Dog name generator
Every suggestion is a name real licensed dogs carry — drawn from 3.7 million license and registration records, weighted by how popular each name actually is. Filter the pool, deal a hand, save the keepers.
How this generator is different
Most dog-name generators shuffle an editorial word list. This one draws from municipal licensing records — NYC, Allegheny County PA, Seattle, Toronto, Zürich and more — so every name it deals is one that real, licensed dogs answer to, and popular names surface as often as their real-world popularity earns. Rare picks still appear: the draw is weighted, not winner-take-all.
The gender filter uses the license records' own sex field (a name counts as a girl or boy name only when at least three quarters of the dogs with a recorded gender carrying it lean that way), the letter filter matches the letter pages, and the style filters come from our curated lists — unique, funny, Disney, Japanese and thirty more.
Found a candidate? Its card links to a full profile — rank, five-year trend, gender split and city-by-city counts — and the heart saves it to your shortlist for side-by-side comparison. Or skip the dice and browse all names and what's trending.