What inspired your herps names?

[Toxic Tessa]

((Sorry for typos, doing this from my phone.))

This something I always wonder when I hear the names people give their pets. I am the type of person that absolutely has to name every animal I come into contact with. Haha.


As for me, right now Kaa is the only little guy I have at the moment- and his name was taken from the The Jungle Book. As much as I love the Disney adaption of it, I was more inspired by the book – in which Kaa was one of Mowgli’s best friends and mentor. I felt it was fitting for my first snake, as the Jungle Book is what inspired my initial love of them when I was younger.

I’m going to be adopting another Ball soon from a customer at work who bought one for her son. Her son has not been taking care of it and neglecting it. She’s still too scared of it to take care of it on her own, but she doesn’t want it to be left mistreated and remembered I had mentioned I had a Ball as well. Soo… I’ve found myself needing to think of another name…. when… I flipped the channel and saw “the Princess and the Frog” for the first time…
I am not convinced that weather it’s a male or female, that I have to name it Juju. Lol


So, why did you all name your animals what you did?


Also, for the laughs… here’s what endeared me to the name Juju:

[Hwom91]

My girls name is kimbur. Its a spin off of the name of a really expensive pistol I would like to own someday. I guess you could say I have two very expensive hobbies. Lol. Anyway the name seems to fit. She is sleek, powerful, and beautiful.

[Toxic Tessa]

My girls name is kimbur. Its a spin off of the name of a really expensive pistol I would like to own someday. I guess you could say I have two very expensive hobbies. Lol. Anyway the name seems to fit. She is sleek, powerful, and beautiful.

Looove it! I collect art and old books... So I understand you in terms of expensive hobbies haha.

[KatStoverReptiles]

Ok...but be warned, I'm a gigantic nerd

Calypso (100% het pied) - Means "she that conceals." ya know, since she's "concealing" the gene for piebald?

Esme - Edward's mom from Twilight

Lara - from the Lara Croft video game (husband named her)

Zelda - from The Legend of Zelda video game (husband named her)

Mrs. Eaves - the name of one of my favorite typefaces (I'm a graphic designer, it's what we do, haha!)

Gypsy - just liked the name

Jethro - after Gibbs from NCIS

Ulysses - means "to hate." when we brought him home he was quite strikey

Dexter - from the book/movie "Something Borrowed."

Zombie (ghost corn) - I dunno...zombies, ghost corn. Somehow it fit. I was very sleep deprived after NARBC...

Albus - after Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter

Fin - just liked it

Stetson (blood python) - husband said his head looked like a square toed cowboy boot

Pixel - she was so little and has this granite speckling. Pixels are the smallest screen element. Yeah...nerd haha

Henry - just liked it

Octavia - the name traditionally given to the 8th daughter in Victorian England. She was our 8th snake.

Bodoni - another typeface name

Banshee (Mexican Black Kingsnake) - She's black, banshees are an omen of death...seemed to fit.

Morticia (Anery white sided brooksi king) - has a long black strip down her back. Morticia Addams has long black hair down her back. Husband made the connection.

Cornelia - she's a cornsnake...CORNelia...haha!? Get it?

Tangie (tangerine Honduran milksnake)

Flash (honduran milksnake) - because he's fast!

Jack & Jill - rescues. Came together.

Irwin (bearded dragon) - named after Steve Irwin. Steve was Australian? Beardies are from Australia? Haha!

Ok...I just did that all from memory of the rack space so I might've left a few out. And now that y'all think I'm a complete nerd...I'm out! Haha!

[decensored]

Most of my names came from music and mythology - and some are just random (I added all my pets because I am super lame) The girlfriend names most of my animals, names are not very important to me..

1.0 - Pastel het Axanthic - Johnny Cash
0.1 - Pastel het Axanthic - June

0.1 - WildType het Axanthic - Adelle
0.1 - Wildtype het Axanthic - Whitney

1.0 - Wildtype het Axanthic - Tiny
1.0 - Lesser - Butters (from southpark LOL)

1.0 - Pastel Colombian BCI - Ra (God of the moon)
0.1 - Pastel Colombian BCI - Isis (God of the sun)

1.0 Leopard Gecko - Moses

1.0 - Orange Tabby - Pookie (Garfield's teddy bear)
0.1 - Black Cat - Pandora
0.1 - Black Cat - Persephone

[crazyj83]

Very cool names everyone. So far all mine are from " Gone in 60 Seconds". I have Sway, Memphis, and Tumbler. I have a feeling if I aquire to many more I may either name them after the "Shawshank Redemption" characters, Greek Gods, or Military Alphabet...lol...

[cmack91]

Mitch, from the movie road trip, even though its not the same species, I got him from my uncle while on a road trip to california

Loki, I was looking through one of those pet names websites and I liked it, then was informed that loki is the name of I think a paegan? god who was a shift shaper, but it fits because she looks like she wants to rip your throat out, but shes a total sweetheart

Brita, she was given to us by my brothers friend who let his friends daughter name her, and of course she named her after herself lol

Jack, I bought him from a pet store and was holding him, and he just screamed jack for some reason

Stripper, he was black and white banded kingsnake, and that was the first thing that came to mind

Bob and Tito, they were my blue (bob) and green (tito) parakeets, I have no idea why I named them that, but I did, people keep telling me those are names from some movie, but ive never had any idea what they were talking about

Im a huge fan of horror movies, so I plan to some day put together a group of snakes to name after the characters of my all time favorite, house of 1000 corpses (mother firefly, captain spaulding, otis, baby, tiny, dr. satan), I cant remember the other brothers name or the grandpas name, but that will just give me a reason to watch it again

[Redneck_Crow]

Minnie the het pied: After Minnie Mouse.
Mickey, the pied: Mickey Mouse
Dorothy the pied: After a woman I knew who had many children.
Lily, the mojave: After Lily Langtry.
Marilyn, the pastel yb: After another, more famous blonde.
Darth Jackass: Because the name fits him to a "T."

[Emily Hubbard]

My female normal is named Zola, which a Zulu word for "tranquility" and BPs have a very tranquil reputation, so it fits. Since ball pythons are from Africa, I wanted an African name, but one that had nothing to do with The Lion King. haha. I spent hours playing around on various translation websites til I found what I wanted.

Interestingly, about a month after I got her, I head the novel "Nervous Condition" by Titsi Dangarembga which is about the hardships faced by women in what is now Zimbabwe. It was full of GREAT names I can use for future snakes. =D (It is also an amazing novel on every possible level. Just so you know )

[Skittles1101]

I originally started with my male normal Julius Squeezer, and was only planning on having one. Well, we all know how that goes

He got his name because I was currently working on my main project for my western civ class where we had to watch a movie (chosen from a list) and write a paper on how accurate the movie was historically. I chose Cleopatra (the original from 1963) due to my obsession with ancient Egypt. Of course, Julius Caesar was one of the main characters. I thought the tweaked name was fitting for my new guy lol.

Then of course I got more, so they all kind of went along with people in history, starting with my male pastel William Snakespeare, then my mojave Vincent Van Mojo...etc lol. Only one of my Ts have this kind of name, my pink toe tarantula, named after Sandra D from Grease...tweaked to Sandra T...the pink lady

My only problem is now I'm running out of the creativity to tweak real names to be snake-like. Sooo...now they are named by their personalities. I've gotten lucky so far that the names I've given them fit them. But my newest male yellowbelly is named Socko. Why?

Because he reminds me of a Socko