Dog Names That Start With D

Too much teasing potential for an English speaker.

Once exclusively male name, Daryl Hannah made the Darrell spelling just as appropriate for girls -- and maybe even more feminine than masculine these days.

Strictly for a Vegas baby.

A Damian relative and the name of an ancient Spanish pope with modern possibilities.

Top 100 choice in Italy.

Gentle and southern-inflected, redolent of the North Carolina landscape.

Cool, musical modern choice, especially as a middle name.

Drover, an ancient occupational surname, is right in step with today's styles and would make a distinctive choice. Drover and brothers are fresh updates of such now-widely-used names as Carter and Cooper.

A gilded name that calls to mind the legendary lost city of El Dorado, the promise of which drew conquistadors into the rainforests and mountains of South America. But the mythical city has never been found.

Has the two-syllable sound so popular for boys, though adding an apostrophe -- and turning it into D'Anton -- changes the name entirely.

Even less popular than the rarely-used Deangelo. This spelling is likely helped by singer-songwriter and record producer D'Angelo.

A common Irish surname that's seldom heard as a first name, but has an appealing meaning.

Some parents are turning to rivers and other bodies of water in the search for undiscovered place-names, and this has the feel of a Viennese waltz.

An uncommon Hebrew name that can still sometimes be heard in Jewish communities.

Believe it or not, this was a fairly common appellation in early New England, interpreted not in the sexual sense, but more in terms of desiring salvation. In modern times, the French name Desiree, pronounced dehz-ih-ray, would be more acceptable.

Attractive placename/surname with a somewhat aristocratic feel.