Food Dog Names

There's nothing your pup loves more than a tasty morsel, so why not give them a classic food-inspired name? These food names will have you giggling!

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Alfredo
Meaning: The creamy pasta sauce; also means "wise counsellor" or "counsellor of the elves"
Angus
Meaning: Scottishexceptional
Applejack
Meaning: Cereal or drink
Asiago
Meaning: cheese
Bacon
Meaning: English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
Bailey
Meaning: Courtyard within castle walls; steward or public official.
Barley
Meaning: classic brewing ingredient
Basil
Meaning: King
Beans
Meaning: informal terms for a human head
Beignet
Meaning: French deep-fried pastry
Berry
Meaning: Small Fruit
Biscuit
Meaning: Any of various small flat sweet cakes or cookies. Literally means "twice cooked".
Brandy
Meaning: Alcohol
Brewski
Meaning: For the beer lovers
Brie
Meaning: Creamy cheese
Brownie
Meaning: A legendary good-natured elf that performs helpful services at night. Also a small square of rich chocolate cake.
Bud
Meaning: Beer staple
Burrito
Meaning: a flour tortilla folded around a filling
Buttercup
Meaning: any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus
Butterscotch
Meaning: a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
Caesar
Meaning: Salad anyone?
Candy
Meaning: Bright, Sweet
Cappuccino
Meaning: Espresso-based coffee drink
Caramel
Meaning: having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown
Caviar
Meaning: delicacy consisting of salt-cured roe
Chai
Meaning: Black tea flavored with spices and herbs
Chalupa
Meaning: Specialty dish of south-central mexico
Cheddar
Meaning: cheese!
Cheerio
Meaning: Cereal
Cheesecake
Meaning: a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire
Cheeto
Meaning: chips
Cherry
Meaning: Cherry Fruit
Chestnut
Meaning: any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
Chew
Meaning: Biting or gnawing, especially of food.
Chewie
Meaning: Chewbacca's nickname in the star wars franchise.
Chili
Meaning: very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
Chip
Meaning: A word short for a chipset, or a splinter. Also the diminutive form of Charles.
Chiquita
Meaning: Little gift; little girl.
Churro
Meaning: fried-dough pastry
Cinnamon
Meaning: The Spice
Clementine
Meaning: Citrus fruit
Cocoa
Meaning: Powdered Chocolate
Coconut
Meaning: tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
Cookie
Meaning: Small files that hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website.
Crisp
Meaning: pleasantly cold and invigorating
Crumble
Meaning: fall into decay or ruin
Crunch
Meaning: chew noisily
Cucumber
Meaning: a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
Cupcake
Meaning: small cake baked in a muffin tin
Curry
Meaning: Indian dish
Dijon
Meaning: Divine, godly.
Donut
Meaning: a small ring-shaped friedcake
Dorito
Meaning: chips
Dumpling
Meaning: small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
Eclair
Meaning: pastry filled with a cream and topped with chocolate icing
Espresso
Meaning: Italian coffee
Fig
Meaning: a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
Flapjack
Meaning: pancakes
Frito
Meaning: Chips
Fry
Meaning: French Fry
Fudge
Meaning: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
Gelato
Meaning: Italian ice cream
Ginger
Meaning: Reddish Orange Color
Godiva
Meaning: Chocolate brand
Grits
Meaning: boiled cornmeal
Guinness
Meaning: Famous dark beer
Gumbo
Meaning: southern dish
Hershey
Meaning: Chocolate brand
Hoagie
Meaning: sandwich
Honey
Meaning: Sweet As Honey
Honeydew
Meaning: melon
Jameson
Meaning: Whiskey
Java
Meaning: A type of coffee grown on the Java, an island of Indonesia.
Jellybean
Meaning: Small, sweet candy.
Kahlua
Meaning: Coffee liqueur
Kale
Meaning: Man
Kimchi
Meaning: Korean dish made from salted and fermented vegetables
Kiwi
Meaning: fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
Kix
Meaning: cereal
Lemon
Meaning: Yellow, citrus fruit
Macaroon
Meaning: small biscuit/cookie
Malibu
Meaning: coconut rum
Maple
Meaning: Species Of Tree In The Acer Genus
Marmalade
Meaning: a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits
Marshmallow
Meaning: Lazy and fluffy.
Meatball
Meaning: ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth
Merlot
Meaning: wine
Miso
Meaning: traditional Japanese seasoning
Mocha
Meaning: a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia
Mochi
Meaning: Japanese rice cake
Mojito
Meaning: rum drink
Muffin
Meaning: a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
Muffins
Meaning: Sweet or savory baked goods
Nacho
Meaning: a tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled
Newton
Meaning: Fig newton
Nilla
Meaning: wafers
Nugget
Meaning: a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
Nutmeg
Meaning: East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed; source of two spices: nutmeg and mace
Olive
Meaning: Olive Or From The Olive Tree
Oreo
Meaning: Black and white
Pea
Meaning: A spherical green seed eaten as a vegetable.
Peaches
Meaning: Peaches
Peanut
Meaning: Ground Nut Legume
Pepper
Meaning: The pepper pad a handheld game console.
Peppermint
Meaning: herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring
Pickles
Meaning: informal terms for a difficult situation
Pie
Meaning: A baked dish of fruit, meat or vegetables.
Pistachio
Meaning: nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel
Popcorn
Meaning: corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
Pork Chop
Meaning: Fried pork cutlet.
Porky
Meaning: Fat, happy piglet.
Porter
Meaning: Delicious dark beer
Pumpkin
Meaning: a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
Queso
Meaning: Cheese
Raisin
Meaning: dried grape
Reuben
Meaning: Sandwich
Rosemary
Meaning: Herb
Saffron
Meaning: Costly spice
Sage
Meaning: Herb Or Prophet
Sashimi
Meaning: Japanese delicacy of raw fish
Sherbet
Meaning: a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin
Skittles
Meaning: a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
Smartie
Meaning: Small, round chocolate candy; colloquial for an intelligent person.
Snacks
Meaning: eat a snack; eat lightly
Snickers
Meaning: laugh quietly
Sprout
Meaning: put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
Spud
Meaning: Potato
Stout
Meaning: Another dark beer
Strawberry
Meaning: a soft red birthmark
Sugar
Meaning: Sweet Crystal Spice
Sushi
Meaning: Raw Fish
Sweet Pea
Meaning: Fragrant flower petals.
Swiss Miss
Meaning: cocoa
T-Bone
Meaning: A bone.
Taco
Meaning: Classic Mexican tortilla-based food
Taquito
Meaning: rolled taco
Tater Tot
Meaning: Fried potato nuggets.
Toffee
Meaning: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
Tofu
Meaning: cheeselike food made of curdled soybean milk
Tootsie
Meaning: Tootsie roll
Trufa
Meaning: Chocolate truffle
Truffle
Meaning: creamy chocolate candy
Tuna
Meaning: fish
Twinkie
Meaning: a small sponge cake with a synthetic cream filling
Twix
Meaning: Caramel cookie bar.
Wedge
Meaning: a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe

Staying on the food theme, these names mean cake or are in some way related to the word.

Staying on the food theme, these names mean fruit or are in some way related to the word.

Staying on the food theme, these names mean vegetable or are in some way related to the word.

Dogs are sweet, so why not embrace that by giving them one of these dessert dog names? Perfect for small, cute breeds, and large, insatiable dogs alike.