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I don't name horses on here very often unless they are special. They get a prefix and they are good to go. In real life, my family breeds goats. When we name them we sometimes pick a theme by year (air force planes, celebrities/performers, flowers, historical figures, scientists, etc).

The other thing we do is base the names off of the dam so we know which kids belong to who. For example, Chili's quadruplets this year were named Malabar, Sriracha, Wasabi, and Habañero. Mars' babies were named Sojourner and Curiosity after the two Mars rovers.

You can also go off of holidays! We had twin doelings born this year on International Women's Day, so they were named Rosie and Riveter. The two bucklings born on the Ides of March were named Julius and Caesar.

Gen and if they pass SBA, Part of sire's name + Part of Dame's name unless they strike me as needing something completely different-usually on a theme. Then any genes I'm tracking.

Show horses desig by SH then name.

Yeah I can't name anymore and anyway I want to know what gen they are and whether they have frame or white in them so as I don't put them in the wrong pasture! Only some studs have names although I keep the names other people have given them if they were not bred by me :)
In the past I went for lines of a song and just give each horse a few words of it - that was fun :D

This are all good ideas! I use my personal notes section on my home page to keep track of names I like and I try to remember to add and delete as needed...

I have a whole folder of websites I use for different lines.

In some lines I am using Tolkien Elvish based names and have an Elvish dictionary bookmarked to find new translations of names there.

My Thunderstruck line is all AC/DC song titles.

My mushroom line is partially using mathematical and scientific things that use the Greek letter mu as a symbol. My mushroom tattoo is a silver Mu.

Other than that I usually try to name my stallions something interesting that I can riff off of. I try to combine sire and dam names in some way in those lines that don’t have other themes, but obviously this can get repetitive, especially if I’ve managed to use stock from my homebred foundation lines for several generations...

For foundation mares I tend to try to use inspiration from things around me like Song and book titles, everyday objects, or if I’m traveling, things we have seen or done on our trip. It’s not unusual to see a bit of a create spree in my foundation lines where you can tell I named a batch of mares together!

Although I don't actually name mares much, I do name stallions, and I have a lot of them!! I also try to have something in the mares name that clues me into their sire's name. It's so I can grab group of them from a drop down menu and know what stallion I can put them too without opening their page.

So stallions will follow some sort of theme from their sire, sometimes even a combination from sire and dam line. So will the mares when I name them. It helps to have some sort of theme, even if they are just starting with the same couple of letters! Some of my themes can be rather obscure sometimes, just so I don't get repetitive, that even I forget the connection LOL!

Foundations mares are simply named something that clues me into their colour, or what rank special they are. Again so it makes choosing them from the drop down menu easily

PREFIXES (which are followed by the gen number):

B - Basic Betches
N - Nacre
M - Macchiato
W - Watercolor
R - Wrong Warp
X - Nexus
G - Axiom Green
C - Chinchilla
A - Auction
P - Possible
s - Sell
UB - Uneven breeding/Bootstrap
RS - Rank Specials
SRS - Special Rank Specials
No prefix/FSF - Showing horse only
FSFL - Liver Army Member

I don't tend to do a lot of line breeding (I like to mix it up to get surprises - hence my username), so I don't get any more complicated that really.

NAMES:

Show ponies usually get snippets of song lyrics or phrases from things that I'm reading.

Breeding ponies are a bit more complex - for my favorite studs, I try to have all their breeding offspring names include one specific phrase. For example:
Two Thousand and Two has the word 'Two' in most of his breeding progeny names.

This way I can kinda follow who has sired who (just for fun, since I don't line breed a lot):
Gen 1 W1 Third Times the Charm - "Charm"
Gen 3 Offspring of Third Times the Charm - W3 The Charming Appeal - "Appeal"
Gen 4 Offspring of Third Times the Charm - W4 Combustive Charm - "Hot"
etc etc

Then once I have the key word from the sire, I try to include the dam's name as well. Example: a horse out of W4 Combustive Charm and W4 Meteoric Magnetism is named 'W5 Flaming Hot Meteor.'

It's not a perfect system, I don't strictly follow it, and it's getting a bit muddled as my lines get to higher and higher gens. But half of the fun I get from this game is playing around with names! :)

My breeding horses have all kinds of gene suffixes so i can search by them.. Like "mu" fir hrt musroom snd "MU" for hom mushroom. Add genes like DP, kp, snowflake, pearl, silver, white 10... And theres not a lot of room left for names!