Isn’t it mean-spirited to name your dog a very popular baby girl’s name?

[Anonymous]

It's incredibly weird to give pets people names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's incredibly weird to give pets people names.

Not in the slightest. It’s incredibly weird to gatekeep what names other people choose to use for anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mean spirited is the oddest thing to think as a characterization of people who give their dogs people names, you make it sound like their primary goal in deciding on their pet's name was to annoy people with baby girls who had the same name. (I guess baby boy names don't bother you, suggesting that your irritation is that your own baby girl turns out to have the same name as some random dogs, or else someone you know got a dog and "stole" the name you were thinking of for your baby--in a particular case, say if you had a mean cousin, it might indeed be intentional and mean spirited but then talk about your nasty cousin).

Who is it you're mad at?

This. Newsflash: Nobody cares about, or is thinking about, your baby girl except you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's incredibly weird to give pets people names.

Well, then America is “incredibly weird”.

Top 10 female dog names (all people names)
Bella
Luna
Lucy
Daisy
Lola
Sadie
Molly
Bailey
Stella
Maggie

Top 10 male dog names (6/10 people names)
Max
Charlie
Cooper
Buddy
Milo
Bear
Rocky
Duke
Tucker
Jack

https://www.rover.com/blog/dog-names/

[Anonymous]

I mean, I named my son Leo even though we knew people with cats with the same name. Who cares? People love their pets.

[Anonymous]

What? No, it's not, OP. Especially with how treasured dogs are in modern society.

I didn't intentionally do this, but a dog I had as a child was named Susie and my DD's name has that nickname lol

[Anonymous]

Is it possible they dogs were already named and they just didn't change them? A lot of shelters give traditional names to their dogs, so may it was just that?

[Anonymous]

I think 99% of dog owners these days are awful, but this is a seriously stupid thing to be bothered by OP.

[Anonymous]

PP here; should we return to the era of…

Laddie/Lassie
Brownie/Blackie
Fido
Fifi
Muffin
Princess
Rebel
Sassy
Sneakers

All dog names I could think of from my 70s neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Aren’t all dog names people use “people names”? It’s not like we name them “errgruuuufffrr”

[Anonymous]

My dog’s name is Phoenix. She was abandoned, and it was a fitting name.
That was also the#1 choice for my husband for DS#2, who was born several years before we got the dog.
Flame away…

[Anonymous]

I have a 6 year old dog named Archie. He was a rescue and it’s the name he came with. Never heard anyone in modern times actually named Archie (not counting extremely old tv show). Then the royals had an Archie. Sometimes I worry people might think we purposely named a dog after the Royal baby as some sort of racist insult to them.
But at 6 years old, I’m not going to rename my dog.

[Anonymous]

With a houseful of girls, we got a boy dog and gave him our favorite boy name. Not at all concerned about people who may be offended by that, they clearly have too much time on their hands.

[Anonymous]

Wth? Mean-spirited? No. Not in the least.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand how it would be mean-spirited. Our kids are grown, we got a new dog and never once looked at what baby names are currently popular. We picked the name we liked for our dog and it happens to be a people name.

But also, why are you only asking if it is mean-spirited for girl names and not boy names?