--- description: Our favorite names include Todd, Carrots and Helen Hunt title: Ellen Page Is Renaming Everyone's Dogs On Twitter image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Ellen Page Is Renaming Everyone's Dogs On Twitter, Including Lena Dunham's by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 23, 2014 6:04 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 23, 2014 6:04 PM CUT Yesterday, actress Ellen Page made a pretty nonchalant confession on Twitter: Then everyone got _really_ excited about this, and began asking the _X-Men: Days of Future Past_ actress to grant their pups new monikers. She swiftly began to reply, doling out some truly perfect new dog names: > [](https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/458607497280884736) > [](https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/458504231461208064) > [](https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/458504721892794368) > [](https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/458505409066586112) > [](https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/458607238806896642) > [](https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/458505269513703425) Even Lena Dunham got in on the fun: > [](https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/458793132402802688) Page also proved that she doesn’t discriminate by naming a cat, too: > [](https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/458504475854897152) Good job, Ellen Page. This is by the far the best thing any celebrity has ever done on Twitter. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/74059/ellen-page-renames-dogs-on-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/74059/ellen-page-renames-dogs-on-twitter/"},"headline":"Ellen Page Is Renaming Everyone's Dogs On Twitter, Including Lena Dunham's","datePublished":"2014-04-23T18:04:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:02.322Z","description":"Our favorite names include Todd, Carrots and Helen Hunt","url":"https://time.com/74059/ellen-page-renames-dogs-on-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Dogs","Pets","twitter","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/74059/ellen-page-renames-dogs-on-twitter/","name":"Ellen Page Is Renaming Everyone's Dogs On Twitter, Including Lena Dunham's"}}]}] ```