Need help naming my puppy

[agilebasenji]

another thing to keep in mind is how the name shortens. so nismo would naturally shorten to nizzy, which i think is cute. my personal thing is i'll never give a name to a dog that i don't want it to live up to - so things like chaos, nipper, killer, etc are out. but some people like names like that.

[ilt3mybasenji]

yeah I know what you mean. She is not going to have any name like that.

[YodelDogs]

You may want to wait until you get her and see what kind of personality she has. Sometimes when I look at an animal a name just pops right in my head. Sometimes it can take a while though.

You may want to check out http://www.lowchensaustralia.com/names.htm. Be sure to bookmark it though as it can take hours to look through every topic.

[eeeefarm]

@i<3mybasenji:

haha. ill try yelling different names out my back door. I just can not think of any ideas at all. Maybe they will come to me once i pick her up from the airport but every time i have picked a puppy up i have always had ideas and this time i am just drawing a blank.

There you go. "Enigma"

" A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand."
" A riddle or paradox."

[renaultf1]

@agilebasenji:

my personal thing is i'll never give a name to a dog that i don't want it to live up to -

lol, or screaming rock n' roll singers… I have one named Ozzy (named after Ozzy Osbourne - registered name Timar's Black Sabbath). Care to guess which of my 4 basenjis is the loudest complainer when he wants to come out of his crate.

[tanza]

My first boy was Bushbabies Obviously Jazz, call name OJ… Around the time of OJ Simpson arrest and trial back in the early 90's.... yikes the comments were so annoying that I started calling him O GEE.

You can also think of names and then see what it might translate to in the Living Swahili Dictionary http://www.kamusi.org/

[giza1]

@agilebasenji:

another thing to keep in mind is how the name shortens.

I like the name Pistol, I think it would suit a Basenji, but I don't think I would use it.
-Joanne

[ilt3mybasenji]

ok thank you everyone! i will post pictures of the little girl when i get her and her name!

[Anne-Marie]

I like also the name Shanty, sounds cheerful

[krunzer]

I always had Jazzi for a girl picked out and right now I am liking Lola. And I think my next boy's name would be Jasper.

[giza1]

Hmm, we had a goat named Jazzy, and my brother has a snake named Jasper.
-Joanne

[ilt3mybasenji]

i have a kitty named jazzy and a kitty named jasper lol.

[krunzer]

@i<3mybasenji:

i have a kitty named jazzy and a kitty named jasper lol.

LOL, well I guess you won't be using those names!

[MacPack]

I named Chipley for the town where he was picked up as a stray, it's different (till another person at the park last week called their dog Shipley and both dogs responded, theirs and mine!) and easy to say, shortens to Chip. The shelter named him Benny but that didn't suit at all, I called him Chipley immediately and it stuck.

So have several names in mind, try them out and see what sticks. Sometimes the dog responds to one sound over another . And yes, it needs to sound acceptable to be yelling out the back door at night, haha!

Don't agonize too much, and if what you first pick doesn't seem to fit, change it; after all, she is a basenji, she won't come to anything you call her!

[ilt3mybasenji]

haha no although i really like jazzy.

[ilt3mybasenji]

i looked at one of the sites someone posted on here and actually found a few different names i really like so i will try them out and see what works for her when i get her in two weeks.

[AndrewnShango]

I like the name Violet. Or Clover.

[kjdonkers]

Last year we got Honey Money's Elinor (arabic for light of god). We wanted to give her a call name that is related to her breeding name. So we searched the internet and found that Eleonora is the European version of Elinor. And Lela is a Spanish abbreviation of Eleonora. So Lela it was. It's perfect for her and she responded to it from the start. So keep associating!

[Tammen]

Ask and post the registered name any how it might give us some ideas.