# Let's hear some really great names for my new puppy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 20, 2001, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068 "2001-08-20T01:03:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Pippi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Pippi)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/1 "2001-08-20T01:03:17Z")
Male chocolate lab. We are all fighting about what to call him. I thought Count Luciano Faffel was cute but that was shot down. Husband suggested Buddy Joe Brown. (Yuck) So if you all could help us we’d really be grateful. TIA
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### Author:  [@Ski\_the\_Soo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ski_the_Soo)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/2 "2001-08-20T01:07:11Z")
Thatch
Gruff
Hambone
Slick
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### Author:  [@JSA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSA)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/3 "2001-08-20T01:09:12Z")
Some friends had a chocolate lab named Hershey…
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/4 "2001-08-20T01:09:55Z")
I suggest “IMHO,” 'cause that’s where this probably oughta be.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Pippi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Pippi)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/5 "2001-08-20T01:17:44Z")
Well I wasn’t sure exactly where to post it and figured if I got it wrong it would be moved.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/6 "2001-08-20T02:10:17Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Miss Pippi \*
> \*\*Well I wasn’t sure exactly where to post it and figured if I got it wrong it would be moved. \*\*
Well, you sure made my day … I’ve never gotten to be the guy who delivered the “this is in the wrong forum” message before. It’s like being the first one into the new jar of peanut butter.
🙂
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### Author:  [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/7 "2001-08-20T02:57:49Z")
Please please please please please please
Do _not_ name the poor thing a)Guinness or b)Mocha. It can be tempting, I know, but please restrain yourself.
Here’s something I always thought was cool: Don’t name the dog for a while. Just call it “dog”. Eventually the dog will name itself by its actions, or you will happen upon something that fits the dog perfectly. You can get to know its personality first.
Congrats on the puppy, I bet it’s cute.
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/8 "2001-08-20T03:02:21Z")
Bob.
Peace,
mangeorge
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### Author:  [@micco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/micco)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/9 "2001-08-20T03:45:22Z")
There are to things to consider when naming a dog: the sounds a dog can hear and the sounds that you can shout with authority. Lean toward two-syllable names with hard consonants.
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### Author:  [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/10 "2001-08-20T03:51:38Z")
Somebody in chat once suggested “Meth” as a good name for a lab. As in “Meth Lab.”
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### Author:  [@jonfromdenver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonfromdenver)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/11 "2001-08-20T03:53:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> _originally posted by micco_
> There are to things to consider when naming a dog: the sounds a dog can hear and the sounds that you can shout with authority. Lean toward two-syllable names with hard consonants.
i agree. so why not save some time and take an authoritative word and make that the name? i would suggest maybe “dammit” or “jesus”. kills two birds with one stone.
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### Author:  [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/12 "2001-08-20T03:54:54Z")
I recommend “Milhouse”
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/13 "2001-08-20T04:01:56Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by micco \*
> \*\*There are to things to consider when naming a dog: the sounds a dog can hear and the sounds that you can shout with authority. Lean toward two-syllable names with hard consonants. \*\*
Ok. Make that Bobby.
Peace,
mangeorge
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/14 "2001-08-20T04:14:46Z")
I had a black lab named Oswald, best dog I ever owned. And I’m sorry that I ever had to give him up. He always came when I called him and was very loving. Had a girlfriend who had a dog named Zeb. He _never_ came when she called him, but always came when I called him.
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/15 "2001-08-20T04:17:21Z")
This thread is getting moved to its proper forum.
Lynn
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/16 "2001-08-20T04:33:09Z")
Roscoe Pasquale Stonnington James III
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### Author:  [@IceQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQueen)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/17 "2001-08-20T04:47:54Z")
Smooch.
(You know, something smooth and chocolate.)
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### Author:  [@super\_head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/super_head)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/18 "2001-08-20T04:50:11Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by mangeorge \*
> \*\*Bob.
> Peace,
> mangeorge \*\*
Well, Bob is ok… Peace is rather quaint… but mangeorge, that’s just a dumb name. 😉
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### Author:  [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/19 "2001-08-20T04:54:28Z")
Name it Dammit.
Can’t you just see it? “Fetch, Dammit!”, “Go inside, Dammit!”, “Dammit, stop humping the pillow!”
😃
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### Author:  [@Sasquatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sasquatch)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-some-really-great-names-for-my-new-puppy/77068/20 "2001-08-20T05:17:05Z")
Name him “Car Ride”. You’ll drive every other dog in your neighborhood crazy when you call him.
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