Fawn Dog Names

Introduction

The search for the perfect pup for you and your family can be fun as well as frustrating. But, now that you've acquired that darling doggie, your family is now complete, and life is beautiful, right? Well, it likely is now, but what about the new duties that came home with that new pet? What about the decisions needed concerning the day to day living activities of that playful pawed pet? You know, things like sleeping arrangements, toys, food, snacks, housebreaking, leash training - and what about the name you'll call that sleeping precious little one in your lap?

Fawn Dog Names in Pop Culture

Featured Famous Fawn Dog

Higgins

I love rags to riches stories, don’t you? Some may live in a fairytale world, but we love it when the prince rescues the princess from the wicked ogre, or when the good guy gets the girl, or the poor family hits the lottery, or when a rescue dog gets a forever home - and when that same dog makes it big in the movie industry. There are so many canines who have been abandoned or mistreated and eventually find their way into an animal shelter. And, while the shelters do all that they can to care for the dogs, they can’t give them the same level of love as is available in a forever home relationship.

Our pop culture spotlight today is Benji, and he is a rescued canine turned movie star! His real name is Higgins, and he is a mixed breed canine who was found in the Burbank Animal Shelter near Hollywood by a veteran Hollywood animal trainer named Frank Inn in 1960. Frank made a habit of checking the animal shelters first when he needed an animal for a movie, and when Higgins was found, he already had a menagerie of some 100 dogs. Readily admitting that Higgins was the smartest dog he’d ever worked with, Frank fell in love and bonded deeply with Higgins.

Higgins had found his forever home, and it was filled with lots of love, but that’s not all Higgins found. Higgins had found a niche into which he fits perfectly, his shaggy, loveable appearance, his intelligence level and his willingness to learn (and remember) a new trick every day endeared him to everyone he met. He played the nameless dog in Petticoat Junction as well as guest appearances on The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.

Though he was marked similar to a Border Terrier, we don’t know what breeds make up this adorable actor, but Frank Inn suspected Higgins' heritage to be Miniature Poodle, Cocker Spaniel, and Schnauzer. This shaggy little brown dog snuggled his way into the hearts of all the humans with whom he performed, especially Edgar Buchanan, who played the role of Uncle Joe Carson on Petticoat Junction. He possessed an ability to display a broad range of emotions by facial expressions, learning to sneeze and yawn on cue, warming the hearts of millions in the Benji series as well as those earlier films.

Fawn Dog Name Considerations

Choosing the right moniker for your four-legged family member can be challenging for any pet owner, whether you're new or are an old hand at this "pet" thing. The struggle comes from the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of name possibilities that exist, and one must try to narrow the playing field somehow. There are several plans that pet proprietors use to do that narrowing of the field. One method is to consider the breed of the canine, a variety of personality traits, and characteristics of the coat to generate name clues. Other pet parents use the alphabet to look only at words that begin or end with specific letter combinations to trigger their ideas. We at Wag! would like to suggest looking at your dog's coat color. If you have a Golden Retriever, Labrador Retriever, Pomeranian, or Cocker Spaniel for example, you may consider examining fawn dog names. You could look at words that mean fawn, like beige, camel, cream, oatmeal, sand, cinnamon, ginger, chestnut, brick rust, and bronze, to name a few. You could explore those words in other languages, like Spanish, Italian, Greek, and German. The critical thing to remember is that names are labels and they're significant to all of us, so keep it fun and low stress!

Male Fawn Dog Names

Votes	Name	Vote
4	Aslan The lion in "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" book by C. S. Lewis
3	Sunny Pleasant, upbeat disposition
3	Fawn Baby deer; light yellowy-tan color
3	Bruno German word for brown
3	Genji Mandarin Chinese word meaning gold
3	Khaki Light brown or tan
1	Biscuit Golden brown, small round leavened bread
1	Rusty Nickname for a person with red-hair or ruddy complexion
1	Sandy Very light tan; Greek word meaning protector of men
1	Citrus Lemon-colored, lemony
1	Coffee Light brown color
0	Orville Gold town; Oh yeah, he makes popcorn, too
0	Goldenrod Dark golden yellow
0	Lurid Red-yellow; yellow-brown
0	Tan Tawny brown
-1	Bay Auburn-haired (red-brown)
-1	Sorrel Reddish- tan color
-1	Auburn Name of well-respected University
-1	Hari Word meaning tawny or lion in the Indian language
-1	Juane Spanish word for Juan; French word for yellow
-1	Xanthus Greek name of Achilles horse and for the god Apollo
-1	Dior French word meaning golden
-1	Golden Sparkly; unisex name
-1	Fuscous Brown, tawny, dingy
-1	Ochre Yellowish or yellow-brown color
-1	Suede Light beige
-3	Aeneous Shining, bronze color
-3	Aurulent Gold-colored
-3	Castaneous Chestnut- colored
-3	Stramineous Straw-colored

Female Fawn Dog Names

Votes	Name	Vote
3	Amber Golden-yellow gemstone
2	Tawny Golden-brown
2	Coco Think high fashion and chocolate
2	Sesame A seed used in cooking
2	Nutmeg A kitchen spice
2	Sahara The color of sand (tan)
2	Primrose Soft shade of yellow featured in the Hunger Games
2	Clementine The color of the yummy citrus fruit
2	Marigold Sunny, golden flower
2	Saffron A yellowish spice used in the kitchen
2	Gilda English word meaning guilded or covered in gold
2	Oriana Golden dawn
2	Orla Golden, princess
2	Ciara Deep golden yellow
2	Kyoko Japanese word meaning apricot
2	Topaz Dark yellow
1	Lilia Creamy yellow
1	Miel Having honey-like color; honey in French
1	Thistle Milky cream color
1	Wheaten The golden color of ripe wheat
1	Whey Off-white color
0	Ginger Think gingerbread cookies
0	Xantha Greek word meaning golden or yellow; also refers to the goddess Demeter
0	Sienna Reddish-brown
0	Aurelia Roman name meaning golden one
0	Cressida Greek word for gold
0	Goldie Refers to the bubbly American actress, Goldie Hawn
-1	Luteous Golden yellow
-1	Sarcoline Flesh-colored
-2	Cafe-au-lait Pale brown coffee with equal parts coffee and milk