Pet names
55 Popular Dog Names, With Meanings
The dog names you'll hear at every park — Max, Bella, Cooper, Luna, Charlie and more, with meanings where they're real.
Call 'Max' or 'Bella' at a busy dog park and you'll get more than one head turning — these are the names the whole country reaches for. Cooper, Buddy, Charlie, Daisy, Luna and Milo fill out the top of the list, split fairly evenly between the boys and the girls, and every one is short enough to shout and clear enough for a dog to learn fast.
The list runs A to Z with a real origin where the name has one: Max is Latin for greatest, Luna is the moon, Bella is Italian for beautiful, Hunter says exactly what it means. Popular doesn't mean unimaginative here — most of these names earned their place by simply being easy to live with.
All 55 popular dog names, A–Z
Hebrew · father's joy
English · elf counsel
German · bold, genuine
English · steward, bailiff
French · handsome
Italian · beautiful
English · friend
English · free man
Greek · blooming
English · barrel maker
English · day's-eye flower
Germanic · whole, universal
Irish · fair
English · harp player
English · the hazel tree
English · one who hunts
English · the ivy plant
English · God is gracious
English
Arabic · night
Latin · lion
Greek · defender
English · the lily flower
Spanish · sorrows
Latin · light
Latin · moon
Greek · pearl
English · pleasant wood
Latin · greatest
Italian · mine
Germanic
Hebrew · star of the sea
Latin · new star
Latin · olive tree
Latin · olive tree
Latin · olive tree
Irish · deer lover
Greek · weaver
English · pipe player
English · the poppy flower
Irish · wise
French · oarsman
Irish · valiant
Latin · red gemstone
Hebrew · princess
Hebrew · God has heard
Russian · defender
Greek · wisdom
Latin · star
Greek · gift of God
Greek · gift of God
Hebrew · God is good
English · cloth softener
English · the willow tree
Greek · life
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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