Where does the dog name “Fido” originate from?
…a Latin name meaning “I am faithful.” As such it is a terrific name for the average protective and loyal family dog. However, it gets its popularity from a celebrity tie-in. Apparently, Abraham Lincoln, a largely self-educated but very erudite man, named his dog Fido. Americans followed suit in droves, putting the dog name Fido firmly in the top 20 names. To quote someone else’s explanation: Max Cryer has a very popular radio program on the origin of words and in the following excerpt he discusses when and why people started calling their dogs Fido. “Although you don’t often hear Fido as a name for someone’s actual dog, the name crops up frequently as a “general” name, referring to any dog. This came about as an early example of “celebrity identification” because Abraham Lincoln had a dog he called Fido. Even in the days before mass media, television and women’s magazine covers, people were still keen to know all about famous people — and in America, nobody is more famous than the P
