Dog Names That Start With E

Once, believe it or not, seemed more stylish than Irma.

Eleven didn't feel more namelike than any other number...until the (female) "Stranger Things" character came along. Now it seems like a possibility - albeit a rare one - for both sexes. Other associations include the number of players in a football team, and Apollo 11, the spacecraft of the first moon landing.

A word that's been used, very infrequently, as a name for hundreds of years. Interesting sound and meaning.

English surname used as one of the middles for Boris Becker's son Amadeus.

An Edwardian coinage from the Welsh word for gold, plus the suffix -wen.

Fairly rare Spanish name, found as a character in one of the Oz books. One of those

Earlene is even more out of style than Earl. These are among the names that have not been revived ala the Hundred Year Rule.

Fur names. We don't think so.

Elf is an adorable nickname for the otherwise-clunky Elfrida or Elfrieda. Elf was used for the tragic sister in Miriam Toews' novel All My Puny Sorrows.

The Icelandic transcription of Elin, closer in sound to Ellen.