Are there any good long form names for Sadie and Ruby?

[Anonymous]

Just because the president used a human name on a dog doesn't make it a dog name. We aren't talking about naming a kid Rover or Spot.

[Anonymous]

I loved Sadie (would have been short for Sarah) until everyone I mentioned it to told me how they knew the cutest dog named Sadie.

[Anonymous]

Sadie and Ruby are my two favorite girl names. Ignore the haters. (No girls for us, so I love when others get to use them!)

[Anonymous]

I do know both babies and dogs named Ruby and Sadie. Other names this is true for: Oscar, Baxter, Dexter, Molly.

That said, I love love the name Ruby. Sadie I'm so-so on. But Ruby is adorable. Yes it's an old lady name, but I love old ladies!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Both of those names are common now and won't seem like baby names when your baby is an adult.

I get it, though, because I wanted to name our daughter Millie and I thought it's a dog name, but couldn't really commit to the full-versions (Mildred, Milicent, Amelia, Camille, Camila......to name a few). I still think it's an adorable nickname though. My name is Lori and it's a nickname, so my husband tried to say it didn't matter.....but Millie alone is a dog name. Sadie and Ruby are not dog names. Well, I can see them being dog names, but when I meet a child named Sadie I don't expect it to be short for something.

?? weird. Out of those 3, I actually think of Millie as less of a dog name than Ruby or Sadie. I actually really like all 3 names (as people names or dog names) but I just don't see how Millie is definitely a dog name whereas Sadie and Ruby are not.

Millie is literally a dog name since Millie was GHWBush's dog while he was in the White House.


Point stands that all 3 of these are gone as either dog or ppl names. Sadie and ruby are "literally" dog names because they are the names of my neighbors' dogs.

So? My neighbors' dogs' names are Jeb, Sam, Lucy, Henry, and Rascal. Only one of those is a "dog's name." This whole idea is stupid.
I hear Sadie, Sadie Married Lady! when I hear Sadie, and I love it! There is no rule outside this rarified DCUM culture that you have to have a long form name or run a name choice through some rubric.

[Anonymous]

This thread is from 2013.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both of those names are common now and won't seem like baby names when your baby is an adult.

I get it, though, because I wanted to name our daughter Millie and I thought it's a dog name, but couldn't really commit to the full-versions (Mildred, Milicent, Amelia, Camille, Camila......to name a few). I still think it's an adorable nickname though. My name is Lori and it's a nickname, so my husband tried to say it didn't matter.....but Millie alone is a dog name. Sadie and Ruby are not dog names. Well, I can see them being dog names, but when I meet a child named Sadie I don't expect it to be short for something.

?? weird. Out of those 3, I actually think of Millie as less of a dog name than Ruby or Sadie. I actually really like all 3 names (as people names or dog names) but I just don't see how Millie is definitely a dog name whereas Sadie and Ruby are not.

Millie is literally a dog name since Millie was GHWBush's dog while he was in the White House.


Point stands that all 3 of these are gone as either dog or ppl names. Sadie and ruby are "literally" dog names because they are the names of my neighbors' dogs.

So? My neighbors' dogs' names are Jeb, Sam, Lucy, Henry, and Rascal. Only one of those is a "dog's name." This whole idea is stupid.
I hear Sadie, Sadie Married Lady! when I hear Sadie, and I love it! There is no rule outside this rarified DCUM culture that you have to have a long form name or run a name choice through some rubric.

Yes, that was my point-that just because a name is "literally" a dog name because a dog you know has that name doesn't mean it is definitively and exclusively seen as a dog's name all the time and could be a perfectly fine human name too so it's silly to say that one shouldn't use a name just because it is a dog's name too. I once knew a dog named Kathy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is from 2013.[/quot

so what?

[Anonymous]

I like the name Ruby and believe it works for an adult. If I had had a girl, it was one of my top names.

Sadie is fine, too. I know someone who recently used that name in this area, but I think it's still fairly uncommon.

[Anonymous]

Sadie, Sadie, married lady
See what's on my hand
There's nothing quite as touching
As a simple wedding band

Oh, how that marriage license works
On chambermaids and hotel clerks
The honeymoon was such delight
That we got married that same night...

-Funny Girl

[Anonymous]

My grandmother was named Ruby. As she was old as long as I knew her, I never thought of it as a "young" name.

[Anonymous]

My dog happens to be Ruby, and the name yields nicknames that aren't all that flattering. Ruby Dooby, my niece calls her Booby, etc.