Poldark Names

These names are from the series Poldark based on the novels by Winston Graham.

Agatha
Amelia
Andromeda
Belinda
Caroline
Cary
Clowance
Demelza
Drake
Dwight
Enys
Francis
Garrick
Geoffrey Charles
George
Henshawe
Hugh
Jeremy
Jinny
Jud
Keren
Kitty
Laurent
Mariette
Morwenna
Poldark
Polly
Prudie
Rosa
Rosina
Ross
Rowella
Ruth
Sam
Sanson
Tankard
Teague
Tess
Tholly
Unwin
Valentine
Verity
Zacky

Outlander Pet Names

There are some great Scottish names in the Outlander television series & novels. This list is limited to those that appeared in the show, as I have not read the books. My favorites are Bouton, Duncan, Fergus, and Murray.

Abernathy
Angus
Annekje
Archibald
Artemis
Arthur
Beauchamp
Bonnet
Bouton
Brianna
Bruja
Claire
Clarence
Colum
Dougal
Duncan
Elias
Ermenegilda
Eutroclus
Faith
Fergus
Fiona
Fogden
Frank
Fraser
Geillis
Geneva
GrahamHamish
Hawkins
Hildegarde
Hugh
Ian
Isobel
Jack
Jamie
Janet
Jeanne
Jocasta
Joan
Laoghaire
Leonard
Letitia
Louise
MacKenzie
Marsali
Murray
Murtagh
Ned
Phaedre
Porpoise
Randall
Roger
Rollo
Rufus
Rupert
Stuart
Temeraire
Ulysses
Willoughby

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Shakespeare Pet Names

My favorite Shakespeanian names for pets are Puck, Bottom, and Romeo.

Achilles - Troilus and Cressida
Adriana - The Comedy of Errors
Aeneas - Troilus and Cressida
Agamemnon - Troilus and Cressida
Ajax - Troilus and Cressida
Alexas - Antony and Cleopatra
Alonso - The Tempest
Angus - Macbeth
Ariel - The Tempest
Audrey - As You Like It
Balthasar - Several plays
Banquo - Macbeth
Beatrice - Much Ado About Nothing
Belch - Twelfth Night
Benedick - Much Ado About Nothing
Berkeley - Richard III
Bianca - The Taming of the Shrew
Bottom - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Brutus - Julius Caesar
Caliban - The Tempest
Capulet - Romeo and Juliet
Cassandra - Troilus and Cressida
Celia - As You Like It
Cicero - Julius Caesar
Claudio - Much Ado About Nothing
Claudius - Hamlet
Cleopatra - Antony and Cleopatra
Cobweb - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Cordelia - King Lear
Costard - Love's Labour's Lost
Crab - The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Cressida - Troilus and Cressida
Cymbeline - Cymbeline
Desdemona - Othello
Dogberry - Much Ado About Nothing
Dorcas - The Winter's Tale
Duncan - Macbeth
Edgar - King Lear
Falstaff - Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Fang - Henry IV, Part 2
Ferdinand - The Tempest
Fleance - Macbeth
Florizel - The Winter's Tale
Gertrude - Hamlet
Gobbo - The Merchant of Venice
Guiderius - Cymbeline
Guildenstern - Hamlet
Hamlet - Hamlet
Hecate - Macbeth
Hector - Troilus and Cressida
Hermia - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hermione - The Winter's Tale
Hero - Much Ado About Nothing
Hippolyta - A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Two Noble Kinsmen
Horatio - Hamlet  
Hotspur - Henry IV, Part 1
Iago - Othello
Imogen - Cymbeline
Jachimo - Cymbeline
Juliet - Romeo and Juliet
Juno - The Tempest
Laertes - Hamlet
Lavinia - Titus Andronicus
Leontes - The Winter's Tale
Lysander - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Macbeth - Macbeth
Macduff - Macbeth
Malcolm - Macbeth
Malvolio - Twelfth Night
Mercutio - Romeo and Juliet
Miranda - The Tempest
Montague - Romeo and Juliet
Mopsa - The Winter's Tale
Mortimer - Henry IV, Part 1
Moth - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nerissa - The Merchant of Venice
Nym - The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V
Oberon - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ophelia - Hamlet
Orlando - As You Like It
Orsino - Twelfth Night
Othello - Othello
Paris - Romeo and Juliet
Perdita - The Winter's Tale
Pericles - Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Petruchio - The Taming of the Shrew
Phebe - As You Like It
Pinch - The Comedy of Errors
Polonius - Hamlet
Pompey - Measure for Measure
Portia - The Merchant of Venice
Posthumus - Cymbeline
Prospero - The Tempest
Puck - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo - Romeo and Juliet
Rosalind  - As You Like It
Rozencrantz - Hamlet
Sebastian - Twelfth Night, The Tempest
Shadow - Henry IV, Part 2
Sly - The Taming of the Shrew
Snare - Henry IV, Part 2
Snug - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tamora - Titus Andronicus
Theseus - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Verges - Much Ado About Nothing
Viola - Twelfth Night
Wart - Henry IV, Part 2
Yorick - Hamlet

