Best Female Dog Names
This list of famous names from literature. For a more general list, featuring 300 of the best female dog names on the site, check out Best Girl Dog Names.
Welcome to our best-selling list of female puppy names!
Here we list names taken from some of the best-selling books in history, from Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, Stephen King right through to Harry Potter.
The world of literature has thrown up some memorable characters with some great names, and we've listed many of them right here on this page.
So pick your favorite book, pick your favorite fictional heroine (or villain), some of the best female dog names are on the lists below.
We've selected a few to get you started:
BOO: Arthur "Boo" Radley from To Kill A Mockingbird
BLUEBELL: One of Richard Adams' rabbits from Watership Down
JILLY: Author Jilly Cooper
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| AGATHA |
Best selling mystery author Agatha
Christie |
| ALICE |
Alice Through The Looking Glass by
Lewis Carroll |
| ALMONDINE |
Family pet from The Story of Edgar
Sawtelle |
| AREIL |
Character from Shakespeare's The
Tempest |
| AUGIE |
Title character from The Adventures of
Augie March |
| AUGUSTUS |
Augustus McCrae from Lonesome Dove |
| BABBITT |
Title character from the novel by
Sinclair Lewis |
| BEATRIX |
Beatrix Potter, reknowned children's
author |
| BECKETT |
Irish writer and poet Samuel Beckett |
| BIG EARS |
Noddy's best friend from the
children's books by Enid Blyton |
| BINX |
Binx Bolling from The Moviegover by
Walker Percy |
| BLUEBELL |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
| BLYTON |
Enid Blyton, bestselling children's
author |
| BOO |
Arthur "Boo" Radley from To Kill A
Mockingbird |
| BOOTS |
Character from Thy Servant a Dog by
Rudyard Kipling |
| BROCK |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
| BRODIE |
Title character from The Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie |
| BRONTE |
Sisters Charlotte, Emily & Anne
Bronte |
| BULLSEYE |
Bull Terrier from Oliver Twist by
Charles Dickens |
| CAMUS |
Author Albert Camus |
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| CAPOTE |
Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood |
| CELIE |
From The Color Purple by Alice Walker |
| CHASE |
Crime writer James Hadley Chase |
| CHAUCER |
Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The
Cantebury Tales |
| CHEE CHEE |
Character from Doctor Doolittle by
Hugh Lofting |
| CHEKHOV |
Author Anton Chekhov |
| CHRISTIE |
Agatha Christie, bestselling crime
fiction author |
| CLANCY |
Author Tom Clancy |
| CLARISSA |
Clarissa Dalloway from Mrs Dalloway by
Virginia Wolf |
| CLAUDINE |
From the novel Claudine at School |
| CLOVER |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
| COBWEB |
A fairy from Shakespeare's A Midsummer
Night's Dream |
| CRAB |
Only dog to appear in a Shakespeare
play (Two Gentlemen of
Verona) |
| CUJO |
Rabid St. Bernard from Stephen King's
novel of the same name |
| DANTE |
Dante Alighieri Italian poet of the
middle ages |
| DEFOE |
Daniel Defoe, author of Last of the
Mohican's |
| DICKENS |
Author Charles Dickens |
| DINGO |
Dog from Jules Verne's Dick Sand, A
Captain at Fifteen |
| EMILY |
Poet Emily Dickinson |
| EPI |
Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar
Sawtelle |
| ESSAY |
Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar
Sawtelle |
| FINCH |
Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar
Sawtelle |
| FIVER |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
| FLEMING |
Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond |
| FLORA |
Flora Poste from Cold Comfort Farm |
| FLUKE |
Man reincarnated as a dog in the novel
by James Herbert |
| FLY |
Collie from the novel The Sheep-Pig by
Dick King-Smith |
| FLYTE |
Sebastian Flyte from Bridshead
Revisited |
| FORSYTHE |
Author Frederick Forsythe |
| FORTE |
Stray dog from the Story of Edgar
Sawtelle |
| FRIDAY |
Robinson Crusoe's manservant from the
novel by Daniel Defoe |
| GARP |
T.S. Garp from The World According to
Garp |
| GASPODE |
Unusually clever dog in The Discworld
novels by Terry
Pratchett |
| GATSBY |
Subject of the novel The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| GEORGIA |
Canine character from the Bunnicula
books by James Howe |
