Hunting Dog Names

This is a name you get stuck with, not (we hope) one your parents choose for you.

North's image and gender status was irrevocably changed when Kim Kardashian and Kanye West announced it as the name of their newborn daughter. But why not? West is firmly established as a name, Easton is coming up strong, and North has a nice solid sound as well -- certainly as appropriate for either gender. South, though, not so much.

Though Davy Crockett is a childhood hero, a frontiersman, soldier, politician, congressman and prolific storyteller. But be aware that "crock" is American slang for a lot of nonsense or something broken.

This upbeat, friendly surname name has appeared on television's Battlestar Galactica a handful of cartoons, and on a literary note, a character in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Sports fans might think of Boomer Esiason, the NFL quarterback turned color commentator. He's not the only athlete to answer to the upbeat nickname.

Popular for pets, not baby boys.

Brooke variation – or is the other way around? – that makes it more a nature name, less an eighties-style androgynous name.

With geographical features like Savannah and Sierra and increasingly getting the baby-name treatment, could icy Tundra also see some use? It's only appeared six times on the Social Security rankings, all in the 1960s and 70s.

Now that Bear is becoming a hot name, can Grizzly be far behind? A handful of baby boys did get this name last year in the US.

Coined in the 1940s: an acronym of "radio detection and ranging".

After Dallas, Austin, and Houston, the new cowboy on the block. Old-school Western nickname: Tex.

General as a name sounds more like a military rank than another word for "widespread". You may find your little General ruling the household.

This snappy nickname may remind some of the 1985 Chevy Chase movie of the same name.