Clyde ranks #332 with 359 entries and is one of the most distinctively retro male pet names on the chart. The name carries a specific old-school American flavor — outlaw-adjacent, country-leaning, and vaguely cinematic. It does not sound like anything else on the dog park roll call.
The Bonnie-and-Clyde lineage
The 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde cemented the name in American pop culture as half of a famous outlaw pair. Owners picking Clyde sometimes pair it explicitly with a Bonnie if they have two pets, and that paired-naming pattern is one of the more visible clusters around the name. The reference is faint enough now that most adopters are not consciously referencing the film, but the cultural anchor lingers.
Breed lean and sound fit
Clyde lands disproportionately on stocky, low-set, country-coded breeds: Dachshunds, Basset Hounds, Bulldogs, and shelter mixes with a bit of attitude. One syllable (KLYDE), front-stressed, with a soft palatal opener and a clean D-finish. Recall is strong.
The grandpa-revival fit
One reading worth flagging: Clyde sits in the same revival cluster as Frank, Walter, and Stanley — old human names rescued from semi-retirement and applied to pets with a knowing wink. The owner cluster skews millennial and design-aware. The human Clyde page shows the name climbing back on the SSA chart over the past decade, mirroring the pet-naming pattern.