1. June: she was born June first
3. His Majesty: also called 2X. Sickly, but incredibly spoiled. Barbara's lap has been dubbed his throne.
6. Kiki: after Kiki's Delivery Service
7. Mae: after the little girl in Totoro
8. Sophie: after the heroine of Howl's Moving Castle
12. Cleopatra: her eyebrows and eyelashes are very pronounced and lovely
14. Zibiah: means deer in Hebrew
15. Salsa: moves his feet like a salsa dancer when he's nursing
16. Kaylee: such a sweetheart, named for the mechanic in Firefly
17. Twitch: he seems to have a nervous tick in his entire head
18. Grace: because she's not graceful
19. Jade: also called Jadice, after the white witch in The Chronicles of Narnia (she's a brat!)
20. Lila: named for a certain Miss Goodwin. She's also a very pale deer
22. Little Lee: his ears often form an 'L' shape, he's a dark red fawn, and he's a lady's man
23. Izzy: after the wonderful soda. She also has a lot of spots that made me think of carbonation for some reason
27. Angel: one of the nicest babies ever, never sick, ate immediately, and has lovely blue eyes
30. Loca: she's crazy. Need I say more?
31. Esperanza: named for the flower and the character in Zorro
32. Olivia: the darkest deer we have, almost named her Olive instead
33. Chase: she likes to make you chase her
34. Diana: named for the Roman goddess of the hunt, because I felt like being ironic
35. Wren: she's the smallest deer I've ever seen, and also one of the feistiest (like the bird)
36. Shirley: named for Shirley Temple. Tiny, and the only curly haired deer I've ever seen
38. Athena: named for the Greek goddess, and also because she can be kinda cranky
40. Miss Scarlet: one of our reddest (and most dramatic) deer
41. Cinnabon: sticky buns... also called sticky butt, because her poo has always been super sticky
42. Trillian: named for Trillian Astra in The Hitchhiker's Guide. Her number is 42, I mean really, what did you expect :P
43. Ava: you know, I don't know why we named her that...
46. Fiona: we were going to name her Princess Jasmine, but then her poo smelled so bad we named her after the ogre princess instead
47. Clementine: she was super orange when she was born
51. Indy: she has such clear, defined stripes on her neck that they look like racing stripes
54. Holly: a very small deer, named for Captain Holly Short the elf in Artemis Fowl
56. Savannah: she is a lovely tan color; makes me think of an African serval, with her big ears
58. Alley: she was born in the alley between two of the deer pens
59. Maya: she has an incredible overbite that makes her look just like my dog Miaya
64. Juliet: a very pretty but difficult deer, with big dark eyes. Also a daughter of Romeo
66. Eowyn: named for the heroine in The Lord of the Rings
68. Tinkerbell: just as tiny and feisty as Wren, and because we all love Disney
69. Penny: a pretty copper colored little thing, I call her Miss Money Penny
70. Tay Tay: our second curly haired fawn so we gave her Taylor Swift's nickname
71. Brad Paisley: Aunt Dawn suggested I named a brown eyed cutie after my favorite country singer, so I did
72. Wendy Darling: because we were on a Peter Pan kick after naming Tinkerbell
74. Snow White: she has two white socks and two pink hooves
76. Nokia: it was Hallie's birthday and she got a Nokia phone for her birthday and was allowed to name one fawn, so she decided that the fawn should be named after her phone
77. Mister Rob: his tail was bitten off, so he's a bobtail. Rob is more subtle than Bobby
78. Victoria: looks just like His Majesty, so we decided she should be named after a queen
83. Flora: one of triplet does, the biggest. So of course we had to name them after the three fairies from Sleeping Beauty
84. Fauna: the second largest triplet
85. Meriweather: the smallest triplet
87. Iris: because she has the most gorgeous blue-green eyes I've ever seen on a deer
88. Liberty: born on the 4th of July
89. Amy Rose: (also called Hedgehog) named after Sonic's girlfriend because she seriously looks like a hedgehog.
90. Faith: named for Faith Hill, because we're on a country music kick
92. Nani: named for Lilo's older sister
93. Lilo: because she is small, whiney, and always acts lost (Lilo means lost in Hawaiian)
95. Toby Keith: because we're still on a country music kick
96. Evangeline: no particular reason, I just love the name
97. Aurora: because she acts like a little damsel in distress. Hence the princess name
98. Giselle: tall and blonde, named for the supermodel and for the princess in Enchanted
12Y. Clarisse: also called Big Mama, she's a big golden colored girl. Clarisse just seemed to fit
16Y. Alejandro: has a dark mask coming up from his nose, so we named him after Zorro
20Y. Neytiri: named for the heroine of Avatar, because she also has a dark mask that looks something like war paint
99. Joe: triplet bucks, named for the Jonas Brothers. Don't judge us, it just seemed to fit :P
100. Kevin: "
101. Nick: "
103. Lucy: named for Lucy Pevensie of The Chronicles of Narnia
107. Willow: because she looked like she was crying when she first came in, so we called her our weeping willow
110. Tully: named for Tully's Coffee :)
111. Latte: because Felicia was on a coffee kick, after discovering that she actually likes it
112. Mocha: "
113. Macaroon: she's a light, toasted coconut color. And macaroons just sounded really good at the time.
114. Luna Lovegood: named for the character in Harry Potter... and because she's a little weird
116. Celia: named for the receptionist in Monsters Inc. because Felicia and I started singing "Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me... so help me!" when Justin brought her in.
118. Guinevere: named for a certain queen and a certain Furry Eell
119. Zoe: named after Zoe in Firefly, and because Z is the last letter in the alphabet. Here's hoping she's the last fawn!
1 comment:
Fun! Thanks, Emmie, dear--I love names, and their histories:)
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