Naming your tort?

[laramie]

Got another one for you..How did you choose your tort's name?
IWhen I worked at the hopsital, there was this elderly gentleman that would come to have lunch everyday, his name was Wilbur. So I named my tort Wilbur as after him.

 

[October]

Aww, that's very sweet.

Morla is named after the giant turtle allergic to youth from the Neverending Story.
Ada is named after Ada Lovelace, known as the world's first computer programmer. And a woman to boot!
Trudy was named by my brother and kids. It was a toss-up between that and Harriet. LOL

 

[jaizei]

This is how I got Herbert.

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[cemmons12]

Well I picked Cooper's name after looking and looking thru names on the net. And I really liked it so I picked it. No real reason for it but it fits him just fine!

 

[dmarcus]

I lived in Las Vegas when I got Vegas, and I lived Texas when I got Tejas. Honey got her name because she had a very sweet disposition even with all the bad care she had recieved..

 

[dav3]

ok squirtle because pokemon rule and well its a turtle so its sorta close to a tortoise lol
ivy because its a girly non person name lol

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ok squirtle because pokemon rule and well its a turtle so its sorta close to a tortoise lol
ivy because its a girly non person name lol

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ok squirtle because pokemon rule and well its a turtle so its sorta close to a tortoise lol
ivy because its a girly non person name lol

 

[jackrat]

Quagmire and Lois got theirs from The Family Guy.

 

[dmmj]

I named my russians stohli, boris and natasha typical russian names
My RF came with a name already maynard
my CDT is called tank he acts like a tank
my sulcata is called little tank he also acts like a tank but he is little (for now)
I have not named my RES, to many
and my boxies have not gotten names yet.

 

[GeoTerraTestudo]

Most of my turtles and tortoise have had names that start with the letter "M"! I also try to come up with cute little "couple" names when I get a male and a female at the same time.

Three-toed box turtles: Max, Myrtle, Marty, and Mogli
Russian tortoises: Mork and Mindy

The exception was my redfoot tortoise, whose name was "Chama," which means "little girl" in Venezuelan Spanish.

Morla is named after the giant turtle allergic to youth from the Neverending Story.

As I've said, I just love that name for a turtle, especially since The Neverending Story is my all-time favorite film and novel! However, I don't think Morla was allergic to "youth." I think he was simply allergic to humans. When Atreyu asked him if he had a cold, I think he replied, in between sneezes, "No, I'm allergic to you."

 

[October]

Morla is named after the giant turtle allergic to youth from the Neverending Story.

As I've said, I just love that name for a turtle, especially since The Neverending Story is my all-time favorite film and novel! However, I don't think Morla was allergic to "youth." I think he was simply allergic to humans. When Atreyu asked him if he had a cold, I think he replied, in between sneezes, "No, I'm allergic to you."

Good point. I always assumed it was because he was a kid. And I swear I heard the youth thing somewhere, but heavens knows youth has left my brain years ago.

 

[pandacakes]

I named my little guy after Ziggy Marley... but his name is just Ziggy

 

[Tom]

Quagmire and Lois got theirs from The Family Guy.

Giggity, giggity...

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

My husband allows me to get any critter as long as it has a star wars related name. It is a small price to pay . If all goes well and we get our Great Dane, we will name him Obi.

 

[drgnfly2265]

I grew up playing video games and that is how I came up with Bowser. When I knew that I was getting a tortoise I already known what I was going to name it. How could I pass up the chance of owning a tortoise named Bowser? My husband called me a geek, lol . Male or female, no matter what the name would always be Bowser. And that's her name, lol

My husband allows me to get any critter as long as it has a star wars related name. It is a small price to pay . If all goes well and we get our Great Dane, we will name him Obi.

We LOVE Star Wars! We have a bearded dragon named Yaddle, lol. Best female star wars name that fit!

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

I grew up playing video games and that is how I came up with Bowser. When I knew that I was getting a tortoise I already known what I was going to name it. How could I pass up the chance of owning a tortoise named Bowser? My husband called me a geek, lol . Male or female, no matter what the name would always be Bowser. And that's her name, lol

My husband allows me to get any critter as long as it has a star wars related name. It is a small price to pay . If all goes well and we get our Great Dane, we will name him Obi.

We LOVE Star Wars! We have a bearded dragon named Yaddle, lol. Best female star wars name that fit!

Yaddle is too perfect, I love it!!

 

[Lilithlee]

This story does nothing for my intelligence, but I'm going to tell it anyways.
I originally named Kingsley Sasha beacuse in Russian it's a boy name and in the USA it's a girl. I figured I was covered either way. ( this was before I knew he was a boy.) However, in a within an hour I could not remember what I named him. No really I couldn't! I sent the whole day trying to remember. It never came back to me, so, I had no choice I had to re-name him.

I got Kingsley from Harry Potter and Doctor who. The actress that play River Song( a character on Doctor who.) is named Alex Kingston. And then there Kingsley Shacklebolt for HP.

A few day later I remember what I named him, but it was too late. He was Kingsley.

 

[pzowt]

My little guy was originally named "Tchaikovsky", after my favourite RUSSIAN composer... but that name quickly became a mouthful lol.
Now he has a first name. I dubbed him(/her) after my (current) favourite band to listen to... Beatle. (Plus the size of his hatchling body looks like he could be a big beetle lol)
...Beatle Tchaikovsky. Woot for good music!

 

[Angi]

Bob liked to bob his or her head when I petted it. Shelby had a deformed ( now fine) shell when I got her/ him plus I like the name. When I got Trudy I posted her picture on F/B and asked for help naming her. Someone said Trooper and it hit me that Trudy was her name. Waldo is our new boxie. For a long time he didn't have a name and I called him Big Boy when I talked to him, and I still do. But Big Boy is kind of a lame name even if he is a big boy. So I decided that Waldo fit because every time I feed him I play where's waldo. As anyone with a boxie knows they like to hide. For me everything has to have a name and the name has to fit.

 

[DixieParadise]

Let's see...I was the 3rd owner for Gypsy, who had no name up until I named him. I was going to call him Cracker Jack, because he had been passed around a lot, but decided Gypsy would be easier.

Iago, I wanted to named him something Brazillian or Spanish....so I got a book of baby names. I just liked how the name flowed.

Olivio or "Ollie", I really liked the name Olive. But because he/she is Brazillian I thought it should have a Spanish sounding name. Olivio, is not how you Olive in Spanish, it is aceituna or olivo. I just added the "i" before the "O" to make it flow better. But it doesn't matter, because I call him/her "Ollie"

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

ok squirtle because pokemon rule and well its a turtle so its sorta close to a tortoise lol
ivy because its a girly non person name lol

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ok squirtle because pokemon rule and well its a turtle so its sorta close to a tortoise lol
ivy because its a girly non person name lol

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ok squirtle because pokemon rule and well its a turtle so its sorta close to a tortoise lol
ivy because its a girly non person name lol

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Must be an echo in here...here...here

Jennifer was named after my first tortoise of many years ago, Ophelia got her name by a poll I put up (and her name got the most votes), Apollonia was a really great suggestion from one of the good folks here, and Ptolemy was a recycled name that I liked a lot.