How did your dog get it's name?

[BaileysMom]

Bailey, ironically, was named after two female characters in two seperate movies. Bailey was after the character in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Cale was after Dakota Fanning's character in Dreamer.

Where did your dog get it's name?

[animal_rescue]

Maggie Mae: My twin was obsessed with the name Maggie and absolutely loved it so my mom let her name Maggie and Mae because we got her in the month of May. I personally think my mom let Rachel name her Maggie because my mom likes the song "Wake Up Maggie May".

Martin Jeffery: Marty's name was picked out of a hat and one day my little sister called him Jeffery and we all thought it was so cute that it became his middle name.

Alejandro: Alex got his name from the puppy mill he came from, we named changed it but we do call him Alejandro for a long version of it.

Roxabella: I was wanting a pit bull puppy for all last year and I had the names picked out Chachi for a boy or Roxie for a girl. Well since I didn't get my pit, I got a min pin. She was Roxie from the start and personally I think I should have named her Diva. Roxabella came from Roxie and Bella(beautiful). Bella is my cousin's pug's name and so I just combined it. RoxieBella didn't sound right so it became Rox-A-Bella.

[luvofallhorses]

Buster -- I always called him Buster Button and it stuck.

Rocky -- we got him in a town named Rocker, so it's Rocky.

Jenny -- my mom named her after my grandmother, Geneva..they spell it
G-e-n-n-y, but I spell it J-e-n-n-y, because it looks better.

and Ginger -- my mom inherited her from my grandmother (my mom's mom, Geneva) when my grandmother passed away in 2003. My grandmother named her Ginger, because of her color.

[Alysser]

We got Sassy from the movie Homeward Bound. My dad really named her since he thought Malteses were "for super star" dogs back then . Sassy just stuck.

[wolfsoul]

Credit Approved "Visa" - When Visa was a puppy, her and her littermates became exposed to another puppy's vaccine reaction and developed parvo. The breeder spent $2000 keeping the litter alive. Some of the puppies died, but Visa and her brother and sister, Amex and Cash, both survived. Visa literally owes her life to a Visa card.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Roxy--Well she had her name from the shelter, and it fit her, so it stuck!
TigerLily Princess "Lily"-TigerLily from Peter Pan. Wanted her to share the name of a Peter Pan character in memory of Tink. Couldn't think of her middle name, and my mom suggested Princess, so Tigerlily Princess, it is! Lily for short .

[Aspen and Misty]

Teddy - was named because he is big and fluffy like a Teddy bear. Besides that all the kids in the house were young and who wouldn't want a dog named Teddy? LOL.

Nova - She got her name because she is yellow and Nova means star. It just seemed to suit her.

Konner - My sister named him Connor when she owned him (same name, different spelling) and when I got him I hated the name. I had him for awhile and considered changing it but eventually decided to leave it. On his first birthday (December 14) I wanted to do something really special to celebrate. Might sound stupid but I changed the spelling of his name from Connor to Konner. I bought him and ID tag with that spelling and it made me feel like he was 100% totally mine, name and all.

Ashley

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

Tango: To make a very long story short, I'd always wanted a Toller named Tango so that's how she got her name.

Tia: Not really sure, my mom named her. I don't think there was a reason for it, it just suited her.

Winston and Morgan came with their names.

[Uabassoon]

Payson - There is a city in Arizona named Payson. We liked the way it sounded and it seemed to fit him.

[Kfamr]

Simba & Nala are from The Lion King 1 - Kiara is Simba & Nala's cub in TLK2.

[jennawing]

My daughter named both Sirius and Natalie- Sirius was pretty obvious since he is a big black dog, but Natalie was born at Christmas (nativity). Hogan and Pagan both came with their names from the breeder, but we got to pick their registered names. Hogan's litter were named for Elvis songs, so my daughter picked 'PBKs Got My MoJo Workin' (which I have never heard) and Pagan was called Pagan because the breeder like 'P' names- and I kept it because she was 8 months when I got her and seemed mean to change it. I wanted a pretty name that had pagan origin so it fit, and she was born in July, so I chose 'PBKs Summer Solstice'.

[Chilli]

Frisk... well... I was young and it was either going to be Jack or Frisk. I don't remember it that well, but I suppose it ended up being Frisk!
Ethan... when we adopted him, he had no name. I always like the name Ein, and my family did, too. I have a cousin named Ethan, and mum just wouldn't get used to calling the new dogs Ein, so it ended up being Ethan.
Skylar... my sister came up with it. Not sure how, though. Probably because of his blue eye.

[IRescue452]

My mom named Pepper, because she was black. She was registered as Miss Pepper K'mere.
Autumn was born in Autumn. I had picked out her name before we met her.

[lv4dogs]

Nanook: I had the name picked out well before the dog. I knew it ment polar bear in Inuit so between that & the fact that I already wanted some sort of artic type breed I searched for one who fit & liked the name Nanook and of course one with an exceptional personality.

Raustyk: I knew I wanted her for months yet could not for the life of me think of a name that I liked, she liked & one that would suit her. The name issue was really starting to bother us both as we have already had her for a number of days yet she still did not have a name so our brains were working overtime. My b/f at the time was working in an apartment complex named Rustic Village. Not sure what promted it but he came home one day saying we should name her rustic and that he thought of it from the apartments. When he said the name surprisngly enough I loved it yet I was not sure about the spelling or meaning behind it (the apartment complex was a dumb meaning when it had no significant relations to either of us & it was not that nice of a place either) so I revised it, spelling it different & thinking of some other meaning that was a little more sentimental, she is more like the older (rustic) rotts, a little more stocky & shorter and her rust colored points were just that color.

Kaige: I needed to think of both a kennel & call name for him and I wanted them to be connected in some way yet a little unique as well. Tons of call names came to mind, many that I adored much more than "Kaige" yet for some reason the kennel names that went with them didn't fit him or the call name or just the call name didn't fit Kaige. One of my favorite kennel names that seemed to fit him best was RisingStar's Bustin' Loose, so I worked off of that in search of a call name. My neice actually thought of "Cage" but that was way to simple for me yet I became really attracted to the name. So I changed the spelling to Kaige.

[critter crazy]

Duke- Well my bloodhound duke got his name from the "Beverly Hillbillies" Obviously after their dog duke!!