When I was at school (in the Middle Ages) there were three Carols in my class, two Susans and two Andrews out of the 24 children. It caused confusion sometimes – though the teacher’s thrown chalk (yes, it was THAT long ago) usually hit the correct child.
(We were sent upstairs for a telling off by the headmaster, too, if we had been particularly naughty – and he used the cane for persistent or severe misdemeanours. But more about that another day, perhaps…)
Names go through cycles – it’s rare to meet a young child with the name Carol or Susan nowadays though I do know one Andrew.
Like calling your child Carol nowadays, dogs names go in and out of fashion too. In our current Saturday classes we have two Lexis and in the last set of Bangor classes we had two Teddys, two Charlies and two Freyas.
A 2019 survey showed the most common dog names last year were Luna, Bella, Charlie, Bailey, Lucy and Cooper. We’ve had all these in our classes recently.
But in medieval times, (or should that be tymes?) popular dog names included some wonderful beauties: Blawnche, Nosewise, Smylfeste, Bragge, Holdfast, Zaphyra, Zalbot and Mopsulus. Some of these make sense as they sort of describe what the dog might have been bred to do, such as Nosewise or Holdfast. I love the idea of calling out “Nosewise, go sniff” or “Holdfast, stay”.
But whatever you name your dog doesn’t really matter. What’s important is that you teach him how to live happily in the crazy world of ours.
Keep training
Carol