# Do you personally know of any dogs with these names? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194 "2023-02-02T06:31:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/61 "2023-02-07T02:29:04Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Mittens is the Fido of cat names. I knew a cat named Fido. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/62 "2023-02-07T15:18:02Z")
Stephen Fry points out that Cerebus is the English version of the (transliterated) Greek ‘Kerebos’, meaning ‘spotted’. It’s amusing to think that Hades, ruler of the underworld, had a dog named ‘Spot’. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/63 "2023-02-07T16:23:53Z")
Pee Wee Herman’s Chihuahua in the first movie is named, “Speck.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/64 "2023-02-07T16:35:25Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > “Speck.” True story. I helped re-home a tiny little mutt that I was calling “Speck”. A family fell in love with the dog, and decided to keep calling her “Speck”. After a few months, the woman contacted me to thank me again. They really loved the dog. She asked me if I got the name from the Pee Wee Herman movie. I told her no, she was named for [Richard Speck.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck) She didn’t get the reference, just smiled. Years later her husband told me that his wife eventually did a search and was pretty shaken up. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/65 "2023-02-07T17:30:13Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I had a stuffed animal as a kid named “Spot”, but I don’t think that counts (I was terribly unoriginal at naming stuffed animals). Kids are. My baby sister had a little cream-colored terrier-type stuffed dog with blue vinyl ears, which, after much deliberation, I christened “Creamy Blueears”. She was immensely impressed. I think children are still kind of processing the whole concept of “naming”, and how you can identify a thing by the same words you would use to describe it: wow. The concept of choosing names to be “original”, in the sense of only subtly or indirectly descriptive, comes later. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/66 "2023-02-07T17:41:22Z")
For the puppy we adopted last year, I wanted the name Rover, but was out-voted in favor of the name Joey. So I almost knew a Rover personally. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/67 "2023-02-07T18:16:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > She asked me if I got the name from the Pee Wee Herman movie. I told her no, she was named for [Richard Speck.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck) She didn’t get the reference, just smiled. Years later her husband told me that his wife eventually did a search and was pretty shaken up. You should have told her that she was named after bacon in German: > **[Speck](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck)** > > Als Speck wird vor allem bei Schweinen das Fettgewebe bezeichnet, das sich unter der Haut (Schwarte) befindet. Im Verkauf haftet jedoch meist auch Schwarte am Speck. Dabei wird hauptsächlich zwischen dem Rückenspeck (auch Fetter Speck) aus reinem Fettgewebe und dem Bauchspeck unterschieden, der die Brust- und Bauchmuskulatur sowie nicht laktierende Milchdrüsen einschließt. In Österreich wird er auch als Schweinsspeck oder Spickspeck bezeichnet. > Die Fettgewebeschicht, also der Speck, von Walen un... ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/68 "2023-02-07T18:18:54Z")
Ach du großer Gott! ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/69 "2023-02-08T15:36:11Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I think children are still kind of processing the whole concept of “naming”, and how you can identify a thing by the same words you would use to describe it: wow. The concept of choosing names to be “original”, in the sense of only subtly or indirectly descriptive, comes later. My son was 3 years old when we brought a puppy home. He was so excited. We asked him if he had any ideas for a name. His choices were Scott and Stop Sign! 🤣 We convinced him to go with Dodger which was the name of a dog in the latest Disney movie. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/70 "2023-02-08T15:38:44Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I will say that those are pretty rare names these days, especially compared to your Bellas and Charlies. Ha! At our local after work dog park last night. It was rainy so only 4 of us showed up. One Bella and one Charlie, two others. ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/71 "2023-02-08T15:52:16Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > two others Why would you name your dog “others”? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/72 "2023-02-08T16:09:37Z")
“come here” was taken. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/73 "2023-02-08T22:32:36Z")
I met a ‘Spotty’ at an Australia Day bbq a couple of weeks ago. Being female, they obviously couldn’t name her Spot. Thing is, she was white all over, the only ‘spots’ on her were pignentation spots on her belly skin! But she was a gorgeous lady who very gently played with our new pupper, and allowed Sascha to bite her ears and feet with nary a reaction. I hope to meet Spotty again next year 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/74 "2023-02-09T01:45:42Z")
I had a bird named Fido when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/75 "2023-02-09T16:59:31Z")
This song has been running through my head ever since I started reading this thread: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SPZVrmJ2HH8/hqdefault.jpg "Norma Tanega "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPZVrmJ2HH8) I had a cat (all white except for a black tail and a few black patches) I was planning to name Spot, but after we’d had him for a week or two, my brother looked at him and said, “That’s not a Spot; that’s a Ralph.” And so he was. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/76 "2023-02-10T22:22:00Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I also think “Rex” belongs on that list. Hey, I found a (current) “Rex”! And [he’s part of a team of superheroes!](https://twitter.com/m_ebrard/status/1622989517115228166?cxt=HHwWjICwnb2XgoYtAAAA)😍 (Mexican search and rescue dogs flying to Turkey to help find earthquake survivors) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/77 "2023-02-13T15:30:10Z")
I knew someone who had a dog named ‘Human’. If I get a cat, I may name him ‘Steve’. When I was a kid, I had a cat named ‘Pud’ (rhymes with ‘would’). I named him after the sound his front paws made hitting the floor when he jumped down off something. My sister, on the other hand, had a dog named ‘Magnolia Wrinkles Dawson’. Different naming philosophies… ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194/78 "2023-02-14T21:36:08Z")
Had a cat named Spot ( B & W cow cat). Her litter mate, a grey striped tabby, was named Stripe. Dan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-of-any-dogs-with-these-names/979194.md?page=3)