Top Puppy Names

Top Puppy Names

This list of Top Puppy Names features famous names from TV. For more general lists, featuring the most popular names on the site, check out Top Girl Puppy Names, and Top Boy Puppy Names.

If you love TV (and who doesn't) then this list, taken from some of the greatest TV shows and most memorable TV characters, may be just the think you're looking for.

From Buffy to Kojak to MacGyver to Ricky Ricardo - we have all the best names for you to choose from.

We've picked out a few to get things going:

COLUMBO: Title character of the 1970s detective show

DAISY DUKE: From The Dukes of Hazzard

HIGGINS: Jonathan Higgins from Magnum P.I.

MCBEAL:Lead character from the series Ally McBeal

So choose your favorite show, your favorite TV hero (or baddie), there are some excellent choices on the list below.

ABADDON Matthew Abaddon from Lost
ABBY Abby Carlton from The Young & the Restless
ALEXIS Alexis Carrington from soap opera Dynasty
ANGELUS Vampire from Buffy and it's spinoff, Angel
ANIMAL Manic drummer of The Muppets
ANN MARIE Character on the 60's TV show That Girl
ANYA Demon from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
ARKWRIGHT From British sitcom Open All Hours
ARTIE Character from The Larry Sanders Show
ATLANTIS Man from Atlantis with Patrick Duffy
AUSTIN 6 Million Dollar Man Steve Austin
AVA Ava Moore from Nip Tuck
BALDRICK Character from the comedy series Blackadder
BARNABY Inspector Tom Barnaby of Midsomer Murders
BARNABY JONES Title character of the 1970s detective show
BARNEY Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother
BART Son of Homer & Marge Simpson
BASIL Basil Fawlty from British series Fawlty Towers
BAYWATCH Popular lifeguard drama series
BEAVIS Juvenile delinquent from Beavis and Butthead

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BELVEDERE Butler from the sitcom Mr. Belvedere
BENNY British comedy, The Benny Hill Show
BENSON Title character from the sitcom Benson
BIANCA Vampire from The Dresden Files
BIG BROTHER TV reality show
BILKO Sergeant Ernie Bilko from the Phil Silvers Show
BING Chandler Bing from Friends
BISCUIT Mother of Brian from Family Guy
BLACKADDER English comedy show with Rowan Atkinson
BOB BARKER Game show host from The Price is Right
BONANZA Classic western series
BONES Character from Star Trek
BONGO Mike Delfino's dog in Desperate Housewives
BOOM BOOM Character from the sitcom All in the Family
BOOMTOWN Action drama series
BOONE Boone Carlyle from Lost
BOZO Clown star of the 1960s children's show
BRADY Comedy series The Brady Bunch
BREE Bree van de Kamp from Desperate Housewives
BROOKE Brooke Logan from The Bold & the Beautiful





BUFFY Buffy the Vampire Slayer
BULL Bull Shannon, baliff from Night Court
BUTTERS Cartman's sidekick in South Park
CAGNEY Cagney & Lacey police drama series
CAINE Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami
CAITLIN Caitlin Ramirez from The Bold & the Beautiful
CALEB Son of Betty Applewhite in Desperate Housewives
CARMELLA Wife of Tony Soprano in The Sopranos
CARRIE Carrie Bradshaw from Sex & the City
CARRINGTON Family from the soap Dynasty
CESAR Cesar Millan TV's Dog Whisperer
CHLOE Chloe Sullivan, friend of Clark Kent in Smallville
CHOI Villain in 24: Series 1
CLEO Dr Cleo Finch from ER
COLBY Dynasty spin-off The Colby's
COLUMBO Detective series starring Peter Falk
CONAN Conan O'Brien, talk show host
CORDELIA Cordelia Chase from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
CORTEZ Ana Lucia Cortez in Lost
COSBY Sitcom, The Cosby Show

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CRACKER English police drama series
CROCKER Bobby Crocker from Kojak
CROCKETT Sonny Crockett from detective series Miami Vice
CRUSHER Beverley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation
DAISY DUKE From The Dukes of Hazzard
DALE Special Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks
DALLAS Popular prime time drama series
DANNO Detective from Hawaii Five-O
DARNELL Darnell"Crabman" Turner from My Name is Earl
DASH Dash Riprock from The Beverley Hillbillies
DATA Android in Star Trek: The Next Generation
DAX Character from Star Trek Deep Space Nine
DELL BOY Character from Only Fools and Horses
DEXTER Dexter Morgan, title character from the crime series
DIBLEY English comedy series The Vicar of Dibley
DILLON Marshall Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke
DOGGETT Special Agent John Doggett from The X-Files
DONAGHY Jack Donaghy, Liz's boss from 30 Rock
DOOGIE Teenaged doctor from Doogie Howser M.D.
DORIAN John "JD" Dorian from Scrubs



