# Help us name the roomba! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 29, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787 "2011-07-29T23:31:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/1 "2011-07-29T23:31:57Z")
We’ve just got a roomba 770 and it needs a name. We are looking for butler themed ones but anything you might think of is good. Thoughts? Shorter is better; while stanford bigglesworth the fourteenth is amusing, it’s far too long to use in casual reference. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/2 "2011-07-29T23:37:24Z")
Lurch! From the Addams Family! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/3 "2011-07-29T23:38:37Z")
My favorite butler is Bunter from the Lord Peter Wimsey series. Mervyn Bunter, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/4 "2011-07-29T23:42:04Z")
Frank or Pete, from Heinlein’s _The Door into Summer_. Which is, among other things, about a guy who makes a fortune by inventing a robot vacuum cleaner. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/5 "2011-07-29T23:47:16Z")
It’s not butler themed, but Doomba came to mind. Doomba the Roomba. Doctor Doomba the Roomba if you’re a comics fan. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/6 "2011-07-29T23:50:27Z")
Betty Buup Luucy Rosie ---
**Author:** ![Kalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df705f/32.png) [@Kalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalypso)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/7 "2011-07-30T00:02:33Z")
Jeeves is obvious, but I like it. Ours is a model with a little edge brush thing sticking out, making it vaguely resemble the letter Q, so we named it Johnny Q. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/8 "2011-07-30T00:05:53Z")
Kryten. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/9 "2011-07-30T00:16:53Z")
Alfred! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/10 "2011-07-30T00:21:47Z")
Jarvis is next after Jeeves for obviousness. I tend to think of English butlers that go by their surnames, so how about some appropriately British (and literary) surnames? Pevensie Dodgson Poppins Belvedere St. John (pronounced ‘Sinjin’) ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/11 "2011-07-30T00:53:57Z")
> [@Kalypso](#): > > Jeeves is obvious, but I like it. Not if you’re looking for butler themed names. Jeeves was a valet. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/12 "2011-07-30T01:16:20Z")
A roomba is more of a maid than a butler, isn’t it? (Though it would be cool if you could rig one up so it could also [bring you refreshing beverages](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler#Background).) Maybe you could dress it up in a little French maid costume and name it something like “Monique”. Or go the “Irish servant girl” route and name it “Brigid”. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/13 "2011-07-30T01:33:07Z")
Ours is Hatchibombotar after the street sweeper in the Babar books. My mother’s is called Flora. Coz it cleans the floor. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/14 "2011-07-30T01:36:47Z")
Number 6 ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/15 "2011-07-30T01:41:11Z")
The minute I saw the thread title I thought “Snarfer” because it snarfs up the dirt. Dumb, I know ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/16 "2011-07-30T01:41:50Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > It’s not butler themed, but Doomba came to mind. Doomba the Roomba. Doctor Doomba the Roomba if you’re a comics fan. You have to write that in Latverian script on top of the machine. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/17 "2011-07-30T01:42:33Z")
Wally ---
**Author:** ![Elret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/18 "2011-07-30T02:14:43Z")
Another vote for the sexy maid name, because yeah, dude’s a maid, not a butler, and also because a clunky little robot called Monique is awesome to me. This is a very cool thread for me, because I was just today thinking of starting a thread asking about Roombas as I am bloody tired of sweeping six times a day as required in my multi-kid-and-pet house. After you’ve picked a name, will you come back and tell me how it’s working out for you? Is it really effective? Is it loud? Does it scare the cat? ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/19 "2011-07-30T03:22:16Z")
It sure doesn’t scare [this cat!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewdbilSWjaM&feature=relmfu) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787/20 "2011-07-30T03:46:49Z")
Seven ( for Trek’s Seven of Nine character. Borg are part machine.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-us-name-the-roomba/590787.md?page=2)