Fictional Dog Names: Literature, Fairytales, Advertising etc....

[Jen]

I found this while browsing the web for something else & thought I'd pass it on. I know we all put lots of thought into what we name our Akitas (or other dogs), and in naming an entire litter or a rescues that came in as pairs or puppies turned into the shelter, often we all try to stick w/ a theme. Maybe these will give some of you ideas in the future. ~Jen

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Legendary, Mythical & Fairytale Dogs

•                ARGOS, Odysseus's dog (Greek Mythology)

•                ANUBIS, Ancient Egyptian god with a dog's (or a jackal's) head 

•                BARGHEST, English goblin-dog 

•                BLACK SHUCK, British hound of hell 

•                BRAN, Fionn mac Cumhail's hound (Irish Mythology)

•                CABAL, King Arthur's dog 

•                CANIS MAJOR, (Latin for "Big Dog") Orion's hunting dog

•                CANIS MINOR, (Latin for "Little Dog") Orion's hunting dog

•                CANES VENATICI, (Latin for "hunting dogs" constellation of the hunting dogs 

•                CERBERUS (demon of the pit), the hound of Hades in Greek mythology (also his brother, Orthrus) 

•                DIP, in Catalan myth 

•                FENRIS, a monstrous wolf, offspring of Loki and Angrboda in Norse mythology 

•                FU DOG, Chinese guardians 

•                GABRIEL HOUNDS (Cwn Annwn), ghost hounds of the land of the dead 

•                GARM, a four-eyed dog that guarded Helheim in Norse mythology 

•                HECUBA, in Greek mythology, the Queen of Troy, turned into a fierce dog 

•                LAELAPS, in Greek mythology

•                LAIKA, The first dog in space. Laika was aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 in 1957.

•                LE DIABLE, A notorious French dog that smuggled lace and other items across the French border

•                MAREA, in Greek mythology 

•                QIQIRN, in Inuit mythology 

•                SAUR, or SUENING, A dog that was "king" of Norway for three years during the 11th century AD. 

•                SIRIUS, in Greek mythology, and star in Canis Major 

•                SOTER, One of 50 watchdogs of ancient Greece that alone survived attack by invaders

•                XOLOTL, in Aztec mythology 

 

Dogs in Literature

•                BANGA, Pontius Pilatus' dog in The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

•                BIG RED, Irish Red and other Irish Setters, protagonists of novels by Jim Kjelgaard

•                BOOTS, narrator of Thy Servant a Dog by Rudyard Kipling 

•                BOYD, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan's dog in Kathy Reich's novels 

•                BUCK, the main character in Jack London's Call of the Wild 

•                BULLSEYE, Bill Sikes' dog in Oliver Twist 

•                CUJO, the St. Bernard in the novel by Stephen King (later a movie) 

•                CYRIL, the dog in Connie Willis's book about time-travel To Say Nothing of the Dog

•                DUCHESS, the dog in Beatrix Potter's The Pie and the Patty Pan 

•                DUKE, Penrod Schofield's Terrier mix in Booth Tarkington's Penrod: His Complete Story 

•                FANG, Hagrid's dog, a boarhound (possibly a Great Dane) in the Harry Potter books

•                FLUFFY, the three-headed dog (similar to Cerberus) in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 

•                HANK, the Cowdog, the crime fighting hero of several novels by John Erickson 

•                GASPODE, an unusually clever dog who talks, in various Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett 

•                GREYFRIARS BOBBY, a true story which became the basis of much fiction 

•                HOWARD, the dog in Bunnicula and sequels by James Howe 

•                HUAN, The great wolfhound of Valinor, in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Silmarillion 

•                JACK, from Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

•                JENNY, the star of Maurice Sendak's Higglety-Pigglety Pop, or, There Must Be More To Life 

•                JOCK, from Jock of the Bushveld, a South African classic first published in 1907 

•                JOHN JOINER, the terrier in Beatrix Potter's The Roly-Poly Pudding 

•                KEP, the Collie, from Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck and other books 

•                LAD, a dog by Albert Payson Terhune 

•                LADDIE, (a send-up of Lassie (qv)) who stars in Discworld alongside Gaspode 

•                LASSIE, a collie, from the novel Lassie Come Home upon which the movie was very loosely based

