Dog Names That Start With B

Dutch form of Baldwin

An unexpected route to Bonnie.

Norwegian city name heard much more often as a last name than a first.

One way to encourage some cheers for your little one, but not recommended.

Bowman has a lot of winning ingredients: an occupational surname, a cool "Bo" sound, and an archery-related meaning.

Charming Gallic possibility but with some obvious playground problems.

Plausible music hero choice with undertones of Joan Baez's social activist folkie persona.

Sounds too much like buxom.

Unlike the feminine Blanca, this name for some reason seems to put more emphasis on the "blank" aspect.

Buckingham is an English surname, denoting one's ancestors lived in Buckinghamshire county. The place name was firstly Buccingaham, composed of the components inga, meaning "people of," and hamm, the Old English word for "water meadow." Bucc refers to an Anglo-Saxon chieftain named Bucca, who, in theory, settled the land.

An English surname derived from the French place name Beauvais, which in turn comes from the name of an ancient Gaulish tribe, the Bellovaci.

Diminutive of Welsh Maredudd, the original (masculine) form of Meredith.

This word name shines bright and comes with the nickname Bea.

A name that's unusual in that changing the i to a y -- as in Byrd -- makes it more masculine.

Pronounced Beshette, this unfamiliar French appellation sounds fresh and feminine.

A rowdy name nobody ever heard of, till Nick Nolte gave it to his son.

A jaunty English surname which may derive from "betony", the name of a pretty purple-flowering shrub. A famous bearer is British historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes.