Dog name lists / Pop Culture & Themes
Famous Dog Names
Every name here belongs to a famous dog — from screen (Lassie, Scooby, Beethoven) to history (Balto, Laika, Hachikō). The license data shows which legends people actually name their own dogs after: Snoopy and Scooby lead by hundreds.
| Name | Gender | Trend | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benji The scruffy 70s hero — 1,200+ licensed dogs still carry it. | Boy | ||
| 2 | Marley The world's worst, most beloved lab. | Either | ||
| 3 | Bandit Bluey's dad — and a top-100 name for masked mutts. | Boy | ||
| 4 | Snoopy The world's most famous beagle — 600+ licensed heirs. | Boy | ||
| 5 | Chance Homeward Bound's young troublemaker. | Boy | ||
| 6 | Eddie Frasier's terrier, master of the unblinking stare. | Boy | ||
| 7 | Spike Tom & Jerry's bulldog — a name with a century of history. | Boy | ||
| 8 | Scooby Ruh-roh — 333 licensed great danes in spirit. | Boy | ||
| 9 | Pluto Disney's original good boy. | Boy | ||
| 10 | Sassy Homeward Bound's cat — adopted by 200+ dogs anyway. | Girl | ||
| 11 | Astro The Jetsons' space dog. | Boy | ||
| 12 | Odie Garfield's drooling foil. | Boy | ||
| 13 | Bingo And Bingo was his name-o. | Boy | ||
| 14 | Comet Full House's golden retriever. | Boy | ||
| 15 | Laika The Moscow street dog who reached orbit first. | Girl | ||
| 16 | Toto Carried in a basket all the way to Oz. | Boy | ||
| 17 | Bolt The TV-star dog who believed his own stunts. | Boy | ||
| 18 | Zero Jack Skellington's ghost dog. | Boy | ||
| 19 | Hachi Hachikō, who waited at Shibuya station for nine years. | Boy | ||
| 20 | Balto Led the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome. | Boy | ||
| 21 | Gidget The Taco Bell chihuahua and Secret Life of Pets pomeranian. | Girl | ||
| 22 | Clifford Big. Red. Dog. | Boy | ||
| 23 | Bluey The Australian heeler taking over toddlerhood. | Either | — | |
| 24 | Lassie The collie who always got Timmy out of the well. | Girl | ||
| 25 | Beethoven The 200-pound St. Bernard of 90s cinema. | Boy | ||
| 26 | Brian Family Guy's martini-drinking intellectual. | Boy | ||
| 27 | Hooch Turner's slobbery partner. | Boy | ||
| 28 | Courage The cowardly dog who saved Muriel anyway. | Boy | ||
| 29 | Wishbone The Jack Russell who lived inside classic novels. | Either | ||
| 30 | Krypto The superdog of Metropolis. | Boy | ||
| 31 | Togo Ran the longest, hardest leg of that same run — the connoisseur's pick. | Boy |