Emily Walker
Male Rasta Dog Names
| Names | Notes |
| Mento | An early genre of Jamaican folk music that preceded ska |
| Bob |
After Bob Marley, the most famous reggae artist of all time
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| Dub |
A subgenera of reggae that emphasized remixing rhythm sections and sometimes adding time-based effects
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| Dread |
After dreadlocks, a common hairstyle to Rastafarian followers
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| Romeo |
After Max Romeo, a roots reggae recording artist
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| Buster |
After Prince Buster, one of Jamaican music’s greatest pioneers; influenced many genres
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| Desmond |
After Desmond Dekker, who had one of the earliest reggae hits
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| Dunbar |
After Sly Dunbar, one of Jamaica’s greatest drummers
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| Roy |
After I-Roy and U-Roy, both prominent reggae artists
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| Tubby |
After King Tubby, who had significant influence on many styles of music including reggae
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| Congo |
After the Jamaican musical group The Congos
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| Banton |
After Buju Banton, a prominent dance hall musician
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| Barrington |
After Barrington Levy, a tenured dance hall and reggae artist
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| Spear |
After Burning Spear, Rastafarian and roots reggae artist
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| Shaggy |
A modern Jamaican reggae artist and DJ
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| Professor |
After Mad Professor, an Afro-Caribbean dub music producer
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| Linton |
After Linton Kwesi Johnson, a Jamaican-British dub poet
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| Rocksteady |
The evolving genre that fell between ska and reggae
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| Kingston |
The birthplace of reggae music
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| Alton |
After Alton Ellis, The Godfather of Rocksteady
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| Ranks |
After Shabba Ranks, who grew in recognition due to his rapping instead of singing
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| Cliff |
After James Chambers, aka Jimmy Cliff, a famous multi-instrumentalist reggae artist
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| Prince |
After Prince Buster, a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
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| Wailer |
After the Wailers, who featured Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, and Bunny Wailer
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| King |
After King Tubby, a Jamaican sound engineer
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| Damian |
After Damian Marley, Bob’s youngest son, the only with Cindy Breakspeare as his mother
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| Sly |
After Sly Dunbar, a prominent drummer in the Jamaican music scene
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| Steel |
After Steel Pulse, the first non-Jamaican band to win a reggae album Grammy
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| Scratch |
After Lee “Scratch” Perry, innovator of dub reggae
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| Dekker |
After Desmond Dekker, a reggae pioneer
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Female Rasta Dog Names
| Names | Notes |
| Perry |
After Lee “Scratch” Perry, a highly-talented Jamaican music producer
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| Maytal |
After Toots and the Maytals, who coined the term “Reggae” in their hit “Do the Reggay”
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| Rasta |
The short name for Rastafarian, a religious and social movement developed in Jamaica in the 1930s
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| Blue |
After “Blue Beat”, a term used to describe early reggae-style music
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| Buju |
After Buju Banton, a Grammy-award winning reggae musician
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| Aitken |
After Laurel Aitken, The Godfather of Ska
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| Blondy |
After Alpha Blondy, reggae artist and political activist
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| Robbie |
After Robbie Shakespeare, the talented Jamaican bass player
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| Jah |
The Rastafarian name used to refer to Lord God
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| Levy |
After Barrington Levy, a reggae artist with a considerable discography
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| Alpha |
After Alpha Blondy, an international musical artist from the Ivory Coast
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| Shabba |
After Shabba Ranks, a dancehall/reggae musician who surfaced in the mid-80s
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| Yellow |
After Yellowman, a popular reggae artist in the 1980s
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| Ragga |
AKA Raggamuffin music, a subgenre of dancehall and reggae
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| UB |
After UB40, a popular pop/reggae band formed in the late 70s
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| Matis |
After Matisyahu, a modern Jewish American reggae artist
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| Bunny |
After Bunny Wailer, a core member of the Wailers band
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| Ziggy |
After Ziggy Marley, one of the famous musical sons of Bob and Rita
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| Marley |
After Bob Marley, one of the earliest and most prolific reggae artists ever
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| Tosh |
After Peter Tosh, a core member of the Wailers
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| Ellis |
After Alton Ellis, a Hall of Fame singer-songwriter who helped pioneer the rocksteady genre
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| Rudie |
After “Rudie Blues”, an early term for dancehall/reggae/ska music
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| Toots |
After Toots and the Maytals, an early ska and rocksteady band
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| Calypso |
A style of Afro-Caribbean music
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| Kwesi |
After Linton Kwesi Johnson, who performs/reads poetry over dub reggae
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| Uhuru |
After Black Uhuru, a reggae band from the 70s still playing today
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