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Animal Naming Conventions

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Animal Naming Conventions	comment	When it comes to xenofiction and similarly minimally anthropomorphic animal fiction, to emphasise how differently animals think from humans they often give themselves names besides common human names. Often these names are descriptive of characteristics the animals have (like a black-footed fox named "Black Foot" or a lion with a scar named "Scar"). They can lean into Meaningful Names and are frequently a Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom. Sometimes, animals have a Rite-of-Passage Name Change ritual. Sometimes an animal will have two names: a "human" name that people call them and their "true" animal name. Compare to Law of Alien Names. Contrast to Stock Animal Name, which are names humans commonly use to address animals, and I Was Named "My Name". Sub-trope to Fantastic Naming Convention.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_120aef70	type	Animal Naming Conventions
Animal Naming Conventions / int_120aef70	comment	Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: Cats are said to have three different names, a family name bestowed by their humans, one name unique to them, and a third secret name "that no human research can discover, but the cat himself knows, and will never confess".
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_14f9297e	comment	The Far Side has a strip consisting of two panels◊, "The Names We Give Dogs"...
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_15bd4cf4	comment	The intelligent rats in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents take on names based on the first thing they read when they became smart enough to understand written words. Since most of them became sentient while living in a trash disposal pit beneath a wizard's tower, these names include things like Dangerous Beans, Sardines, Hamnpork, and Darktan.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_22d74b2e	type	Animal Naming Conventions
Animal Naming Conventions / int_22d74b2e	comment	Zigzagged in Redwall: For example, there are mice with names like Martin and Tim, and others with names like Cornflower and Gonff. However, the Always Lawful Good species (which includes mice) are usually more likely to have members with human names than the vermin, who are more likely to have Names to Run Away from Really Fast like Darkclaw or Bane, or madeup names like Kurda or Slagar. Additionally many characters tend to have surnames indicative of their species or some physical characteristic. Ie. Cornflower Fieldmouse, Colin Vole, Basil Hare, Ambrose Spike, etc.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_291294ed	type	Animal Naming Conventions
Animal Naming Conventions / int_291294ed	comment	This is subverted in Seeker Bears. Unlike the other Erin Hunter books, the bears have non-English but still human names like "Toklo" or "Ujurak".
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony: Ponies usually are given a Meaningful Name that somehow relates to their design, special talent, hobby, or symbol/Cutie Mark. For example, the original six ponies were Butterscotch, Blue Belle, Minty, Snuzzle, Cotton Candy, and Blossom. Until G3 broke the tradition partway through, all foals (even if they acted more like toddlers or young children), sans Lucky and Ember who count as Early-Installment Weirdness, were named "Baby [x]" (Baby Cotton Candy, Baby Firefly, Baby Winter Ice, etc). Most shared their name with their mothers. Sea ponies have sea-related names.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_34ea9163	comment	Pufftail from Stray (1987) is a cat who claims that cats have No Need for Names. He only reluctantly lets others use "Pufftail" for convenience's sake. However, pet cats don't seem to follow this rule and seem fine with their names.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_3ea35248	type	Animal Naming Conventions
Animal Naming Conventions / int_3ea35248	comment	Foxes in Run Wild are named things like Fang, Vickey (a play on "vixen", the term for a female fox), Old Sage Brush, and Black Tip.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_3f9dfc97	comment	In Louise Searl's The Way of Kings (2021), male lions have names ending in A or O, whilst female names end in I or U. Hyenas start life with a one-syllable name and add a syllable each time they achieve something, meaning they can have very long names. In the short story The Redfern Rats by the same author, rats are named after plants whilst squirrels are named after trees.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: The intelligent rats in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents take on names based on the first thing they read when they became smart enough to understand written words. Since most of them became sentient while living in a trash disposal pit beneath a wizard's tower, these names include things like Dangerous Beans, Sardines, Hamnpork, and Darktan. Discussed in Moving Pictures, when Victor meets a group of animals that have been rendered human-intelligent by the Magic of Holy Wood. When they explain that they don't have names, never having needed them before, he tells them about the kinds of names animals like them have in stories. They're not impressed. In Feet of Clay, some werewolves have "wolf names" that are the sort of names humans would imagine wolves have (Angua's parents Guye and Serafine are also known as "Silvertail" and "Yellowfang"). Wolves themselves do not have names like this. (Two named wolves appear in The Fifth Elephant. One has a scent-marker name which Gaspode translates as "Arsehole", and the other uses the name Gavin because "he once ate someone named Gavin".)
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_4991931c	comment	Subverted in Coraline. A cat character says that cats have No Need for Names. Thus he is only known as "The Cat" by Coraline.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_4a25ac6c	comment	Subverted in Varjak Paw. Varjak and his family actually just have Preppy Names that are seen as weird by the outside cats. Strays have human-esque names like "Ginger", "Sally [Bones]", and "Holly".
