# Help me name my new puppy! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 27, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028 "2002-11-27T03:50:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/21 "2002-11-27T13:07:28Z")
We just got ours last Saturday (a cocker spaniel pup 3 months). We decided to call him **Jazz**. ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/22 "2002-11-27T14:03:02Z")
Onyx Adam Harley Mike Hannibal Maxwell ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/23 "2002-11-27T14:54:57Z")
things to do with black: coal jet mars nero or you could go with Dexter, as he is a Lab. bahaha. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/24 "2002-11-27T15:28:18Z")
Our cats were all named after Japanese Rubber Monsters. If we ever get more cats, I think I start naming them after Physicists, starting (of course) with Schrodinger. Doesn’t work as well for dogs. Maybe politicians (a Black Lab named Clinton? I think Thatcher would be funny, but its a boy dog. Kofi Annan? Jimmy Carter? hmmmm, dogs names after Nobel Peace prize winners - there’s potential there). Movie actors? - Gable would be a good choice for a Lab. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/25 "2002-11-27T15:32:08Z")
:whistles while drawing a 7 in the air with his finger: ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/26 "2002-11-27T15:36:10Z")
Cujo? [sub]ducks and runs[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/27 "2002-11-27T16:09:19Z")
We got a new puppy a couple of weeks ago, an adorable long hair mini dachsund. After throwing out Bob, Tom, Thor, Rupert and STP (Stinky the Puppy), his name finally came to us…Frodo (his dad is Fergus). Give it a couple of days, he will make his name known to you. ---
**Author:** ![cj\_finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@cj\_finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cj_finn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/28 "2002-11-27T16:11:12Z")
GRENDEL Atahualpa Huascar ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/29 "2002-11-27T16:34:11Z")
I like Licorice (the name, not the awful candy). Others: Pavlov Schrodinger (just give anyone who points out that Schrodinger’s theory was with a cat a pitying look and exclaim mournfully, “It’s so sad that I’m the only one who read Schrodinger’s real theories involving dogs.”) Halloween Ring Shadow PITA (my sister’s dog - Pain In The Ass) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/30 "2002-11-27T16:49:04Z")
The only black labrador I can think of is [Rolf](http://www.epinions.com/content_25692769924), from Richard Adam’s lighthearted animal adventure, _Plague Dogs_. Imagine – a black lab from a government lab! How cute is that? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/31 "2002-11-27T16:50:50Z")
I always dug **Knuckles** myself, but that seems to be more suited to the bulldog/bull terrier type. How about the word for _dog_ in other languages? Japanese - inu Basque - txakur (the _tx_ is prounounced “ch”), Greek - skylos Finnish - koira Latvian - suns Turkish - köpek Hungarian - kutya Hebrew - kelev Russian - sobaka ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/32 "2002-11-27T16:57:29Z")
Moogie Hadassa Krypto Shakespeare, so you can call him Shaky Beast Roscoe P. Coltrane Sinbad Paco ---
**Author:** ![Rug\_Burn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rug\_Burn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rug_Burn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/33 "2002-11-27T17:12:51Z")
Cosmo ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/34 "2002-11-27T17:47:40Z")
What about Tash? Tash- One of the 7 rulers of the 9th century Hungarian settlements. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/35 "2002-11-27T17:55:19Z")
We started off with **Spitfire** but after a week changed it to **P-51**. ---
**Author:** ![rayray5884](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@rayray5884](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayray5884)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/36 "2002-11-27T17:58:45Z")
When we first got our dog my parents had no idea what to name him. My mom just told us that when she heard the right name she’d know it. Well one day he was running around all over the house and she made the comment to my dad that he was “one roudy son of a bitch.” At that moment he became Roudy! Just thought that was kinda funny. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/37 "2002-11-27T18:25:03Z")
To continue with Knead’s Seinfeld references: Coco the Monkey Art Vandalay (Vandy) Kremer Dr. Van Nostren Kenny Banya Putty Newman J. Peterman Buck Naked Uncle Leo Morty Cosmo Jackie Childs Costanza ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/38 "2002-11-27T18:48:58Z")
My female Black Lab’s name is Morgana, so I’d pick Merlin for a male. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/39 "2002-11-27T19:00:19Z")
Merlot. We thought of that name for our cat, but we have a female, and it just seemed like more of a boy’s name. Our cat’s name is Bree, actually. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028/40 "2002-11-28T01:04:23Z")
Spot (especially if he is solid black) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-puppy/139028.md?page=3)