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 are some space-inspired ideas if you just can’t quite come up with something unique on your own.

 

Arabella

One of two spiders that were sent into space in 1973 as part of an experiment to see how weightlessness would affect the their web building.

 

 

Tycho

A crater on Earth's moon that was named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.

 

 

Nunki

Nunki is the second brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius that, along with one other star, makes up the handle of the Teapot asterism.

 

 

Lyra

A small constellation often represented on star maps as a vulture or an eagle carrying a lyre.

 

 

Ceibo

A star in the constellation Chamaeleon that was named after the national flower of Uruguay.

 

 

Wendell

A crater on Mar's moon Phobos that was named after the American Astronomer Oliver Wendell.

 

 

Laika

The Soviet space dog that was the first living creature to orbit Earth in 1957.

 

 

Ditso

An exoplanet, otherwise known as WASP-17b. "Ditsö̀" was the name given to the first Bribri people by the god Sibö̀ in Talamancan mythology.

 

 

Kuma

Kuma is a faint star that makes up part of the "head" of the "dragon" in the constellation Draco.

 

 

Teebo

An ewok in the "Star Wars" franchise, who was initially a scout, then became apprentice of the shaman Logray and eventually a respected warrior in the Bright Tree Village on the Forest Moon of Endor.