Naming your dolls

Naming a doll is definitely part of the fun for me!!! It depends on that character how I name them. Sometimes I love pun names ((twins Beau and Tai— you get Bow Tie or Tae Bo when you put them together.)) or I had a Colt Derringer once ((like a gun). But then some of them are based off of other characters. I have a Dean and Sam head each from
Modoll - SPN, so I merged the names for my Jensen and he is now Gene((Jensen and Dean merged).

Some of my names like Vance, Brody , CT <(Channing Tillman) and Corbin really don’t have any kind of guide or meaning. It just does whatever feels right to me for my crew.

 

Ditto (to all of the methods mentioned)
It's getting tougher as my dolls have exceeded my favorite names it seems ....
Right now I'm trying to settle on a name for a new to me 2001 Volks Ryo.
After learning how Ryo is properly pronounced in Japanese, my friend shook her head at my attempts. I don't think he's a Rio... I'm not excited by Roy or Ryan or Lowell. Looking up the meaning, Ryo means excellent, excell, succeed or dragon. So I looked at Dragon names. But while I love Chrysophylax, that was a greedy snobbish dragon & this is a sweet young boy...I'm thinking about Brodryn (it has the letters included) but I'm not sure yet.
It's easy for me to get distracted by Welsh names. Looked at Gareth, Llewellyn & Geraint today...
My dolls tend to group by how they're proportions go together. So he and my other older Volks Nono are together. She is Magenta. Because that was just her. So I've thought about Jasper or Rufus for him. My other two Volks boys are Alistair & Cedric, so Llewelyn would fit but hasn't been chosen yet.
He's just gotten a faceup & will be returning soon. Hopefully when he's back with me & Magenta we'll come up with the elusive answer which has had me puzzled lately.

Choosing names is great fun & usually not this tricky.

 

To me names usually come while finding out the style and personality for a particular doll. Sometimes I keep some options in mind before a doll arrives, but upon seeing them in person they often don't fit with my plans and turn out to be a completely different character!

I've also noticed that for dolls that give me less issues with finding their personal look I need much less time to come up with a name that sticks. For ones that are difficult to "figure out" it seems to be much more difficult for me to name them. This also leads to problems with forming a deeper bond with them, and they end up being my less favored dolls. Years in the hobby have taught me to give new doll family members more time, but ultimately if I fail to name them, then it usually means that they won't stay in the crew.

I wish naming dolls was easier and less complicated

 

Most of my dolls are based on my characters, who were named based on a combination of the name's meaning and how it sounds. So, like, Ilari has a name meaning "cheerful" in an ironic way since he's one of the most miserable guys ever but Emie is just because I thought it sounded cute.

 

Most of my crew have average human names, some more common than others. All of my dolls are characters in my role play who live in a world much like ours (with fewer serious problems).

There are two main ways I name my dolls--either similar to their inspiration, or they "tell" me. A lot of my dolls are inspired or influenced by real people, either people I know, celebrities or existing characters in media, so sometimes I choose names similar or somehow relating to the original--like Brendan Antony Morelli is influenced by Bam Margera, whose real name is Brandon. The others "tell" me their names, which usually just means writing the character and getting a feel for what is right for them. Sometimes it's a name that pops up often when I'm thinking of them, like when I was trying to name a former doll, a certain name kept showing up everywhere that week--in a book, in a movie, on a map--and it just felt like he was telling me that was his name. But sometimes, the name comes before the doll. In Pepper's case, I just really wanted a girl named Pepper, had no idea what she'd be like. I found a cheap doll I liked on the MP and just started building a character around her, and ended up with a spicy little lady who definitely lives up to her name!

 

All my dolls are named after flowers, even if I have to reach for it to fit. Another rule is that no two dolls can be named after the same flower. No Lotus and Padma, for example.

Otherwise, anything goes. Sometimes there's a character I like who happens to have a floral name, like Heather from Silent Hill 3. Sometimes the doll will go weeks or longer until I find the right name. Or I have a name on "standby," waiting for the right doll.

 

They are all from Greek mythology, from which I am building a story.

 

Most of mine have just been plucked out of the blue because I felt it fit the doll, but more recently I’ve been stealing names from other things I like, like a video game series I play. most of the names don’t mean much though. I forget them half the time. Lmao

 

Mine are based on characters in my writing.

