We have an axolotl salamander named Sticky Jim, a smooth sided toad named Meatloaf, a burmese python named Dandelion, and I also have a barking gecko named Mammal Sponge. She hatched sooner than I expected and the only suitable enclosure I had around was a plastic shoe box we kept the sponge for our mammal dishes in. It was labelled “mammal sponge” and I just never got around to giving her a real name
Our most popular animal to date though was a white’s tree frog that came to us at 150g. He was named Cousin and I think his name played a big part in how well loved he was by our following <3
Rosalee (from Grimm)
Leucanthe
Rampart (first baby bp that I ever hatched, from MI to boot)
Nadir
Brunhilde (sadly the baby I used this for failed to thrive, so I may end up using it again some day)
Virgil (got a laugh out of an old lady at work with this one when I was listing out the names of everyone)
Kitkat (for a huffy baby gopher snake)
My Black Eyed Lucy Ball Python is called Finnley.
Finnley is spelled that way to take pity on Strict Anglophone people. It’s actually Fionnlagh, which is one of many Irish names referring to their ideal of whiteness as beauty- Fionn means Fair or Pale.
My Black African House Snake is named Sangfroid.
It’s French and you say it Sanng-frwa. Even English sometimes uses the word to refer to someone’s sense of poise and calm- they have a certain sangfroid, or composure. It felt like a good name for an animal know for a calm and docile, tolerant nature. Literally? It means Cold Blooded.
I usually end up giving my pets old-fashioned human names. I’m not sure why, but I guess I just like that they’re sort of classy and dignified. I especially like names from literature, mythology, and history.
My sand boa is Phoebe. Initially I’d wanted to give her some sort of name from a mythology from the parts of Africa where KSBs are native…but I just wasn’t able to find a name from those sources that really suited her. But while I was researching various mythologies from around the world, I stumbled across Phoebe (who was a Titan in Greek mythology), and it just seemed to fit her. She looks like a Phoebe.
My blood python is Mina. Mina is the name of the main female character in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Get it? Because she’s a blood python? I’m so clever.
My western black widow is Delilah. I just needed the name of a femme fatale character who led a man to ruin for a black widow. I’ve always liked the name Delilah, so it seemed perfect.
My tarantulas are Mathilde and Pixie. Those names don’t really have stories, I just liked them and they seemed to suit the tarantulas well.
We have a hedgehog named Sister. My 1st grandson was around 2 I think when he named her. We had a male at the time and couldnt convince him that it wasn’t Tobias’s sister.
I like to name stuff after where its from and their significance in cultures like in india lizards are valued and have the same meaning of the jade gemstone so the next female leo i get i’m naming jade
