what is in a name?

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I'm interested to find out if anyone has stories behind naming their Staffies

I'll start. I'm a petrol head so I named Meiko after British rally driver Kris Meeke. Outside the racing community I think he's best known for the Peugeot 307 advert on the tv "Meeke not mild"

My mum got a german shepard a week or 2 before I was born called Blue. He sadly passed away in my teens and will always hold a special place in my heart.
I got my staff called Kenzie. I nipped the shop and when I come back the kids said they didn't like the name and could they call him Blue. Never told my kids about Blue so I thought it was a sign. Was an easy choice to make, so Blue it is

the rescue center called our pooch michael, which to me was just not a good dog name (didnt feel right shouting it in a field) after much name discussions my other half wanted sparticus and me being a MASSIVE buffy the vampire slayer i liked spike, i guess i won that particular discussion !!! lol !

sadly chloe was already named when we got her...and as she was originally a foster i didnt see the need to change it...(she didnt know her name). if i knew i was gonna keep her id have changed it! dont really like human type names for dogs lol!

my dogs name Bauer comes from my fav tv show 24 Jack Bauer and my other dog Pilot gets his name from cockney charlie who was one of the first people to take our breed to the usa.

Frank was named after Frank Gallagher from Shameless .... lets face it who doesnt love the rugged and rough Frank ... or the guy from Shameless! lol
Tara was a rescue so she come with her name already but she pretty much just gets called Taz now because she responses better to that.

Although when they are being cute (or I want a cuddle) its always Baba (Frank) and My Princess (Tara) and they come cozy in lol x

Dora was the nickname that that the breeders family had given her. They had young children and obviously watched Dora the explorer - lol! Apparently she kept leaving her bed and exploring the kitchen

We let our daughter name our dog, she chose Spike, the bulldog off Tom and Jerry.

We called ours Skye after our favourite place on the planet... and also because our last dog has his ashes scattered there too

Im a huge boxing fan so i named Cassius after the great Muhammad Ali, he was nearly called Sonny after Sonny liston.

Marcellus - is another cool name (Ali's middle name).

agreed, some great reasons for names.

My partner and I had been looking at names before we when to get our pup and Blaze stood out to us, So when I phoned the guy asking him what the pup looked like he said, He is red with white chest and a we Blaze of white down his nose so this sealed it for us. My last two dogs were Butch and Bud so the letter B seems to be an occurring thing with my dogs

Thanks
Stephen

Biscuit was named at the rescue centre by one of the other workers, she was originally Cookie because she was the colour of cookie dough, but we had a staffy named Cookie already, and they used to joke that she came from the broken biscuit factory because she was a bit messed up initially bless her! She has all sorts of names though.. she gets called Biscy Boo, Bug, Bubba, Monkey and Chunk haha! She'll respond to anything said in a high pitched tone..

As I adopted Nike at 9 I wouldn't dare change her name! It's not what I would have called her if I had had her as a puppy but it suits her due to her white markings Nike aka sweetheart, angel, sweet cheeks, wiggle bum, honey etc

When we got Skye her kc name was dotty blue but I didn't fancy calling out dotty in the park so cause she was blue we went through so many names and in the end we said Skye and she tipped her head we did it several times and it stuck although she normally gets called piggy or munch
Buster was originally called boss but he was so scared of everything boss just didn't suit and so as I liked the name buster we decided it would be but again he gets called buzzy mr munch and a few others I don't think I need to mention lol

we called Beau after 2 weeks of getting him, we looked at many names,
american Indian names or any to do with blue, but ended up with beau meaning dandy man, handsome, or male admirer.

We rehomed des from battersea and he was already named des then. We kept it because it suits him and when he's naughty he's Desmond :-)

Called vinnie after our favourite actor vinnie jones lol xD his original name was shadow but it didnt suit him really he was too cute and sweet! Not that vinnie jones is but meh.