Dog Names Meaning River

Adair

English surname derived from the given name Edgar

Adare

From Irish Áth Dara, "oak ford"; a village in County Limerick, Ireland

Amur

Recorded as a masculine given name in Ossetian

Ayr

Scottish Gaelic Inbhir Àir, "confluence of the River Àir"; a town in Scotland

Bahro

The name of a river in a fictional universe

Banja

In Serbo-Croatian, a spa

Beazley

An English surname

Beira

A Portuguese place name; also recorded as a feminine given name in literature.

Bowen

From a Welsh surname meaning "son of Owain"

Braylen

Braylen is of English origin and means 'descendant of the riverbank'.

Bree

Anglicized form of Brígh; also a short form of Brianna and Gabriella

Buckley

English, from the Old English 'bucc', a buck, and 'leah', a wood — a buck clearing.

Buford

A given name of English origin

Cariba

Carlyle

A name of Scottish origin meaning 'from the bog' or 'castle by the river'

Clifford

Often considered to mean 'cliff shore' or 'ford by a cliff'

Clyde

From the River Clyde in Scotland, from Cumbric Clud, of uncertain origin

Congo

A name for the Congo River, the Congo Basin, and two African countries

Danube

Darby

English surname from Derby, from Old Norse for "animal" or "deer" and "farm, settlement"

Deckard

A surname meaning 'dweller by the deck or bank'

Flannery

From an irish surname, anglicized form of flannghaile, from flannghal, "red valour"

Floyd

Anglicised form of the Welsh name Lloyd, from llwyd, meaning "grey, grey-haired"

Gabrina

No documented meaning; recorded as a given name in Afrikaans and Venetian

Henley

From the English surname Henley, derived from the names of English towns

Hudson

From an English surname meaning "son of Hudde".

Huntley

Derived from Old English meaning 'from the hollow' or 'meadow with a river'

Innes

Anglicized form of Aonghas

Isar

Recorded as a rare Norwegian masculine given name; also the name of a river in Austria and Bavaria.

Isca

A Brythonic word for "flowing water"

Isoko

No documented meaning in the sources checked

Kabili

Kalindi

A name for the Yamuna river in later Hindu literature

Kawa

The Polish word for coffee; also a Japanese word for river

Keeli

No documented meaning; recorded as a modern English given name

Kelby

From Old English ċild, "child", and Old Norse býr, "settlement"

Kelsea

Variant of Kelsey, with the spelling influenced by Chelsea

Kelvin

Klint

A variant of the name Clinton, meaning 'settlement by the river'

Kobuk

Kobuk is derived from the name of the Kobuk River in Alaska, which is named from the Inupiat language meaning 'to be carried' or 'to float'.

Kyler

English masculine given name, a blend of the sounds of Kyle and Tyler

Layne

Variant of Lane

Leith

From a Scottish surname, from Gaelic lìte, "wet, damp"

Maritza

Derived from the name of a river in Eastern Europe.

Monro

A Scottish surname

Monroe

Scottish surname meaning "from the mouth of the Roe", a river in Northern Ireland

Montrose

Recorded as a rare English given name; also an English surname

Nile

Name of the famous river in Egypt

Niles

An English surname derived from the given name Neil

Nilo

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Neilos, and of the Nile River

Nilos

Quinby

An old English name meaning 'wanted' or 'from the woman of the River Quinsy'

Reka

A Faroese name from Old Norse vreka

Remington

From an English surname, from Rimington in Lancashire, "settlement on the Riming stream"

Rhonda

Probably a blend of the sounds of Rhoda and Linda, perhaps influenced by Rhondda

Rieno

Rilka

Rio

The Spanish and Portuguese word for "river"

River

From the English word for a flowing body of water, ultimately from Latin ripa, riverbank

Rivera

User-submitted: given name in American English, used for girls and boys

Romilly

English surname from Norman town names, from the given name Romilius

Rumley

Sanford

From an English surname, from a place name meaning "sand ford" in Old English

Shannon

Irish name meaning 'old river' or 'sacred river'

Sido

Styx

The river in Greek mythology that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld

Taki

Old Danish form of Tage

Tyla

Feminine form of Tyler, or a combination of the phonetic elements ty and la

Tyne

Recorded as a rare feminine given name in English

Tyner

Recorded as a given name in american english, masculine, rare

Wakiza

Warta

Polish Warta, a river in Poland; German Warthe, Latin Varta

Waverly

From the rare English surname Waverley, from a place in Surrey

Wayde

A variation of the name Wade, which means 'to go' or 'to ford a river'.

Werra

German name of a river in central Germany

Wexley

Wilton

From English town names meaning "willow town", "well town" or "town on the River Wylye"

Xiego

Yahara

Yukon

The official name of a territory of Canada

Zabrina

Recorded as a rare modern american english given name for girls

Zaire

From the name of the African country of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo

Zolan