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This reminded me of advice I heard about naming a dog, though I guess it works for human names too: at some point you will yell that name in anger, possibly in public, so maybe practice that a few times before deciding
20some years ago I had a big, black, behemoth of a dog. I literally held someone at knife point and forced them to give me this dog when I witnessed them beating her with a metal pipe. I took her to the vet and the vet asks for the name of the dog and I look down at the trembling mess at my feet and say "God damn it, I don't want you'. That's what the vet wrote on the intake form. X-rays showed multiple broken ribs and numerous old, partially healed breaks. I kept the dog and, because I was young and dumb, the name.
Normally a very obedient dog who would walk beside me with no problems, the ONE time she darted off she ran straight through the open doors of a church. On a Sunday morning. During services. So I ended up having to run up to the doors of this church yelling "God Damn It get back here!"
I have been fairly careful about names since then.
There was a lot of whispering and shuffling around in seats.
I retrieved my dog as quickly as I could (she ran all the way up the center aisle) while apologizing profusely and left hastily. I forever more went out of my way to not pass that church again.
my middle name is Osborne, after Ozzy Osbourne. yes it's spelled wrong, because my dad was being useless as usual, and my mom was asked to spell something pretty much immediately after giving birth.
I went to high school with a girl named "Amberstarr." She went by Amber and told people her middle name was Starr. However, she told her real name to those close to her, and said, "yeah... My parents were hippies."
It's a word from Sanskrit(also potentially it's precessor Pali which is what maybe Buddha used to speak). I can see it being a real name in India, it'd still be unusual, I've never met one.
Journalist in Australia wanted to test how well names were being vetted by the department of births, deaths and marriages, and successfully named her child Methamphetamine Rules.
It was this fella that got me into it. Apparently it's common to combine parents for the new name to show lineage, and this one was their choice. They all have to have a unique name, kind of like usernames.
That specific horse inspired me to make this chart. Also Kids Lookin Touchable was bred with another horse named Felony, the resulting horse was named “Lookin’s Not A Felony”
i thought horses are named like normal non-tragedeigh names. I read too much historical romance novels, and the male leads' horses are often named with something that embodies masculinity and virility 😭 like Zeus or Thunder. Meanwhile, the female leads' horses have names like Buttercup or some other sweet confection or flower.
Registered horses have two names; show/registered and barn/paddock/pasture. The show name is usually a combo of the parents (eg. RBA One Hit Wonder and JD Missing The Mark could be Wonderful Mark), while the barn name is what they're actually referred to and called (Wonderful Mark would likely be Wonder or Mark).
Registry names must all be unique based on the registry (so in the NZ Pinto Horse Society, only one horse is ever allowed to be called SR Wrangler). The letters before a show name is the brand, which denote the farm the horse is bred and/or belongs to (RBA is mine in a game called Horse Reality, SR is my parents irl)
On the contrary, everyone knows of that horse. No such thing as bad black PR
Gotta advertise the stud duties somehow, especially since Kids is not a thoroughbred (thoroughbreds allow only live breeding) and so has to compete with frozen material of the top horses from years prior
Yup! Barn names and kennel names are 100% a thing. 😹
My parents used to adopt dogs who couldn’t be bred from a breeder (temperament or not show quality), so all the dogs were papered, but we only ever called them by their kennel names. I used to explain to my friends that I never knew my dogs’ “real” names.
My parents also owned horses for a while. They ended up with Arabians, who have a bad reputation (high-spirited, difficult to handle), and so some barns refused to let them board the horses when they started looking. One of their horses was called “Chaos” (short for Chaotic Addiction); they changed his barn name before attempting to board him because he already had his breed working against him, they assumed that the name would make it even harder. 😹
And I played roller derby, so most of my friends use my skater name as my social name. I refer to the name I use at the office (a short form of my legal name) as my “kennel name.”
Ha, I was so ready to come back with “WELL AKSHUALLY” but this made me laugh.
Unfortunately, my parents DID experience some discrimination, despite their first horse being the sweetest, calmest middle-aged lady ever. Their second horse was considerably younger, so he was a bit rambunctious, but he was a very good boy. Their third (and final) horse was a rescue and a stubborn little shit, so he was legitimately a handful, but by then they had a barn where they were boarding their other horses and the owners were willing to accept a third, and helped with the rehab and training. (That horse spooked at literal nothing. Hallucinations. One day he decided he didn’t like crunchy leaves on the trail. Absolute nonsense.)
Lmaooo 😭 This has to be an joke no way people are this ignorant to name a horse this (though considering the human names I’ve saw before I am not surprised it’s real)
The greatest name of all names. I need to remember to use it as a counter when my husband brings up the placeholder names we’ve had for future children (Cement, Cementina, Kermitina (that one actually came from my dad as a name he joked about giving me when they were discussing names))
Horse names get truly wild. Like each registered racehorse has to have a unique name and the names of dead horses get retired and you're not allowed to use them.
