Kuma

I do indeed have an Akita and I just thought a Japanese name would be appropriate and she does look like a big, adorable teddy bear, so even though my dog is a female, we chose the name Kuma (which is usually more of a male name). I don't really like when people use human names for dogs. For instance, there are a lot of dogs named "Maggie" and if you meet someone named Maggie, it's kind of offensive to say you have a dog named that, in my opinion at least. My mother-in-law does that with her poodles, naming them Madeline and Tiffany.