Are you looking for a name for your new dog that’s a little different? A name that, when you call it at the dog park, won’t have 3 different pooches running up to you? Here is some inspiration if you just can’t quite come up with something unique on your own.

 

Female

• Bammy. A Jamaican flatbread made by frying a mix of cassava root and salt in coconut oil, dipping it in coconut milk, then refrying it.
• Tula. The first clouded leopard to give birth from artificial insemination using frozen male gametes. She lives at the Nashville Zoo.
• Lady Aragorn. The name of one of Angela's cats on the US adaption of the show "The Office".
• Rialla. A genus of dragonfly containing only one member: Rialla villosa.
• Zazel. The stage name of acrobat Rossa Richter who became the first "human cannonball" in 1877 when she was launched from a "cannon" at the Royal Aquarium in London.

 

Male

• Garbanzo. A popular bean, also known as a "chickpea".
• Tybalt. The fiery-tempered cousin to Juliet in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".
• Clarence. The guardian angel in Frank Capra's 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life".
• Baku. In Japanese mythology, Baku are supernatural beings that devour dreams and nightmares. They are said to have been made from the spare parts from other animals by the gods.
• Teos. An ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 30th Dynasty, sometimes known as "Tachos" or "Djedhor".

 

Either/ Or

• Lynx. One of four species of solitary cat that live in remote northern forests of North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Fizzgig. The dog-like companion of Kira in the movie "The Dark Crystal".
• Nappo. A diamond-shaped chocolate-covered nougat candy produced in Germany since 1925.
• Jenga. A popular game involving stacking wooden blocks.
• Fallow. The shade of pale brown named after the color of withered plants in a fallow (plowed farmland).