Pet names
82 Female Dog Names, With Meanings
Girl-dog names with real meanings — Bella, Luna, Daisy, Willow and more, each with its origin where it has one.
Girl-dog names have shifted toward proper human names in the last few years, and the list below shows it: Bella, Lucy, Daisy, Molly, Luna and Stella are the ones you'll hear at every dog park. Bella is Italian for beautiful, Stella is Latin for star, Luna is the moon — pretty meanings behind names that are simply nice to call.
Alongside the classics are the nature names — Willow, Ivy, Hazel, Poppy, Olive — that suit a dog as well as they suit a garden. Every entry gives a real origin and meaning where the name has one, and leaves word-names like Honey and Sugar as they are. Runs A to Z below.
All 82 female dog names, A–Z
Hebrew · father's joy
English · amber gemstone
Hebrew · grace
Greek myth
Latin · dawn
Latin · autumn
Italian · beautiful
French · beautiful
Scottish · pretty, cheerful
Word name
Greek · blooming
Word name
French
Greek · ice, rock crystal
English · day's-eye flower
English · diamond gemstone
Greek · gift of God
Word name
English · noble rank
English · deep black wood
Greek myth
German · pledged to God
English
Germanic · whole, universal
Hebrew · life
English · the fern plant
Scottish · fair, white
Norse myth
French
English
Latin · grace
English · the hazel tree
Greek myth
English · the holly tree
Word name
Greek · rainbow
English · ivory
English · the ivy plant
Hebrew · pledged to God
Spanish · the jade stone
Persian · the jasmine flower
Hebrew · God beholds
Hebrew · God will add
Roman myth
English · noblewoman
Arabic · night
Greek · defender
English · the lily flower
Spanish · sorrows
Latin · light
Arabic · pearl
Latin · moon
Greek · pearl
Word name · the maple tree
Italian · mine
Hebrew · star of the sea
African
Greek · shining light
Latin · new star
Latin · olive tree
Word name
English · the pearl
Greek · weaver
English · pipe player
English · the poppy flower
English
English
Latin · rose
Latin · red gemstone
Hebrew · princess
Scottish · the Isle of Skye
Greek · wisdom
English · a star
Latin · star
Word name
Greek · to harvest
Latin · bringer of joy
English · the violet flower
English · the willow tree
Arabic · radiance
Greek · life
Swahili · beautiful
Every name here is one people genuinely use for a pet, and each is drawn from the same hand-checked list behind our full names finder. Where a name has a real, settled meaning we give it; word-names like Biscuit or Shadow are marked as word-names rather than dressed up with an invented origin. The count in the title is the real number on the page, and we add to it over time.
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