Dog name lists / Pop Culture & Themes
Disney Dog Names
Disney is the single biggest pop-culture source of dog names in the license data — Nala and Koda sit in the top 100, and the studio's actual dogs (Pluto, Copper, Bolt, Dug) are all represented. Every name below is carried by real licensed dogs.
| Name | Gender | Trend | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nala The Lion King's queen — a top-25 dog name in America. | Girl | ||
| 2 | Lady And the Tramp — the spaniel with the spaghetti. | Girl | ||
| 3 | Simba The lion cub himself, top-100 in our data. | Boy | ||
| 4 | Minnie His leading lady. | Girl | ||
| 5 | Koda Brother Bear's cub — a top-100 name, big with huskies. | Either | ||
| 6 | Mickey The mouse who started it all. | Boy | ||
| 7 | Belle Beauty and the Beast's reader-heroine. | Girl | ||
| 8 | Bambi The fawn with the long legs. | Girl | ||
| 9 | Pluto Mickey's actual dog since 1930. | Boy | ||
| 10 | Jasmine Agrabah's princess. | Girl | ||
| 11 | Copper The Fox and the Hound's hound. | Boy | ||
| 12 | Stitch Experiment 626, officially licensed as a 'dog' — 8× over-indexed among frenchies. | Boy | ||
| 13 | Elsa Frozen's ice queen. | Girl | ||
| 14 | Woody Toy Story's sheriff. | Boy | ||
| 15 | Aurora Sleeping Beauty — for dogs that nap 20 hours a day. | Girl | ||
| 16 | Nemo The clownfish worth finding. | Boy | ||
| 17 | Tinkerbell Small, glowing, occasionally vindictive. | Girl | ||
| 18 | Bolt The superpowered white shepherd. | Boy | ||
| 19 | Ariel The little mermaid. | Girl | ||
| 20 | Baloo The Jungle Book's bare-necessities bear. | Boy | ||
| 21 | Mowgli The man-cub. | Boy | ||
| 22 | Buzz To infinity and the dog park. | Boy | ||
| 23 | Dory Just keeps swimming. | Girl | ||
| 24 | Olaf The snowman who likes warm hugs. | Boy | ||
| 25 | Pongo 101 Dalmatians' patriarch. | Boy | ||
| 26 | Goofy A dog naming a dog — deeply meta. | Either | ||
| 27 | Dumbo Big ears, big heart. | Boy | ||
| 28 | Moana The wayfinder. | Girl | — | |
| 29 | Thumper For dogs whose leg goes when you scratch. | Either | ||
| 30 | Mulan The warrior who saved China. | Girl | ||
| 31 | Dug Up's golden retriever. SQUIRREL! | Boy | ||
| 32 | Scar The villain with the best song. | Boy | ||
| 33 | Merida Brave's archer. | Girl | — | |
| 34 | Perdita His partner in puppy-raising. | Girl | ||
| 35 | Tramp Her streetwise other half. | Boy |