What do yall name your animals

PerfectionWhaleFarm

Farmer
It really depends on my mood.

Some saves I just pick the best sounding auto-names lol.

Other ones I named them after a theme I was going after for the whole farm (Was going for a Kubera-inspired theme with mushrooms everywhere and the animals are just named after Suras with similar clan characteristics)

Another save, I just give names that felt right at the time, no theme or relations.

Currently for Lil Quackers farm I'm going a bit personal and giving them original names with the same first letter (Cows all have M- names, Blue Chickens all have B- names, Void Chickens all have V- names, Pigs all have C- names), since this Meadowlands save dedicates the farmer to animal raising.
 
MogBeoulve

MogBeoulve

Local Legend
I used to do this thing where all my cows had names in alphabetical order starting with Bess that were four letters long - one of the old gameboy Harvest Moon games only gave you four letters. This is why I sometimes have a cow named Cloe, even though I don't have a character restriction anymore.

For a few games I have named my rabbits after IRL rabbits I have had - I do a lot of fostering and rescue, so I have a LOT of rabbit names at my disposal. Except then I'd forget which names I had already used, which was embarrassing, so I stopped.

My latest farm is all scientific and everything. The cat is Felis, the dog is Canis, the horse is Equus, and the rabbits all use the periodic table of elements for their names. I'm up to Krypton. (The other coop animals and all the barn animals all have random names, although since I only have one goat and one pig, I could rename them Capra and Sus respectively.)
 
ISSsloth

ISSsloth

Farmer
In the past, I've named my animals after characters from other games or shows, or just whatever I think sounds good at the time. This has led to some pretty inconsistent names. (In my old save, most of my animals are named after Smile for Me characters, since that's what I was playing around the time that I got a lot of my animals, but my sheep are named after Shaun the Sheep characters. I also have a rabbit named Rice Pilaf, and I can't fathom what that one was meant to be a reference to.) In my new save, since I have a theme in mind I might do something based off of that, or I might continue naming them after existing sets of characters. Who knows.
 
jaebuh

jaebuh

Greenhorn
I have two cows, one is Chicken Leg and the other is Pencil. I have a goat named Goat. White chicken names Wapa, void chicken named Garbanzo, and a bunny named booty. Dog named Scratch, cat named Smelly. Very creative, I know.
 

Ereo

Helper
MogBeoulve said:
I used to do this thing where all my cows had names in alphabetical order starting with Bess that were four letters long - one of the old gameboy Harvest Moon games only gave you four letters. This is why I sometimes have a cow named Cloe, even though I don't have a character restriction anymore.
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I used to use different abbreviations of Elizabeth that had a maximum of four letters - so my cows would be Bess, Beth, Liz, Elli etc.

Now, I sometimes use a theme, but the more animals I get, the less I follow through so mostly they end up with auto-generated names. The generator has a few names that end in -bella and usually those go to my rabbits.
 

Maher

Farmer
Trixie's been naming coop creatures for moons of Jupiter, goats for car parts manufacturers, and cows for cheeses. The Ostriches are Thing n, and her pig's name is Snowball.

All of Paddy's rabbits are getting their names from Watership Down, the Dinosaurs are Venus (egg from a fishing chest) and Hephestia (egg from Skull Cavern). The void chicken is named Vanta (witch event egg) and the white chicken is named Bobo (egg from the raccoons). The Ostriches are Karka (Hebrew for ground, because this egg was dug up from the secret note) and Arona (Feminization of Aron, the Hebrew word for "chest" because this egg came from the tenth floor rare chest when Paddy first reached the Caldera).
 
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VampireCake

VampireCake

Farmer
Cat: Mojo
Horse: Mr Ed
Cows: Buttercup, Marigold, Poppy, Clover, Daisy
Pigs: Porkchop, Mr Bacon, Hametta, Scratchings
Goats: Al, Agatha, Agnes, other 'A' names
Sheep: Fluffy
Ostritches: Ozzy, Ozma
Rabbit: Peter
Dino: Godzilla
Chickens: Ethel, Betty
Void Chickens: Vivian, Valerie, Victor, Voidemort
Blue Chickens: Iris, Bluebell
Gold Chickens: Goldie, Aurum
Ducks: Dave, Davina, Dusty, Derek, Devin, Duncan, Dot, Dolly, other 'D' names.
 
MateoOfRiverwood

MateoOfRiverwood

Farmhand
Dog: for me, always a German Shepherd. Always named Bailey. Because my avatar. He is a good boy. Yes, he is.
Cat: have had Orange cat named Hobbes, and a Grey cat named Ashes.
White Cows: Brownie, Blackie (I was feeling contrary that day)
Brown Cows: Happy, Hippy
Goats: Gerta and Greta
Sheep: Floofy, Fluffy
Pigs: Greedy, Grabby
Chickens: Hokey, Pokey, Turnabout
Ducks: Ducky, Plucky
Rabbits: Hoppy, Amber, Sudsy
Dinos: Zilla, Roasty, Toasty
 
smellincoffee

smellincoffee

Rancher
Chickens: I use character names from Red Dead Redemption 2. Abigail, Sadie, Karen, etc.
Ducks: Donald or Daffy.
Cows: Various slang terms for breasts that would make a thirteen year old giggle.
Pigs: Usually named after politicians.
Sheep: I may just use the in-game suggested ones.
 
FilthyGorilla

FilthyGorilla

Local Legend
I have something like 200-300 chickens named "Chicken" (you can get duplicate names by renaming or by naming from the hatching menu)

After that I just gave up and started using the autogenerated names for all the chickens, it just wasn't worth it lol.

I don't know when it started but I also always name my pigs with the same naming scheme, something-orto
Brorto, Hrorto, Lorto, and so on, I've probably been doing it since 1.0 or something, it's basically tradition at this point.
 
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