50 Times People Heard Such Brilliant And Bizarre Pet Names That They Just Had To Share Them
Naming your pet is one of the most important decisions you’ll make in life. Not only do you want the moniker to suit the animal's character, but it’s also a chance for you to show off your creativity. And some owners have so much imagination that we’re jealous.
Today, we’re featuring some of the funniest and weirdest pet names that people have ever heard, as shared in two brilliant online threads. Scroll down for a good laugh and some fun naming inspiration for the next animal you rescue.
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My snakes name is Lieutenant Dan, cause he ain't got no legs 🤣.
My dog is Johnboy. My kids used to do a whole everlasting goodnight thing back and forth and they thought adding, "Goodnight, Johnboy." to the mix would be perfect.
I realize almost no one reading this gets it.
Lucy Fur she was a devil of a cat.
It can be tough to find balance when you’re naming your pet. Obviously, you want the name to be true to the animal’s personality. You also probably want it to be unique… while staying simple enough that you can call them with ease.
We feel that owners can intuitively tell that they’ve made the right choice, whether they go for something popular like Luna or think outside the box with Sir Meowington von Clawsewitz III. But there will be moments where you see so many good options that you have no clue what to pick. Or the opposite, where you can’t seem to find anything that suits your awesome new pet’s character.
As ‘PetSmart’ points out, if you ever feel stuck for inspiration, you might want to look to your hobbies. Think about your favorite characters from books, shows, and films, and see if those names match your pet.
A black and white cat named Oreo Speedwagon.
I knew of a Cat named Admiral. One of his owners was a captain so the cat outranked him.
I had a friend in HS whose family dog was named Jonathan. His dad named him that as a joke b/c the dad's name was Buster. He thought it was funny to watch vet techs and whatnot call the dog Buster and him Jonathan only for him to correct them. It was like a preemptive dad joke.
According to ‘PetSmart,’ it's typically best to give your pet a name that isn’t longer than 2 syllables, so they’re easier to call.
Meanwhile, remember that you can still change your pet’s name a few times in the first few weeks that you have them. However, later, it’s best to stick to one so that the animal isn’t confused.
‘Pet Sitters International’ also stresses the importance of names that are easy to call out and respond to. Tongue twisters aren’t always the best choice, even if they’re incredibly creative.
Furthermore, think about whether the name you choose will still suit your pet throughout the stages of its life. For instance, something like ‘Kitten’ might sound cute, but it might not necessarily be the best fit as it grows.
At the end of the day, though, these are all just suggestions. You know your pet far better than anyone else, and only you can pick a name for it that brings its personality and behavior to life!
My guitar teacher named his cat Ozzy Clawsbourne.
Snowball the bunny until they realized she was a male and became Snowballs.
Nudacris for a Sphynx.
Once you’ve upvoted your favorite weird pet names, we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments down below, Pandas! Which of these monikers do you think is the best of the best? Do you prefer Oreo Speedwagon, Ozzy Clawsbourne, Lucy Fur, Admiral, or something else entirely?
What are the best, funniest, and most out-there names that you’ve heard people give their pets? What did you name your own pets? Let us know! We can’t wait to hear from you.
Chairman Meow.
I work with shelter cats. I think my all time favorite name I’ve come across is Toupee Dave. All white cat with a patch of black fur in between his ears. I keep a picture of him for whenever I need a chuckle.
Had a handful of stick bugs with an old roommate and 2 of the names I can remember were Sticki Minaj and Twiggie Smalls.
A lawyer I follow on TikTok adopted a kitten with Wobbly Cat Syndrome. His name is pronounced Dewey but it's spelled DUI.
Vet tech here. One of my favorites from over the years was this one time a sweet family brought their new kitten Mittens in for a physical exam to establish care. They thought Mittens was a girl and when I told them during the exam he was a boy they changed his name to Gloves 😆 normally I love human names for animals but Gloves gets a pass.
