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Dog’s names that have gone out of fashion

67 replies

AShaveAndAHarecutHalfPrice · 01/12/2019 19:39

You don’t meet any Fidos, Rovers or Rexs any more, do you?

Or, channeling Neighbours, any Bouncers.

Any others?

OP posts:
AuntieStella · 01/12/2019 20:46

About 50% of smallish blondish female dogs were called Honey

Blondish males were Goldie

missmouse101 · 01/12/2019 20:51

Pepsi

Gertie75 · 01/12/2019 20:57

I'm a groomer and over the 25 years I've worked I've heard thousands of names, the trend now it's definitely people names, I'd say the most popular male names are Alfie and Archie and females are Poppy and Daisy.

There's a few Dave's too.

ComfortablyGlum · 01/12/2019 21:21

My Nan had a Shep and a Sheba in the 70s / 80s. My dads old farm dog (Alsatian) was Major.

Little dogs when I was growing up were always Mitzi, Muffy or Misty!

Prince, Patch, Spot, Scamp, Socks and Lucky were also big doggy faves in my neck of the woods! The 90s seemed to be the catalyst for “human names” - I remember my uncle calling his new Collie Ben and my mum scolding him for giving it a ‘proper’ name!

granof3 · 01/12/2019 21:21

Had a Blackie in the end of our road, gorgeous big dog that actually laid on the pavement in front of the drive sprawled out had you had to walk round him but a very gentle friendly and beautiful dog.
We also had a Skip, Patch, Whiskey and Sindy in the family.
Our neighbours had a crazy Chihuahua called Tiny so yappy.
All from the 70s .

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 01/12/2019 22:23

Mitzi
Lady
Tiny

FizzyGreenWater · 01/12/2019 22:48

Yes - dogs are no longer named after drinks - Whisky, Brandy, Soda.

No longer named after colours - Goldie, Blackie, Snowy

No longer named after titles - Major, Prince, Lady, Rex, Duke

I knew about ten Sheps!

Hushabyelullaby · 01/12/2019 22:50

@BennyTheBall my granny had a poodle called Pepe (back in late 70's/80's)

@AuntieStella my friend at school had two labs called Honey (Golden Lab), and Penny (Black Lab)

Bonnie used to be a name you'd often hear for dogs that I haven't heard for years.

behindlocknumbernine · 01/12/2019 22:55

Bucking the trend slightly here, a friend has a Bailey and a Hennessy (dogs named after drinks), and a dear colleague has a poodle called Bonnie 🙂

Singinginshower · 01/12/2019 23:00

Floss

StCharlotte · 01/12/2019 23:05

Haven't met a Shep for a long long time. When I was wee it was more or less the law that collies were all called Shep.

Agreed. But the bitches were called Meg.

Lunafortheloveogod · 01/12/2019 23:17

I still know a Prince! (He’s not an old dog either) and our Lady passed 3 years ago now.

Broxi, Shep, Meg n Tiny (Toatie) are all ones I’ve not heard in ages though. Maybe it’s a locality thing.

Ursaminor · 01/12/2019 23:18

Trixie.

YourWinter · 01/12/2019 23:26

Dogs I remember from my childhood in the 1960s include:
Rusty (GSD cross)
Scamp (Border Collie)
Kim (Border Collie)
Brandy (Border Collie)
Whisky (Wire haired Fox Terrier)
Bonnie (Scottish Terrier)
Jeannie (Scottish Terrier)
Sheba (GSD)
Shane (GSD)
Rebel (GSD)
Satan (GSD)
Prince (Ridgeback cross)
Patch (Cocker Spaniel)
Tiny (Miniature Poodle)
Tina (Miniature Poodle)
Candy (Miniature Poodle)

aHintOfPercy · 01/12/2019 23:27

Flash.

ThrowThoseCurtainsWide · 01/12/2019 23:38

Love that someone called their GSD Satan!

Technically our dog is called Prince Eric (rescue) but we've always called him Chewy. Mostly because of the thought of standing in a field shouting 'Prince Eric'...

I feel really nostalgic reading all of your dog names, reminds me of all of the books I read as a child. Even in the last few years the fashion for dog names has changed. I can't think of any dogs I know that have more traditional names.

Dogs I know:
Mac, Babs, Charlie, Sam, Pip, Dave, Mini, Buddy, Schumi, Millie, Hugo, Boris, Megan, Magnus, Audrey, Lotta, Otto, Beetle, Sophie, Blue, Sidney, Ben, Poppy, Harvey,

lexiepuppy · 01/12/2019 23:38

Scooby
Muttley
Dougal

DontCallMeShitley · 02/12/2019 00:07

There were a lot of Jaspers at one time. Not heard of one for a good few years now.

And Nipper.

GothMummy · 02/12/2019 00:12

When I was little everyone seemed to have Alsatians that were called Prince, King and Toby.

Ariela · 02/12/2019 00:29

Candy, & Fritz, very 1960s sausage dog

YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer · 02/12/2019 05:07

names I remember from my childhood in the 70s
(dogs with no breed listed were either mutts or i'm not sure/dont remember)

Max
Chester
Honey (cocker spaniel)
Samantha (samoyed)
Bonnie (some kind of setter)
Brandy
Amos (newfoundland)
Dotsie
Jeffrey
Sandy
Major (GSD)
Bogie
Teddy (beagle)
Becky (black lab)
Frisbee
Tiny (2 of them, one was a chihuahua)
Tiger (chihuahua)

waltzingparrot · 02/12/2019 05:14

Rufty
Blaze

fuzzymoon · 02/12/2019 06:28

Nip
Nippa
Sweep
Duke
Jip
Dash
Dasha

anxioussue · 02/12/2019 06:32

skippy

StCharlotte · 02/12/2019 08:13

Sam? We had a Sam dog (he was actually Samson and his sister was Delilah) and all DH's animals were called Sam.