Reasons behind your guinea pig names!

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Cla76ire said:
Just stumbled on this thread and thought it was fun!

There's no real reason for my girl's name other than I liked it - Jemima!

My son named Squiggles, as she is his.

I think I must like old fashioned names as my first pet, a hamster was Rupert. I've had two dogs - Merlin and Wilf. Three dwarf hammies - Humphrey, George and Charlie and now have two bearded Dragons - Claude and Matilda!
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I used to have a rabbit called Rupert ....lol.... and a hamster called Rita so maybe I like the old fashioned names too a bit. I like your sons choice for Squiggles ...lol

My dogs are Owain (already named - came from Wales so welsh spelling I think) and Amber (cos of her colour).

Piggies :
Sherbet (already named)
Ebony (cos she's black)
Ebonys babies : Smartie (cos she's a real smartie pants), Truffles (just because) and Rolo (she's chocolate brown and toffee coloured)
Candy (I think its because of her long hair)
Cookie (she's got tufty bits which reminded me of bits you get on top of cookies)
Toffee (Toffee and white coloured)

I think I lack imagination.... and think about food too much ...rolleyes

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Hazel- She was originally Oopsy as the rescue (due to oops litter and a night garden theme) I chose Hazel as her colour is a rich hazelnut colour.
Hector- Originally called Branflake (a breakfast theme) we were first going to name him Marmaduke. However, he has big ears and a goofy look on his face,and Hector seemed like a clown name to me. (I don't know why)
 
Well, Marmalade is called Marmalade simply because I'd really love to one day have a little girl called Marmalade. In the meantime a poor male guinea pig that isn't even the colour of Marmalade will have to grow up with "issues" because of the totally inappropriate name.

Freddie is actually called Star - a name inherited from the owner I adopted them from - but one of my friends called him Freddie one day as a nickname and it stuck. Mainly because he does actually look like Freddie Star. It's also a shout out to one of my favourite films - The Italian Job - and Camp Freddie.
 
ginger because she has a ginger belly and cheeky because she was very cheeky when she was a baby. orignially my mum named then ginger and gracey, but i changed it.
 
Oww here we go:(|)

Ruby: She has huge big ruby red eyes!
Henry: He is like a little hoover and eats everything in sight, so henry hoover!
Sadie: Shes got a sad face so sad-ie :P
Rosie: I wanted something with -ie- on the end to go with her sister
Pooh, Pigglet & Eeyore- winnie the pooh characters!
Daisy, Lilee & Poppy- Flower themes, they have lovely markings and the names really went with the pigs! :)
Bentley & Morgan- Car themes, also with Bentley being such a big pig his name really suited him :)
Matilda & Madison- My first 2 girls ever! I just loved the name Matilda from the film Matilda and Madison really went with it :)
Haribo & Jellybean, sweet theme, I wish haribo was still here with us though :(
Babies: Captain Jack- Leader of the pack always first to have a look at new things, Pandora lovely perfect markings so she needed a "posh name":red

I have most likely missed some out so I do apologise:(|)
 
Pumpkin - because she's a big, fat orange ball!

Pickles - because she's a little terror and is constantly getting herself into a pickle :)
 
We named our piggies on the drive home from the rescue.
I'm a real fan of giving animals 'odd' or 'old fashioned' human names.

Darwin - because even then he was a deep thinker, looking like he was searching for The Truth about the world. He still is a deep thinker, and loves to sit staring into the middle distance.

Gus - Anton named Gus just because we'd seen a YouTube video of someone calling theit guinea pig Gus and we both loved the name, so we stole it.

Strangely, we got a lot of grief over these guys' names from family and friends!

*Animals of the Past*

Jake - Named by my brother because he liked the sound of the name. At the time we also had Giles and Franklin but Franklin went to a rescue because she was pregnant and Giles went with her after attacking humans and pigs alike.

Fudge (hamster) - Simple! He was the colour of creamy fudge.
 
Both piggies named by the kids ...

Snuggle - wishful thinking ! Hope he will like a cuddle !

Daniel - my daughters favourite name for a boy ! If she got a sow it was to be Sarah ! (My daughter was only 5 )
 
TAM is named after my boys Tom Alex and Max.
Gaga cos her hair just reminded me of gaga
Boofle or Boofie as I like to call her cos she is a Bootful Piggly
Bumble cos hes black with ginger stripes and Bee cos hubby decided Bumble and Bee would go nice together.
 
I have had lots of piggies before. My last to leave was Ziggy (as in stardust) as he was black with a white zigzag up and over his head.