| GRETEL |
Grimm Brothers fairy tale Hansel and
Gretel |
| GRISHAM |
John Grisham, legal drama author |
| HAILEY |
Author Arthur Hailey |
| HAMLIN |
The Pied Piper of Hamlin, from the
children's fairy tale |
| HANA |
From The English Patient by Michael
Ondaatjie |
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| HARDY |
The Hardy Boys adventure books by
Franklin W. Dixon |
| HARPER |
Author Harper Lee |
| HASTINGS |
Hercule Poirot's sidekick Captain
Arthur Hastings |
| HAZEL |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
| HEMINGWAY |
Author Ernest Hemingway |
| HIGGINS |
Author Jack Higgins |
| HOLDEN |
Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in
the Rye |
| HOLLY |
Holly Golightly from Breakfast at
Tiffany's |
| HOTSPUR |
Harry Hotspur from Shakespeare's Henry
IV |
| HUXLEY |
Author, humanist and pacifist Aldous
Huxley |
| IBSEN |
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ipsen |
| JEMINA |
The Tale of Jemina Puddle-Duck by
Beatrix Potter |
| JERRY |
Hero of Jack London's novel Jerry, Dog
of the Islands |
| JILLY |
Author Jilly Cooper |
| JIP |
Canine character from Doctor Doolittle
by Hugh Lofting |
| JK |
JK Rowling, author of the Harry Porter
books |
| JUNO |
Character from Shakespeare's The
Tempest |
| KAFKA |
Author Franz Kafka |
| KAZAK |
The Hound of Space The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut |
| KEP |
Collie from The Tale of Jemina
Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter |
| KEROUAC |
Author Jack Kerouac |
| KIMBALL |
Kimball O'Hara from Kim by Rudyard
Kipling |
| KINGSLEY |
Author Kingsley Amis |
| KIPLING |
Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle
Book |
| KOONTZ |
Author Dean Koontz |
| KURT |
Author Kurt Vonnegut |
| L'AMOUR |
Western author, Louis L'Amour |
| LASKA |
Canine character from Anna Karenina by
Leo Tolstoy |
| LESTAT |
Vampire from the novels by Ann Rice |
| LOLITA |
Title character of the novel by Nabakov |
| LONDON |
Jack London, author of White Fang |
| LOONY |
Black Spaniel in Enid Blyton's Barney
Mystery series |
| LOOP |
Novel about wolves by Nicholas Evans
(The Loop) |
| MADGIE |
Canine character from Nikolai Gogol's
Diary of a Madman |
| MAISIE |
From What Maisie Knew by Henry James |
| MARCEL |
From Rememberance of Things Past by
Marcel Proust |
| MARLOWE |
Philip Marlowe from The Big Sleep by
Raymond Chandler |
| MCDUFF |
Macbeth's nemesis from Shakespeare's
play |
| MCGEE |
Travis McGee, detective created by
John D. McDonald |
| MCNAB |
Andy McNab, writer of military fiction |
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| MIMSIE |
Character from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
by Ian Flemming |
| MOLL |
Title character of Daniel Defoe's Moll
Flanders |
| MOLLY |
Molly Bloom from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| MORIATY |
Dean Moriaty from On The Road |
| MORSE |
Detective from the Colin Dexter novels |
| NABAKOV |
Russian-American author Vladimir
Nabokov |
| NANA |
Newfoundland from the story Peter Pan
by J.M Barrie |
| NANCY |
Nancy Drew from the Nancy Drew
mysteries |
| NEDDY |
Neddy Merrilll from The Swimmer by
John Cheever |
| NELL |
Little Nell Trent heroine of Charles
Dickens' Old Curiosity
Shop |
| NEMO |
Main character in Jules Verne's 20,
000 Leagues under the Sea |
| NIGHTSHADE |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
| NODDY |
Character from the children's books by
Enid Blyton |
| NORA |
Nora Charles from The Thin Man novels |
| OPAL |
Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar
Sawtelle |
| OPHELIA |
Sweetheart of Hamlet in Shakespeare's
play |
| ORWELL |
George Orwell author of Animal Farm
and 1984 |
| OY |
Dog-like creature from Stephen King's
The Dark Tower |
| PADDINGTON |
Paddington Bear, from the children's
stories by Michael Bond |
| PAN |
Peter Pan from the J.M. Barrie stories |
| PETULA |
Pug from the Molly Moon series |
| PICKLES |
Terrier from Ginger and Pickles by
Beatrix Potter |
| PILGRIM |
Billy Pilgrim from Kurt Vonnegut's
Slaughterhouse Five |
| PIP |
From Charles Dickens Great Expectations |
| PIPKIN |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
| PLATO |
Poet of Ancient Greece |
| POE |
Writer and poet Edgar Allen Poe |
| POLLYANNA |
Eternally optimistic character from
the book by Eleanor H.
