Question: How did you come up with your doll's name?

My latest girl didn't have a name for nearly a month. After completing her faceup and putting her back on her body, the name Wren just came to me. Honestly I wasn't even going to try to name her. Her faceup has a lot of browns, so the coloring somehow brought about the name I think.

 

What I do is look around for dolls I like, then come up with characters and hope I can one day afford them XD Maylin's name came from the words "mei" and "lin" in Chinese, meaning beautiful jade since her skin is a little green, and she's absolutely beautiful. When the Dollzone Tulip sculpt was still being made, I wanted her in white skin and had the name Rosalba in mind (Latin for white rose) and wanted her as a fairy queen. The DC Mephisto I WILL have someday (I'm bound and determined!) is going to be Istalvic, which was a suggestion from a friend and I actually quite like it.

Basically, I look around for different baby names that sound fitting for whatever fantasy character I've come up with.

 

I always design my characters and then give them names. For my latest doll I plan to make a curly white wool wig for her. So Rachel was the cutest and most fitting name I could think of.

 

I get a lot of names from books or movies. when I hear an interesting name I like to write it down and save it for later dolly plans.

 

I had a name in mind for my doll and I have one in mind for the only other one I want to eventually have. Both are just simple names, but they came to me in like a burst and I can't forget them even if I tried. If I even attempted to call them something else I would always hear the other name in the back of my head first, so I'll probably keep the names that came to me. n_n

 

Different ways - Fawn arrived with her name and I loved it, so I kept it. Aura and Scaramouche came from songs (Aura from a song by a band called the Church, and Scaramouche from, of course, Queen.) Paisley came from the town in Scotland (she's Aura's sister, and they're Scottish.) Tempest and Zephyr for what they do - they're my storm and wind devas. Kira was from "The Dark Crystal." Daisy was suggested by a friend, who I think was actually thinking of the final scene in "2001," not Daisy Buchanan. Hawthorne is supposed to be a pixie from Missouri, so she was named for the state flower. I decided to stick with a flower theme for the pixies.

 

They all told them to me. Literally in my mind their names just appear though Vi's name was harder to pin down than Nox's xD

 

I looked up baby names, unique names, names in other languages. I looked at names of flowers, names of meanings...I've even used a random name generator that smushed weird names together. Haha.

 

I hem and haw for forever and go with names that I like the sound of after repeating them over and over. I have the hardest time deciding, though XD

 

Generally, I look a lot at the chosen doll's pictures and figure out a backstory. Acording to it, I chose a name with meaning, this helps to create their personality as well.

 

I chose the name for the doll I'm intending to buy by simply going through a mental list of delicate-sounding names, due to the fact that she has a delicate sculpt. On that mental list were two names that my husband loves, Aurore and Charlotte. I tried to picture calling my future doll "Charlotte", but just couldn't imagine it sticking. I then tried "Aurore" and felt that I had something close to ideal. I changed Aurore to Aurora, and have since been intent on giving her that name. It's a lovely name that seems to fit with her beautiful, delicate sculpt.

 

I don't think about names until they arrive - because a lot of the time, the dolls seems to be so different in the feel they give off compared to what you originally thought. Sometimes I have to try a calling them a few different names over a period of time to settle for the one that feels 'right'.

 

My first doll was named after my friend who got me into the hobby. After that I just kind of went with whatever came to me.

 

I actually don't know how I came up with my doll's name. It just came to me one day and it fit so perfectly. My little pastel Nova.

 

I used to try and stick with animes I have loved. But after awhile it seems I just attach the same name to 4-5 dolls and it gets to feeling a bore. So now I just go with names that just seem to fit, regardless if they are anime, TV shows or just a name I like. It's been weird how some just pop in to head, while others like to frustrate me for days.

 

All my dolls have a color´s name. Carmine for her eyes, and ambar for her wig color. This two things was given to me randomly for the doll house. I choose the name when I see my doll for the first time with the requirement that it belongs to a color

 

For me, all of my current dollies and those on my wish-list have already got their names. I did have to moll over for quite some time to get each one right, but there is a very specific trend with my dolls. For my human dollies, they've all got older French names...and as for my faeries, they've all got older English names. I don't have a wish list for their pets and familiars cos I've still got about 30 or so more to go, but I'll imagine I'll have a think on that at some point. I guess since it's not nearly close to the horizon, I hadn't even begun to conjure up any.

 

Moonglo, amazing you got already the name for all your dolls :O

 

Aww, thank you, Vicky-Rivero!

 

It took some time to come up with the first name.
For my unoa I wanted a Japanese name. I named her Mariko (ball, doll) XD.
I haven't come up with a name yet for my second doll though...