Pink Dog Names

440 names in this category, each with its meaning and background. See all color categories.

Pink is genuinely on your dog, even though no dog is pink all over. It is the colour of the nose and paw pads on any dog with little melanin, and in winter it is the colour the nose turns before darkening again in summer — a harmless, well-documented change called snow nose.

It is also, judging by the searches that reach this page, what people say when they mean soft, cute or feminine. Both readings are fair. This page covers the names that suit a pink-nosed dog literally, and the ones that suit the idea of pink.

Abbey Rose

Abelia

The genus Abelia, a group of flowering shrubs in the honeysuckle family

Afrodita

Spanish and Russian form of Aphrodite, from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη

Aika

No documented meaning in the sources checked

Aiko

From Japanese 愛 (ai) "love, affection" and 子 (ko) "child"

Aimeé

AiméE

French feminine given name, from aimée, "beloved"

Akemi

From japanese 明 (ake) "bright" and 美 (mi) "beautiful"

Akina

A Hawaiian surname of unclear origin

Amei

Recorded as a feminine given name in Upper German

Amor

Means "love" in Latin, Spanish and Portuguese.

Amora

A modern coinage based on Latin amor, "love"

Amore

Italian form of Amor, the Roman god of love.

Amorette

German diminutive formed from Amor and the French suffix -ette

Amoria

Recorded as a feminine given name in english

Amorita

Amour

French form of Amor, the Latin word for love.

Amy

English form of the Old French Aimée, meaning "beloved"

Anthea

From greek ἄνθος (anthos), "flower, blossom"

Anzu

Recorded as a feminine given name in Japanese

Aphie

April

From the month April, probably from Latin aperio, "to open, to uncover"

Arissa

No documented meaning in the sources checked

Aster

From the flower, from Latin and Greek ἀστήρ (aster), "star"

Avril

French form of april

Avrora

Dawn or Aurora in Italian

Ayami

A feminine Japanese given name, written 文美, 綾美, 綾実, 礼美, 彩未 or あやみ

Azalea

From the flower, ultimately from Greek azaleos, "dry"

Azalia

Recorded as a rare feminine given name in American English

Balloona

Bebbe

A term of endearment in Italian, often used for young girls or pets.

Bella Rose

Bellarose

Bellini

An Italian surname, a patronymic or plural form of Bellino

Berrylee

Bery

Biba

Recorded as a feminine given name in Croatian

Bijou

French word meaning "jewel"; mostly used as a name in French-speaking Africa.

Blanka

Form of Blanche in several languages

Bloofy

Bloom

An English given name, recorded for both girls and boys

Blosem

Blossom

From the English word blossom, from Old English blōstm

Bluma

From Yiddish בלום (blum), meaning "flower"

Bonbon

French term for a sweet or candy, often used to refer to small, delightful treats.

Boop

Boto

Portuguese name for several dolphins and river dolphins of the Amazon and Orinoco.

Braelynn

A modern English name combining 'briar' and 'lynn'.

Briar

English word for the thorny plant

Bricia

Recorded as a feminine given name in Mexican Spanish

Brixi

A Czech surname, derived from the Latin name Brikcius

Brya

Recorded as a feminine given name in modern English; also a genus of Caribbean flowering plants

Bubblegum

Bubbles

Cady

No documented meaning; recorded as an English given name and as a surname

Caisy

Calla

The name of a white-flowered plant; also linked to Greek kallos, beauty

Calyx

From greek kálux, husk or pod; the outer part of a flower bud

Candie

Derived from 'candy', referring to a sweet treat

Candy

Diminutive of Candace, influenced by the English word candy

Carmelia

Recorded as a feminine given name in Romansh

Carmine

Italian masculine form of Carmen, also used in Hebrew, Portuguese and Spanish.

Cataleya

Variant of cattleya, a genus of orchids named for William Cattley

Cece

A diminutive of Cecilia and other names containing a similar sound.

Ceesy

Celeste

Italian form of Caelestis; also the Portuguese, Spanish and English feminine form.

Cerise

Means "cherry" in French

Cerry

Recorded as a rare feminine given name in German

Champagne

The sparkling wine produced in the Champagne wine region of France

Chanel

The name of a famous French luxury fashion brand.

Cherry

From the English word for the fruit, from Latin cerasium and Greek kerasion

Cherrybell

Chery

Recorded as a rare, archaic French masculine given name

Chichi

A diminutive of Chi

Chouchou

A French term of endearment meaning 'favorite' or 'darling'

Chuchu

Recorded as a given name in African languages, used for both men and women

Cinta

Means "love" in Indonesian, from Sanskrit cintā; also means "ribbon" in Spanish and Catalan.

