Find the best pet name by browsing our list of literary dog names.
- Lorca (poet Federico García)
- Francie (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
- Story
- Gandalf (The Hobbit)
- Kerouac (On the Road)
- Rhett (Gone With the Wind)
- Zora (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
- Marlowe (The Big Sleep)
- Sherman (as in author Alexie)
- Homer
- Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)
- Sherlock (as in Holmes)
- Harry (Harry Potter—for more see 70 Most Unique Dog Names)
- Clifford (The Big Red Dog)
- Lyric
- Baldwin (Another Country and many more)
- Elena (author Ferrante of the Neapolitan novels)
- Hermione (Harry Potter)
- Byron (as in Lord)
- Dashiell (author Hammett)
- Ulysses
- Antonia (My Antonia)
- Fable
- Mowgli (The Jungle Book)
- Poe (as in Edgar Allen)
- Sonnet
- Anais (as in Nin)
- Pablo (as in the poet Neruda)
- Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird)
- Rip Van Winkle (Rip for short?)
- Tennyson (the poet)
- Cullen (Twilight)
- Rumi (the poet)
- Isabel (The House of Spirits and many more)
- Keats
- Ellison (Invisible Man)
- Dalloway (Mrs. Dalloway)
- Bronte (as in the sisters)
- Harper (as in Harper Lee)
- Arya (Game of Thrones)
- Novella
- Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
- Bingley (Pride and Prejudice)
- Gulliver (Gulliver’s Travels)
- Matilda (Matilda)
- Merlin
- Huckleberry (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
- Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale and many more)
- Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
- Blanche (A Streetcar Named Desire)
- Dante (The Divine Comedy)
- Holden (The Catcher in the Rye)
- Wilder (The Little House on the Prairie)
- Haruki (famed author Murakami)
- Pippi (Pippi Longstocking)
- Ophelia (Hamlet)
- Truman (In Cold Blood)
- Eloise (Eloise at the Plaza)
- Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
- Whitman (Leaves of Grass and more)
- Balzac
- Maya (as in Angelou)
- Katniss (The Hunger Games)
- Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
- Bram (Dracula)