130 Science-Inspired Pet Names for the Ultimate Geek

So, you're a shameless science geek, and you want your pet to be a living testament to your obsession with physics, astronomy, geology, molecular biology, chemistry, etc ... ? Cool. We're totally down with that.

Here are our top names based on historical figures in science.

• Archimedes
  
• Aristotle
  
• Billy Nye
  
• Bohr (Niels Bohr)
  
• Cerf (Vincent Gray Cerf)
  
• Copernicus
  
• Da Vinci
  
• Darwin (great for finches!)
  
• Edison
  
• Edith Clarke
  
• Einstein (or Albert. Perfect for any critter with wild, shaggy locks.)
  
• Erwin (As in Schrödinger — for cats, of course)
  
• Freud (or Sigmund)
  
• Galileo
  
• Gates (Bill Gates)
  
• Goddard (Robert Hutchings Goddard)
  
• Hawking
  
• Heisenberg (not Walter White!)
  
• Higgs (perhaps for a shy, elusive cat?)
  
• Hopper (Grace Hopper)
  
• Hubble
  
• Jobs (Steve Jobs)
  

• Kepler (Johannes Kepler)
  
• Khan (Bob Khan)
  
• Laika
  
• Lovelace (Ada Lovelace)
  
• Marie Curie
  
• Neil deGrasse Tyson
  
• Newton (or Sir Isaac)
  
• Pascal
  
• Pasteur (Louis Pasteur)
  
• Pavlov (for dogs ... or cats —they drool, too)
  

• Pelton (Lester Allan Pelton)
  
• Rosalind (Rosalind Franklin)
  
• Sagan
  
• Tesla (or Nikola)
  
• Tycho (Tycho Brahe)
  
• Woz (Steve Wozniak)
  

Top pet names for science geeks.

• Ajax
  
• Amp
  
• Apache
  
• Apollo
  
• Aquarius
  
• Argon
  
• Asteroid
  
• Astra
  
• Atom
  
• Aurora
  
• Axis
  
• Beaker
  
• Beta
  
• Boron
  
• Byte
  
• Carbon

• Chet
  
• Chip
  
• Cipher
  
• Comet
  
• Cosmo
  
• Cyber
  
• Data
  
• Delta
  
• Digit
  
• Dob (Dobsonian)
  
• Doppler
  
• Eclipse
  
• Equinox
  
• Flare
  
• Flurry
  
• Galaxy
  
• Gamma
  
• Geo
  
• Gibbous
  
• Glitch
  
• Gram
  
• Gravity
  

• Halo
  
• Hedron
  
• Helix
  
• Iris
  
• Isotope
  
• Jet
  
• Jupiter
  
• Kernal
  
• Kilo (kilogram)
  
• Laser
  
• Linux
  
• Luna
  
• Mac
  
• Mars
  
• Mercury
  
• Meteor
  
• Micron
  
• Moon
  
• Nano
  
• Nebula

• Neon
  
• Neptune
  
• Neutron
  
• Nitro
  
• Nova
  
• Orbit
  
• Photon
  
• Pi
  
• Pipette
  
• Pixel
  
• Pluto
  
• Polar
  
• Quark
  
• Quasar
  
• Radar
  
• Rocket (for superfast runners)
  
• Ruby
  
• Saturn
  
• Solstice
  
• Sonic
  
• Spark

• Star
  
• Sunny
  
• Tetra
  
• Titan
  
• Twilight
  
• Vector
  
• Venus
  
• Volt
  
• Widget
  
• Zero
  
• Zeta
  
• Zinc
  
• Zodiac
  

Do you need more inspiration for your new pet’s name?

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