Ain't nothing wrong with being a nerd. In fact, if you're a nerd and proudly identify yourself as such (which you should!) AND you also happen to be racking your brain for a name for your new fur-kid, fear not. We've compiled a list of some of the nerdiest pet names to be found anywhere.

We've got name ideas for: Computer & Graphic Design Nerds, Math & Science Nerds, Film & TV Nerds, Gamer Nerds, and Comic Book Nerds. We realize that this is in no way an exhaustive list of categories—for example, we're missing History Nerds and Music Nerds—but if we included every single kind we could think of, this list would go on for days. Even if you can't find the perfect moniker on this list, we're sure that it'll take your brainstorm into even greater heights of geekery.

Your fave nerdy name not on the list? Comment below!

Nerdy names for dogs inspired by computer & graphic design.

Ajax



Apple



Beta



Bing



Bug



Boot



Cache



Chroma



Cloud



Cisco



Codex



Chip



Data



dOS



dongle



dot matrix



Gif



Google



Glitch



Java



Mac



Megabyte



Node



Pixel



Raster



Render



Ruby (On Rails)



Vector



Widget



Wysiwyg



Zip



Math & Science Nerdy Dog Names

Bunsen



Beaker



Dalton

Digit

Faraday



Fractal



Gadget

Gizmo

Kelvin

Laser



Nebula

Pi



Quark

Sputnik



Sirius



Watson & Crick (For a pair of pets)



Dog names inspired by literary characters.

Ajax (Greek Mythology)



Agamemnon (Greek Mythology)



Albus (Harry Potter Series)



Aragorn (The Lord of the Rings)

Argos (The Odyssey)



Art3mis (Ready Player One)

Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird)



Bilbo (The Lord of the Rings)

Blue (The Sound and the Fury)



Brett (The Sun Also Rises)



Buck (The Call of the Wild)



Cerberus (3-headed dog of Greek Mythology)



Cujo (Cujo)



Darcy (Pride & Prejudice)



Dr. Jekyll (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)



Frodo (The Lord of the Rings)

Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings)

Gimli (The Lord of the Rings)

Gollum (The Lord of the Rings)

Hercules (Greek Mythology)



Hagrid (Harry Potter Series)



Hermione (Harry Potter Series)



Ibsen



Electra (Greek Mythology)



Dalloway (Mrs. Dalloway)



Dante



Dorian (The Picture of Dorian Gray)



Gregor (The Metamorphosis)



Hamlet (Hamlet)



Holden (The Catcher in the Rye)



Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)



Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)



Legolas (The Lord of the Rings)

Lolita (Lolita)



MacBeth (MacBeth)



Marlowe (The Big Sleep)



Mr. Hyde (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)



Moby (Moby Dick)



Nana (Peter Pan)



Neville (Harry Potter Series)



Parzival (Ready Player One)

Pilot (Jane Eyre)



Pip (Great Expectations)



Quixote (Don Quixote)



Potter (Harry Potter Series)



Santiago (The Old Man and the Sea)



Sancho Panza (Don Quixote)



Sauron (The Lord of the Rings)

Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird)



Sherlock (The Sherlock Holmes Series)



Snape (Harry Potter Series)



Yossarian (Catch 22)



Nerdy dog names based on film & TV.

Adama (Battlestar Galactica)



Alvy (Annie Hall)



Amelie



Anakin (Star Wars)



Arya (Game of Thrones)



Astro (Jetsons)



Bella (Twilight)



Bones (Star Trek)



Bender (Futurama)



Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)



Cersei (Game of Thrones)

Daenerys (Game of Thrones)

Darth (Star Wars)



Donna (Dr. Who)

Drogo (Game of Thrones)



Ewok (Star Wars)



Falkor (The Neverending Story)



Finn (Star Wars)

Ghost (Game of Thrones)

Gizmo (Gremlins)



Guido (8½)

Hal (2001 A Space Odyssey)



Han Solo (Star Wars)

