What are the most popular spider names?

[MrsHaas]

Had a male albopilosum several years ago, when I named my tarantulas, his ended up being Harry. Think it suited him well.

Harry, Larry... Same thing lol

 

[horanjp]

I can't recall seeing "Ungoliant" which comes from the same place as Shelob, ie. J.R.R Tolkien. Maybe it is a bit too unwieldy.

I also remember seeing that name used...perhaps in The Silmarilion. If I named my tarantulas that would be a unique substitute for the obvious favorite. Good one!

 

[Hydrazine]

I consider names like Shelob, or Rose-y variations for G.rosea/porteri, or Curly for B.albo criminally overused and cringeworthy.

I name mine on a whim and usually after giving up long, long fruitless thinking.
There's something about A.genics that springs a name "Ozzy" into mind, and I know that because I randomly encountered at least two separate people who also independently named their A.g. Ozzy.
Mine is starting to look like Sharon ventrally, though. (For those who don't know, Sharon is the name of Ozzy Osbourne's manager who became his wife later on)

 

[GG80]

I havn't named any of my Ts but as a sort of joke amongst friends when I got my first I reffered to it as 'Tranny the tarantula' as I didn't know if it was male or female. Turns out it's female and my friends refer to her as Tina but I never bothered with names.
BTW I meant no disrespect to the LGBT community by using the term 'Tranny'.

 

[wndurham]

I love reading all these posts! some great names! Shrike I about fell off my chair when I read your post about inanimate objects. Funny stuff! Right now I have an OBT named Malachi after the Children of the Corn character, an A. metallica named RuPaul, a L. parahybana named Bad Ass, a N. coloratovillosus named Morticia and a G. rosea named Ursala after The Little Mermaid character.

 

[truecreature]

Ugh now I have an urge to get a B. albo to name Larry. For some reason it's just so perfect.

As I mentioned in a previous thread I absolutely love coming up with names for things and they come from all over the place; fictional characters from books/movies/etc, food items, randoms, yes inanimate objects lol - Toaster in this case. Some have a little more thought put into them like my C. fasciatum Raya, which is supposed to be something like "stripe" or "line" in Spanish, the native language of Costa Rica/Guatemala where her species is from. Was also going to name my B. smith La Llorona after the Mexican urban legend but he unfortunately molted out into a dude.

 

[DVMT]

Naming spiders after inanimate objects is really popular these days. Lamp, coffee mug, lanyard, eraser, stapler, VCR, etc.

VCR??? Whats that? Haha!!

 

[PanzoN88]

Ugh now I have an urge to get a B. albo to name Larry. For some reason it's just so perfect.

As I mentioned in a previous thread I absolutely love coming up with names for things and they come from all over the place; fictional characters from books/movies/etc, food items, randoms, yes inanimate objects lol - Toaster in this case. Some have a little more thought put into them like my C. fasciatum Raya, which is supposed to be something like "stripe" or "line" in Spanish, the native language of Costa Rica/Guatemala where her species is from. Was also going to name my B. smith La Llorona after the Mexican urban legend but he unfortunately molted out into a dude.

the weeping woman, that is a interesting name for a tarantula

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

I agree, at least in regard to the Spanish version of it. Intrigued, I looked up the legend and found a good bit of info on Wikipedia. The apparition has also appeared on a few television shows like Supernatural and Grimm. I saw those episodes, but of course never made any connection, I thought it was made up for the shows.

Edit: I guess in the case of a male you could go with El Llorono, but it would not be quite the same, I suppose. It's been too long since the one year of Spanish I took, I may have not used the correct masculine form anyway.

 

[elliotulysses]

My first T is named Megan (;;;;
another rosea is Crazy
Jim the texas tan
and undecided my new p. cancerides

 

[BugMasterD]

Brown Recluse and Black widow.

Every ****ing brown spider is a recluse
Every ****ing black spider is a widow.

Just kidding. I think "Rosie" for rose hairs is, without a doubt, the most common name I hear for them. Near where I live, I feel as if that's the only tarantula people are willing to get. and 80% of them are named something with "Rose" in it.

 

[PRE66 6TART]

I named my first (and only) tarantula Sweetums, after the muppet who looks big and scary but is really just a big sweety-pie.

 

[PanzoN88]

I agree, at least in regard to the Spanish version of it. Intrigued, I looked up the legend and found a good bit of info on Wikipedia. The apparition has also appeared on a few television shows like Supernatural and Grimm. I saw those episodes, but of course never made any connection, I thought it was made up for the shows.

