Help me name my puppy plz!

My girl puppy still doesn't have a name. It's shameful. She's about 12 wks and a big girl (she is now a whopping 40 lbs - gained 20 this month!). She's really sweet, real playful, likes to jump on everything, but also kinda shy with strangers. Nothing I've come up with has really stuck. I hate girl names - boys I can do but girls....ugh. I want something unique but not stupid or cutesie but not too unique that no one can pronounce it. I'm real picky which I guess is the problem. But I'm going to be saying this name everyday for many years to come so I wanna like it.

I just feel bad b/c she had to go get more puppy shots today and I had to tell the vet her name is still TBA. lol.

 

"shameful", sounds like a great name. See you already picked it out.

 

Hi:
I think its great that you are taking your time picking out the perfect name for your dog.
Hey we have 9 months to decide with out children, why do we need to put a time limit on our canine kids??

Anyway, I hope this site will be helpful to you.
I use it ALL THE TIME with great luck, I do rescue and need to find new names all the time. I hate recycled names, At one shelter I volunteer with they recycle names all the time!! It drives me crazy!

I try to pick out a new name each time!


http://www.bowwow.com.au/

I just picked out a name about 1 month ago for a dog I am training/placing and since she is a blond haired dog and its the summer time, I picked out "Daytona Blond" LOL. I call her Dayna for short.

Take your time, you will know when you have your finger on the proper name for your baby.

Good luck,
Sue

 

how about cowgirl (hehe and indy, get it?) just kidding
what about anabelle? eve/a? trixie?how about a saint or martyr name? i look some up when I get home tonight, i love thinking of new names!

 

My first rule in naming a dog is to select a name that you won't be embarrassed to holler out in public. Freckles was named by the staff at the Vets office where he was abandoned so I did not want to add to his trauma by re-naming him and the name stuck. Now I couldn't think of any other better name for him though when I'm at the dog park I holler "SPECK" and he comes running, or I can just holler "Duke" and both come running.

I have never had a female but if I ever do get a sweet girl I think I would call her either Belle or Bella.

Let us know what you decide on.

 

My co-workers has a cat named Puzzles. I think that is such a unique name

 

*gets out my list of names*

Jessie
Kennedy
Darby
Sage
Meggie
Doodles
Aspen
Dervish
Shelby
Misha
Jesse
Josie
Ayla
Ceilidh (pronounced Kay-lee)
Bella
Fiesta
Kiana
Taz
Wren
Olive
Gypsy
Lark
Tasy
Riley
Tanna
Winnie
Loki
Eden
Grace

I always have a hard time picking a name. It's very important!

 

My neighbours used to have a St. Bernard names Brandy, but I guess there are probably a million of them out there with that name.

A co-workers friend has a JRT named "D.O.G."

I personally like Calamity.

 

Calamity is a great name! If Nala was a boy, I'd name her Hoover. She hoovered up my daughter's corndog - stick and all - last night. It was my daughter's fault for leaving it untended, of course.

 

I like Bailey, Riley, whitney, what is it with these ey names and me! I do like Grace and mags short for maggie and bella, taz

LOL, when we got Jake we didnt have a name after 3 days, and I said he think his name is going to be baddog, so we came up with Jake.



As for Wylie, everyone thinks she is a boy with her name, but she was a stray and our first thougght was she was a coyote so we name her wylie coyote

 

If Nala was a boy, I would DEFINITELY have considered Loki - Norse god of mischief. Actually, I think it sounds fine for a girl, now that I think about it...

 

What about Digby? I remember a movie years ago called Digby, it was about this giant dog (I think it was an old English Sheepdog....cant remember) but I thought it was a cool name....I had a 'toy' dog when I was kid (a real toy....not a miniature live dog) named Digby-Martha.

 

You could always name her something like "Tiny" or "Ladybug" (Bug for short) as a joking reference to her size.

 

I did a search on baby names.com here is the link for girl saints, http://www.thinkbabynames.com/search.php?s=saint&g=0&t=0there are so many!! and i like so many of them some faves from there were apollonia, ceinwenn (pronounced kaynwen) dacia (daysha) sabine (sahbeena popular german girl name) solange (so-lanzh) winifred/winnie
here is a catholic site with all saints listed http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/patron02.htm
i also love the name ramona too!

what is her personality like?

 

how about Daisey? I now remember a show that was on I think in the 60s, it was balck and white and they had a dog named daisey, its was either a st bernard or a sheepdog

oh and I like zoey too

 

If she is a bit timid or shy, how about Shiloh. (Or even spelled Shylow.)

I ended up calling my dog Lacie but I also had Jazmin and Diamond picked out for her.

Best of luck in what ever you end up calling her. Keep us posted.

 

Delauk, I think I am getting my shows mixed up, was it Digby who was in please dont eat thh daiseys? I was thinking the dog was name daisey and I just remembered the name of the show

 

I can hardly even remember the show, I just remember a guy standing next to this 40 foot dog......(slight exaggeration there maybe....I was a bit smaller then myself so the dog may have just looked bigger) :lol:

 

I agree with Dukesdad. You don't want to holler something stupid. I know someone who named their dog Useless. He regretted it when she got out and he had to go looking for her.

Brie was already named when I got her, but I think she thinks her name is Aubrey because I say "awe Brie, you peed on the floor again". And Zoey thinks her first name is damnit. But seriously I like people names for my animals. But I think I would probably name a big dog like that Tiny or Mitzy just to be ironic!

 

Wow. Lots of suggestions. Calamity...I kinda like that. Calamity Jane and Indiana Jones - that works. I'm gonna try that out and see. Loki could work too. God of mischief - it fits.

Mypettherapydog - Thanks for that site. Some of those names were too funny. Tommy Holedigger. lol. I also liked asker. What's your dogs name? Asker. lol.

lil - If I name her after a saint, I'd have to go with Dympna. Patroness of the insane.

This is difficult.