6000+ Dog Names

Pleasant surname connected to humorist James Thurber, with a sound as happy as a baby's gurgle.

Adalee's rise is thanks to the current fashion for all names ada-related. It does have a sweet melodic charm.

Payton and Peyton are both very popular names for girls as well as boys, but Paityn is a spelling variations used almost exclusively for girls.

Surname of a character in Henry James' What Maisie Knew.

More popular than the original form in Puerto Rico.

Natale is the handsome gender-neutral Italian spin on Natalia or Natalie or Noel, traditionally given to babies born on Christmas Day. English speakers might stumble over the pronunciation -- Natalie? Natal? -- but they'll catch on. Babbo Natale is the Italian name for Santa Claus. Natalino is the adorable short form.

Jayce has been trending the last few decades, and while Jaycee may have a more feminine feel it would work for a boy as well.

The word "bricks," name-ified. Rapper Pusha T used this as the middle name for his son, Nigel.

A very accessible Japanese choice, with an evocative meaning.

This variation of Jacey was the name of the gorgeous small-town heroine of Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show.

Ice officially joined the baby name pool when rapper Gucci Mane chose it for his son, born in December 2020. But Ice- names for girls had been trending before then — Icelynn, Icelyn, and Iceland have been climbing up the charts over the past few years. Could we see more icy names in the future? We actually may want to look to the past — nickname-y Icie ranked in the Top 1000 from 1881 to 1913.

Merrit is a spelling variation of the more usual Merritt.

Breton is the term for the people and language of Brittany, a region of northern France with a distinct culture. Breton also might be thought of as a trendy modern invention, taking the midcentury surfer boy Bret or Brett and adding the current favorite boy's name ending -on and turning it into a name all its own. Bretton is a variation.

Mirko is a diminutive version of Miroslav but is now given as a full name.

Charles Schulz adopted Schroeder as a first name for his piano-playing character in the "Peanuts" comic strip. It's a popular German surname derived from Schröder, denoting a tailor or porter or wine or beer.

This artistic surname name derives from a diminutive of Laurence/Lawrence, and was famously borne by the English painter LS Lowry.