Names for Your Fat Dog

Looking for a name for your overweight dog? Though your dog’s health is a serious concern, there is always room for a little humor. These names are derived from large animals, other large-themed words, foods and words that are synonymous with large, fat, or overweight.

List of Names for Your Overweight Pup

We’ve compiled an alphabetical list of names derived from meaning, inference, and famous fat dog names.

• Amazon
• Angus
• Axel
• Barn or Barney – For a pup as big as a barn door
• Beans
• Bear
• Beasty
• Beefy
• Belly
• Bertha
• Beulah
• Biggy
• Big Mac
• Blimpy
• Boomer
• Bounty
• Brawny
• Bruiser
• Bubba
• Buddha
• Buford
• Bull
• Burly
• Burrito – Nobody wants a small burrito.
• Butch
• Butterball
• Butterworth
• Chunky (one pet lovers calls her dog her little Chunky Monkey)
• Chunk Norris – Maybe he’s big, but awesome.
• Colossal – Colly? Lossy? Sal?
• Crisco
• Curvy
• Diesel
• Dozer
• Eggo
• Flabby
• Goliath
• Godzilla
• Grizzly
• Hammy
• Hearty
• Hefty
• Hereford
• Hershey
• Hulk
• Husky
• Immy – Short for immense
• Kong
• Lane – For Lane Bryant
• Mac
• Macro
• Magnus
• Massimo
• Max – to the max!
• Meaty
• Mighty
• Moby
• Mondo
• Monster
• Moose
• Norm – eNORMous
• Obie – like the famous obese dachshund
• Paddy – For being well-padded
• Piggy
• Piglet
• Podgy
• Porky
• Portly
• Pudge
• Rambo
• Rex
• Rocky
• Roly – Poly Oly
• Roomy
• Semi
• Spare – For having a tire to spare
• Stocky
• Stuffy
• Sumo
• Taurus – Bull
• Tank
• Thor
• Thunder
• Titan
• Tito
• Titus
• Tonka
• Tower
• Tubbs or Tubby
• Tummy
• Tyson
• Wallop
• Wheezer
• Wheezy
• Whopper
• Wookie

More Names

Didn’t find a name that fits? Looking for a more uncommon name? Or just need more ideas? Check out PetPlace.com’s article on the Top 1200 Pet Names.