I’m getting a new pup today and I want to name him something bookish..help!
I’m getting a new pup today and I want to name him something bookish…help!!!
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What type of dog?
How about naming after a famous author or a particular author you like such as Hawthorne, Dickens, King, Austen, Woolf, etc. what kind of puppy? Post pics please!
Ooh I like the name Dickens
LOL! Woolf, for a puppy!!!!
Darcy
Sherlock
Dickins
Holden
Horatio (a loyal & literary best friend)
Watson would be a good name ?
Keats
Antoine
Winston. Idk why.
Atticus, from, To Kill A Mockingbird!
I second Atticus!
Thoreau
Scout
Froto
Lou or Will! 🙂 Me Before You Auggie from Wonder!
Scout?
Buck, from The Call of the Wild
Fenrys from ToG but also has a wolfish reference! Post pics!
Ponyboy- The Outsiders
Bronte
Toto
Atticus
Shakespeare, Watson, Marple, Reacher, Mr.Darcy, Rhett
Louis – boy
Zoe – girl
Dickens
How about a part of a book? Title, author, spine, page, cover or jacket ❤️?
Ooohhh Page is a great name!
Wilde
Yes! Wishbone!
Rhysand
Darsy
NOVEL????
Dickens
Honestly, I’ve given it tons of thought and I’d pick something from a book that stood out in my mind. Personally, for a girl, the name Mayfair pops for me. For a boy, the name Thorne.
Baskerville. ?
Colonel Brandon
Darcy
A Germain Shepherd! Haven’t picked him up yet but when i do I’ll post a pic!
Bram
Marley
Patterson for James.
Harry
You guys are awesome all of them are great names! I really like Dickens, Bram, Darcy, and Reacher so far! Keep em coming
Pick a favorite author! Like Hemi (for Hemingway) or King (for Stephen King) something like that. Or pick a beloved character’s name.
Ove.
Moriarty!
Strider immediately came to mind after seeing his pic (from LOTR)
Rhyme, Verse,Cover,Title,Plot,Mystery…soooo many options.
Ooh, I agree! He looks like a Strider!
Boo Radley!
I have a friend (who lives in Mississippi) with a cat named Boo Radley.
Scout!
Severus? Sirius? Albus?
Dante
Hemingway. Now that we see him I vote for Dickens. My husband says Orwell.
Our rescue is called Dickens as in “What the ….?”
Scout
My Siamese Fighting fish is called Stanley Kowalski ? (A Streetcar Named Desire)
Dewey
Is a cat
We had a cat named Hamlet once.
Atticus
Grimm?
Kafka?
Puck
Othello. Always can use King for Steven King and Potter for that series. Or Galway for the Discovery of Witches series.
Augustus (Augustus WATERS – TFIOS)
Darcy!
Demi (from Little Women), or Pippin, and then Pip for short. Jude, Bailey, Rain (From Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin), Watson. Pollux and Orion showed up on a list I googled from Harry Potter because I was curious, and those two are from astronomy in addition to being book-ish. 🙂 Or Diago, just short for Santiago, from the Alchemist.
(I wish I had more time to write this comment, but I gotta goooo…)
Mister Dickens
Rincewind
Fitzgerald
Heathcliff
I should mention my shitzu is named Potus !
Defo Scout
What about something derived from one of tour favorite book genres? Like,
Rome- for romance
Thriller
Ishmael
I love Strider!
Beckett
Sirius!
Yoda!
Page. Chap short for chapter. King for SK.
Scout (like from How to kill a mockingbird)
Mr. Darcy
Or Shakespeare that would be so cute!!
Paddington
Dogs learn best with a two syllable name !
Cutie!
Cute!
@Judith he is, most think he’s a big beast, get a bit scared as he’s massive but he’s such a big baby ?
Meggie from the Inkheart trilogy or Matilda from Roald Dahl. If it’s a boy Lestat after the Vampire.
Maybe you should give him a name of a character that is special to you…I don’t know
Gatsby
Dante,
Rowdy
“Hairy Potter”
Heathcliff
Female? Page/Paige
Hagrid if the puppy is a large breed.
Mister Bennett.
Booker
Dogberry ??
My kids say…Giver or Wonder
Wait to see how it is and acts. He/she might just give you an answer
Aslan.
