Normal adult girl: Rosca - She came to me with that name from the previous owner. Apparently she WAS named Rosco, until they realized she was a girl.

Bumblebee male: Zerok - My fiancee got him for me as a present, so I let him do the naming. Zerok is a battle post they have where he is currently deployed in Afghanistan.

Pastave female: Persephone- My favorite poem is Garden of Proserpine. Proserpine is pronounced same as Persephone, but I knew people would pronounce it wrong if they were just reading "Proserpine". Although in the poem, the writer uses.. um.. I forgot what it's called, but where they purposely use the wrong pronunciation to make rhymes off of. (wine, time, etc)

Normal baby girl: Striker- I'm actually picking her up in about three days. Name describes disposition; extremely snippy despite being worked with by the pet shop for the past two months. Decided to take her off their hands (much to their relief) since she'd discounted, has a nice pattern, and I'm familiar with her. Not bothering to rename her.

And I have a deposit down on a pastel ghost female, and I'm playing around with Esperanza or Jezebel... or Annabel Lee, which is another great poem.

I also have a cat with the lame name of "Lucky", but in my defense she genuinely earned the name with the strange and almost fatal way she came to us. Long story short, she rode 2 1/2 miles on a car battery before being discovered. Thankfully she hadn't fallen off, otherwise... Ick.