Literary male dog names

Thursday March 31st, 2011

With a dog named Balzac or Goethe, there's no need to advertise your M.F.A. with black turtlenecks or suede elbow patches. What's more, these literary names will make your boy feel like the brainiest dog in obedience class.

Aesop

Aladdin

Atticus

August

Balzac

Bond

Booker

Brutus

Byron

Caesar

Chaucer

Conrad

Cormac

Cyrano

Dante

Dashiell

Dickens

Doonesbury

Dylan

Edgar

Emerson

Faust

Faulkner

Frankenstein

Garp

Gatsby

Goethe

Grendl

Gulliver

Hamlet

Hansel

Hobbit

Homer

Iago

Irving

Jabberwocky

Jeckyll

Kafka

Keats

Kipling

Lancelot

Macbeth

Macduff

Merlin

Michener

Oberon

Othello

Percy

Petrarch

Pinter

Puck

Quixote

Romeo

Sendak

Seuss

Sherlock

Sinclair

Ulysses

Wallace

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