Nation's Leading Pet Insurer Reveals Most Popular Dog and Cat Names for 2005

PR Newswire ^ | December, 2005

[AnAmericanMother]

Shelley, a/k/a SHR Sumo's CoDoz Brown Bombshell, OA, OAJ, AD

Finny, Trina, and Nifi, a/k/a Chalaht's Finn MacCoul of HyBrasil, Catananda Catriona of HyBrasil, and Chalaht's Magnificat of HyBrasil. They are much too proud to earn any titles (and disinclined to work that hard for a mere human.)

[doberville]

Ha! My boy 'Fill' didn't even make the list. Hmmm.

We call him 'Fill' 'cuz he FILLS the box. . .

[Young Werther]

Except the college libs might misinterpret the call as:

"FREEPER!"

then you'd be hounded!!!(pun intended)

[HairOfTheDog]

I never said Logan's registered name out loud, and I was almost too embarrassed to show him. :~D

I got him as an adult, so he was already named.

[proudofthesouth]

I have a Corgi mixed dog named Scruffy and a some kind of breed cat named Breezy.

[HairOfTheDog]

That's true! Course - back then, there were no FReepers :~D

[PoorMuttly]

"For dogs or kids?"

Yes.

[carlr]

Very nice picture,makes me dream of spring.
(((deep sigh)))

[Titan Magroyne]

I'm happy to report that none of my cats or dogs have had such 'common' names. sniff

Patches, Redford, Benji, Sikoshi, Aphrodite, Crybaby, Mouse, Luna, Merlin, Pearl, Olive & Xena

[AnAmericanMother]

My breeder had a list of names for the pups in the litter -- I had to choose one from the list.

The remaining alternatives were Lady Godiva and Chocolate Cheese . . . ugggh!

If I had had the naming of her, I was thinking about naming her after one of the Furies - Alecto ("unceasing"), Megaera ("the jealous"), and Tisiphone ("avenging") - or one of the Harpies - Aello, the breaking storm (Podarge - fleet of foot) or Celaeno, whose wings darken the sky before a storm (Ocypete - swift of wing).

I can just imagine the "gate" calling THOSE names out to the scorekeeper and timer! (I worked gate pretty much continually through the last trial.)

[HairOfTheDog]

I like Brown Bombshell! It has spunk!... but why those names? The only breeders I've known with naming requirements involved naming according to the letter of the alphabet that corresponds to the litter number, i.e. first litter=A names, Second litter=B names... and so on.

[AnAmericanMother]

When I bought her, I was so ignorant I had no idea but that was what the breeder wanted. I could ask the breeder why, I guess . . . but she had a typed up list of names, and the pups that were already sold had names crossed off the list.

I think Brown Bombshell actually fits her pretty well, because she is a looker and she's full of energy - certainly better than Lady Godiva (she's no lady, even though she has no clothes on), and Chocolate Cheese is just right out . . .

In the South, at least, it used to be traditional for hunting dogs to have classical (Greek or Latin) names. I don't think the tradition is followed any more, a lot of them seem to have rednecky/ country music sort of names now. Just got my Hunting Retriever News with the report on the Grand, and one of the winning dogs was somebody-or-other's That Thang's Got a Hemi. Made me laugh.

[xp38]

I had a Beagle from 1984-1998 and called him Max.

[HairOfTheDog]

I've seen some good show names and bad... Logan's was just bad... It had "Luscious" in it.

I'll say no more :~D

[AnAmericanMother]

Luscious? For a Lab?

That breeder should be arrested for general bad taste.

We had a defendant in a burglary case named Luscious.

[HairOfTheDog]

Especially a male... I thought it made him sound gay. LOL

[teenyelliott]

Here, Max. Come 'ere, boy.

I have Sam, Sara, Blue and Penny.

Hope to have a couple more in the coming year!!

[Darnright]

Woody the Belgian Malinois turns 12 this Christmas Eve. His registered name is Crocs' Blanc's Christmas Rush. He's named after the season, and after a certain harmless, lovable little fuzzball (c;

[Xenophobic Alien]

My dog is number 3 :P

[Maximus of Texas]

Our beagle was named Penny.