Great Female Dog Names

This list of Great Female Dog Names features names from great women in history. For a more general list, featuring some of the most popular names on the site, check out our Girl Dog Names Mega-list.

There is a greatness about dogs that defies description.

What better way to celebrate that than to name your female dog after one of the great women of history.

Here are some to get you started:

COCO: Coco Chanel, influential French fashion designer

DORIS: Doris Day, actress, singer and animal rights campaigner

GLADYS: Singer Gladys Knight, 'Empress of Soul'

LORETTA: Loretta Lynn, Country music great

STEFFI: German Steffi Graf, 22x Grand Slam tennis titles

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AGATHA Agatha Christie, the biggest selling author of all time

AGNES Agnes De Mille, American dancer and choreographer

ALETTA Aletta Jacobs, first Dutch woman physician

ALICIA Alicia de Larrocha, Spain's greatest female pianist

ALMA Alma Templeton Moodie, Australian violinist

AMELIA Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

AMY Amy Johnson, pioneering English aviatrix set numerous records

ANAIS Anais Nin, French author and journalist

ANGELA Angela Merkel, first woman Chancellor of Germany

ANNIKA Swedish Annika Sorenstam, the most successful female golfer

APHRA Aphra Behn, one of the first English professional female writers

ARETHA Arthea Franklin, 'The Queen of Soul'

AUDREY Audrey Hepburn, actress singer and humanitarian

AYN Ayn Rand, French author (pronounced Ann)

BARBARA Barbara Cartland, biggest selling author of romance novels

BARBEL Barbel Wockel, East German sprinter 4x Olympic champion

BELLA Bella Akhmadulina, one of Russia's greatest poets

BERTHA Austrian Bertha von Suttner, first woman awarded Nobel Prize for Peace

BERYL British Beryl Burton, 7x world champion cyclist

BESS "Good Queen Bess" Queen Elizabeth I of England

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BESSIE Bessie Smith, 'Empress of the Blues'

BETTY Betty Williams, Nobel Prize winner peace campaigner for Northern Ireland

BEVERLY Beverly Johnson, first black model to appear of the cover of Vogue

BILLIE Billie Holiday, 'First Lady of the Blues'

BIRGIT Birgit Nilsson, Swedish dramatic soprano

BRIGITTE Brigitte Bardot, French model/actress and animal rights activist

BRINKLEY Christie Brinkley, one of the world's first supermodels

CJ CJ Walker, first woman to become a self-made millionaire

CARRIE Carrie Chapman, suffragette, President of NAWSA for two terms

CATHERINE "Catherine the Great", Empress of Russia

CELINE Celine Dion, one of the most successful female singers

CHERYL Cheryl Rae Tiegs, successful model of the 70s and 80s

CHRISTINA Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano

CHRISTY Christy Turlington, model known for her Calvin Klein ads

CLARA Clara Wieck, German musician and composer

CLEOPATRA Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt

COCO Coco Chanel, influential French fashion designer

DANIELA Daniela Silivas, Romanian gymnast 3x Olympic champion

DANIELLE Danielle Steel, one of the biggest bestselling authors

DAPHNE Daphne de Maurier, English author and playwright

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DIANA Diana, Princess of Wales known for her charity work

DIAN Dian Fossey, zoologist campaigned to project the gorillas

DOREEN Doreen Spooner, fashion photographer first woman to work in Fleet Street

DORIS Doris Day, actress, singer and animal rights campaigner

DOROTHY Dorothy Hodgkin, awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry

ELEANOR Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States

ELIZABETH Elizabeth Taylor, one of the great beauties of the silver screen

ELLA Ella Baker, leading civil rights and human rights activist

ELLEN Ellen MacArthur, world record for solo yacht trip around the world

ELSA Elsa Beskow, Swedish author of children's books

ELSIE Canadian Elsie MaGill, world's first female aircraft designer

EMILY Emily Dickinson, one of America's greatest poets

EMMYLOU Emmylou Harris, Country music singer and songwriter

ENID British author Enid Blyton, one of the most successful children's author

ETTA Etta James, R&B singer

EVA Eva Peron, First Lady of Argentina

EVE The first woman

EVELYN Evelyn Ashford, 4x Olympic track and field winner

FLORENCE Florence Nightingale, laid the foundation to nursing

FRANCES Frances Crance, mystery author

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FRIDA Frida Kahlo, influential Mexican painter

GABRIELA Gabriela Mistral, first Latin American awarded the Nobel Prize

GALINA Russian Galina Ulanova, one of the greatest ballerinas of all time

GERMAINE Germaine Greer, leading activist in the fight for women's rights

GINA Gina Lollobrigida, one of Italy's most prominent actresses

GLADYS Singer Gladys Knight, 'Empress of Soul'

GOLDA Golda Meir, Israel's first female prime minister, the original 'Iron Lady'

GRETA Greta Garbo, Hollwood legend

HARRIET Harriet Quimby, first woman to fly across the English Channel

HELENA Helena Rubinstein, Polish cosmetic industrialist

HELEN Author Helen Keller, first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree

HOLLY Holly Latimer, one of the few female jazz drummers

INGRID Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress

INDIRA Indira Gandhi, first female prime minister of India

IRIS Iris Murdoch, British author and philosopher

ISABELLA Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon, founder of united Spain

