Are you looking for some
big dog names for your future large dogs? Here comes our selection of 28 dog names that have the meaning or annotations of big, large, or giant. These names come from mythological giant titan characters or gods, or those famous noted historical figures, and they make good names for your male or female big puppies.
Amadeus: Love of God.
Amazon: A tall, powerful, aggressive woman.
Aphrodite: The ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty, identified by the Romans with Venus.
Babe Ruth: George Herman Ruth Jr., better known as Babe Ruth, was an American professional baseball player.
Bandit: An attacking fighter.
Bear: Any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
Beethoven: Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.
Bentley: Bentley Motors Limited, a British manufacturer of automobiles.
Bo: French name that means handsome.
Bosco: An Italian saint that means "from the woods."
Buster: Something that is very big or unusual for its kind.
Butch: A person who slaughters certain animals, or who dresses the flesh of animals, fish, or poultry, for food or market.
Caesar: Gaius Julius Caesar, known as Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician, general, and notable author of Latin prose.
Captain: A person who is at the head of or in authority over others.
Cyrus: Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.
Dakota: A member of the largest tribe of the Siouan stock of North American Indians, who originally occupied Minnesota and Wisconsin and later migrated westward to the Great Plains.
Duke: A title of nobility for aristocrats of very high rank.
Earl: A British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest.
Goliath: The giant warrior of the Philistines whom David killed with a stone from a sling.
Harley: Harley-Davidson, or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer, founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1903.
Hercules: A celebrated hero in mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, possessing exceptional strength.
Hermione: In Greek mythology, Hermione was the only child of King Menelaus of Sparta and his wife, Helen of Troy.
Homer: 9th-century b.c, Greek epic poet: reputed author of the Iliad and Odyssey.
Magellan: Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
Mickey: Also, micky. a potato, especially a roasted Irish potato.
Montana: A western state which is nicknamed "Big Sky Country" for its wide-open spaces.
Rex: Latin for "king". Specifically, it was the title of the kings of ancient Rome.
Samson: A biblical figure known for his superhuman strength, derived from his hair.
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