# Has anyone encountered a dog named Fido? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 12, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133 "2007-11-12T15:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/1 "2007-11-12T15:29:28Z")
Fido has somehow become a stereotypical name for dogs, so I guess it must have been popular at one time, but I’ve never met a dog named Fido. Have any of you? (By the way, I’m told the name means “I am faithful” in Latin.) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/2 "2007-11-12T15:33:13Z")
Yes. Only the owner spelled it Fideau. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/3 "2007-11-12T15:38:23Z")
I don’t think so, but our across-the-street neighbors have a German shepherd named “Rex”. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/4 "2007-11-12T15:53:09Z")
[Fido is all over the place here.](http://www.fido.ca/portal/home/homepage.jsp?lang=en) ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/5 "2007-11-12T15:55:38Z")
Cecil explained the name here: [Why is “Fido” a common name for a dog?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_260b.html) ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/6 "2007-11-12T17:17:28Z")
I know a Doper whose cat is Fido. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/7 "2007-11-12T19:06:33Z")
I’ve never, ever, not even once in 52 years, met a dog named Fido. My next dog, though, male or female, will proudly bear that name. Spelled without irony or affectation. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/8 "2007-11-12T19:13:42Z")
I’ve met Spots and Rexes and poodles named Fifi, but no Fido. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/9 "2007-11-12T20:12:07Z")
I know someone who used to have a dog named Fida. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyTVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/10 "2007-11-12T20:48:54Z")
Didn’t she sing backing vocals on “Stan” by Eminem? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/11 "2007-11-12T21:20:00Z")
[QUOTE=WF Tomba] (By the way, I’m told the name means “I am faithful” in Latin.) [/QUOTE] Yes. The nuns at my sister’s school had a dog called Fido - but then, the order’s motto was _Cruci dum spiro fido_. ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/12 "2007-11-12T22:28:28Z")
My next door neighbors when I was a kid had a black lab named Fido. They were English, maybe that explains it. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/13 "2007-11-12T22:33:32Z")
Rocky is perhaps the most oft-heard dog’s name in my experience. I’ve never met, talked to, or sniffed the butt of any dog called Fido. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/14 "2007-11-12T22:43:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] [Fido is all over the place here.](http://www.fido.ca/portal/home/homepage.jsp?lang=en) [/QUOTE] Oh man, I love their little flash intro thing with the dog and the “super fast internet” blowing his ears back. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/15 "2007-11-13T00:45:55Z")
And what about “Rover”? Nobody names their dog Rover. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa\_Ann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lisa\_Ann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa_Ann)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/16 "2007-11-13T00:49:43Z")
[QUOTE=gardentraveler] I know someone who used to have a dog named Fida. [/QUOTE] Uffda is when you drop your gum in the chicken pen Fida is when you pick it up and put it in your mouth and it is not your gum You betcha ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/17 "2007-11-13T00:55:08Z")
No Fidos, because every dog out here is named either Sam, Max, Sally or Maggie. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/18 "2007-11-13T01:22:48Z")
I had a budgie named Rover once. We wanted a dog, but couldn’t have one in our apartment. GT ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/19 "2007-11-13T03:04:17Z")
Lincoln’s dog was [Fido](http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln17.html) & I would not be surprised if that gave a “bump” to the name ---
**Author:** ![dynamitedave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed655f/32.png) [@dynamitedave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dynamitedave)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133/20 "2007-11-13T04:32:59Z")
One of our cattle dogs was called Fido. Us kids named him of course, not too sure what Dad or Uncle Joe thought of the name. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-encountered-a-dog-named-fido/426133.md?page=2)