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I am still a newbie on here and was just wondering for fun...how many of you named your snakes
what are some of their names and how did you come up with them?

my kids all named ours for various reasons
Medusa
Baby
Junior
Dudley
Ebert and our new alb. nelson is too new to have a name as yet
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tangerine honduran "baby"
motley corn "ebert"
black milk "medusa"
snow corn "dudley"
ball python "junior"

i have named mine.

there is:
"wallace" the banded kingsnake male
"Tom" the albino striped kingsnake male
"jenny" the albino striped kingsnake female
"rocky" the great plains rat snake female
"queenie" the ball python female
"SN4" (short for snake number 4) the amel male corn
and finally "copper" a yearling mexican bairds rat snake female

pretty original names for snakes i think lol

well, Hope was my first snake and I named her Hope because I hoped she wouldn't die . Kilo and Road Hog WERE my brothers snakes so he named them, my 2 new rats are name Chunk (off of the Goonies ) and Peaches (my fiancee named that one) so there are their stories.... Usually if you can find a solid theme, you can name 100 snakes!
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Redtail "Kilo"
1.0 Ball Python "Road Hog"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches" (Didn't name her!)

i just have the one so far but his name is Grissom. Yeah i know
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1.0 alb. okeetee "Grissom"
1.0 Pit Crew's Sun and Shadow "Vanyel"
0.1 CH Grey Castle Hot Tamale "Willow"

>>i just have the one so far but his name is Grissom. Yeah i know
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Grissom is cool.
CSI......one of the best shows on TV
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

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The names are all below, used the X-men series to name them, except one. My albino black rat, named him after the red headed kid Malakai, on "Children of the Corn", because he was pure evil as a hatchling. Biting anything and anyone all the time!! LOL
Brian
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RATS
1.0 Corn snake "Warpath" (KY locale)
0.0.1 Corn snake (KY locale)
1.0 Black rat snake "Havok" (KY locale)
1.1 Black rat snakes "Reaper and Mystique" (MO locale)
1.0 Albino Black rat snake "Malakai" (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Everglades rat snake "Deadpool" (Dwight Good stock)
0.1 Greenish rat snake "Rogue" (Dwight Good stock)
0.0.1 Great plains rat snake (TX locale)
1.0 Grey rat snake "Punisher" (White oak phase)(Dwight Good stock)

Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

The only one of my snakes that has a name is my Albino Burm. Her name is lil' puppy.
-Will

Our two are Nag and Nagena (the kids like Kipling). We also create "use names" for the babies, even though we don't keep them. The first year we had alpha, beta, gamma, delta,. . .for the first clutch and aleph, bet, gimmel, dalit . . . for the second. The next year we had George Washington through Bill Clinton (both clutches). This year we're going to use countries in Europe (if they ever hatch). We figure we might as well use something educational.
Corinne
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My first snake was Cosmo after Kramer on Seinfeld. After that, I decided to keep naming them after Grateful Dead songs. I figure that catalog will let me build my collection for awhile before I run out of names.
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0.1 Amel Motley Corn (Cosmo '03)
0.1 Baird's Ratsnake (Sugaree '04)
1.0 White Oaks Grey Rat (Tennesse Jed '04)
0.1 IJ Carpet Python (Cassidy '04)
1.1 Shepherd mix (Dylan 6yrs, Porter 1yr)

Lord Of The Rings
creamsicle: Arwen
motley creamsicle: Aragorn
creamsicle: Strider
Okeetee: Frodo
normal motley: Pippin
Amel motley: Gimli
Yellow rat: Smeagol
Bairds rat: Sam
Bairds rat: Rosie
Bairds rat: Elrond
used to have an okeetee named Bilbo

