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r/NameMyDog↗

Help everyone name their Dog!!

Welcome to NameMyDog Post your dog that needs a name - photo(s) and type of name looking for - or suggest names. Keep names helpful and friendly. Vulgar or unfriendly suggestions will be deleted and user banned. NAME SUGGESTIONS ONLY. Off topic comments (breed shaming, photo appearance, etc) will result in a ban.

138k subscribers388 posts / mo in Sep 2026347 authors / mosince 2016

r/NameMyDog has 138k members (+39% over the last 12 months). It gets about 388 posts a month from 347 people. Top topics: Puppy Naming Help, Name Suggestions and Name Suggestions for Little Girls.

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Size and growth

How r/NameMyDog has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+39%in 12 months · +7.1% in 3 months · +1.0% in 1 month
Oct 2026137k
Growing137k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/NameMyDog

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−29%vs Sep 2025 · −11% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026388
QuieterPeaked at 977 in Jan 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/NameMyDog

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Puppy Naming Help36%
  2. Name Suggestions8.5%
  3. Name Suggestions for Little Girls8.2%
  4. Name Suggestions5.1%
  5. Name Suggestions4.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Behind the Name
  2. Pinterest
  3. Tenor
  4. Merriam-Webster
  5. Gofund

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Everything else about r/NameMyDog

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research