Best Male Dog Names

Best Male Dog Names

This list of famous names from literature. For a more general list, featuring 300 of the best male dog names on the site, check out Best Boy Dog Names

Welcome to our best-selling list of 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 hero (or villain), some of the best male dog names are on the lists below.

Here's a few to get things going:

BOOTS: Character from Thy Servant a Dog by Rudyard Kipling

COBWEB: A fairy from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

FLY: Collie from the novel The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith

MCGEE: Travis McGee, detective created by John D. McDonald

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AJAX Character from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
ARTEMIS Artemis Fowl, book series by Eion Colfer
ARTURO Title character from Arturo's Island
ATTICUS Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird
AUGIE Title character from The Adventures of Augie March
AUGUSTUS Augustus McCrae from Lonesome Dove
BABBITT Title character from the novel by Sinclair Lewis
BANQUO Character from Shakespeare's play Macbeth
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
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
BUCK Main character in Jack London's Call of the Wild
BULLSEYE Bull Terrier from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
BUSTER Scottish Terrier from Enid Blyton's Five Find-Outers

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BYRON Poet Lord Byron
CAMUS Author Albert Camus
CAPOTE Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood
CHANDLER Author Raymond Chandler
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
CLANCY Author Tom Clancy
CLOVER One of Richard Adams' rabbits from Watership Down
COBWEB A fairy from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
CONAN Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes
CONRAD Author Joseph Conrad
CORMAC Pulitzer prize winning author, Cormac McCarthy
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
CYRANO French dramatist Cyrano de Bergerac
DANTE Dante Alighieri Italian poet of the middle ages
DASHIELL Author Dashiell Hammett
DAWG Canine character in the Bunnicula books by James Howe





DEFOE Daniel Defoe, author of Last of the Mohican's
DEXTER Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse novels
DICKENS Author Charles Dickens
DINGO Dog from Jules Verne's Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
DIRK Dirk Pitt, character created by Clive Cussler
DYLAN Author & poet Dylan Thomas
ELLIOTT Author T.S. Elliot
ENDER Hero of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
EPI Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
ESSAY Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
EUGENE Eugene Henderson from Henderson the Rainking
FAGIN Villain from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist
FANG Farmer Maggot's guard dog from The Lord of the Rings
FENTON From Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
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
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

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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
GREGOR Gregor Samsa from Kafka's The Metamorphosis
GRIP Farmer Maggot's guard dog in The Lord of the Rings
GRISHAM John Grisham, legal drama author
GULLIVER Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
GUNTER Author Gunter Grass
HAILEY Author Arthur Hailey
HAMLET Title character from Shakespeare's play
HAMLIN The Pied Piper of Hamlin, from the children's fairy tale
HAMMER Mike Hammer, fictional detective created by Mickey Spillane
HANK Cowdog from Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson
HANSEL Grimm Brothers fairy tale Hansel and Gretel
HARDY The Hardy Boys adventure books by Franklin W. Dixon
HAROLD Dog that appeared in the Bunnicula books by James Howe
HARPER Author Harper Lee



HASTINGS Hercule Poirot's sidekick Captain Arthur Hastings
HEATHCLIFF From Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
HEMINGWAY Author Ernest Hemingway
HERCULE Agatha Christie's brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot
HERO Character from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
HIGGINS Author Jack Higgins
HOLDEN Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye
HOLMES Crime solving genius created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
HOMER Poet of Ancient Greece
HORATIO Author horatio Alger
HORTON Dr Suess, Horton Hatches the Egg
HOTSPUR Harry Hotspur from Shakespeare's Henry IV
HOWIE Dog that appeared in the Bunnicula books by James Howe
HUCKLEBERRY Title character from Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
HUGO Author Victor Hugo
HUXLEY Author, humanist and pacifist Aldous Huxley
IBSEN Norwegian playwright Henrik Ipsen
ICHABOD Ichabod Crane from Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
IVANHOE Title character of the novel by Sir Walter Scott
JEEVES From My Man Jeeves by P.G.Wodehouse

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JERRY Hero of Jack London's novel Jerry, Dog of the Islands
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
JUPITER Character from Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
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
KING Best selling horror author Stephen King
KINGSLEY Author Kingsley Amis
KIPLING Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book
KOONTZ Author Dean Koontz
KURT Author Kurt Vonnegut
KURTZ Character from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
L'AMOUR Western author, Louis L'Amour
LASKA Canine character from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
LEAR King Lear by William Shakespeare
LEO Russian author Leo Tolstoy



LEOPOLD Leopold Bloom from Ulysses by James Joyce
LESTAT Vampire from the novels by Ann Rice
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)
LUTHER Dog from Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
MACBETH Title character from the Shakespeare's play
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
MORIATY Dean Moriaty from On The Road
MORSE Detective from the Colin Dexter novels
MR DARCY Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride & Predjudice by Jane Austen
NABAKOV Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov
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
NERO Nero Wolfe, fictional detective created by Rex Stout

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NIGHTSHADE One of Richard Adams' rabbits from Watership Down
NODDY Character from the children's books by Enid Blyton
OPAL Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
ORSON Black Labrador featured in two novels by Dean Koontz
ORWELL George Orwell author of Animal Farm and 1984
OSKAR Osker Matzerath from The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
OTHELLO Title character in Shakespeare's Othello
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
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
PUZZLE Character from the novel The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
QUENTIN Quentin Compson from The Sound and the Fury
RABBIT Rabbit Angstrom from Rabbit Run by John Updike
RAMSEY Mrs Ramsey from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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RAVEN Edgar Allan Poe's poem, The Raven
REBUS Scottish detective from the novels by Ian Rankin
RHETT Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind
RIPLEY Tom Ripley from The Talented Mr Ripley
ROLAND Gunslinger in Stephen King's Dark Tower series
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
SANTIAGO From Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
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
SEBASTIAN Sebastian Flyte from Bridshead Revisited
SEYMOUR Seymour Glass from Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare
SHARIK Canine character from Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
SHELDON Author Sidney Sheldon

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SHERLOCK Sherlock Holmes from the novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
SWEETHEART One of King Lear's dogs from Shakespeare's King Lear
TARZAN From Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
TENNESSEE Playwright Tennessee Williams
TENNYSON Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate
THISTLE One of Richard Adams' rabbits from Watership Down
THOR German Shepherd in the book Thor by Wayne Smith
THUNDER One of Richard Adams' rabbits from Watership Down
TIGER Dog from Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
TIMMY Canine member of the Famous Five by Enid Blyton
TINDER Sawtelle dog from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
TINTIN Hero of the graphic novels by Herge

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TINY TIM Character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carole
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
VIRGIL Roman Poet
WHAT-A-MESS Afghan Hound pup from the children's books by Frank Muir
WIGGINS Dog from The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
WILBUR Adventure writer Wilbur Smith
WILLOW One of Richard Adams' rabbits from Watership Down
WINN-DIXIE Canine character Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

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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
YURI Yuri Zhivago from Dr Zhivago
ZANE Zane Grey, Western author
ZAZIE From Zazie in the Metro
ZENO From Italo Svevo's Confessions of Zeno
ZHIVAGO Title character from Boris Pasternak's novel





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