Hedwig (Harry Potter; Hedwig and the Angry Inch)



Hodor (Game of Thrones)



Khaleesi (Game of Thrones)



Kubrick (Director, Stanley Kubrick)



Kylo Ren (Star Wars)

Lando (Star Wars)

Leela (Futurama)

Luke (Star Wars)

Neo (The Matrix)



Nibbler (Futurama)

Orson (Welles)



Poe (Star Wars)

Princess Leia (Star Wars)

Wookie (Star Wars)



Chewy (Star Wars)



Tardis (Dr. Who)



Tyrion (Game of Thrones)



Rey (Star Wars)

Rocky (Rocky)



Rose (Dr. Who)

Rosebud (Citizen Kane)



Spock (Star Trek)



Toto (Wizard of Oz)



Tron (Tron)



Yoda (Star Wars)



Vader (Star Wars)



Xena (Xena Warrior Princess)



Zoidberg (Futurama)

Gamer nerd names for dogs.

Atari



Banjo



Bowser



Biggs



Cid



Chi



Cloud



Genesis



Kazooie



Kirby



Jax



Johnny Cage



Mario

Halo



Luigi



Link



Peach



Pong



Eve



Drake



Raden



Ryu



Sonic



Sub-Zero



Yoshi



Wedge



Varian



Zelda



ZugZug



Comic book & anime nerd names for dogs.

Akira



Bizarro



Black Widow



Clark (Kent)



Deadpool



Dr. Doom



Galactus



Goku

Hellboy



Hulk



Kal-El



Lex (Luther)



Loki



Magneto



The Maxx



Oracle



Mystique



Pepper (Potts)



Professor X



Rocket



Rorschach



Sabertooth



Sakamoto



Sasquatch



Storm



Taiga



Thing



Thor



Zod



Nerd names for dogs based on historical figures in science.

Archimedes



Aristotle



Billy Nye



Bohr (Niels Bohr)



Cerf (Vincent Gray Cerf)



Copernicus



Da Vinci



Darwin (great for finches!)



Edison



Edith Clarke



Einstein (or Albert. Perfect for any critter with wild, shaggy locks.)



Erwin (As in Schrödinger — for cats, of course)



Freud (or Sigmund)



Galileo



Gates (Bill Gates)

Goddard (Robert Hutchings Goddard)



Hawking



Heisenberg (not Walter White!)



Higgs (perhaps for a shy, elusive cat?)



Hopper (Grace Hopper)



Hubble



Jobs (Steve Jobs)



Kepler (Johannes Kepler)



Khan (Bob Khan)



Laika



Lovelace (Ada Lovelace)



Marie Curie



Neil deGrasse Tyson



Newton (or Sir Isaac)



Pascal



Pasteur (Louis Pasteur)



Pavlov (for dogs ... or cats —they drool, too)



Pelton (Lester Allan Pelton)



Rosalind (Rosalind Franklin)



Sagan



Tesla (or Nikola)



Tycho (Tycho Brahe)



Woz (Steve Wozniak)

Nerdy names for science geeks.

Amp



Apache



Apollo



Aquarius



Argon



Asteroid



Astra



Atom



Aurora



Axis

Boron



Byte



Carbon



Chet

Cipher



Comet



Cosmo



Cyber

Delta

Dob (Dobsonian)



Doppler



Eclipse



Equinox



Flare



Flurry



Galaxy



Gamma



Geo



Gibbous

Gram



Gravity

Hedron



Helix



Iris



Isotope



Jet



Jupiter



Kernal



Kilo (kilogram)

Linux



Luna

Mars



Mercury



Meteor



Micron



Moon



Nano



Nebula



Neon



Neptune



Neutron



Nitro



Nova



Orbit



Photon

Pipette

Pluto



Polar



Quark



Quasar



Radar

Saturn



Solstice

Spark



Star



Sunny



Tetra



Titan



Twilight



Vector



Venus



Volt

Zinc



Zodiac



Do you need more inspiration for your new pet’s name?