How did you choose your puppy's name?

[GrammaD]

The GSD puppy I am waiting anxiously for will be my 4th dog I get to name and I always have fun with picking registered names and call names. I am already playing with name idea for my (hopefully!) new little guy and was wondering how other people pick names?

My shelties of the past were:

(kennel name) Blu Bi You - call name B.B (like BB King, cause he's a blues man and BB was a bi-blue boy )

(kennel name)'s Secret Society- call name Mason (a bi-black and a stunning boy who looked like he was always in a tux!)

Then our Lab, who my son named is-

(kennel name) Abby Labby Bo Babby- call name Abby (because we were playing "the name game," he said, so why not just run with it. Plus he thought it would sound cool at agility trials LOL)

and my rescue Golden Retriever has no registered name and we disliked the name he was tagged with by AC when they saved him from his neglectful owners (Dakota) and since he is deaf due to untreated ear infections we shortened it up to "Cody" without worry about unsettling him. It suits him although sometimes I wish I had gone with Midas because he has the "Golden touch" and everyone who meets him loves him.

My GSD pup-to-be may be tagged with-

(kennel name) Brave New World- call name Huxley (one of my favorite books and getting a GSD is a step into a whole new world for me LOL)

But I am still playing around

So tell me how you picked your puppy's/dog's name - I am hoping to expand my naming horizons

[*Lisa*]

Registered Name: Carissima's Callie
Call Name: Jazmyn

My husband and I love all things Disney (we were engaged at Disney World) and are huge huge fans of Mickey Mouse. We didn't want the obvious Mickey/Minnie/Daisy reference so we researched female Disney Names.

We narrowed it down to Alice and Jasmine. In the end, Jasmine won BUT we changed the spelling to JAZMYN. We call her Jaz from time to time (We both are into music, and hubby plays the saxophone)

She was a C Litter for the breeder, so we both liked Callie for her registered name. No particular reason on that one, just a name we both agreed on

[Stosh]

I had a beagle named Pink because the breeder put pink nail polish on her back nails so we knew which one I picked out.

Our last gsd was named 'Omy' [sounds like Oh-me] which is a German name for Grandma.

Stosh [should be spelled Stache but no one would say it right] is the German/Eastern European 'Stan'. Stosh was a big slow solid chunky puppy and I thought Stan was a good name. And Stosh is easy to say- he took to it right away, and there isn't another one around. I like names that are fun to say and the dog won't hear anywhere else

[mthurston0001]

I swear, the next dog I get from a "D" litter will be called Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem

[rascott]

I've named my dogs for places that I've traveled to.

My oldest 10 yr old dog (GSD mix) is named Krabi for a small village/province in southern Thailand, and my 4 month old GSD rescue puppy is named Lukla, for a small village in Nepal that is the jumping off point for trekking to Mt. Everest.

[robinhuerta]

Our next litter is our D-litter.....the male & female puppies that we keep back (IF we hold back both) will be (possibly) named: DRAMA & DOOM...

[BR870]

My son choose it. Out of the E names that we had come up with, that was the one he liked the most.

[iBaman]

Don't have a registered name for him yet, but before we even knew we were going to get him (we just went and looked at puppies), my SO noted that he looked like a Sheldon...and he totally does. Although, after watching Tangled again, he could be a Maximus...That horse is Sheldon to a T...xD

[GrammaD]

Originally Posted by mthurston0001

I swear, the next dog I get from a "D" litter will be called Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem

LOVE IT! LOL

Really fits with the "landshark" tendencies of the breed, no?

I'll be giggling about this one all day LOL

[GrammaD]

Originally Posted by iBaman

Don't have a registered name for him yet, but before we even knew we were going to get him (we just went and looked at puppies), my SO noted that he looked like a Sheldon...and he totally does. Although, after watching Tangled again, he could be a Maximus...That horse is Sheldon to a T...xD

You could totally use "Big Bang Theory" for his registered name if you go with Sheldon

And I have to tell you- both that reg name and the call name are ones I considered!