Dachshund Names

By Howard Young Apr 10, 2011

It’s always tough trying to name your new Dachshund puppy and I know that with Odie and Molly they originally named Brutus and Rosie before we settled on the former. Of course Chloe’s name stuck with her from day one because we knew that if we ever owned a Dachshund, she would be named after the dog in The Ugly Dachshund movie.   Lucky for Odie that he came second otherwise he would have had a strange name for a dog resemblance of Johnny Cash’s song A Boy Named Sue.

So to help you out, I wanted to start this post to give you some ideas on some of the more famous names these dogs have been called.  Hopefully your puppy will learn its name early on with positive reinforcement (i.e. treats) and not to “Bad Dog” or “Puppy” as we tend call them during their early stage of life.

A former employer of mine who got us started collecting Dachshunds had two of them themselves.  Mickey and Minnie, standard dachshunds were quite the pair and were named after the infamous Mr. and Mrs. Mouse couple at Disneyland.

I didn’t know that JFK had a Dachshund.  The 35th President bought one in  Germany in 1937 for hist girlfriend only find that he was allergic to it.  The dog was called Dunker but never it never set foot in the White House.  I believe his girlfriend was trying to say Danke in German and they thought it was a good name for their Dachshund puppy.

Pablo Picasso’s Dachshund was said to inspire some of his work.  His dog was named Lump.

Andy Warhol had two Doxies named Amos and Archie.  Why not Amos and Andy?

Once an elderly couple as if Odie’s name was Oscar. At first I didn’t get the reference to Oscar Meyer Wiener (Dog).

What did you name your Dachshund?  Please leave a note below:

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