Cippie

Coral

From the English and Spanish word coral, for the skeletal deposits that form reefs

Coralie

French female given name meaning "coral", from Latin coralium

CorazóN

Crystal

From the English word crystal, from Greek krystallos, "ice"

Crystal Cody

Cutey

Cutie

Dahlia

From the flower, named for the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl

Dainty

Daisy

From the English word for the white flower, from Old English dægeseage, "day eye"

Daisy Mae

Daisya

Dalena

Recorded as a rare feminine given name in english

Daliah

Daliah is recorded as a given name in modern Spanish and in Hebrew.

Dango

A traditional Japanese dessert made of rice flour, typically served on a skewer and often enjoyed during festivals

Dania

Italian diminutive of Daniela; also an alternate transcription of Arabic Daniya

Darlene

From the English word darling with the suffix -lene

Darlin

A term of endearment of Old English origin

Darling

A term of endearment used for someone beloved.

Darlyn

No documented meaning in the sources checked

Dawn

From the English word dawn, derived from Old English dagung

Daysi

A given name recorded in Spanish (Latin American), feminine

The pink that is actually on your dog

A pink nose is a melanin story. When melanin is low the nose reads as a light tan; when it is absent entirely the nose and paw pads are pink. Snow nose is the seasonal version — the nose lightens through winter and usually darkens again in summer — and it needs no treatment.

This matters for naming only because it settles what you are naming after. A pink nose on a white or cream coat is a softer look than a pink nose on a black dog, and the two want different names: cherry and marshmallow for the first, something with more contrast for the second.

Four groups that hold up

The names on this page sort into four readable groups. As with purple, the ones below are the ones with an actual link to the colour.

Flowers
rose and rosie, peony, dahlia, azalea, camellia, petal, posy. This is the largest and safest group, because a flower name is a real name first and a colour second. posy is the old-fashioned one worth reviving.
Sweets
candy, bonbon, macaron, sherbet, bubblegum, marshmallow. Funny without being a joke, and short enough to call. The risk is the vet’s waiting room: there is usually another biscuit-named dog in it.
Love words
amore and amora, corazón — Spanish for heart — and cinta, which means ribbon in Spanish and Indonesian. These are the group that says pink without mentioning it, and they travel well in a household that speaks more than one language.
Shade words
coral, which is an animal before it is a colour; cerise, French for cherry and a deep purplish-red rather than a pale pink; carmine, a redder pigment historically made from cochineal insects; and champagne, which is the pale one.

Why some of these look like they do not belong

The full list below was produced by an automated pass that had to assign between three and five colours to every name in the database. A minimum of three is not a judgement about the name; it is an instruction about the format. So the list contains genuinely pink names, and it also contains names that are here because the pass needed a third colour.

pink and purple are the only two colour categories on this site still open to search engines, and this is why. They were the only ones that matched real queries — pink dog names, pink names for pets, cute names for pink pets — while the other fifteen competed on data that could not support them and have been removed from the index.

Picking one

Pink names tend to be short, which is the opposite of the problem the purple page has. rose, posy, candy and petal are all one or two syllables with a clear opening consonant, and that is close to ideal: easy to learn, easy to carry across a field, hard to confuse with a command.

The one thing worth checking is the command collisions. A dog called Shay will hear stay all day; a dog called Kay will hear the start of come. Neither is fatal, but it is free to notice it before you have taught the name rather than after.

See also: Purple dog names · Girl dog names · Dog names meaning love · Small dog names · peony · posy · cerise · corazón · cinta

Common questions

Can a dog actually be pink?

Not all over. Pink appears where melanin is absent — the nose, the paw pads, the skin under a thin white coat — and in puppies, whose noses often darken over the first weeks. A dog that looks pink overall is a white or cream dog with pink skin showing through.

What is snow nose?

A seasonal lightening of the nose, most common in winter and most visible on light-coated breeds like Labradors and Golden Retrievers. It typically darkens again in summer. No treatment is needed, and it is not a sign of illness.

What does cerise mean?

Cerise is French for cherry, and as a colour word it means a deep purplish-red rather than a pale pink. It is often confused with carmine, which is a redder pigment — historically produced from cochineal insects — and with fashion fuchsia.

Why does this list contain names that are not pink at all?

Because the categories were built by an automated pass that had to give every name at least three colours. The requirement produced the list rather than describing it, which is also why fifteen other colour categories have been taken out of the index.

Sources

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