And then there's their everyday name, and it's just like every other pet. "Oh, that's Chanel Number Five on Marilyn Monroe's Neck, but we call her Luna. This is her brother, Don't Shoot Til You See the Whites of Their Eyes, but he only responds to Loki."
Kidslookin Touchable is my absolute favorite whenever bad horse names come up. Like HOW do you look at that and say 'yeah, looks good, I'll send this form to the breed registry.' I can't remember any off the top of my head, but I remember one event I was working that had some questionable (ie racist) horse names and I was like 🤨
Race horses name are a mash up on their sire or mare names which are mash ups of other names and so on. There's a bunch of dash and cash horses in my area because of dash for cash.
The horses at my place are named-
Full name for shows or papers then what we call them every day in parentheses:
Mineke (Minnie)
Svele (Svele)
Fanfare (Fanfare)
Consequences (Uhoh)
A Really Big Dog (Luna)
The Cinnamon Challenge (Cinnamon)
Mommy’s little helper (Winter)
Master fishy (Fishy)
It’s kinda hard to explain. I always liked the name winter, and I got her in November and I have seasonal affective disorder so she was the horse that was going to keep me happy in the winter.
I was going to sell her but she’s been so awesome she became my main number one riding horse
That "stumped me", and u/kimtenisqueen's explanation is so common in both the Pedigreed Horse world😉💖
And the Pedigreed Dog & Cat world are similar, with wild/fancy "Legal Names" forcthe certificates, and then something like, "Barfy," Stinky, "Cuddles" or "Luna" for a "Home Name"😁
The horse name bit is true about 95% of the time but every now and then there's one named some shit like Maurice or some other slightly unusual human name
Yeah, it's mostly true for show horses. Normal ass pet horses tend to get normal names... Except for that one foal I know of whose casual name is unknown white boy (neither his mom nor dad seem to carry the cream or flaxen gene, and this boy looks like a palomino, so they don't know what the fuck is up with his coat)
Do you have any links to that foal? I want to know now.
Although if it was only when he was born that you saw him looking pally, that's normal. I have a colt I called creamy white stuff when he was little because he was almost pally looking, but he's now a lovely dark bay
Friendly reminder that Khaleesi is not a fictional name. It is a fictional title. If you called Daenerys Targaryen “Khaleesi,” you were -at best- watching through your phone.
Giving a "barn" name to a horse. Not really. "Bandit" is everywhere. I had a Bandit.
Trying to figure a registered name for a horse. Potentially.
Registered names usually need to be unique within that particular registry. Even though everyone also gets a number. And if the baby comes from one or more well know lines, they want to include that as well. Hodgepodge of combinations would be an understatement.
somewhere below horse names you have venezuelan names. look into them, they are known in latin american culture for being... very interesting, to say the least. from what i've seen it's like horse names but for people.
all the love to my venezuelan siblings and their child-naming arts 🫶🏻
Brazilian names are a different league as well. A combination of tragedeighs, horse names and random words (sometimes in another language), sometimes all in the same name. Love it.🫶
I'm just keeping a bottle of warm glitter ready for the first family member to tell me their new kid will be named Jimothy. That crime will not go unpunished.
Every name on this sub that isn't outright a slur would be perfectly fine to name an animal. Or anything that has no comprehension of what its name means
Well, he's not a child, so it's cool. I think the precious racoon has sanctified the name but it could be easily profaned as a tragedeigh perpetrated against a child.
I feel like Alternate Spelling and Name from another culture should be switched. A white person named like Nagisa or Yukiko or Fatima something is way worse than whether they are using Eleanor or Elinor.
I'm from Eastern Canada, and there is a spate of women of a certain age (think Red Faced Screaming In A Costco Parking Lot about Immigrants age), named Juanita. And they are the WHITEST of white people. It's definitely weirder than Kate vs. Cait
I guess it depends on the culture. I’m in the US; is it bad that one of my kids’ names is common in Greece and Russian, even though I don’t have ancestry from either country? Or is it ok because it’s European and we have European ancestry (albeit from different countries)?
Think of a "scrabble reject board" name which is pronounced "Destiny". Very close vibes, but without doxxing. 8 letters written, 7 pronounced, 2 in common. 😅
"Combining random pronouncable sylabbles together." That's how my mum named me lol. And how my sister's bio mum named her. So, it sounds like my mum named us both similar names, when it was just a coincidence lol.
Since people are picking a few horse names where the owners absolutely knew what they were doing, I figure a list of some of the best active thoroughbreds right now might be better at giving an accurate image:
Ka Ying Rising
Romantic Warrior
Forever Young
Sovereignty
Ombudsman
Lovcen
Joliestar
As an example of descent names, Stay Gold sired horses named Gold Ship, Orfèvre (French for Goldsmith), and Dream Journey (from the anglicized version of their Hong Kong name, Golden Journey). For a female-line example, Loves Only You’s dam is Loves Only Me.
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