Scottish Dog Names

If you're of Scottish ancestry or you just have a fondness for the history and culture, giving your dog a Scottish name can be a nice touch. Here's some for you to look through.

Scottish Dog Names

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All Scottish Dog Names

  • Meaning: a city in northeastern Scotland on the North Sea
  • Abi
    Meaning: Gift of God.
  • Meaning: "One who ploughs fields"
  • Meaning: Oak tree land.
  • Meaning: From The Oak Tree Settlement
  • Ada
    Meaning: Noble, kind
  • Meaning: Fortune/Spear
  • Meaning: Noble, strong, powerful.
  • Meaning: Gift of God.
  • Meaning: a colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods
  • Meaning: Little fiery one
  • Meaning: "Noble, peaceful ruler."
  • Meaning: Holy, Blessed
  • Meaning: From Evelyn
  • Meaning: Man
  • Meaning: Person From Annesley Or Ansley, England
  • Meaning: Noble, nobleman, lord, chief.
  • Meaning: Joy
  • Meaning: Defender Of The People
  • Meaning: White; sunrise, dawn
  • Meaning: Dairy Farm In The Alders
  • Ale
    Meaning: Short form of names beginning with Ale, such as Alejandra and Alessandro
  • Meaning: Defending men
  • Meaning: Old ford crossing place.
  • Meaning: Counselor
  • Ali
    Meaning: Noble, Exalted
  • Meaning: Noble, protector, defender.
  • Meaning: Short Form Of Names Starting Wth AL
  • Meaning: Friend, Partner
  • Meaning: Scottish mountain dweller.
  • Meaning: From The Alps
  • Meaning: Noble Friend
  • Meaning: "Town in Massachusetts"
  • Meaning: Son Of Andrew
  • Meaning: Noble, honourable leader.
  • Meaning: Scottishexceptional
  • Meaning: Spice
  • Meaning: Gift of grace.
  • Meaning: Truly Bold
  • Meaning: Genuine, bold or brave
  • Meaning: From Argyll, Scotland
  • Meaning: a design consisting of a pattern of varicolored diamonds on a solid background (originally for knitted articles); patterned after the tartan of a clan in western Scotland
  • Meaning: Manly, courageous, brave.
  • Meaning: Creative, skilled, artist.
  • Meaning: Ash Tree Farm
  • Meaning: By The Ash-tree Ford
  • Meaning: Aston martin sports cars remain james bond's preferred mode of conveyance.
  • Meaning: From Athelhere's Town
  • Meaning: Lion King of Persia
  • Meaning: From the meadow.
  • Meaning: White, fair, blessed.
  • Meaning: Child
  • Meaning: Occupation Of Baker
  • Meaning: English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930)
  • Meaning: Bald-Headed Man
  • Meaning: Scottish female nickname.
  • Meaning: Birch tree meadow
  • Meaning: Bearded One
  • Meaning: From The Barley Town
  • Meaning: an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons
  • Meaning: Gift of God.
  • Meaning: "God's daughter"
  • Meaning: From The Birch Wood
  • Meaning: Brave as a bear
  • Meaning: Brave warrior king.
  • Meaning: Battlefield Or Plain
  • Meaning: Bright and shiny.
  • Meaning: Messenger
  • Meaning: From bonnie and clyde.
  • Meaning: Fair-haired, Blonde
  • Meaning: Strong, noble woman.
  • Meaning: Name Of A Scottish Castle
  • Meaning: From The Town Of Bruis In France
  • Meaning: Speckled
  • Meaning: a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada
  • Meaning: Lives By The Stream
  • Meaning: small bit used in dentistry or surgery
  • Meaning: Diminutive Form Of Names In Burt- Or -bert
  • Meaning: Whelp
  • Meaning: Pure
  • Meaning: Pure, Joyful, Song.
