What's in a name? A lot, clearly. Veterinary Pet Insurance, the country's largest and oldest provider, tallied to the top 10 most popular dog and cat names from its database of over 466,000 insured pets. Granted, there are tons of animals out there that are uninsured, but I can think of creatures with nearly each of these popular names that I either know personally, or that belong to a celebrity pet owner.
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Of the insured animals, VPI then went ahead and selected the top 10 oddest names for both dogs and cats. You know you're curious so read more.
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Do you have pets with any of the most popular, most unusual, or even more unusual names? Share them in your comments below.

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Admiral Toot!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the weird names! So awesome! I thought B-Bop was a weird one but now I see it's no where near as awesome as some of those!
1Funny, I have/had dogs named Max and Lucy. My husband's family has dog named Bailey and my coworker's dog is named Sophie. Sheesh!
2hahaha meatwad.
3i didn't realize bailey was so popular! when i got him from the pound, he was called "meaty" a few days w/ him and i came to understand why.... he eats everything in site and he's all muscle..
4Spatula??! What the eff.
5Wow and I thought celebrities came up with some weird names for their kids, sheesh ha-ha.
According to the list I had my names reversed. I had a cat named Molly and a dog named Charlie.
6Yeah my Chloe's name is the #2 cat name!
It may not be unique but she is.
I noticed none of the other cats in our family are on the common names list - No Daphne, Miranda, Athena, Lyra and now Appa.
AS for the dog names - obliviously our dog Nike is unique but I was ouching for an even more unique original whacked out name. She was going to be named either 'Pair of Pants' or 'Can of Soda'. those were going to be her name because my nephews and I thought they were hilarious names for a dog - we imagined going outside a yelling for her "Here PAIR OF PANTS! Come here CAN OF SODA!" I had so much fun when I was a teenager and my German Sheppard was named Tucker.
We'd go outside and he'd start to misbehave and I'd shout at the top of my lungs "TUCKER!" and my neighbors thought I was yelling the F bomb. It was hilarious. Even more funny when Tucker would aggravate my dad and force my dad to chance him down the street.
My giant dad with the loud deep voice would shout, "TUCKER! Come back here you TUCKER!" Only sometimes he'd say 'Tucker' and as the dog made him sweat more and made him angrier and angrier my dog's name was changed to a very very loud F-Bomb. "_UCKER! YOU _UCKER GET BACK HERE!" Parents covered their children's ears, chaos reigned, my brother and I would be rolling on the front lawn laughing our arses off.
Anyway, old dog names when I was really little - Pokey, Bandit, Kipper, and Rico. I named my first cat Ralph cause when she meowed it sounded like she was saying "Ralph".
7My rabbit is called Myosotis Anabaena, Ana for short, that's quite unusual, but then again, most properly bred rabbits have long and weird names. Myosotis is the breeder's mark, Forget-me-not's latin name, and Anabaena is an algae, the breeder is also a microbiologist
My other rabbit is called Ludo, I'm really not that inventive.
Hilarious with Tucker, btw
8My fur baby is called Parker, after Dorothy Parker (even though he's a boy). After I named him people asked if he was named after Tony Parker, or Parker, Colorado (the state we live in). Apparently Parker isn't a popular name for dogs... but I've met a few kids who share his name.
9I named my first Himalayan girl Peyton, but she was most often known by her nickname, "Weeness." She earned the tag well, as she was a tiny little wisp of only 6 lbs. and some change, and she was on occasion known to be a fiesty peckerhead.
10I like to name my animals after things that I really like.. We have Temperance, Skye, Leopold..
I named our 3 new puppies after one of my favorite book series, The Wheel of Time. Perrin, Paet, and Min (Elmindreda).
11Miss Fuzzbutt? That must have been a fuzzy cat.
12I guarantee Peanut Wigglebutt is the name of a boxer....
13My new puppy's name is Chloe. I actually thought it wasn't popular!! Oh well. =/
14
snoop kitty kitty!
15(I have a Mr Whigglesworth.)
16this is not a joke! My Cats name is jukustavelabwakiestukulututupapa
17I named my cat "Ultimo Bob the Kitty Cheese Pants of Doom."
Or "Ultimo Bob" for short.
The cat was female.
18Ummm, why are 8 out of 10 names for dogs girl names??
does this mean that 8 out of 10 dogs are female?
does this mean that most male dogs have original names and females have popular names?
statistically speaking, this is a confusing list.
19now how is this for weird?? i had a pet named sassperellawhatchawannavonaviche Louisa aka Sassy lou. i thought it was the name of an instrument on "I love Lucy"
20This is my little GIZZY MONSTER,I swore I would never have a male dog until him.He is awesome.
