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Every time an adventurer puts a [[:Category:Familiar Hatchlings|familiar hatchling]] into his or her [[Familiar-Gro™ Terrarium (Campground)|Familiar-Gro™ Terrarium]], and it becomes their very own [[:Category:Familiars|familiar]], it is given a default name. The game tells you the selected default name by displaying the following message:

:You decide to name <him> <familiar name>.

The familiar's name will appear in its action messages; for example, this message could appear during a battle:
:Gobert attempts to hit <him>, but misses. 
::<small>In this case, the <familiar name> is Gobert.</small>

Of course, an adventurer can rename his or her familiar to whatever name they want to by clicking ''Manage Familiar Names'', which is located on the ''Manage your Familiar'' page.

==Default Familiar Names==
Most new familiar names are put together randomly with the help of the following recipe. Male familiars use one set of suffixes, female familiar another.

{| class="recipe"
|- class="row1"
! [[File:tterrarium.gif]]
| B<br/>Fr<br/>G<br/>Gr<br/>H<br/>St<br/>T<br/>Tr<br/>W
| a<br/>o<br/>u
| male suffix<br/>''or''<br/>female suffix
|- class="row2"
! {{equals}}
| colspan="5" | generic familiar name
|}

*Male suffixes (most familiars)
**bastian, bediah, bert, ddeus, derick, dolph, fferson, fflesby, garth, ginald, llace, lliam, nald, nathan, ncent, nderson, njamin, nklin, raham, sevelt, tchell
*Female suffixes (all the gravy fairies, [[Black Cat]], [[Cheshire Bat]], [[Coffee Pixie]], [[Comma Chameleon]], [[Feather Boa Constrictor]], [[Grouper Groupie]], [[Happy Medium]], [[Hippo Ballerina]], [[Jill-of-All-Trades]], [[Jill-O-Lantern]], [[Jitterbug]], [[Piranha Plant]], [[Sugar Fruit Fairy]], [[Uniclops]])
**berta, brina, chelle, gdalena, landa, linda, ndrea, nnifer, phelia, redith, rgaret, rgarita, rlotte, ronica, sabella, sadora, semary, xanne

