Have you ever kept the Sculpt Name as your Doll's Name?

I look at their face and talk to them until I figure it out. Having a face-up is important to me when it comes to names because it helps me see how they really are!

 

Out of my 17 dolls I only have 1 that I kept his sculpt name. I kept it because it just fit him.

 

Personally for me I wouldn't keep the sculpt name. I like a more original name and I like to think that my doll is one of a kind. If the sculpt name sticks, then I'm outta luck, but I usually try to get something different just because I like originality for myself.

 

All my dolls have unique names, but I often refer to them by their sculpt name. Well, some of them. I call my Dale (her name is Coral) dale more often than not. I also call my boyfriend's Sui by the sculpt name because his actual name just didn't stick.

 

Most of my dolls end up with male names (despite them all being female). At the moment I have been choosing types of birds for names, such as Wren for my tiny DC Ada, it just seemed to fit as she has very delicate bird-bone like limbs

So no, sculpt names don't stay around too long!

 

At most, I would consider the sculpt name as a middle name, but only if it goes well with the original name I had in mind. For example, I came up with the name Aurora for the doll I want. Her sculpt name is Yur. Aurora Yur sounds interesting, but I don't know if it flows nicely. So, she may or may not keep the sculpt name.

 

Actually I really want to keep my Volks Okita with his sculpt name but it seems many people have the same idea or name this name to their doll often. That's why in the end, I choose to name him after Shinsengumi's symbol (Kanji) "Makoto" instead.

 

sometimes i keep their names and sometimes i give them another name

 

I'm terrible with names. Even my pets usually have to be named by someone else in the household.

I have an Iplehouse JID "I" sculpt who needed a name instead of a letter, so she became Brooke. But her sister, my KID Lisa, has been called by her sculpt name for a year because I can't seem to come up with a better one.

This week, though, I got my KID Lisa all over again in grey skin, and I can't call them both Lisa!

I like this idea quite a bit! Maybe I can give both my Lisas their sculpt name as a middle name, and think of something better to call them.

 

Two of my five have kept their sculpt names. They choose, not me. So I would have to guess they liked their names at birth.

 

I don't keep the sculpt names ever I guess I don't like the thought that someone out there may have the same doll with the same name. It's really just personal pickiness though

 

i think it depends on the name of the mold. if its a name i really like maybe i would keep it. but normaly i prefer to give them new names because thats more individual

 

I only have 4 BJD so far and had planned to change their names, but I have gotten used the names the makers gave them and so now they have stuck.

 

Nope, I have never keep the company name. Although, some companies have the cutest names for their sculpts. It would be harder if the name suited the sculpt.

 

I always change their name. Before i purchase a doll I have to have a character in mind, so this in itself often leads to give them their name. I wouldn't have a problem keeping their name, but i have never liked their sculpt name enough to keep it anyway.

 

My doll got the name Nova cause I just came across it and loved it so much.

 

I still haven't named any of my dolls yet, so I just refer to them by their sculpt name. Nothing I think of seems to stick. I've always had trouble with naming things - my cat didn't even have a name for like two months when I first got him

 

I do tend to call my dolls more with the sculpt name but they also do have a different name. My name choices are usually very random, sometimes it's tv or movie characters names and sometimes it's just a name that pops in my mind when I look at them.

 

I rarely rename my dolls. I do a lot of photography, and it would be a nuisance to always put the doll's given name with her sculpt name in brackets after it, so I find it easier to stay with the sculpt name. However, I do have a couple of exceptions. A second and third Narae who needed different names in order to differentiate from the first one. And a couple of dolls with weird sculpt names that just had to be replaced. But I was never any good at naming anything, so find renaming very difficult.

 

All of my dolls are based on my original characters, so the name exists before I find a sculpt for the character, usually. It'd be funny if the sculpt name happened to match the character name, but so far that hasn't happened.