My first betta was a red female. I named her Rosie. I got my second he was blue, I named him Vye (short for Violet). My third I named Orchid. I didn't really mean for the theme it just kinda happened lol. Orchid will probably be the last flower themed name... who knows though. Theres a lot of cute flower girly names, but flower names for males betta aren't very eh, masculine...not that the fish know, but still.

 

My first bettas (when I was 6-9 years old) were all named based on what color they were. My first betta that my parents got me when I was 6 was purple so I named it Purples (i was 6, clearly not very creative).

Now, they whatever names I like? They tend to be more old-time names.

 

I named my first betta, Blueberry, by his color. (He was blue lol) and I named my second/current betta fish kinda randomly. I guess I originally wanted to get a different colored fish but ended up getting him instead. So I just gave him the name I would have given to the different colored betta(that I originally wanted).

Kinda confusing story sorry. I'm a pretty confusing person. Haha.

Anyways, I guess I name my bettas either randomly or by color. I don't think I would ever give them a human name though. They just don't seem humanly enough. LOL. :-D

 

When I got Dangerous, I wanted a Michael Jackson related name, so after mulling several over Dangerous kinda stuck. For Angel he was named because of his Angel wing like fins. Chili, because he's red. Oscar, well it just kinda stuck. Eclipse had the pending name Hershey that I probably should have stuck with. And Kip I had named while he was in the pet store. :lol:

 

I had Phil for a couple weeks before naming him. He ended up being named Phil because I was considering moving to Philly and Phil stuck. With Ruby, that was the first name I thought of but didn't really like it. I got a lot of good suggestions but that name stuck.

 

I've continued on a theme of using surnames that my family seems to have adopted for naming pets... generally we'd go for music/pop culture surnames. At the moment I have Kiedis. I'm getting a new betta soon (hopefully this weekend) so he'll probably end up with another music related surname, I'm thinking maybe Bowie, Cooper or Jagger at this stage, open to suggestions on this one, also have to wait until I actually get a fish before I pick a name!

Other pets that were named with this theme were Hendrix, Cobain, Houdini and Angel (after the character in Buffy).

I used to have goldfish when I was a youngin, I remember having Jaws I, II and III (all in quick succession of each other, they were your typical carnival fish that we had in a large but unfiltered tank, probably overfed!). Also had Tiger (stripey comet), Flash (after the comic) and Turbo. No real theme there.

 

My first betta was given to be when my friend when she moved. For some reason, she named him Oreo. He was purple and loved flaring at the camera. My current betta is named Bluemoon for two reasons 1)he is blue 2)he likes to hide in the coral so I don't see him 24 7. I make all my fish names based on personalities.

 

fish species names. LOL

Mahi Mahi
Pike
Tuna
Sardine
Anchovy
Gar
Sushi

and more to come in the future. =P

 

Mine have been random but some themed?
Random Names:
Natal-I thought he was a pineapple when I got him so I named him after the Natal Queen cultivar. Turned out he was a chocolate dalmatian
Angelos- means angel, he was a light orange dalmatian
Rex- Idk, came to me. He's a black red and blue CT
Red- Short for Red-headed Stepchild cause for a while he absolutely hated me and he has a red head but blue body(like a piebald, just...red) and since my boys usually adore me, I jokingly called him my red-headed stepchild. He's pretty much lost that nickname cause he loves me and I love him. So now he's just Red. It's a bad joke, I know.
Malarkey- This girl is full of nonsense.
Prospero- potential name for Faust, but I liked the name Faust and wanted to keep the name Prospero, so he got the name
Faust- my little parking lot fish I found on a freezing rainy night, it means lucky
Sherbet- He was orange with white and blue spots. He looked like Sherbet.
Sirekan- basically means lover cause he's my lover boy
Kelebek- means butterfly

Game/Movie/Etc. References:
Mako- variety of references,Mass Effect vehicle, lifestream in ff7, the shark
Shepard- Main character of Mass Effect
Bakara- Character in Mass Effect 3
Tali- Mass Effect Character
Liara- Mass Effect Character
Domino- Marvel Character
Aria- Mass Effect
Jack- Mass Effect
Merida- Disney's Brave

