Any name suggestions for black labrador here please!

[cupcakes]

We're collecting our new (and first!) dog on Tuesday. He is a 12 week old black lab and very sweet. I would like to give him a dog name as opposed to a child's name and I quite like the idea of naming after either a character from a book or a band. I also like foods and other animals species!
Current favourites:
Jem
Raisin
Otter
Inigo (yes, I know it's a proper name but it's more unusual iykwim).
tia

Dougal meaning 'dark stranger'

gary

I love food-related names for doggies, our labrador is called Donut, and she has a Jack Russel friend called Biscuit and another one called Parsnip. I first wanted to name her Juice - I don't know why.

Nigel
Merlot
Dexy
Rod(and gun)
Pepper

lol at gingies deaf doggie

oh please go for Bracken! if i had a black lab thats what i would call him

at you getting a lab, cupcakes, they are fab dogs

re: marmite

what about Twiglett?

I think Jet is a great name for a black lab.

I like Jet but we already have a (black) goldfish called that.
Current favourites are:
Magnum (because his dad is a gundog) - dh's favourite
Otter (ds's favourite)
Raisin
Inigo
I like the last 2 best.
Also have come back to Mulberry - I think it would be good for shouting ('Mul'bry!') and you could emphasise all three syllables when ticking him off like when you call children by their full names when they're naughty .

and yes, I like Bracken too!
What about Bramble?

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Otter is nice

black labs that I know are called:
Wire, Trouble, Pikea (from whalerider - kiwi owner!) and Ted.

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it's not Hill but it has given me a really good idea of what name to give him that does tie in with our surname. Trouble is I could never tell you all what we called him!

it's a no-go with dh anyhow.

Purdey or Colt

1. Nelson

2. Jake 3. Buddy 4.Bailey 5. Sam 6. Rocky 7. Buster 8. Casey 9. Cody 10. Duke 11. Charlie 12. Jack 13. Harley 14. Rusty 15. Toby 16. Murphy 17. Shelby 18. Sparky 19. Barney 20. Winston

I like Purdey - it's not too girlie is it? ( am I thinking Avengers?)
There is also a character in Love in a Cold Climate who says 'purdy' instead of 'pretty'

I love Otter and Raisin. They are lovely names.

My Mother and FIL's dog is Benson. I always quite liked that name.

wow perfumelady - is that your list or a top 20 of most popular names?

Keep discussing with dh. Now the choice is:

Otter
Raisin
Mulberry
Bramble

Otter, Raisin and Bramble are all good names.

you guessed it! it's the top 20 male dog names, max is actually no1 name but read you couldn't have that so put in nelson who is a friends dog name. hope it helped

try shouting a few of you favourite names out loud cause then your maybe think differantly about someting you've short listed.

I think we'll probably wait till we get him home (Tuesday) and then see what suits him.

Otter I like, but it has a vowel to start - hard to yell over the fields.
Raisin doesn't appeal.
Mulberry is too many syllables to yell properly
Bramble is good.