How Did Your Piggies Get Their Names?

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After planning to get a pair of female piggies, I ended up with two boys (apparently there is a female piggy shortage in cheshire - rescue and otherwise!). Now I have ALWAYS had females so this pair are a new experience for me. I have however come up against a problem, naming!

One piggy is tricoloured and the other is black with some chestnut roaning and a few white hairs in between his ears. Both are about 5months old and we aren't sure if they are brothers or not but have been together since they were little. Both are typical English short hair.

The black piggy has been named Cwtchy on request of the boyfriend, I need to name the other before he gets named after a football boot (don't even ask!).

Not particularly after recommendations, but I'm interested to know how you named your buddies :)
 
With mine the names just came to me after I met them. Maybe that will happen to you too. My boar, Mooli, is white so my boyfriend named him after the vegetable but I named the girls.
 
I named mine after characters from different shows I've watched and enjoyed.
 
Mine all have "proper names" apart from Coco and Crunchie, who arrived with their names and they kind of stuck.
Rodney came with his, apparently named after the piggy from dr dolittle, but Benji's name came about as my sister wanted them to be Ben and Jerry, but I liked Rodney's name too much by then (Benji was Gantu before he arrived with me) thus we spliced the names together to get Benji.
A lot of the time we just play around with names to see what fits. Monty was Montgomery from the moment I saw him, goodness knows why! So his partner in crime had to match... and so Humphrey came into existence :D
 
My granddaughters insist on naming all my pets and for some reason they always have food on their minds. So my female pooch is Oreo and my 2 piggy boys are Peanut Butter and Hazelnut.
 
Ripley was named after the character in the Alien movies, and Winnie was named after a character in a show I used to watch all the time called The Wonder Years :).
 
I named one of my pigs Gizi because my grandma's dog is also named Gizi or Gizmo and I think it just really suited her! Honey had her name when we got her, Honey is also called Mizi hint hint... I like to call them Mizi And Gizi! :D Good luck in finding a name!
 
i just see them and a name just seems right. when i adopted chesney, his name was ginger. seeing his pic i wanted to call him chester. when i met him, it didn't seem quite right so he became chesney. maisie didn't have a name at the rescue and from her pic i wanted to call her mabel, but then it got changed to maisie after meeting her! so i generally get an idea. and i always get an initial that they suit.

eddie was called dandini in rescue but meeting him, he had to be eddie! and mollie was called treacle when she arrived, and i couldn't decide between treacle and mollie. she looked like an 'm' initial though. :))
 
It was my husband’s turn to name my new boys.

Originally I got Telford to be a companion for my old boar Moriarty (my avatar pig) who had been left on his own after his brother was PTS. The plan was after Moriarty passed away that young Telford would be neutered and then I’d move onto keeping girls rather than boys to prevent the ‘lone boar’ issue when one of a pairing passes on. So as he was to be my ‘bridging pig’ my husband decided to name him after Thomas Telford that famous Victorian engineer.

I then found this website – was really put off the idea of neutering and found out about boar dating. So Telford went to Windwhistle Warren and found himself a younger friend. We had to continue the theme of Victorian engineers… so that’s how young Brunel got his name. It helps he’s got a brown mottled coat so we couldn’t really name him after anyone else. No top hat as of yet though. :)
 
Pixel and Widget were my attempts at getting my husband to take an interest, as he's a total techie. It didn't necessarily work, but the names stuck anyway! Thor is named after the Marvel character, with his long flowing locks (bum hair...!) and mighty rumblestrut :luv:
 
I think I've decided to call the second piggy scamp, I just need to have another proper look at him in the morning to be sure!

I'm not in tonight but the boyfriend (originally apprehensive, now obsessed!) Says that scamp (?) Is becoming quite confident already!
 
We had Pitch and Putt who we got shortly after a game of golf. Then we had cookie and treacle who were already named by Walsall RSPCA and we felt it would be confusing for them if we changed their names.

Megan was Megan. She'd already been named by Walsall.
Then we had two from Walsall who we got to name and it proved difficult and we went through lots of ideas, I really wanted mucus and phlegm but Mr SB said no. Eventually we settled on Vimto and Sarsaparilla as we liked a drinks theme.

Widget was thrust upon us by Vicky at Walsall in a heavily weighted foster agreement that failed. She went through many names such as Tulip, jemima, puddle and others but none suited. For quite a while she was just the baby till by chance we got to widget.

Scamp sounds nice.

@Tewdric i love ikb and Thomas Telford, I thinking Brindley for our next one now.
 
Peach because she's the lightest of the little ones, Scout because she's the bravest/most curious, and Larkin because I really like the name (she was going to be called Roo/Rue because of her escape attempt just hours after collecting them!)
Mama pig was called Pearl but I renamed her Clementine as she's got a lot of lemon/orangey fur
 
i used a name generator online to name wicca, and turtle is turtle cause she like to turtle around (she likes carrying her house around on her back, and sticking her head and feet out the sides)
 
Celery came from a guinea pig I was looking at for years before I was allowed to have them.
Cinnamon came from the cinnamon go faster stripes on her hips (she was a mix match harly)

Felcitiy - I am not sure, where it came from. I think its cause there was some kendal mint cake lying on the side when I first met her. Her nickname, Flip flop, comes from the uneliqent way she lies down and covers her self with sawdust
 
Second piggy officially named scamp :) they are settling in nicely but we are going to move them into the shed today, getting quite cold at night already
 
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