Reasons behind your guinea pig names!

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When I adopted my piggie she was already named Oreo. I thought it was a pretty unoriginal name! I estimate that about 80% of black and white guinea pigs are named Oreo ;) And sorry, but Oreo is more of a boy's name in my opinion. When I brought her home I hastily renamed her Blossom (aka. Lossy). I think it fits her perfectly :)
 
Pickle (grey/white smooth coated brindle) - she is rather small and let's just say the way she came into the world was rather a surprise and the whole saga quite a pickle indeed!
Lola (ginger sheba mini yak) - she is a big pig and Lola strikes me as a name for a chubby animal ha ha.
Rosie (ginger sheba mini yak) - she is lighter coloured than Lola and that's really the only way to tell them apart until you pick them up ha ha, so Rosie.
Chicken (ginger sheba mini yak) - looks like a little roast chicken apparently... I didn't name this one...
Skye (black/ginger sheba mini yak) - I just liked the name and she's got quite a lot of black on her like a midnight sky.
Peanut (cream/buff sheba mini yak) - he is my little Peanut! He looks a little bit like an overgrown hamster with his ****gy hair.
Miffy (golden agouti rex) - Again just liked the name...
Piglet (golden agouti rex) - because she just little chillin' and piggin' about!
Captain Nemo (red/white sheba mini yak) - My sister named this one too, the mind boggles it really does...
Eddy (grey/white swiss) - he came to us already called Eddy and it suits him. Sister is now referring to him as 'Edward J. Pig'. ?/

We can also see this sheba mini yak theme, I just love the crazy bed hair!
 
Sisters - Ruby & Lucy - my mum named them :)
Lottie - Just thought it would suit her and it does lol
Sisters - Honey & Blossom - They both have the honey coloured fur and blossom cause she looked like a blossom
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All of my pigs are called human names. There are no reasons behind them, just that I like them a whole lot! They are George, Elliot and Oscar :)
 
I'm with everyone else on here this is a great thread! :))

Well firstly we got two little boys in February (one has since passed away and were going to Becklen on Saturday to hopefully find him a little buddy) and the first two days we couldn't decide. My fiancé wanted 2 Pack (One was tiny, which ended up being the cause of his passing) and Biggie (The other significantly bigger) :)>>> so for days we joked around with names until the third day when cleaning their cage.... We took them out for floor time and the larger of the two would not move out of the grass tube we had gotten him and the other was off like a shot.... So i said 'come on you wee tube' and then it hit us... Tubes and Rocket (Rocket passed away four weeks ago) from soccer am..... :(|) My fiancé watches it every week and there are two characters not unlike the boys so - every time its on tv it makes me laugh a little and think of our babies! ^)
 
Don't think I posted here...but I can't remember! rolleyes

The Boys:
Freddie -I named Freddie after Freddie Mercury...because I love Queen and I just thought it would be awesome to have a guinea pig called Freddie Mercury :))

Ringo - Ringo was Freddie's brother, and I named him after Ringo Starr from the Beatles!

Nelson - after Ringo died, we adopted Nelson as a friend for Freddie. He already had his name and I couldn't think of a new one, but he suits it!



The Who Pigs
My three girlies are all named after Doctor Who characters, hence their collective name of 'The Who Pigs'.

River - she's named after River Song...who we've just discovered is actually called Melody Pond! My Dad doesn't like the name River, so he calls her Lily after Lily Allen, to continue the singers theme!

Amy - Amy is after Amy Pond, the current companion. She's not fully ginger, but oh well rolleyes My mum wanted to call her Trixie, and Dad wanted to call her Pixie Lott....LOL

Ace - Ace was a companion of the Seventh daughter, and Ace probably lives up to her name the most. She's a moody, bold, adventurous pig. If Dad had his way, she'd be called Dido. Which is much worse than River, in my opinion.

Other names I was considering were Dusty, Brenda and Bonnie. I'm glad I didn't choose those!




The Wicked Pigs
I really love the musical 'Wicked'.
Elphie - Elphie is named after Elphaba the Wicked, aka the Wicked Witch of the west. My dad calls her 'Scruff', and I've nicknamed her 'Tinker' because, well, she's a little tinker!

Glinda - Glinda is named after Galinda 'Glinda' the Good. This is dad's least favourite name, and he calls her Mattie instead (because she's long haired, but she is not matted! :P). I call her Fatty/Heffa/Fat Blob because she's huge rolleyes :))

When ever I tell people Elphie and Glinda's names, they think they're called Alfie and Linda! Had the two of them been boys, I'd have named them Bertie and Lionel. I still hope to have a Bertie and Lionel some day!
 
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Well my first piggie was Neo and short for Neapolitan (like the ice cream) because he was three different colors. Charlie was named that because when I first held him he bit me and a friend had just shown me that "Charlie bit me" video. Next were Beavis and Butthead. I got them together and wanted to name them something that went together and after a couple of days watching how they behaved that's what they got named. They were goofy.
 
Bart and Bella had the name Bart and Lisa (Simpson) when we rescued them. Her indoors didn't like Lisa as a name and renamed her Bella as apparantly, she looked like a Bella, then the rabbit came along and got a "B" name as well - Betty Bun. Until Bella died, they were affectionately known as farty Barty, smelly Belly and sweaty Betty! :)
 
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