Porter |
| POUT |
Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar
Sawtelle |
| PUZZLE |
Character from the novel The
Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis |
| RABBIT |
Rabbit Angstrom from Rabbit Run by
John Updike |
| RAMSEY |
Mrs Ramsey from To the Lighthouse by
Virginia Woolf |
| RAVEN |
Edgar Allan Poe's poem, The Raven |
| REBUS |
Scottish detective from the novels by
Ian Rankin |
| RIPLEY |
Tom Ripley from The Talented Mr Ripley |
| ROWF |
Black mongrel from The Plague Dogs by
Richard Adams |
| RUMBO |
Man reincarnated as a red setter in
Fluke by James Herbert |
| SABBATH |
Micky Sabbath of Sabbath's Theater |
| SALINGER |
Author J.D. Salinger |
| SAM |
Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon |
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| SAWYER |
Title character from The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer by Mark
Twain |
| SCAMPER |
Golden Spaniel in Enid Blyton's Secret
Seven |
| SCOUT |
Scout Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird |
| SEARCHLIGHT |
Dog from children's novel Stone Fox by
John Reynolds Gardiner |
| SEYMOUR |
Seymour Glass from Nine Stories by
J.D. Salinger |
| SHARIK |
Canine character from Heart of a Dog
by Mikhail Bulgakov |
| SHELDON |
Author Sidney Sheldon |
| SILVER |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
| SLINKSTER |
Canine character from Francesca Lia
Block's novel Weetzie Bat |
| SMILEY |
George Smiley from the John LeCarre
spy novels |
| SNITTER |
Black & White Terrier from The
Plague Dogs by Richard
Adams |
| SPARK |
Author Muriel Spark |
| SPILLANE |
Mickey Spillane, creator of Mike Hammer |
| STEINBECK |
Pultizer prize winning author, John
Steinbeck |
| SUESS |
Children's author Dr. Suess |
| SULA |
Sula Peace from Sula by Toni Morrison |
| SWEETHEART |
One of King Lear's dogs from
Shakespeare's King Lear |
| TENNESSEE |
Playwright Tennessee Williams |
| TENNYSON |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate |
| TESS |
From Thomas Hardy's Tess of the
d'Urbenvilles |
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| THISTLE |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
| THUNDER |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
| TIGER |
Dog from Poe's The Narrative of Arthur
Gordon Pym of
Nantucket |
| TINDER |
Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar
Sawtelle |
| TOAD |
From Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the
Willows |
| TOGO |
Bull Terrier from the Nancy Drew books |
| TOLKIEN |
J.R.R. Tolkein, author of Lord of the
Rings |
| TOLSTOY |
Russian author Leo Tolstoy |
| TOO-TOO |
Character from Doctor Doolittle by
Hugh Lofting |
| TOP |
Canine character from The Mysterious
Island by Jules Verne |
| TREY |
Dog of King Lear from Shakespeare's
play |
| TRICKI WOO |
Pekingese from All Creatures Great and
Small by James Herriot |
| TRIFFID |
Alien species in Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham |
| TWAIN |
Mark Twain, renowned author and animal
lover |
| TWILIGHT |
Vampire novels by Stephenie Meyer |
| TWIST |
Title character from Charles Dickens'
Oliver Twist |
| UMBRA |
Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar
Sawtelle |
| WHAT-A-MESS |
Afghan Hound pup from the children's
books by Frank Muir |
| WIGGINS |
Dog from The Little White Horse by
Elizabeth Goudge |
| WILLOW |
One of Richard Adams' rabbits from
Watership Down |
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| WINN-DIXIE |
Canine character Because of Winn-Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo |
| WOLF |
Farmer Maggot's guard dog The Lord of
the Rings |
| WORDSWORTH |
Poet William Wordsworth |
| YEATS |
Poet & dramatist William Butler
Yeats |
| YOSSARIAN |
Character from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 |
| ZAZIE |
From Zazie in the Metro |
| ZENO |
From Italo Svevo's Confessions of Zeno |
| ZHIVAGO |
Title character from Boris Pasternak's
novel |
| ZORA |
Author Zora Neale Hurston |
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