Beethoven

Beethoven is the surname of Ludwig van Beethoven, the transcendent German composer who continued to create some of the greatest music ever written while going deaf — a testament to extraordinary creative will. The name became beloved as a pet name through the 1992 film featuring a huge, lovable Saint Bernard.

Beethoven is a name that works on two powerful levels. As a musical reference, it is the ultimate tribute to genius — your pet is hereby named after the man who wrote the Fifth Symphony, the Moonlight Sonata, and the Ninth Symphony. As a film reference, it is the huge, drool-y, utterly lovable Saint Bernard who won the hearts of an entire generation. For large, gentle, somewhat chaotic dogs, Beethoven is essentially perfect — dramatic in scale, magnificent in theory, occasionally disastrous in practice.