Reasons behind your guinea pig names!

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just wanted to say what fab names there are ! I'm boring and named our girls Honey & Willow ! just loved the names :)) Honey just came into my head, she is brown & black and Willow who is Black & White because we once had a cat we tried to rehome from a rescue centre, but unfortunately she did not get on well will the cat I already had and I loved her and her name and said if I ever have another girl pet she will be called Willow ! @)
 
Well my bf is a complete and utter computer fanatic as in builds systems, overclocks, the works proper computer geek =p so naming our guinea pigs we have :-

Gizmo
Dongle
Mushkin - computer brand
Pixal
Cable

and humbug non computer but is a very moody pig so thought that name suits him to a tee.
 
Ok here we go lol

Lucas - he was named because my Aussie friend wanted a pig named after him lol.

Russell Edgington- I'm really into True Blood and he is named after one of the Vampires from that tv programe.

Mouse - he was very timid and 'quiet as a mouse' when we had him over 3 years ago now (he's my baby and not timid at all now)

Cheesecake - he is caged with Mouse, so basically Mouse and Cheese. Cheesecake is much sweeter :-)

Champagne - from his fur colour when he was a tiny baby.

Truffle - he's with Champagne, so Champagne and Truffle lol

Learoy - he just looks like a Learoy trust me.

Troy - a Totally random name, but it suits him. Just one of those names that pops into your head.

Jeffrey - he is named after a character from the tv programme Coupling.

Fudge- simply his brown fur.

Eddie - named after a character from the tv programme Bottom.

Ziggy Stardust - no idea haha I'm not even into David Bowie.

Sasha - she looks like a Sasha, or Sash for short.

Minnie - Mouse and Minnie.

Magic - she had problems at birth and it was magic that she pulled through.
 
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I love threads like these! I'm going to add all my animals if nobody minds! :))

Firstly piggy names!

Lola - after the Kinks song, which was kinda fitting cos when we realised Sukie was pregnant after we got her, my dad was like "are you sure Lola's a girl?

Sukie - after the Belle & Sebastien song 'Sukie in the graveyard' but my dad thinks it's after Sukie put the kettle on!

Cenci - after the character Mia Farrow plays in Secret Ceremony, a very strange film. Cos I had just watched it and loved the name (pronounced cheen-chi) and I thought he was a girl when he was born!

Libby - I thought it was a cute name, I thought of it because there's a character in Lost called it and also the mean girl in Sabrina the Teenage Witch! :D

Edie - after Edie Sedgewick who I think was pretty cool!

And my old piggies:

Devlin - we bought her from people who lived on a road called Devlin Road.

Apple - Chris Martin and Gwyneth Palthrow had just called their daughter that, and I was chopping Apple for my pigs, while saying how it'd be a cute animal name, so I named her it! Also she loves apples!

Moxie - after Will Parry's cat in the book The Subtle Knife. It was a girl cat, but I think it works for a boy too.

Meeko - After the raccoon in Pocahontas! Well really I just thought it was cute, but I googled it to make sure it didn't mean anything bad or wasn't the name of a dictator or anything like that! And I found out it was the raccoon, which is cool.


Bunnies:

Leon - A lionhead rabbit so was all I could think of!

Evie - I thought it was cute, and it was kinda after the Pokémon Eevee! She's the same kinda colours. And she was my first rabbit of this group (not counting my old bunny Dylan, named after the Magic Roundabout rabbit!) so it's like Eve, the first woman.

Lila - means dark and she's black.

Lily - She's white

Ellie - Thought it was pretty and went well with the others


Cats:

Sugar - We had Sugar, Spice and Nice, but Sugar is the only one left now.

Hobo - We found him in a car park as a kitten, he was skinny, scruffy, dirty and had a badly infected eye, so kinda looked homeless! He's longhaired and grey and gorgeous, but did look so scruffy at the time!

Reg - or Reggie. My dad named him and it stuck rolleyes I wanted to call him Ziggy! Apparently it's after Reginald Perrin. I claim it's after Regulus Black from Harry Potter, cos he's mostly black, and there were some tom cats around who were black and I named them after the other members of the Black family! rolleyes

Madeline - after the cartoon of the French girls in a boarding school . . . I used to watch it when I was a kid! My dad calls her Madelin, and doesn't believe it's pronounced MadeLINE! Well I think it is! :D

Ottilie - after the character from the Truman Capote story House of Flowers, and she's a prostitute in it, but it's a pretty name!


And last but not least, dogs:

Donna - We bought her in a village called Doneraile.

