Nameology Thread

What's the symbology there?

My BP is Houdini because he always burrowed in his aspen. ;)


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Spook= She is always so frightened by everything.
Ms.Vega=Like the cigar, this girl is smoking.
Kramer=Quirky little fella with an appetite for danger.
Calvin=Weird, but i named him after my son.(He loves that they have the same name)
Paris=I got a feeling about this one and video cameras.;)
Worm=Sneaky little guy like Edward Norton in "Rounders"
Monica=Like Bill Clintons Monica.
Snooki=Enough Said....

I love naming animals.

Spot (pastel)- he has a tiny spot right behind his head on the pattern which is kinda unique.
Fang (spider) - she has a lil marking that goes from her eye down to the bottom jaw and it looks like a little tooth.
Meep (bumblebee) - really no meaning here, but she's so timid I needed a quaint little name!
Sadie (mojave) - named after a pretty kewl band.
Hyde (butter) - named after a person from a band.

Ursula, Lois, Nancy, Octavia, Maureen, Shirley -- person who figures out why gets mucho rep.

Mr. Nibbles -- Okay, I bet you can guess why.
Glinda -- because she was a pretty little blonde bitey WITCH when I got her. (But she's very sweet now...)
Floyd, Fred -- C'mon, Floyd and Fred are TERRIFIC names for a snake.
George -- because I can hug and pet him and name him George
Vuvuzela -- because she was a Ghana import that I bought during the World Cup.
Noodle -- because she's a lucy, and I couldn't resist. I bet you wish you had a white snake named Noodle, too.

[QUOTE=Kaorte;1855532]most of mine are named after TV show Characters, but not all Starbuck: Battlestar Galactica (call sign) QUOTE]

We have a Starbuck as well, but ours is a retired racing greyhound. Our other greyhound is Skylar, but she came with that name.

My original ball python is Kolbe, named oddly enough, after a Catholic saint. My current ball python is Kira from the book We the Living by Ayn Rand.

Our cats are Andromeda and Henry Fitzroy (after the vampire, not the historical figure). We have an Amazon parrot named Bandit (because of his blue mask) and a European starling named Mozart.

We also have three iguanas. Our two rock iguanas are Kismet (named by Melissa Kaplan when I described the story of how we got her on a list) and Sebastian d'Anconia (after a character in Atlas Shrugged). In the past I also had a bird named Dagny and a dog named Frisco from that same book. My blue phase green iguana is named Tazumal, after a Mayan ruin in El Salvador, where he is from.

When my daughter (now 18) was five, she got interested in tarantulas and her first few spiders were named Fluffy, Spot, and Fido because she loved the irony. She also had one named Zebracakes after the Little Debbie snack. (Fluffy and Spot are still with us). We also had a Hagrid, and an Aragog in the past.

I do love naming things!

I forgot to mention my husband's turtles. He has a Sulcatta named Ricochet (he came to us with that name because he walks into things and then backs up, a rescued slider named Pleasedontdie, and boxies named Cera, Crown, Darwin. One of those three females has a baby named Miracle, who was so named because our male had been gone for a year when we found a hatching boxie in the pen. There are a few other turtles but I'd have to has my husband their names!

I wish there was a like button on here for some of these!

My snake names are somewhat corny and typical (although you won't find a Monty or Nagini anywhere nearby). Pardon me if I get a little verbose with my explanations. I'm obsessed with duality in names, so all three have at least one dual meaning.

Riddle - When I got my first snake, I knew I wanted something mysterious and quirky -- a riddle is the perfect mixture of the two. Simple but enigmatic. I kept thinking of Gollum's "tricksy" riddles from The Hobbit, how he unwittingly lost the ring to Bilbo. It's a simple and silly tale of a halfling discovering a shiny trinket and putting it in his pocket; but on a much larger scale, it's the beginning of a dangerous, deceitful, and tortuous journey.

And although I'm a Harry Potter fan, I actually keep ending up with these HP-like names on accident (my cat's name is Luna, haha). Not intended at all, though it's a neat bonus I suppose.


Eve - Fairly common, but meaningful in my mind. I was still very new to snakes and totally intrigued by the Biblical stigma associated with them. Obviously, the story goes that the human Eve is tricked by a serpent into eating and sharing the fruit, and all sin is conceived. From then on, Eve and the serpent are to exemplify original sin itself. So basically, I combined them.

I also strongly considered Hester as a name for her - if you're familiar with The Scarlet Letter, it shares many aspects with Eve's story: sin, punishment, blame, burdens, and nature. Eve and Hester are both monumental scapegoats. Neither woman is given the mercy of forgiveness or even a chance at redemption. My own innocent Eve, however, will be free of this sin... despite her direct relation to it (being female and being a snake, I say that puts her pretty close to the "root of all sin" as told, eh? ;) )


Ember - When I got her she was a mere 8 weeks old and the runt of the litter. I went through tons of names in my head before I suddenly got this one to stick. She was tiny and frail, but at the same time, bright and lively. She has continued to be her little sparky self so the name is turning out to be perfect.

One day she may be 8 feet long, but she'll still have her name to testify to her humble beginnings. "A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."

All three are normals, unsexed but just call them males for simplistic sake, and are caged together since I got them as babies.
Pariah- because snakes are like the outcasts of the pet world. He was my first, and he lives up to his name by going off on his own and hiding in the cage and not liking to be picked up but tolerates after you have him.

Covah- havoc spelled backwards, just thought it was a cool name but he lives up to it in the fact his name is the inverse of havoc and so is he.

Sajah- wanted to keep with the names ending in "ah" and had a friend with a dog named Dajah, so I changed the d of the dog to s for the snake and called (originally thought it was a girl) her Sajah. The j is pronounced as in déjà vu.

CovaH and Sajah are from the same clutch and came a month after Pariah.

My collection had their names taken from a movie I like a lot, Princess Mononoke.

After going through the main characters pretty quickly, I started going through the credits for smaller characters, and eventually into production people. Only a few of my main collection are NOT currently named after the movie, one is my eyeless normal Athena.

When I first adopted her, though she was tiny and handicapped, she was such a strong spirit and a true fighter, so it was easy to pick Athena: Greek goddess of War, Wisdom, Courage, Inspiration, Strength and Skill. It fits her to a "T".

The other two not named after the movie still sound like they could be from it. Mori my fire female. She was a rescue, and severely underweight. She had been starved for so long, I honestly believe she would have eaten herself to death if I had let her. Every feeding day, she wanted more, more, more. Hence Mori.

And Sumi my reduced pattern pinstripe. I got her at Tinley last October. My husband wanted to know why I wanted her after I had just bought a Butter female the first day of the show. I looked him in the eyes and said, "Yeah I know I didn't need another snake, so sue me." And Sumi she became. :P

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