Naming

Just curious to those of you who name your snakes, do you have a rhyme or reason when it comes to naming. For example over here all our snakes are named after Harry Potter characters. Initially my girl wasnt too keen on switching from breeding geckos to ball pythons. However she is a huge Harry Potter nerd so it won her over lol. Now she actually likes most of the snakes except our butter fire that might actually be a direct descendant from satan.


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My son named my snake... the day I brought her home, before she was even out of the deli cup, he said, "we should name her Lexi".... so that's what she got. If/when I ever get more, I will likely go with names of NCIS characters. :)

I named my male super pastel after one of my favorite movie characters Walter Sobchak from the Big Lebowski. My new female I'm leaning towards Carol as my daughter named her mojo baby girl Rosetta, both those names from our favorite show The Walking Dead

There was really no rhyme nor reason when I first started to get back into the hobby. Tucker was the first. The girls named him after a character in Red vs. Blue. Butters (Siagi) was named after the South Park Character and I was tying flies when I named Sally. I was doing a batch of Yellow Sallys. Went with the Yellow Belly gene. The rest have been named after Red vs Blue and RWBY characters by the kids.

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I got Donuts already named, so I'm thinking as I expand my collection I may do a breakfast food theme. Kind of hoping to get a dark male to pair her up with someday just so I can name him Coffee, that would be so cute!

I name my snakes after video games that I enjoy playing. My cornsnake is named So.li.s which stands for 'Solid Liquid Solidus from metal gear. It is also the name of a company in the metal gear rising.

My ball python is named Alduin Jörmungandr. His first name is from Skyrim while his second name is from my sister.

Pretty sure if I get another snake, he/she will be names after a character off of Dragon Age or something. Maybe Last of Us. Or Assassin's Creed. [emoji216]

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There was no real rhyme to me naming the ones that are named so far. Chaos was off a whim..My girlfriend (now fiance) flipped because she wasn't expecting me to get him lol. I was talking to my mom about it that night and she said that the snake was causing chaos so hence his name. My son named all the others besides Ash. My younger sister saw him and said he needed lotion (axanthic gene) so his name became Ash lol.

I wanted to name mine after a character in my favorite novel series (Wheel Of Time), but most of the main characters don't have good snake names, so I went with one of the weird monster types from the book. Mashadar is an evil creeping fog that "hunts the night" and "curls around" it's victims to kill them. Very constrictor like. I admit it would have fit a silver or white snake better, but whatever...he's called Snoot most of the time anyway :snake:


I probably won't be getting another, but I have all my goldfish named after oceanography or geology terms...yes, I'm a science nerd and proud of it

I regularly laugh at myself for naming creatures who not only lack external ears, but also wouldn't come when you call them if they did have a pair.

Having said that, I stick with Greek and Roman god names, with the occasional Egyptian deity thrown in for good measure.

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I stick with Greek and Roman god names, with the occasional Egyptian deity thrown in for good measure.

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This is what I use, plus the Norse gods.

I have a greek mythology theme for Hognose, an egyptian theme for honduran milksnakes and for Ball Python it's pretty much anything goes.

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I regularly laugh at myself for naming creatures who not only lack external ears, but also wouldn't come when you call them if they did have a pair.

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True, but we humans like to give things names. We have at least five bicycles in our house with names: Daisey, Molly, Wendy, Archie (short for Archaeopteryx), and Reflecty. A ball python won't come when you call it, but it might come for its own reasons. A bicycle won't even do that!
Years ago my dad named his bike Rosinante, after Don Quixote's steed.

Our new guy is named Hoosac, after a railroad tunnel that my partner is really fascinated with (Our landlady's comment was that there is something topologically mind-bending about naming a snake after a tunnel). My old corn snake was named Eclipse, and the BP I had before him was named Oswaft after some creatures in a fairly obscure Star Wars spin-off novel that I was into in middle school (the Lando Calrissian Adventures).

I feel like I've seen a whole bunch of references on this forum to snakes named after sweets or desserts of various kinds...

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We have at least five bicycles in our house with names

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Check out the picture on my profile page. All my racing bikes have been named after ex girlfriends...;)

i've named all my BP's after Wicked/Wizard of Oz characters. :)

i jokingly said that i'll be bringing the entire cast home and well, here the are. lol

My baby girl is named Valentine for two reasons. 1) She has a heart marking on her tail. 2) She was a gift from my Sweetheart and it was close to Valentines day. She really suits the name and I find people are less afraid of her when I tell them her name. :oops:

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Check out the picture on my profile page. All my racing bikes have been named after ex girlfriends...;)

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Heh, I don't have enough exes to name my bikes after, LOL. Only two of my bikes have names; my better half names most of his, but not all of his have names either. The only one of my bikes I tend to anthropomorphize is the one I use for long distance events... so maybe anthropomorphizing a bicycle is somewhat related to the fact that you get a little nutty after you've been on one for two or three days with barely any sleep. :rolleye2:

I do sort of wonder if the snakes named after desserts are partly because it makes them sound less scary.
"Meet my snake, his name is Spike"
"Aaaahhhh! A snake!!"

