Dog Names That Start With R

Racer

English word for a person who competes in races

Racki

A surname, also spelled Rački

Radella

Radha

Means "success, prosperity" in Sanskrit.

Radimir

A Slavic name, used in Russian, Polish and Czech

Rado

Recorded as a Slovene masculine given name

Radscha

Raelyn

A variant of the name Raelan, often associated with the meaning 'wise guardian'.

Raf

A short form of Rafael.

Rafa

Spanish short form of Rafael.

Rafael

Form of Raphael in various languages

Rafe

Variant of Ralph; also a Hebrew diacritic meaning "weak, limp"

Raffael

Italian form of Raphael, meaning 'God has healed'

Rafferty

From an Irish surname, from the given name Rabhartach, meaning "flood tide"

Raffi

A diminutive of Raphael, which means 'God has healed'

Raffy

Shortened form of Raphael, which means 'God has healed'

Ragger

Raggi

An Italian surname; also recorded as a given name in Old Norse

Raggy

Ragna

Short form of Old Norse names beginning with the element regin, "advice, counsel"

Ragnar

Modern Scandinavian form of Ragnarr, from Old Norse ragin- "counsel" and hari- "army"

Ragner

Recorded as a given name in Danish, a masculine name

Rago

Italian for 'to rake' or 'to gather'.

Ragu

Romanian clipping of Dragu, from drag

Rahni

Raiden

From Japanese 雷 (rai) "thunder" and 電 (den) "lightning"

Raika

No documented meaning in the sources checked

Raiko

Recorded as a given name in Japanese and Estonian

Rain

From the English word rain, from Old English regn; also a variant of Rein.

Raina

Alternate transcription of Bulgarian Райна (Rayna); also a Kashmiri and Italian surname

Rainbow

From the english word for the arc of multicoloured light that can appear in a misty sky

Raine

A form of the name 'Rain'.

Rainer

German form of rayner

Rainey

Derived from 'rain', symbolizing freshness and vitality

Rainier

Derived from the name of a majestic mountain in the Pacific Northwest.

Rainy

A form of the word rain, used as a given name in modern English

Raisa

Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian form of Herais; also from Yiddish roiz, "rose"

Raisha

A given name recorded in Jewish (feminine) use

Raissa

Portuguese form of Herais; also an alternate transcription of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Raisa.

Raj

Means "empire, royalty", from Sanskrit राज्य (rājya)

Rajo

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

Rakita

Rako

Ralf

Variant of Ralph

Ralfi

Ralko

Rally

Ralph

From the Old Norse elements rað "counsel" and ulfr "wolf"

Ralphie

Diminutive of Ralph

Rambler

Rambo

No documented meaning in the sources checked

Ramey

Rami

Arabic for "archer, marksman"; also the Arabic name for the constellation Sagittarius.

Ramin

A name of Persian origin meaning 'joyful' or 'happy'.

Ramiro

Spanish and portuguese form of a visigothic name, from gothic rana "wedge" or ragin "law" with mers "famous"

Ramona

Spanish and Old German, the feminine of Ramon and Raymond — 'wise protector'.

Ramone

Recorded as a given name in English and Brazilian Portuguese

Ramsey

A name of Scottish origin meaning 'wild garlic island'.

Ramsy

No documented meaning; recorded as a given name in English

Ranco

Derived from 'branch' or 'bough'

Randa

Means "scented tree" in arabic

Randall

From an English surname derived from the medieval given name Randel.

Randoro

Randy

Diminutive of randall, randolf or miranda

Rane

English surname borrowed from Marathi राणे (rāṇe)

Ranger

English word for one who patrols a territory, as a park or forest ranger

Rango

A name meaning 'a place of living' or 'one who is strong'

Rani

From Sanskrit rāṇī, meaning "queen"; also from Hebrew ran, "to sing".

Rania

Alternate transcription of Arabic رانية (Raniya)

Ranie

No documented meaning in the sources checked

Raniel

Recorded as a given name in Hebrew and in Brazilian Portuguese

Ranira

Ranja

A name of Arabic origin meaning 'to see' or 'to gaze'.

Ranka

Feminine form of the masculine name Ranko

Ranko

Derived from Slavic ranŭ, meaning "early"

Ranma

A name associated with the main character from the anime and manga 'Ranma ½', who has the ability to transform into a girl when splashed with cold water.

Ranno

Recorded as a rare masculine given name in Estonian

Raphael

From the Hebrew name רָפָאֵל (Rafaʾel), meaning "God heals"

RaphaëL

From the Hebrew name רָפָאֵל (Rafaʾel) meaning "God heals"

Rascal

Rasco

A bacronym for "Realistic, Ambitious, Serious, Cautious, and Organized"

Rasha

Means "young gazelle" in Arabic

Rask

A Scandinavian term meaning quick or swift

Rasko

Rasmus

Scandinavian, finnish and estonian form of erasmus

Rast

Rasta

A person who practises Rastafari, or a short form of several unrelated names

Rastan

Rasti

An Argentine construction toy, from the German verb rasten, "to secure, to place firmly, to lock into its place"

Rastina

Rasto

Ravena

A given name recorded in Brazilian Portuguese, feminine and rare

Ravi

Means "sun" in Sanskrit

Rawley

No documented meaning in the sources checked

Rax

Ray

Short form of Raymond; also an English word meaning "beam of light"

Rayan

Arabic: luxuriant, well-watered, satiated; Persian: smart, wise, thinker

Rayden

Variant of Raiden, a name from the Japanese word for thunder and lightning

Rayder

A surname, and the name of a fictional character.

Rayla

A name of the character Rayla in The Dragon Prince