•                LEO, (aka Sirius), protagonist of Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones 

•                LITTLE ANN, from Where the Red Fern Grows

•                MONTMORENCY, the narrator's unruly Fox Terrier in Three Men in a Boat

•                NANA, the Newfoundland dog in Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie 

•                NERO, the St. Bernard in Laura Ingalls Wilder's The First Four Years 

•                NOP, the Border Collie, from the novel Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig 

•                NOSE E., pooch specialist in clandestine bomb- and narcotic-sniffing

•                OLD DAN, from Where the Red Fern Grows 

•                PATRASCHE, the dog in A Dog of Flanders by Ouida 

•                ORSON, the black Labrador retriever in Dean Koontz's novels Seize the Night and Fear Nothing 

•                PICKLES, the terrier who kept shop with Ginger the cat in Beatrix Potter's Ginger and Pickles 

•                PRINCE, Jasper King's dog in Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew 

•                RIBSY, companion of Henry Huggins and character in numerous novels by Beverly Cleary 

•                ROWF, a main character in Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs 

•                SCUPPER, from Margaret Wise Brown's children's book, The Sailor Dog

•                SHARIK/SHARIKOV, the dog/man in Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog 

•                SIRIUS (1944), by Olaf Stapledon, a science fiction novel about a canine Einstein 

•                SHEP, Almanzo's shepherd dog in Laura Ingalls Wilder's These Happy Golden Years

•                SNITTER, a main character in Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs

•                SPOT, the Dog, cartoon dog in the UK 

•                TIGER, the dog of Arthur Gordon Pym in A Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe

•                TOP, the dog of Cyrus Smith in Jules Verne's Mysterious Island 

•                TOTO, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 

•                TIMMY, in the Famous Five series of books by Enid Blyton 

•                WELLINGTON, in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time book by Mark Haddon 

•                WHITE FANG, the main character in Jack London's book of the same name 

•                WHAT-A-MESS, the accident-prone Afghan puppy in a series of children's books by Frank Muir

•                WINN-DIXIE, from the book Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo and the 2005 film

•                YELLOW DOG DINGO, dog in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories 

 

Dogs in Film

•                APOLLO, TV show Magnum, P.I. 1864-1946

•                ASTA, in the various The Thin Man films

•                BABE, (movie) featured Border Collies

•                BEETHOVEN, the St. Bernard hero of the movie series Beethoven

•                BENJI, had several movies

•                BLOOD, the talking dog in A Boy and his Dog 

•                COPERNICUS, in the Back to the Future trilogy 

•                DEVIL DOG, The Hound of Hell, from the film of the same title 

•                EINSTEIN, in the Back to the Future trilogy 

•                FRANK, the alien dog in Men in Black 

•                HARVEY, Elliot's dog in E.T. 

•                HOOCH, the Dogue de Bordeaux co-star of Turner and Hooch 

•                HUBBLE, a Border Terrier, main character in Good Boy!

•                JERRY LEE, the German shepherd supposed to be a trained police dog in K-9 

•                KEROUAC, the dog lost by the homeless Jerry Baskin in Down and Out in Beverly Hills 

•                LASSIE, in Lassie Come Home (1943) Lassie is always played by a male collie

•                MATISSE, Dave Whiteman's Border collie in Down and Out in Beverly Hills 

•                MICHELANGELO, St. Bernard Beethoven's double à la The Prince and the Pauper

•                MILO, Stanley Ipkiss' dog in The Mask 

•                MISSY, the St. Bernard girlfriend of Beethoven in Beethoven's 2nd 

•                MOSES, the chalk outline dog in Dogville 

•                NANOOK, the Siberian husky in The Lost Boys 

•                NEOS,  Neapolitan Mastiff in Harry Potter series

•                OLD YELLER (1957), a children's film, originally a novel by Fred Gipson 

•                OTIS, the Pug in The Adventures of Milo and Otis 

•                PETE the Pup (or "Petey"), a Pit Bull with a ring around one eye, in the Our Gang

•                PRECIOUS, the white Toy poodle beloved of 'Buffalo Bill' in Silence of the Lambs 

•                RIN TIN TIN, German shepherd who ranked as one of the all-time famous canine movie stars.  

