65 Literary Dog Names

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

• Lorca (poet Federico García)
• Francie (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
• Story
• Gandalf (The Hobbit)
• Kerouac (On the Road)
• Rhett (Gone With the Wind)
• Zora (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
• Marlowe (The Big Sleep)
• Sherman (as in author Alexie)
• Homer
• Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)
• Sherlock (as in Holmes)
• Harry (Harry Potter—for more see 70 Most Unique Dog Names)
• Clifford (The Big Red Dog)
• Lyric
• Baldwin (Another Country and many more)
• Elena (author Ferrante of the Neapolitan novels)
• Hermione (Harry Potter)
• Byron (as in Lord)
• Dashiell (author Hammett)
• Ulysses
• Antonia (My Antonia)

• Fable
• Mowgli (The Jungle Book)
• Poe (as in Edgar Allen)
• Sonnet
• Anais (as in Nin)
• Pablo (as in the poet Neruda)
• Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird)
• Rip Van Winkle (Rip for short?)
• Tennyson (the poet)
• Cullen (Twilight)
• Rumi (the poet)
• Isabel (The House of Spirits and many more)
• Keats
• Ellison (Invisible Man)
• Dalloway (Mrs. Dalloway)
• Bronte (as in the sisters)
• Harper (as in Harper Lee)
• Arya (Game of Thrones)
• Novella
• Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
• Bingley (Pride and Prejudice)
• Gulliver (Gulliver’s Travels)
• Matilda (Matilda)
• Merlin
• Huckleberry (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
• Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale and many more)
• Beckett (Waiting for Godot)

• Blanche (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• Dante (The Divine Comedy)
• Holden (The Catcher in the Rye)
• Wilder (The Little House on the Prairie)
• Haruki (famed author Murakami)
• Pippi (Pippi Longstocking)
• Ophelia (Hamlet)
• Truman (In Cold Blood)
• Eloise (Eloise at the Plaza)
• Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
• Whitman (Leaves of Grass and more)
• Balzac
• Maya (as in Angelou)
• Katniss (The Hunger Games)
• Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
• Bram (Dracula)