Sporty Dog Names

If sport is your passion, why not give your dog a classic sporty name? These dog names are inspired by sports and famous athletes.

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• Ace

  Meaning: One Or Expert
• Arby

  Meaning:
• Ash

  Meaning: Success
• Batter

  Meaning: strike violently and repeatedly
• Beanball

  Meaning:
• Beezer

  Meaning:
• Bender

  Meaning: One Who Bends
• Birdie

  Meaning: Little Bird
• Blitz

  Meaning: An overwhelming all out attack.
• Buzzer

  Meaning: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
• Caddy

  Meaning: a can for storing tea
• Captain

  Meaning: The leader of a group of people
• Chase

  Meaning: Skilled hunter or huntsman.
• Cheese

  Meaning: erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
• Clutch

  Meaning: a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism
• Coach

  Meaning: teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
• Crackerjack

  Meaning: someone excellent of their kind
• Crank

  Meaning: start by cranking
• Curveball

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• Cutter

  Meaning: Gem Cutter
• Derby

  Meaning: From The Deer Park Farm
• Deuce

  Meaning: one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
• Diamond

  Meaning: Brilliant Gem
• Driver

  Meaning: Coachman, Operator Of A Vehicle
• Dugout

  Meaning: a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
• Earnie

  Meaning:
• Eephus

  Meaning:
• Fungo

  Meaning:
• Gambit

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

  Meaning: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
• Grand Slam

  Meaning:
• Grounder

  Meaning: (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
• Gunner

  Meaning: Strong in battle (in Swedish).
• Homer

  Meaning: Inspired by homer simpson.
• Hoops

  Meaning: a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
• Jumbo

  Meaning: of great mass; huge and bulky
• Junior

  Meaning: Younger; lower in rank or experience.
• Kayo

  Meaning: Good, Beautiful, Generation
• Kicker

  Meaning: a player who kicks the football
• Maddux

  Meaning: Son Of Madoc
• Meatball

  Meaning: ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth
• Mitt

  Meaning: Diminutive Form Of Milton
• Mulligan

  Meaning: Irish version of burgoo
• Pecota

  Meaning:
• Pepper

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

  Meaning: informal terms for a difficult situation
• Pitcher

  Meaning: the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
• Racket

  Meaning: celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
• Rally

  Meaning: the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort
• Relay

  Meaning: electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit
• Ribbie

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• Rookie

  Meaning: an awkward and inexperienced youth
• Runner

  Meaning: (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
• Salami

  Meaning: highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried
• Screwball

  Meaning: a whimsically eccentric person
• Shortstop

  Meaning: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
• Slider

  Meaning: a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
• Slugger

  Meaning: a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches
• Southpaw

  Meaning: a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right
• Stretch

  Meaning: Always stretching.
• Striker

  Meaning: someone who hits
• Sweeper

  Meaning: a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet
• Swish

  Meaning: elegant and fashionable
• Tackle

  Meaning: put a harness
• Tag

  Meaning: a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
• Tater

  Meaning: an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
• Whiff

  Meaning: a short light gust of air
• Windup

  Meaning: a concluding action
• Zip

  Meaning: Energy, vim and vigor.

Planning to raise a lean machine? If you have an active breed, these athletic dog names will help to represent their speed, agility and zest for life.