Greek/roman theme
Thanatos- personification of death
Nereus- a god of the sea. Father of the nereids and nerites
Vincentius- means conquering
Agrius- Greek Giant
Loukianos- means light
Kyprinos- means karp
Aristodemos- Greek name composed of the elements aristos " best, excellent" and demos "the people," hence "best of the people."
Abbadon- means destruction
Orion- Constellation, name of a hunter and means mountain man
Kronos- Father of Zeus and the Olympian Gods
Phobos- personification of fear

Unnamed Fish
"Red Fish"- Red VT. Rescue that I brought home with Natal, he never got named due to passing within a week so he is forever red fish
"Lily-girl"- Cambodian multicolor VT girl that I brought home just before my sorority crash. She never got named.

 

I'm building my own Betta Galaxy. All my little ones are named for something that can be found in the vastness of space or related to the same.

Callisto - Moon of Jupiter
Neptune - Planet
Pallas (foster boy) - Asteroid
Dione - Moon of Saturn
Pulsar - Specific type of Star
Eclipse - Astrological Event
Comet - Classification of Space Object
Milky Way (Nerite Snail) - Specific Galaxy

(Enceladus - SIP - Moon of Saturn)

Otherwise, I have Nameless (fish that isn't mine and therefore will be named by his ower once they get him) and Swain (fish that isn't mine that the owner has already named).

 

LOVE this Forum...

Each fish helps name himself. I have no real system... Finn was named Finn because I wanted to have Finn and Flash and Fancy since they were Fish.... it just so happens that I decided to go against that path, but Finn is def a Finn anyways!

Then McKinley reminded me of a Silver Salmon... so I wanted to give him an Alaskan name, and I went from Chilkoot to Denali to Kenai to Kodiak and all the names that people know best.... to Chicken, and Tok, and Nikiski and Kotzebue and Kwethluk and Tuntutuliak and Igiugig (these are real town names, people lol. Well, some are villages) but Mount McKinley was suggested and I was like YES! McKinley.

Then Pandora was named because I flipped out over my haul on Craigslist, and called it "Pandora's Box" soooo.... when I got another fish, he just HAD to be Pandora!!

Will named Oberon after his book series, The Iron Druid Chronicles.

And then My mommy helped name Lazarus, I saved him from HORRIBLE conditions, and mommy liked the idea of "bringing him back from the dead" and suggested the name and it just FIT him.

The names tho.. they have to fit the fish. And so far they do!!

The HMPK I suuuper want on AquaBid right now.. I named him Clyde. Because AukWord send me a link of a matching female to be "evil" to me lol, and I jokingly said OMG THEY CAN BE BONNIE AND CLYDE!!! aaaaand then it just fit and stuck, tho the Girl is gone now.

 

I don't have any theme,I just pick cute names I like the sound of and sometimes to match their colouring.

 

All but my most recent boy have Greek and Roman... ancient names... First was Arist'oto' who lived with, acted like, and ate with otos, he was also very curious and eploritive. After him Xerxes, Alastor, Mangus (may also be considered old Nordic name), Aristocoles.
I have a vt boy I still cannot think of a name for and a mustard dr named Dijon.. My first try at a Betta was a near dead double tail plakat mustard boy I called Dijon (Dijon mustard) but he was too far gone from ammonia poisoning by the time I got him. When I found another mustard dr had to grab him.. But he's not plakat and decided to shred his fins so now I want to rename him to shredder or something to that effect =.=

 

I ultimately named the vt Saphiron, a mix of "Saffron" for his reds and "Sapphire" for his blues.. Also renamed Dijon to Shreduski after he shredded his fins =.=

 

I didn't mean to, but mine are named in themes, lol. The ones named by me have LoTR names:
Faramir
Eowyn
Merry
Pippin
Elendil
Celeborn

And the ones my husband names are 1995 Mariners:
Strange
Lou

 

Larry, Barry and Harry.

