Naming your Yorkie
 

I thought it might be interesting to hear how everyone came up with their furbaby's name. I'll start.

My husband and I could only agree on one name "Brandy"
When we picked her up from her breeder, she already came with the name Madison. Her mother was Little Bit O Heaven and her father was Little Toy Soldier. We officially named her Little Brandy Madison, which I think fits her perfectly, even though me mostly just call her Brandy.

George is named after my Springer Spaniel I had as a child who my brothers named after my Uncle:) I love telling people his name because it's such a big name for such a little boy:) His full name is Sir George Maxamillion of Park Ave:)

I named Wallee after the pixar move Wall e..
Decided to spell it differently so everyone would know how to pronounce it.

Little Miss Scarlett got her name because I'm a writer and wanted to name her after one of my favorite literary characters. And she's got Miss O'Hara's spunk! :)

The night we brought Chip home we went through hundreds of names for him but nothing really hit us. We had some favorites, but nothing that really stood out, although DH was partial to Chip. We left it as undetermined and that something will come to mind eventually and went to bed. Well, the next day Chip ended up super sick - like almost dead sick (I will spare you the long story) - so DH rushed him to the vet. The vet needed a name for him to register him in the system and DH just told them his name was Chip. When he told me, he said we could change it if we wanted, they just need a name for him for their system. It stuck and we love his name... it suits him well! I can't explain it, but he is such a little Chip! We have several nicknames for him as well.

Smokey came to us with the name and we decided to keep it. I know everyone says that dogs will adjust to new names easily, but he had already been through one name change (previous name was Coby) and he had been through so much in his short 6 months and had so many anxiety issues that we didn't want to change anything else and we wanted to focus on the more important things, like making him feel safe, secure, and loved. Smokey seems to suit him too, although we usually shorten it to Moke or Mokey.

Joel is named after Joel Madden from Good Charlotte:D Sometimes he wears his hair like him, lol

Scoobers was named Scoob at the pound (they thought he was a girl too!) We were still picking names when we got there Milo saw how small scoobers was he was like barely 6 under pounds at thetime and Milo looked at him then back at me and said, it's just a Scoob!

It was so cute it stuck, he's a goof ball cluts and it evolved into Scoobers somehow.

Elvis came with his name but the kids love Elvis (movies music etc) so when my daughter heard his name she picked him.

Princess our mini schnauzer got her name because we already had a jester and a king pkus we had a foster around we nicknamed the queen bee.

Aww cute name :3
I read above, I like the name Scarlett.
I havent gotten my yorkie (yet) so we'll see what happens..

Rachel I always wondered where Joel's name came from! Joel and Benji Madden are from Maryland. I met them a couple of times when I worked for a radio station here:) I love Joel's hair in the pic:)

Awesome! I named my old guineapig Benji who already had a natural mohawk,lol and I was goind to name Joel Benji, but Benji seemed like a common name for a dog, so it was Joel:cool:

When i went to the breeders to pick my baby the only name that came to mind was sam although everyone calls him sammy lol either way it suits him perfectly

Max was going to be a Winston, Winnie, but my father renamed him because of his intensity. Then the name was going to be "Maximus Decimus Meridius" for Russel Crowe's Gladiator. Our Italian neighbor pronounced it Maximo, and it stuck and we combined it with his breeder's given name. :)

Teddy is named after Teddy Roosevelt because he loves the outdoors and has a zest for life. :animal36

Yes, but it fits the big personality that comes in a small package! :D

People can't believe I named a little hairball dog Max....but then they meet him and tell me it fits, lol.

When we got Mandie, her name was Sophie. My dear hubby thought that was too "fancy" for us country bumpkins. lol

So, we started throwing out names of females in our lives past and present. He had a friend in high school named Mandy. Then, he gave me a choice of Mandy or Candy. I chose Mandy (spelled it with an "ie") out of those. She doesn't have a documented middle name but I call her Mandie Jean.

My sheltie mix (Mandie's older brother) got his name from my dad's name - Shelby...and Dale Earnhardt. (black car and he is a black and white sheltie mix). Sooo..Shelby-Dale lol