Nerdy Dog Names

Shamelessly promote your geeky nature by naming your dog after something far out of the mainstream. Here are some of the finest nerdy dog names you'll find on the interplanetary network.

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• Ajax

  Meaning: One of the greatest greek heroes who fought in the trojan war.
• Akira

  Meaning: Bright, clear, ideal
• Alfred

  Meaning: Counselor
• Algebra

  Meaning: Bone setting; a mathematical structure.
• Alpha

  Meaning: The first letter of the greek alphabet.
• Amidala

  Meaning: Beautiful flower
• Anakin

  Meaning: Anakin Skywalker, a Jedi Knight in Star Wars.
• Apache

  Meaning: A widely used web server software.
• Apothem

  Meaning: A line from the center of a polygon at right angles to any of its sides.
• Argon

  Meaning: An inert, colorless and odorless element.
• Ash

  Meaning: Success
• Azure

  Meaning: From microsoft's cloud service.
• Babe

  Meaning: Death, destruction and run.
• Barclay

  Meaning: Birch tree meadow
• Batman

  Meaning: A superhero protector of Gotham City in DC Comics.
• BB-8

  Meaning: A droid character in Star Wars.
• Beast Boy

  Meaning: A superhero in DC Comics' Teen Titans.
• Bernoulli

  Meaning: A Swiss physicist and mathematician.
• Beryllium

  Meaning: A steel-gray chemical element.
• Beta

  Meaning: Son; the second letter of the Greek alphabet.
• Bill Nye

  Meaning: The Planetary Society's CEO.
• Binks

  Meaning: Jar Jar Binks, an outcast in the Star Wars universe.
• Bit

  Meaning: A small amount
• Bo

  Meaning: To live
• Boron

  Meaning: A metalloid that is found in tiny amounts in meteoroids.
• Bucky

  Meaning: The winter soldier in captain america.
• Buffy

  Meaning: From buffy the vampire slayer television series.
• Bug

  Meaning: An error or flaw in a computer program.
• Buoyant

  Meaning: Floating or floatable.
• Byte

  Meaning: A unit of digital information that usually consists of eight bits.
• C-3PO

  Meaning: A character in Star Wars.
• Cap

  Meaning: Hood or head covering
• Carbon

  Meaning: An element in carbon dioxide.
• Cassiopeia

  Meaning: Queen of aethiopia in greek mythology
• Chewbacca

  Meaning: A wookiee warrior in Star Wars.
• Chewie

  Meaning: Chewbacca's nickname in the star wars franchise.
• Chip

  Meaning: A word short for a chipset, or a splinter. Also the diminutive form of Charles.
• Cisco

  Meaning: A technology company known for its networking products in the us.
• Clara

  Meaning: A movie about an astronomer becomes obsessed with searching for life beyond earth.
• Clark

  Meaning: Clark kent, also known as superman.
• Clarus

  Meaning: A center for cults in Ancient Greece. Masculine form of Clara.
• Cloud

  Meaning: A storage for data on the internet.
• Codec

  Meaning: A computer program which encodes or decodes digital data.
• Cookie

  Meaning: Small files that hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website.
• Cooper

  Meaning: Barrel maker
• Cupertino

  Meaning: An incorrect or wrong word in a document.
• Cyber

  Meaning: A computer network or virtual reality.
• Cyborg

  Meaning: Short for cybernetic organism.
• Cyclops

  Meaning: One-eyed giants in greek mythology
• Darth Vader

  Meaning: The lead villain in Star Wars.
• Data

  Meaning: Transmittable or storable information used by a computer.
• Deadpool

  Meaning: An anti-hero in Marvel Comics.
• Delta

  Meaning: Triangular island or alluvial tract between the diverging branches of the mouth of a great river
• Digit