Then after a few barren years, came

Olive - because she was a beautiful brown little round baby (RIP baby)
Lily - because she's like a lovely showy flower

Lord Bernie Bouffant- well I brought him home, showed him to my OH (who is allergic to them :)) ) and he said what HUGE sideburns for a piggie - he looks like a Lord. The name comes from a racehorse, but Lord Bernie has non of the racehorse similarities - he hates doing too much running :red

Then came along the babies on Christmas Eve!

Jingles - smooth and sleek girl and the most active of the lot
Holly - spiky girl - with lots of attitude
Sprout - spiky boy
Bauble - smooth boy

The girls are still with me. The boys are residing in a fantastic family home and much loved, although Bauble is now Razor :{ But hey, the children wanted that name. They kept Sprout's name.

My next piggie will be Poppy - probably ;)

I get some great names of piggies staying though - nearly always named by the children which is so refreshing as there is not a lot of reason for us adults :)

David and Elvis - I can understand Elvis - but David?
Cookie and Cupcake
Oso and Wolfie
Pickles and Posy
Coco and Jet - Jet is cream coloured
Tizzy and Spencer
Flapjack and Sniff
 
flash - came with his name from the rspca decided to keep it as he suits it and he did save my girls universe (love the film :)) )

Fudge - as she was chocolate with a smidgen of fudge colouring on her cheek it seemed to suit her well, I normally go with herbs and spices or gemstones but I liked it too much

Minty - short for araminti (spelling isnt right) from the moondial book, I love the name from when the BBC showed the mini series on kids tv, it fits with her daughter fudge as I love mint chocolate too so its a double meaning name

Crystal - went through all the gemstones for white or pure quartz crystals and I just loved the name crystal for her - its more like she is a blue quartz crystal as her eyes are a gorgeous blue

Other guinea pig names were bramble, poppy, willow, ginger and abby (my abby - not very imaginative). Pepper is named after the spice pepper, my previous gerbils were called rosemary and lavender as one was lilac the other light ginger (rosemary just went with lavender despite her colour being wrong for the herb)
 
Sputnik - My little brother named him after the rocket as he was speedy! (RIP)
Bourbon - He was brown! (RIP)
Nova - To carry on the space theme, and her bum is like an explosion!
Comet - Space theme again, and she had an orange stripe on her nose (RIP)
Luna - Space again, and also as she is crazy like Luna Lovegood!
Buddy - He was born in a Budwesier box in the hutch which Nova had made her bed!
Breeze -It was a windy day when she was born, and it began with B like her brother.
Bailey - She is the colour of Baileys!
Skye - I wanted to call her Cloud, but it didn't sound right!
 
Okay, here comes the list!

Fred (rip) - Named after Fred Weasley from Harry Potter
Miss Missy (rip) - Originally named Patches, but turned out to be a cheeky little Missy!
Nearly Hairless Nick (rip) - my first skinny pig, named after Nearly Headless Nick from Harry Potter
Nibbles (rip) - just after I bought her, I lifted her up and she bit my nose :))
Mama Pig (rip) - pre-named rescue piggy, who came with a little surprise!
Josephine (rip) - was Mama Pig's little surprise! I though she was a boy, so I named her Joe. But she turned out to be a lady!
Woog - Originally named Hershey, but her funny nick-name took over!
Hairy Potter (rip) - a coronet guinea pig named after... Harry Potter! :))
Bob - he looked like a Bob! :))
Bellatrix - named after Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter!
Fermi- named after Enrico Fermi, nuclear physicist
Luna- named after Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter!
Smores (rip) - he looked like a Smores
Wilbur (rip) - my friend gave me the idea for his name
Enrico - named after Enrico Fermi!
Fluffy - he's a fluffy little teddy!
Dobby - named after Dobby the house-elf from Harry Potter
Willow - was already named Willow when I adopted her
 
We have patches the tri - colour
Spike the abysinnian
Oreo cause she is mostly dark dark chocolate brown with a White band round her middle
Cookie following her sisters biscuits theme
Abby surprisingly she's an abysinnian
And saide , cause she looks like she has a White saddle on her back !
Well that's the piggies anyhoo !
We also have budgies , cockatiels , lovebirds and gerbils !
It gets fun finding suitable and new names in our house !
 
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I have two female piggies.
one is called Jumpy cause she jumped around all the time and my sis named her.

the other is called squidge cause when we got her she get hiding and squidging into small spaces! I couldn't think o another name so it stuck.:))
 
Stig - My boyfriend loves Top Gear! Well it's better than Jeremy Clarkson!