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_525c9c7a	comment	Dinotopia has both. Some dinosaurs have names from their own languages, like a Saurolophus hatchling named Gosnold, the swift moving, and Enit and Enots the Deinonychus, while others come from natural abilities and features. Thereâ€™s Highjump the Struthiomimus, Lightwing the Quetzalcoatlus Brokehorn the Triceratops (his original name was different, but he broke one forehead horn) and Bigtusk the mammoth to name a few. Names from nature show up as well, especially among Skybaxes (Quetzalcoatlus) and carnivores. Thereâ€™s Cirrus, Nimbus and Windchaser the Skybaxes, Copperjaw the Tyrannosaurus Rexâ€™â€™ and Stinktooth the Giganotosaurus'' among others.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_591e9935	comment	In Bravelands, different animals feature different trends in naming: Like in Warrior Cats with domestic cats, lion cubs are born with names like "Swiftcub" (following the format of 'mother's name' + 'cub'), however, like in Survivor Dogs, their adult names are single-word and unrelated to their cub names, being changed when they reach a certain age and/or start to display distinct personalities. Lions tend to have names such as "Fearless", "Titan", and "Ruthless". Cubs get their names in a Naming Ceremony after they display a key characteristic. Lions have surnames and are named after their pride leader (and prideless lions are just called "[x] Prideless"). For example, Fearless' full name is "Fearless Gallantpride", even after his father Gallant is killed in chapter 1. Baboons have basic, nature-related names like "Thorn", "Grub", "Mud", and "Berry". They also have surnames based on their troop name or rank. Baboons in the lower caste have less refined names than ones in the higher caste. Elephants generally have celestial names such as "Comet", "Sky", "Moon", "Rain", and "Night". Vultures have flight related names like "Blackwing" and "Windrider". Spiritual leaders are usually given Meaningful Renames and are referred to exclusively by titles, such as the "Great Mother", "Great Father", and "(the) Starleaf". Rhinoceros' have rocky and strength related names like "Rockslide" and "Stronghide".
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_593cb16d	comment	In The Plague Dogs, wild animals don't have names. A fox character is simply referred to by the dogs as "The Tod" (with "tod" being what male foxes are called).
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_5b160f9b	comment	Child of the Wolves: Granite's siblings are predominantly named after things related to nature: Digger, Nugget, and Cricket. However, they were named by humans. Wolves have naturalistic names like "Snowdrift", "Ebony", "Roamer", and "Climber".
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_5d354f8	comment	Subverted in Red Dwarf. Cats have No Need for Names because they tell each other apart through scent.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_5e17f6cd	comment	The Animals of Farthing Wood features many cases of A Dog Named "Dog" but also has characters whose names are descriptive, such as Scarface.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_7bbc7a54	comment	In Tomcat Blue Eyes' Diaries, cats have descriptive names like "Blue Eyes" and "White Whiskers Rusty".
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_83d41855	comment	The titular race in Gargoyles do not typically have given names and identify each other by distinct physical features and a second person singular you in dialog. If they do have names, it is out of respect of the human that named them, but they tend to introduce themselves by "You humans call me..." for their names. Of course, this varies between clans. The younger Gargoyles choose names to help their new human friend, based on locations in New York City, where as the elder Gargoyle protests that he doesn't need a name like the sky or river, only to relent when he learns the river has a name (possibly still being a protest to the idea of having names all together). This varies between clans as the Avalon Clan do have given names (Most of them Biblical or Shout-Outs to Shakespeare) and don't understand the concept, having been raised by humans. The Guatamalan Gargoyles have names, but they seem to be limited to the four who hold special gems and are more titles to pass down than names. The London Clan all have names, but they seem to develop from teasing and nicknames. The Ishimori Clan also have names, but have a better relationship with the local humans, so its not sure if its given by the clan or by the humans.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_891a219c	comment	In The Land Before Time, dinosaurs refer to their species by descriptive names like Long Necks, Spike Tails and Sharpteeth. As for proper names, they zigzag between descriptive names (Littlefoot, Ducky, Spike) and names derived from their scientific names (Cera the Triceratops, Petrie the Pteranodon).
