Dog Names from Literature
- Marley (Marley and Me)
- Buck (Call of the Wild)
- Ghost (Game of Thrones)
- Nero (The St. Bernard in Laura Ingalls Wilder's The First Four Years)
- Jenny (Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life)
- Charkie (Curious George)
- Bullseye (Oliver Twist)
- Snowy (The Adventures of Tintin)
- Jock (Jock of the Bushveld)
- Toby (Sherlock Holmes)
- Orson (The black Labrador retriever in Dean Koontz's novels Seize the Night and Fear Nothing)
- Prince (Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew)
- Shep (Almanzo's shepherd dog in These Happy Golden Years)
- Boots (Thy Servant a Dog by Rudyard Kipling)
- Lad (Lad, A Dog)
- Tock (Watchdog of the Phantom Tollbooth)
- Clifford (The beloved big red dog)
- Nana (The Newfoundland dog in Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie)
- Cyril (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
- Einstein (Watchers by Dean Koontz)
- Boyd (Kathy Reich's novels)
- Max (How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
- Hank (Novels by John Erickson)
- Timmy (The Famous Five series of books by Enid Blyton)
- Pickles (Ginger and Pickles)
- Pilot (Mr. Rochester’s dog in Jane Eyre)
- Nop (The Border Collie, from the novel Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig)
- Leo (Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones)
- Toto (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
- Huan (The Silmarillion)
- Duke (Penrod: His Complete Story by Booth Tarkington)
- Ribsy (Companion of Henry Huggins)
- What-a-Mess (Afghan puppy in a series of children's books by Frank Muir)
- Fang (The lumbering boarhound in Harry Potter)
- Fluffy (from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)
- Perdita & Pongo (The Hundred and One Dalmatians)
- Duchess (The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan)
- Sirius (A 1944 science fiction novel by the British philosopher and author Olaf Stapledon)
- White Fang and Kiche (White Fang by Jack London)
- Scupper (The Sailor Dog)
- Banga (Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov)
- Top (Jules Verne's Mysterious Island)
- Lassie (A collie, from the novel Lassie Come Home)
- Jack (Little House on the Prairie)
- Laska (Levin’s hunting dog in Anna Karenina)
- Jip (David Copperfield)
- Sharik (The dog/man in Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog)
- Snitter (The Plague Dogs)
- Yeller (Old Yeller)
- Shiloh (Shiloh)
- Yellow Dog Dingo (Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories)
- Old Dan and Little Ann (Where the Red Fern Grows)
- Cujo (The St. Bernard in the novel by Stephen King)
- Buddy / Toby / Bailey / Ellie / Bear (A Dog’s Purpose)
Dog Names from Mythology
- Diana (In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of hunting)
- Garm (A four-eyed dog that guarded Helheim in Norse mythology)
- Vulcan (The god of fire in Roman mythology)
- Sirius (In Greek mythology, and star in Canis Major)
- Siren (In Greek mythology, the Sirens were dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors)
- Pluto (The ruler of the underworld in classical mythology)
- Luna (In ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon)
- Attis (Phrygian god of vegetation)
- Nike (The goddess of victory in Greek mythology)
- Argos (Odysseus's dog in Greek Mythology)
- Callisto (Was a nymph, or the daughter of King Lycaon)
- Apollo (The god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more)
- Zeus (In ancient Greek religion, chief deity of the pantheon, a sky and weather god)
- Pegasus (The winged horse in Greek Mythology)
- Saur (A dog that was "king" of Norway for three years during the 11th century AD.)
- Flora (In Roman mythology, Flora is a Sabine-derived goddess of flowers and of the season of spring)
- Hermes (The god of trade, heraldry, merchants, commerce, roads, thieves, trickery, sports, travelers, and athletes in Ancient Greek mythology)
- Hera (Wife of Zeus and queen of the ancient Greek gods, represented the ideal woman and was goddess of marriage and the family)
- Titan (In Greek mythology, any of the children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth) and their descendants.)
- Athena (Goddess of wisdom, war and the crafts, and favourite daughter of Zeus)
- Pandora (In Greek mythology Pandora was the first mortal woman who was formed out of clay by the gods)
- Loki (Loki, in Norse mythology, a cunning trickster who had the ability to change his shape and sex)
- Vesta (The virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion)
- Juno (Juno was an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counselor of the state)
- Pax (Roman goddess of peace)
- Terra (A goddess of the earth)
- Bran (Fionn mac Cumhail's hound in Irish Mythology)
- Nyx (Greek goddess of the night)
- Victoria (In ancient Roman religion, was the personified goddess of victory)
- Hecuba (In Greek mythology, the Queen of Troy, turned into a fierce dog)
- Spartan (A native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta)
- Aura (The Titan goddess of the breeze and the fresh, cool air of early morning)
- Atlas (In Greek mythology, Atlas was a Titan condemned to hold up the celestial heavens for eternity after the Titanomachy)
- Eris (The Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord)
- Aurora (The Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology)
- Poseidon (The god of the sea)
- Aries (He is one of the Twelve Olympians, the son of Zeus and Hera.)
- Neptune (The god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion)
- Artemis (The goddess of the wilderness, the hunt and wild animals, and fertility)
- Cerberus (The hound of Hades in Greek mythology)
- Cabal (King Arthur's dog)
- Fauna (Fauna was the Roman goddess of prophetic goddess of animals, wildlife, fertility and spring)
- Nox (The Greek goddess of the night)
- Pan (The god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs)
- Hercules (He was the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles)
- Achilles (A Greek hero of the Trojan War)
- Lima (In Roman mythology, Lima was the goddess of thresholds)