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Wizard of Oz Pet Names

This list is from the original and various adaptions of The Wizard of Oz franchise. My favorites are Eureka, Glinda, Oz, and Tik-Tok.


Abatha - Good Witch of the East in the graphic novel The Blue Witch of Oz
Agnes - A dragon in The Giant Horse of Oz.
Billina - Dorothy's pet hen in Ozma of Oz
Dorothy - Dorothy Gale is the main character of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Eamonn - Member of the Wizard's guard that killed Ozma's parents in Emerald City
Elphaba - The name of the Wicked Witch of the West in the musical Wicked
Eureka - Dorothy's pink (and sometimes purple) kitten
Evanora - The Wicked Witch of the East in the film Oz the Great and Powerful
Evilene - The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wiz
Finley - A flying monkey in Oz the Great and Powerful
Gayelette - An ancient princess and sorceress from Oz. She lived in a ruby palace.
Glinda - The Good Witch of the South in Oz.
Herby - A doctor in The Giant Horse of Oz
Jellia Jamb - Maid in the royal palace in the Emerald City
Jester - A servant of Princess Gayelette and Prince Quelala
Jinjur - Jinjur leads an all female revolt in the Emerald City in The Marvelous Land of Oz
Kabumpo - an Elephant in Kabumpo in Oz
Kaliko - A nome from Nome Kingdom in Ozma of Oz
Langwidere - a Princess in Ozma of Oz
Lucas - Name that Dorothy gave to Roan in Emerald City
Lurline - A fairy Queen from Oz
Mombi - The Wicked Witch of the North
Nessarose - The Wicked Witch of the East in the musical Wicked
Oscar - The Wizard of Oz's real name
Oz - The name of the Land of Oz
Ozma - A Princess who was the ruler of Oz
Roan - A former member of he Wizard's Guard in Emerald City
Theodora - The Wicked Witch of the West in the film Oz the Great and Powerful
Tik-Tok - A machine man controlled by clockwork in Ozma of Oz
Tip - Alias of Ozma in Emerald City
Toto - Dorothy's dog
Woozy - A creature that appeared in The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Yoop - Mr & Mrs Yoop were giants in The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Zebediah 'Zeb' - Zebediah Hugson was a cousin of Dorothy
Zelena - The Wicked Witch of the West in the television series Once Upon a Time

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Sherlock Holmes Pet Names

This list draws on the original Sherlock Holmes mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as other novels, movies and television shows derived from them. My favorites are Diogenes, Mycroft, and Watson