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_8e8a801	comment	Some of the animals in The Lion King lean into this. For example, Simba's name shows that he's a lion. According to a licensed book Scar was originally named "Taka" ("to wish", or "trash", in Swahili) before gaining his scar and renaming himself. This wasnâ€™t canon though and The Lion Guard named him Askari, then Mufasa nicknamed him â€œScarâ€�.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_8f794c68	type	Animal Naming Conventions
Animal Naming Conventions / int_8f794c68	comment	Wings of Fire: The different types of dragons follow different naming schemes. For example, MudWings prefer earth-related names like "Reed", "Clay", and "Marsh". This is lampshaded when Glory (who is a RainWing) disguises herself as a MudWing and others find her name weird. Generally, though, they're named after animals or natural features of their environments. The exceptions are NightWings which have descriptive names such as Morrowseer, Fierceteeth, Mastermind, and Moonwatcher.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs reveals that whales and dolphins are sentient and telepathically communicate with each other. They refer to themselves collectively as Great Ones and Little Ones respectively.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_90d45233	comment	In The Underland Chronicles most of the rats have portmanteau names like "Twitchtip", "Ripred", and "Twirltongue". And the bats have names from mythology, such as "Ajax", "Ares" (who is ultimately paired up with the character who the prophecies call "the Warrior") and "Aurora".
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_91b85995	comment	In The Bees, each caste is named for a different plant, such as Rose, Sage, and Teasel, with the lowest caste being simply Flora. An individual worker bee's name is her caste followed by a serial number, e.g. "Lily 500." Drones are instead named after trees, preceded by "Sir."
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_9acdda28	comment	Male rabbits in Watership Down have plant-related names like "Hazel" and "Blackberry" or descriptive names like "Bigwig" and "Buckthorn". Females instead have poetic names in untranslated Lapine, such as Nildro-Hain translating as "song of the blackbird". The most prominent of these is Hyzenthlay, which means "fur that shines like dew."
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_9f0dae2a	comment	Badgers in The Cold Moons use this trope to a degree. Many have naturalistic or descriptive names like Corntop, Greyears, Growler, Bamber, and Whortleberry. But then you have characters like Zoilos, Kronos, Titan, Harvey, and Vulcan. Buckwheat and Fern have a son named Beaufort.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_9f438539	comment	In Doglands, many dogs reject their human-given names in exchange for the dog names given by their mothers. For example, Furgul (who is named "Rupert" by his owners) meets a German Shepherd named "Dervla", whose owners call her "Samantha".
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_a1206fae	comment	Most characters in Raptor Red have species names, however the titular Raptor Red is named after the fact that she is a Utahraptor with a red snout. (It's explained that this is from her mental image of herself, because she has a concept of 'me', but, like most animals, no concept of a name.)
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_a80d906c	comment	The Book of the Named had both the Named, who did have names, and the unintelligent Unnamed, who rarely had names. One Unnamed did pick up the name Bonechewer, which originated as an insult thrown at him. Ratha was the main Named character and her daughter was Thistlechaser, showing a bit of different name styles. The hunter cats had a leader named True-of-Voice, although that was a title just as much as it was a name, since it was passed on to each leader.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_b29621f3	comment	In Feet of Clay, some werewolves have "wolf names" that are the sort of names humans would imagine wolves have (Angua's parents Guye and Serafine are also known as "Silvertail" and "Yellowfang"). Wolves themselves do not have names like this. (Two named wolves appear in The Fifth Elephant. One has a scent-marker name which Gaspode translates as "Arsehole", and the other uses the name Gavin because "he once ate someone named Gavin".)
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_b9252e67	comment	A Dog's Life: Dog mothers name their puppies after things that are important to them. Out of a litter of five, only two puppies survived: Squirrel and Bone. Their mother was named "Stream". Later on Squirrel befriends a dog named "Moon". A fox named "Mine" briefly appears, but it's assumed she named herself so it's unknown if all foxes have names like that.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Sun Princess, Winona refers to herself as "Faithful Student" because she considers herself extremely faithful to her owner Applejack (or "Sun Princess" as she calls her).