Meira, my Minifee Celine, is a half-elf character, so I wanted her name to have an elvish feel. The other name choices are a little boring, but, it all follows a similar thought process.

 

Mine tend to vary - I have a couple based off existing D&D characters I've played. One has the name I used when I was in a maid cafe cause she's a Smart Doll and has a more anime-looking sculpt and the others are either just...names I like or ones that just kind of came to me in the moment.

 

Lance got to keep his sculpt name since Nameless used the dolls sculpt names in the game. Little Hela was named after the goddess, and the meaning of Shitoyaka’s name is similar to how I usually address the goddess Sygin.

Shitoyaka’s twin (a Loongsoul Little Xiang who I’m still waiting on to arrive) got her name, Suneru, cause her sculpt has such a pouty face.

I don’t like not having a name even for dolls on my grail list. Im forced to call them things like Twin 1, Lance’s future partner -which becomes a mouthful.

 

I honestly struggle a lot with naming my dolls.. I've just been using their sculpt names, lol! It's so interesting to see everyone else's methods. I feel like for me, dolls are somewhere in between a dress up toy and an OC....

 

It certainly depends on the type of character you are naming. I have both humans and anthros in my resin family and the naming process for them was very different.

• For the human part, I always search for names somehow related to some of their characteristics. For example, I had this guy who was a british architect, so I searched a list of famous british architects and combined some name from there. One of the others got her name from an anime character I really liked.
  
• For the little animals, I went a different direction. They have names related to the species they belong to. For example, my giraffe is named Peralta from the Giraffa camelopardalis peralta, an endangered species of giraffe.

 

Generally, I buy dolls to shell preexisting OCs, so they have names already. Some of the dolls that didn't end up working out for the intended characters required new ones, though.
My naming process usually involves collecting a list of names/words that relate to the character and then playing mix-and-match with the sounds until I come up with something that feels right.

 

Some dolls I shell as OC's from a story in my head, others I name with my character names from the MMO's I play or just human names that fit the character.
I usually start thinking about the name before or while getting the doll.

 

I always have trouble naming my dolls. I have had one since 2015 and she doesn't have a name yet! I just can't decide

 

I only have two dolls (neither of which has arrived) and another girl I just bought today who will need naming.

For my first, I'd bought him without any idea of what type of person he was, just knew I loved the sculpt and he'd tell me details later. I felt he needed an old-timey feeling name, but all the ones I was rolling around in my head just didn't feel right. And then I was literally driving down the highway and the town we were passing was called "Leander" and my brain was just "yup that's him". So there you go xD

For my Miracle Doll Dio (an anthro weasel sculpt), I had a backstory for him almost immediately where he's an ancient Chinese animal spirit. I am not Chinese, so couldn't get him a proper name myself. I ended up going to my best friend who is Chinese, with a prompt of "I want a name that, by itself, doesn't mean anything (because Mandarin words usually have two characters/sounds that make up the word. So basically I wanted half-a-word). But it's part of a dirty/derogatory name you would call an animal." We ended up brainstorming "Chu" together. Which, pronounced one way, is half of the Mandarin version of calling someone a dirty animal. He's actually using a different pronunciation of the same character, which when pronounced the way he uses is just a Chinese surname (because Leander was very offended at Chu using that as a name, and they changed it together xD).

The girl I just ordered is a cat-taur, in the same universe as my two boys. I'll be going back to my best friend for an appropriate name for her, as she's also Chinese xD.

 

So far, all of my doll's names have been similar to their sculpt name! Sarubia is Ruby, Bettina is Betty, and Louis is, well... Louis lol. I've thought about giving them "proper names" but haven't heard anything I like for them so for now they will have those names

 

It's bad because I'm a writer and have had most of my dolls for years, but none of them have names yet
I'm the type of person who really needs inspiration for a name to stick.

 

the girl I've ordered had a name before anything else really since she's based off an OC for a story. I had created her in sims 4 before I even thought of getting a doll of her so when I had the money I looked around until I found a sculpt that fit her name and personality.

it's the same for the other doll I plan to get, he had a name and a story but no real face until I looked around.