# New Dog - Name suggestions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408 "2022-06-17T22:36:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/21 "2022-06-18T12:05:52Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Speck Years ago I found a home for a teeny-tiny dog that had been neglected. I told the people who adopted him that I’d been calling him **Speck**. They thought the name fit him well and kept it. At a party later someone asked where his name came from and they pointed out that I’d named him. The guy then asked me what the name meant and I explained I’d named him after Richard Speck, the dude who killed nurses. You could hear a pin drop. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/22 "2022-06-18T12:07:03Z")
Looks like a Chester to me. That or Abercrombie. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/23 "2022-06-18T14:42:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’d named him after Richard Speck 🤣 🤣 That’s priceless! I owe you a beer. ---
**Author:** ![arjee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@arjee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arjee)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/24 "2022-06-18T15:21:47Z")
Dioji. It’s pronounced dee-OWE-jee. Like how you spell dog - D O G. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/25 "2022-06-18T15:40:25Z")
Left in a **shopping cart**? It’s a regional thing, but you could call him Buggy. (For some unfathomable reason, I’m thinking Sampson.) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/26 "2022-06-18T15:49:29Z")
Congratulations! How about Sargent ( Sarge) , Sebastian (Bash) Cecil! ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/27 "2022-06-18T15:54:50Z")
This seals it, IMHO. That pupper is, indeed, Rene de Cart. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/28 "2022-06-18T16:00:33Z")
That’s solid. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/29 "2022-06-18T16:37:16Z")
I love these. 😁 Except Speck. _shudders_ René de Cart is brilliant, but I think it might be too heavy a name for our little guy. Mouse fits well, personality-wise. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/30 "2022-06-18T16:54:00Z")
I think Rocky does suit him. You probably don’t want a joke name like Killer. Mouse might be a little too small for him, I can see in his eyes that he’s big on the inside. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/31 "2022-06-18T17:50:18Z")
He has survived a lot I think. There are signs that he was outside a lot (or always), which is not a great thing here. It’s very hot and we’ve got a lot of predators, but he survived and someone cared enough to get him help. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/32 "2022-06-18T18:04:20Z")
What a cute little guy. He almost looks part fennec fox. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/33 "2022-06-18T18:15:25Z")
Yes, he looks like he thinks therefore he is. ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/34 "2022-06-18T18:33:43Z")
Tuffy, because he is a little toughie ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408/35 "2022-06-18T19:25:29Z")
I love the name Buggy for this little guy. I’m also thinking Bear, or Finn for the poster who thinks he looks like a fennec fox. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dog-name-suggestions/966408.md?page=1)