Edit: I guess in the case of a male you could go with El Llorono, but it would not be quite the same, I suppose. It's been too long since the one year of Spanish I took, I may have not used the correct masculine form anyway.

get rid of the o than it will be correct.

 

[truecreature]

the weeping woman, that is a interesting name for a tarantula

Yeah it's a little weird, but pretty and I like the connection to something creepy

I agree, at least in regard to the Spanish version of it. Intrigued, I looked up the legend and found a good bit of info on Wikipedia. The apparition has also appeared on a few television shows like Supernatural and Grimm. I saw those episodes, but of course never made any connection, I thought it was made up for the shows.

Edit: I guess in the case of a male you could go with El Llorono, but it would not be quite the same, I suppose. It's been too long since the one year of Spanish I took, I may have not used the correct masculine form anyway.

Huh, I didn't know she appeared in any shows. I'll have to check those out! If I'm remembering right there was also a low budget-looking animated kids movie on Netflix having to do with her.

After his molt I just went ahead and named him after a bean, lol. Probably going to end up sending him off to someone who can breed him later this year. It'll be sad but wasting a male would be worse.

 

[sschind]

The only two tarantulas I ever named were Charlotte (a female rose hair) and Kumonga (a female Chaco golden knee) The only reason I named them is because I use them in my shows so the kids always want to know what their names are. Everyone gets Charlotte but so far no one has gotten the Kumonga reference. I guess us Godzilla fans are few and far between. And yes, I did have a giant crayfish name Ebirah at one time.

I did have an ex girlfriend once that named all my spiders. She named them all EEEWWW!!!

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

Huh, I didn't know she appeared in any shows. I'll have to check those out! If I'm remembering right there was also a low budget-looking animated kids movie on Netflix having to do with her.

I've seen the shows I mentioned, but I cannot remember if they actually used the specific name for the entity, or merely based it on the legend. I THINK "Grimm" specified the name, but I'm not sure...

It also seems that there were a couple of movies made called "La Llorona" as well.

get rid of the o than it will be correct.

Ah, okay. I thought nouns ending in "a" signified masculine and "o" signified masculine, but it has been ages and I wasn't exactly a great student in the subject. Though I apparently absorbed a little more than I thought as a bit of it has stuck with me.

 

[awiec]

The only two tarantulas I ever named were Charlotte (a female rose hair) and Kumonga (a female Chaco golden knee) The only reason I named them is because I use them in my shows so the kids always want to know what their names are. Everyone gets Charlotte but so far no one has gotten the Kumonga reference. I guess us Godzilla fans are few and far between. And yes, I did have a giant crayfish name Ebirah at one time.

I did have an ex girlfriend once that named all my spiders. She named them all EEEWWW!!!

I actually named one of my red woods Ghidorah because it had three main branches/ "Heads"

As for spider names I only used them to teach my boyfriend and sisters what they are, giving them names I guess makes them less scary. Though my boyfriend named his P.metallica Miranda from the Devil Wears Prada as "she" was pretty and mean. Now it's a confirmed male and is very mean so I have taken to calling him Rowdy Randy. Though I have a T.gigas named Peekaboo as it will pop in and out of its cork bark when I pick up the cage.

 

[Formerphobe]

I've heard of multiple Ts named Fluffy, though I never used that for any of mine.
One of the conditions for me having tarantulas was that they all have pet names, otherwise they would just have numbers.
I picked names from various Sci fi books and TV shows or movies, musicals, and just random names.
Anne McCaffrey provided a wealth of names from her series of books about Pern - dragon and dragon rider names, place names, etc.
Some of my T names are: Ramoth, Faranth, Zaranth, Sorka, Madame Giry, Christine Da'ae, Jadzia, Nod (from Winken, Blinken and Nod), Aramina, Eowyn, Sassenach, Uhuru, Ruatha, Jenseny, Euphronia, Ariadne, Branwyn, Cerridwen, Dechtere.

 

[scott308]

Curly, Larry, Moe or Shemp...

What, no love for Joe Besser or Curly Joe?

 

[johnny quango]

My 1st ever t was a B albopilosum I nick named spike because of his bad hair day. My recently acquired B albopilosum juvenile is called Bob as in sideshow Bob. The only others I've nick named are my Gbb mango and my B emilia chilli