100+ Dog Names Inspired By Literary Characters

Sometimes it can be difficult to find inspiration to name your new dog. We hope this article helps you choose a name for your puppy. So, here are over 100 dog names inspired by literary characters.

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Amazing Dog Names Inspired By Literary Characters

• Hercules
• Matilda – from Roald Dahl
• Alice – Alice in Wonderland
• Fluffy – from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
• Milo – Catch-22
• Oscar – Oscar Wilde
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• Syntax
• Gandalf – Lord of the Rings
• King – Stephen King
• Falstaff – Henry IV
• Capote or Truman – Truman Capote
• Beatrice – Much Ado About Nothing
• Share
• Romeo – Romeo & Juliet
• Fable
• Bullseye – Bill Sikes’ dog in Oliver Twist
• Vonnegut – Kurt Vonnegut
• Leopold – Ulysses
• Toto – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Inky
• Ginny – Harry Potter
• Tock – Watchdog of the Phantom Tollbooth
• Tolkien – JRR Tolkien
• Cujo – from Stephen King’s book
• Austen – Jane Austen
• Leo – Leo Tolstoy
• Sirius – Harry Potter
• Daisy – The Great Gatsby
• Faulkner – William Faulkner
• Orwell – George Orwell
• Jip – David Copperfield
• Lyric
• Blue – The Sound and the Fury by William Falkner
• Ghost – Jon Snow’s four-legged companion in Game of Thrones
• Titan
• Quill
• Perdita & Pongo – The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• Kerouac or Jack-Jack Kerouac
• Wallace – David Foster Wallace
• Hansel – Hansel & Gretel
• Twain – Mark Twain
• Luna – Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter
• Snowy – Tintin’s dog in The Adventures of Tintin
• Laska – Levin’s hunting dog in Anna Karenina
• Loki
• Scout – To Kill a Mockingbird
• Max – How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Buck – Sled dog from Call of the Wild

Beautiful Dog Names Inspired By Literary Characters

• Callisto
• Heidi
• Clifford – The beloved big red dog
• Maya – Maya Angelou
• Agatha – Agatha Christie
• Violet – Lemony Snicket
• Jot
• Hamlet
• Pip – Great Expectations
• Fang – The lumbering boarhound in Harry Potter
• London – Jack London
• Buddy / Toby / Bailey / Ellie / Bear – A Dog’s Purpose
• Arya – Game of Thrones
• Luna
• Puck – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• White Fang and Kiche – White Fang by Jack London
• Othello
• Atticus – To Kill a Mockingbird
• Fern – Charlotte’s Web
• Siren
• Holden – Catcher in the Rye
• Hera
• Scribe
• Einstein – Watchers by Dean Koontz
• Edgar or Poe – Edgar Allan Poe
• Snowball – Animal Farm
• Charkie – Curious George
• Gretel – Hansel & Gretel
• Nana – The Darling family’s pet in Peter Pan
• Artemis
• Moby – Moby Dick
• Spartan
• Atlas
• Bond – James Bond
• Arwen – Lord of the Rings
• Winn-Dixie – Because of Winn-Dixie
• Toby – Used by Sherlock Holmes when he needs help sniffing out a clue
• Juliet – Romeo & Juliet
• Dot
• Sansa – Game of Thrones
• Ribsy – Companion of Henry Huggins
• Hemingway – Ernest Hemingway
• Marlowe – from the Raymond Chandler series
• Rhett – Gone with the Wind
• Pippi – Pippi Longstocking
• Pilot – Mr. Rochester’s dog in Jane Eyre
• Prim – Hunger Games
• Novella
• Fitz – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Sirius
• Ripley – The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Lad – Lad, A Dog
• Marley – The mischievous dog who made us laugh and cry in Marley and Me
• Raven – from Edgar Allan Poe
• Shiloh – Dog saved from the abusive owner in Shiloh
• Gatsby – The Great Gatsby
• Watson – Sherlock Holmes
• Old Dan and Little Ann – Where the Red Fern Grows
• Shakespeare – William Shakespeare
• Quixote – Don Quixote
• Gulliver – Gulliver’s Travels
• Dickens – Charles Dickens
• Dodger – Oliver Twist
• Huckleberry or Huck – Huckleberry Finn
• Nyx
• Lassie – Lassie Come Home
• Ophelia – Hamlet
• Sherlock – Sherlock Holmes
• Aries
• Argos – the faithful dog in the Odyssey
• Yeller – Old Yeller
• Hunter – Hunter S. Thompson
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• Joyce – James Joyce
• Scarlett – Gone with the Wind

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