Naming your dolls

So my first doll was kind of a feeler I suppose. She matched the criteria I was looking for (small, sweet face, durable and second hand.) so I bought her with no idea what to do with her. Her face up from her previous owner was hard for me to look past at first.. (thankfully I have a great dolly friend that helped me with re-doing her face!)
After she was re done and her personality began to come through I named her Momoko. (After the main character on Kamekaze girls) because she's a bratty lolita lol

My second doll was different. She was immediately beautiful and I loved her the moment I saw her and snatched her up! ( lol ) when she arrived I looked at her for a long time before deciding on the name Prism (after the single on my favorite SHINee cd). She is a fashionista with a love for music and culture. Momo is just a HUGE otaku.

I love my girls~ eventually I want an army of stylish sassy cutie pies :p

 

Oh how I suffer over this! I find naming my dolls extremely challenging because I feel it's so integral to their character, and I'm literally angst-ridden when I can't find the perfect name for one of them fairly quickly. When this happens I'll pull out all the stops...I'll ponder, research name websites, and get creative with combinations until I finally come up with the perfect name. I simply can't rest until I do! Their names have to match their storylines like Lord DeWinter, Second-hand Rose, Bellamorte, and even Lemon Meringue. I have some dolls with made up names too...like Euphemera and Imaginaria. Whether they're simple (like Georgie) or more elaborate and fanciful (like Barrio Luminaria) they simply must convey the true essence of that doll's character.

 

Usually, they just come to me in one of those "You look like an X" or "You feel like a Y" moments.

Some exceptions are River, who was named after my dear dog who passed away shortly before I ordered him, Pansy, whose name comes from Ophelia's line in Hamlet and is a reminder to myself to avoid impulse buying when I'm stressed, and Ylva, whose name was chosen because it means "she-wolf."

 

I create OCs, and then find doll sculpt that's closest to my design

 

I don't usually name my dolls, just keep the sculpt name.

 

You believe, I got my first 4 years ago and I gave his official name last night. I use the name based on a person who I respect and feel good with him in the personal.

 

I'm a writer and an comic book artist, which means I just use the charcters of my books and comics to name bjds. So when I get my iplehouse Amy, she will be just be the main female protagonist of my comic Der Mausritter...

 

my two dollies both have japanese names: Airashi (meaning adorable, really suits her, cuz she is a sweet lolita) and Okami (meaning wolf, cuz i want him to kinda be Moon Moon) so i would go to google translate and translate a word to japanese.

 

I am excellent at choosing unique names in the Sims games, but I always suck at naming dolls (fashion dolls etc.). I'm stuck now on my first BJD girl. I had no idea of her character or name before I ordered her. I've been pulling together her character and style, but I have no idea of her name!

I think I will have to have her in my hand before I know her name. And my last doll, my Mum named her aha.

 

I used the site Nameberry to help me name my girls. For Simone I just looked at the various lists on that site and copied names down that I liked until I had a shortlist and chose from there. Simone is a name I've always liked. Some other names I considered were Camille, Estrella, and Laurence so I decided to make the first two her middle names and the latter her surname. Simone Estrella Camille Laurence. I had her named all picked out before she arrived. For Zea, I wanted a name that started with an X or a Z so to sound alien. I had not picked a name by the time she arrived. That evening I was browsing Nameberry and the name Zea just felt right.

 

I'm horrible with names... I named my first one Jane... like jane doe because she doesn't really have a name yet.

 

Oh man, I have a hard time coming up with names. I think I come up with a name after I get the doll so I can see how I'm dressing it and what its style is. I don't actually own any dolls yet but my sister and I have a plan for BJD twins and she already has the name picked out while I had one but I keep forgetting it so it's probably not the name I'll use for the BJD once it's made.
Unless I have a name I really want for a doll, I will probably name it after I get the doll.

 

I typically create the names after I think of a character personality and/or look. The names tend to connect with an aspect about them, so if I have a character who has a fierce personality, I might look up names under sharp or fire meanings and see which connect.

 

I'm honestly give my dolls horrible pun/jokes name based for how they look or what they represent. Very corny when I think about it. For example, my Volks Renee has the cute cat smile. I named her Meoh, for Meo in meow. I plan to get another cat doll and name her Mel. Another pun for Meow.

 

It takes me a long time to come up with names, sometimes months! Normally I just think really hard about what name would suit the character the most and use name generators. Once I forgot my doll's name after I finally came up with one so I had to go through the naming process all over again...

 

I am a huge fan of Japanese names because I love Japan and the culture.
But yesterday was very funny because I showed my little 5 year old niece a picture of my 5 plapico dragons which don't have names yet. She asked me how they are called and I could only say that I still search for names because they are pretty new and need some blushing.
So she decided to give them names by her own. Now my little dragons are named after her brother and friends of her kindergarden. XDD
Paul (her older brother), Lilly (one of her best friends), Sören (her love ^.~), Laura and Justin (two other of her best friends). But don't ask me who is who now. I only remember that my grey Ashes Plapico is Paul. XDD

 

I just look at them and the first name that connects me with them or what they look like is what I end up picking. However, there are some dolls that I can never name.

 

Don’t know if I should be asking here but I’m really interested in knowing whether people name their character before your doll arrive or eventually come up with the name after receiving them?

I named my kids once but they got a character renewal and I’m giving them new names

 

Rarely do I get one of those "aha!" moments with names right away, most of the time I hem and haw over several (usually very different sounding/looking) names. My first two I came up with fairly quickly (couple weeks to a month), but my SD is still nameless... after like 2 years, whoops.

 

I try to go on what I jokingly call spirit quests. I drive to differant old small town cemeteries and browse names. It works pretty well!