ISADORA Isadora Duncan, American dancer considered the creator of modern dance

JACKIE Jackie Kennedy, First Lady of the United States

JANE Jane Austin, one of the world's most popular authors

JEANNIE French Jeannie Longo, one of the greatest female cyclists of all time

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JOAN Catholic saint Joan of Arc, national heroine of France

JOPLIN Janis Joplin, influential female blues / rock singer

JOSEPHINE Josephine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon I

JUDI Dame Judi Dench, British actress

JULIANA Queen Juliana, one of the Netherlands longest reigning monarchs

KIRI Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano

KATHARINE Katharine Hepburn, 4x Academy Award winning actress

KORNELIA Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer, 4 golds at 1976 Olympic Games

KRISTIN Kristin Otto, German swimmer 6x Olympic champion

KRISTINE American Kristine Heavey, the most capped soccer player of any gender

LANA Lana Turner, one of the most popular actresses of all time

LARISSA Larissa Latynina, Russian gymnast 9x Olympic champion

LEAH Leah Goldberg, Israeli poet

LEIGH Leigh Douglass Brackett, American sci-fi author and screenwriter

LEISEL Leisel Jones, Australian 2x Olympic swimming champion

LIZ Liz Claiborne, Belgian born fashion designer

LOLA Lola Alvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer

LORETTA Loretta Lynn, Country music great

LOTTE Lotte Herrlich, one of the the most important German photographers

LOUISE Louise Berliawsky Nevelson, American abstract expressionist painter

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LYNLEY Lynley Stuart Dodd, prominent New Zealand children's author

MA Ma Rainey, influential in the developed of Blues music

MADELEINE Madeleine Vionnet, French fashion designer

MAE Mae West, one of the silver screens first sex symbols

MARGARET Margaret Thatcher, first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain

MARGOT English Margot Fonteyn de Arias, one of the finest classical ballet dancers

MARJORY Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American writer and enviromentalist

MARIA Greek-American Maria Callas, renowned soprano

MARIE Marie Curie, first woman awarded Nobel Prize and first person awarded in two fields

MARLENE Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer

MARIAN Marian Montessori, Italian physician and educator

MARTA Marta da Silva, Brazilian soccer player 4x Women's Player of the Year

MARTHA Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States

MARTINA Martina Navratilova, 18 Grand Slam tennis singles titles

MARY Mary Pickford, actress and one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Pictures

MATILDA Mathilda Joslyn Gage, Native America activist and author

MAUDE Queen Maude of Norway, first Queen Consort of Norway

MAYA Russia's Maya Plisetskaya, one of the finest ballerinas of the 20th century

MELANIE Melanie Klein, Austrian psychoanalyst devised techniques in child psychology

MERYL Meryl Streep, one of the finest actress' of all time

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MONTSERRAT Montserrat Caballe Folch, Spanish operatic soprano

NADIA Romanian Nadia Conancei, first Olympic gymnast awarded a perfect 10 score

NADINE Nadine Gordimer, South African awarded Nobel Prize for literature

NATALIE Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer won six Olympic gold medals

NETA Neta Snook, first American woman to run her own flying school

OLGA Olga Korbut, Russian gymnast 4x Olympic champion

OPRAH Oprah Winfrey, host of the highest-rated talk show in US TV history

NELLY Nelly Sachs, popular German poet

PATSY Patsy Cline, acclaimed Country singer

PATTI Adelina Patti, Spanish opera diva

PATRICIA Patricia Berg, 15 major titles in women's golf

PEARL Pearl Buck, first American woman awarded a Nobel Prize

PEGGY Peggy Gail Fleming, American figure skater Olympic champion

PENNY Penny Heyns, South African swimmer only woman to win Olympic 100m/200m

PHYLLIS Phyllis Bernie Spira, South African dancer, awarded title of 'prima ballerina' in 1984

ROBERTA Roberta Lynn Bondar, first Canadian woman astronaut in space

ROSA Rosa Parks, played a significant part in the Civil Right's Movement

ROSALIA Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet

RUTH Ruth Rendall, British author creator of Chief Inspector Wexford

SANDRA Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court

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SARAH Sarah Bernhardt, legendary French stage and early film actress

SELMA Swedish Selma Lagerlof, first woman awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

SHEBA Queen of Sheba, ruled the Kingdom of Sheba

SHELLEY Mary Shelley, British author creator of Frankenstein

SHIRLEY Shirley Jackson, influential American author

SIOMONE Siomone de Beauvior, one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century

SOPHIA Sophia Loren, one of Italy's greatest actresses

SOPHIE Marie-Sophie Germain, French mathematician and philosopher

STEFFI German Steffi Graf, 22x Grand Slam tennis titles

STREISAND Barbra Streisand, one of music biggest female artists

TAMARA Tamara Karsavina, Russian ballet dancer

TANDY Jessica Tandy, the oldest person to win an Academy Award

TERESA Albanian Catholic nun 'Mother Teresa' devoted her life to the poor

TINA Tina Turner 'Queen of Rock n' Roll'

TWIGGY Lesley 'Twiggy' Hornby, the first international supermodel

VERONICA Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown, Olympic 200m champion

VICTORIA Queen Victoria, longest reigning British monarch

VIOLET Violet Archer, Canadian composer and pianist

VIRGINIA Virginia Woolf, one of the foresmost literary figures of the 20th century

WILMA Wilma Rudolph, 3x Olympic golds in track and field

YELENA Russia's Yelena Isinbaeva, considered the greatest pole vaulter of all time