Naming - where to start!?

[pixie27]

So my soon-to-be new-ish horse is unnamed in his passport, and it’d be nice to give him a proper registered name. But he doesn’t have any recorded breeding, so I’m a bit stumped about where to start.

Where would you start? Stable name? Personality? History?
(I know pics should be compulsory but as he’s not fully mine yet, I don’t want to post too much about him online yet!)

 

[MereChristmas]

Start with names you like. Try them ‘ in your head’ ( don’t tell anyone ) for a few days.
If all else fails describe horse to HHO and then choose.
That is how I named my last 2?

 

[Lipglosspukka]

I would try and base it around his stable name.

What do you call him?

 

[Bluewaves]

I like a song title or name of book or film that you can connect to the stable name.

 

[milliepops]

I'd kick some names around if you want to but wait until you get to know him as then you will figure out what "fits". That's what I did with my 3yo who came without a passport name.

 

[pixie27]

Thank you! Love the song title idea. He’s called Paddy (and he’s an Irish pony), and I’ve known him since earlier this year so hopefully will know ‘the one’ when I stumble across it.

 

[J&S]

Look at his colourings/markings and see if some thing about them can combine with Paddy: Flash Paddy, Red Paddy, Paddy's Blaze ........ etc.

 

[Equi]

Are you going to keep the "Paddy" or change that too?

 

[Poingsettia]

You can also tweak his name to Padraig, or Patrick.

 

[Griffin]

I quite like to pick names based on their heritage e.g. an Irish name for an Irish horse. However, some horses just 'look' like a certain name.

 

[Caol Ila]

The HHO collective named my BOGOF foal. As he's an Andalusian, it was something Spanish. My (unregistered) Highland came with a name I could not live with, so I tried on the names of various mountains, lochs, and places around Scotland for a few days until I settled on one I liked.

 

[pixie27]

Oooh some great suggestions, thanks. He’s definitely staying as Paddy, it’s him through and through (plus my ex was called Patrick and it might be a bit odd…)

He has four excellent white stockings so I was thinking of something around them… but will do some digging into Irish history and geography and see if anything suits.