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Jazzy RagsWhere do all you girls get all the great names from to call your teddys i can never think of anything
Delartful BearsI usually just think of them. I have a book however, when I hear a good name, I write it down.
For my more contempory style bears, I use really daggy names, because my bears are daggy.
As for the antique style, I use names that are old fashioned.
Danni
Jazzy RagsYour bears are not daggy they are adorable.But i know what you mean
I've been thinking, lately, about names for my bears. In the beginning I used to just think...'Ooh...he looks like a...'Fred'....or she looks like a 'Betty'' ....But the more bears I make the more difficult it becomes...
A: Because I don't really want to replicate names...(I do have a record of used names..)but what's the form on re-using a name on a different bear?
B: Because neither do I want to end up picking names that someone else has picked because we've both been inadvertantly inspired by the same thing
Do any of you have a method...or a format for naming...or do you just wait for inspiration to hit you?
Jenny
( I didn't spot this thread before I asked this question so I deleted it and tagged it on here)
Bears-a-Bruin!If I get stuck for a name, I pay a visit to http://www.babynames.com/. Even though I don't have an exact name in my head I usually know the gender, and have some idea of initial letter, or meaning, or even the origin of the name I want (eg celtic, welsh and so on). Failing all that, I ask my daughter! 
West Sussex, EnglandI find bear naming so difficult. I guess I like to use unusual or old fashioned names and I try not to use the same name more than once. It seems harder to name my girl bears though.
If I come across a name I like I'll jot it down in a book but quite often I don't have a name in my book that fits the bear I'm working on. That's when I try the net. I type in 'old fashioned names' or ' German baby names'.
Sometimes I like to use surnames so I flick through the phone book where there's HUNDREDS to choose from. I get there in the end.
Look forward to finding out how everyone else chooses names.
I do like pet names for my bears...and odd sounding names....I like tree and nutty names...Like Hazel...and Hickory...and Filbert...I guess I like nostalgic sounding ones... I go on tree and plant websites for names...as well as baby and pet names websites.
I have noticed that some artists seem to go in alphabetical order....or pick a theme for the last few bears they made ...I don't think I'm that organised!!
Jenny
DoodlebearsI have the full collection for my next show and half of them don't have names yet. I'll have to get thinking soon. I've printed all the tags and signed all the adoption certificates all I need is a name for each of the bears. :doh:
Jane
Jazzy RagsI guest you could always look in the spice cupboard
Apple Dumpling DesignsI've decided to start naming my bears after all of you... :D
Okay...maybe not...I really liked Paula's use of characters from Dickens. For me...I toss around a few that come to mind immediately and then when he/she is all done...one name just seems to stand out....or at least so far.
Well...I'm obviously no help.
UKi just sit and stare at the bear until a name comes to me hehe
When I first started making bears I lived in my small home town. I wanted to buy a baby name book and I worried if I bought it at the local bookshop all sorts of stories would start, so I went to the city and bought one.
Someone I read about, maybe Jennifer Laing, suggested that say you call your pattern Bob - then all bears made from that pattern should have B names etc.
I haven't kept a register of what I've called my bears and I have probably doubled up in the past...now I do keep a list of every bear I make so that problem is less likely to happen.
At the moment all my bears seemed to be named after food...pumpkin pie, raspbeary muffin, plum puddin' and now ginger kisses....what does that say about me!!! I must be obsessing over desserts :D
oh - a good tip for polar bears - look at a melamute or husky dog site - they have great inuit names on there.
Most times my bears seem to name themselves if I wait long enough. Problem is when I really want it to be one gender and it insist on being the other. Then it is hard to decide a name LOL. :doh:
My kids like to help pick names too. I also look for baby names, or dog names, food etc. I like the phone book idea. I'll have to try that one !
Posts: 8,574OK Danni What's DAGGI?
OK Fran, I've got Tarragon- so the golly could be dressed in green and named Tarragon of Virtue :doh:
Or Cumin-
Nutmeg
Pumpkinpie
I'm getting hungry here......
:lol:
Past Time BearsI've used baby name books, the Dallas phone book (great resource!), and a map of the state of Texas (wow - some original names there!)
Back Road Bears1. My mom is always emailing me with name suggestions.
2. Spices, nature, pets, old fashioned names
3. I like to pick celtic names..... Irish or Scottish names...... cause them's my roots! 
4. Seasonal names.... Autumn Star, Teddy B. Elfin, Snowbeary Man, Cupid.......
5. Food.... Apple Crisp, Chocolate Moose, Caramel Cream
# 5 is my favorite and always makes people smile.
Posts: 8,574Low fat yogurt
Splenda
Chili and beans
Hamberger Helper
nUTRA sWEET
Arti Choke
Julienned beans
chicken chow mein
I think I need to call it a day......
The balloons are popped and the moons gone missing
:P
Mashed Peas
OK Danni What's DAGGI?
it's a classic Australian phrase (also used here). Daggy originally comes from "dags" which are the bits of the little bits of "matter" that stick to the wool round a sheep's backside. Hence Dag: eccentric scruffy person; a bit of a character. Daggy: something that dresses sloppily. It is sometimes used more extremely than that but we'll take it to mean that Danni's bears are slightly eccentric and defenitely have character. I'm sure Danni and Hayley can explain it better!
Check out this website for some more "strine" (aussie english)
http://ausslang.tripod.com/d.htm
I've used the Dallas phone book (great resource!)
Hey, I never thought of that! That DOES sound like a great resource book. Thanks for the super tip, Sue Ann. 
Posts: 8,574Peas
hops
grapes.......my spiritual tryptisch
Country BearsI always name my bear before he/she is even made, I've never been stuck for a name 'yet' :)
However, I have kept on at my best friend to give me her wonderful baby name book (it's huge and full of names from around the world!!) and she has finally backed down and given in................. She's into very 'different' names so I know it will be a fab resource for when mine dry up!!!! :dance:
Way hay!!!
Just Us BearsActually Melissa...you explained 'Daggy" far better that I ever could have! I don't tend to analyse what words mean...I just use them, and when someone questions it...I really have to think hard! The hardest ones are ones that don't even make sense to US, and yet we use them all the time!
Delartful BearsLOL it's funny how we all use terms that are second nature to us, but forget that our friends from other parts of the world might not know what we mean.
Danni
Rufnut Teddy'sSpot on with the terminology of "Daggy" Melissa :D
Fran, bear names, I often get ideas from magazines, songs, movies, reading etc. Or make something up, the kids also give me good ideas as well.
Hope that helps you out. 
I name the size of my bears....then I let the adopter of the bear name them. Since I like to promote the area I live in, I have named the bears after the Adirondack Park in my backyard.....Saranac (town and lake), Ampersand (mountain) St. Regis Cub (river), Lazy River (because that's what most rivers are, and this bear is a little lazy) High Peaks (High Peaks region of the Park) Cottonwood (tree) Northwoods and Southwoods (Northwoods is the Mama and lives in the Northwoods, southwoods the cub and lives south) Then there is Mac Bear that my husband designed, named for MacMaster, and his Celtic heritage......
