French also has Rex and Belle (though Médor is the Big One).
Interstingly, while nobody has actually ever met a dog called Médor, Rex and Belle both make it in the top 100 of French dog names.
Coco in France. As seen in “Coco veut un biscuit”, i.e. “Polly wants a cracker”.
Regarding Laika:
Unlikely – from here: “Sputnik 2 continued to orbit for 2,570 times before it re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burned up on 14 April 1958.”
Never heard of a dog named “Schatzi”. A typical German name for a dachshund would be “Waldi”.
When I was growing up, our neighbors had a dachshund named Waldi. It pertains to woods (as in forest).
The Japanese have their own dog loyal after his master’s death, Hachikō.
Funny. Laika was also very popular in the Dominican Rep., while Bobby is the default dog name. It’s even made into a song (“tranquilo, Bobby, tranquilo”). Mishu is the default cat name an Cuca for parrots (cuca is also a cutesy name for vulva).
It’s fallen out of fashion. I’ve heard it many years ago.
Not so curiously though: Le chien est le meilleur ami de l’homme.
“Women are charming but dogs are so much more faithful” (Sacha Guitry)
I named mine “Rotwurst” :smack:
How does that fail to be ironic? It’s a supposedly and fictitiously common name for a dog that nobody seems to actually use, so they actually use it.
When I was in my teens an Indian (Malayali) friend of mine had a dog called something that sounded like “Shuki” - I don’t know how it was spelt as I never saw it written down. I thought he said it was a common name for a dog and meant something like “king” but I don’t know if that is right.
I did mean the normal long O sound. Didn’t mean to get fancy.
Princhester - i will ask my Malayali friends. Are you sure the name was Shuki and not Shaji ?
No, definitely a “k” sound at the end.
The middle vowel was a longer “u” as in “use” or maybe could be described as like “oo” in “book”. Not the short “u” like in “up”.
The Bassett Hound I had as a kid was Phydeaux. My parents named him, but I thought it was funny. Most people had no idea it had that spelling and just thought it was a fitting name for a doofus.
In my dialect of Spanish:
Terri, Bobby, Dogui, Pichi (and Michi for cats).
Terri even has its own joke, in which someone at a restaurant asks for a doggie bag for Terri… the terrific stew they’ll prepare with the leftovers, using the common dog name to flout the cultural faux pas of asking to take leftover food home.