When I would mention Kurt's name, his ears would go up and he'd look at me like "OK, What's Next?"
Now with Kelley, our 16 year old Dalmatian she chose her own name. She didn't have one at the shelter we got her from, there she was known as "dog 2572". Whenever we acquire a new dog we take it directly to our vet for a full health checkup. We asked out vet what for a name suggesion, and she suggested "Chelsea" as she knew another Dalmatian with that name and she lived a very long life.
So we called her that for a couple of days, but then I thought it just didn't sound right. So one night I was playing around with varying sounds off of Chelsea. I was in the Den and "Chelsea" was in the kitchen. One of the sounds was "Kelley". She immediately came in the living room and looked at me. I said her name again, and she came running to me. SO either her previous name WAS Kelley and I hit it on the nose, or she knew someone named Kelley. So the name stuck.