Adler - Irene Adler was an adversary and love interest of Sherlock
Billy - Billy assists in Sherlock's investigations.
Damian - Damian Adler was the son of Sherlock and Irene Adler in The Language of Bees
Diogenes - Diogenes club was a gentleman's club featured in the stories
Enola - Sister of Sherlock & Mycroft in The Enola Holmes Mysteries series
Eurus - Sister of Sherlock & Mycroft in Sherlock
Gladstone - Name of Sherlock's dog in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movies
Holmes - Surname of Sherlock and Mycroft
Hudson - Sherlock Holmes' landlady
Irene - Irene Adler was an adversary and love interest of Sherlock
Lestrade - Inspector Lestrade worked for Scotland Yard
Molly - Pathologist that works at the morgue in the BBC series Sherlock
Mittens - Hacker whose real name is Fiona, she assists Sherlock in Elementary
Moriarty - Professor James Moriarty was Sherlock's nemesis
Morland - Father of Sherlock in Elementary
Morstan - Mary Morstan is the wife of Dr. Watson
Mycroft - Sherlock's brother
Pompey - Draghound Sherlock used in The Adventure of the Missing Three Quarter
Raffles - In Raffles Holmes and Company, Raffles was the son of Sherlock and Marjorie Raffles
Russell - Mary Russell is Sherlock's wife in The Mary Russell series
Sherrinford - Elder brother of Sherlock & Mycroft in Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street
Sherlock - Detective Holmes' given name
Toby - Dog that Sherlock borrowed occasionally for help in his investigations
Watson - Sherlock's friend and biographer
Wiggins - street urchin and leader of the Baker Street Irregulars.


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Mark Twain Pet Names

This is a selection of character names from the works of Mark Twain. My favorites are Finn, Polly, and Sawyer

Arthur - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Becky - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Bet - The Prince and the Pauper
Blake - The Prince and the Pauper
Boggs - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Buck - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dobbins - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Duke - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Emmeline - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Guenever - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Hank - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Harper - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Hermit - The Prince and the Pauper
Huckleberry 'Huck' - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Hugh - The Prince and the Pauper
Hugo - The Prince and the Pauper
Humphrey - The Prince and the Pauper
Jake - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Kay (Sir) - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
King - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Lawrence - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Launcelot - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Luigi - Pudd'nhead Wilson
Marlow - The Prince and the Pauper
Merlin - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Miles - The Prince and the Pauper
Mordred - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Morgan - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Patsy - Pudd'nhead Wilson
Percy - Pudd'nhead Wilson
Polly - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Pudd'nhead - Pudd'nhead Wilson
Rowena - Pudd'nhead Wilson
Sally - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sandy - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Sawyer - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sid - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Silas - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Thatcher -The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Wilson - Pudd'nhead Wilson


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Jane Austen Pet Names

This list includes characters from the works of Jane Austen. It is not a comprehensive list, just the names I thought could work for a pet. My favorites are Bingley, Darcy, Fanny, and Lucy


Augusta - Emma
Bennet - Pride and Prejudice
Benwick - Persuasion
Bingley - Pride and Prejudice
Brandon - Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice
Darcy - Pride and Prejudice
Dashwood - Sense and Sensibility
Elinor - Sense and Sensibility
Eliza - Sense and Sensibility
Elliot - Persuasion
Elton - Emma
Emma - Emma
Fanny - Mansfield Park
Fitzwilliam - Pride and Prejudice
Frederica - Lady Susan
Georgiana - Pride and Prejudice
Grey - Sense and Sensibility
Harriet - Emma
Henrietta - Persuasion
Isabella - Emma, Northanger Abbey
Julia - Mansfield Park
Kitty - Pride and Prejudice
Knightley - Emma
Lizzy - Pride and Prejudice
Louisa - Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion
Lucas - Pride and Prejudice
Lucy - Sense and Sensibility
Marianne - Sense and Sensibility
Palmer - Sense and Sensibility
Reginald - Lady Susan
Russell - Persuasion
Sophia - Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion
Steele - Sense and Sensibility
Thorpe - Northanger Abbey
Vernon - Lady Susan
Wentworth - Persuasion
Wickham - Pride and Prejudice
Willoughby - Sense and Sensibility

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Pet names inspired by Famous Poets

Here's a list of poets for fans of poetry. My favorites are Byron, Dylan, and Sappho. Share your favorites in the comments!


