Do you love to hunt? When you describe your life or your interests to someone, does the word hunting always come up?
If you’re a hunter and have just gotten yourself a canine companion, then you’re going to want to find the perfecting hunting dog name. The relationship between a hunter and their dog is uniquely special. Since they're attuned to your every move, your dog’s name is especially important.
Male or female, we have come up with a list of unique hunting dog names as well as a few familiar and famous names. We know you want your hunting dog name to embody their personality, and maybe even a little bit of yours, so we’ve chosen a variety of cool names we think you’ll love.
Enjoy searching for that absolutely perfect name for your hunting dog.
Top Hunting Dog Names
1. Ammo – For the dog who is essential to your hunting skills.
2. Arrow – If you don’t use a gun, you probably use a bow.
3. Babe – An affectionate term, and also the name of the blue ox that Paul Bunyan relied on for some of his more strenuous work.
4. Bear – You don't have to be hunting one for this to be a great name for your faithful companion.
5. Beast – Your big, fierce hunting dog is ready to find the prey for you!
6. Blaze – She tears through the woods like a blaze of lightning!
7. Bogart – Humphrey Bogart was a real tough guy in those early movies.
8. Boone – Daniel Boone was an early American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him a folk hero.
9. Bowie – Jim Bowie was a 19th century pioneer who played an important part in the Texas Revolution with his famous Bowie knife (probably invented by his brother, Rezin Bowie)
10. Brutus – Tough guy Brutus helped assassinate Julius Caesar in ancient Rome.
11. Buckshot – A good alternative to Shotgun.
12. Buffy – After the famous, fictional vampire slayer — a good name for your female dog!
13. Bullet – It may be an obvious hunting dog name, but it’s a good one! It was the name of cowboy Roy Rogers’ dog.
14. Caliber – For the powerful hunting dog.
15. Camo – As in the camouflage you wear in the woods.
16. Captain – Because sometimes you might think of your faithful hunting companion as your captain.
17. Chase – A good reminder for your dog to stay motivated.
18. Colt – You could also call your hunting dog Colt .45!
19. Coyote – A wild dog.
20. Crusoe – Stranded fictional adventurer who had to survive on his own with the only other survivor of the shipwreck: a dog.
21. Cujo – The big scary dog from Stephen King’s well-known book.
22. Dakota – This is a fighter's name!
23. Derringer – A type of gun.
24. Dingo – A wild canine and the largest terrestrial predator found in Australia.
25. Drake – A male duck.
26. Dutch – Tough-guy name for a tough hunting dog; there was a gangster named Dutch Schultz in the “Untouchables” days.
27. Eagle – Maybe your dog is so fast, it’s as though she’s flying.
28. Eastwood – Like Clint, tough!
29. Fang – Watch out, little foxes!
30. Fierce – I bet she is when she catches her prey!
31. Gandalf – A character from The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings. Great for a gray pup!
32. Gauge – A term used to express the size or weight of ammunition.
33. Gunny – A slang term for the seventh enlisted rank in the U.S. Marine Corps, Gunnery Sergeant. It sounds really tough when it’s used on TV’s NCIS.
34. Hawk – Moves fast, misses nothing!
35. Huckleberry – Independent character who helps a slave escape to freedom in Mark Twain’s novel Huckleberry Finn</i>; you can call him Huck for short!
36. Hunt – This one is obvious.
37. Hunter – This one is also obvious, but isn’t it a nice name for a great dog?
38. Jekyll – One of the split-personalities of the protagonist in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
39. Kemo Sabe – An affectionate term used by Tonto, the Lone Ranger’s sidekick.
40. Killer – Grrrrrr, just hold him back until it’s time for him to get into the chase!
41. King – The top dog, the very best!
42. Klondike – One of those frozen lands in the north (in the Yukon territory of northwest Canada) where dogs not only hunt, but pull sleds full of people and equipment.
43. Kodiak – Another frozen land, the main city on Kodiak Island in Alaska.
44. Legend – A great name for a one-of-a-kind best friend!
45. Lieutenant – A respected military rank for your right-hand hunting partner.
46. Lightning – Is your dog fast?
47. Magnum – A type of firearm or the cartridge that is fired from it.
48. Mallard – A wild duck.
49. Marlowe – Last name of Raymond Chandler’s great fictional detective, Philip Marlowe, first seen in the novel The Big Sleep.
50. Maverick – An independent-minded person or animal who doesn’t go along with the group, originally an animal that would stray from the rest of the herd
51. Moriarty – Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis in the Arthur Conan Doyle book series.
52. Old Blue – Just a good hunting dog name!
53. Outlaw – An old western term for the bad guys who didn’t adhere to the law.
54. Pistol – A good hunting dog name for an obvious reason.
55. Quixote – If you have an idealistic hunting dog!
56. Rambo – Famous, fictional tough guy played in the movies by Sylvester Stallone.
57. Ranger – A keeper of a park or forest; a member of a body of armed men employed in enforcing the law.
58. Remington – A type of firearm.
59. Ruger – A brand of firearm.
60. Sacagawea – A Native American Shoshone woman who helped to guide Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition.
61. Safari – Trek through the wilds.
62. Samson – Biblical strong man who could only be defeated by trickery — not by strength.
63. Scarlett – The willful heroine of Gone With the Wind</i>; she would have caught her prey every time were she a hunting dog!
64. Scout – The one on the lookout on your expedition, probably your faithful dog!
65. Sherlock – First name of the great, fictional detective Holmes.
66. Shiloh – An ancient village in Palestine written about in the Bible as a place where the Ark of the Covenant was kept; also a site in Southwest Tennessee where a major civil war battle was fought.
67. Shoshone – A Native American tribe, the tribe of Lewis and Clark’s woman guide, Sacagawea.
68. Silver – The fictional Lone Ranger’s horse.
69. Sounder – Beloved hunting dog of a boy in the novel Sounder.
70. Spade – The tough-guy detective Sam Spade from the novel The Maltese Falcon.
71. Spec – Short for specifications; you lay out the specs and your faithful dog follows them.
72. .38 Special – A type of firearm.
73. Thor – The Norse god of thunder, a tough guy for sure.
74. Thunder – Your dog faithfully thundering through the forest with you after your prey.
75. Tonto – The Lone Ranger’s faithful sidekick.
76. Trapper – The guy who lays out the traps to catch the prey.
77. Trigger – Cowboy Roy Rogers’ horse.
78. Watson – Famous literary detective Sherlock Holmes’ constant companion.
79. White Fang – A wolf dog who is a boy’s companion through various dangerous adventures, from Jack London’s novel White Fang.
80. Whitetail – A kind of deer.
81. Winchester – A type of weapon.
82. Wolf – A wild animal that some dogs have been bred with to make them stronger and tougher.
83. Yukon – A territory in northwest Canada where dogs are strong and tough.
And there you have them, 83 hunting dog names for your favorite furry companion! We hope you enjoy them, and don't forget to SHARE with friends or other dog lovers!
