How did your dog get it's name?

[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!!

[lute]

Beanie got his name froma list of names i made when we adopted him. his full name is JellyBean.

Gracie was origonaly Wolfie. i didn't like the name and my mom suggested the name. it wasn't officail until she was walking and fell right on her face. that's my graceful Gracie!

Kodie(rescue dog) came with the name Nakoda. i made it shorter and sweeter with Kodie.

[Husky_mom]

NINJA : when i first got her i called her NIÑA (girl in english) and she responded so well to the name and i came to the conclusion i had to name her something that sounded similar so i came up with NINJA besides i love ninjas and i would love to have the abilities and agility they have

CHINA: (formerly know as Tonta ) this is a long story but after a long long while i decided tonta wasnt a really nice name since it means dumb in english so i had enought of it and finally came up with CHINA for a fine and fragile as porcelain, shes my fine, petite dog and such a girlie girl i think it really suits her and i like it

i could name all my former, RB dogs but i´ll take a while so i´ll stick to my current ones............hoping to add one more

[k9krazee]

Shadow - She came to us with the name, we never even thought about changing it, not sure why!

Micki - Well...Just look at him!
He has two Mickey Mouse shaped markings!! I outlined them in green And we knew that we had to name him "Mickey"...and I planned on spelling it like that too, but my mom liked it "Micki" better So Micki he became


Mini - Being Micki's sister...what else could we name her?! And I guess it does have some significance...She is smaller than Micki...Mini = Miniature..yeah, I try...Oh and her original name was Angel, doesn't fit her at all

Kyra - My brother and I searched baby names all day long and wrote a list of names we liked for her. My mom came home from work that night with a list of her favorite names...except she promised me that I could name her, so the only one on our list that she liked was Kyra...so Kyra she became!

Jack - I really, really, really, really wanted to name him Bonzai...but everybody I talked to (my family, my cousin, my Aunt..) absolutely hated it. My mom was completely stuck on the name Jack, and I hated it. I couldn't think of anything else that I'd really like to name him, and when I actually met him I knew he would be Jack. His full name is actually Jumpin' Jack Splash (Jumpin' = my hopes of an agility dog, and Splash = my hopes of actually having a dog that likes water.) His original was actually BIFF! And needless to say, I didn't like it at all!

[ParNone]

Madison named after the mermaid in "Splash" and she was definitely an uptown girl.

McMurphy named after the fiesty nurse on "China Beach".

Whizzer of Oz named after the "Wizard of Oz" of course, because I wanted a connection for him, a Collie, to my 2 Toto dogs.

Gulliver named after Gulliver's Travels. Figuring that gives him a connection to Oz. With both being named after stories involving traveling off to a strange land.

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[*iluvskipper*]

SKIPPER- Skipper got his name because he was the skipper on our boat of course!

[Nobas Mom]

Noba's full name is Oda Nobunaga, who is an ancient Japanese "warlord" type warrior person... basset hounds are really not known for being warrior types, so I thought the name would make him sound tough!!

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Bitsy was named because of her small size.
Charlie came to us with the name 'Shortie', we didn't feel it fit him so we renamed him Charlie. We wanted something that ended similar to Shortie so he'd adjust to it more easily. The name Charlie also just seem to fit him well.
Buster came with is name.
Nacey also came with her name.
Nova showed up in our yard on Thanksgiving day. Because it was November we decided to call her Nova. We posted signs, reported her at the pound & vets and no one responded until a few days before Christmas. They were very short with me and basically said they didn't want her (this is the shortened version of the story). I never found out her original name. By then she was responding to the name Nova and it seemed to fit her well.

[Lori Jordan]

My first which is Maggy,i wanted to name her Nala,but the hubby did not like that i was sitting in the back seat with her on our way home after purchasing her,Jamie looks back at me and says "Maggy" and i thought it was cute so it stuck! And Lacy i had Lexy ,Jenny or Lacy picked out and i said Lacy to her and her ears perked up so that one stuck too...And Molly,i wanted a dog named Molly so that is what we got lol..And with my RB Bandit i wanted to call him either Blaze or Jesse and My nephew picked him up and said no he looks like a Bandit...so thats how he got his name also!