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_c564dcf0	comment	Discussed in Moving Pictures, when Victor meets a group of animals that have been rendered human-intelligent by the Magic of Holy Wood. When they explain that they don't have names, never having needed them before, he tells them about the kinds of names animals like them have in stories. They're not impressed.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_cec8635a	comment	Survivor Dogs: Several characters are named typical dog names like "Lucky", "Sunshine", or "Bella" because they used to be pets. Wild Dogs who were born feral name themselves either more simplistic, nature based names or names related to things dogs know. Pups are named within their first weeks and are given descriptive "pup names" like "Squirm", "Lick", "Yap", or "Nose". They're given their "true names" either by longpaws or they name themselves during a Naming Ceremony. For example, Yap was renamed "Lucky" by a longpaw, while Lick chose the name "Storm" for herself. The dogs in the Fierce Pack are named after weapons but they're an exception more than a rule and several were named by humans. It's mentioned that even some Leashed dogs reject the names that their owners give them, though this is uncommon.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_cfae4b52	comment	Warriors Redux has a strict naming system for Clan cats: All kits are given the suffix "-kit" while all warrior apprentices have the suffix "-paw". Clan Leaders are given the suffix "-star". Cats are given their prefixes by their mother. There are over 200 choices. Prefixes are chosen based on a kit's coloring and marking. They can't be too poetic sounding or too vague. They also can't be too spiritual and they can't reference death. There are only 25 potential suffixes for a warrior's name: -claw, -cloud, -ear, -eye, -face, -fang, -flower, -foot, -fur, -heart, -jaw, -kit, -leaf, -nose, -path, -paw, -pelt, -star, -step, -storm, -stream, -stripe, -tail, -throat, and -whisker. A suffix notes a cat's most notable trait, be it their skills, a personality trait, or their looks. A cat may be given a Meaningful Rename if their name no longer fits, such as if they receive a severe injury. Whether they change their name or not is up to the individual. To outsiders names like "Deadfoot" or "Halftail" are Unfortunate Names, but to warriors they're a mark of pride. It's considered a feat to survive such injuries with little-to-no issue. It proves the strength and adaptability of cats.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_d541257f	comment	In Raven Quest, the ravens, crows, and wolves have different naming conventions for one another. The animals refer to humans as Two-Legs, and to manmade objects with names based on what they resemble or noises that they make. For instance, an airplane is referred to as an airgrawl, while guns are referred to as firesticks.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_d888c467	comment	The Timbercats have slightly Tailchaser's Song-esque "first name, compound last name" names that fit their lumberjack theme. Their two leaders are Yumyan Hammerpaw and Molly Yarnchopper.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_db16b7a9	comment	The White Bone: Elephants are given simple names at birth, usually one or two words refering to to the circumstances of their birth, like "Date Bed" (born onto a pile of dates) or "Mud" (fell into a puddle). Bulls keep this name for life, but cows change it at puberty to a name following the format "She-[verb]", or "She-[verb]-and-[verb]", if there's already someone using the intended suffix. Other animals don't have personal names, just a species-wide endonym in the form of an adjective, and they refer to themselves as "this [endonym]".
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_db30cf92	comment	Like in Warrior Cats with domestic cats, lion cubs are born with names like "Swiftcub" (following the format of 'mother's name' + 'cub'), however, like in Survivor Dogs, their adult names are single-word and unrelated to their cub names, being changed when they reach a certain age and/or start to display distinct personalities. Lions tend to have names such as "Fearless", "Titan", and "Ruthless". Cubs get their names in a Naming Ceremony after they display a key characteristic. Lions have surnames and are named after their pride leader (and prideless lions are just called "[x] Prideless"). For example, Fearless' full name is "Fearless Gallantpride", even after his father Gallant is killed in chapter 1.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_dbba326e	comment	In My Pride, Pride lions use different naming conventions for males and females. Female cubs do not have names, being called "Daughter", "Sister," etc., until they come of age. After they take a hunting assessment and are deemed worthy full members of the pride, they are given a descriptive name based on their strengths or characteristics, such as Powerstrike, Sharptongue, or Longrun. Male cubs, on the other hand, are given one-word naturalistic or descriptive names such as Fire, Feather, or Proud. Should he successfully take over a pride, he adds the suffix "-mane" to his name, as the dominant male of a pride is called the Mane. Then you have Prideless lions, who typically have one-word names, the most prominent being Hover.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_dd9666b9	comment	The characters of Tumble Leaf are mostly named after plants, at least in the first season (Fig, Maple, Hedge, Pine, Buckeye, Willow). The notable exception is Fig's pet caterpillar, Stick, although he's named after a part of a plant.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_e3c0a3ff	comment	This Is Not a Werewolf Story is kind of an odd example, as the protagonist, Raul, often refers to his Shapeshifter Mode Locked mother as if "White Wolf" is her name. Somewhat related, they spend some time living with Raul's father, who bonds with them but never names them, just referring to them by their respective colors.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_ef43d610	comment	In Hunter's Moon (1989), foxes in England have names like O-ha, A-ho, A-konkon, O-sollo, O-mitz, and A-cam. Vixens have "O-" names and todds have "A-" names. Camio is the Odd Name Out because he's from an American zoo.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_f38f5664	comment	Many animals in The Lion Guard have Swahili names. Many, like Ma Tembo the elephant, are named for their species. The Night Pride use Hindi names, like Rani and Surakh.
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Animal Naming Conventions / int_f7f974ba	comment	Julie of the Wolves: Wolves think of each other with "names" based on signature characteristics (based on things such as their scent, appearance, or voice), which are sometimes replaced by or combined with the names that the human girl Julie gives them. This includes their viewpoint of Julie herself:
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