Well it just seems so natural that one be named Kelly!

We used Lord of the Rings names or words for a lot of our names and spend a lot of time looking on "The Encyclopedia of Arda" online for cool ones - Mithril, Iluvatar (whom we just call Billy), Elentari, Bucklebury, and Varda are all names from LOTR!

I also love to use Japanese names, especially words or terms we use in our karate class - Makidach, Neko-Ashi, Shiro-Aka, Sasoi and Shuto all all from that!

My son can't just pick a random name, so they are usually from movies or video games (like Dozer from Matrix, and Zelda from the game). I do this too, as with Hurley (from Lost) and Roland (from Dark Tower stories by Stephen King).

God/Goddess names rock to - I have Calypso and Isis.

I can do totally random names though - Carmine, Oofda, and Vanya are some of my random names.

When we eventually have hatchlings, we will name each clutch after a theme. Can I say I am NOT looking forward to my son's "rapper" theme he's got planned. (LOL!)

Ok, I named My first two Greeks after Greek mithology (Ajax and Echo) But when comet came she was found during the week of an astrological event with a comet. Then Squirt (foster sulcata) was named cause she squirted poo all over me whenever I picked her up for the first month. My outside DT fosters don't have names just numbers.
You might want to go online and look for some words in a language from Africa Like maybe Swahele. These are some names from the Lion King.
These are what these name mean in Swahele
Nuka, means “stink”
Vitani, means "At War"
Takuda, means "Autumn Fire
Duka, means "Dork"
Rafiky, means "Friend"
Kiara, means "Light"
Kovu, means "Scar"

Thats how I get mine or I ask friends to help name them put the names in a bowl and pull one out. It is a little easier if you know the sex you could name them in pairs like George and Gracie or Bogie and Bacall...

Or you could name them Kay, Ell and Ee

Hey Robyn, my twelve year old daughter is Kiara!

If an animal comes to me with a name, I keep it, but my own animals are not named. With the exception of the Aldabrans. I've named them "The Bigger One" and "The Smaller One". Pretty inventive, huh? Lots of thought went into it!!!

Yvonne

Thats great Kelly and I'm sure she is the light in your heart.

So far, I have Miss Kelly, Mr. Kelly and Kelly Jr.

Wow, talk about starting a active discussion. Thanks evryone for their thoughts. Keep them coming.

I would use Rex and Roxy, but we had a Desert Tort couple by that name for many years.

Robyn - that's so funny! Kay, Ell and Ee.......

ROFL Took me a minute!!!!!

I have two sulcata rescues. One came with his name, Zeus, the other one is Dixie. She originally came from the town of Dixon.
We raised cattle once. We didnt want to name them, so we called them other things.. #47, his ear tag number, The red one, and one who gave us quite the rodeo and trouble.. Renegade. So some sorta had names so we knoew who we were talking about... but its funny how some things Become 'names'.

We have over 200 snakes, and only a few have little pet names that usually have something to do with their personality or size. lol Ive had large numbers of snakes in the last 15 years and only the really special ones end up with names. Its just too hard to keep up with hundreds of names. I just recently named my Box Turtles and Tortoises! I was so used to not naming the herps. I too used to raise cattle and goats and again, only the special ones really got names or a nick name. Our steers and heifers that were raised specifically for meat were usually called HB (hamburger) or Sirloin or Roast. lol

This post was last modified: 02-28-2008 08:43 AM by JustAnja.