Your opinion on traditional naming... (OPEN/INCLUDES A POLL)

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    What's your opinion on traditional naming/names? 35

    1. I love them and I use them all the time! (2) 6%
    2. I don't like them and I don't use them! (6) 17%
    3. They're ok but they're not really my thing... (9) 26%
    4. I like them but I don't use them. (20) 57%
    5. I don't like them but I do use them. (1) 3%

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    Ok well lately, and this means in the few days I've been here, traditional names don't seemed to be used a lot anymore. In fact it seems to be quite rare to find a traditionally named cat within any of the frontboard, or even backboard, clans, groups and tribes. I'd just like to know what you all think of the traditional naming/names, such as Graystripe, Fireheart and Sandstorm.


    In my opinion I love the traditional names, in fact I can't believe there aren't more of them around here. It also seems that not many traditional named cats get promoted around here, but this is just my opinion. I mean I've seen one or two but most of them don't seem to be traditional named, is traditional naming discouraged here or just not used very often?


    Feel free to comment your opinions below and cast a vote on the poll.

    [fancypost borderwidth=0px; width: 400px][justify][sub][size=7pt]most of the time i find i don't really like the traditional names since i can never think of a good suffix, which leads to me usually dropping the character though, at this moment, i do play swanlake who started with the usual swankit to progress to swanpaw till she received her full name. i know it is quite different from the usual ones but, most of the time, names are chosen because they are liked or else match. for swan she was named as such for she is dainty and white like a swan, or was at least, then there is jabberjaw, who i am currently playing as well, she was blairpaw for a time but, after being attacked, her name was changed to match. it is really just the opinion of the person one such things and i find it much easier to just give them names from a different language that has a meaning connected to them, rather then the traditional two piece name since i can't really think of any good ones

    Traditional names are definitely not discouraged here, it's just that modern names are easier to think of and very popular. I could think of ten modern names right now, unique, yet if I thought of a traditional name, it's probably been used before. People are after names that will be remembered. Though, there is a history of traditionally named charries like Redfur, once deputy of SunClan, Mottledsky, once leader of DarkClan, Flamewing, Cinderpelt, Cougareyes and so much more!

    [fancypost borderwidth=0px; width: 400px][justify][sub][size=7pt]that is what you will usually find, the traditional names are mostly within the past few years since i remember, about three years ago when i was rather new they were everywhere, now it is harder to think of originals and that discourages people from using them

    Yeah, I remember that too. Actually, I still keep to traditional names because I prefer them to modern names. I have Viperbite, Gravelkit, Indigopaw .... Ect.

    [fancypost borderwidth=0px; width: 400px][justify][sub][size=7pt]the only one that is my own character wit a traditional, well kind of traditional, name is swanlake, the others are thomas ripley, dante alighieri and abel, though dante and abel are based around characters i rather love while thomas is a name i quite like and i didn't want to give him a traditional name

    Omg, I love loner names, I can see why you have so many! I have Ludovic and Sue. I like loner names because you can get really creative with them. Also, I hope I'm not spamming, Impavid! :)

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    I guess I have Candyfangs and Momo.
    They aren't super complex names, but they aren't hardcore traditional names either.
    Mainly because I based them off of manga characters.




    Anyhow, I like traditional names, but it's not likely that I will use something such as 'redpelt' or 'fireheart'.
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    I actually don't mind traditional names at all. I started using them at first, but then I kind of got used to non-traditional titles, and those types of names are actually pretty fun to make up. Seem times, they are even easier to create then traditional names in my opinion, but I really don't mind the originals as well.

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    I've found this very interesting really. The poll shows that most people like traditional names but they don't use them, which I guess is fair enough actually. With so many members it'd be annoying if there were double ups and you were constantly getting confused with another character, which is one of the benefits of the unique and "modern" names. (:

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    [fancypost borderwidth= 0px; border-radius: 0px; bgcolor=transparent; height: 150px; width: 400px; font-family: arial; text-align: left; color: black; overflow: auto]i think everybody starts out with traditional names, and then decides whether to keep using them or to use slightly modernized names. I personally don't mind them, although I probably wouldn't use one. I love the different names you come across. The closest things I have to traditional names are probably toxickit and libertypaw, and they aren't exactly traditional.
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    i actually like the traditional names, but it's hard for me to think of names that have not already been used somewhere than modern names. i guess they're sort of boring in a huge community like this one.

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    I used to love traditional names a a newbie. I named my first cat Skyfeather. Then, when I started to get more advanced, I realized that non-traditional names seemed much more exciting to think of. So, I changed Skyfeather's name to Skydreamer.

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    honestly? I don't like traditional names at all, as you run the chance of meeting another character with the same exact name as yours. they're often too common and I find them extremely hard to come up with to make them unique to others. I like modern names better as they're more extraordinary and not as seen often because of that. plus, I like basing my characters off of anime/manga characters, or things that I'm absolutely in love with. I have nothing against tradition names, not at all, I just find them rather plain and a bit boring. they're not names you'd be like, 'oh, I know that character!' or something similar to that.


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    I used to use a lot of traditional names when I was mostly RPing bio-made cats, but when I started entering adoptions I switched to more "modern" names because (it seems like) a more creative name is more likely to catch the attention of whoever's running the adoption.
    i am probably not the only one to think of that, and a lot of hps are second generation or higher.
    (not all, probably not most, but a lot of them; possibly people who go to the trouble of winning an adoption are more likely to stay active with that character, which would make the character more likely to get promoted?) so this could be one explanation for a lot of hps having unusual names.


    also, like livvy said, most people start out with traditional names. and it takes time to get enough practice rp'ing to be experienced enough to be picked to play an hp. so another theory could be: by the time a lot of people's first characters get promoted, many of them have branched out into using modern character names. so there would be more unusual names in the hp ranks than in the rest of a clan, because the "rest of the clan" will include a lot of newbies' characters who'll usually have traditional names.


    so i don't think it's that creative names = more likely to be promoted. i think it's either:
    - creative names = often made creative to win adoption = rp'er more likely to stay active = character more likely to be promoted; or:
    - creative names = associated with people who aren't newbies = non-newbies are more experienced than newbies = non-newbies' characters are more likely to be promoted


    of course none of this applies to the groups like the elite that don't use warrior names
    i think it does maybe apply to the tribes that use tribe names; it's harder to tell what is a "traditional" tribe name, but "fable of forgotten values", "glass that echoes the last melody of the forgotten songbird", or "particles of solar wind" are pretty obviously modern.


    (fyi i like both modern and traditional names, i'm not trying to insult anyone's character names i am merely trying to theorize about possible reasons for op's interesting observation)

    [fancypost borderwidth=0px][size=8][font=georgia]usually i use loner names anyway, but traditonal names are kind of okay. more modern names allow you to be a bit more creative, but i don't have a problem with them, either c:


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    I love traditional names, by I've seen adoptions that are like 'we will not accept names like redfeather and flamewind'. As long as the character is really good and is played nicely by the Roleplayer, heck let them name there character anything from Fireheart to Legendaryexcalibur' c:


    I love traditional names! They're underused and despite what people think, they set characters apart from the others. "Unique" names like "Pixiedust" or "Broadwaylights" are really in, but just about everybody uses stuff like that. I haven't seen a "Whitefur"... Like, ever.


    I still don't use them for some reason, though. XD Maybe I should start.
    Reading back through other posts, I 100% agree with Patchtail--I came up with that same conclusion not long ago.