When you hear these names you generally think of dogs, but have you ever personally come across any dogs with these names?
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- Spot
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- Fido
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- Rover
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- None of the above
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By the way, any examples involving Cal Worthington are immediately null and void. 
Personally, no. But I had secondhand knowledge of a dog named Phideaux.
None Here. The oddest dog names we have would be “Cheddar” and “Kittie”
I know two people who don’t know each other and have dogs named Deeogee.
I checked “none” but, as a child, I had a friend who had a dog named, “Spots”. That’s pretty close.
I voted all three, but my sample size is quite large.
I will say that those are pretty rare names these days, especially compared to your Bellas and Charlies.
Out of a bit over 7000 dogs, I have 2 Spots, 1 Rover, and 3 Fidos. Only one of the Fidos is a current regular.
How many Luna’s?
I named my dog Luna because she is black, but has a white spot on her chest, like a moon. Was quite surprised to find that Luna is the most popular name for dogs AND cats in 2022 - who knew?
Interestingly, Luna is the 11th most popular name given to newborn American girls in 2021.
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When you say ‘personally’ does it have to be a dog that I met face to face? Is it enough to know about a person who had a dog with that name?
because:
I know that Abraham Lincoln had a dog named Fido.
This very morning I have 2 Lunas, both doodles. One’s an Aussiedoodle, the other a Goldendoodle.
Overall, I have 53 on the books. Less than I would have thought. 1 Luna Bell as well, I don’t know if that counts.
Robyn Davidson had a dog named Diggity. Very sad how he passed as she explained in Tracks.
My brother once went to an animal shelter and adopted a Rottweiler. The people at the shelter told him he could name it anything he wanted, except “Bear”.
Kudos to the people at the shelter.
When my sisters and I were kids, we had a cat my youngest sister named Mittens. She was reading the Dick & Jane books at school at the time.
Mittens is the Fido of cat names.
A friend got an iguana. I helped him build an enclosure. I told him he could name it anything except Iggy. Turns out he was thinking about naming it Iggy.
I know a Luna who looks almost exactly like that.
Out of curiosity, I went and checked what the most popular dog names in my country were. It seems as though as of 2019, the most popular male dog name is “Louie”, while the most popular female name is “Lola”. Other popular male names are Toy, Johnny, Shoko[1], Lucky, Simba and Max; female names: Mica, Luna[2], Toffee, Belle, Mocha and Lucy.
[1] Hebrew for chocolate milk.
[2] A global favorite!
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I misnamed both my dogs. The elder is a Weimeraner x German Pointer, which are both known as inteligent breeds, if rather stubborn in training.
I named him Huxley, after the famous philosopher and author Aldous Huxley.
My younger is a German Pointer x very random farm dog. We named her Tallulah.
So Huxley was the runt of his litter, one of the reasons he was so small and endearing as a tiny puppy. But he is spectacularly stupid. He managed to pass puppy training school, just. He’s habituated to other dogs, chickens, cats, horses, donkeys, cattle etc but I honestly think that aside from dogs, he doesn’t actually understand these are animals that he could chase.
Tallulah, on the other hand, is one of the most clever dogs I have met. She passed puppy training with flying colours. She is wise enough not to attack horse sized animals, and clever enough to only attack smaller animals (generally squirrels and rat, but also, unfortunately, cats).when she knows I am not watching her - she knows she is not allowed.
So my stupid dog is named after a genius, and my clever dog is named after something a stripper or circus worker might choose as a stage name.
Not that those careers imply stupidity, but I should have named her after Marie Curie or Ada Lovelace, rather than something a bit frivilous.
Random dog name data point: I know two women named Julie who each have a dog named Cooper.
(And yes, they know each other, but didn’t when they adopted and named their dogs.)
My late Alabama Granny had a Dalmatian-type K9 named Spot when I was a tot. A good ol’ dog, he was.