Taffy ranks at #899 with 132 entries, registered female. The name is the chewy candy, a saltwater-taffy descendant of British toffee popularized at American boardwalk shops in the late 1800s. On a pet registry Taffy functions almost entirely as a coat-color descriptor — the warm tan or strawberry-blonde shade that the candy comes in.
The candy-color cohort
Taffy sits with Toffee, Honey, Caramel, and Butterscotch in the warm-tan-coat female pet pocket. The naming logic is honest visual matching: the puppy's coat is the color of taffy, and the household named it accordingly.
Breed lean
The name lands hardest on tan or strawberry-blonde breeds: Cocker Spaniels, Goldens, tan Dachshunds, and red-and-tan mixes. Two syllables, front-stressed (TAF-ee), with the bright vowels and bouncy diminutive ending. Excellent close-range recall.
The counter-reading
The honest consideration: candy-coat names age with the pet, and a Taffy whose coat lightens or grays still carries the warm-candy reference. The name also reads as deeply old-fashioned — Taffy was a more common pet name in the 1960s-70s than today, and the registry numbers show that fade. For households who want the vintage warmth, that's the appeal. The human Taffy page shows minimal SSA presence; this is largely a pet-only register.