120 Dog Names from Literary Characters

Find the best name by browsing our list of literary dog names.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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