Blake
Browning
Byron
Donne
Dylan
Eliot
Emerson
Frost
Keats
Langston
Longfellow
Maya
Milton
Neruda
Ovid
Percy
Sappho
Shelley
Tennyson
Virgil
Yeats

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Gashlycrumb Tinies Pet Names

Here is a list of names from Edward Gorey's Gashlycumb Tinies for your morbid name inspiration! :)


Amy - Fell down the stairs
Basil - Assaulted by bears
Clara - Wasted away
Desmond - Thrown out of a sleigh
Ernest - Choked on a peach
Fanny - Sucked dry by a leech
George - Smothered under a rug
Hector - Done in by a thug
Ida - Drowned in a lake
James - Took lye by mistake
Kate - Struck with an axe
Leo - Swallowed some tacks
Maud - Swept out to sea
Neville - Died of ennui
Olive - Run through with an awl
Prue - Trampled flat in a brawl
Rhoda - Consumed by a fire
Susan - Perished of fits
Titus - Flew into bits
Una - Slipped down a drain
Victor - Squashed under a train
Winnie - Embedded in Ice
Xerxes - Devoured by mice
Yorick - His head was knocked in
Zillah - Drank too much gin


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Pet names inspired by Famous Authors

These author names would work great for your literary pet! My favorites are Shakespeare, Marlowe and Tolstoy. Share your favorites in the comments!

Alcott
Andersen
Archer
Austen
Beatrix
Beckett
Bronte
Buck
Chandler
Chaucer
Chekhov
Christie
Conrad
Dante
Dickens
Doyle
Eliot
Faulkner
Fitzgerald
Flannery
Fleming
Harper
Hawthorne
Hemingway
Henrik
Homer
Hugo
Huxley
Irving
Kafka
Kerouac
King
Kipling
Lawrence
Lewis
London
Marlowe
Mitchell
Molière
Oscar
Pearl
Poe
Roald
Rowling
Salinger
Seuss
Shakespeare
Shelley
Thackeray
Tolkien
Tolstoy
Toni
Truman
Twain
Umberto
Ursula
Voltaire
Vonnegut
Walt
Willa
Zane
Zola

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Dogs in Literature

Dog names used in literature. My favorites are Pilot and Toto. Share your favorites in the comments!

Addison - Peculiar dog in Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Argos - Dog owned by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey
Blue - From The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Buck - Dog that is the main character of Jack London's The Call of the Wild
Bulls-eye - Bill Sikes' vicious dog in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Cavall - King Arthur's dog, sometimes called Cabal or Cafall
Crab - Launce's Dog in Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare.
Cujo - Main character in Stephen King's Cujo. He was a St. Bernard.
Dingo - Dog in Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen, by Jules Verne
Diogenes - Dog in Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Einstein - Golden Retreiver from Watchers by Dean Koontz
Fang - Mastiff owned by Hagrid in the Harry Potter series.
Fluffy - A Cerberus owned by Hagrif in the Harry Potter Series.
Gaspode - From Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Gyp - From Adam Bede by George Eliot
Huan - Wolfhound from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jip - From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Kazak - Kurt Vonnegut used this name for a dog in two of his novels, The Sirens of Titan and Breakfast of Champions
Kiche - a wolfdog in White Fang by Jack London
Laddie - From Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Laska - Levin's hunting dog in Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Mouse - Harry's dog in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Nana - Newfoundland from Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Pilot - Rochester's dog in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Snowy - Tintin's wire fox terrier in The Adventures of Tintin
Toto - Dorothy's dog in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
White Fang - Dog in Jack London's White Fang
Woola - Martian 'hound' in A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Hunger Games Pet Names

The Hunger Games trilogy had fantastic character names. I love how most of the Capitol names took their inspiration from Ancient Rome, while the names from the districts were more fanciful. My favorite at the moment is 'Trinket', but Rue, Hazelle, Beetee, and Posy are up there too. Share your favorites in the comments!