Winston - He is such an old man, if you move anything in his cage he will move it back to where he wants it!
 
Let's see....

Poppy: He came with the name (he was an ex-classroom pig). He was black like a poppy seed but I do believe his full name was Papua the New Guinea Pig :)

Rascal: Also came with this name, though she was generally called Razzy.

Athena: This name we chose. Apparently my family has a thing for mythological names (We've had a hamster named Odin and currently have a dog named Midas)

Opal: Came with the name.
Hazel: Also came with the name.

Not too exciting
 
well, first we rescued 'emo bob' so named because he is white and looks like he's got black eyeliner on :<> then to keep him company we got 'gothic jim' so named because he's all black heehee x
 
I named my first pig after a really cute cow I saw lol. Her name is bella. Next is Chloe I was trying to think of a sweet name. Then she gave birth to a baby who I named darwin after Darwin on the movie G-force. They looked just like each other. Then my boyfriend mentioned I have guinea pigs with B,C, and D and that I should name this one with and A. The name that stood out to me and fit was Amy. There we have it my 4 babies.
 
Right, I have 27 piggies so this may take a while but here goes. Some have reasons behind their names and some don't.

Fidget - never ever keeps still
Humbug - striped and rehomed with his dad who we called Toffee
Toffee - to go with Humbug

Ginger - speckled ginger abyssinian
Roxie - rocky brown agouti, but rocky sounded too male so it became Roxie
Saffron - cream self but very golden, hence Saffron
Felicia - grey, white and cream sheltie - a posh name for a posh pig
(These four are altogether)

Hyacinth, Rose, Violet and Daisy - if you've ever seen Keeping Up Appearances you'll understand - these are four sister piggies housed together

Pearl - black and white patched, looks very much like a small badger
Ruby - harlequin guinea, once a show piggie - we just liked the precious gemstone theme
(These two are housed together)

Rosie - tan and black abyssinian - rosie because she's got the most rosettes I've ever seen on an aby
Phoebe - no reason at all for the name
Florence - daughter to Phoebe - no reason at all for the name
(These three are housed together)

Truffles - abyssinian in different shades of brown like a chocolate truffle
Abby - because she's an abyssinian and we couldn't think of a suitable name
Blossom - mum to Truffles and Abby - named Blossom because the month before we had these three, two of our old and aged piggies died and they were buried under our blossom tree :')
(Housed together)

Biscuit - a Peruvian with an attitude, pronounced Bisquit like the Fox's adverts with Vinnie the Panda - no reason
Bluebell - self cream smooth, no reason
Butterbup - cream self smooth, no reason - we just liked the flowers names
(All housed together)

Poppy -not sure what breed she is but she's like the lionhead rabbit of the guinea pig world. she's smooth everywhere except around her head where the hair is long - no reason
Rainbow - coffee and white abyssinian, came with the name
Sunshine - coffee and golden coloured abyssinian, came with the name, sister to Rainbow
(Housed together)

Patsy - black smooth
Edina - white and brown smooth, named after the AbFab characters

That's all of them...for now...:))
 
My piggie is a golden agouti and he is called "Butters" because I was obsessed with South Park for a wee while and Butters was my favourite character :)
 
I'll include my two that have gone over the bridge...

So we have...

Snickers - Was meant to be called Malone but he doesn't look like a Malone and as I was mulling over names Snickers popped in and I decided it suited him.

Bugsy - Cia chose his name after the piggie in Bedtime Stories.

Cadbury - I saw a pigture of Cabs before he arrived and he looked just the same colour as a dairy milk so it had to be Cadbury - he is now however decidedly ginger lol.

Darwin - Cia chose this name and I think comes from G-Force.

Fudge - Fudge had many names (Bramble, Nero, Jasper, Rolo) before settle on Fudge, as we were going to try and keep all their names chocolate/sweet related.

Biscuit - My first rescue long hair - was called Ernie before he came to live with us and was going to be called Rain but it just didn't suit him - asked for suggestions on here and his name was suggested and as Cia liked it we went with it.

Beau - My other rescue long hair - was callled Bert but as soon as I saw him I knew he was a Beau and so that name has stayed.
 
Keith (RIP) was always going to be called Keith, because of someone I saw at a gig who looked like he needed a hug - his name was Keith.

William was just a name that popped in my head and it worked well with Keith :))

Alan was named after Lord Alan Sugar x)

Clive was called Clive, because my little sister just thought it up as we drove the new piggies home.
 
