Choosing one of these types of dog names for your puppy can show your interest in literature and mythology.

Dog Names from Books

  •     Jock (Jock of the Bushveld)
  •     Ribsy (Companion of Henry Huggins)
  •     Buddy / Toby / Bailey / Ellie / Bear (A Dog's Purpose)
  •     Old Dan and Little Ann (Where the Red Fern Grows)
  •     Yeller (Old Yeller)
  •     Pickles (Ginger and Pickles)
  •     Banga (Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov)
  •     Nero (The St. Bernard in Laura Ingalls Wilder's The First Four Years)
  •     What-a-Mess (Afghan puppy in a series of children's books by Frank Muir)
  •     Snitter (The Plague Dogs)
  •     Duke (Penrod: His Complete Story by Booth Tarkington)
  •     Max (How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
  •     Ghost (Game of Thrones)
  •     Timmy (The Famous Five series of books by Enid Blyton)
  •     Shep (Almanzo's shepherd dog in These Happy Golden Years)
  •     Yellow Dog Dingo (Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories)
  •     Lassie (A collie, from the novel Lassie Come Home)
  •     Fluffy (from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
  •     Cyril (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
  •     Fang (The lumbering boarhound in Harry Potter)
  •     Lad (Lad, A Dog)
  •     Boots (Thy Servant a Dog by Rudyard Kipling)
  •     Huan (The Silmarillion)
  •     Charkie (Curious George)
  •     Sirius (A 1944 science fiction novel by the British philosopher and author Olaf Stapledon)
  •     White Fang and Kiche (White Fang by Jack London)
  •     Prince (Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew)

  •     Perdita & Pongo (The Hundred and One Dalmatians)
  •     Snowy (The Adventures of Tintin)
  •     Nana (The Newfoundland dog in Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie)
  •     Scupper (The Sailor Dog)
  •     Shiloh (Shiloh)
  •     Tock (Watchdog of the Phantom Tollbooth)
  •     Nop (The Border Collie, from the novel Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig)
  •     Hank (Novels by John Erickson)
  •     Jip (David Copperfield)
  •     Orson (The black Labrador retriever in Dean Koontz's novels Seize the Night and Fear Nothing)
  •     Clifford (The beloved big red dog)
  •     Cujo (The St. Bernard in the novel by Stephen King)
  •     Bullseye (Oliver Twist)
  •     Buck (Call of the Wild)
  •     Leo (Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones)
  •     Laska (Levin's hunting dog in Anna Karenina)
  •     Jenny (Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life)
  •     Jack (Little House on the Prairie)
  •     Top (Jules Verne's Mysterious Island)
  •     Duchess (The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan)
  •     Toby (Sherlock Holmes)
  •     Marley (Marley and Me)
  •     Sharik (The dog/man in Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog)
  •     Pilot (Mr. Rochester's dog in Jane Eyre)
  •     Toto (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
  •     Einstein (Watchers by Dean Koontz)
  •     Boyd (Kathy Reich's novels)

Dog Names from Mythology

  •     Cabal (King Arthur's dog)
  •     Vulcan (The god of fire in Roman mythology)
  •     Nyx (Greek goddess of the night)
  •     Garm (A four-eyed dog that guarded Helheim in Norse mythology)
  •     Hermes (The god of trade, heraldry, merchants, commerce, roads, thieves, trickery, sports, travelers, and athletes in Ancient Greek mythology)
  •     Eris (The Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord)
  •     Pax (Roman goddess of peace)
  •     Hera (Wife of Zeus and queen of the ancient Greek gods, represented the ideal woman and was goddess of marriage and the family)
  •     Diana (In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of hunting)
  •     Vesta (The virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion)
  •     Fauna (Fauna was the Roman goddess of prophetic goddess of animals, wildlife, fertility and spring)
  •     Achilles (A Greek hero of the Trojan War)
  •     Poseidon (The god of the sea)
  •     Hecuba (In Greek mythology, the Queen of Troy, turned into a fierce dog)
  •     Nox (The Greek goddess of the night)
  •     Spartan (A native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta)
  •     Argos (Odysseus's dog in Greek Mythology)
  •     Bran (Fionn mac Cumhail's hound in Irish Mythology)
  •     Artemis (The goddess of the wilderness, the hunt and wild animals, and fertility)
  •     Saur (A dog that was "king" of Norway for three years during the 11th century AD.)
  •     Juno (Juno was an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counselor of the state)
  •     Apollo (The god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more)
  •     Hercules (He was the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles)
  •     Pegasus (The winged horse in Greek Mythology)
  •     Aries (He is one of the Twelve Olympians, the son of Zeus and Hera.)

  •     Callisto (Was a nymph, or the daughter of King Lycaon)
  •     Nike (The goddess of victory in Greek mythology)
  •     Aurora (The Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology)
  •     Athena (Goddess of wisdom, war and the crafts, and favourite daughter of Zeus)
  •     Victoria (In ancient Roman religion, was the personified goddess of victory)
  •     Pandora (In Greek mythology Pandora was the first mortal woman who was formed out of clay by the gods)
  •     Terra (A goddess of the earth)
  •     Pluto (The ruler of the underworld in classical mythology)
  •     Atlas (In Greek mythology, Atlas was a Titan condemned to hold up the celestial heavens for eternity after the Titanomachy)
  •     Loki (Loki, in Norse mythology, a cunning trickster who had the ability to change his shape and sex)
  •     Luna (In ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon)
  •     Pan (The god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs)
  •     Flora (In Roman mythology, Flora is a Sabine-derived goddess of flowers and of the season of spring)
  •     Aura (The Titan goddess of the breeze and the fresh, cool air of early morning)
  •     Titan (In Greek mythology, any of the children of Ura (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth) and their descendants.)
  •     Attis (Phrygian god of vegetation)
  •     Siren (In Greek mythology, the Sirens were dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors)
  •     Zeus (In ancient Greek religion, chief deity of the pantheon, a sky and weather god)
  •     Neptune (The god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion)
  •     Cerberus (The hound of Hades in Greek mythology)
  •     Lima (In Roman mythology, Lima was the goddess of thresholds)
  •     Sirius (In Greek mythology, and star in Canis Major)