  Meaning: An element of a set in a numeric system.
• Diode

  Meaning: A semiconductor device that emits visible light or ir energy.
• Dos

  Meaning: From DOS, disk-operating system.
• Dot

  Meaning: A single pixel on a matrix display.
• Ellipse

  Meaning: A shape that looks like a flattened circle or an oval.
• Emoji

  Meaning: Modern smiley symbols and emoticon.
• Enzyme

  Meaning: Proteins that act as a catalyst in living organisms.
• Ewok

  Meaning: Small species in the star wars universe.
• Finn

  Meaning: Clear, fair or white
• Flash

  Meaning: Sudden burst of flame or light
• Gage

  Meaning: Oath, pledge
• Galactus

  Meaning: A survivor in Marvel comics.
• Gambit

  Meaning: A chess opener in which a pawn is sacrificed to obtain an advantage.
• Gamma

  Meaning: Gamma radiation.
• Gamora

  Meaning: Sheaf
• Gates

  Meaning: Barriers
• Gidget

  Meaning: A modern term for a silly ditzy girl.
• Giga

  Meaning: Giant
• Gizmo

  Meaning: Another word for gadget.
• Glitch

  Meaning: The failure of a system in a computing device.
• Goku

  Meaning: The main protagonist of the Dragon Ball manga series.
• Gotham

  Meaning: Goat's Town
• Groot

  Meaning: A flora colossus and the accomplice of Rocket Raccoon in Marvel comics.
• Harley

  Meaning: Woodland, clearing.
• Harvey

  Meaning: Battle warrior
• Hawkeye

  Meaning: An inhabitant of Iowa; a man of good sight.
• Hexagon

  Meaning: A polygon with six sides.
• Hulk

  Meaning: A fictional characterr.
• Inertia

  Meaning: Unskillfulness, ignorance; inactivity, idleness
• Ion

  Meaning: A molecule or charged atom.
• Iron

  Meaning: Holy metal
• Jabba

  Meaning: Jabba the hutt in star wars.
• Jade

  Meaning: The first name of agatha christie's miss marple character
• Janeway

  Meaning: A person from the Genoa region of Italy
• Jango

  Meaning: Strong and amazing
• Java

  Meaning: A type of coffee grown on the Java, an island of Indonesia.
• Joker

  Meaning: A master criminal in dc comics' batman.
• Jubilee

  Meaning: A celebration of an anniversary
• Kappa

  Meaning: The tenth letter in the Greek alphabet.
• Kenobi

  Meaning: Obi-Wan Kenobi, a force-sensitive Jedi Master in Star Wars.
• Kernel

  Meaning: The core of a computer's operating system with complete control over the system.
• Kirk

  Meaning: Church
• Krypton

  Meaning: An element that is found in the atmosphere in the form of a gas.
• Kylo

  Meaning: Gift of God
• Laptop

  Meaning: a portable computer small enough to use in your lap
• Leia

  Meaning: From star wars.
• Lex

  Meaning: Defender of men in greek.
• Link

  Meaning: Ridge
• Linus

  Meaning: Flax
• Linux

  Meaning: The leading operating system on servers.
• Lithium

  Meaning: The lightest known metal.
• Loki

  Meaning: The sneaky and trickster god in Norse mythology.
• Mac

  Meaning: Son
• Magneto

  Meaning: A mutant in Marvel Comics.
• Manganese

  Meaning: A grayish-white most often hard and brittle metallic element.
• Matrix

  Meaning: Something within or from which something else originates.
• Mimic

  Meaning: One who or that which imitates
• Mongo

  Meaning: Famous
• Mouse

  Meaning: A hand-held pointing device for computers.
• Mystique

  Meaning: An air of mystery
• Nano

  Meaning: Dwarf
• Nebula

  Meaning: A luphomoid assassin in marvel comics.
• Newbie

  Meaning: A person who has recently started using a particular technology.
• Nickel