Our children chose their names,

Buzz (from Toy Story)
Shaun (as in the sheep)
Jessie (again from Toy Story)
Dora (as in the Explorer)

Buzz & Jessie live together and Shaun & Dora live together :)
 
One of my first guinea pigs was called Bigwig (watership down) I've had golden brown (colouring) and snow white (colouring as well) I had Missy and sissy (Missy was named first, then sissy was a bit wussy and it rhymed, I was quite young, lol) Flash and Gordan, Flash was named first then Gordan was named by my bro (yes after the film) these were when I was a kid...

As an adult, the names don't really get much more imaginative, lol...I've had Squeak (came up in a game of word association) she had a baby - bubble, (Bubble and Squeak :-)) I've had snowball, she was a fluffy himilayan teddy, Demi (short for demerara sugar, as we thought she was sweet, and she was also a himi, so we named her after brown sugar as she had a little brown nose) she then had a little black baby, who we named shadow as she followed her mum around everywhere.

I've had spike (rex, obviously spiky) Tom and Jerry, Charlie (I used to teach swimming and all the kids I taught named charlie seemed cheeky, and I could tell instantly this little piggy had a cheeky personality, lol) Pip was named by my friend, Lily I've always thought this was a pretty name, and she is a really pretty guinea pig, Flec (he was agouti so had flecs of different colour in his coat) Ginger, (was all black apart from a little ginger bit on his neck) Toby (was a dalmation, named after my old dog, who was a dalmation cross)

I've had lots more, but can't think of reasons apart from naming them after people/previous pets/other people naming them
Katie
 
cool names on here :(|)

my piggies are:-

mango- because my mum had een going on about mangos for ages which made us laugh, then when we got our piggie and were thinking of a name she texted us both asking about a recipie for mangos! rolleyes

harley - because he has black and orange opposite each other (like a harlequin)

marvin- because it looks like hes frowning like the cartoon character marvin the martian

emzie xx
 
memee20 said:
Right, I have 27 piggies so this may take a while but here goes. Some have reasons behind their names and some don't.

Fidget - never ever keeps still
Humbug - striped and rehomed with his dad who we called Toffee
Toffee - to go with Humbug

Ginger - speckled ginger abyssinian
Roxie - rocky brown agouti, but rocky sounded too male so it became Roxie
Saffron - cream self but very golden, hence Saffron
Felicia - grey, white and cream sheltie - a posh name for a posh pig
(These four are altogether)

Hyacinth, Rose, Violet and Daisy - if you've ever seen Keeping Up Appearances you'll understand - these are four sister piggies housed together

Pearl - black and white patched, looks very much like a small badger
Ruby - harlequin guinea, once a show piggie - we just liked the precious gemstone theme
(These two are housed together)

Rosie - tan and black abyssinian - rosie because she's got the most rosettes I've ever seen on an aby
Phoebe - no reason at all for the name
Florence - daughter to Phoebe - no reason at all for the name
(These three are housed together)

Truffles - abyssinian in different shades of brown like a chocolate truffle
Abby - because she's an abyssinian and we couldn't think of a suitable name
Blossom - mum to Truffles and Abby - named Blossom because the month before we had these three, two of our old and aged piggies died and they were buried under our blossom tree :')
(Housed together)

Biscuit - a Peruvian with an attitude, pronounced Bisquit like the Fox's adverts with Vinnie the Panda - no reason
Bluebell - self cream smooth, no reason
Butterbup - cream self smooth, no reason - we just liked the flowers names
(All housed together)

Poppy -not sure what breed she is but she's like the lionhead rabbit of the guinea pig world. she's smooth everywhere except around her head where the hair is long - no reason
Rainbow - coffee and white abyssinian, came with the name
Sunshine - coffee and golden coloured abyssinian, came with the name, sister to Rainbow
(Housed together)

Patsy - black smooth
Edina - white and brown smooth, named after the AbFab characters

That's all of them...for now...:))
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Hi and welcome to you ALL :)
WOW lots of pigglies how gorgeous x)
look forward to you maybe finding some time to put some pigtures on of them all :)

Glynis, Velvet and Onyx x
 
Duke (RIP) named by daughter Deana
Sully (RIP) named by son Scott (after the character in Monsters Inc)
And it wasn't till after the boys had been around for awhile i realised they had the first initials as their mummy and daddy! :))

Velvet Duchess named by Niki and I, i wanted to remember Duke in someway, Niki helped soooo much, it was her silky hair that reminded her of velvet if i remember right!

Onyx Sullina named by Niki and I, also wanted to remember Sully and my Mum who'd not long passed away (Valerie Christina) didn't think either of her names were right, so somehow we came up with a combo of the two names!
 
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