DOT COM Character from the sitcom 30 Rock
DOUG Dr Doug Ross from ER
DRESDEN Harry Dresden of The Dresden Files
EARL Main character from My Name is Earl
EDIE Edie Britt from Desperate Housewives
ELLEN Ellen DeGeneres, actress & talk show host
ELLY MAY Elly May Clampett from The Beverley Hillbillies
ELMO Character from Sesame Street
EMMA Emma Peel from The Avengers
ERIC Eric Cartman from South Park
ESCOBAR Escobar Gallardo from Nip Tuck
FIVE-O Police series Hawaii Five-O
FLETCHER Jessica Fletcher from Murder She Wrote
FONZ Arthur Fonzerelli from Happy Days
FOX Fox Mulder of The X Files
GIL Gil Grissom, lead character from CSI
GILLIGAN 60's sitcom Gilligan's Island
GLORIA Character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
GODDARD Robotic dog from the animated series Jimmy Neutron
GOMEZ Gomez Addams of The Addams Family

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GUNSMOKE Classic Western series
HARRIET Harriet Nelson from Ozzie and Harriet
HATHAWAY Nurse Carol Hathaway from ER
HAWKEYE Character from the comedy series MASH
HAYDEN Hayden Fox, lead character from Coach
HIGGINS Jonathan Higgins from Magnum P.I.
HOGAN Colonel Robert E. Hogan from sitcom Hogan's Heroes
HOMER Homer Simpson of The Simpsons
HOSS Hoss Cartwright from the western series Bonanza
HUGGY Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch
HUTCH Lead character from Starsky and Hutch
HUXTABLE Cliff Huxtable in The Cosby Show
IRONSIDE Police drama series of the 1960s
JAG Military drama series
JAKE Alan's son in 2 and a half Men
JAROD Lead character from The Pretender
JEANIE Jeanie Boulet from ER
JED Jed Clampett from The Beverley Hillbillies
JEOPARDY Long running Game Show
JETHRO Jethro Bodine from The Beverley Hillbillies



JIM BOB Jim Bob Walton from The Waltons
JIMBO Jimbo Jones, school bully in The Simpsons
JOEY Joey Tribiani from Friends
JOHN BOY John Boy Walton of The Waltons
JR Lead character from the series Dallas
KARA Clark Kent's cousin in Smallville
KEATON Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties
KENDRA Kendra Young from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
KERMIT Kermit the Frog from The Muppet Show
KIMBLE Dr. Richard Kimble a.k.a The Fugitive
KINCAID Gina Kincaid in Beverley Hills 90210
KITT Talking car from Knight Rider
KOJAK Police series starring Telly Savalas
KRAMER Jerry's neighbor from Seinfeld
KWON Jin-Soon Kwon from Lost
KYLE Kyle Broflovski from South Park
LACEY Cagney & Lacey police drama of the 1980s
LATKA Latka Gravas from Taxi
LAVERNE Comedy series Laverne and Shirley
LENNY Detective Lenny Briscoe from Law and Order

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LENO Jay Leno, host of The Tonight Show
LILITH Ex-wife of Frasier from the sitcom Frasier
LISA Daughter of Homer & Marge Simpson
LITTLE JOE Little Joe Cartwright from Bonanza
LOU Lou Grant, drama series with Ed Asner
LOUIE Louie De Palma, head dispatcher from Taxi
LOWELL Lowell Mather from the sitcom Wings
LUCY Lucy Ricardo from I Love Lucy
MACGYVER Angus McGyver from McGyver
MADDY Maddy Ferguson, Laura Palmer's cousin in Twin Peaks
MAGNUM Thomas Magnum III from Magnum P.I.
MALONE Sam Malone from Cheers
MARISSA Marissa Cooper in The O.C.
MARS Teenaged P.I. Veronica Mars
MASH Comedy series set during the Korean War
MATLOCK PI detective series
MAUDE Maude Findlay from the sitcom Maude
MAVERICK Western series with James Garner
MAYNARD Maynard G. Krebs from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
MCBEAL Lead character from the series Ally McBeal

