The horse name CLICHE`

[love_casper]

There tends to be certain horse names you just hear over and over, names EVERYONE has, almost like a name cliche`. So I thought this would be funny to see how many of you (inevitably) have horses with the following common barn names. The naming threads around here got me thinking.....

I'll start with the list,

Coco

Sugar

Princess

Prince

Spirit

Angel

Misty

Sunny

Goldie

Buck

Red

Teddy

Smokey

Patch

Cowboy/Cowgirl

Lady

Star

...Alright, I bet all of you must have at least one of those! Thought it would be funny to see how different one person's horse could be from another with the same name.

My "Sugar" is a black and white pinto. click

My "Princess" is a buckskin pinto click

And at the barn where my big horse is, there are 3 Misty's - a buckskin pinto pony, a black Tennessee Walker, and grulla pinto, also 2 Missy's, so talking about one of any of those 5 is very confusing. Then there's three Coco's - a Fresian, a bay quarter horse cross, and a thoroughbred. We are on the 4th Teddy now, this one is a Fjord. There are 3 Spirit's, a buckskin and two grey arab geldings. There's this guy at our barn who is on his probably 5th palomino horse - they have all been named Sunny or some form of that. rofl. And, my friend has a black mini mare with a star, named Star.

So, for fun comparison, tell me about YOUR barn name cliche` horses. And feel free to add to my list.

 

[The Simple Life Farm]

I don't have any of those here......

 

[lil_miss_sunshine]

Yep!! Sunny is the name of my 28.5 inch burnt buckskin filly.

 

[maplegum]

i don't have any of those now, but I did have a 'Smokey'. 14.2h black gelding.

I do know plenty of horses with the names you listed though.

 

[Jill]

Some of our names you hear more often than others are:

• Sunny (silver bay senior under show gelding)
• Goldie (former halter / driving show mare, now broodmare)
• Blue (up and coming junior show gelding)
• Treasure (2yo grey filly)
• Eclipse (1st mini, grew into a wonderful driving gelding)
• Flirt (2yo silver buckskin show filly)
• Sweetie (perlino pinto broodmare)
• Rocket (morgan x standardbred riding horse)

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Then, some of my more unusual names are:

• Klassy (leopard mare)
• Derby (palomino driving gelding)
• Bomb Shell (perlino 1yo filly)
• DunIT (grey grullo stallion)
• Bacardi (golden palomino senior over show gelding)
• Khaki (former show mare, now broodmare)
• Double (perlino pinto broodmare)

 

[hobbyhorse23]

I've got a "Dakota," I know there are quite a few geldings hiding on this forum with that name or some version of it. Heck, there's even two "Spyder's!" Who'da thunk it?

Leia

 

[REO]

Well....... OH! I think I'm pretty guilty!

That I named barn names

Maggie

Lady

Queenie (she named herself!)

Angel

Sophie

Indy

Mystique (oh all right so I call her Mysti ya got me LOL)

Cookie

Harley

Topper

Sonny

Goldie

Fox

Kate

Toots

Muffy

Sassy

Danny

Whyppy

Snips

Poppy

Nort

One that wants to be called Sugar and I'm trying not to!

One I call sweetie little baby mare

Ones that had these barn names already

Sparky

Taxi

Rose

 

[RobinRTrueJoy]

I have a Misty.

Oh, and I have a sSilver... I bet a lot of people have a Silver!

Robin

 

[CritterCountry]

You forgot Storm! The ultimate overused horse name! My Storm came with that name, yecch!

 

[Alex]

I dont have any of those...

But I do have a Jitterbug & a Leber!

 

[shoeboxstables]

Wow- none of those here!

We've got

Annie

Jazzy

Arianna

Sailor

Roger

Vic

But I must add DIVA to the list of cliches- that's a pretty popular one!

 

[_minihorses4ever_]

We have four of those at my barn!

We also have some other unusual-er names. Boostie, Cozzy, Arabella, Simmer, and Zaccheus..

 

[mondak]

I've got a "Dakota," I know there are quite a few geldings hiding on this forum with that name or some version of it

That would be me. I have a Dakota, but I call him Kota or Kota Bear...LOL can you tell I treat him like his is my child? We also have a Lady, that is a very common name. Here are a couple that we have that aren't so usual.

Fudge

Frank

Bandito

Montana

(Averett Barn)

Sophie

Jody

Boo

Baron

Ellie

Wilbur

Ariel

Arby

Mavrick

Visette

Dan

Captian Kirk

Katya

Gjalt

 

[CKC]

Wow, we don't make the list either:

Here's ours:

Surprise

Moxie

Mister

Frankie

Merri

KC

Cole

Topper

Denni

Bailey

One of our cats is Lucky. I would imagine that might be used a lot. She is "lucky to be alive" since my husband and I were driving home from work( late at nightworked at the same place)... she(as a teeny kitten) was in the middle of the road on the white line. We both almost ran over her. I turned around drove into the wrong lane... scooped her up before any traffic came. I would say she deserves the name Lucky.

My husband never even saw her.

 

[wantminimore]

I had a Misty (bay mustang). I have a Star that I named years ago, her dam was named Flicker. I sold Star and she got passed around a little and ended up at a home that named her Flicker knowing that her dam was named that, lol. I got her back after quite a few years and I call her Star, she's a chestnut with star, QHxTWH.

I also have a Maggie and know of two Dakotas.

Leslie

 

[shalamara minis]

Yep! Coco and Lady

Some of our other barn names come out of there reg names.

Flo

Rosie

Dawn

Dan

Tou

Domino

Dez

Lakota

Phantar

Ruger

 

[Leeana]

I have a Coco and i at one point owned a mare named Angel who Ginny now owns

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My father named Coco after one of his faverite cowboys horses they had in a real life.

Leeana

 

[Lucky-C-Acres-Minis]

From your list we have:

Misty: Buckskin pinto (We also call her lil Princess because she definitely thinks she is

)

My pintaloosa trail mare is Sugar (though she's not always that sweet! OH! )

And then we have a Smokey:

The mare we lost in October was Star, a bay pinto:

We also have:

Paco

Zip (What Zippo Pine Bar bred AQHA gelding isn't a form of Zip OH! )

Buster

Sky

Axel

Vader

Lacey

Electra

Chili

Lexi

Tango

Trixie

Sweetie

Daisy

And we've had:

Lily

Rosie

Savannah

Tucker

Scooter

Shaina

Sadie

 

[Equuisize]

I'll add the name Zoe. It's probably the most

common name I have and I know I've heard of other horses

named Zoe.

Other than that all our names are pretty unusual.....

Zoe

Zee - actually we call him BabyZee

Zena

Zuni

Zita

Zoolii

Even our last big horse is unusually named. He has a single word

registered name and we call him by that or a derivative. It is

Graffix, Graff or Graffe

 

[nootka]

I did have a Smokey for a while, but now I've only got:

Gramma

Cherry (or Bomber)

Mouse

Lailah

Little Black Meanie (or Nena when we're being polite)

Pyro

Not very typical, but I've seen quite a few "Cherry" horses and even another Mouse on this Forum!!! Maybe even two others.

They've all got different registered names than they have "call" names. Cherry's is closest, though, from "Raftered Hearts Cherry Bomb" to Cherry is not much of a stretch.

Liz