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Dog Names From Nature: Hundreds of Ideas for that Nature Loving Pup

By Janice Jones     |Last Updated November 22, 2020

Have a pup that never wants to come inside?  Or, maybe it is you that is that loves the great outdoors.  Either way, we've put together a long list of ideas for anyone who has a trail blazing, tree hugging, fresh air enthusiast canine who'd rather be outside than anywhere else.

Inspiration for the following list of names came from simple flora and fauna, the earth and sky and all things remotely connected to the great outdoors.  Have some more dog names from nature to suggest?  We're always looking for more ideas to share with our readers, so please contact us and will upload your ideas onto this page.  

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Flora Dog Names From Nature:  Trees, Plants and Flowers

1. Acorn
2. Ash
3. Aspen
4. Aster
5. Barley
6. Berry
7. Black eyed Susan (Susie for short)
8. Bluebell
9. Castor Bean (either Castor or Bean
10. Cedar
11. Cherry
12. Chestnut
13. Chives
14. Clover
15. Cosmos
16. Cypress
17. Dahlia
18. Daisy
19. Elm
20. Fern
21. Ginger
22. Hazel
23. Holly
24. Hosta
25. Iris
26. Ivy
27. Jack in the Pulpit (Jack for short)
28. Jasmine
29. Laurel
30. Lily
31. Lotus
32. Maple
33. Morning Glory (or just glory or Gloria)
34. Nutmeg
35. Olive
36. Pansy
37. Peaches
38. Poppy
39. Primrose or rose (rosie for short)
40. Pumpkin
41. Rose
42. Sage
43. Sea Holly (Holly for short)
44. Shooting star or star for short
45. Spruce
46. Sunflower or sunny for short
47. Thistle
48. Tulip
49. Violet
50. Willow

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Dog Names from Nature Based on Rocks, Minerals and Precious Metals

1. Amber
2. Cameo
3. Clay
4. Coal
5. Copper
6. Crystal
7. Flint
8. Garnet
9. Gold
10. Granite
11. Gypsum
12. Jade
13. Jasper (a type of quartz)
14. Jewel
15. Mango
16. Marble
17. Mica
18. Nickel
19. Onyx
20. Opal
21. Pearl
22. Ruby
23. Sapphire
24. Silver
25. Slate
26. Topaz
27. Zircon

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Seasons, Weather and Climate Inspired Dog Names

1. Autumn
2. Blaze
3. Blizzard
4. Breeze (Breezie)
5. Cirrus
6. Dawn
7. Echo
8. Eddy
9. Flash Flood, Flash for short
10. Frost
11. Gale
12. Gust
13. Kelvin
14. Mist (Misty)
15. Nina (El Nina)
16. Nino (El Nino)
17. Polar
18. Quake
19. Radar
20. Sky (Skylar)
21. Storm (Stormy)
22. Summer
23. Sunny
24. Thunder
25. Twister
26. Typhoon or Ty for short
27. Vane (Weather vane)
28. Vortex
29. Winder
30. Winter

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Dog Name Ideas (stolen from Insects, Fish, Sea Life, and Amphibians)

1. Angelfish or Angel for short
2. Bass
3. Bee (Bebe)
4. Beetle
5. Butterfly
6. Cod
7. Cricket
8. Flounder
9. Herring                                                                              
10. Ladybug
11. Perch
12. Shark
13. Shrimp
14. Skate
15. Snapper
16. Tadpole
17. Trigger (Trigger Fish)
18. Trout
19. Tuna

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Birds:  Dog Names from Nature

1. Bluebird
2. Blue Jay
3. Chickadee 
4. Duck (Ducky) 
5. Eagle
6. Falcon 
7. Finch
8. Hawk
9. Ibis  
10. Lark
11. Macaw
    
12. Magpie  
13. Martin
14. Merlin
15. Parrot
16. Phoebe
17. Puffin
18. Raven
19. Rhea
20. Robin
21. Sandpiper (Piper)
22. Toucan
23. Wren

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Dog Names Pilfered from Other Animals

1. Badger
2. Colt
3. Emu
4. Gecko
5. Foxy
6. Kaola
7. Lemur
8. Lupo (wolf in Italian)
9. Mara
10. Numbat
11. Orca
12. Otter
13. Paca
14. Panda
15. Puma
16. Perro (Spanish for Dog)
17. Racer (Racer snake)
18. Topi
19. Whale

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Dog Names Inspired by Land, Sea and Air

1. Bay
2. Clay
3. Cliff
4. Forrest
5. Geyser
6. Lagoon
7. Luna
8. Meadow
9. River
10. Rocky
11. Shadow
12. Terra
13. Volt

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Out of this World:  Celestial Inspired Dog Names

1. Aries (a constellation in the zodiac)
2. Aurora   (A glow in a planet's ionosphere caused by the interaction between the planet's magnetic field and charged particles from the Sun.)
3. Axis  (an imaginary line through the center of rotation of an object.)
4. Comet (A gigantic ball of ice and rock that orbit the Sun}
5. Corona (This is the outer layer of the Sun's atmosphere)
6. Cosmic Ray (Atomic nuclei (mostly protons) that are observed to strike the Earth's atmosphere),  Either Cosmic or Ray would make a good dog name.
7. Doppler (change in wavelength of sound or light emitted by an object about an observer's position)
8. Dwarf (as in Dwarf Planet)
9. Jet (A narrow stream of gas or particles ejected from an accretion disk surrounding a star or black hole)
10. Kelvin (a temperature scale)
11. Luna (Pertaining to the Moon)
12. Lunar (Referring to the Moon)
13. Major (As in Major Planet) A name used to describe any planet that is considerably larger and more massive than the Earth)
14. Mars (Planet)
15. Mira (name of a star)
16. Norma (a constellation in the Northern Hemisphere)
17. Nova (A star that flares up to several times its original brightness)
18. Orion (a constellation)
19. Photon (A particle of light composed of a minute quantity of electromagnetic energy)
20. Pluto (Planet, also a famous Disney Dog)
21. Pulsar (A spinning neutron star that emits energy along its gravitational axis)
22. Quasar (a celestial object emitting large amounts of energy) 
23. Rigel (the brightest star in the constellation Orion)
24. Saturn (Planet)
25. Sirius (Also known as the dog star)
26. Sol (sun)
27. Star or Starr
28. Venus (A planet between earth and Mercury)
29. Zeta (a star in the Orion Constellation)
30. Zodiac (An imaginary belt across the sky in which the Sun, moon, and all of the planets can always be found.)

Still more Ideas

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