# Need a good name for my pitbull puppy. Any suggestions? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 30, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198 "2008-12-30T10:55:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeredc1983](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@jeredc1983](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeredc1983)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/1 "2008-12-30T10:55:26Z")
I have been a pitbull owner all of my life…a whole 25 years. I love 'em. I have a male pitbull. My female pit had a litter of ten and I kept one; he is a male. He is very playful and into everything. He is exactly five and a half weeks old. So, anyone have some ideas? By the way…I have a degree in history so I love historical references. Thanks guys! ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/2 "2008-12-30T11:30:55Z")
I went to Google"1983" and found a long list of possibilities. Since I don’t know you, it’s difficult to choose a name from the historical year of your birth. My suggestion: “Thriller” - it was introduced that year and it changed music videos. A picture would help too. ---
**Author:** ![jeredc1983](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@jeredc1983](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeredc1983)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/3 "2008-12-30T11:38:25Z")
Thanks, Jali. Where can I post pictures from my digital camera for free? I’d be glad to show one. My year of birth is 1983, but it does not have to be from that year. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/4 "2008-12-30T15:51:27Z")
Picture. We need a puppy picture. Flickr, Photobucket offer free image hosting. Percy the Pit Bull? ---
**Author:** ![Laalune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Laalune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laalune)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/5 "2008-12-30T16:08:32Z")
Cerberus? Cerby? I know it’s mythology, but it sounds cute. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/6 "2008-12-30T16:28:57Z")
What color/marking does he have? I have a friend who calls pit bulls “pibbles” and if it was a girl, I’d say that’d be a good name. Doesn’t sound too masculine, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/7 "2008-12-30T16:30:11Z")
I named mine Chuck U. Farley. Great name for a pit. Too bad it’s already taken. ---
**Author:** ![dmatsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dmatsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dmatsch)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/8 "2008-12-30T18:19:47Z")
I always wanted a dog named “Curiosity”. Honey, what the hell killed my cat, Mr. Happy Freckles? “Curiosity, my dear wife. Curiosity” ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/9 "2008-12-30T18:54:40Z")
> [@Laalune](#): > > Cerberus? Cerby? I know it’s mythology, but it sounds cute. 🙂 Dammit Laalune you stole my thunder I second this one ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/10 "2008-12-30T22:40:45Z")
Teabag Johnson. I know this has nothing to do with history or the Pit Bullness of the dog…but I am going to refer this suggestion for any animal until somebody uses it! ---
**Author:** ![jeredc1983](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@jeredc1983](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeredc1983)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/11 "2008-12-30T22:49:25Z")
> **[Featured Content on Myspace](https://myspace.com/discover/featured)** > > Featured Content on Myspace Here are pics of his twin. The girl I gave him to put them up. ---
**Author:** ![samm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@samm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samm)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/12 "2008-12-30T23:52:42Z")
Am I understanding correctly that you are breeding pit bull puppies and giving them away to folks when they are four weeks old? Maybe I am assuming to much based on the picture title? Maybe it is threadshitting to mention that 95% of the dogs in our shelter here are pitbulls. Otherwise, historical names that I like for a dog: Alexander, Xerxes, Magnus, Charlemagne, Roland, Nero, Akenhaten ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/13 "2008-12-31T05:09:00Z")
Darius? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/14 "2008-12-31T05:26:29Z")
If his eye markings are are the same as Zeus’, then you must call him Rocky…like Rocky Racoon. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/15 "2008-12-31T05:28:16Z")
He looks like “Genghis Khan” to me ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/16 "2008-12-31T12:45:16Z")
Just don’t name him John Jacob Jinglehiemer Schmidt. That’s my name. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/17 "2008-12-31T12:55:21Z")
Hey! That’s my name too! ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/18 "2008-12-31T13:46:26Z")
Whenever you go out, do people always shout? I like Mortimer, Nostradamus, and Machiavelli. Then you call the dog Mort or Morty, Nosey or Damn-us, or Mack. Of course, Voldemort would also be a fine name, giving you Voldy or Mort for short stuff. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/19 "2008-12-31T14:28:58Z")
Mike. Call him Mike. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198/20 "2008-12-31T14:48:06Z")
Patton works for me, yeah, Patton the Pit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-good-name-for-my-pitbull-puppy-any-suggestions/479198.md?page=2)