Then there is
Okeetee: Ariel (just liked the name)
Bairds rat: Laura (was watching Tomb Raider)
Stripe creamsicle: Stripe (unoriginal but easy...lol)
Cinnamon: Shana (saw the name in a book)
cinnamon: Swan (from a book "Swan's Song" )
cinnamon: Toast (get it? cinnamon toast)
creamsicle: Alias (from a book )
creamsicle: Katie (had a dog named Katie once)
creamsicle: Star (parents were STrider and ARwen)
black rat: Blacky (antother original...lol.. what can I say?)
normal: Sadie (don't remember where I got that one)
Anery: Bindi (from crocodile hunter)
anery: Pistol Pete (mean as a pistol when he hatched)
everglades: E2 (my second everglades...lol)
ghost: Lacy (pattern looks like lace)

a couple named after gods
stripe creamsicle: Apollo
anery: Odin
I used to have Hera and Zeus

okeetee: Doc (Okeetee = OK = OK corral = Doc Holiday = Doc)
ghost: Jacob (Jacob Marley)

creamsicle: Yoda (she has a perfect "Y" on her head and it made me think Yoda)

snow: Glacier
snow: Frosty
snow: Yeti
I think you see the theme there...lol

butter: Olio
butter: makhan (Hindi for butter)
butter: Venna (Malayan for butter)

I think that is about it

No more naming....lol

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes
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i like the STAR idea, that was original, the use the first 2 letters of the parents.
i also like the gods...odin......i thought about that name, but then decided not to, i think i have to much stuff in my house showing that i am wiccan
my screen name came from my 3 dogs i used to have i used the first few letters of their names
RAIner.... was a little pekingese, she passed last year...she was 15
SNOball..... was my other pekingese, she passed in 2000, she was 12...
K..... my chow chow i still have her, she looks like a big fat fluffy teddy bear she is 8 yrs old now
but that was how i got this screen name RAISNOK

is that shana from the elvenbane books?
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1.0 alb. okeetee "Grissom"
1.0 Pit Crew's Sun and Shadow "Vanyel"
0.1 CH Grey Castle Hot Tamale "Willow"

vanyel.... is that from mercedes lacky ?

mercedes lackey.....magics promise, magics pawn, and magics price

>>is that shana from the elvenbane books?
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I have read the Elvenbane books.
I knew I got Shana from a book (or series of books) but couldn't remember which.

That's like Alias, her name came from a Forgotten Realms series.

I read a lot of fantasy, horror and mystery/suspence. Or at least I used to. Hardly any time anymore.
Now I'm lucky to find enough time to read my Reptiles magazine when it comes....lol
too much time in front of the computer!!
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes
Available

my miami phase is named "naaza" a snake god from a cartoon

my common corn is named "degei" a snake god

Great thread, I like the fun stuff.

My hog is "Mahogany", lame but it works

My corn is "Maize", also lame but it works as well.

My Mex Rosy Boa is "Punchy", not as lame and I like saying it.
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0.1 Western Hognose
0.1 Common Corn
1.0 Mexican Rosy Boa

Maizey is a corn snake (Corn, maize. get it?)

Rex is a ball or "Royal" Python (Rex is Latin for King

And Ruby is a "Red" tailed boa (although not a true red tail - I just like the name).
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2.1.0 Kidletts
0.0.1 Ball Pyhton (Rex)
0.0.1 Okeetee Corn (Maizey)
0.1.0 BCI (Ruby)
0.1.0 Cat (Ginger)
1.0.0 Pughuahua (Ranger)

My gang are:

Jonah - Normal
Joshi - Orange Amel
Nilli (short for Vanilla) - Snow
Jemima - Normal
Pumpkin - Normal Stripe Motley
Lexie - Snow
Barney - Amber
Maisie - Bloodred
Minty - Sunglow (that's looking suspiciously like a very bright Amel as she grows up)
Mathilda - Caramel
Carmen - Ghost Motley
Tabitha - Caramel Motley
Archie - Butter Motley
Sunshine - Butter Motely

...and my one non-Corn, Flynn, the Huachuca Mountain Kingsnake.

RIP Treacle, my Amel Stripe, who died a couple of weeks ago as the result of an egg-laying accident.

