How did you choose your Yorkie's name?
 

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.

Buddybear. Dh wanted to call him "Buuuuud", like in the Cosby show where the smallest girl gave her neighbour friend the name of Buuuuud because she didn't like his real name.

I thought, no way. My younger son saw his picture and thought he looked like a bear.

I decided I could live with Buddybear. . . So that name stuck.

I was thinking about Toby, but apparently I don't get much of a choice. Lol. Dh doesn't know it yet but eventually we will have another one which I will name.

We had a list for Teek of names we thought about. Tobias was at the top of the list and I would have called him Toby for short. However when I said Tobias or Toby he just did not respond in any way. The very first time I said Teek to him he just perked up and he still does that same thing 8 months later. he loves his name and his ears go up every time I say his name.

For both of mine (Lucy and piper ) it was the first name I thought of when I saw them for the first time.

Hi! I've been absent for a long time and added a 2nd Yorkie! The very 1st Yorkie I had was the runt of the litter so she was tiny, but I thought "she's such a little Twinkie!" So I gave her one of those elaborate names for show dogs, Zsa Zsa's Princess Twinkle, and just called her Twinkie. My 2nd Yorkie, when I joined this forum, I got at 8 weeks old. Her name was Barretta, but I knew I would change it. She wouldn't acknowledge that name anyway. I tried Bella and that was ignored. My 1st Yorkie I would sometimes call my little Boo, so I spoke Booberry and my little pup came running. Boo is her chosen name. It was a good thing I didn't call her Bella because just before Boo turned 1, I adopted her half sister who was born a few months after her. Because the new girl was already accustomed to Bella I kept it. Now the 2 of them have a celebrity name of BooBella (bubela) and they are loved.

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We named him bear but one day our cute little Yorkie went into the pantry and got a potato and took it to his bed. We changed his name to Spud.

"Rin" is short for Rinesme, which is a Japanese name. My daughter acquired Rin for her 16th birthday, and at that time she was crazy for everything Anime (Japanese comics of a sort). So we call her Rin, but the name always makes me think of a Wren or little bird....which is perfect because she's so tiny.

Tyson, well, I had him for well over a week before we decided on a name. I wanted something that fit his personality. I was in the kitchen making dinner and once again "little no name" was sitting with my husband trying to chew on his ear. He was always biting my husband's ear and Rin's ears. So DH was pulling him down, and said "who do you think you are, Mike Tyson?" I came out of the kitchen and said "that's it, that's his name!" Obviously I wasn't gonna name him Mike, so Tyson it is :D

This is somewhat embarrassing...
I named Tinkerbell after Paris Hilton's dog... (SMH)
I was 16, so that is my excuse - but her name fits her perfectly, it was meant to be :D

Do you know that Renesme is a name from the Twilight series as well? It is the name of the daughter of Bella and Edward. I think it is a really cool name partly because my middle name is Renee.

Anyway, how old is Rinesme now? My daughter just got a Yorkie for her 17th birthday this year and her name is Raksha. She is also crazy about Anime as well! When/if my daughter moves out she will take her Yorkie with her, which will be sad because I have the full brother to her and it will be sad when they are separated so I hope she doesn't move far so they can still see each other. LOL

That is so cute!! When I got Spice I already had my Sugar . I named her Snickers at first because she reminded me of a Snickers bar. But then a friend said how about Spice ? And she loves that name. Her name on papers is something Happy something. I would have to get them out to see but I didnt like any of the names in her family! LOL So I have Sugar n' Spice!

I love reading all the names and the reason's why they were chosen, too cute!

I dreamed of owning a Yorkie for many years so therefore I wanted a name that would be unique! After days of researching the meanings behind names, I came up with Yazmin Divine.
The name Yazmin is of an Aribic origin, pronounced as JAZ-min. It's also the modern English spelling for Jasmine which came from the Jasmine Flower. The Jasmine flower means "A *gift* from God". I couldn't imagine her name being anything different because I do believe my flower's a gift from God ;)

I'm a bit of a scifi geek and one of the shows I watched was "Sanctuary". One of the main character's name was Helen Magnus. The name Magnus just stuck with me and when I saw the meaning (Great), I thought was a perfect name for a yorkie personality!

Bf actually named ours. I"m terrible at picking names. I've wanted to change my own name since forever. I've hated my own name ever since I learned how to spell it in kindergarten bc I didn't like the way it looked, but could never think of anything better. Anyway, bf said let's call her Uni after my favorite food, which is uni the sushi (sea urchin) so yes another japanese name here. We thought about our next one would be called Unagi (another fave of mine) but we ended up with Toto who is a failed foster (he came with that name). We call him Turtle bc he's so slow on walks, but while fetching he is a lightning bolt! But I like the sound of Uni and Toro too. There is an Uni and Toro on Youtube. They are from Japan!

I also had the honor of naming another foster who sadly passed away a few years ago. He was very small and was found as a stray. I can't believe he survived on the streets. He was so matted he had to be completely shaved down and he looked like a chihuahua bc of it. When I went to pick him up to go home I was talking to him trying to come up with a name. I immediately thought of Scraps (from Corpse Bride) bc he was SO skinny and Scrappy (as in Scrappy Doo from Scooby Doo) bc he was tough, so it stuck. And as you can see from my signature, his name just grew and grew and he kept "earning" titles. El Lenguo and the Handicaped Ninja are esp my faves.

I was planning on naming him Bentley cause it's a city in Yorkshire, England. But when my daughter and I were picking him up she called him by the name my dh had suggested - Sgt. Pepper - and he ran to her. So that was it. Anyway, Bentley seems too stuffy a name for him. We call him Pepper.

BTW my dh is the drummer in a 60s band so it fits.

Attachment 407259Actually, our selection was based on extensive research and life experiences. When that didn't work - we went on Skype and our Grandkids (all three) decided on the name Charlie!