Bella - full name Miss Belladonna Took after Bilbo Baggins's mother in The Hobbit! :D My little bro named her.

Cosworth - after a car rolleyes she's my other brother's dog so he named her. She is way too pretty to be called Cosworth!

Sophie - my new puppy. I thought it was a cute name, and I like kinda frenchy names. :)
 
Roxy and Ruby were rescues, so they already had their names.
Smudge looked like she'd had chocolate smudged on her face!
Maisie has really big ears ... like a mouse! Maisie mouse!
 
Spike got his name because I really wanted to name my piggies after the gremlins so his friend was called Gizmo. Spike was the baddie in gremlins and had a white mohawk, just like my piggy Spike, although he is lovely!
Hector and Bob came with their names and suited them so they kept them.
George and Gerry were called Salt and Pepper but we decided that didn't really suit them as they are identical twins and salt and pepper should be one black and one white and they're brown!
It took us ages to agree on names for them. They look like beavers so I tried to find names of any characters but couldn't find much. George is huge, quite and timid (well he was! he's certainly not anymore! lol) so he was named after George in Of Mice and Men. Gerry is cheeky and quick so he was named after Gerry from Tom and Jerry, just with a G to match George.
 
first was patch: because the only black bit on him is a black patch on hes eye

2nd, freddy : my mums grandads name

3rd, olly: he was a rescue pig in poor condition so he was named after oliver twist :)
 
Harvey Gilamont - Because when we looked at him in PAH adoption center he was sat in a bowl of pellets looking rather pleased for himself, reminded me of a very wealthy piggie and jolly! So Harvey was given the full title of Sir Harvey Gilamont :))

And

Arthur Tibbles (or Artie for short) - Named by my OH as Artie is very quiet, happy go lucky sort of piggie, but is very brave and kind. :) So he was named Arthur Tibbles of the Wooden Table.

:))

And we adopted Tara from the RSPCA, and we didnt want to change her name but she does have shortened down versions of her name: Taz, Tazzle, Wazzle, Waz, Wazzley Pops. :))

I had two boys bunnies when i was little and I wanted them to be girls so they were christened Jodie and Chloe, and the names stuck! :))
 
right first off gizmo,because she is sooooooooo cute (like gizmo from the gremlin film)
guinness , very predictable cos shes a white/black ,like the drink
luna (character from harry potter cos the cage is under the stairs ,and harry lived in cupboard under stairs at his mean aunt and uncles house) clever eh ?
sooty very very predictable cos she is black
fizz,just loved the name and she is such a bubbly character always charging around.
very interesting thread xx
 
Darwin and Tesla, our favourite scientists. :D Any new additions will be Curie, Turing, Lovelace, Mendel, or Faraday. :D
 
ooo let me add my hamsters hehe

Filbert - after the LCFC mascot
Flash - named by my brother after flash gordon
Fudge - just liked the name
Big Dave - named by the OH
 
Growing up in Switzerland, my childhood piggies had German names.

As an adult, I started out with cheeky Minx and her companion Mischief. Then three year old Daisy adopted herself to be Minx' new companion; but by the end of the week, she was Dizzy since she was decidedly NOT a demure lawn flower!

After Minx' death, Dizzy fell for young Llewelyn's charms who really had been rescued in Midwales and got his name at the rescue. As my hubby is Welsh, the name stuck - in proper Welsh pronounciation which took me months to master: Tkhloo-EH-len!

So when I finally had the opportunity to create a group, I carried on with the Welsh theme, but tried to find names that were more easily to pronounce, but suited the piggy. Where possible, I carried on the name, especially with older piggies or let the rescue people choose from a short list.

Nia (NEE-ah): bright (she's the top sow), was unloved Lottie
Nerys: lady (she's the big girl), was Dotty
Taffy: beloved (she needed lots of love to bring round)
Telyn: harp (because she just can't shut up when she's excited)
Cariad (KAHR-yad): darling (chosen by the rescue), was Peggy
Ceri (Kerrie): love (chosen by the rescue), was Maggie
Fflur (Fleer): Welsh version of four year old Flower's name, RIP
Ffion (FEE-on): foxglove, (suited her big pigsonality and was chosen by both me and the rescue lady) RIP
Ffowlyn (Fowlin): chicken (because her bum looks like a bantam chicken's), was Briallen (primrose) at first, but it didn't work out.
Hafina (Hah-VEE-nah): summer (for her colour and the fact that she was dumped on somebody's doorstep in a bare cardboard box in full sun on a hot day)
Caron: loving (was named Carron after a Scottish river by her her fosterer)
Tani (TAH-nee): fire (suits her colouring and character), was Pudding
 
Mocha - named after the coffee since she is mainly brown and white but a small amount of black on her.

