Would you discard that “perfect” name if…

I tend to flail over names for a long period before I settle on one, but once I've found it chances are I won't end up changing it. I've changed my dolls name once, only after realizing it was obscene in another language. xD So now I do my research first, and then decide based on that.

 

I think I would still name the doll the original name! Go with what you love!

 

I plan to name my doll Xavier Schützen, and my Fairies minidoll Titebis.
Xavier means "The new house" so a pretty pointless name, but Schützen means "Protect" in german.
Titebis means "Tulip" in Georgian
( Thanx Google translate and Behind the name )

 

Oh! This has totally happened to me! XD
I was deciding the name of the sister of one of my previously planned characters, Arc, and I wanted her name to sound good with his. So after a long while of thinking, I settled on the name "Mena" only to find that Mena is the goddess of menstruation.
After deciding against that I ended up coming up with the name "Alette" (meaning "winged") that fits her character much better.
I definitely think that if you don't feel right about a name that you should find a name that you know works perfectly for your doll.
But then on the other hand, if the name is just too perfect for and nothing else would be right for him/her, then go with the original name, no matter what it means.
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I'm pretty sure I just completely contradicted myself.
I guess the message that I'm entirely failing to get across would be to just follow your gut instinct. Be happy will your dolls.

 

Well, similar but not the same circumstance... My first doll was made after an rp character I've had for over four years: Chord. Unfortunately, recently, an actor with the name of Chord joined the Glee cast as a regular- and thus, I always twitch a little when I hear the name in relation to the actor. Mainly, I'm just worried that people will think that I named my character after him when, in reality, I named him because he's musical (and my friend picked it out.)

Granted, the character no longer wishes to be a doll, so I am recasting him as another character: Grim... which sounds like the name of my friend's cat, but I don't care! And I still have my character Chord in rp, I may give a disclaimer if people raise eyebrows, but usually people don't make the connection. ^^ So really, as long as you're happy with the name, don't worry about it!

 

I go by the sound of the name primarily - though if I'm torn between a few names I'm likely to go with the ones that have a sound and meaning I prefer. I've had a few characters whose names would translate into funny or silly things but I still kept the names for some - others changed later but not because of the meaning but because of a whole character overhaul. If you like the name - use it. So what if it has a silly meaning? Every person has funny qualities, vices, etc. It gives character.

 

lol Exactly, my first name means weary or sometimes cow in Hebrew, and I wouldn't change it for the world. ^_^

To answer the question though. No. Unless I the name meant something I didn't like in the specific culture of it's origin that I was getting it from I wouldn't care what the celtic name or any other name I choose meant in a different language.

 

I see a lot of extremely awesome names, extravagant names, names I've never heard before... that people name their dolls. I fall into the realm of the 'extremely mundane, normal names.' I really doubt I'd ever name a boy doll Dave, Jack, Joe, Mike, or anything they tend to end up naming commercial characters, but I'm just not one for extravagance if I don't need it. I think I'm a little more experimental with female names, rather than boys names, though. I'd have no problems naming my doll Charity or Prudence.

The only time I'd ever be willing to change a name, or urge a friend to change their doll's name, is if it meant something one of us were adamantly, morally against.

 

You're probably Chinese! xD Mad Bird hospital - man, I never would have thought of it that way.

I say you keep the whole name, because it rolls off the tongue nicely and is the original name. But if you're surrounded by Chinese people with a sense of humor that will laugh when you tell them the full name, then just say the doll's name is Kazuki around them. But for everyone else, Fuchoin Kazuki.

 

I wouldn't change it, Emily's last name I picked without thinking and named her Emily Carter. Later one I watched a Star Gate SG1 and I remembered what Sam's last name was. I did a face palm and looked at Emily. "Do you mind having a cousin who works for the Star Gate program?" To me her expression was one of "duh, it's always been that way, where have you been?"

Then with Yoko I told my boyfriend what her name was going to be and he just looked at me. "Really her name is Yoko? Like Yoko Ono?" I didn't think about it but I'm not changing it. If you like the name that's all that matters

 

I'm pretty careful about looking up the meanings and etymology of names before I use them for my dolls - but I would totally discard a name if I found out it had an awful translation in another language!

Sometimes I make up names but just to be sure I look them up to make sure I didn't hear them somewhere before. I have a few names up my sleeve for some dolls that I'll get in the future

 

I was going to name my yosd, Alora, because it just popped into my head, but when I looked it up and researched it a bit more, turns out it was a estrogen drug patch for menopause or vaginal problems.

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I decided on Delilah. LOL

However my other dolls are named after a 'wind' theme, and although I wanted to keep it up with the newer dolls I got/will be getting, I'm quickly running out of options, since the latin and greek originals the names stem from get quite complicated. The names might just end up sounding silly...

 

Hmm... only if I could find another perfect name. I'm a little bit on the fence about whether I care about what names mean or not, so if I found a few names I really liked and two of them had dumb translations, I'd probably go with one with a nice translation, but if only one stood out and it had a dumb translation, I'd go with it anyway. And if it was really bugging me, I'd just try to make it part of their character. So I guess... I probably wouldn't discard that perfect name because of the translation, but if learning the meaning made me not like it as much I would.

 

If you had done something like that on a real child then yeah, I'd appreciate the drama- but a doll? Either keep it, or change it if you are now put off it. I don't think 'mad bird hospital' is that much of a deal; seriously it could be a lot worse, and the doll isn't going to be affected by this name personally lol!

There will always be translation issues or names meaning different things, even 'Puki Puki' means something a bit, personal shall we say, in Malay...didn't mean Fairyland renamed their entire product line.

To be honest, I thought you re going to be bothered about how the 'Fuch' part of the name is pronounced by Westerners!!!

 

It's a yes-but-no for me...
Situation was different, I wanted a name which had a signification pretty specific. Turns out the only name with this signification was Miku >_> So I went for something else, even though it was just perfect. (I personally Dislike having "popular" character names).

But yeah, I think you should keep yours.
Same as Absynthe - I can't remember which company, but one did a line called something like "Vessel", which in french pronounciation, means kinda dishes, in the way that "Faire la vaisselle" is to "do the dishes" XD And they still kept the name.

 

There was a 'Penis' for a while, I think he was by Impldoll? I think he's called 'Colin' now...all kinda lulz :P

 

I would stick with the name. Although Yun means Cloud AND when I call him Yun Yun it means giddy, I'd stick with it,simply because it sticks...?

 

I tend to name dolls whatever pops into my head- same with pets, which is why I have a cat named Shigo (my Japanese dictionary says it means 'a private conversation held in a public place'). Names stick, to me, and I have a huge problem changing them. If something terrible happened, for example say- a friend with a similar name stabbed me in the back or something, I might have to change the doll's character completely to avoid the terrible negative reminder. XD;;;

 

Most of my doll's character names are pretty normal or boring, but some of them I've kind of looked up (the Japanese ones) - heck, my tinies (Kazeku and Mizuko) I didn't even find the names, just a website with a bunch of syllables that go in Japanese names and mashed together some that sounded good with their meanings that were vaguely similar to what the dolls' characters were about I've probably named them "vagina" and "pig liver" for all I know I don't mind what it means in another language, as long as I like the name ^^

 

I think the only way I'd get annoyed in terms of playing the 'name game', is if I told my friend that I was going to name my doll a particular name, and they end up naming their doll that same name. I can understand how people would get upset over that - a real baby or a BJD.

I still wouldn't fret over it, though. You might get a few chuckles from people who happen to know what the name means, but for every chiding remark, you're going to encounter hundreds of others who have no idea what that name means, nor care to go look it up.