Anyone name their tarantulas?

[Lady Lilith]

I've named my first three, but I'm still looking for names for my two newest slings...
My female pinktoe's name is "Mittens", my young mexican red knee is "Nid", and my GBB is "Azul". Not sure what to name my curly hair or rose hair slings. However, my mom insists on calling the rose hair "Miss Muffet".

Well, let's see, considering I've had a rose hair, actually it was my very first T, and I dubbed her my "pet rock" as it NEVER MOVED NOR ATE... perhaps if it is a male "Rocky" and if a female perhaps "Piedras" (rock in Sp and for your curly hair, well, my first thought went with Rick's, "Curly", in honor of the three Stooges, however, if that doesn't suit you, perhaps "Chewie", in honor of the Star Wars Wookie P

 

[Lady Lilith]

I've named my first three, but I'm still looking for names for my two newest slings...
My female pinktoe's name is "Mittens", my young mexican red knee is "Nid", and my GBB is "Azul". Not sure what to name my curly hair or rose hair slings. However, my mom insists on calling the rose hair "Miss Muffet".

Come to think of it though, when it comes to the Rose Hair, "Miss Muffet" would be suitable Especially since in the nursery rhyme Miss Muffet was frightened away by the spider who sat down beside her, and Rose Hairs are notorious scardey cats, pet rocks most of the time, until they're startled, THEN they head for the proverbial hills, at least mine did Let a Dubia or cricket come anywhere near her and she bolted away like it was a bucket of water coming at her.

 

[Jesse254]

I like your Blondi's name "Mayhem". Mayhem mayhem or SOA "mayhem" reference?

Never watched SOA but some of the lady's I worked with love it or did love it.

 

[thesakedoc]

Omg!!! I had three curlies I named moe curly and Larry... But now died :-(

 

[hopeful_tarantula]

I think the reason I named my B. auratum 'Mystery' was purely because I am still not sure on his/her sex, so 'Mystery' just stuck lol. The other name I had was 'Pandora' as you never know exactly what your T might be...either completely calm...or completely insane lol.

If I do get another T in the future I'll probably think of another unisex name lol.

Julz xx

 

[Sophia Bailey]

Rick, that is just what I was thinking...

That would be funny!

 

[Lady Lilith]

Never watched SOA but some of the lady's I worked with love it or did love it.

Show finale blew the big one... but, anyhow....

 

[TheJuicyFruit]

I didn't even think about naming mine with SoA in mind...

Buddy, your new name is Sam Crow!

 

[hellknite]

Some of my T's names were Japanese inspired considering Japan as one of my adoptive countries.

P. cancerides - "seidou" - bronze
A. geniculata - "kaiju" - beast
B. albo - "kumo" - spider
N. vulpinus - "doku" - poison

The others I give english names.

 

[thesakedoc]

Getting a few more, not sure what to name them, any suggestions. I'm getting:
M balfouri
Two b vagans
P regalis

 

[Enn49]

I try to use names connected with the country they originate from, it's amazing how much you can learn while researching them. I named my Honduran Curlyhair after a Honduran river, the Coco, so when my 2 new ones arrive, hopefully Tuesday, they are going to be Jalen and Tinto.

 

[thesakedoc]

That's an interesting idea!

 

[DVirginiana]

I've been naming all mine after pagan underworlds. Don't even have a reason why. The G. rosea is Shebulba, the H. carolinensis is Tartarus, and the B. smithi is Hellheim.

 

[FaaFaa]

I love seeing what everyone names their Ts. I will eventually name all of mine but it takes me forever. Currently 7 of my 11 have names.

B. albopilosum is named Galena. We are beer brewers (hope that's OK to mention, if not I apologize) Galena is a type of hop.

GBB is Pixel because it is so colorful.

My 2 C. fasciatum are Dig and Dug because they are big burrows!

G. pulchra is Poe because Edgar Allen Poe is dark just like this T.

One of my G. rosea is Holly because she was a Christmas rescue.

My K. brunnipes is Ducky. All I could think of was a duck with it's cute pink legs!

I still have to name 1 G rosea (I'm thinking Thistle for this one since I have a Holly), 1 A. hentzi, 1 E. campestratus, and 1 Hapalopus sp. pumpkin patch.

I need to get these guys named soon. I have more coming as soon as the weather breaks!

 

[Frances Pauli]

Names, yes!
N. chromatus is Legs because she keeps a few poking out of the burrow for us to ogle most of the time.
G. pulchra is Beauty
Chaco girl is Savannah. (she came with the name)
Curly boy is now nameless. We name hoping for females. lol Poor guy.
Two rosies are Sakura and Usagi
and the five Chevron slings are still waiting for names, though one may end up with the obligatory, "Houdini"

 

[NYX]

My T's names
G. rosea - Nyx
Lasiodora parahybana - Lucretia
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens - Borealis

 

[OkayRed]

I just got my son a juvenile Lasiodora parahybana. We call the spider Rick James. I'm not sure if Rick James is male or female.

 

[Tyler Kuykendall]

I have a G. rosea named 'Rosebud' (reference with 'rose' as a syllable to the AFI's favorite American film), a B. albopilosum named 'Mosemary' after the Labrador that my brother and I played with in our old neighborhood when we were little (actually 'Rosemary', but 'Mosemary' sounds more youthish when I talk to my pets), a N. chromatus named Aragorn (female, but an inside joke with my mom who named our male cat 'Sue' after the Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue" - a girl named Aragorn, nerdly masculine), a L. parahybana named 'Jessica Griffith' after my brother's arachnophobic (ex-)girlfriend and a H. sp. "Columbia" named 'Sally' after the love interest of the Pumpkin King.

 

[FaaFaa]

Tyler, you have a nice little collection going there. The names you have are great!

 

[thesakedoc]

I had a Larry moe and curly once - the curlies... Mo didn't make it :-(