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Dog names are the most-searched naming question there is, and almost every answer online is somebody's taste dressed as a ranking. The list below is a count: each name appears in public pet-licence registers and shelter records, and its position comes from the share of those registers it holds.

Two rules do more work than any list. A name should carry across a park — a clear vowel at the end travels further than a clipped consonant — and it should not rhyme with a command you intend to teach. The guides underneath go into both.

Rare dog names, and why the rare band is not the rare end

Rare dog names, and why the rare band is not the rare end

One-syllable dog names: the shortest, strongest, most male slice here

One-syllable dog names: the shortest, strongest, most male slice here

Human names for dogs, and how much more they are used

Human names for dogs, and how much more they are used

Dog names ending in -o: the most male ending in the catalogue

Dog names ending in -o: the most male ending in the catalogue

Two-syllable dog names: the shape two thirds of them already have

Two-syllable dog names: the shape two thirds of them already have

Long dog names, and the one kind that costs you nothing

Long dog names, and the one kind that costs you nothing

Elegant dog names, and the one thing the tag is really measuring

Elegant dog names, and the one thing the tag is really measuring

Dog names ending in -a: the sharpest female signal here

Dog names ending in -a: the sharpest female signal here

Dog names ending in -y, where the ending decides the sound

Dog names ending in -y, where the ending decides the sound

Unique female dog names, and how they differ from the male ones

Unique female dog names, and how they differ from the male ones

Unique male dog names: 2,284 nobody else picked

Unique male dog names: 2,284 nobody else picked

Unique dog names: 8,053 that almost nobody uses

Unique dog names: 8,053 that almost nobody uses