You have found the perfect little bundle of joy and now you need a name to match. 
Finding just the right Chihuahua dog name means paying attention to your dog's many qualities. For a long time, any list of Chihuahua dog name centered on a few stereotypes such as the cartoon mouse Speedy Gonzales or Pedro.
Any list of Chihuahua dog names has to include several of the most visible dogs in popular culture in the past 10 years: Gidget, the Taco Bell spokesdog and Tinkerbelle, Paris Hilton's Chihuahua.
So, whether you are naming your Chihuahua based on his/her Mexican heritage or yours, a possible list of Mexican dog names might include:
- Alonzo: Noble and ready, alert
- Alida: Aristocrat
- Alma: Full of fire or spirit
- Belinda: A variation of the Spanish word for beautiful
- Benito: Blessing
- Bolero: Popular Spanish folk-dance
- Bonita: Beauty
- Bruiser: The Chihuahua who went to Yale with Alicia Silverstone in "Legally Blonde"
- Cerveza: Beer
- Cheech: Cheech Marin, half of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong
- Chiquita: Small
- Clarinda: Extraordinary beauty
- Conchita: Start
- Corona: Royal; a popular Mexican beer
- Delmar: Of the sea
- Dolor de cabeza: Headache
- Dulce: Sweet
- Eldora: Covered in gold like the lost city of Eldorado
- Emilio: Hard worker
- Enchilada: Popular Mexican food
- Enrique: Ruler
- Esteban: Crown
- Eugenio: Well-born
- Esmeralda: Emerald
- Feliciana: Happy
- Felipe: Horse lover
- Fiesta: Celebration or party
- Gazpacho: Spicy tomato-based soup served cold
- Gidget: The real name of the Chihuahua who, for a while, was the Taco Bell spokes dog
- Guillermo: Rock-solid guardian
- Hermosa: Very lovely
- Inca: Indigenous people of South America
- Inez: Perfect, flawless
- Jorge: Farmer
- Julio: Young
- Larena: Princess
- Leonardo: Lion
- Lobo: Wolf
- Loco: Crazy
- Lucia: Light bringer
- Manda: Female warrior
- Margarita: Pearl
- Marta: Woman
- Martini: Sharon Osborne’s Chihuahua
- Maya: Indigenous people of in Mexico and Central America
- Mercedes: Mercy
- Natalia: Birthday
- Neva: Snow
- Nina: Girl
- Pablo: Small one
- Padre: Father
- Paloma: Dove
- Pedro: Rock
- Perro: Dog
- Pua: Spike
- Queque: Cake
- Ramon: Wise guardian
- Ramona or Mona: Protector of the people
- Reina: Queen
- Renaldo: Mighty force
- Ricardo: Strong ruler
- Rosalinda: Beautiful rose
Selma: Actress Selma Hayek is of Mexican heritage
- Tinkerbelle: Paris Hilton's constant Chihuahua companion
- Tiny: Not Spanish, but certainly appropriate for these petite pooches
- Ventura: Good fortune
- Vicente: Conqueror
- Yo Quiero: I love (Part of the sales pitch of the Taco Bell Chihuahua)
Chihuahua dog names drawn form their Mexican heritage has a lilting quality, but may take a little practice to say properly. It is not surprising to think that as the number of Americans with Hispanic backgrounds continues to grow, so too will the number of Chihuahua dog names.