This is a little late but heres a few.
Normal-Norma
Anery-Annie
Amel-Mel
Hypo Motley-Hillary and Hilda
Anery mot stripe-Angus
Snow- Lightning
Kisatchie-Dubya
Oketee-Oringo and Olathe
Diadem-Groucho
and the list goes on and on
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1,0 snow
1,0 amel
1,0 texas corn
1,0 aney stripe motley
0,1 normal
0,1 charcoal
0,1 motley stripe
1,1 oketee
1,0 hypo motley
1,1 diadem
4,5 ball python
1,1 dumerils boa
1,1 columbian red tail boa
1,1 green iguana
1,0 leopard gecko
1,2 dogs
freezer full of mice & rats

The male amel cornsnake I used to have (had to sell him when i moved last year) I named Copperfield (after David Copperfield) when he managed to 'disappear' in a 35 gal tank and I couldn't find him even after sifting through all the aspen shavings and removed the hides. Only had about half an inch of shavings over a layer of papertowel and I checked underneath the papertowel. Spent two hours searching the room the cage was in only to see my snake watching me from inside the tank. He did this to me again a few weeks later.

Lets see;

Mickey
Fido
Althea
Tiffany
Batman
Mrs. Clause(was Santa Clause, 'till she layed eggs)
Monty(everyone needs a Python named Monty)
Samson
Delilah
Dead (if this snake dies, I will rename him Fine, and name a different snake Dead. If someone tries to tell me "That snake is dead" I can say "No, that snake is Fine. This one is Dead."

Little Tweaker (one hellion of a hatchling)

and the rest of a clutch of baby corns who are still awaiting names.......

Corns:
Horatio (snow corn) - after the character in CSI Miami
Minerva (snow corn) - after a character in a book
Yin (hypo corn) - the Chinese symbol for the light half
Yang (normal sibling to the hypo) - the Chinese symbol for the dark half
Pekoe (creamsicle corn) - after the 'orange' tea

Redtail Boas:
Hiss - after Sir Hiss in Disney's Robin Hood (cartoon version)
Duncan - from MacBeth
Doc Watson - (already named when I got her from a friend)
Strider - Lord of the Rings
Freckles - covered in 'freckles'
Cheyenne - after the city in Wyoming
Cody - after that city in Wyoming
Annabelle - after Poe's Annabelle Lee
Arwen - Lord of the Rings
Aragorn - Lord of the Rings
Echo - a second pale version of one of the babies I produced in 2000

Colombian Rainbow Boa:
Hudson - after a character in the cartoon Gargoyles

Cuban Boas:
Morticia - after the character in the Addams Family TV show
Gomez - after that character in the Addams Family TV show

Dumerils Boas:
Cleopatra (Cleo for short) - the Egyptian queen
Logan - after Logan's Pass in Glacier Nat'l Park, Montana

Solomon Island Ground Boas:
Jasmine - for the plant (darn shame the snake isn't as sweet as the flower smells! lol)
Merlin - after Arthurian legends

Ball Python:
Eli - originally named Elizabeth by the previous owner, then found out 'she' was a 'he'

Burmese Python:
Josephine (albino) - technically she's my Mom's snake, but I keep her...I haven't got a clue why Mom came up with the name.

Coastal Carpet X Jungle Carpet Python:
Byron - after the poet

Coastal Carpet Python:
Silk - because as a hatchling her skin looked and felt like silk

Basically, the names come from all sorts of things.
Raven

Easy, one snake = one name

2004 motley sunglow from SMR = Habibi (arabic term of endearment, darling, lover, etc.) I belly dance and the term Habibi frequently shows up in the music's lyrics.

Ruby

Snow Corn is named Jubei (Ninja Scrolls/Japanese history)
Nile Monitor is Doctor Bizzarro, just thought it was a cool villian name.

Red Sided females - Ginger and Paprika
Ginger's one year old babies now know to be female - Buddy and Check (named by the children)
Colorless Red Sided Male - Nutmeg

Eastern Blackneck Females - Tiger and Cheetah

Amel Corn - Flame
Okeetee - Chili
Butter - Banana

Western Hognose - Kiki (reminded my husband of a Swedish girl he once knew!)

We seem to favor spices!

Joanna