Questions about horse names?

Question

Ok, I know I will hit a nerve with some people, but here goes.

When some one ask for help with horse names, why are so many suggestions that are either taken strait out of a baby names book, or they sound like a stripper name?

I am not saying choosing a name is easy. But please don't name your animal after a tuesday afternoon stripper.

I personaly give my horses several weeks(sometimes it doesn't take that long) and what ever I call it consistantly is what the name is. A perfect example is my horse's name is Girlfriend(stripper esque I know).

Answer 1

These days, I think everything constitutes as a "stripper name".

I've gone to flipping through the dictionary with my eyes closed and pointing at something. That's how I named Kismet (Kizzy for short). And my old bird Hippie. And my friends cat Eschew (Chewy, who really was shy/fearful).

Answer 2

Girlfriend isn't a stripper name or at least I hope not... haha!

I myself don't like those frilly names I like names like Zip or Buddy or even random name like Jazz or Storm which are good names! I guess the "stripper" names were meant to get peoples attention and it obviously worked!

Answer 3

why cant it be a cute animal name such as oreo or trisket

or a normal boy and girl name

like nancy

lucy lou

henry

champ

jack jack

tessey

for instance my dogs name is isabella thats not a striper name

MY name is a stripper name! i hate it i can see where your coming from ive always had to hear the expression stripper name...the name is kandice by the way

think of the name your self your know your pet the best!

Answer 4

Why not just let the horse keep the name it came with? Naming is very stressful.

I tend not to name foals until the registrations are due, which is around October / November. My filly is nearly 6 weeks old and so far all I know is her name will definitely start with A...

Answer 5

Mine's barn name ended up Little Girl.  From..."That's a good little girl"

It was either that or "Atta Girl"...

Both came from what I said to her all the time while I was breaking and training her.  Kinda stuck...

I always let them name themselves...it'll happen eventually.

HAHAHAHA....now....Is that a stripper name?   [Little Girl?]  Or a dirty old cowboy's fantasy??  *slapping my hands for being rude!*

And BTW...what exactly are you doing on Tuesday afternoons???  Don't you have a job??  Or is that where you spend your lunch hour??

***edit...BF...it's been a long day building fences.  I already got totally ticked on another question I answered earlier....Ya oughtta go find it, it's good for a laugh for the grown ups.

This question brought my humor back out!!  Besides...don't great minds think alike???

*****EDIT again....okay BF...now you're making me wonder what kind of videos you rent!!

Or maybe something in your 'employment' history you'd like to share???  ROFLMAO!!!

It's my birthday...I'm outta here...going for a long ride.

Answer 6

hahaha my horses name is playa coz of his blood lines

Answer 7

i know what you mean, we have changed several horses names where i work, just cause there not good names, they dont suit the horses and little kids cant (shouldnt) say some of them, most of them are rescues though

one horse (a rescue) was actually named horse, he was a dun so we named him creamy

another was named meat (i dont know why these people own horses) we named him wai-rikki

but a few havent even got a name

Answer 8

Most of our horses come with names.  Some are dumb or ridiculous for a gelding, so we use part of the name.  I bought my blue roan when he was 3 & he did not have a registered name yet, so I sat down with his papers, a pen & a legal pad & wrote down single names that caught my eye.  Then eventually I started mixing & matching until I came up with the one I liked.  Had to go back quite a way, but...got it!!!!  BUT, we still simply call him Sage!

The names suggestions that get me are like Midnight River Dancer, sappy names like that.  My goodness!!!  They do sound like stripper names don't they?????

**EDIT**

We had horses named after the guys dad or grandad bought them from also.  But we had 8-Ball, Fred (King P-234 blood), Herb (also King), Skeeter, Saylor, Cody, Ringo, Buddy, Jim, etc.

But alot of times it was go out & catch the little sorrel or get the bay with the sock, etc.  Kind of like when we use to get driving directions to someone's ranch.  Go out past the old so & so place & turn left where the old barn was then past old so & sos place.  Little did we know as we wondered aimlessly was that old so & so had not owned that property for 50 years & the old barn had rotted into the ground 75 yrs. ago.

Answer 9

Someday, when I'm rich and have land and can afford my own horse (hahaha), I want to get a thoroughbred.

And his name will be Coinneach (pronounced co-in-ach) (ach like the german 'ach'). It's an Irish gaelic name meaning 'handsome' =]

I agree with you though. It took me a long time to come up with that name. I like names that have meaning and are unusual, not just some plain ol' name like, well, "baby." My animals deserve something better than that!

Answer 10

If they don't have a name already, I let them name themselves.  It normally happens, I'll call one by a name that I've known other horses by that are long since gone.  My AQHA mare, reminded me of a sweet faced QH mare I'd had in the '80's.  My Azteca came with a name that just seemed so fitting and had no bad memories for him (Grey, which was an Anglo name a friend had given him after she rescued him.), Buddy sounded a whole lot better than "Bubba" for my old QH gelding lesson horse and my 3 yr old filly just seemed to be a "Cali" because she's tall and BLONDE, where as my baby, got named "Bobbi" after my late hubby (It was an inside joke).

Answer 11

I laughed.."a stripper name", but then you have a point..."Gypsy Rose Lee" maybe???  I let my horses personality "tell" me what the name will be....

I have known many trainers/breeders  who name their horses after the person they purchased the horse from.  

Cowboys have a great way of assigning names to horses; usually the names will come from a bad habit the horse has, i.e. "Rimrocker"..the horse who takes off after you're bucked off and never looks back.  He's just headed for home.  

Many a cowboy's horse named after a famous outlaw...Bat Masterson, Cole Younger, Jesse James, etc.  ("Cowboy Lingo", 2000), or Peanuts, Snake eye or Smokey, Popcorn or Widowmaker.

Answer 12

lol i actually thought and thought for two whole days ( a long time for me) about what i would name my horse and all i came up with was, Sunny. yep that is the extent of my imagination....lol at stripper names....i called my budgie pamela

Answer 13

*ahem*  Ummmm..Kevin....

*nudge*  what ARE some stripper names?  *grin*

C'mon now...let us in on this little secret of yours :)

edit:  see...BB thinking the same thing I am! hahaha

edit:  Ok...some stripper names:

Bouncing Cherry

Blossoming Peach

Hot Pie's Around

Two Way Split

Strutting for Money

Hot and Oily

Limber

Jiggles

Slip Sliding

Dancing Naked

Amber Waves

Hot Kiss

Hmmm..they sound more like p**n names! ahhahaa

Love your questions Kevin!  You are lots of fun!

Thanks!

Answer 14

I don't actually know any Tuesday afternoon strippers so I can't possibly comment on their names.

I had  enough trouble naming my cats so I don't very often answer those questions. Names are difficult I usually wait it out, consider the character of the beast and see what fits. Picking names at random is just -impersonal somehow.