6000+ Dog Names

The y makes it seem more like a name and less like an animal, but it's still not as appealing as several Leo choices.

A Top 1000 pick for girls, but rising among baby boys as well.

Kiaria is pretty but sure to prove confusing given all the more familiar Kiara and Keira variations out there.

A name that works until your daughter is, say, six.

Five girls were given the name Perrine last year. More modern-sounding are Perrin, Perry, or even Petra.

Refers to one of the seven sacred rivers of India.

The name of the Inuit goddess of the sea, marine animals, and the underworld. There is also a dwarf planet in the outer solar system called 90377 Sedna, discovered in 2003 and named after the goddess because: "Our newly discovered object is the coldest, most distant place known in the Solar System, so we feel it is appropriate to name it in honor of Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea, who is thought to live at the bottom of the frigid Arctic Ocean."

An appealing name almost unknown in our culture but with roots in several others; worldlier than cousins Celia and Delia.

If Portia can become Porsche, then Apollo can morph into Polo -- the imprint of designer Ralph Lauren.

A bit too bad-boy (think bars, beer, Harley) for us, as well as being the name of a grain.

Son of Irving.

This Anglicized spelling of Irish Aislinn or Aisling has enjoyed some popularity in the US as an updated Ashley.

Biblical names including the letter Z and those ending in -el are a big 2020s trend in the US, and Azael is one such name. It entered the Top 1000 in 2021 and in a recent count, was given to 380 boys in a single year.

Lovely entry into the tree name genre, joining Juniper, Oak, and Willow.

Mysterious.

If you want a pan-Scandinavian name with energy and style that could have been a winner, if not for the sound-alike water filtration company Brita.

It's difficult to imagine anyone using the first name Jonesy -- and in fact, in the most recent US tally, there were nearly 100 babies named Jones but none named Jonesy. Still, this is a name that many people with Jones for a name, last or first, end up being known by, and as a nickname, it's sorta cute in a Skip, Chip, Bitsy kind of way.

One of the designer baby names -- Chanel and Gucci are others -- that have appeared in this era of branding everything from your purse to your offspring.

Relic of a past period of French favorites, out to pasture with Claudette and Paulette.

This French word for star sounds like even more of a celebrity-worthy choice than Star or Esther or Estella or Stella. But count on English speakers who never took high school French to stumble over the pronunciation.