[JadeD]

I thought it would be fun to see where some of our Yorkie names comes from. If there is any background feel free to share that as well. I hope this is intersting for everyone to read. I know I would love to hear how others chose their pups names.

I will start.

Teek. I brought him home and he wouldn't respond to his old name. My husband kept saying he looked like an Ewok from Star Wars, so I looked up Ewok names and read a bunch and Teek caught my attention. I said Teek to him and his ears perked right up. I called him Teek and he came right to me. Within 2 days he knew that was his name and responded well to it.

Raksha. Raksha is my daughter's puppy. She got to pick her name. Raksha was a character in a book she had read. It means "protector" and it is also the name of the wolf mother who took in the child Mowgli in The Jungle Book. My daughter loved the name and the character so that became her name. It fits her well as she protects her smaller brother.

Rowan. I was getting Raksha's brother, so I was leaning toward an R name. My daughter suggested Rowan and at first I blew it off because one of my all time favorite books is The Rowan, by Anne McCaffery. It is about a girl, so I saw it as a girl's name but hers is really a title more than a name. I ended up going back to the name and looking it up online and it is traditionally a Celtic boys name and it made my short list of names and ultimately the one we decided on.