•                SAM, the dog in Dante's Peak who leaps out of a field of boiling-hot lava to safety

•                SPARKY, the Jack Russell terrier brought back to life by the archangel in Michael 

•                TOTO, in The Wizard of Oz 

•                VERDELL, the Brussels Griffon in As Good as it Gets 

•                WINN-DIXIE, see Dogs in literature, above 

 

Dogs in Television

•                BRANDON, Golden Retriever on Punky Brewster 

•                BUCK, from Married... with Children 

•                BUDDY, Veronica Chase's Bulldog on Veronica's Closet 

•                CHARLIE DOG, a Looney Tunes character 

•                BULLET, the Wonder Dog, Roy Rogers' German Shepherd on The Roy Rogers Show 

•                CHESTER, spoiled Pomeranian belonging to Cece Babcock on The Nanny 

•                CLAUDE, Mrs. Drysdale's Poodle on The Beverly Hillbillies 

•                COMET, the family Golden retriever on Full House 

•                CYNTHIA, Mr. Haney's Basset hound on Green Acres 

•                DIEFENBAKER, the half-wolf dog from Due South 

•                DOIDLE, spoiled dog of Vicky the Babysitter in The Fairly Oddparents 

•                DREYFUS, the St. Bernard mix on Empty Nest 

•                DUKE, Jed Clampett's Bloodhound on The Beverly Hillbillies

•                EARNEST, Dave Barry's dog on Dave's World 

•                EDDIE, the Jack Russell Terrier from Frasier 

•                FANG (or Dog), Columbo's Basset hound

•                FLASH, The Basset Hound from The Dukes of Hazzard 

•                FRED, "Little Ricky's" puppy in I Love Lucy 

•                FREEWAY, the Lowchen in Hart to Hart television series

•                HAPPY, from 7th Heaven 

•                K-9, a canoid robot in Doctor Who 

•                COMMANDER K-9, sidekick/subordinate of Marvin the Martian 

•                K-9 COP 

•                LASSIE, see Dogs in film, above 

•                LONDON, the Wonder Dog in The Littlest Hobo, Canadian television series

•                MAXIMILLIAN, (Max-a-Million), the Bionic Dog from The Six Million Dollar Man 

•                MIGNON, Lisa Douglas's Yorkshire terrier on Green Acres 

•                MURRAY, the Buchmans' Collie-shepherd mix on Mad About You

•                NUNZIO, the Corgi on Dharma and Greg

•                PORTHOS, the Beagle owned by Captain Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise 

•                QUEEGQUEG, Clyde Bruckman's Pomeranian left to Dana Scully on The X-Files

•                REX, from Kommissar Rex (aka Inspector Rex and Rex: A Cop's Best Friend)

•                STINKY, Dharma's Briard mix on Dharma and Greg

•                SUGAR, the dog of the kitty-killed archaeology grad student in The X-Files 

•                TIGER, from The Brady Bunch 

•                TRAMP, the Douglas family's sheepdog mix on My Three Sons 

•                TRUFFLES, Mildred's terrier in the British sitcom George & Mildred 

•                WISHBONE, the eponymous Jack Russell Terrier star of a children's educational series

•                YUKON KING, Sgt. Preston's Husky on Sgt. Preston of the Yukon 

 

Dogs in Advertising

•                ALEX, advertisement mascot for Stroh's beer 1864-1946

•                BINGO, advertisement mascot for Cracker Jacks 1864-1946

•                DINKY, advertisement mascot for Taco Bell 1864-1946

•                DUKE, the Golden retriever entrusted with the secret family recipe for Bush's Baked Beans 

•                LUCKY, fluffy terrier mascot for the More Than insurance company (UK)

•                MOOSE, Jack Russell Terrier with many advertising credits

•                NIPPER, the RCA mascot (see also Victor Talking Machine Company and His Master's Voice) 

•                SPUDS MACKENZIE, MacKenzie advertising of Budweiser beer 1906-1945 - Bull Terrier 

•                TIGE, advertising Buster Brown shoes 1904-1974 Rebel

•                UBU, Labrador Retriever, mascot of Ubu Productions which produced Family Ties 

 

Dogs in Cartoons, Comic Strips, Animation, Puppets

•                ANDY, the faithful St. Bernard in the comic strip Mark Trail 

•                ACE, The Bat-Hound, a Black and Straw GSD and a member of the Batman mythos of DC comics

