly eccentric. Both work well on a pet, and th…
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Eclipse
Eclipse is a dramatic, celestial name that carries genuine star power — it belongs to the family of space and sky names that have been trending on pets alongside the human name tr…
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Edward
Edward is one of the great English names: Old English Eadweard , wealth-guardian, carried by eight English kings and one brooding vampire who reshaped a generation's relationship…
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Etta
Etta is a name with a gospel-and-blues soul. Etta James, who recorded At Last in 1960 and remains one of the most powerful vocalists in American music history, is the name's perma…
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Everest
Everest is the highest point on Earth, which makes it either an ambitious name for any pet or an accurate one for the cat who considers every elevated surface their domain. Mounta…
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Floppy
Floppy is a purely descriptive pet name — it refers to ears, limbs, or general bodily looseness. On a male dog, it's affectionate and silly, the kind of name a family gives a Bass…
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Florence
Florence is having a sustained moment across both human and pet naming. The band Florence and the Machine gave it a moody, artistic edge; the city's Renaissance associations gave…
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Franco
Franco has swagger built into its phonetics. The FR opening, the rolling A, the confident O close — it's a name that moves. In Romance-language traditions it derives from the Fran…
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Gaby
Gaby is a nickname form of Gabriela or Gabrielle — lighter and faster than the full name, with a -y ending that gives it the same casual warmth as Buddy, Daisy, or Roxy. On a fema…
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Galaxy
Galaxy is a word name drawn from the Greek galaxias (milky), referring originally to the Milky Way. As a pet name it belongs to the celestial naming wave that has also lifted Nova…
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Gaston
Gaston is a French name with Germanic roots meaning something like "guest" or "stranger" — but for most English-speaking pet owners, Gaston means exactly one thing: the vain, ches…
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Gemini
Gemini (the twins of the zodiac, the constellation, the NASA program) covers a lot of cultural ground for one name. As a pet name, it carries a duality theme that lands with owner…
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Gilbert
Gilbert is a name that spent decades being profoundly uncool and is now, by that very quality, interesting again. The Germanic origin, from Gisil (pledge) and Beraht (bright), mea…
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Gin
Gin is a single-syllable spirit name that sits in increasingly crowded company. Whiskey, Brandy, Bourbon, and Remy all occupy the same alcohol-as-pet-name register, but Gin holds…
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Godzilla
Godzilla on a pet is pure maximalist humor, and it is executed perfectly every time it lands on a small animal. A Chihuahua named Godzilla is not a subtle joke, but it doesn't nee…
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Gulliver
Gulliver carries obvious literary freight (Jonathan Swift's 1726 satire gave the name its dominant association) but on a pet it mostly reads as a great three-syllable name for a l…
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Gunnar
Gunnar is built for big dogs with bigger personalities. The double-n spelling gives it a Nordic edge that separates it from the plainer Gunner, and the name carries the kind of we…
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