Topsy - Mocha's daughter. When we got Mocha we did not know she was pregnant and had Topsy & a boy who was called Bandit. (who went to live with my friends boy smokey). Topsy was always trying to get on and under mum & brother so ended upside down all the time hence the name topsy turvy. The name was shortened to Topsy.

Guiness - black & white piggie hence the name. Named after the drink. Think hubby had just come back from Ireland including a tour of the guiness factory!

Sid - That was his rescue name so we kept it. Wanted to change it though to yoshi (my fav nintendo character).

My old boy was called fudge since he was fudge coloured.

My dog is called Oscar. My hubby and I both liked the name.
 
Wiebke - your names are beautiful!

My first two piggies were Columbia and Magenta - named after the chorus in the Rocky Horror Show. (RIP)

After that came Carmina aka FatFat

Then Pumpkin because there was no intelligence in that little pumpkin head (RIP)

Then Columbine aka Scruff.

Now I had two piggies with similar names, so the trend continued.

Carmeline

Carmilla aka Whiteness (in my avatar)

Finally Chamomile, who died very recently.

I get confused between Carmina, Columbine, Carmeline and Carmilla myself. Visitors have real trouble!

It's interesting how certain types of names reoccur, sweetie names such as Fudge and old fashioned male and female names. Fascinating.
 
I really like the names Peanut and Monty in case I get anymore boys..!
And I like Rebecca and Beautrice (named the piggies at work that..)
 
My piggies that are at Rainbow Bridge:

Lenny and George - these two were named after the characters from the book 'Of Mice and Men'

Moonie - he was called Moon as a homage to Howard Moon from The Mighty Boosh, but we just added the ie.

Tinsel - we had her around Christmas time.

Hedgehog - she looked like a Hedgehog lol

Whiskey - whiskey is my favourite alcoholic drink.
 
Bradley Marmaduke - because he's a ginger piggy and reminded me of the character Bradley Branning on Eastenders, also Marmaduke because it sounds nice and he's the colour of marmalade. x)

Barney Malcolm - me and my dad both thought of this name at the same time and I wanted a name that went nicely with Bradley. He got his middle name because he reminds me of an old man, he certainly loves the finer things in life - relaxing and eating! :)

Rodney Ratigan - Rodney just seemed to suit him, Ratigan because he is a very rat like looking piggy. He has a long nose, extremely long whiskers and he knaws on anything from wood to wallpaper! Oh, he also likes to climb, I found him lying in his hay rack once @)
 
Daisy - my daughter named her.
Willow - It's what I wanted to name either of my girls but the ex wasn't having it.... grrrrr so I named a piggy instead.
Albie - just liked it.
Alfie - that's what I wanted to call the dog but the b/f wasn't having it.
Peppa - my daughter named her after peppa pig.
Lottie - she just looks like a Lottie.
Shy - cos she's shy.
Betty - renamed from a rescue (she was called Becky and we already have a becky in the house).
 
Bert and Fred- when they were little freddy and berty suited them, now they are old men so we give them more old manish versions.

Geoffrey and Malcolm- Geoffrey is small, white and fat, which reminded my mum of her great uncle Geoff. Malcolm was named after my mum's favourite tv show- malcolm in the middle.

Ralph and Jasper- Ralph just suited him, jasper was named after Jasper carrot as he(the person) was ginger-haired, like the guinea pig.

Raymond and jimbob - Raymond after everybody loves Raymond. Jimbob was my brother's choice- the compomise for me getting two more guinea pigs. :))

:)
 
Fry: After Fry's chocolate cuz he's chocolatey brown with a white strip.

Nibbler: After the little character called Nibbler in the TV show Futurama. Also, Fry is a character in Futurama, so it matched.

Patch: He's got a black patch over his eye...hence the name. Not very imaginative!

Sneezy: When we first got him, he sneezed a lot. Again, not very imaginative. It was that or Munchkin.
 
What a wonderful thread!

My first two guinea pigs were ex show girls so came with fancy names: Daphne Diamond Sparkle the third, and Gemma Amethyst Crystal. They were three years old when I got them so stuck with the names but shortened to Daphy and gemgems.

I then got three girls together so wanted names that went together, settled on Faith, Hope and Charity. Faith was tiny when I got her and would sit still in the palm of my hand, hence the name.

When I got my current 3 girls, I spent a long time working out names.

Chose Mocha as she is a beautiful rich chocolate brown. Usually call her Mo for short.

