It started in 2003 with our first lambing season – what were we going to name them??? That particular year we named the boys after trees and the one lone girl after a flower. I had so many flower names that I didn’t get to use, so I used the same naming theme in 2004.
Violet
Birch
The theme for 2005 was cartoon character names – kind of obscure ones 🙂
Rafiki
2006, 2007, and 2008 were the years for car names – very fun!
Lancer
Last year was a year we all needed a little inspiration – so we had Hope, Joy, Bliss, Grace, Dignity…
and Serenity.
I had a really hard time with a theme this year – how could we have lambs with no names???
Luckily inspiration hit days before the first lamb arrived – Cities in Oregon!
So far we have Sublimity, Echo, Amity, Wren, Unity…
and Paisley the cutest lamb EVER 🙂
I’m looking forward to some boys so that I can use – Ironside, Granite, Dundee, and Gaston.
Then there are the names that I will know who they belong to as soon as they are born – ZigZag, Rufus, Dufur, and Boring!
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Great ideas! I did a post on naming lambs tonight, too. I WAS going to put up my working list, and then decided that was overkill….
Hey, what about Scio? That’s a small and charming town near you, plus a host of other small towns around there with biblical names. I love that area of Oregon and have relatives there. We have visited frequently. Beautiful lambs!
OMG Paisley is cute. She looks like a cute stuffed toy. I was going to go with a theme also but I have written down over 200 names over the past years that I really like so I’ve decided to go with my list instead. And I’m saving the “special” names for the lambs that I will be keeping. I think it’s fun to name lambs.
Delena Oregon is a nice one.
Okay…you are right….Paisley IS the cutest lamb I have ever seen! You win! And BTW Salem = City of Peace!
Scio, Salem, and Delena have all been added to my list – thanks! I had no idea that Salem is the city of peace.
Ah yes; Salem is a Hebrew word, from the Bible!
Paisley is adorable. We have a BFL Paisley. She will be due in April I think. I’m not sure about “Boring” though. Do you really want to name one that? I think it doesn’t bode well for that lamb’s future!!
I happen to love the name Boring… Too funny and would be a good one for a lamb you know is wether quality. 😉 Maybe one with too much white?
I’ve still not named my lambs – I’m having a hard time this year. I think I need a theme. I’m thinking shoe brands… We’ll see. 😀
My thoughts exactly Joan! We all get the ‘boring’ lamb 🙂
Shoe brands would be fun! Good luck.
I like the city names. One year I named the lambs after cities in the states where the mothers were born.
Besides the Georgia names, I had Saluda, Raleigh, Waukesha, Durham, Ravenna, Shelby and so on. It was fun going through the atlas to find cities from other states. And there are some very interesting names.
Shoe brands would be unique!
Oh, I love hearing about the naming of lambs. How clever. And yes, that IS the cutest lamb. What a sweetie.
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