Have you been wondering what to name your new puppy? Here are a number of name suggestions from T to Z (with their meanings) for fun and loveable names for pets of any size, shape or color:
Tabby - a mottled or black with grayish striped cat
Tabitha - female, personal name
Taboo - something forbidden or banned
Tadpole - a larval stage of a frog or toad
Taffy - confection made with brown sugar or molasses
Tag - a children’s game, or something used for identification purposes
Tally - a reckoning or a score
Tango - a Latin-American ballroom dance
Tantrum - a fit of bad temper
Tapioca - a starch made from the cassava root used in thickening sauces, puddings, soups, etc.
Tarantula - a big black hairy spider capable of inflicting a nasty and painful bite
Target - anything aimed or fired at, something to test accuracy
Tassel - a bunch of loose threads held together at one end and used as a decoration on cushions, curtains or clothing, a tuft
(good for a small pet whose fur hangs like a fringe or tassel)
Tennyson - an English poet
Terror - intense overpowering fear
(good for a particularly naughty pet)
Teuton - an ancient Chinese people
Thackeray - an English novelist
Theo - a god or gods
Tinker Bell - the little Fairy from ‘Peter Pan’
(for a tiny, delicate pet)
Tiny - very small, minute, wee
T.N.T. - dynamite, blustery, explosive
Ulysses - hero of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’
(for an adventurous pet who like to travel)
Umbra a dark area or the darkest part of a shadow
Underdog - one who is expected to lose a contest or battle
Urchin - a small mischievious boy or scamp
Usher - one who acts as a doorkeeper, as in a court or other assembly room
Utopia - any place of perfection, an idealistic goal or concept for social and political reform
Valiant - possessing courage or valor
Vamp - a seductive woman
Vandal - one who destroys or defaces property
Vanguard - the foremost position in an army or fleet
Varlet - a rascal or rogue
Velvet - soft material
(good name for a pet with fur as soft as velvet)
Velcro - a fastener
Venus - the second planet from the Sun, or the Roman goddess of love
Veteran - one of long experience in a given area
Viceroy - a governor of a country
Viking - a Scandinavian mariner
Vishnu - in Hinduism, the second member of the trinity
Waddles - to walk like a duck
Waffles - a breakfast food or a thick light crisp pancake
(for a pet that is the rich, golden color of a waffle)
Waggles - to move back and forth rapidly, a wobbling motion
(great name for a happy dog that wags his tail often)
Willow - a type of tree
(good for a delicate, slender, supple pet like a Whippet)
Wizard - a sorcerer or magician; someone who is specifically skilled at something
Wobbles - moves erratically from side to side
Wonder - that which arouses awe or admiration
Wordsworth - an English poet
Wrecker - one who destroys things
Wriggles - to turn or twist the body in sinuous motions
Xerox - copy or repeat, copycat
Yeoman - a petty officer who performs clerical duties
Yodeler - a person who sings with a fluctuating voice
Yonkers - a city in south east New York State
Your Majesty - royal title, one with splendor, dignity and power
(great for a pet who rules the house)
Yorick - a court jester mentioned in Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, a clown
Yo-Yo - a fluctuating thing, a toy that moves up and down on a string
(a good name for an energetic pet)
Zeppelin - a rigid airship with a long, cylindrical body that used gas to rise
Zig Zag - a series of short turns back and forth
Zippy - means full of ‘zip’ or snappy one
Zodiac - a band of celestial spheres that represent the path of the planets
Zombie - a creature reanimated from a dead body created from voodoo
Zulu - a member of a South African Nation