==Special Familiar Names==
A number of familiars do not use the default name generator, instead using their own name custom generators.
{| border="1px" cellpadding="4px" cellspacing="0" style="margin:1em;
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!Familiar||Name Formula||Example Name (reload page for more)
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|[[Adorable Space Buddy]]||A random string consisting of the letters C, T, H, U, L, and apostrophes.||[[Template:ASBName|{{ASBName}}]]
|-
|[[Adventurous Spelunker]]||State + Last Name (eg. Indiana Jones)||[[Template:AdventurousSpelunkerName|{{AdventurousSpelunkerName}}]]
|-
|[[Antique Nutcracker]]||Male name||[[Template:AntiqueNutcrackerName|{{AntiqueNutcrackerName}}]]
|-
|[[Artistic Goth Kid]]||Nickname + 'Goth Name' + Compound Last Name of two gothy items||[[Template:GothKidName|{{GothKidName}}]].
|-
|[[Baby Bugged Bugbear]]||'''snɔɐʇɹɐdS'''.||'''snɔɐʇɹɐdS'''
|-
|[[BRICKO chick]]||Random four-digit number||[[Template:BRICKOnum|{{BRICKOnum}}]]
|-
|[[Burly Bodyguard]]||Either '''Betty''' or '''Kevin Costner'''||[[Template:BurlyBodyguardName|{{BurlyBodyguardName}}]]
|-
|[[Cat Burglar]]||Burgling-related adjective + Cat breed||[[Template:CatBurglarName|{{CatBurglarName}}]]
|-
|[[Chocolate Lab]]||Stereotypical dog name + candy brand name||[[Template:ChocolateLabName|{{ChocolateLabName}}]]
|-
|[[Clockwork Grapefruit]]||'''6655321'''||'''6655321'''
|-
|[[Cookbookbat]]||Type of cook + zero or more ancients + book/b\at/beetle||
|-
|[[Doll Moll]]||Female first name + (Irish? / gangster?) last name||"Miley O'Dean"
|-
|[[Fancypants Scarecrow]]||Format first name + either a hyphenated last name or longer last name + optional Roman numeral||[[Template:FancypantsScarecrowName|{{FancypantsScarecrowName}}]]
|-
|[[Flaming Face]]||Pairing of a heat-related attribute and a name||[[Template:HotWord|{{HotWord}}]] [[Template:HoboFirstName|{{HoboFirstName}}]]
|-
|[[Galloping Grill]]||Female Name + Occupation||[[Template:GallopingGrillName|{{GallopingGrillName}}]]
|-
|[[Garbage Fire]]||Burning adjective + Last Name of a Republican US Senator||[[Template:GarbageFireName|{{GarbageFireName}}]]
|-
|[[Gelatinous Cubeling]]||Squishy-sounding name||[[Template:GelatinouscubelingName|{{GelatinouscubelingName}}]]
|-
|[[God Lobster]]||Compound of two "click"-like sounds||[[Template:GodLobsterName|{{GodLobsterName}}]]
|-
|[[Golden Monkey]]||Adjective ending with "ous" + Incan deity||[[Template:GoldenMonkeyName|{{GoldenMonkeyName}}]]
|-
|[[Grey Goose]]||"Nanite Configuration" + random seven-digit number||[[Template:GooseNum|{{GooseNum}}]]
|-
|[[Grim Brother]]||German First Name + Von (sometimes) + German Last Name or German Concept||[[Template:GrimBrotherName|{{GrimBrotherName}}]]
|-
|[[Grimstone Golem]]||Mineral + Grim adjective or Grim adjective + Mineral||[[Template:GrimstoneGolemName|{{GrimstoneGolemName}}]]
|-
|[[Helix Fossil]]||10 characters, with repetition following specific formats||[[Template:helixfossilname|{{helixfossilname}}]]
|-
|[[Hobo in Sheep's Clothing]]|| ||
|-
|[[Homemade Robot]]||"<ADJECTIVE>bot N000"||[[Template:BotName|{{BotName}}]]
|-
|[[Mechanical Songbird]]||Three sound effects, separated by hyphens||[[Template:MechanicalSongbirdName|{{MechanicalSongbirdName}}]]
|-
|[[Mini-Adventurer]]||"Little <PlayerName>"||"Little <PlayerName>"
|-
|[[Mini-Crimbot]]||Crimbo-y word + Bot, Droid or Unit, prefixed or suffixed by some roboty set of letters and numbers||[[Template:MiniCrimbotName|{{MiniCrimbotName}}]]
|-
|[[Mini-Hipster]]||Randomly Hobo first name||[[Template:HoboFirstName|{{HoboFirstName}}]]
|-
|[[Mini-Trainbot]]||Crimbo word + train word + numbers||[[Template:MiniTrainbotName|{{MiniTrainbotName}}]]
|-
|[[Miniature Sword & Martini Guy]]||Old + Random Hobo first name|| Old [[Template:HoboFirstName|{{HoboFirstName}}]]
|-
|[[Mini Kiwi]]|| ||| 
|-
|[[Nosy Nose]]||Adjective + Nose Synonym||[[Template:NosyNoseName|{{NosyNoseName}}]]
|-
|[[Optimistic Candle]]||Burning adjective + "D" name||[[Template:OptimisticCandleName|{{OptimisticCandleName}}]]
|-
|[[Party Mouse]]||Partying adjective + Male First Name||[[Template:PartyMouseName|{{PartyMouseName}}]]
|-
|[[Pet Anchor]]||Big/Heavy/Hefty/Large/Ponderous +  First Name||[[Template:PetAnchorName|{{PetAnchorName}}]]
|-
|[[Plastic Pirate Skull]]||'''Red Roger'''||'''Red Roger'''
|-
|[[Puck Man]] and [[Ms. Puck Man]]||Three capital letters, as in an arcade's high score screen||[[Template:PuckManName|{{PuckManName}}]]
|-
|[[Quantum Entangler]]||One of "Craig", "Helmholtz", "Lenard", "Mayer", or "Plank"||[[Template:QuantumEntanglerName|{{QuantumEntanglerName}}]]
|-
|[[Reagnimated Gnome]]||Random First Name + "enstein"||[[Template:ReagnimatedGnomeName|{{ReagnimatedGnomeName}}]]
|-
|[[Robortender]]||Robo' + O-lastname||[[Template:RobortenderName|{{RobortenderName}}]]
|-
|[[Rockin' Robin]]||Boppin'/Dancin'/Rockin'/Tweetin' + Random Girl First Name|| [[Template:RockinRobinName|{{RockinRobinName}}]]
|-
|[[Shame Spiral]]||a shameful adjective + a euphemism for penis|| [[Template:ShameSpiralName|{{ShameSpiralName}}]]
|-
|[[Software Bug]]||two-word error message+" in line "+number||[[Template:SoftwareBugName|{{SoftwareBugName}}]]
|-
|[[Sludgepuppy]]||Dog name||[[Template:SludgepuppyName|{{SludgepuppyName}}]]
|-
|[[Smiling Rat]]|| || 
|-
|[[Squamous Gibberer]]||Follows the default naming system, but always begins with '''Cth-'''||Cth{{familiar name|cap=n}}
|-
|[[Steam-Powered Cheerleader]]||Has a small number of female names||[[Template:CheerleaderName|{{CheerleaderName}}]]
|-
|[[Tickle-Me Emilio (familiar)|Tickle-Me Emilio]]||'''Emilio'''||'''Emilio'''
|-
|[[Twitching Space Critter]]||A compound "alien" word||{{alien_word|cap=y}}{{alien_word2}}
|-
|[[Vampire Vintner]]||French/Romanian Name + French/Romanian Name||[[Template:VampireVintnerName|{{VampireVintnerName}}]]
|-
|[[Yule Hound]]||Crimbo-related word + Popular dog name||[[Template:YuleHoundName|{{YuleHoundName}}]]
|}