A buddy of mine has a 20+ pound cat named Concrete. Had him since he was a kitten. It makes me laugh every time I think about it.
My Dogs name is Linkin Bark.
We call him Link.
There was a parrot named “Feather Locklear.” I’m still not over it.
You might have to be old to get this, but I once had a fish named Finny Barbarino.
My first two chickens - Alicia Quiche and Egg Allman.
Quoting my older sister who is a Vet:
Giant, very muscular white fur pitbull comes in with the spiked collar and looks aggressive. Upon entering, the dog ran up to my sister wanting belly rubs and was brought in for eating a rubber duck. Dog's name was Marshmallow because "he is a giant idiot with a heart of gold."
Sounds like every pitbull I've ever known. Goofballs, all of them.
Thud, for an extremely clumsy German Shepherd.
OMG we almost named our cat Jabberwocky "Thud" cuz he was always bumping into things and making thud noises.. Our current cat is named "Princess Tinyfeet von Bitesalot of the Kingdom of Bitemore on the Continent of Eurabrat".
We found two harmless garter snakes in our tool shed. We left them alone, and referred to them as William Snakespeare and Sheddy Roosevelt. We have a pup that loves to sploot, so we call him Vladimir Splootin.
I met a dog once called The Inspector. That is exactly what he looked like, too. Little Scottish Terrier. Could have used a monocle.
A friend has a dog named Covid. "My life is so much richer thanks to Covid." "I've had Covid for 10 years." "I got Covid last year, best decision I ever made."
Cat named "Bikini". I thought it was weird at first until the owner lifted him up and showed me white markings on his underside that looked exactly like a bikini.
We had a black cat with a perfect pair of white panties on her underside. Her name was Lola. 😊
I had a cat with thumbs named Motor City, due to his loud purr. Nickname, Detroit.
A friend of my named his dog "Dog" and his cat "Cat".
He also has a goldfish named Bruce.
My friends family had a cat and then a stray started coming around and staying in the house. They called him, the other cat and eventually it just became Other Cat. He would even come to you outside if you called to him. He also only used the sidewalks, he would never cut across the grass to come to you.
We had a stray tomcat adopt us when I was in high school. (Really I fed him after my mom told me not to, so he hung around, LOL) He was a sweet cat but never wanted to come inside the house. She we put up a doghouse right outside the back door on our porch and he lived there happily. I named him Freeloader, but we all called him Load for short. 😁 He stayed with us for the rest of his life. We of course had him neutered and did all his necessary vet work. Even after years with us though he still refused to come in the house. He just preferred being outside.
I got 2 snapping turtles when I turned 5. One had the orange bands next to his eyes and the other had red.
Named them MichaelAngelo and Raphael. Not funny but I felt so cool naming them.
His name was Mr. Nibbles lol which I later found out is because he likes to rip paper, cardboard, anything he can really.. & spit it out. He leaves little piles of mess everywhere. Thank god he doesn’t ingest it. Even his adoption paperwork has nibbles off the corner 😂
He sometimes goes by Mr Nibbles now.. but his official name is Former President WOODROW WILSON 🗣️
(& he loves my pregnant belly).
We adopted a husky / lab puppy who is very fast and not especially bright. We named him Leroy Jenkins.
It was for a cat with no eyes and his name was Nojos.
"Ojos" is Spanish for "eyes". Pronounced "oh-hos". So this would be "no ojos" - Nojos XD
Belarus and we stuck with it because: (1) it’s the right thing to do; (2) it’s fun to say; and (3) more attention should be be paid to the last dictatorship in Europe that also had a recent successful coup. 🤣
This is Tater Tot. I was originally going to name her something cool, like Nebula or Nyx or something mythology related. But the person I adopted her from named her Tater Tot, and I thought it was stupid because ‘my name ideas are so much cooler….”
