Is it wrong to name our daughter after the dog??
DH thinks it is but I [name]LOVE[/name] my dog. She is a 12yo lab and truly my best friend…she’s been with me thru thick and thin and has an almost human personality. Plus, she has a fantastic name…[name]Mabel[/name]!
I’m thinking of using [name]Mabel[/name] as a second mn…I don’t think that’s horrible…I actually think it’s kind of nice…but DH just thinks it’s wrong.
what do you think?
ps~ I’m really not crazy…dog lovers will understand 
I am in love with the name [name]Sadie[/name]. We had a dog named [name]Sadie[/name] for 6 years. I still think I could use it for a daughter. DH says no…go figure.
I don’t think it’s a bad thing to be given a name that has a lot of meaning to your mother no matter if it be from a person, city or even a dog. If it is going to be in a MN spot then it’s not like he is going to be saying it often.
I think with my husband, he trys to assosiate every name with a person or thing before he can decide if he likes it or not. I hate this because names I love are tossed out because of someone in his firstgrade class. Maybe you could try to change the assosiation to someone else by looking up women named mabel online and showing him.
*[name]Edit[/name]-Is the dog still living? I Was assuming not when I posted but then I reread your post and it sounds like it’s alive. I’d have to say if the dig is still living it may be a tiny bit weird to me but again a MN spot isn’t often used so it’s not a big deal.
thank you for the replies.
Yes, the dog is still alive…but she is old and (sadly) won’t live forever 
My husband does the same thing…he will think of completely obscure things to associate names with and then decide he doesn’t like them. ex - [name]Iris[/name] - there is an optical store in town called [name]Iris[/name]…so when I say the name [name]Iris[/name]…he thinks of buying glasses rather than the beautiful flower. He can do this with almost any name I come up with…so frustrating.
DH ruins all my names too! I feel your pain!
Worked for [name]Indiana[/name] [name]Jones[/name] 
my sister-in-law and her husband got a lab puppy when they were first married and named her grace–nn gracie. fast forward three years and they have their first daughter, my niece, madelyn grace. the dog is still alive and well, and no one in our family ever questioned it (out loud, anyway, lol).
i think mabel is gorgeous and retro and a little offbeat, so why not?
btw, i am having name-regret with two of our pets also: the cats, charlie and olive. when they were named, children were not on the horizon, and now i kind of regret using them for pets! especially charlie, since charles is a family name, lol. oops.
My mother tells the story of a boy she know who was named [name]Rex[/name], he said “The dog died”.
braveangel2 ~ that’s what I keep telling my husband - lol
and…on a side note…if we were having a boy we would have named him [name]Henry[/name]…nn “[name]Indy[/name]”.
No offense, but I think there are other names that would be better. I would be really offended if my parents named me after a dog. You might love your dog, but your child might not feel the same way about the idea. [name]Imagine[/name] how awkward it would be for the child if they had to tell their friends and others that their parents named them after a dog. I would be embarrassed personally if it were me.
Normally I would say, no you cannot name your child after a living dog. Especially in this case where it’s not just a name you love but you’re actually naming your daughter after the dog because of your relationship with the dog.
But since you’re considering using it as a second middle name, I say go ahead. The name [name]Mabel[/name] is meaningful to you in a personal way (in this case it’s a dog but it could be any number of things of personal importance). Your daughter will have a first name and a middle name that are uniquely hers and another middle name that was of high importance to her mother. I don’t see anything wrong with that!
I grew up with dogs that were named as people: [name]Katie[/name], [name]Sophie[/name] and our own dog [name]Riley[/name].
I like all names for people and would not feel the least strange about naming your daughter that name.
Frankly, some of the other names I see on here are more strange!
What about [name]Amabel[/name], the older form of [name]Mabel[/name]?
as a first name, i would say no. as a second middle name - definitely!!
I totally understand and I say go for it! To me, our pets have always been beloved members of our family, so I look at it in the same way as using a family name of a relative for your child. It’s a nice way to honor [name]Mabel[/name], and it’s not as if you’re giving [name]Mabel[/name] as a first name. I can picture your daughter treasuring this connection. I named my dog [name]Remington[/name] and I lovvvve this name! It could still be a middle name possibility for me in the future.
i personally don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. my parents dog is called [name]Luca[/name] and i love that name for a baby boy and wouldn’t think twice about calling my son it.
My dog’s name is [name]Luka[/name]! He was named when I got him and I love his name!! He’s a husky and I think it fits him perfectly
Another thought. [name]Caleb[/name] is hebrew for dog. Maybe you could save that for a son to acknowledge how important dogs are in our life?
DH vetoed [name]Greta[/name] (as nn for [name]Margaret[/name]) for the same reason – a beloved cocker spaniel. Sometimes associations, however positive, are just too strong to overcome…
I was actually named for a second cousin, but so was my aunt’s dog - who came into the family before I did! So the family joke has always been that I was named after the dog. I love my name for me, I loved it on a basset hound, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m expecting a girl now, but if it had been a boy, I would have named it for OUR dog (not because of the dog - but because it’s a great name). Go for it!