•                ASTRO, from The Jetsons 

•                AUGIE DOGGIE, and Doggie Daddy by Hanna-Barbera 

•                BABY CINNAMON, friend of Hello Kitty 

•                BAD DOG!, An early animated computer screen saver 

•                BANDIT, Jonny Quest's terrier 

•                BARFY, comic strip Family Circus 1864-1946

•                BEAUREGARD, the Bloodhound in Walt Kelly's Pogo

•                BELLE, the white mountain dog, co-star of Belle et Sébastien

•                BELVEDERE, comic strip Belvedere 1864-1946 

•                B. H., CALCUTTA, the bloodhound with no sense of smell in British comic strip The Perishers 

•                BILL, a cocker dog from the comic strip Boule et Bill 

•                BLACK BOB, formerly from the British comic The Dandy 

•                BLUE, in Blue's Clues 

•                BOLIVAR, Donald Duck's dog 

•                BOOT, companion of the boy Wellington in The Perishers 

•                BRAIN, from Inspector Gadget 

•                BRIAN GRIFFIN, cynical, substance-abusing, talking dog on Family Guy 

•                BRUNO, apparently a bloodhound cross, in Disney's Cinderella

•                BUCKLES, comic strip Buckles 1895-1972

•                BUTCH, bulldog from the Tom and Jerry cartoons 

•                CATDOG, eponymous star of the Nickelodeon TV show. See also List of fictional cats 

•                CHACHA, a dog reincarnated into a toy car, from the anime I Love Bubu Chacha 

•                CHARLIE DOG, "Looney Tunes" character created by Chuck Jones 

•                CHESTER, the Terrier from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies 

•                CHURCHILL, a bulldog in the form of a talking "nodding dog" car accessory, UK television ads

•                CLIFFORD, the Big Red Dog 

•                CORNEIL, talking dog from Corneil and Bernie. 

•                COURAGE, the Cowardly Dog 

•                CUBITUS, the fat round white dog, from the eponymous Belgian comic by Dupa

•                DAISY, the Dagwood Bumstead family dog in Blondie

•                DEPUTY DAWG 

•                DINO, in The Flintstones, a metaphorical dog 

•                DINSDALE, the dog from Rubbish, King of the Jumble

•                DOGBERT, the assertive dog owned by the unassertive Dilbert 

•                DOGG, from Milestone Comics' Blood Syndicate

•                DOGGIE DADDY, by Hanna-Barbera 

•                DOGMATIX, faithful companion to Obelix in the UK translation of the Asterix comic books 

•                DOGTANIAN, the three Muskehounds and the majority of the other characters in the series 

•                DR. DOPPLER, humanoid canine in Disney's Treasure Planet 

•                DOUGAL, a hairy philosophical dog in stop-motion animated show The Magic Roundabout

•                DROOPALONG, Sheriff Ricochet Rabbit's sidekick 

•                EDGAR, comic strip For Better or Worse 1911-1967

•                EIN, the Corgi in the anime series Cowboy Bebop

•                ELECTRA, comic strip Cathy 1902-1984

•                FARLEY, comic strip For Better or Worse 1911-1998

•                FAT DOG, Mendoza

•                FIFI, the Peke, Pluto's girlfriend 

•                FIFI, Lynda Barry's Poodle with a Mohawk - "You'll never call him Fifi again!" 

•                FIFI, the Finsters' family pet in Rugrats 

•                FILYA, on the TV screens since 1970s in the Russian Good night, the little ones!

•                FLORENCE AMBROSE, a genetically-engineered "Bowman's Wolf" in the comic strip Freefall 

•                FUZZ, comic strip Ziggy 1895-1990

•                GNASHER, from the British comic strips Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and Gnipper 

•                GNIPPER, Gnasher's son, from the British comic strips Dennis the Menace 

•                GOOFY, Disney character, a dog with human characteristics 

•                GOOPY GEER, Merrie Melodies character 

•                GODDARD, in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius 

•                GRIMM, of the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm 

•                GROMIT, of Wallace and... 