But, I’m a people pleaser and I didn’t dare change her name. And it’s grown on me. We also call her miss Taternator, like the terminator.
Friend had a pet pig named piggie smalls. Smalls [passed] and was replaced by Spamela.
At the shelter I work at, we tend to give them silly names because they’re meant to be placeholders for their new families to change. One of the fellas I took home was named Soot at first from being found in a dumpster and covered in filth. My shining moment was naming a newly tripoded cat Legolas.
One of our dogs is named Bob Barker lol.
“Spoon” fits his personality. You can’t stay mad when you yell “SPOON!! KNOCK IT OFF” across the house.
Dave Growl.
I wanted to name my dog Reinforcements. That way I could say things like "here comes Reinforcements" and nearby folks would be expecting a bunch of people to show up in gear or something but instead a little dog would come. I thought it would be funny but the wife didn't agree.
I once told a friend I considered naming a dog Spot, just so I could say Out, D****d Spot! (McBeth reference)
Plastic Bag. He was found in a plastic bag at 3mo so I adopted him from the rescue I worked for.
Renamed him Plastic Kroger Bag.
My babies name was and is Catalie Portman. We call her Catty or Chatty Catty because she loves to talk.
My son wanted a corgi for his birthday and insisted on naming her Banana.
My friend in high school named his tiny tetra fish “Combine Harvester”.
People got a kick out of my wife's cat Jeff.
My cat is called Joey, which I don't think is as funny as Jeff, but I had a coworker named Joey, and he would come over and smoke a joint after work from time to time. It was *months* before he realized I was talking to my cat and not being really weird when he came over.
The woman at the vet thinks my dog Husker Doo is funny. Every time I call to order Husker Doos pills she laughs and says "Husker Dooooooooo."
My friend was waiting with her dog at the vet, and someone else brought their dog in. As they checked in she happened to overhear that the dog's name was Pizza Party.
No one has ever named their pet “Peeve”???
Fluid-Set-2674:
I know two different people with cats named Peeve.
Mr. Chips and Captain Guacamole, my pet rats. We also had a ball python named E. Howard Farnsworth. I also know a cat named Arnold Pawmer.
I had a diabetic hamster named Brimley, after Walter Brimley, the iconic old guy in the commercials known for how he said diabetes… diabeetus!
A ball python with the nickname Lucy. Her full name was Lucifer, Devourer of Souls.
A milk snake named Milk Shake.
My current orange female cat, a rarity, is named Junebug. Her foster siblings were Cricket and Grasshopper.
I got lucky and adopted a pure bred Norwegian Forest cat. He was left in a box on the stairs at my vets office. They named him Boxcar Bobby. So I adopted him and called him Bob.
I think a breeder dumped him because right at the end of his tail, it had a kink...the tip was at a 90° angle. Never bothered him and we had him for about 14 years.
My tripod kitty who was missing a back leg also had a 90 degree kink at the end of his tal. He used his tail (which became quite muscular as a result) as a counter balance. He’d come rub up against your ankles and sort of lean into you with that tail wrapped around your leg. We called it his tail hook!😻
"Vespa". The very young daughter of her original owners misheard the name "Vesper" from James Bond: Casino Royale. After I adopted her, the youngest kid (4) of the family I lived with wanted to call her Frog. So. Everyone meet: The Frog Princess Buttercup.
Meow. Such a shy little beautiful, blue eyed Siamese girl. Kept the name. Now I know why. She introduces herself every time she walks into the room, after litter box, when it’s past 3pm and she hasn’t been fed or 3am (weekends too) when she hasn’t been fed. My (big) little purr pillow.
Meezers are known to be very "talkative"! It's a breed trait XD
I met a dog that was so chonky I swear she was square. Her name was Buttercup but they called her Butter, she literally looked like a stick of butter.
There was a bulldog that used to visit my office named Foreman. I know it’s not as obviously funny but it was funny in context since he was such a big boy.
