Naming your Yorkies - how did you come up with yours?

[yakkwak]

My family is unusually (ahem, throat clear) diverse in their political leanings. Thank goodness is love supersedes strong opinions at holidays. LOL. When our Yorkie pup came into our lives, I asked our youngest son to name him. At the time he was working for a (US) presidential candidate's institute .... with the word Liberty in its name, so he chose the name Liberty. I liked that as it is such a unifying concept. Can't imagine him as named anything else now. He is Mr. Stinky Butt when he's in trouble.

[TxVicki]

My Willow was named by her Foster Mom before we adopted her . I added the middle name Grace, so she is Willow Grace.

My Allie who we adopted 2 1/2 yrs ago, she was an owner turn in to Rescue and her was Alex, I didn't like it as it sounded like a male so I renamed her Allie Nicole.

My Luci, she was a rehome I adopted. Her previous owner had named her Juicy and I didn't like that name. So I had to come up with something that sounded familiar. So I named her Luci Chevonne.

[mrsedwardslpn]

Originally Posted by JuliannaB

I thought I'd start this fun thread on how we got our furrbaby's names. I find it interesting how people came up with the name. My Bailey was named so because when he joined our family he had mostly black hair, with a bit of beige. As I like Baileys Irish Cream from time to time, and the beige reminded me of Baileys, I decided on to name him that. Hindsight, it is usually a girl's name, so most people assume he is a she. How did you come to name your YT what you did?

My baby girl honey got her name because of her pretty honey colored and black fur. I call her honey bun lol.. my moms pups are mocha and frappe I love it

[Carmeow]

Luma is named after a character in a Nintendo video game. I wanted something that my BF would like but that was still cute. I love her name. She is my little shooting star

We picked Rosie's name a few weeks before she was due to come home with us. She is named after my grandma. Strangely enough my grandma passed away a few days before we were going to pick Rosie up from the breeder. That change of plans led to us bringing her home the day after my gma passed. It really helped me cope with not being able to be there with my family to have my little Rosie home with me while I was on grievance leave from work.

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

Wylie Flupiter Fitzsmudge - named after poet Eleanor Wylie; 'Flupiter' is bc of his innate 'floopiness', and Fitzsmudge as a nod to Fitzgerald, but with whimsy.

Marcel Verdel Purcell - Marcel after Marcel Proust, Verdel after the dog in "As Good As It Gets". Purcell bc it rhymed and made his name complete.

Pfeiffer - we wanted a more androgynous name for a girl and out of our list, this just totally fit her. We decided to let her be like Madonna or Cher, where she didn't even need a middle or last name .

I'm so glad you posted. I knew how you chose Pfeiffer, but I have always been curious about Wylie Flupiter Fitzsmudge and Marcel Verdel Purcell's awesome names! I particularly like saying Marcel Verdel Purcell.

[life4life]

Jasmin was the name we picked out for a future child. Since we decided to put that off. We decided to give it to our doggy. She is our princess. Now the problem is picking a new name for the future child. Hehe

[elainfavourite]

Simba is of course named after the lion king!!! Hahahah, big personality in a small package :P And he's like a kitty sometimes

[Simba1827]

Lion King is hands down one of my favorite movies from childhood, and still love it. We thought Simba was the perfect fit for our little guy (matched his personality too). When we got our little girl we mutually agreed that no other name then Nala would work for her. =]

[Jasmean]

Yoshi comes from the Video game Super Mario brothers...he was a boy dinosaur so everyone automatically thinks she's a boy! She is learning to JUMP which is one of the main things the character is known for!

[Lovely Izzy]

I love reading all of your stories on how you named your little boys and girls.

When I got my first yorkie my daughter was little and we just keep throwing names out and the one she repeated became her name, and that name was Bailey.

My new little girl, we just wrote down names we liked and then narrowed it down. We finally decided on Isabella and call her Izzy for short.

[sandy simpson]

We named our dog Bear. He went into the pantry one day and took out a large potato and carried it to his bed. So we had to change his name to SPUD. It fits him because his has big floppy ears and looks like a big tatoe!

[vnauman]

Our 6 yr old grandson helped us in naming our yorkie....he knows we are die hard Green Bay Packer fans and suggested 'Packer'...we stayed in the same theme and decided that Lambeau was just right!!

[dawn27]

I named our first two, my daughter named our third and out fourth was a little harder.

None of us could agree on a name so we each put two names in and drew names out of a hat. It just so happened that both of her names first and middle (of course) where my husband choices. So he was very happy . . and that is how we got our Ruby Bella !!

Both were from his stupid Sy-Fi show Super Natural.

[yorkiefan_]

Originally Posted by yorkiefan_

I would have named your boy Sue.

Johnny Cash - A boy named Sue - Live at San...

[Quadraphinic]

When my wife and I met our 1st Yorkie, the name Megan popped into both our heads at the same time. With Gina, the breeder had all the puppies named, and we just couldn't come up with a better one, although we do call her Gina Boo, along with some assorted others, depending on the situation.
Cheers Quad & Gina