Puppy Bowl 2025: Meet 22 puppies on Team Fluff and Team Ruff with the cutest names

It’s that time of year again, time for the best athletes in their sport to take to the field and battle it out on the biggest stage. We are talking about the Puppy Bowl, of course, as the cutest adoptable puppies will fight for the Lombarky Trophy on either Team Ruff or Team Fluff. You can catch all the action on Sunday, February 9 at 2 p.m. ET on Animal Planet, Discovery, TBS, truTV, Max and discovery+.

With 140 precious pups from 80 shelters across 40 states participating in this year’s contest, it was impossible to highlight all the very Good Boys and Good Girls. As we could never pick the “cutest” — they’re all perfect in every way — we chose our favorite names from the bunch.

There are food names — including the perfect nickname for any puppy in Potato and Pumpkin — and even a Lin Manuel Furanda in honor of the Hamilton star.

Here are some of our favorite-named puppies for Puppy Bowl XXI.