do you have name themes to your dolls?

Lunar features actually.
White Catsy: Terra (based on Terrae, the lighter highlands)
Black Catsy: Marria (based on Maria, plural of Mare, the dark lowland or seas)
If I can ever get a grey Catsy, or find another white one to dye, her name will be Catena (name for a crater chain).

 

My old theme used to be city names. I have a Rio, Verona, and Sochi. My most recent theme is to never decide on a name.

I really like the floral idea that some of you use. I think I'll look into some too and hopefully find a name or two to give some of my more recent dolls. At this point it feels awkward to give them names though since they've been around for years without one!

 

Not strict ones, but I do have a tendency (especially among my "Victorian" BJD family) to go for long and/or old-fashioned names of the type my mother used to refer to as "flowery" names - given to dolls who are then always referred to by shorter versions or "pet-name" versions of the name.

Alphonse - Alphie,
Rhododendron - Roddy
Serendipitous - Sera
Clytemnestra - Nesta
Roberto - Bobbin
Margaret - Peggy
Ephiginia - Phige
Delphinium - Phinnie
Leopold - Polly
Charlotte - Lottie
Charles - Charlie
Maude - Maudie
Ruth - Nancy (OK this one's different, in that it's a character from a favourite series of books, as is her sister Peggy)

Although Isambard, Cressida, Hannah, Edith, Ikarus and others haven't been shortened or given pet-name versions so...

Teddy

 

I have no theme at all anymore, but when I collected anthros/pets, they all had names that related to what they were: Lucy Faire (Lucifer-a devil mouse), Charra (fire breathing dragon), Wanda (wandering ghost), Kit (cat/kitten), Mr. E (mystery- Enfield Horror) and I still have my off topic terrier, Minnie (mini version of my own dog).

 

I don't have a single naming strategy.
Some of my dolls carry their sculpt names.
Many of my dolls have a name suggestive of their sculpt names
so AoD Lan became Lanelle and Souldoll Cior is Charlie.
Some names the dolls themselves suggested to me; My Volks
SDC Gretel emerged from her box complaining that Volks named
a sophisticated young lady like herself "after that ragamuffin" She's
been Sophia ever since.

 

My first BJD was named after the OT doll that started me collecting dolls, then the next family had Hawaiian names beginning with K. Then I just started naming them after characters in favorite stories, some Tolkien, some children's stories, some sci fi, some just stories.

 

It's a reference to characters with similar names from Higurashi: When They Cry. One is Frederica, the ambiguous alter ego of Rika ("pear flower.")

 

I don't know when I'll wind up getting Marigold's 'family', but they would all have seasonal plant names-- just like hers is the birth month flower for October, and she's an autumn spirit. But none of my other groups really have a 'theme', they've got their character names, be it OCs or character dolls.

 

I don't have any dolls yet but I love using lunar names, various old royalty or mythology and modified scientific names obscure flowers (esp. poisonous ones) to name things in the past!

 

Flowers and spices.
I have a couple doll projects and they're all named something floral. For example Fläderblom (Elderflower) and Kamomill (Chamomile)