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"This is my snake, her name is Cupcake"
"Awww, she looks so sweet"

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somewhat related to the fact that you get a little nutty after you've been on one for two or three days with barely any sleep. :rolleye2:

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Oh, my Rando bike has a name also...but this is a family site :rofl:

I'm spilt down the middle between nerdy references and food (mostly deserts). Current snakes are Strudel, Serket, and Eclair (paid for, not yet home). Some future planned snakes: Arcade (super pastel mojave), Mal (firefly pied) Chiffon (enchi sugar) Davesprite (dreamscicle). For the future banana het pied boy I haven't decided yet on Pudding, Split, or Wafer, but the eventual banana cinnamon enchi pied baby I plan on getting from him will be Foster.

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Oh, my Rando bike has a name also...but this is a family site :rofl:

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:rofl::rofl::rofl: Awesome to meet a fellow Rando here! I know a guy whose dog is named Rando Ryder. Makes me wonder if there's a snake out there named Audax. Hmm, that would be a good one, although perhaps more appropriate for a migratory species.

I know this is an old thread but I really enjoyed reading everyone's reasons so I thought I would share mine. I would like to read more as well.

My super pastel name is Kratos and not after the video game. I was handling him and after feeling his grip for the first time I thought what better name then the god of strength himself.

My killer bee name is Persephone. In Greek mythology Persephone is goddess of the underworld and she is bound to Hades for 1/3 of the year which is winter. She comes back from the underworld and spring starts and stays until she has to go back down and then winter starts. So she has about 1/3 black and 2/3 yellow so what better then black reminding you of the underworld and yellow to remind you of spring and summer.

My youngest daughter's snake (the first for our family) was named Ginger (by her) for no apparent reason. All of those that followed were named after Disney characters.

My super pastel is called Hacker after a childrens tv presenting puppet dog in the UK who I love. I'm 35 btw.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

I was looking for a theme to use consistently for names. Ran across a fantasy elven names generating table and translator, where you take different parts and put them together to make different meanings, so that's what I went with. It allows me to keep coming up with different names for quite a while, while keeping them somewhat unique. Miqula translates as 'Kiss', because it just seemed like a particularly appropriate name for a snake. And because she kept trying to bite me. Since the snakes don't care what they're named, I name them for my own enjoyment. I name my keeper rats, as well - I've been using a Latin theme for them. So far I've got:

Mus, Pusa, Lux, Ebur, Imber, Umbra, Cael, Fumi, and a few that I haven't decided on a name for yet. I don't name the ones I'm going to feed off or put down for freezing.

For now i don't have a royal python but i'm going to buy one and i decided his name. I will call him Naga which means "snake" in Sanskrit, i choose this because i love indian culture and Nagas, hal-human and half-snake beings related to water element.

Im naming my baby ghost BP Atlas. I love all kinds of mythology and knew i wanted my names to come from that. i dont think a snake can hold the sky to the world, but the colors he has right now also kind of remind me of a map. Naming is just for a sense of ownership. whether they can hear you or not, it just makes the relationship between man and pet a little more special. :oops::snake:

My Pinstripe came with the name Penelope. After doing some research I found out that her name is from Homer's The Odyssey. When I get a male pastel enchi, I plan on naming him Odysseus, and the baby I decide to keep out of the first clutch will be named Pan. After that it will more than likely be other gods and goddesses from all mythologies.

We went a few days without a name.

First she wanted "Lucifer", which would be great. But I have kids and pretend religious parents.

Then "Jake" was tried out but was kinda lame.

So I just said "Damien" and it stuck.

Jake the Snake is one of those era specific names and someone might not get the reference to. But Damien works :) Even less people will remember Damien being Jake the Snakes pet.

Just hoping that Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat doesn't knock on my door with a Lizard in a bag...

Funny story though, I met Jake "The Snake" Roberts about a year ago at a show. He's still a beast after all this time, he entered the room and we locked eyes. He sized me up and said hi, was a pretty cool moment. My girlfriend is always impressed when the other Alpha in the room and I do our little ritualistic jock thing :p Hacksaw Jim Duggan was pretty cool too, but he had fallen apart over the years. Still a cool guy to be around :)