21Those are just too cute.I wish I had had some suggestions when I got my Monkie Bear,lol.She's a pickanese,sound it out,lol.And my friend that gave her too me raises them.She names them by what she thinks they look like.I didn't see it till the first night I had her and she got scared.She had her heard down and when she looked up at me.I saw that she looked like a monkey.After that,my daughter wouldn't let me change it either:)The bear part is another story,lol.
22What about Fritz VonPissNsh*tz?????We just call him Fritz though
23Our cats' names are Toonces and Shamu.
My siberian husky's name is Silver Skyy Harper Seattle....Seattle for short, and we have a Hurricane Katrina rescue doggie named Gypsy Nola.
24I have a Maggie! She is a full breed beagle! She was the runt of the litter of 7. Her one brother I have also. His name is Copper, but we call him Butterball, Fat-so...but I think now Meatwad would fit him just fine..LOL
25My cat's name is Snugglebunnies!
26My cat's name is Baby Lupin Myers. Evil little pest but I love her to death.
Just thought I'd share.
27did no one else notice that two of the top 10 cat names are names from twilight? bella and charlie. lol.
28We have two cats, one is named Mister Bonkers, after the aquabats song, and the other Bibu, which at the time we thought ment 'long tail' in Japanese, but according to my b/f's Japanese mother is means 'wart'.....har har
29I have two wonderful dogs, Peggy Sue (aka Seniorita Wiggle-Bottom, Snore-a-rella, and Wiggle Butt Squeaker Head) and Troy (aka Sir Prance-Alot and Twinkletoes). I can't really take credit for their original names, as they were both rescues and were named by the shelters.
30Our chocolate lab was really tiny when we bought her and we called her "Piddler on the Woof". Piddler for various reasons, she peed everywhere and she was a little piddly thing. We have another one named Helen Gurley Brown, she's a chocolate lab, and goes by just Helen. We also call her Helen "Killer"......she thinks she's tough.
31I have two dogs, male and female...
Appropriately named: Beauty and the Beast
I'll leave it to you to decide which gets which name.
32My mom's dog's name is domino incus spot (first middle n last).hahhahahahahahahah
33my cat is named Bonzaii Kitty, or BK or even meow meow kitty. she does everything with an exclamation point. no other kitty like her ever
34My little boy cat is ROMEOW, and his sister is ROMY..Im Michele..(Romy and Michele), and our tortoise shell cat is SPUMONI, and orange tiger mama is DREAMSICLE. How cute our those?
35my cat's name is Snugglebunnies, but my boyfriend calls him Captain Annoying
36my cats name is cali but i call her coco chanel. not very original but i like it.
37My friend's cat name is Funky Burrito Monkey Cat
38I have Sadie, Bradie...and they are the proud parents of Chauncey....
39I now have a female cat named Billie. I had a cat a few years back who's name was KickAss. She was quite the sweety. I used to get dirty looks from the vet's office when I would tell them her name!
40We have a couple odd names for our animals. First a little Yorkie/Silkie Mix. Her name is Laquita, Queen of the Snordinistas, and we have a Pug named Stink Nugget
41when i was younger my parents let me name our kitten and i choose Goldi-locks...somehow over the years her name changed to Boogee(i have no idea where that came from). Now I have my cat, Piper, and we recently got another cat and couldn't think of a name so we either call her Kitty or LC(came from calling her little kitty all the time before we thought of a name). Lame calling a cat Kitty, but it suits her well!
42My friend has a cat named Sir Stinkalot
43oh yeah n she has a cat name kitty kitten.
44oh yeah n she has a cat name kitty kitten.
45Hmmm...
Cats:
Blue Kitty (AKA Critter)
Yodie (Named by a 3 year old)
Julia
Dogs:
Dougal MacKenzie
Gordon
Brigs
Straton
Horses:
Senor
Bobbie Sox
Toby Keith
Brooks
Dunn
Tuscany (Annie)
Miss Sweet Apple Pie (AKA Pie, Pig Pen, Sweetie)
Snakes:
46Hazel
Rosie
Jedi (Jedidiah)
Geraldine
Fred
Autumn
I have two chihuahuas and their names are BARBIE AND COOKIE.
47My 4 year old named Barbie, go figure on that one! LOL
I own a Parakeet named Spryte and a rabbit named Wyth. i just ended up taking the 'i's out and inserting a 'y' they both cause a ton of trouble but i luv em both *cuddles*
48Our cats are named Professor Wigglebottom, Kitty Meow Meow, Captain Poopy, Mustachio, and Mileu.
49My cat's name is Lowtide Moonshine. Not so weird, but the first time I've known it to be an animals name.
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