
May 29, 2009
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Sometimes people ask Uzzi and me how we got our names.
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Mom gave them to us. There aren’t any Spots or Nannys at our farm, Mom likes really unusual names.
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Some of us have Star Trek names. That was my mom’s favorite TV show.
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She especially likes Klingon names for us noble-looking, Roman nosed Boer and Nubian goats; I’m General Martok’s namesake and K’ehleyr is named for a Klingon lady named K’ehleyr.
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Bible Names
Uzzi’s name comes from the Bible; that’s a good place to find unusual names. (Uzzi means “My valor, my courage, my strength.”)
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Mom finds us Bible names in the online version of an old book called Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary.
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Aiah the ox has a Bible name too.
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So do the big, pushy Boer packgoats, Salem (which mean “complete or perfect peace”) and Shiloh (which is the name of a city which mean “peace; abundance”). (Though, Dad sometimes calls them Sodom and Gomorrah).
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Movie Characters
Some of our names are from movies, like Morgan the Goat’s (an inkeeper from the “The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain”), and Meegosh and
Some of our names are from movies, like Morgan the Goat’s (an inkeeper from the “The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain”), and Meegosh and
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Kiaya’s from a movie called “Willow.”
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Book Characters
Or books! Like our black ram Rumbler and his half-sister, Wren, whose names are from People of the Masks.
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And Fayre our Portuguese Water Dog is named for Fayre, the ghost child, in Sharyn McCrumb’s The Rosewood Casket.
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Baa-rely Baa-rable
ÂMost of sheep have names that start or end with –baa, like Baasha, Rebaa, Shebaa, Baarley, and Baamadeus.
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She used to use ewe- names too (Ewelanda, Ewephemia, Ewedora, Ewenice, and Ewegenie).
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Mom likes to make people groan.
The Web Helps, Too
But the best place of all, she says, for finding names is a website called Names by Chinaroad.
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There are millions of great names linked from that website. Try it, you’ll see!
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Mom participates at a place called the Hobby Farms Forums where lots of folks discuss their animals’ names.
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Check it out and join in! Then your animals can have cool names too.