Bilbo
Dickens.
Reader
Sherlock
Watson
Toto
Bilbo
Huck @Deanna
Sherlock
I have a friend that named her 2 pups Lupin and Luna from Harry Potter.
Seneca
Gatsby
Rhett
Sawyer
D’Arcy
Fortinbras or Ananda from the Wrinkle in Time Quintet. Some of my favorite books!
Edward
Book shields; or lib-ro (filipino for book) ???
Watson
Dobby
Hagrid
Remus
Lupin
Shakespeare.
Potter
How about Books?
Page-Turner, and call him Turner.
Harry Pawter
?so cute
Atticas
Apollo – god of knowledge
Tamlin
Watson
From the Sherlock Holmes series?
Yeah 🙂
Fleetfoot
Pip
I named my cat Scout. Other cute literary names of authors: Swift; Eliot; Faulkner; Truman; Willa/Willow; Harper; Lee; Ginsberg…
My cat was Scout too! She’s gone now, but she was the best. 🙂
Awww! Scouts are special ones – quite forthright and curious 😉 Sorry to hear she is gone! ?
It’s been almost ten years now, but I think of her often! We have Rupert and Raymond now, haha.
They sound like quite a pair! 🙂
We’ve had cats named Hamlet, Ophelia, Gertrude (“Trudy”), and Rosencrantz (“Rosie”) and Guildenstern (“Gilda”). Oh … and a Dante.
Oscar, Hemingway, Byron, Arthur, Edgar, Poe, Isaac,
Call him poe
Poe, Chaucer, Bronte, Gatsby, Hawthorne, scout
I like Poe!
What did you name it?
I like Poe too!
not trying to tempt fate but thinking of some of the pictures seen recently, can you imagine catching said dog chewing a book? “Poe get your mouth off of my Poe” lol
@Rochelle Cupid! Our other dog is Blitzen ? I’m going with the reindeer names?
Caprihoso
My mother, who was a university professor, named her dog SOCRATES.
But pronounced like Bill and Ted do
Yes!
Longfellow
Ours was named Frodo
Cujo
@Hannah i love it! So cute!
Bronson
?Thank you!!
Darcy
Pip
Rolo, Rood (The name of the giant badass dog in Malazan Book of the Fallen) Bent (another dog in the same book series), Rex, Roach, Spike, Gear,
Knightly
Heathcliff
Darcy
Atticus
Mr. Darcy
Remus
Awe what’s your puppies name?
We named her Lyla 🙂
tyrion
Neville???
Padfoot
Hemingway
Bracknell or hamlet.
Booker
Booko
Atticus!!!
Mazikeen..
Samwell……GOT
Hodor ? or John Snow, Tarley
Huckleberry, Scout, Rowling, Potter, Hamlet, Caesar, Macbeth,
Dobby
harry xD page :3
I think it depends on YOUR favorite book! I Choose a character from there.
Frodo.
Mary, Pipen, Samwise, Baggins, Padfoot, Remus, Lupin, Roland, Eddie Dean, Sheemie.
OSCAR (Wilde)
Oh my goodness!! You need to get A HUNDRED puppies because ALL of these ideas are FABULOUS!
Be sure to share what name you choose❤️
Atticus
Ryhs
Rocicante
Fred
Hagrid
Scout!
Love this!
Booker T.
Chapter, Indie for Independent authors, Kobo, Comma and any characters you like in books. Drizzt, Polgara, Poirot,
Scout or Atticus
Does he have a name now?
Scout
He will grow into those ears. Just kidding, he is beautiful. Hope you have many happy years together
Atticus
@Linda haha right! Thanks!
@Andi so good looking! Name?
Shazam
So handsome!
@Chris thanks!! He’s a sweetie!
Fang (Harry Potter)
When I hear this name I think of Phyllis Diller. She talked about her husband, Fang.
@Lysa, actually, with the ears for some reason I am thinking Dobby .
Ahh ty @Rochelle she’s called Skye . She’s part husky so she’s small ish. Got the husky prey drive too…makes walking in the forest interesting ???
I went with Sherlock and Watson for my guys
Love it
@Andi i bet! They are fun!
Sherlock
Spine
This has prob been said but heathcliff x
Promo (Then you’ll remember each day when you call him to promote your work)
Kujo