# What's the lamest name you've given a pet?

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**Created:** [May 25, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-lamest-name-youve-given-a-pet/834519 "2019-05-25T22:31:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-lamest-name-youve-given-a-pet/834519/81 "2019-05-29T15:01:30Z")

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I’ve never done it, but I always wanted to name a dog “Dioji”.

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**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-lamest-name-youve-given-a-pet/834519/82 "2019-05-29T15:28:32Z")

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A friend of mine, long ago, rented a room in a house; said house inhabited by her, several fellow-students, and the landlady. Also, by a pet tortoise: “officially” named, quite wittily, Roger Bannister; after a celebrated 1950s British runner. In fact, everyone called the creature Torty.

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**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-lamest-name-youve-given-a-pet/834519/83 "2019-05-29T20:08:08Z")

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I had a bulldog once who, by no fault of my own, appeared to be a racist. From being a puppy on he’d growl and huff at anyone who wasn’t white. It was clearly noticeable and embarrassing as hell. I named him Bigot. Everybody hated that name.

My son had a pair of pure white rabbits who had pink noses, pink paws, and pink in their ears. Then we got a kitten that was also pure white with a pink nose, paws, and ears. That cat thought he was a rabbit. He cuddled up to the rabbits and even tried to suckle on the female. So we named him Bunn E. Kitty (Bunny Kitty). He was half bunny but all kitty!

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**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-lamest-name-youve-given-a-pet/834519/84 "2019-05-29T20:38:46Z")

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My first dog I named “Tiffany” because I was 9 and the only female name I could think of was the white dog in Benji.

The two dogs looked _nothing_ alike.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-lamest-name-youve-given-a-pet/834519/85 "2019-05-30T21:08:58Z")

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Thanks to my 3-year old grandson, our 2 male goats are named after his favorite major League baseball players. I’m sure they would be thrilled to know that they are now officially G.O.A.T.s (Greatest of All Time).

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