How did your dog/dogs get their name??

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Originally Posted by mrspunkysmom

What's her name?

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Cherie- French for Darling, Love or whatever other mushy name you like I guess

I love this thread:).

Lollipop Ginger Promise (Lolli) is named after a dog our family had only almost 3 years before she died in a tragic hunting accident. Lollipop Candy was 3/4 lab 1/4 samoyed.

Buddy Bear Promise (Buddy) was already called Buddy when I got him. To come up with a registered name I looked at Lolli's pedigree where I found a dog called Cubby Bear. All my springers have to have Promise in their name.:)

Copper Shiloh (Copper) is named after 'The Fox and the Hound' and 'Shiloh'.

We named Beenie what we did because when she was little she looked like one of those beenie babies.
Frankie got his name because I had heard a lady call her dog by that name and he was a boston too. I thought the name suited him fine.
We later realized that thier names were beenie and frankie like beans and franks! LOL

Nebo is named after Mt Nebo in Utah - it's a beautiful mountain so I thought it would be a fitting name. I didn't know that our Mt Nebo was named after a biblical Mt Nebo at the time....later we drove the Nebo loop and it said Nebo means "sentinel of God."
Keva is a name I came up with that I thought worked well with Nebo. I found out later it's the feminine version of Kevin and it means "beautiful child." I do not pronounce it like Kevin though I pronounce it like "Kee-vuh" I pronounce the e in Nebo the same way...no idea if that's the correct pronunciation for the word (it's the correct local pronunciation for the mountain) but that's how how his name is said.
Skya is also a name I came up with that seemed to fit with the other names well - I seem to like 4 letter, 2 syllable names. I had a really hard time finding a name for her she was nameless for at least a week then I came up with that, the "sky" image seems to go well with her white fur and blue eyes. I'd seen the name Skye before but never Skya.
Corby adopted Killer when he was 2 years old, that was his name, he didn't change it. It's a fitting name if you like opposites - he's just a big teddy bear not a killer. :)

Zeus got his name from my obsession with greek god names lol
Ka got her name after a play we attended in vegas
Blaze got hers from a friend who insisted the name was perfect for her
Titan got his from the movie clash of the titans

Baxter Our son was attending college & picked Baxter out of a litter of farm pups. He took Baxter to college that day with him also. Baxter Black is a favorite cowboy poet of our sons so that is where Baxter got his name.

Missy She was a farm pup. I sat down on the ground & two pups came running towards me. They were both females. The larger one was the first born in the litter & there was the smaller sister. Another lady was coming in the evening to take the last pup. Missy jumped up licked my face, wagged her tail, was just silly & outgoing. When she was doing all this I said your are quite the Missy & that is how she got her name.

Both Molli and Sammy were just names I liked and fit them :) Molli's name was Bella and I loved the name but my mom didn't. Sam's name was Creek and I thought it was weird. hehe

My brother named Springen because it means "jump" in German. He jumps when he's excited, very HIGH in the air! I thought the name was dumb at first but it grew on me. His previous owners called him Diego. Just didn't fit him...

Molly - Was named after the Unsinkable Molly Brown. She never gives up and stubborn. Full name is Miss Molly Cupcake (SO's idea)

Kirby - He came with the name and answers to it. Didn't want to take a chance and mess that up.

Muffin - She's the SO's baby and she just loves him. Her full name is Miss Honey Muffin (see a pattern here with the girls? :D)

Woofie - Came with the name Richard. Well that's my SO's name and way too complicated. We tried Wolfgang, but he's a dachshund and he woofs a lot, so Woofie works.

Shamus - Came with the name and he answers to it. Another didn't want to take a chance and mess that up.

Elvis - My Mum named him after the king Elvis Prestly. I call him elvie or Bert, never Elvis Lol.
Tinny - Already came with her name and we could not decide on anything else.
Harri (Harry) - He just looked like a Harri from a tiny baby.
Clover got her name from the Poodle in the VC Andrews Flowers in the attic books (about the 3rd book i think). It suited her well :love:.

Lady was her name when we got her from the S-word place, and it fit in a contrarian way, so it stuck.

Besides, she was 6 months old, and had enough issues without trying to teach her a new name.

One Down was named One Down because one of his ears is dangling :)

Both of ours came from the shelter with their names. Well Niño was called Nino by the shelter but my ten year old self figured he was surrendered as Niño since he had basic obedience training in Spanish so I added the tilde. Eliza was named by shelter staff and my parents couldn't think of anything that fit her that wasn't already super common. They ran all potential names by me to check because I work in a grooming salon and see many dogs a day.

They decided to just drop the E and call her Liza, but my mom's friend called very upset because her daughter's name is Liza and she thought somehow a friend calling her dog the same thing as her child was insulting. So eventually they stuck the E back on.