Spring 2025

The wackiest, wildest pet names of the year!

Meet the nominees for this year’s Wacky Pet Names celebration

What’s in a name? For many of our Nationwide® pet insurance members, it’s a whole lot of creativity, self-expression—and wackiness, of course!

For the last 10 years, we’ve collected the wildest, wackiest names our members come up with as part of our Wacky Pet Names celebration. With hundreds of thousands of new pets enrolled in 2024, we’ve had a lot of zany names to choose from. Here are some favorites.

Meet our nominees

It’s the wackiest time of the year! The class of 2025 has plenty of wackiness to go around. We’ve selected the most unique dog, cat and exotic pet names, but who will be crowned the wackiest name of each species category?

Kooky canine name nominees

American Cheese

American Cheese
This small mixed breed dog is cheesed to meet you.

Billy Dog Thornton

Billy Dog Thornton
This golden retriever has a name that’s equal parts Bad Santa and good boy.

Dilly Dally Tally

Dilly Dally Tally
This Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever has a pet name that “tallies” up the wacky delight.

Free Throw

Free Throw
This Australian cattle dog/blue heeler has a wacky pet name that goes hard in the paint.

Iggasaurus Rex

Iggasaurus Rex
This greyhound has a wacky pet name that roars!

Lil Jelly Donut

Lil Jelly Donut
This mixed breed pup has a sweet and tasty morsel of a name that’s inspired by the Big Apple.

Luke Skybarker

Luke Skybarker
Luke, I am your beagle with a wacky name.

Ozzy Pawsborne Prince of Barkness

Ozzy Pawsborne, Prince of Barkness
We’re going off the rails for this English bull terrier’s crazy name.

Schmeagle Vonsqueaklebits

Schmeagle Vonsqueaklebits
The Pomeranian heir apparent (or fur apparent) to a wacky pet name legacy.

Uncle Pickles 3

Uncle Pickles
This poodle has a pet name with a refreshing crunch.

Nutty exotic pet name nominees

Ferret Bueller

Ferret Bueller
A ferret with a name that says, “Wacky… Wacky… Wacky pet names?”

Gray Stuff

Gray Stuff
Be our guest, be our guest, this snake’s name is the wackiest!

Grimace from McDonalds

Grimace From McDonald's
This guinea pig has a name that asks, “Would you like some wacky with that?”

Jane Hawgsten

Jane Hawgsten
This hedgehog is named for acclaimed author of Pride and Hedge-udice.

Julius Cheeser

Julius Cheeser
Friends, rodents, countrymen—lend me your fuzzy little ears.

Lazerbeak

Lazerbeak
This conure has a WackyBot pet name inspired by Transformers.

Pork NΓÇÖ Beans

Pork N’ Beans
This pot belly pig has a wacky piglet name you’ve “bean” searching for.

Punky Beakster

Punky Beakster
Here’s a wacky parrot with a name that’s one for the ‘80s kids.

Puppy cat

Puppy Cat
Part puppy, part cat—but also 100% bunny.

The Dark Urge

The Dark Urge
This ferret has a wacky pet name that, uh, echoes against the dungeon walls.

Funky feline name nominees

Angry Potato

Angry Potato
This tater tot has a starchy potato name and a wacky way of wiggling.

Beef Stewart

Beef Stewart
This mixed shorthair cat’s name is the soup of the day today at Chez Wacky.

Cattila the Hun

Cattila The Hun
A mixed breed cat with a name that’s a steppe in the right direction—the wacky one!

Kirkland Signature Brand

Kirkland Signature Brand
The trusted name for bulk goods, hot dogs—and cool mixed shorthair cats!

Lando Catrissian

Lando Catrissian
This Maine coon cat’s name says, “Snuggler? I’m more of an intergalwacky entrepaweneur.”

Pickles of Purrington

Pickles Of Purrington
This domestic shorthair cat has a pet name that puts the “dill” in dill-ightfully wacky.

Pro Skater Tony Hawk

Pro Skater Tony Hawk
This mixed shorthair cat has a wacky cat name inspired by the Birdman.

Purrrsephone

Purrsephone
This medium-hair cat has a Crete-ative and wacky pet pun name inspired by Greek mythology.

The Megalodon

The Megalodon
Beloved B-movie inspires a w-a-c-k-y dinosaur-shark-theme name for a mixed shorthair cat.

Wendys 4 for $4

Wendy’s 4 For $4
This mixed medium hair cat has a wacky name that doesn’t cut corners.

Help us crown the kookiest canine, funkiest feline and nuttiest exotic pet names of the year! Vote daily April 15-19, 2025 at petinsurance.com/wackypetnames.

Meet our 2025 Wacky Pet Names winners

This year's Wacky Pet Names celebration was one for the wacky record books! The vote was held over five days from April 14-19, 2025. Thirty pets in total were spotlighted this year—and more than 10,000 votes later(!) we have our winners….

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First, from the canine category, our top vote getter is named for a tasty treat in a plastic sheet: American Cheese. During a fur-ightful experience on a busy highway, she was coaxed away from danger by some hikers with the help of a preternaturally orange slice—and the name stuck like it was melted on. 

“Thank you so much!” says pet parent Morgan B. “American Cheese will be thrilled to hear the news! We will be getting her some American Cheese slices to celebrate.”

Speaking of flavorful favorites, our feline winner this year is named after a dollar-and-sense meal from a classic American burger chain: Wendy’s 4 for $4, a name that’s off the wall—but still on the menu.

“Thank you all for appreciating the value in Wendy's 4 for $4,” says pet parent Zoey B. “If she could talk, I know she would let you all know how grateful she is for winning. Unfortunately, all I could get out of her for now is ‘meow, meowww, meow.’"

Rounding out our winners is a pet named for the iconically wacky lead of a John-Hughes-film favorite: Ferret Bueller. This red Ferrari of a wacky name came courtesy of happy happenstance—the right scene playing at the right time.

At press time, we haven’t seen or heard anything from Bueller. In the meantime, we’ve dispatched a nosy principal to investigate.

Our winners received prizes that include a photo shoot and a custom canvas portrait of their pet. Keep an eye on our Wacky Pet Names blog for more on these wacky pets.

A big thank you to everyone who voted and, of course, our ever-creative members for their wacky naming inspiration! Check out all the nominees in this year's campaign and read their stories at petinsurance.com/wackypetnames.

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