Names for Geckos?!

So, here's the story;

My brother recently got geckos. My brother is a good few years younger than me, and does not write books or think about names very often. BUT I am aware that when you name a pet, re-naming it is tricky because everyone forget's it's name if you re-name it often. Ergo I'm urging my brother to pick really good names and he can't think of any. So I thought why not ask all the writers I know who have to think of names on a regular basis.

So...anyone got any suggestions? My brother likes video games, animals and in general is a wee bit of a nerd type.

Please these geckos are the closest things I'm going to get to nieces/nephews in a long time I want them to have decent names.

Two geckos...and we don't know the genders cause they're too young :/

But 'Denise' and 'denephew' made me laugh way way WAAAAYYY too much.

Totally gonna try and persuade him on that now.

Brightdreamer said:

I suppose "Geico" is too obvious?

Dragon/wyrm/drake names are popular in reptile circles, as I understand it, though I've never found geckos to look particularly dragonlike compared to some lizards.

Dinosaur names, perhaps, or paleontologist names?

If he's a nerd, how about Latin names?

For video games, maybe name them after gaming systems or computers - Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, Timex if you're reaching far enough back (or Babbage or Antikythera, for real classics) - or his favorite franchises.

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Dragon names might be a good bet. Someone above mention GoT names, which I love despite the fact I don't read/watch GoT.

But as for the gaming consoles...he knows a few of them, but he's only 14.

AR_Kingston said:

I would go for Geico myself. You don't suppose they will give you a discount for that, do you?

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Y'know, I actually had to google it to figure out the running joke here...alas, I don't think they'd give me a discount lol

Fruitbat said:

Geeko and Geico. Or Echo.

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Now want to name them Echo Echo and Ditto after Ben 10 Aliens since me and by brother loved that show as kids.

Update: Geckos are hardly eating now...so yeah, that's bad.

Brightdreamer said:

Oh, no!

Hope you can get them to a reptile vet... could just be stress from being in a new home? (I know nothing about reptiles that don't spit fire, unfortunately...)

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We think its the stress. Strange though...I have no idea why they're adapting so badly.

This is why I stick to snakes. Snakes are easy to care for.

Alas they had to be taken back to the shop because they didn't eat at all.

But, we shall be getting more geckos soon! And gordon seems to be popular so I think I'll suggest that.