My girl actually had two names! She was so frightened/grumpy/antisocial when she first got to the shelter that they named her Frumpkin. Once she was out of the kennel area and being kept in an office where she could let her guard down, they renamed her Daisy.
Neither fit her, but if I had to pick between the two, Frumpkin is closer lol.
My cat Preacher was named Miller by the shelter we adopted him from XD (I named him Preacher after my favorite comic book series, but it also fits otherwise because he's a tuxedo.) When he is especially naughty, I call him by his "birth name", Miller XD
This was Beyoncé lol her name is now PB short for peanut butter. And yes, she actually likes peanut butter but we didn’t find that out until 4 years later lol.
There's the joke about calling your dog "shark", taking him for a walk along the beach and calling him back by his name...
Rooster named Handsome Lad.
Someone on reddit named their cat ‘Gas Station Breakfast Pizza’ I thought it was hilarious lol.
My black and white cat who is currently named Figero’s name was FATTY. And he was severely underweight too omg.
My brother was in the process of getting a Yorkshire terrier from a breeder. He thought it was going to be a female and he wanted the name “Abby”. Turns out he ended up with a male. He was in a quandry. I reassured him: “the pooch does not understand gendered names”. So this wonderful dog was registered as “Fountains Abbey”. Great beauty spot in Yorkshire. Now this loving cheerful companion is referred to as Angel Pooch: he went to heaven at age 16.5 after a happy life. We miss him
My cats are named after my favourite scientists. She is called Ada (Ada Lovelace) and her brother is called Niko (Nikola Tesla). Ada is a black witch and Niko is a white demon with black spots.
I have a 14 year old female tabby my granddaughter named Princess Squishy Nugget, I just call her Squishy. And when I was younger my sister had a male gerbil we named Jose Cojones. It was hilarious to hear my mom talking to him, she doesn't speak a lick of Spanish and doesn't know what cojones means.
My two female cats are named after dances... with surname Sashimi. Lindy (Hop) and Samba Sashimi.
My favorites will always be the tortoises named Jennifer Slowpez and Voldetort, aswell as Repeckah the hen
Worked with a gal who had a half Chihuahua and half Pekinese dog named Pancho Wong.
My cats are the duchess Runa Hopscotch and Lady Charlotte Marbles. Runa was born with a wonky leg and she picks it up like someone playing hopscotch (vet doesn't want to amputate because it's not bothering her and looking at everything deemed it unnecessary) and I decided the other one needed a game related name and mother said she looks like a marble.
I have a friends whose Cat name is Catrick, I love that one! And I had a skinny pig called Piggie Smallz!
A friend of mine called her former cat Snixten Pälsräka, which I still think is an awesome name. It just rolls so nicely off the tongue (if you're Swedish). Sixten is a normal name, Snixten just makes it funny/cute. Pälsräka means furry shrimp.
I have a lurcher, who's name is Ozzy Pawsbourne. Or full name Ozzy Pawsbourne-Anderson (Anderson is our surname) Prince of Barkness
We have a void called Ghost. My daughter had a ginger named Vinnie- short for Vin Diesel. My ginger is a unit of a Tom cat … called Puff. We also have a tuxedo that we call The Prawn - from District 9.
We have had Cosmic Creepers for 7 months and so far, no one has got the reference.
We had a snake aptly named Alger Hiss! (Alger Hiss was a US government official who spied for the Soviets in the 50s.)
I used to have a tortoise called Speedy, and a friend of mine who lives in Belfast had a female Labrador called Louis, as she was big, black and from the South!
My first pooch was named Ralph, and he could say his name. We rescued a borzoi and named him Pushkin because he was black and white.
I had a friend who had a Black Labrador called Gibson. I laughed. (You need to know about Wg Cdr Guy Gibson to understand this one).
