Question: why are pugs called mops?
Answer: As a breed dating back to the B.C. era, the pug breed has seen a lot of history. ... Marie Antoinette also had a pug as a teenager that she named Mops. Interestingly enough, the name for the pug breed at the time was mopshounds, as it still is today in Germany. So essentially Marie Antoinette had a pug called Pug.