2012: Bye Bye, Max. Hello, Bella!
fit in to the annual roundup of popular pet names in the database of Veterinary Pet Insurance , the 10 most popular dog public figure for 2012 were Bella , Bailey , Max , Lucy , Molly , Buddy , Daisy , Maggie , Charlie , and Sophie . It was the third straight year Bella came in at act 1 , after unseating Max in 2009 . A company spokesman thought the ascendency of Bella might have had to do with " the name of the heroine in a certain vampire book / film serial publication that ’s passably popular these days . "
2008: Sorry, Jake and Rocky—Here come Chloe and Sophie.
The twelvemonth before Max lose the top fleck , Jake and Rocky neglect of the top 10 , replace by fledgling Chloe and Sophie . Is there an " closing of men " situation encounter in the canine world too ? Someone get the trend piece writers on that !
1985: Nipper is now George.
In 1985,New York Timescolumnist William Safire ask reader to put forward history of how they distinguish their dog , and in return got a list of over 12,000 dog names from all over the state . He take down a few trends . People tended to name their dogs after food ( Cookie , Candy , Taffy , Peaches ) , disposition ( Rascal , Bandit , Crab ) , colour ( Blackie , Amber , Midnight ) , and owner occupation ( " lawyer like Shyster and Escrow ; doctors favor castanets . " ) But the most noticeable style was that mass were using human names for their frank more than they used to : " alternatively of turn verbs and adjectives into proper nouns ( for example , by calling a puppy that likes to snip off your fingerbreadth Nipper ) , we are using right noun straight off , send for the small nipper George , Daisy or Charley . "
1960s-1980s: Getting gender specific.
Anthropologist Stanley Brandes published a 2009 written report of pet name trend as revealed by the gravestones at Hartsdale , America ’s first pet cemetery . He noticed the tendency toward human names for pet grow slowly from the 1960s to the eighties when name calling like Riko , Ginny , Francois , Samantha , Daniel and Venus started to pop up among names like Freckles , Snowy , Clover , Spaghetti , Champ , Happy , Rusty and Taka . One consequence of this shift was that names started to entail information about the sexual urge of the fauna . This was not merely a consequence of a shift to human naming , though . Even non - human name start up to show sex activity distinctions . Note , for example , the Stephanie Graf of Cha Cha Man , Candy Girl , Mr. Cat , and Dot - Z - Girl .
1896-WWII: Hobo, Jaba, Boogles.
Hartsdale Pet Cemetery , just out of doors of New York City , was established in 1896 . Brandes notes that in the early repository , the names of the pets might not even appear at all . Many of the early Robert Ranke Graves go forth it at " Pets " or " My Pet . " The family name of the owner is sometimes the only identifier . A well - cognize dancer of the sentence , Irene Castle , buried five dogs and a pet scallywag under a repository engraved just " Castle . " Most of the graves do show pet names , but before WWII , they are almost never human public figure . The first half 100 at Hartsdale is lay out by the likes of Brownie , Laddie , Hobo , Trixie , Rags , Jaba , Bunty , Boogles , Teko , Dicksie , Snap , Punch , Bébé and Pippy .
1800s: Semper Fido.
Abraham Lincoln had a dog named Fido , and this is often cited as the reason the name became the quintessential hotdog ’s name , but Fido was popular before Lincoln even became President of the United States . A favorite children ’s Scripture of 1845 was called " Fido or the Faithful Friend , " and told of the quintessential adventure of the quintessential male child and his Canis familiaris . It ’s rather too bad Chief Executive ' dogs are n’t the source of lasting naming fashions . We could be call up our dogs Sweetlips , Scentwell , Vulcan , Drunkard , Taster , Tipler and Tipsy like George Washington did !
Medieval: Mopsus and Mopsulus
Kathleen Walker - Meikle ’s bookMedieval Petsshows that people gave a all-encompassing range of originative name to their pets then , despite the general dissent that indulging pets was " an extravagance and a distraction from one ’s duties and obligations , in special Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae to the poor . " Just as in Safire ’s 1985 survey , dogs were identify for characteristics ( Sturdy , Whitefoot , Hardy ) and owner occupation – Stosel ( Pestle ) for an apothecary , Hemmerli ( Little Hammer ) for a locksmith , Speichli ( Little Spoke ) for a wagoner . They could even have human public figure like Jakke and Parceval . However , the most popular human gens given to hot dog were not the same as the most popular names given to babies , as they are today . For dog possessor looking to buck the drift ( or for that matter , sister - havers looking to charge the tendency ) , here ’s a list of amazing medieval firedog names : Blawnche , Nosewise , Smylfeste , Bragge , Holdfast , Zaphyro , Zalbot , Mopsus and Mopsulus .
