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

I have some ideas in mind for my doll, but I feel I should see her first before absolutley deciding what fits.

 

I've had my doll for 2 weeks, TWO. I can't decide on anything!! She still has no eyes, no wig, no faceup! A name?! PFT! I am just not ready. lol.

 

I had wanted my first doll of a particular sculpt for so long that the sculpt name really stuck and he just stayed Avery. I'm still feeling out the name for my second doll, and I think it's really going to depend on meeting the doll and playing a little bit.

 

I've always found that with naming anything... pets, businesses, websites, dolls, cars, and so on... I just wait for the name that comes to me, even if it takes a little while. Overthinking it always makes me end up with a name that never feels "right" or natural. I'll usually have a short list beforehand, but more often than not a name pops into my head that's not on that list, and that's what I end up going with and stay happy with.

 

Since I based my doll off of a character of mine, I had his personality picked out before he even had a name. I wanted something that was a unisex name, but was still commonly a female name as a little jab in the side to him XD after I did that, I looked up Italian last names and went from there!

 

When my doll first arrived she didn't have a wig or a name. I'm lucky enough to have a store near me that sells BJD wigs, so I took her to try some on. I didn't expect her to claim an auburn wig, but it's perfect on her and at that point she decided her name is Kendra.

 

In the first 2-3 months I couldn't came up with a good name for him therefore (as a joke) I started call him 'szép levente' which is a common term here. We use it for handsome, young boys. Levente is also a name, it's meaning 'small being'. I thought 'Why not give it a chance? It would be a cute name for doll!'. It worked so we kept it in the end. ^^

 

My only on-topic doll is Amiga. That was what one online friend called me for a long time. My up and coming doll's name will be Comrade. Masculine and kinda goes with Amiga.

 

I think for me its been one thing or another, depending on the doll. The first doll I bought I just thought was beautiful, and it took me ages of playing around with all sorts of names to find one for him because they never felt right. My second doll I bought for a character of mine, and that made it super easy! Get doll, already have name, perfect. ;P I guess it depends on the person and what/who you're buying your doll for!

 

My doll's name is Clare because she is a Dollzone Clare. I'm boring like that. I thought about names for her over and over, but for some reason her company name just stuck. I did not have a character in mind for her before I ordered her, so that may have something to do with it. I love her all the same!

 

My very first doll got his name from a song--I had been waffling heavily over what to name my incoming Bobobie Apollo, and "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco started playing on the radio. I had wanted a somewhat unique, not "modern" name for him, and "Amadeus" just stuck really well. Since "Amadeus" is a Latin name, I decided to keep looking for Latin names for future dolls, and found "Caelum" for my Doll-Love Brian. When I got my third boy, an Angel of Dream Bo, I felt that the name "Bo" was really fitting for him, so he broke the Latin name mold and became "Beauregard" so I could still call him "Beau." I tried to find a Latin name that could be "Bo" for short, but the two or three I found just really hit the ear wrong, or their meaning didn't make any sense for the character.

Around that time, I noticed that I had given my three dolls "A," "B," and "C" names, so I decided to be super cheesy and name future dolls in alphabetical order. So now, I pick the next letter in the alphabet, and choose a Latin name beginning with that letter. While some might find that really restrictive in terms of finding names, it really helps me out--I'm not great at coming up with names out of the blue, so browsing name sites for names that fit certain criteria makes it a lot easier for me. Plus, nothing says I have to completely stick with the theme if I don't want to. I've had two dolls so far that fit the alphabet theme, but not the Latin one, those being Beau and my Xagadoll Ximilu, Michiko.

Regrettably, my terrible buying habits have brought me all the way to the letter "U," and I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I reach the end of the alphabet >___>

 

Andrew is named after my husband, Linn is named after me seeing as they're doll versions of us. Rory is named after Rory Williams Pond(totally not a Dr. Who fan lol), Chiyoko is a kitsune and it means Child of a Thousand Generations in Japanese. Schrodinger is a cat boy so it made sense, Wendy is named after Wendy Darling from Peter Pan and Miyuki means beautiful fortune or happiness, or beautiful snow or deep snow I thought it fitting since she arrived Christmas Eve.

 

There is a useful website that I have used for various purposes in the past. Ther are many others of course but this one seems to have the broadest range of names that I've seen. You can search by gender, meaning, culture/ethnicity etc. There is even a section on religious and mythological names. So if you're stuck trying to find a name for one of your dolls perhaps a browse this this website might turn up something for you.

http://www.behindthename.com/

 

My dolls are representations of my characters....

For Peppermint I wanted something specifically cute and a noun rather than a name, because he's a minor god and it was weird for him to have a standard human name (because that ties him to a specific culture and that's something I wanted to avoid). So I went with tea, because I'm a massive tea addict. Pekoe and Peppermint made the final list, and I went with Peppermint because it could be shortened down (also, while I like the phonetics of Pekoe, I'm not a fan of what it looks like written down. Just a weird gut thing).


Anka's original name was Avery when I was first coming up with the idea. I still like the name, but the fact that it was an English name in a setting that's anything but never really sat right with me. Attempts at spelling it differently made it too special snowflake, and then I ended up somehow associating it with "ovary" and things just fell apart. So then I was perusing the various myths surrounding the phoenix/firebird in different cultures (the story she's from is loosely thematically tied to the idea), and "anka" (a name of a similar creature) stuck out.

 

I couldn't think of a proper name at all for my girl so I asked my sister to suggest names and she jokingly said "Louie", but I ended up loving it a lot. It stuck.

 

From a book of cat names that are adorable but i can't use for my cats :p

 

I unintentionally named all of my first 3 dolls starting with the letter "a". Then I felt that I couldn't stop the trend, so it narrows down the naming list quite a bit.
Normally I start thinking of names when I order and have something tentative ready before the doll arrives. Then I have to see if it sticks or not. It doesn't stick, I try again. So far I only have one doll (OT) who doesn't have a name that's stuck with her. She doesn't seem to mind.

 

I am not very good with choosing names, so it is a lengthy process. I usually have a few picked out before getting a doll. But then I end up changing it when I get to know and customize my doll.

 

For Tytan, I looked up names meaning "fire" (since he's a fire spirit) and liked both the names "Titan" and "Tyson" for him. Neither seemed to stick, and it wasn't until recently that the two names combined ("Tytan") popped up in my head. I liked the new name and it seemed to fit him, although I was honestly a little hesitant at first since it does sound a little silly. But then I couldn't stop calling him Tytan, so it stuck. xDD Though I do affectionately call him Ty for short.
It took me almost a year to settle on a name for my boy. Naming can be hard!

 

I usually just read through a list of baby names and see what sticks.