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MELROSE Prime time soap Melrose Place
MILHOUSE Bart's best friend in The Simpsons
MIMI Mimi Bobeck from The Drew Carey Show
MINDER British comedy / drama series
MINDY Sitcom Mork and Mindy
MISS PARKER Character from the The Pretender
MITCH Mitch Buchannon from Baywatch
MOE Moe Szyslack, owner of Moe's Tavern in The Simpsons
MONK Obsessive compulsive detective Adrian Monk
MONTEL Montel Williams, Talk show host
MORK Sitcom Mork and Mindy
MR. BEAN English comedy series
MR. BELVEDERE Comedy series starring Christopher Hewett
MUNCH Detective from Homicide: Life on the Street
MUNSTER Herman Munster patriach of The Munsters
MURPHY Title character in the sitcom Murphy Brown
NASH Detective series Nash Bridges
NED Ned Flanders, the Simpson's neighbor
NIKKI Nikki Fernandez from Lost
NILES Frasier's brother from the sitcom Frasier

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NINETY-NINE Wife of Maxwell Smart in Get Smart
NORM Resident barfly from Cheers
ONSLOW Character from Keeping up Appearances
OPRAH Oprah Winfrey, talk show host
OZ Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, werewolf from Buffy
PACE Charlie Pace from Lost
PARTRIDGE Music / Comedy series The Partridge Family
PEARL Pearl Bodine from The Beverley Hillbillies
PERRY MASON Title character of the legal drama series
PHOEBE Phoebe Buffet from Friends
POLLY Polly Sherman from comedy series Fawlty Towers
POTSIE Warren "Potsie" Weber from Happy Days
PUNKY BREWSTER Title character from the sitcom
PURDEY Character from The New Avengers
QUAGMIRE Neighbor of the Griffins in Family Guy
QUARK Anti-hero from Star-Trek - Deep Space Nine
QUINN Dr Quinn Medicine Woman western series
RADAR Radar O'Reilly from the comedy series MASH
RAFE Rafe Torres from The Young & the Restless
REAPER Comedy-drama series

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REBUS Scottish detective series
REGIS Regis Philbin , talk show and game show host
REMINGTON Remington Steele with Pierce Brosnan
RICKY RICARDO From the series I Love Lucy
RICO Rico Tubbs from Miami Vice
RIDGE Ridge Forrester from The Bold & the Beautiful
ROCKFORD PI detective series The Rockford Files
ROLF Muppet dog from The Muppet Show
ROM Dr Ethan Rom from Lost
ROSCOE Sheriff from The Dukes of Hazzard
ROSEANNE Roseanne Conner from Roseanne
ROSS Ross Geller of Friends
ROSWELL Sci-Fi TV series
ROWLF Muppet dog from The Muppet Show
ROXANNE Character from The Young & the Restless
ROXY Guide dog of Carlos Solis in Desperate Housewives
ROZ Frasier's producer in Frasier
RUSSO Gina Russo from Nip Tuck
SAINT 1960s series The Saint with Roger Moore
SALAZAR Villain in 24: Series 3

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SARAH JESSICA Sarah Jessica Parker star of Sex and the City
SCULLY Special Agent Dana Scully of The X-Files
SEINFELD Comedy series starring Jerry Seinfeld
SHANANA Music show starring the band Sha Na Na
SHIRLEY Sitcom Laverne and Shirley
SISKO Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek Deep Space Nine
SLEDGE Police comedy series Sledge Hammer
SMALLVILLE Superman drama series
SMART Comedy series Get Smart
SOPRANO HBO mobster series The Sopranos
SPIKE William "The Blood" Spike from Buffy
SPOCK Mr Spock from Star Trek
STARSKY Lead character from Starsky & Hutch
STEED John Steed from The Avengers
STRINGFELLOW Stringfellow Hawk from Airwolf
SULU Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise
TAGGART Long running Scottish police drama
TJ Lead character from police show TJ Hooker
TONTO The Lone Ranger's sidekick
TREY Trey Attwood from The O.C

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TROY Christian Troy from Nip Tuck
TUCKER Tucker McCall from The Young & the Restless
URKEL Steve Urkel from Family Matters
WALDO Waldo Butters from The Dresden Files
WARBOYS Mrs. Warboys from the comedy One Foot in the Grave
WATCHER Character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
WILHELMINA Wilhelmina Slater, Betty's boss in Ugly Betty
WISEGUY Crime drama starring Ken Wahl
X-FILE Popular sci-fi series
XANDER Alexander "Xander" LaVelle Harris from Buffy
XENA Warrior Princess of the cult TV series
XEROX Cerie Xerox, Liz's assistant from 30 Rock
ZACK Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell
ZEBULON Zebulon "Grandpa" Walton from The Waltons
ZIGGY Talking supercomputer from Quantum Leap





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