How did you pick your snakes' name?

I named my BP Spike from the Cowboy Bebop anime, as he is one of my favorite characters of all time. He is the guy in my pic.

Let's see...

Tuleo, Miguel, and Chel were all named after characters in the movie The Road To Eldorado

Sunny, Blaze, Scarlet, Sunrise, Snickers, Daisy, R.C, and Magnum were all nemed after a certain charateristic they have.

Anita, Shela, and A.J were named after people

Our newest six we just got are my dad's and mine's christmas presents so their names all have to do something with christmas.

Once you get up to 25 BPs you kinda start running out of names;)

I chose a human name for my snake: Lydia. But that's just me. Good luck chosing a name!:)

Mine is named Grishnákh,after an orc character in the Lord of the Rings. I like it because is not a name that's mentioned in the movies but he does appear in the second movie. He's the orc that gets stumped by Treebeard (the giant tree). If I ever buy another one, and I am thinking in a corn snake I'll name it Uglúk, another orc (Uruk Hai).:D

I also named our first BP Kaa...weird. And for the same reason. I generally give all my pets human names, this stems from thinking I would never have a human baby, so I named all my pets growing up after names I would of named my human children. So now we have animals named Lilly, Cotton, Masin, Merlin, Morgin, also had Jaden, Jaded, Kaa, Angelica, Kaos, Manta, Logen and so on.

As for my BP's right now, I have been naming them from there behavior and letting them "tell" me there names. So I have Willow, who we call Big Willy, she's large and in charge. We have Scout, which means adventerous because he is always on the hunt and trying to figure out how to get out of his tank. We have Tiombe which is African for Shy, she never comes out..I think her tank could be on fire and she would hide in her hide lol. And last we have Rajiv, which is sanskrit for Stripe, because he has a partial stripe down is back.

So there ya go. I have also found putting random words in a hat and picking one to be affective. Think of anything and write it down, you never know.
I think by far the best name I have heard over the years of working at Vet. hospitals and kennels is a dog named Dioge. Everyone seemed to be naming there dogs "dog" or "puppy" which I think is sad, but this guy named his Dioge, which was pronounced "D-O-G" lol.

When I name my animals, I MUST see them and spend some time getting to know them.



My cornsnake was named by my Grandfather though. It's an Italian song about a mouse (the mouse was named Pepino) He got a kick out of that, when he found out I feed him mice.



My dog's name came to me in a dream. I went to the breeder intending to pick a male yellow Lab and ended up with her, but I dreamt of her the night before I picked her out. Weird huh?

My BP took a while but the name suits him to a "T". Gambit is an X-Men character from Louisiana. I bought Gambit from a breeder in Louisiana (thanks Tim Bailey:D ).

well i named my girl copernicus.... it was a random name. it doesn't fit her or not fit her... and i cant think of any other name so i guess it just stuck but i might change it, i've had her for less than a week

my sister named her male.. clementine? imo it fits him, he's kind of shy

I don't really have a method for naming mine - although I do obsess over it. It HAS to fit them - if I know I'm getting a new snake - off to the name data bases I go and start writing down all the names I like. Then I waffle a bit and finally pick a name.

Casper, Piper and Oliver were the easiest to name

Casper the het hypo (ghost)
Piper the het pied
Oliver the het clown (after Oliver Hardy)

Sierra "told" me her name - she was named before I left the show with her - she just screamed Sierra.

I was reading a book (don't remember which now) where the main character was named Sophie when I decided to buy Ms. Sophie - and it seemed to fit her.

And Reese came pretty easy, because she reminded me of a peanut butter cup, but I didn't want to call her Reeses (with the extra "S" at the end).

Someone else named Bindi - because of her two dots on her head - and bindi is the one dot on the forehead in the Indian culture.

Kashmire was my first - and I was reading The SnakeKeeper's website and Colette's first snake was named Kashmire - and I thought it was very cute. I even e-mailed her to see if she minded (I was a dork - I know! LOL)

Sullivan used to be Kiah - until he decided he wanted to be a boy, and he was named after one of my favorite Canine Assistants.

Cueball named Leeloo and it got endorsed as a name by other members here!

Joanna named Godiva in all her chocolately goodness.

Pandora was sent as a replacement to Sullivan when he was sexed as a boy (but purchased as a female) and I joked about it being a Pandora's Box.

Echo was just a cool name and seemed to fit.

Karl named J-Lo

Pretzel just looked like a pretzel to me and it suits her personality, and Bailee and Mackenzie were names I just really liked.

And my boy that's not here yet - my lemon pastel male - Karl wanted to name Wilson, so he could say "Wiiiiiiilllllllssssoooooooooonnnnnn!!!!!" from the Tom Hanks movie (Castaway). We settled on Winston instead - for my sanity.

