Dog Names

The right name is out there. Let's find it.

Built on real data from tens of thousands of dogs in the Pets in the City community — and a healthy respect for the fact that you'll be yelling this name across a park for the next fifteen years.

Find the perfect name

Answer a few quick questions about your dog, rate a handful of sample names, and get eight personalised picks — each with a reason it fits.

See what's popular

Explore real name popularity from tens of thousands of dogs in the Pets in the City community — all-time favourites, birth-year rankings and rising stars.

Browse all names

Wander the full curated collection A–Z — meanings, pronunciations and how common each name is around our daycares.

Curated collections

Themed lists picked by hand — classic, funny, nature-inspired, food-inspired and more. Every name verified, with meaning and pronunciation.

Popularity insights are based on anonymised, aggregated records from dogs cared for by Pets in the City. They reflect our Auckland community and are not a national census. Birth-year views group dogs by date of birth; they do not prove the exact year a name was chosen.