Find the best name by browsing our list of literary dog names.
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- Syntax
- Huckleberry or Huck – Huckleberry Finn
- Juliet – Romeo & Juliet
- Pilot – Mr. Rochester’s dog in Jane Eyre
- Austen – Jane Austen
- Fang – The lumbering boarhound in Harry Potter
- Orwell – George Orwell
- Gretel – Hansel & Gretel
- Max – How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Atticus – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Spartan
- Alice – Alice in Wonderland
- Fluffy – from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Jot
- Hansel – Hansel & Gretel
- Fitz – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Fern – Charlotte’s Web
- Falstaff – Henry IV
- Shiloh – Dog saved from abusive owner in Shiloh
- Marley – The mischievous dog who made us laugh and cry in Marley and Me
- Fable
- Hamlet
- Scribe
- Toto – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Arya – Game of Thrones
- Watson – Sherlock Holmes
- Loki
- Yeller – Old Yeller
- Ginny – Harry Potter
- Einstein – Watchers by Dean Koontz
- Sherlock – Sherlock Holmes
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- Hera
- Beatrice – Much Ado About Nothing
- Luna – Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter
- Laska – Levin’s hunting dog in Anna Karenina
- Toby – Used by Sherlock Holmes when he needs help sniffing out a clue
- Rhett – Gone with the Wind
- Dot
- Leopold – Ulysses
- Tolkien – JRR Tolkien
- Clifford – The beloved big red dog
- Nyx
- Othello
- Jip – David Copperfield
- King – Stephen King
- Holden – Catcher in the Rye
- Callisto
- Faulkner – William Faulkner
- Cujo – from Stephen King’s book
- Pip – Great Expectations
- Hemingway – Ernest Hemingway
- Scribble
- Ophelia – Hamlet
- Charkie – Curious George
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- Buck – Sled dog from Call of the Wild
- Nana – The Darling family’s pet in Peter Pan
- Dodger – Oliver Twist
- Titan
- Winn-Dixie – Because of Winn-Dixie
- Gulliver – Gulliver’s Travels
- Maya – Maya Angelou
- Scarlett – Gone with the Wind
- Siren
- Daisy – The Great Gatsby
- Prim – Hunger Games
- Pippi – Pippi Longstocking
- Tock – Watchdog of the Phantom Tollbooth
- Oscar – Oscar Wilde
- Gandalf – Lord of the Rings
- Heidi
- Sirius – Harry Potter
- Vonnegut – Kurt Vonnegut
- Sirius
- Bullseye – Bill Sikes’ dog in Oliver Twist
- Moby – Moby Dick
- Ghost – Jon Snow’s four-legged companion in Game of Thrones
- Capote or Truman – Truman Capote
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- Atlas
- Matilda – from Roald Dahl
- Gatsby – The Great Gatsby
- Raven – from Edgar Allan Poe
- White Fang and Kiche – White Fang by Jack London
- Ripley – The Talented Mr Ripley
- Buddy / Toby / Bailey / Ellie / Bear – A Dog’s Purpose
- Agatha – Agatha Christie
- Perdita & Pongo – The Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Puck – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Snowy – Tintin’s dog in The Adventures of Tintin
- Ribsy – Companion of Henry Huggins
- Arwen – Lord of the Rings
- Novella
- Wallace – David Foster Wallace
- Hunter – Hunter S. Thompson
- Old Dan and Little Ann – Where the Red Fern Grows
- Sansa – Game of Thrones
- Inky
- Scout – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Bond – James Bond
- Hercules
- Marlowe – from Raymond Chandler series
- Lad – Lad, A Dog
- Edgar or Poe – Edgar Allan Poe
- Quixote – Don Quixote
- Blue – The Sound and the Fury by William Falkner
- Artemis
- Milo – Catch-22
- London – Jack London
- Twain – Mark Twain
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- Quill
- Lassie – Lassie Come Home
- Lyric
- Argos – the faithful dog in the Odyssey
- Dickens – Charles Dickens
- Kerouac or Jack – Jack Kerouac
- Violet – Lemony Snicket
- Aries
- Joyce – James Joyce
- Luna
- Shakespeare – William Shakespeare
- Romeo – Romeo & Juliet
- Snowball – Animal Farm
- Leo – Leo Tolstoy
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