Sometimes the best way to get an original dog name that fits your pooch’s personality is to look back in history, to the names we’re still talking about today. Got a musical hound? Try ‘Miles.’ Got a small dog with a big dog attitude? Napoleon may be the name for him.
Abel
Attila
Augustus
Avigdor
Beauregard
Beelzebub
Bonaparte
Brutus
Byron
Caesar
Camus
Capone
Casanova
Chaucer
Chekhov
Chopin
Clovis
Confucius
Crockett
Crusoe
Cyrano
Dante
Desoto
Dickens
Enzo
Errol
Excalibur
Exeter
Figaro
Freud
Genghis
Geronimo
Gideon
Gladstone
Goethe
Goliath
Gorky
Greystoke
Grover
Gulliver
Homer
Hoover
Horace
Horatio
Houdini
Ishtar
Jerico
Julius
Midas
Miles
Ming
Mortimer
Nietzsche
Patton
Pharaoh
Plato
Seneca
Shogun
Sigmund
Socrates
Solomon
Sultan
Titan
Trojan
Troubadour
Ulysses
Voltaire
Do you have a favorite historical male dog name? Post a comment and add it to our list!
Also see historical female dog names and all DogTime dog names.
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