27 Unique and funny German Shepherd dog naming ideas [with pics!]

Looking for a unique name for your German Shepherd or newly adopted GSD? Here are 27 ideas!

We asked the I Love My German Shepherd Facebook community to share their unique GSD name ideas (along with pictures!). We received hundreds of responses, some of which we’ve compiled and shared below. A special thanks to the community for these name ideas!

Lucky right, found abandoned at a campsite while my husband was on a mission about 7 years ago, vet thinks he is about 5-6 weeks old and he is starving . My husband took her home to care for her until we “found” her family (ha). Never found them and we fell in love with him. We said we were “Lucky” we found him. Ciri is our little dog on the left, she’s named after Ciri from The Witcher, a strong bad girl on the show. Should name her Mischief

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I come from a family that raised and loved many GSDs. This is my niece’s dog. Grrr. Grrr is a gentle giant who loves my niece wholeheartedly.

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GSD 5 years old. His name is AWOL. Every time we untie him, he disappears! I’m also a veteran and all of my fur kids have military names. He is my son and the best dog I have ever had.

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The coworker’s dog was named Nunyet – when they first got it, they took it to the vet. The vet asked his name and they replied ‘not yet’…so the vet wrote down Nunyet…and it stuck LOL

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I named my girl Phoenix. My former Shepherd passed away and I am heartbroken, I named it because it means ‘rise of the ashes….’. She’s a little bit of my 3 girls who have left us… sweet, smart and loyal like Yazmine. But just as protective (and similarly colored) as our Chloe, and as playful and playful (with some separation anxiety) as my husky, Kiesha!

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This is my 2-year-old Winchester, as smart as a whip, as fast as a bullet. Named after his father. I love my guy.

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If you’ve ever seen the movie (Streetcar Named Desire), you’ll understand. This sweet girl’s name is Stella. Nothing pleases me more than going out and shouting Stellllllllla.

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‘Kane’ came to me as a rescue and the name didn’t suit him and he didn’t react in a positive way to it however when I tried ‘Scruff’ his tail became stiff stop! And he’s dancing, and jumping, and happy and he’ll never get a new grooming, he’s got to mess up his smart fur for the perfect Scruff for him. Now there is doggo heaven, steal custard cream from killers

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We named our new rescue “Easy Vous Evangeline”. “Easy” because she’s so well behaved, “Vous” because I’ve always wanted to say – “I named the dog after YOU! And “Evangeline” because my wife is from Louisiana.

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My Breeze Girl! I need a new puppy to train as a guide, and wonder if I will be a ‘Breeze’ to train! She was definitely a challenge, but now she’s a great working dog! The tasks she can do are impressive!

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God of thunder. My sweet boy. I couldn’t ask for a better dog. He was my first German Shepherd and I never dreamed I could love anything so much.

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My husband worked in our breeder house, so he told him we could pick the litter, good the litter was a puppy, so of course we picked her and name her “Uno”

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Shadow, when we went to look at a litter of GS, we looked at them all but this dark little dog came out from the corner of the dark room and I fell in love with him immediately. I just said that one of his names is dark, without talking to the family. He lives up to his name, always following me around. It’s my oldest child, almost 7 years old.

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Baloo. He is a blue GSD and has the same gray coloration as Baloo the bear when he was a puppy. Jungle Book was my daughter’s favorite movie when she was little. I like the funny, playful and casual Baloo, but he’s also very loyal to Mowgli. That’s all I wanted in this dog. Three years later, and his name couldn’t be more appropriate.

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Mayhem because as a puppy she created mayhem and chaos

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Our girl’s name is Ripley. As a child, she didn’t like it when my twin boys had to be apart in the backyard. She would grab the ends of their shirts and pull them closer together… Tear their shirts in the process…. Ignore her every day because we just lost her in February.

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Django and Broomhilda. My husband loves the movie Django. When we saved Hilda, who was about six months old and named ‘Negra’, we didn’t care. We remember Broomhilda as Django’s wife in the movie. I called her like that and she responded. So it worked perfectly. We call it Hilda for short.

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Chewbacca after the main Wookie! He growls like he does when he’s happy or super playful!!!

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This is our baby minnie just like the minnie from mickey mouse my son went into the mickey mouse club house when we got her for him.

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This is Cheez Berger Storm. Storm is the only name we can agree on, but then it’s the happiest dog I’ve ever seen. I said he needed a fun name, so I named him after what made me happy with the burger. He is still a storm. A hurricane Cheez Berger.

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My boy’s name is ‘Dio’ which in Italian means God, otherwise God is a dog… But he is named after the late great rock singer ‘ronnie James dio’

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Pixel He was the kid in his litter and weighed only 1.5 lbs the day he came home with me.

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My girl’s name is Porridge, her brother is called haggis, so needed another Scottish dish name to suit her, she was originally called Layla but since I just picked her up and am on the way home with her. doesn’t suit her and one of my family said as a joke, you have a haggis, what about a porridge she is white, and it just stuck right away x

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Tank, he is the oldest of his litter and pushes all the mates in his litter out of the way for food.

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Baloo, because she is our “necessary bear”!!!

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