# Stonebow gave me a puppy for Christmas! I need name ideas! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954 "2005-12-09T22:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/1 "2005-12-09T22:12:30Z")
I’ll post a picture of the sweet little thing later, but for the record, it is a fawn colored miniature dachshund. Female. She’s so cute with her puppy-and-a-half long and half-a-puppy tall self! I was thinking about something maybe German sounding? Ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/2 "2005-12-09T22:15:35Z")
Schnitzel as in weiner schnitzel 😛 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/3 "2005-12-09T22:22:27Z")
Gretel! Ooh! ooh! Take a picture of her next to :eek: :eek: so we have some scale of her length! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/4 "2005-12-09T22:24:39Z")
Just don’t name him John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. That’s my name. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/5 "2005-12-09T22:40:50Z")
**Khadaji** , no problem. I wouldn’t dream of being a copycat. That’s also the reason I can’t use Schnitzel. I already know a weiner dog named Schnitzel. I do like Gretel, though. As for the pictures, **WhyNot** , I’ll get right on that, but I’m going to try not to traumatize the poor thing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/6 "2005-12-09T22:45:59Z")
I have a mini-mini dox- she’s about 8 1/2 lbs. The kids let me pick her name from the three choices the suggested. The choices were “Brownie” “Amber” and “Petal”. I went with “Brownie The Wonder Dog”! ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/7 "2005-12-10T00:42:58Z")
Gretel is a big contender, right now, as well as a couple of submission from outside sources: Freya and Merriweather. Stonebow wants to name her Stella. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/8 "2005-12-10T00:47:15Z")
Since no one else has, I’ll be the one to recommend “Thor,” or “Max.” Dachshunds _love_ situational irony. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/9 "2005-12-10T00:50:12Z")
Miniature dauchsand? I think you need something ironic, like the German word for enormous. ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/10 "2005-12-10T01:01:31Z")
Sausage. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/11 "2005-12-10T01:09:32Z")
I suggest a namee with two vowel sounds. Dogs really respond well to these names. Examples: Sascha (my dog’s name) Mischa Chloe Mocha ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/12 "2005-12-10T01:51:46Z")
Bringau Chirdead Alms For The Poor Wheramai In short, you want something that sounds good when you have to walk around the neighborhood calling out for your pooch when she gets loose. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/13 "2005-12-10T02:08:16Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > In short, you want something that sounds good when you have to walk around the neighborhood calling out for your pooch when she gets loose. I suppose this should be a consideration. It’s just proving to be difficult to find a _cool_ name for a female puppy. If it were a little male dog, I would totally name him Cthulu, and call him Lou. We thought about Blitzen, but that seems masculine. I’ve searched for Dachshund names on google. Lots of Strudel and Gretchen. Nothing that really speaks to me, yet. ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/14 "2005-12-10T02:12:02Z")
Perhaps [this](http://www.geocities.com/dog_names/name_your_dog_german.html) website will give you some inspiration, ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/15 "2005-12-10T02:16:08Z")
How about “18-inch Jelly Dog” ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/16 "2005-12-10T02:19:50Z")
Smaug! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/17 "2005-12-10T04:19:54Z")
> [@FaerieBeth](#): > > Stonebow wants to name her Stella. 😕 So that when you have to find her, or she chews something up, or makes a mess on the carpet, or any other undesired behavior, he can go around yelling “Stella! Stella!” If she turns out to be badly behaved (and let’s hope not) how about Teufelhund? Or for that matter, take any English now you can think of that fits, translate it into German, and stick “hund” after it. How about Eva? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/18 "2005-12-10T04:25:36Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Just don’t name him John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. > > That’s my name. 🙂 That’s my name, too! Honestly, people, I can’t believe no one beat me to that. As for names: Judge Phil Larry Buster Ralph ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/19 "2005-12-10T04:31:48Z")
Since she’s fawn-colored, I’ll suggest **Rehkalb** , the German word for “fawn” (it literally translates as “roe deer calf”). As a bonus, it sounds kind of like the name “Rachel”. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954/20 "2005-12-10T04:50:32Z")
FTR, it’s actually against the law to NOT name a dachshaund some kind of hilarious name relating to either it’s size, or it’s resemblance to tubed meat products. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonebow-gave-me-a-puppy-for-christmas-i-need-name-ideas/334954.md?page=2)