  Meaning: A white-silver hard malleable metallic element.
• Nightcrawler

  Meaning: Large earthworm used for fish bait
• Nightwing

  Meaning: A superhero in DC comics.
• Notes

  Meaning: Javascript in the backend.
• Obi-Wan

  Meaning: Obi-Wan Kenobi, a force-sensitive Jedi Master in Star Wars.
• Oracle

  Meaning: A person who can communicate with the gods in Greek mythology
• Osmium

  Meaning: A blue-gray or blue-black metallic element.
• Pascal

  Meaning: A procedural programming language.
• Penny

  Meaning: A computer book.
• Pepper

  Meaning: The pepper pad a handheld game console.
• Peter

  Meaning: Stone
• Phi

  Meaning: The twenty fist letter in the greek alphabet.
• Pi

  Meaning: The sixteenth letter in the greek alphabet.
• Picard

  Meaning: Inhabitant of Picardy, in France
• Polygon

  Meaning: A figure with at least three straight sides.
• Princess

  Meaning: A daughter of a monarch.
• Professor

  Meaning: Professor x in marvel's x-men.
• Python

  Meaning: A type of large, constricting snake
• Quinn

  Meaning: Wise
• R2-D2

  Meaning: Several astromech droids in Star Wars.
• Ram

  Meaning: Pleasing, supreme
• Raven

  Meaning: Dark-colored.
• Redmond

  Meaning: Wise protector
• Rhombus

  Meaning: A flat shape with four straight sides.
• Ripley

  Meaning: Sigourney weaver's character.
• Rocket

  Meaning: A raccoon in marvel comics.
• Rogue

  Meaning: One who is mischievous; a scamp or vagabond
• Ronan

  Meaning: Little seal
• Rorschach

  Meaning: An anti-hero in DC Comic's Watchmen.
• Ruby

  Meaning: An open-source general-purpose programming language.
• Saber

  Meaning: Lightsaber, a weapon in star wars.
• Sabertooth

  Meaning: A large, extinct, carnivorous mammal of the cat family.
• Sansa

  Meaning: Sansa stark from the film and book game of thrones.
• Scandium

  Meaning: A soft, silvery, lightweight metallic element.
• Scooby

  Meaning: A famous cartoon canine sleuth
• Serina

  Meaning: Serene, calm
• Sharpy

  Meaning: An energetic person or "live wire:
• Sheldon

  Meaning: Famous shelter dog with a grumpy face who found a home.
• Shell

  Meaning: Hard outer covering of an animal
• Sigma

  Meaning: The eighteenth letter in the Greek alphabet.
• Siri

  Meaning: Beautiful victory
• Sisko

  Meaning: Chef, cook; short for Francisco
• Skywalker

  Meaning: One who walks on or in the sky
• Slade

  Meaning: From the valley
• Solo

  Meaning: Alone, lone ranger, independent
• Spidey

  Meaning: Nickname of Spider-Man.
• Spock

  Meaning: Maker of wheels and spokes
• Star Lord

  Meaning: Marvel Comics superhero.
• Starbuck

  Meaning: From the river where stakes were got
• Starfire

  Meaning: An alien princess in Teen Titans.
• Storm

  Meaning: To deliver a violent attack or assault. barrage.
• Stormtrooper

  Meaning: German military unit trained for sudden assaults.
• Strange

  Meaning: Foreign, alien, unusual
• Tau

  Meaning: Lion; also the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet
• Thanos

  Meaning: Immortal
• Theta

  Meaning: The eighth letter in the Greek alphabet.
• Thor

  Meaning: God of lightning and thunder in norse mythology.
• Titanium

  Meaning: A dark-gray or silvery hard metallic element.
• Trigon

  Meaning: An ancient Greek harp-like musical instrument.
• Trooper

  Meaning: One who endures adversity; a brave or stalwart person
• Ultraviolet

  Meaning: What causes your skin to become darker after sun exposure.
• Urkel

  Meaning: Steven urkel a character on the sitcom family matters.
• Vader

  Meaning: Father
• Vector

  Meaning: Carrier, transporter; a quantity that has direction and magnitude.
• Velma

  Meaning: A character from the scooby doo detective gang
• Widget

  Meaning: An graphical user interface element.
• Widow

  Meaning: Destitute, bereft
• Wolverine

  Meaning: One who behaves like a wolf
• Wookie

  Meaning: A member of a fictional race of tall, hairy bipeds in the universe of the Star Wars motion pictures.
• Wozniak

  Meaning: An American programmer and electronics engineer.
• Xenon

  Meaning: Stranger; a heavy colorless gaseous element.
• Yoda

  Meaning: A jedi master in the star wars universe.
• Yondu

  Meaning: Ravager of justice
• Zinc

  Meaning: A bluish-white metallic element.
• Zip

  Meaning: Energy, vim and vigor.