My neighbours have this beautiful dog -- some flavour of husky -- who I've dubbed 'Woofer' because, well, he does bark (funnily enough, because he never gets walked and the main attention is the kids telling him to "shut up") but he's cute AF and his bark isn't super annoying like the neighbour on the other side of my place. His actual name is something like 'Rick". I remember the kids calling his name out and going "... nah, Woofer's better". He responds to it and says hi to me through the fence, too. 😆
We have had Pest and Useless as cats and Downboy was our dog. Our current animal is a turtle who got named Uncle Fester ( that's who he looks like!) but is unfortunately female. My neighbor, who hated the president at the time, called his dog Jimmy Carter just so he could say things like "oh, look, Jimmy Cater has sh*t himself " and "OH,Llook, Jimmy Carter is licking his b*lls".
I have: Jaspurr Carrot (orange tripod named after Brit comedian. He has the orange brain cell) Catfael (named after the m****r solving monk. He is orange and white and soooo floofy). Watt Not Another (grey/white/rusty bits mainecoon. Built like an out house but is such a woosey.) Bob, short for kate. (Club tail tortie, runt of litter but full of tortietude) Pedro Purrscal (orange mainecoon, no brain cell, has epilepsy and keeps on going on bogus journeys. Is going through life on his looks alone).
we had an outdoor cat that we later adopted and took inside, b and named teddy; but in the meanwhile, while he was outdoors and we'd been feeding him for a few months, we were trying to think of a name, and were trying to think of something original... my husband called him 'Shtaron' - from 'Men in Black' 3 lol
My friends had the most clever name for their canine. Its pronounced as " Dee-o-gee " How its spelled? *Dog 😂
Oh lawd, here's my horde: dogs Stilgar and Fenring, named after characters from my favorite book (Dune.) Fen's registered name was supposed to be the character's full name and title (Count Hasimir Fenring) but my dog is such a doofus that I started calling him Dingus, so his registered name is Fenringus von Dingus, The Failed Kwisatz Haderach. Cats are Kohl (named after the mineral), Preacher (named after my favorite comic book series), Riker (named after the Star Trek character), Rook and Lucanis (named after characters from the video game "Dragon Age: Veilguard"), Joseph (named after my favorite musical when I was 10, "Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat") and Spicy (she was hissy when I found them, lol.) My childhood cats were named Kaz (named after a character from the cartoon Exo-Squad) and Wintressia (that one I just made up, lol.) Of course, 99% of the time my pets don't get called their real names, but nicknames instead XD Preacher gets called Peepee most of the time..
My brother was in the process of getting a Yorkshire terrier from a breeder. He thought it was going to be a female and he wanted the name “Abby”. Turns out he ended up with a male. He was in a quandry. I reassured him: “the pooch does not understand gendered names”. So this wonderful dog was registered as “Fountains Abbey”. Great beauty spot in Yorkshire. Now this loving cheerful companion is referred to as Angel Pooch: he went to heaven at age 16.5 after a happy life. We miss him
My cats are named after my favourite scientists. She is called Ada (Ada Lovelace) and her brother is called Niko (Nikola Tesla). Ada is a black witch and Niko is a white demon with black spots.
I have a 14 year old female tabby my granddaughter named Princess Squishy Nugget, I just call her Squishy. And when I was younger my sister had a male gerbil we named Jose Cojones. It was hilarious to hear my mom talking to him, she doesn't speak a lick of Spanish and doesn't know what cojones means.
My two female cats are named after dances... with surname Sashimi. Lindy (Hop) and Samba Sashimi.
My favorites will always be the tortoises named Jennifer Slowpez and Voldetort, aswell as Repeckah the hen
Worked with a gal who had a half Chihuahua and half Pekinese dog named Pancho Wong.
My cats are the duchess Runa Hopscotch and Lady Charlotte Marbles. Runa was born with a wonky leg and she picks it up like someone playing hopscotch (vet doesn't want to amputate because it's not bothering her and looking at everything deemed it unnecessary) and I decided the other one needed a game related name and mother said she looks like a marble.