Lara was named after Lara Croft. She is the youngest of the group but the most brave little soul so wanted a name to reflect this. She nearly got called Dora (after Dora the explorer) but Lara stuck. Usually refered to as Top Bird or m'lady as she is the alpha of the group.

Melody Muppet was named after her wayward merino fur. I liked the name melody and added the muppet as she reminds me of one of those big hairy cushions which I have always called muppet hair cushions. usually call her mel or hairybum as she will mess her fur up as soon as I brush her!

Colby was named by the rescue and I did not want to confuse him by changing it. Usually called 'his lord and master' or 'man of the house' (trying to bolster his ego as no-one explained to Lara that she is supposed to give way to the man of the group!)


Beki
 
chip and dale from the gorgeous chippendale strippers drool. when i first met them at the rescue it was x). then came finlay and coco who were already named ,they were meant to be foster piggies but i had already met them and fell in love i knew i wouldnt beable to resist keeping them so thats my four boys

ive also got a rescue dwarf hamster called stumpy because he had a bad foot when i got him and also his size he fits in the palm of your hand and hes gorgeous too :)
 
Past Piggys

Jamie, Originally though he was a girl until i spotted a winky one day, fortunately the name can be boy or girl (died at 4 1/2 yrs) he was a Himilayan.

Hazel, Was a chocolate brown teddy bear, name was fitting. Died at 4 yrs shortly after Jamie they were a proper married couple!

Bumblefluff, was a cross breed Abyssinian tri colour piggy name as fitting for her look. Died age 7 natural causes.

Smudge, full black piglet with a brown smudge in her left side, name was fitting for her. Died age 7 natural causes.

Present piggys

Suzan, She's a Tri colour piglet names after my daughters fav cartoon ( monsters vs aliens, Suzans the main character)

Millie, Took the name of the character played by that hot chick in the film 'Jumper'

New piggy, still undecided mind you its the wifes choice, so there's a surprise shes undecided!:)):)):))
 
Unfortunately (I ignore this fact), my boys are named after Nottingham Forest football players. That was a prerequisite of my hubby taking them on and is tradition in his family. So Dexter is named after Dexter Blackstock and Earnie after Robert Earnshaw.
 
Ooh , I love threads like this and to read everyone’s inspiration!

A lot of you know that we’re really rubbish at the whole naming thing, but this is why out lot were given their names

Pippa – Simon chose the name before he even met Pippa, but it suits her perfectly! She's a cheeky girl and in charge of my little gang.

Willow – Poor Willow was known as ‘Not Pippa’ for about three days until I finally decided on Willow. She was almost a ‘Delilah’, but Willow suited her better. After joining the forum, it seemd that Willow is quite a popular name but I still love it :)

Pixel – She was known as Baby-pig for about a fortnight until we finally named her. She was almost called ‘Mouse’ (and I still refer to her as Little Mouse sometimes, even though she’s now the second biggest in my little group!) but Pixel was always on the shortlist. We found this name after seeing a photo of quite possibly the cutest mouse in the world on Facebook and thought is was a really cute and unique name

Boris – (Was Crombie at Becklen) We knew we were having Boris about three weeks before I collected him, but he still didn’t have a name for another week. Simon wanted to call him Elvis, because of his funky hair and he was almost ‘Bosley’ as he lives with three lovely ladies, but Boris was on the shortlist too. My Mum-in-Law said ‘he looks like a Boris’ the first time she met him so that sealed it.
 
Peppy: Well I was gonna name her Pepper but when I saw her run around on the floor I saw that she was very energetic, so I mixed pepper with pep to get 'Peppy'.

Coco: My little brother named her this, though I don't know why. He lost interest in Coco fast so I took her in. Maybe it's because part of her fur is brown, though it looks nothing like chocolate.
 
My little one's name is Sweets

at first is was just because he was so small and sweet always snuggling with me. Then I noticed that when he gets his fruits and veggies he always goes for the 'sweet' fruit first and then the veggies later in the day. He is still a sweet little guy though :)
 
My boys are Wallace and Darwin.

I've always been a science geek and
mad about evolution so when I became a lecturer and started teaching evolution it seemed fitting to namer boys after scientists! Darwin is obviously named after Charles Darwin ( not after Darwin in G force ! ) I wanted a name To go with Darwin and when I brought them home my boy Darwin kept stealing food off my other pig, I realised that many
people thought Charles Darwin stole his idea from another scientist so my other lad got the name Wallace after Alfred Russell Wallace- the scientist who developed the theory of evolution with Darwin.
It's sad I know but the names really do suit!
 
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