Additionally, some familiars have restrictions on what you can call them.
{| border="1px" cellpadding="4px" cellspacing="0" style="margin:1em;
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|[[Blood-Faced Volleyball]]||Cannot be named '''Wilson''', in order to spur creativity. '''Voit''' and '''Spaulding''', however, are allowed as names.
|-
|[[Exotic Parrot]]||Cannot be named '''Polly'''. If you try to do so, it will be named '''Unoriginality''' instead.
|-
|[[Ragamuffin Imp]]||Cannot be named the word that is used to summon it. Instead, it will be named '''Spoiler'''.
|}

==Notes==
*During [[Bad Moon]], if an adventurer places a familiar that he or she had obtained in a previous ascension into his or her [[Familiar-Gro™ Terrarium (Campground)|terrarium]], then the following message will appear:
*:As you place the <hatchling> in your Familiar-Gro™ Terrarium, you feel a brief sense of deja-vu. You decide to name this familiar '''<previous familiar name>'''.
*If you go to your ''Manage Your Familiar'' page and leave your active familiar's name field blank, then the familiar is renamed using the default naming system for that familiar.
**This does not work from the ''Manage Familiar Names'' page; leaving a name blank there results in the default name of '''No Name McGee'''.
*Trying to name a familiar with ten or more of the same character or digit gives the following error message: 
:'''I reckon you tried too many repeating characters, mmhmm.'''
*Attempting to give your familiar a choice or swear word as its name will cause it to be named '''[profanity]''' instead.
*Placing brackets ('''[ ]''' or '''{ }''') in a familiar name will cause the brackets to show up everywhere (in your side frame, terrarium, character sheet, etc.), except during combat. If you are engaged in combat, the familiar's name will be displayed without the brackets (for example, '''[x]''' or '''{x}''' would show up as just '''x''' during combat). If you only place brackets in a familiar name, then the name will be displayed as a blank spot during combat.
*Some accented characters can be used in familiar names. However, familiar names must be in [[Wikipedia:ISO/IEC 8859-1|ISO-8859-1]]. Attempting to use names in other charsets (many web browsers use [[Wikipedia:UTF-8|UTF-8]]) will result in the bits being interpreted as if they were in ISO-8859-1, thus leading to buggy results.
**As a deliberate joke, the default name for the [[Baby Bugged Bugbear]] is not in ISO-8859-1, and it will be corrupted if you use the ''Manage Familiar Names'' page.

==History==
*Prior to the trivial update on August 1st, 2009, no message about what familiar name was chosen would appear when you used a hatchling.
*Prior to the trivial update on June 6th, 2014, leaving the name field blank would result in '''No Name McGee'''. Also prior to this update, including a '''<''' character would result in the above, and any '''&''' characters were replaced with '''n'''.
*Prior to the trivial update on August 4th, 2014, default familiar names had a [[Familiar Names/History|simpler generator]].

==References==
*The [[Clockwork Grapefruit]] is a reference to the book and movie ''[[Wikipedia:A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. Its default name ('''6655321''') refers to the main character's serial number while he is in prison (in the movie, the number is shortened to 655321). 
*'''Wilson''' is the name of the [[Blood-Faced Volleyball|blood-faced volleyball]] in the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Cast Away|Cast Away]]''.
*The [[BRICKO chick]] follows the LEGO tradition of numbering each basic building set that is developed.

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