  • Meaning: Pure, Chaste
  • Meaning: From The Wild Water
  • Meaning: the geographical area (in Roman times) to the north of the Antonine Wall; now a poetic name for Scotland
  • Meaning: Dove
  • Meaning: From The Valley Of The Camps
  • Meaning: Bent Nose
  • Meaning: Beautiful Field
  • Meaning: French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)
  • Meaning: Cute, friendly, cheerful.
  • Meaning: Beautiful
  • Meaning: Spear Or Wet Ground
  • Meaning: Son Of Carr
  • Meaning: Clever.
  • Meaning: From Cann, UK
  • Meaning: A word short for a chipset, or a splinter. Also the diminutive form of Charles.
  • Meaning: Mashed potato dish.
  • Meaning: Clark kent, also known as superman.
  • Meaning: Scottish cloth rag doll.
  • Meaning: The name of a Scottish river; means "the keeper of the keys".
  • Meaning: Supplanter
  • Meaning: Brave, valiant, strong, wise.
  • Meaning: Gaelic for "girl".
  • Meaning: Diminutive Form Of Nicholas
  • Meaning: Family Of Coilean
  • Meaning: Strong, brave, wolf.
  • Meaning: Strong, wise leader.
  • Meaning: Descendent Of Hound, Desire
  • Meaning: Head Smasher Or Yellow Hound
  • Meaning: Heart, Maiden
  • Meaning: Hollow
  • Meaning: From Cork, Ireland.
  • Meaning: Dweller at a hollow
  • Meaning: From The Crag
  • Meaning: Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582)
  • Meaning: Unknown origin meaning.
  • Meaning: Diminutive Form Of Christina
  • Meaning: a small farm worked by a crofter
  • Meaning: Battle of Culloden.
  • Meaning: Of Unknown Meaning
  • Meaning: Cute and silly person.
  • Meaning: United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes (1857-1938)
  • Meaning: Beloved
  • Meaning: Son Of David
  • Meaning: Ordained minister.
  • Meaning: She Who Chatters
  • Meaning: From The Town In The Valley
  • Meaning: Place Name In Ireland
  • Meaning: From The South In The U.S.
  • Meaning: Dark Stranger
  • Meaning: Black Blue
  • Meaning: "Brave, strong leader"
  • Meaning: Dragon
  • Meaning: Brave, strong leader.
  • Meaning: Dark
  • Meaning: Descendant of Dubhthach
  • Meaning: Dark-haired warrior
  • Meaning: Dark Skinned Warrior
  • Meaning: Hill of the fort.
  • Meaning: Brown
  • Meaning: "Man of horses" (or "horseman")
  • Meaning: Noble, brave, courageous.
  • Meaning: River Enclosure
  • Meaning: Rich War
  • Meaning: Rich Protector
  • Meaning: Delicacy, Tenderness
  • Meaning: Wealthy Guardian
  • Meaning: Rich/Prosperous Friend
  • Meaning: Diminutive Form Of Euphemia
  • Meaning: "Noble, swift, bright."
  • Meaning: Short Form Of Names Beginning With El
  • Meaning: God Is My Oath
  • Meaning: Variation of ena, meaning kernel
  • Eva
    Meaning: Giver Of Life
  • Meaning: Born Of Yew
  • Meaning: Thread or string-like.
  • Meaning: Irish surname origin.
  • Meaning: Island of Falkland.
  • Meaning: Dear Man
  • Meaning: Fair Shouldered
  • Meaning: Royal family member.
  • Meaning: Superior
  • Meaning: Fair Warrior
  • Meaning: Scottish warrior king.
  • Meaning: Fair Warrior
  • Meaning: Fair-haired hero
  • Meaning: Clear, fair or white
  • Meaning: White fire/phoenix/spirit.
  • Meaning: White / fair
  • Meaning: Arrow Maker/Folk Army
  • Meaning: Flower; the goddess of flowers in Roman mythology
  • Meaning: Prosperous
  • Meaning: Scottish river valley.
  • Meaning: Strawberry Field
  • Meaning: Descendant Of The Lover Of Foreigners
  • Meaning: Protector of the people.
