# Help me name my new dog!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 1, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833 "2006-07-01T02:31:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/1 "2006-07-01T02:31:25Z")
To celebrate my new job and my first payday, I adopted a dog from the pound. I picked him up today after his neuter. He looks just like an English setter, although he’s a couple inches smaller than the breed standard. He’s white with liver freckles all over his body. He’s very calm and gentle, and I was thinking possibly Darcy, after the English gentleman in Pride and Prejudice, but my family thinks Darcy is too effeminate a name for a male dog. Other possibilities are Ronan or Alastair. Any other suggestions are welcome.
Hopefully I’ll be able to take pictures tomorrow.
StG
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### Author:  [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/2 "2006-07-01T02:40:56Z")
If you wanna stick with the English Lit references, I’d vote for “Linton”, the name of Cathy’s husband in _Wuthering Heights._
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/3 "2006-07-01T03:33:55Z")
How masculine are we going with this name?
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/4 "2006-07-01T03:38:39Z")
Cuthbert? A nice old english name.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/5 "2006-07-01T03:58:02Z")
Benedict?
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/6 "2006-07-01T04:02:12Z")
My sister said “Spot”, because of the freckles. When I said I wanted something more dignified, she said “Mr. Spot”. I’m not wedded to literary or British names, (although I’m thinking about Mick, too). I want something easy to call when out in the fields. I don’t need something that is testosterone-filled, but Darcy sounds like a girl’s name.
StG
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### Author:  [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/7 "2006-07-01T05:07:24Z")
Guy in motel room next to Navin Johnson: “You should call him Shithead.”
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/8 "2006-07-01T06:07:11Z")
I always thought “Magnus” would make a good dog’s name.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/9 "2006-07-01T06:25:05Z")
Sex! Sex is always a good name for a dog…
(…what, am I the only person who knows this joke?)
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/10 "2006-07-01T16:11:15Z")
As promised, here are dome pics of the new boy. Hopefully better pics to come.
[Setter 1](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Pets/setter1.jpg)
[Setter 2](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Pets/setter2.jpg)
[Setter 3](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Pets/setter3.jpg)
[My horse](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Irish-thewildestflower.jpg)
StG
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/11 "2006-07-01T16:23:55Z")
how about Van-Illa - and call him Van?
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### Author:  [@orangeroughyisnotfishytasting](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeroughyisnotfishytasting)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/12 "2006-07-01T16:27:01Z")
You should call him Bob. If, like me, you already have a goldfish with that name, you could call him Bob Jr.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/13 "2006-07-01T16:53:41Z")
Ghost
Spirit
Misty
Smokey
Smokey Joe - From the song not the grill.
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### Author:  [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/14 "2006-07-01T19:27:08Z")
Based on photo #2 I say Rudder
But I really do like Mr. Spot. So many Star Trek jokes just waiting to happen.
(He’s a lovely dog, you two will have so much fun together)
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### Author:  [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/15 "2006-07-01T19:42:30Z")
If Darcy is too effeminate, how about Darby, or Dabney?
Or you could be like my grandfather who named all of his male dogs “Boy”. It seemed to work pretty well - “Here Boy!, Sit Boy!, Speak Boy!”
Seriously, I think Darby would be a pretty good name for a setter.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/16 "2006-07-01T20:55:49Z")
I like Cuddy.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/17 "2006-07-01T21:00:45Z")
He looks like a Winthrop to me. I don’t know why.
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### Author:  [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/18 "2006-07-01T22:13:53Z")
I like:
Winston
Frederick
Sherlock
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### Author:  [@seenidog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seenidog)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/19 "2006-07-01T22:30:45Z")
My suggestion would be a name that is, or reduced to one sylable. For example my dog Foxie is called Fox. The reason is practical. If the dog takes off to chase a squirrel, and the squirrel happens to be on the other side of the street, and there is a car coming, by the time you yell "Winston Molly Siegried stop! " you got a dead dog in the street. FOX SIT! is a lot faster and more efficient. One, maybe two sylables is your best bet. Of course proper obedience training is a given. Around here itcosts about 50 dollars for the basics. And they don’t train the dog, they train you how to handle the dog. I went through it with Helga, and again with Fox. It really is a bonding sort of thing. Beyond that, you are on your own.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-dog/362833/20 "2006-07-01T22:32:21Z")
Just don’t name him John Jacob Jingheimer Schmidt.
That’s my name.
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