214 Best Names for Your Yorkshire Terrier

Small dogs with BIG personalities, the Yorkshire terrier remains a perennial entrant in the American Kennel Club's annual list of the country's most popular dog breeds.

Which makes it even more important that you really stick the landing when it comes time to name your newly adopted pup.

To make the name game more of an opportunity and less of a challenge, we've pulled together 214 extremely fun, memorable, and unusual handles perfect for this intelligent and affectionate breed.

214 Yorkie names for male and female dogs

• Aiko

• Almond

• Archie

• Ariana

• Axle

• Babs (or Babbles)

• Badger

• Bam-Bam

• Bandit

• Banjo

• Bart

• Basil

• Beams

• Beans

• Bells

• Benji

• Bitters

• Bones

• Boo

• Boomer

• Boots

• Boz

• Brutus

• Bubbles

• Bugs (or Bugsy)

• Burns

• Buster

• Butters

• Buttons

• Buzz

• Candles

• Candy

• Carolina

• Cap

• Casbah

• Cash

• Checkers

• Chewy

• Chili

• Chopper

• Chubs

• Chunk

• Coco

• Cooper

• Cord

• Corky

• Coyote

• Crackers

• Crackles

• Crash

• Crayola

• Cricket

• Curly

• Cupps

• Dazz

• Derby (or Derbs)

• Dex

• Dodger

• Domino

• Doodle

• Dudley

• Dutch

• Ember

• Fawn

• Fender

• Finn

• Flash

• Fletch

• Flex

• Freckles (or Frex)

• Friz

• Frosty

• Gatsby

• Gibbs

• Giz (or Gizmo)

• Goobs

• Gordo

• Grits

• Gumball

• Hooch

• Hooks

• Hudson

• Iggy (or Iggles)

• Jax

• Jazz

• Junior

• Jupiter (or Joop)

• Khaki (or Khaks)

• Luna

• Mads

• Magnum

• Major

• Maui

• Max

• Medals

• Meeps

• Midge

• Miles

• Mo

• Mobby

• Monkey

• Moose

• Moris

• Mowgli

• Mumbles

• Nacho

• Newt

• Nibbles (or Nibbs)

• Nickles

• Noddle

• Nugget

• Onion

• Onyx

• Orbit (or Orbs)

• Oreo

• Oscar

• Otis

• Otto

• Ox

• Ozzie

• Paws

• Peabody

• Pearl

• Pebbles

• Pecan

• Pecs

• Pee-wee

• Penn

• Pickles

• Pings

• Pip

• Pistol

• Porkchop

• Presley

• Pretzel

• Prezzles

• Puck

• Puddles

• Punchy

• Quincy

• Radar

• Ravioli

• Razzles (or Raz)

• Remy

• Reubs

• Rex

• Rhodes

• Rhubarb

• Ribbons

• Riddles

• Riggs

• Ringo

• Ripple (or Rips)

• Rocket

• Rocky (or Rocko)

• Rolo

• Rook (or Rookers)

• Roxy (or Rox)

• Ruby

• Rupe

• Rusty

• Saffy

• Sandy (or Sands)

• Sarge

• Sav

• Scoob (or Scoobs)

• Scoop

• Scooter

• Scotch

• Scout

• Scraps

• Shades

• Sharky

• Shells

• Shorty

• Sinbad

• Skipps

• Skittles

• Smooch (or Smooches)

• Socks (or Sox)

• Snap!

• Snuffles

• Spokes

• Spuds

• Squash

• Squish

• Stickers

• Subs

• Sugar

• Sunny

• Tats

• Taz

• Tic Tac

• Tobles

• Toffee

• Topas (or Topes)

• Torts

• Trax

• Tripps

• Truffles

• Tubes

• Turbo (or Turbs)

• Twixx

• Valentine (or Val)

• Vapors

• Waffles

• Wags

• Wends

• Winkles

• Wrinkles

• Whiskey

• Wriggly

• Yogi

• Zippers

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