  • Meaning: Gift of God/God's Gift
  • Meaning: White Hawk
  • Meaning: Family Of Gilbert
  • Meaning: Son Of Gilbert
  • Meaning: Protector of the pledge.
  • Meaning: Protected by God.
  • Meaning: From The Glen
  • Meaning: Good ruler/leader.
  • Meaning: Protected by God.
  • Meaning: From Gordon, Scotland
  • Meaning: Noble and beautiful woman.
  • Meaning: From The Gravelly Homestead
  • Meaning: Farmer
  • Meaning: Large, Great
  • Meaning: Watchful, Guardian
  • Meaning: Graceful, strong, wise.
  • Meaning: Protective, strong, wise.
  • Meaning: Brave warrior family.
  • Meaning: made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach
  • Meaning: provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia
  • Meaning: Supplanter
  • Meaning: God Is Gracious
  • Meaning: Protective, loyal friend.
  • Meaning: Anchor, Steadfast
  • Meaning: Home ruler
  • Meaning: Army Bright
  • Meaning: Army Man
  • Meaning: Valley of hollows.
  • Meaning: From The River Island
  • Meaning: One who hunts
  • Meaning: Wooded Hill
  • Meaning: a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
  • Meaning: God Is Gracious
  • Ian
    Meaning: Gaelic form of john
  • Meaning: English origin/descent.
  • Meaning: Scottish - dove
  • Meaning: Island
  • Meaning: God Is My Oath
  • Meaning: "Strong, brave, protector."
  • Meaning: God's gracious gift.
  • Meaning: God Is Gracious
  • Meaning: God is gracious
  • Meaning: Diminutive Form Of Jessica Or Jean
  • Meaning: God is gracious.
  • Meaning: Black
  • Meaning: Offspring, Young Person
  • Meaning: Brave, strong, kind.
  • Meaning: Beautiful
  • Meaning: Handsome, born of fire
  • Meaning: Descendant Of The Handsome Man
  • Meaning: Dark princess
  • Meaning: "Valley of the Spear."
  • Meaning: From Kincaith
  • Meaning: Lovely, kind-hearted person.
  • Meaning: Church
  • Meaning: Christian
  • Meaning: Irish for handsome
  • Meaning: "Gift from God"
  • Meaning: From The Land Of Lakes
  • Meaning: Attendant
  • Meaning: Future
  • Meaning: Cheerful
  • Meaning: Young Girl, Maiden
  • Meaning: lacking excess flesh
  • Meaning: From Levenach, Scotland
  • Meaning: Holly garden
  • Meaning: "Bright, shining beauty"
  • Meaning: From The Lake Settlement Island
  • Meaning: "Light of God's grace"
  • Meaning: Little Hollow
  • Meaning: Fox
  • Meaning: "Gift of God"
  • Meaning: Pearl
  • Meaning: "Gift of God" (or "God's Gift")
  • Meaning: Son of Hugh/Gaelic.
  • Meaning: Pearl
  • Meaning: rebellious woman
  • Meaning: Pearl
  • Meaning: Brave protector of men.
  • Meaning: Smooth Brow
  • Meaning: Gift of God/God's Gift
  • Meaning: Gift of Mars.
  • Meaning: Gift of God's grace.
  • Meaning: Dark
  • Meaning: Great stream
  • May
    Meaning: Goddess Maia Or Family Of Matthew
  • Meaning: Brave, loyal, protector.
  • Meaning: Son of Duff.
  • Meaning: Son of Patrick/Patrician
  • Meaning: Scottish clan surname.
  • Meaning: "Hill of the sons."
  • Meaning: Son of Finnis/Finnish.
  • Meaning: Son of Gowan/Gowan.
  • Meaning: Son of grace/graceful.
  • Meaning: Son Of The Carpenter
  • Meaning: "Son of fire"
  • Meaning: Son of the sea.
  • Meaning: Dog detective character.
  • Meaning: Who Is Like God?
