Meaning & Story
Flea is an English word for the tiny, blood-sucking insect of the order Siphonaptera. As a pet name it is given with ironic affection — celebrating a small, fast, incredibly agile creature who is impossible to catch.
Flea is an excellent name for a small, fast, practically uncatchable pet — the dog who can be in four places simultaneously, who has made your reflexes considerably better through daily training, who jumps from furniture to furniture with the uncanny agility of something considerably smaller than they appear. Impossible to catch, impossible not to love.