Don't kill me: I'm not the biggest fan of animals. But I do happen to be obsessed with cute pet names, particularly the more creative ones. I just can't help but smile when I read a perfectly punny dog name!
So recently, we asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the best dog names they've ever heard — and I seriously couldn't stop giggling at the answers, so I decided to share some!
Here are the top responses people gave:
1. "Taxi, for someone who missed NYC and still wanted to call 'Taxi' every day ☺️."
2. "A duo named Tator Tot and Hashbrown. Love that."
"I have a friend with a corgi named Hashbrown! It’s such a cute dog name."
3. "Bark Ruffalo."
4. "JD, which his owner said stood for Just Dog."
"As someone who is entitled to add JD (Juris Doctor) to their name, I adore this."
5. "Lieutenant Dan, for a Chihuahua who had lost both his hind legs 🥹❤️."
"Oh. My. God. I need an autograph."
6. "One day while waiting in the lobby, I heard the vet walk into one of the rooms saying, 'Hi Steve! And hellooo, Mr. President!' His name was actually Mr. President!"
"Steve wasn’t his owner, it was his brother."
7. "I named my dog Sham. That way when he craps on the floor, I can call it Sham-poo."
8. "A Great Pyrenees named Falkor, after his doppelgänger in The NeverEnding Story."
"I named my crested gecko Falkor. Freakin' love that movie!!!"
9. "Hands down: Snacks. I met Snacks, a 12-week-old golden retriever, while waiting tables eight months pregnant. I openly wept and he graciously licked away all of my tears. It’s been years now and I still think about him on a regular basis."
10. "My dog is a giant chocolate lab named Bruce. My elderly neighbor is also named Bruce. It’s often hard to tell which Bruce is being chased away with a broom by the human Bruce’s wife."
11. "A mutt of a dog with a snaggletooth and heart of gold named Gnarble. Like marble but with an N, and of course a silent G for drama."
12. "Kevin — for a pug 😂."
13. "I've met a difficult Bernese mountain dog named Bernese Sanders and perfect angel vizsla named Ruth Bader Ginsbark 😂."
14. "I had Colonel Mustard. He passed at the age of 15 in 2019. To this DAY I get people who still tell me how great of a name it was."
15. "Killer...a Chihuahua."
16. "My old coworker had a bloodhound named Alan. Cracked me up every time I heard him talk about him."
17. "Wiener dog named Rupert."
18. "A German shepherd named Cops. I saw the dog running away and the owner screaming, 'COPS! Cops!'"
19. "A Doberman named Chanclas 🥹🩵"
20. "My Australian shepherd was named Barkus Aurelius."
21. "When I was adopting my dog (named Prudence) the counsellor was telling me about how all of her pets had human names — the idea of a dog named Steve still cracks me up."
"Any human names for dogs."
22. "Ozzy Pawsbourne, Prince of Barkness."
23. "A bloodhound named Lunchbox."
24. "Great Pyrenees named Squish!"
25. "My grandma had a blonde old English sheepdog and poodle mix who she named Goldie, which was short for her name Golda MyHair, a pun off Golda Meir’s name."
26. "Obiwon Cannoli...yes, that was my dog growing up."
27. "A dog named Cat. Short for Catherine, of course."
28. "My trainer named his deaf dog Deaf and got him a collar with the name in big letters to alert others he couldn’t hear. He felt like it was killing two birds with one stone."
29. "Chicken Nugget. The owner told me they let their kids name him."
30. "DOG, but you say each letter: 'DeeOohGee.'"
31. "Brad Sitt."
32. "Not dogs but horses. Their names were Peanut Butter and Jelly."
33. "My husband and I named our first (basset hound) puppy that we got together Bojangles. Everyone we ever introduced him to loved his name (and him) immediately, and we frequently got the comment that 'he looks like a Bojangles!' He’s been waiting for us across the rainbow bridge for almost three years now, and we still can’t come up with a better name for a future pup."
"Truth be told, we got the name from a song by the Ying Yang Twins that we loved. The name just sounded cool to us at the time."
34. "Twin mini dachshunds: Weenie and Weenis."
35. "I once met a dog named Botox 🤣."
36. "Shark. At the beach. Likes to run away from you."
37. And finally: "Meatball, for a Boxer."
"That is the perfect name for a Boxer. My rescue is part Boxer and I frequently call him meatball ☺️."
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