Most of our dogs have had fairly commonplace names, not just Whitey or Brownie, but things like Bruno (Doberman) , Casey (Aussie/Samoyed). My little Chipper was about the size of a chipmunk when he was a tiny puppy, so we named him Chipmunk; which naturally was shortened down to Chipper.
Maybe the most unusually named dog was our little Teacup Pomeranian. She was all white with black on her face, and a little bit of black mixed in her coat here and there. Right from the time that she was a tiny puppy, she carried herself like royalty. We tried out several different names for her, but none of them seemed just right. Then, my husband said we should give her a Biblical name, and call her "The Queen of Sheba" He explained that the actual Queen of Sheba was an Ethiopian, so she would have been very dark-skinned, which went with Sheba's black face, and her long flowing coat was like a queenly ermine robe.
The name suited her perfectly, and from then on the was the Queen. She strutted around the house, and always had to lie on the pillow when she was on the bed, not just the bedspread. A Queen had to lie on a pillow !
She was a wonderful dog, and when we lost her, it was heartbreaking. There will never be another like our little Queen of Sheba.