Felix started out as Kaa, but he's too small, and it didn't really "fit". He became Felix after Felix the Cat, because of his eyes. Wrigley, because he did that all the time (wriggled).


Pissy Snake, b/c he'd try to bite you as soon as look at you. He'd be in his hide or looking out, and you could be walking by his tank. All of a sudden you'd hear THUNK & it was Pissy hitting the glass. I swear, I was always waiting to see him hurt himself after thwacking the glass, but he never did.

CeCe is short for CC (Candy Cane). She's the closest we have right now to a candy cane corn. Oreo for the cookie, b/c she WAS black and white.

Baby just fit for our first snake, and Snoopy had a Snoopy blowing a bubble shape pattern on her back, and we kept the name when we bought her.

Petey is for Pt, or Platinum from the Periodic Table. He's het albino, going to be our $$ maker investment, and he's a very silvery gray color. Very loving and gentle for a baby (Thanks Jimi!) so Petey fits.

Kishnah (Keesh-nah) was a word that Robin made up, but it seems to fit the little Houdini. Flurry, because he's a snow corn, and Robin didn't like the name Frosty. :rolleyes:

Started using the Greek mythology. That's been an interest of mine when I was in HS. So there's Hera, Zeus, Apollo. Freddie then became Fredericka, but is now (it appears) to be Freddie again. Precious was named that when we got him and we didn't change it.

Pinky T is our pastel RTB, with very cherry red saddles, tail and belly markings, and I remembered the name from the Happy Days TV show. Her full name is Pinky Tuscadero, after Fonzie's cousin(?) Pinky T.

The other pets are named for characteristics, personality or situation, like Stewie's. He's actually Scabbers Two (Stew) b/c Robin wants to keep a Scabbers, (after Scabbers passes away later), and Stewie looked like Scabbers. Robin Hood is a blue hooded buck, Dumbelina is a little beige hooded, dumbo doe. Peekaboo, b/c she'd always peek her head out of the little gerbil tunnel tube of her first home when the rest of her body was crammed inside, until she got used to us and being handled.

Some of the others, like Roxie, Tundra and Happy were named that when we got them.

I love picking out names... I often have a name already decided on long before I get the snake!

Falkor, our corn, is named after the good luck dragon in The Neverending Story. Karen and I are both Jim Henson nerds, and we wanted to give our first snake a very non threatening name to help ease our families into snakedom. ;)

Gomez, our bp, is named after Gomez Addams! One of my favorite old black and white shows/comics/movies. We figured that was an awesome name for a ball python! A little gothy, but friendly and charming! A little charmer that winds up your arm giving you kisses. ;) Cara mia!

Ma-tsu our female Vietnamese Blue Beauty, I named after a Southeast Asian goddess which is actually spelled lots of ways (Mazu, Matsu, Ma-Tsu, etc) we just picked our favorite spelling. One of my favorite Ma-tsu stories really suits our little diva... They say that if you're lost at sea and call her name, she will come right away to aid you! But if you call her by "Empress of Heaven" (another of Her titles) instead of by her name it will take her a little longer to get to you, because she has to put on her finest gown and look her best. That's our girl to a T!

Neptune our male VBB actually came with that name, and it suits him perfect! Not only a blue planet, but a tempermental Roman sea god! That's our boy! I also just love how it sounds. I love the name Neptune. :)

Little Irwin our rubber boa was kind of a therapy perchase. I'm a big Steve Irwin fan, and it broke my heart to see him go. A little memorial in herp form, if you will. Rubber boas are also native to where Terri's from, and they start out a khaki color and turn dark green as they get older... kind of like Steve's khakis turned dark green when he was croc hopping. :happycry:

I even already have a few more future snake names planned out...

I want to name our next male VBB (next purchase after we move, I'm thinkin!) Mana after Mana Sama whom I fangirl over on a regular basis. He's the gorgeous crossdressing mastermind behind Malice Mizer and Moi Dix Mois, my favorite j-rock bands. Well, favorite bands. He always dresses in blue, and you'd never know that was a guy... he's just too pretty.

I also want to name our future Caulker Cay boa Batman. Because I am a geek, and I just think that would be awesome. They're naturally pretty anery, battish patterns down the back like other RTBs and it's just fun to say. "Meet... Batman!" "I need to clean out Batman's cage." "Time to feed Batman!" "Eew, Batman peed on me!" I mean... that'll just be awesome, lol! Poor snake...

Girls are harder to name for some reason, but our gals will most likely all be named after goddesses. :) Maybe... an anery hurricane corn named Sadako is *awfully* tempting... or even a female VBB