Alma - President of District 13
Aurelius - Doctor in District 14
Beetee - A former victor from District 3, chosen again in the 75th Hunger Games
Boggs - Bodyguard to Katniss from District 13
Brutus - A former victor from District 2, chosen again in the 75th Hunger Games
Buttercup - cat owned by Primrose Everdeen
Caesar - television host of the Hunger Games
Cashmere - victor from District 1 in the 64th Hunger Games, chosen again in the 75th Hunger Games
Cato - tribute from District 2 for the 74th Hunger Games
Chaff - victor of the 45th Hunger Games from District 11, chosen again in the 75th Hunger Games
Cinna - Stylist for Katniss Everdeen
Claudius - co-host of the Hunger Games with Caesar Flickerman
Clove - tribute from District 2 for the 74th Hunger Games
Cressida - a director from the Capitol who joined the rebellion and filmed propos starring Katniss
Coriolanus - Given name of President Snow of Panem
Delly - a girl from District 12 who was friends with Peeta
Darius - a peacekeeper for District 12
Effie - escort for District 12 tributes
Enobaria - victor of the 62nd Hunger Games from District 2, chosen again in the 75th Hunger Games
Finnick - victor of the 65th Hunger Games from District 4, chosen again in the 75th Hunger Games
Flavius - a member of Katniss Everdeens prep team
Gale - resident of District 12 and love interest of Katniss Everdeen
Glimmer - tribute from District 1 for the 74th Hunger Games
Gloss - victor of the 63rd Hunger Games from District 1, chosen again for the 75th Hunger Games
Hawthorne - Surname of Gale, a resident of District 12 and love interest of Katniss Everdeen
Hazelle - mother of Gale, and resident of District 12
Haymitch - victor for District 12 and mentor to Katniss and Peeta
Jackson - soldier in Squad 451 from District 13, second in command to Boggs
Katniss - victor of the 74th Hunger Games, and symbolic leader of the rebellion
Lady - a goat that belonged to Primrose Everdeen
Lavinia - an avox and a servant to Hunger Games tributes
Lyme - a past victor from District 2, she joined the rebellion
Mags - victor from the 11th Hunger Games, she volunteered for the 75th Hunger Games
Mason - Johanna Mason was the victor of the 71st Hunger Games from District 7, chosen again for the 75th Hunger Games
Maysilee - tribute from District 12 the year that Haymitch Abernathy won
Messalla - part of the crew that filmed the rebellion's propos starring Katniss
Octavia - a member of Katniss Everdeens prep team
Peeta - victor from District 12 in the 74th Hunger Games and love interest of Katniss
Plutarch - Plutarch was the Gamemaker for the 75th Hunger Games who joined the rebellion
Pollux - an avox and part of the crew that filmed the propos for the rebellion
Portia - stylist for tribute Peeta Mellark
Posy - sister of Gale, and resident of District 12
Primrose - sister of Katniss Everdeen
Ripper - a one-armed woman who sold liquor at the Hob in District 12
Romulus - Romulus Thread was a harse peacekeeper sent to District 12
Rue - tribute from District 11 for the 74th Hunger Games
Seneca - Gamemaker for the 72nd, 73rd, and 74th Hunger Games
Thresh - tribute from District 11 in the 74th Hunger Games
Tigris - a former stylist who owned a shop in the capitol, she altered herself too look like a tiger
Titus - tribute from District 6 in a prior Hunger Games who ate his victims
Trinket - last name of Effie, escort to the District 12 tributes
Twill - a woman from District 8 who fled to District 13
Venia - a member of Katniss Everdeens prep team
Wiress - former victor from District 3, chosen again for the 75th Hunger Games

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