•                HOTDOG, Jughead's dog in the Archie comics 

•                HECTOR, the Bulldog from various Sylvester and Tweety cartoons 

•                HONG KONG PHOOEY, star of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the same name 

•                HUCKLEBERRY HOUND, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character

•                HUSH PUPPY, one of Shari Lewis's puppets 

•                JASPER, Brian Griffin's effeminate gay cousin, Family Guy 

•                KEWPIE, comic strip Born Loser 1903-1965 

•                KRYPTO, the superpowered pet dog of Superman, in DC comics

•                LADYBIRD, the Hills' pet bloodhound, in King of the Hill 

•                LITTLE BROTHER, Mulan's dog in Disney's Mulan 

•                MAGENTA in Blue's Clues

•                MARC ANTONY, Looney Tunes character 

•                MARMADUKE, a Great Dane with an eponymous daily comic strip 

•                MCGRUFF, cartoon crime fighter 1896-1944

•                MENCHI, a Chow Chow, pet and "emergency ration" of Excel in Excel Saga

•                MOCHI, an Akita Inu puppy who sporadically appears in the online graphic novels Goldenbird by Ainur Elmgren. Mochi’s name refers to a traditional Japanese rice cake, which is often white, soft and round. A cute variation of mochi is spotted with black beans and known as mamemochi.

•                MUTTLEY, Dick Dastardly's sidekick in Wacky Races, Dastardly and Muttley

•                MR. PEABODY, from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show 

•                ODIE, comic strip Garfield 1914-1999

•                OTTO, comic strip Beetle Bailey 1921-1991

•                PENNY DOG, a friend of Minnie Mouse 

•                PERO, the cyborg dog of Higeoyaji in the manga Astro Boy 

•                PLUTO, Disney character, a dog with dog characteristics 

•                POCHACCO, friend of Hello Kitty 

•                POOCH, a minor character in “Sinfest” 

•                RADAR, the Hound Supreme (a pastiche of Krypto, from Alan Moore's revisionism of Supreme) 

•                REDDY, of Hanna-Barbera's Ruff and Reddy 

•                REN HÖEK, the asthma-hound Chihuahua in Ren and Stimpy 

•                REX, from Rex the Runt 

•                ROBOWAN, friend of Hello Kitty 

•                ROCKY, main character in Swedish comic Rocky 

•                ROOBARB, title character of a British cartoon series 

•                ROSEBUD, the basselope (Basset hound/Antelope mix) in Berkeley Breathed's comic strip

•                RUFF, comic strip Dennis the Menace 1893-1949 

•                RUFF, comic strip Hi and Lois 1920-1999 

•                SAM, Sheepdog, adversary of Ralph Wolf from Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf (Looney Tunes)

•                SAMSON, from the Belgian Samson and Gert television series 

•                SANDY, Little Orphan Annie's dog (known for saying "Arf") 

•                SANTA'S LITTLE HELPER, from The Simpsons 

•                SATCHEL, Pooch in Get Fuzzy 

•                SCAMP, Disney character, a puppy born to the dogs Lady and the Tramp 

•                SCOOBY-DOO, A Great Dane with cropped ears

•                SCOOBY-DUM, A Great Dane with cropped ears

•                SCRAPPY-DOO, Scooby-Doo's nephew

•                SLINKY, in Disney's Toy Story 

•                SNERT, Hagar's dog in Dik Browne's comic strip Hagar the Horrible 

•                SNOOPY, in Peanuts 

•                SNOWY, in The Adventures of Tintin 

•                SPARKY, the gay dog from South Park 

•                SPIKE, in comic strip Peanuts 1896-1963

•                SPIKE, or Butch, bulldog from the Tom and Jerry cartoons

•                SPIKE, the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies 

•                SPIKE, the family dog in Rugrats 

•                SPOT, the dog, UK cartoon character 

•                SPOTTY DOG, a Dalmatian string puppet in The Woodentops on BBC 

•                TATTY OLDBITT, the Sailors' Friend, in The Perishers 

•                TRIUMPH, the Insult Comic Dog on Late Night with Conan O'Brien 

•                UNDERDOG, superhero from the cartoon series by the same name

•                WANNYAN, (Bow-Meow in English version) from the anime series Da! Da! Da! aka. UFO Baby 

•                WILE E. COYOTE (a coyote) in the Road Runner cartoon 

•                WILEWOLF, a tramp wolf from anime Maple Town Stories