The Nameless Doll: Troubles naming dolls.

I usually just call my nameless dolls by their sculpt names until a name comes to me.

 

I am usually a spur of the moment namer. I do create characters and use my dolls as muses for my writing but I have never been successful in getting a doll to BE a character I already have in my mind and my stories I tend to get characters to help me create NEW characters so they come without a name in mind. And then I usually have one or two names in mind when I get them and when I see them it is like YEP Thats your name. But I have had trouble in the past. My dollshe Van I could not be bothered to name...his name is Adam btw but I got that name as a suggestion from either here or a facebook group.

I recently got a new saint head to replace the saint head I currently have and instead of just rehousing the character I am creating a new one and I am super super excited but I am having some naming issues he is at the face-up artists right now and I am in LOVE with him. But still...no name...*makes face*

 

I always write up my dolls stories, and normally their name (I always find the name first) links to their personality. Like, for my character Hisoka I looked up Japanese names and his name means 'mysterious and reserved' which is how he acts because he's quite shy. All of my OC's names have meaning's as they're all either Japanese or Korean. Though I just love names to have meanings anyways .

 

Usually, I can name things pretty easily, but here I am with a doll a year and change old and she still has no name. Lots of lists later and nothing has stuck for her. Yet.

 

Lately I went back into "Behind the Name" sites 'random renamer' ... I stuck the sculpt name (Oscal) in for the surname, picked 1st and 2 middle names... and some ethnicity's I though suited his look and started hitting the 'generate name' and ya .... wow some I wouldn't touch with a barge pole but it popped up enough names that some started to 'work'.... just picking individual names from the sets that came up...I like this cuz it throws up names that might never occur to you or that you've not heard of... Many of the names of my main already named dolls got names partly by this method ^^,

 

Sometimes it's difficult, but other times it just comes to me with no issues. Two of my dolls - Amethyst and Andromeda, it was easy. Some of the other ones I'm just unsure. As for my DC Ada, I still call her Ada, haha.

 

I can understand that. at first I used the sculpt name, but I felt determined to come up with something new. I wouldn't worry about doing a huge amount of character building if it's not your thing. I think just one personality trait could help with a name! Like if they're sassy. Sassy Sasha/Sally/Terry.

 

I am having a naming issue that's unique for me. I have had the doll for quite some time, and I've really come to dislike her name for her and I don't think it suits her. I'm not sure it ever did, but the name came from a song by a band I really like and I wanted it to work. So now I'm considering changing her name, which feels really wrong in a way because I've never had to do it, but I feel like I need to change it to be happy with her. In the grand scheme of things I know it doesn't matter if I change the name, but I've prided myself--even if only to myself--with selecting fitting names.

 

the thing is.... the "doll" always has the last say... no matter what... just remind yourself of that ^^ Not to mention ... even humans change/alter their names. My bff is one... half of my Dad's siblings made thier names less... 'dramatic'.
Alovis>Alec; Annastasia>Anne; Raphael>Ralph.... that's just a few lol... It's not unusual... and lets face it... how many dolls actually listen to their owners wishes? My first doll still goes by "M" (doll character by design was Marauder)

 

I had the oddest situation in naming my first girl, the moment I got my hands on her she seemed to scream "My name is Willow" and I fully intended to name her that. But I was sitting with my friends and one asked what I'd name her, so I told her what I thought and instantly she told me I couldn't. I asked her why and she responded something along the lines of "I'm going to name my child Willow, you can't name your doll that. People are going to think I named my kid after your doll!"
A bit of (imo, annoying) conversation, I had to settle on Ivy. It still bothers me, even after a year and a half, that I had to pick a different name for my girl. :/
She and I aren't anywhere near having children so I don't know why it was such a big deal to her that she basically forced me to rename my doll.

 

Rename your doll to what YOU want... It's not your problem what your friend wants to name her kid... If she gets bent out of shape that's her issue... not yours. All she has done is make YOU unhappy... and you let her... Do what makes you happy and let other ppl deal with THEIR own issues... and anyone dumb enough to think she named her kid after your doll? Do I really need to point out the idiocy of that?... Give your poor girl the name the you 'both' wanted. It's your doll not your friends.

 

Now that I think about it, my little Peak's Woods Naomi is named Alex,because she just seems mischievous. They tend to pick up traits if not stories as time goes on. My Luts KDF Winter 2013 girl reminds me of the way my daughter feels inside when she is depressed. She doesn't look like her, but it feels like her.

 

I've gotten so used to calling her Ivy now that it seems weird to call her Willow. I could always switch it since the girl and I aren't friends any more anyway, so it's not like she could complain haha.
But yeah, I don't know why she even thought people would say she copied my doll....it's a doll that hardly anyone even knows about. You do have a point, I shouldn't have let her annoy me into changing her name in the first place, but I guess at the time it was just easier than arguing. Time to go rename her!

 

You go girl! See if Willow still wants what I personally love as a name ;p. Sux none of my girls (yet?) seem to agree LOL.

 

I had a very similar problem with one of my dolls recently. (Her name was even similar--her group has names from a specific album!) I was feeling like it didn't suit her, and wasn't quite right for her, so I tried to change it... and she clearly had other ideas, because it's back to what it used to be. I could never get her to take on the new name, so I've decided her original name worked better for her, and will see if the "new" name fits one of the ones remaining to join the group instead. For a few months, though, I really was trying to think of her by the new name, but it really never worked.

More often my problem is getting my hands on an event head and trying to figure out who of all my various options he or she is going to be! I waffled back and forth on one I recently picked up secondhand (I replaced a body on another doll and decided I didn't really want to sell off the body, so new head it was), before finally deciding that one of my older OCs had light enough development that I could change the character to female, and that swap has worked well mentally for me. Much better than trying to rename the other doll!

 

Most of the dolls I want already have names. Unfortunately I haven't gotten any of the dolls that were on that list so I was stuck trying to find names. All of my current dolls went by their sculpt name for quite a while until the name came to me!

 

I have two dolls, one home and the other waiting. The one still en route is a RLF Mari and her name is Marin, named after the marine preserve near Marin (the closeness to her sculpt name is coincidence.)

My RLF Pano I have had for several months now and his name continues to confound me! It's not for lack of enjoying the doll. He's got a style and a personality and I can't imagine I'll ever sell him. He's my first, and I knew from the first day he was announced that I would have one. So, he's 'my Pano' until a name sticks.

 

I too have a puki puki (I forgot her face plate. I called her Pippi, after Pippi longstocking because I have this wig for her and it looks exactly like her hair... Need tweezers to brads it XD

But recently I only just figured out what to call my minifee seorin and it came to me after months of having him that I was tidying up and thought how funny he would look with a bucket on his head.

He's now called Bucket!

 

I did have this problem with my 3rd girl. At the end, I chose a gender-less name. She immediately 'bloomed' and both of us haven't looked back since. It settled her personality and a lot of other things fell into places. Okay, the drawback is that frilly things I bought for her just don't fit her anymore but she is much more fun.

 

That is true, and I've never had an issue like this, she's just being so difficult about it.

Wow, that is very similar! There's a chance I may never change her name, because nothing else seems to be right either. I've bounced a few things off her, and she seems to be rejecting them.

A gender-less name is a nice concept, I have a couple girls I named Guppy and Munkie, which to me don't really lean toward a gender (because well, they are animals/adapted spellings of animals) and they seem exactly perfect with them.