  • Meaning: "Beloved of Moibeal"
  • Meaning: Bitter
  • Meaning: "Noble, brave, strong"
  • Meaning: Of The Sea Or Bitter
  • Meaning: From The Hill Of The Powerful Man
  • Meaning: Largest Species In Deer Family
  • Meaning: Great, big, noble, grand
  • Meaning: Great
  • Meaning: High-spirited
  • Meaning: From The Moor Town
  • Meaning: Mountain of great height.
  • Meaning: United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914)
  • Meaning: Irish version of burgoo
  • Meaning: "Beloved Friend" (or "Beloved One")
  • Meaning: Mighty protector/protector of strength
  • Meaning: Gift of sea god.
  • Meaning: Man of the sea.
  • Meaning: British writer (born in Ireland) known primarily for her novels (1919-1999)
  • Meaning: From The Sea Town
  • Meaning: Divine, beautiful, grace.
  • Meaning: Refers to space explorer Neil Armstrong
  • Meaning: a strip of land projecting into a body of water
  • Meaning: Lamb
  • Meaning: a large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland
  • Meaning: one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis
  • Meaning: New town by river.
  • Meaning: an iron with considerable loft
  • Meaning: Gift of victory.
  • Meaning: Divine, wise one.
  • Meaning: Light
  • Meaning: From The Oak Valley
  • Meaning: Fertile, strong-willed woman.
  • Meaning: God Bear
  • Meaning: Deer Lover
  • Meaning: God Rule
  • Meaning: Noble, nobleman, chief.
  • Meaning: Church
  • Meaning: Son Of Patrick
  • Meaning: Son of Phera.
  • Meaning: Flute Player
  • Meaning: a cloth having a crisscross design
  • Meaning: work lightly
  • Meaning: something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises
  • Meaning: Scottish nickname for Robert.
  • Meaning: Wolf Counsel
  • Meaning: From Ralph's Town
  • Meaning: Island Of Garlic
  • Meaning: Brave ruler/leader.
  • Meaning: Raven Wolf
  • Meaning: Born again or reborn in french
  • Meaning: Red Headed
  • Meaning: Oarsman Or Remedy
  • Meaning: Advice, Rule
  • Meaning: From The Rough Island
  • Meaning: The Protector King
  • Meaning: Mighty strength
  • Meaning: Red King
  • Meaning: Strength
  • Meaning: Headland
  • Roy
    Meaning: Red
  • Meaning: Red-haired one/person.
  • Meaning: Scottish clan leader.
  • Meaning: a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
  • Meaning: Person From Scotland
  • Meaning: Agnes Reversed
  • Meaning: Wise in Irish.
  • Meaning: God Is Gracious
  • Meaning: God Is Gracious
  • Meaning: Fem. Form Of John
  • Meaning: To fly
  • Meaning: Loving, sweetheart, dear.
  • Sim
    Meaning: Short for Simon/Simeon.
  • Meaning: Scottish oat dish.
  • Meaning: "Warrior of the goddess."
  • Meaning: Bright, Radiant
  • Meaning: "From the stony wood."
  • Meaning: Scottish nickname for Stephen.
  • Meaning: Starling, Little Star
  • Meaning: Steward Of The Estate Or Castle
  • Meaning: Steward Of The Estate Or Castle
  • Meaning: Young Warrior From Another Land
  • Meaning: Gift of God.
  • Meaning: Scottish folk hero legend.
  • Meaning: Star
  • Meaning: Woolen Cloth With A Pattern
  • Meaning: "Victory of the stranger."
  • Meaning: Form Of Thomas
  • Meaning: Brave, strong, wise.
  • Meaning: Fruity raspberry hybrid.
  • Meaning: Little Poet
  • Meaning: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
  • Meaning: Tiny and cute.
  • Meaning: God Of Battle
  • Meaning: A common old man grumpy name
  • Meaning: Army Ruler
  • Meaning: Sherlock holmes smart sidekick.
  • Meaning: a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
  • Meaning: a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
  • Meaning: From The White Island
  • Meaning: Settlement
  • Meaning: From a place called Wick.
  • Meaning: Clever, crafty; from the tricky river
  • Meaning: Unknown, mysterious origin.

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