I have a friends whose Cat name is Catrick, I love that one! And I had a skinny pig called Piggie Smallz!
A friend of mine called her former cat Snixten Pälsräka, which I still think is an awesome name. It just rolls so nicely off the tongue (if you're Swedish). Sixten is a normal name, Snixten just makes it funny/cute. Pälsräka means furry shrimp.
I have a lurcher, who's name is Ozzy Pawsbourne. Or full name Ozzy Pawsbourne-Anderson (Anderson is our surname) Prince of Barkness
We have a void called Ghost. My daughter had a ginger named Vinnie- short for Vin Diesel. My ginger is a unit of a Tom cat … called Puff. We also have a tuxedo that we call The Prawn - from District 9.
We have had Cosmic Creepers for 7 months and so far, no one has got the reference.
We had a snake aptly named Alger Hiss! (Alger Hiss was a US government official who spied for the Soviets in the 50s.)
I used to have a tortoise called Speedy, and a friend of mine who lives in Belfast had a female Labrador called Louis, as she was big, black and from the South!
My first pooch was named Ralph, and he could say his name. We rescued a borzoi and named him Pushkin because he was black and white.
I had a friend who had a Black Labrador called Gibson. I laughed. (You need to know about Wg Cdr Guy Gibson to understand this one).
My neighbours have this beautiful dog -- some flavour of husky -- who I've dubbed 'Woofer' because, well, he does bark (funnily enough, because he never gets walked and the main attention is the kids telling him to "shut up") but he's cute AF and his bark isn't super annoying like the neighbour on the other side of my place. His actual name is something like 'Rick". I remember the kids calling his name out and going "... nah, Woofer's better". He responds to it and says hi to me through the fence, too. 😆
We have had Pest and Useless as cats and Downboy was our dog. Our current animal is a turtle who got named Uncle Fester ( that's who he looks like!) but is unfortunately female. My neighbor, who hated the president at the time, called his dog Jimmy Carter just so he could say things like "oh, look, Jimmy Cater has sh*t himself " and "OH,Llook, Jimmy Carter is licking his b*lls".
I have: Jaspurr Carrot (orange tripod named after Brit comedian. He has the orange brain cell) Catfael (named after the m****r solving monk. He is orange and white and soooo floofy). Watt Not Another (grey/white/rusty bits mainecoon. Built like an out house but is such a woosey.) Bob, short for kate. (Club tail tortie, runt of litter but full of tortietude) Pedro Purrscal (orange mainecoon, no brain cell, has epilepsy and keeps on going on bogus journeys. Is going through life on his looks alone).
we had an outdoor cat that we later adopted and took inside, b and named teddy; but in the meanwhile, while he was outdoors and we'd been feeding him for a few months, we were trying to think of a name, and were trying to think of something original... my husband called him 'Shtaron' - from 'Men in Black' 3 lol
My friends had the most clever name for their canine. Its pronounced as " Dee-o-gee " How its spelled? *Dog 😂
Oh lawd, here's my horde: dogs Stilgar and Fenring, named after characters from my favorite book (Dune.) Fen's registered name was supposed to be the character's full name and title (Count Hasimir Fenring) but my dog is such a doofus that I started calling him Dingus, so his registered name is Fenringus von Dingus, The Failed Kwisatz Haderach. Cats are Kohl (named after the mineral), Preacher (named after my favorite comic book series), Riker (named after the Star Trek character), Rook and Lucanis (named after characters from the video game "Dragon Age: Veilguard"), Joseph (named after my favorite musical when I was 10, "Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat") and Spicy (she was hissy when I found them, lol.) My childhood cats were named Kaz (named after a character from the cartoon Exo-Squad) and Wintressia (that one I just made up, lol.) Of course, 99% of the time my pets don't get called their real names, but nicknames instead XD Preacher gets called Peepee most of the time..