The guppies are called Frank (I'm too lazy to name them all)
The endlers are called Chris (the day I got them I came home and found out that Christopher Lee died. BTW, Christopher Lee played Saruman in LOTR). I can't tell them apart from each other so this time I'm not being lazy.

The otocinclus and the siamese flying fox are both called Sir Munchalot. They aren't really living up to their names.

 

I named our first fish Violet because my daughter had picked out a purple fish. In the lighting, I accidently picked up the blue one when I went back to get him.

I picked shimmer for the baby because he/she had just the beginnings of iridescence and seemed to shimmer in the light. Feisty was a very feisty guy, flaring at everything. Mr. and Mrs. Fish were named by my daughter. She says they're married, though they do live in seperate tanks with paper between them so they can't see each other.

 

I named my two Bettas from the TV Show Fringe. One is Walter and the other is Walternate.

I guess it really fits their personalities too. Walter is more brightly colored, loves to eat and is super curious. I had a hard time making sure that his side of my divided 8Gal is properly laid out so that he doesn't get himself stuck .

Walternate on the other hand is more regal looking, very composed, doesn't get overly excited when I call them to eat (by tapping the betta food container)

But they are both equally smart as I have seen both of the stealthily hunt a mosquito that landed on the surface of the water.

 

When I was in my early middle school years, I saved up money and bought my first male betta, I don't remember what kind, but he was a light red/pink color, and I named him Bubbles. Not sure why, but it stuck right away.

Now, my first college betta - blue CT - my roommate came up with the name Majic (with a j) while we brought him home & it stuck. He passed after 2 years. I bought a red CT about a month after his passing, and right when I was about to pay for him my boyfriend joked about naming him Blasto - after the first Hanar spectre from Mass Effect since he was red and had long tentacle like fins - and I couldn't think of a better name! My newest betta is an orange with black speckles VT. He was unnamed for about a week, then while eating some cheetos I noticed to color resemblance to the cheetos cheetah whose name is Chester, and that's what I settled on

With my latest two fish, I leaned towards naming them after characters that they some how resembled :3

 

Fellow mass effect fan!

 

I'm doing something similar to GreenApp1es by naming them after moons XD
I was reading a book on evolution and the theory of evolution and saw the name Europa mentioned a few times in it. I loved the name so much that I decided to go with a moon theme xD.

 

Kings, queens, and story characters. Important people. (Mark Antoney, Cleopatra, Pippin, ect.)

I have no clue why with stories, i just do, but Bettas are sort of regal, and deserve regal sounding names, I think.

 

Woah! It's been awesome reading all these! Thank you guys, you have just inspired me what I need to name MY OWN betta...! Thanks for all the replies!

 

How Do You Name Your Fish?

I love fish names. Dogs and such may have neat names but most are used by lots of people (cat named Tiger or Shadow, dog named Ranger or Max...) These have been my Betas; not so many names because fortunately most lived three years or longer)
Sweetheart (was renamed Bitey! Commited Betacide)
Dumbo (was renamed Lefty -- that fin was small)
Lambchop (Pale and very friendly)
Mars (Imperious and good-looking -- big music fan)
Neptune (Tough lil guy! Lost his big blue fins, became a punk angelfish-type)
Mr. Pink (the New Guy! Very young, active and handsome)

 

Mr. Pink (the New Guy! Very young, active and handsome)

lol Steve Buscemi. "Why am I Mr. Pink?"

 

My current betta is named Finnick, which is a guy from the fishing district in the Hunger Games series. The last one I had was Darwin. The one before that was Fire Truck Tom, who my friend named. I tend to go for whatever names fit.

 

I have two baby females I named Amy and Leela (from the tv show Futurama). I also have two males I named Peter and Stewie (from the tv show Family Guy) Lol those are my two favorite shows.

 

My Daughter named him Fredrick, simply because she likes the name and has always wanted a pet named Fredrick.

I keep calling him little Fred though. His a little standard red, hence my profile name. So original, I know...