# I gots a new baby snake! (Wanna help name her?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834 "2002-07-07T23:30:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/21 "2002-07-08T05:51:01Z")
Yummy? 😃 _D&R_ ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/22 "2002-07-08T07:13:42Z")
Call it Fluffy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/23 "2002-07-08T07:32:14Z")
If you want a joke name, it could be Maize, Legs, Hypercharge, Diddly
 \Croikey! Wot we have here is a diddly snike!\ For Y: Yellow, Yojimboguy, Yodel, Ytrium, Year (or Y’Earless), YetAnotherSnake (or YAsnake), Yoyo, Yow, YMMV, Yhbt Yhl Hand (abbreviated to You or Yhbt). ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/24 "2002-07-08T07:42:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\* > Wanna explain it to us who don’t know a lot about Frank Zappa? \*\* Frank Zappa has a song called **Baby Snakes** , and according to the song, Baby Snakes live in tiny holes, that are usually SMPTE. SMPTE stands for Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Baby Snakes lyrics are [here](http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Sheik_Yerbouti.html#Snakes) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/25 "2002-07-08T07:42:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\* > Wanna explain it to us who don’t know a lot about Frank Zappa? \*\* Frank Zappa has a song called **Baby Snakes** , and according to the song, Baby Snakes live in tiny holes, that are usually SMPTE. SMPTE stands for Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Baby Snakes lurics are [here](http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Sheik_Yerbouti.html#Snakes) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/26 "2002-07-08T07:49:01Z")
Is that a Lavender or a Mocha? I don’t think I’ve seen a corn with as little red as she has in her coloring. Muñequita means “little doll” in Spanish. (Of course, that will appear a tad ironic when she gets to five feet.) ---
**Author:** ![Necris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e47c2d/32.png) [@Necris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necris)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/27 "2002-07-08T10:34:15Z")
First i thot this was about a one eyed snake (no pun intended)
tho i was wondering why u were referring to it as a baby (not a very common male statement about one eyed snakes) also calling it a she was a bit confusing to relate to the one eyed snake concept
okay yeah i’m not stoned. Yasmine seems like a very sweet name
shez very pretty btw
gonna break alotta snake hearts and have many’a’snake come crawling to her. Yeah shez pretty ssssssexy (cudn’t resist saying that) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/28 "2002-07-08T11:20:24Z")
Howabout **Andrianampoinimerina** 🙂 ? He was King of Merina in the central highlands of Madagascar 1787-1810 and set the stage for the eventual dominance of Madagascar by his dynasty until the French conquest. A nice, easy to remember name for a pet :D. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/29 "2002-07-08T12:46:51Z")
um, Medusa ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/30 "2002-07-08T14:09:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Is that a Lavender or a Mocha? I don’t think I’ve seen a corn with as little red as she has in her coloring. > > Muñequita means “little doll” in Spanish. (Of course, that will appear a tad ironic when she gets to five feet.) **tomndeb** , hatchling corns are many times darker than their adult counterparts. There were some albino corns, too, but they looked almost like candy canes because what will eventually be the lovely orange that Henry has is now a deep, dark near-red. The owner does breed what she calls chocolates (wondering if that’s the same as a mocha), but she charges double for them. (Can’t quite see why–normals are much prettier!) **widdershins** , no need to duck and run. I rather like “Medusa.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/31 "2002-07-08T14:23:25Z")
Also, **tomndeb** , according to [http://members.aol.com/tiliqua929/bruce/mocha.html](http://members.aol.com/tiliqua929/bruce/mocha.html) , > [@](#): > > This color is NOT normal anerythristic, the animals have ruby red eyes and a smokey brown (or lavender depending on the parents) color, hence the names. She definitely does not have red, ruby or otherwise, eyes. Just nice and beady black. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/32 "2002-07-08T17:54:36Z")
If I ever got another snake I was going to name it “Hissy”. It ends in Y so it might do for you. I like Medusa though, it would be perfect for touching on Greek mythology with your students. If you like a play on words, then “Y Kiki”. Other Y names: Yursula/Yrsula, Yankee, Yanadu, Yippy Skippy, Yules, and Ying-ying. Other snake related names: Madame Hiss (after Sir Hiss of Disney’s _Robin Hood_), Kaa (Disney’s _The Jungle Book_), Nag (Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Anantha (Hindu), Nehebkau, Mehen, Hathor, Tefnut, Uajyt, Meretseger (all Egyptian), Degei (Fijian), Quetzalcoatl (Central America), Benten (Japanese love godess), and Caduceus (symbol of medicine). ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/33 "2002-07-08T18:57:58Z")
Welp, if it doesn’t have to start with the letter “Y”, then I like Ssssamantha, or Sammy for short. I loved Sammy the Snake on Sesame Street. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Doubting\_Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Doubting\_Robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubting_Robert)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/34 "2002-07-08T19:26:57Z")
Some 30 years ago, we caught a DeKay snake on our patio and named it Samantha, or Sam for short. Shortly thereafter, friends of ours caught a similar snake and named it Endora. Bewitched was popular at the time. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/35 "2002-07-08T20:12:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Narile \* > \*\*If you are a Monty Python fan (And with a constrictor snake how can you not be) spell it Yatched, and pronounce it Mangrove Throatwarbler. \*\* I don’t think corn snakes are constrictors. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/36 "2002-07-08T21:16:46Z")
Actually, **Opal** , corn snakes _are_ constrictors. They kill their prey via constriction in a manner pretty much identical to pythons: strike (and hold), wrap around, squeeze in response to prey’s exhaling (preventing them from inhaling–they don’t “crush” their prey as movies suggest), and then swallow head-first once the prey is either dead or unconscious. However, unlike pythons (which constrict from birth/hatching), little baby corn snake here will eat her prey immediately. She just grabs on to the head and starts swallowing–squirming, live prey notwithstanding. That should do for the Ick! factor of the day. “Constrictor” is often associated with the Columbian red tail boa constrictor species (big, BIG snakes very commonly found as hatchlings at pet stores); it is actually just a descriptor. Whereas all pythons are constictors, not all constrictors are pythons. And heck, apparently not all “constrictors” are constrictors! I found this [here](http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/coluber/c._constrictor%24narrative.html) regarding the blue racer–_coluber constrictor_: > [@](#): > > Racers are carnivores. They have very broad diets that consist of insects, frogs, lizards, nestling birds, small mammals, and even other snakes (Greene, 1997). Their food is not constricted as the name would imply, instead a loop of the snake’s body is thrown over the struggling victim, pressing it down (Conant and Collins, 1998). ---
**Author:** ![Winkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/41988e/32.png) [@Winkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winkie)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/37 "2002-07-08T22:10:05Z")
Baby snakes!! I love baby snakes!! They’re so small and cute 
 which is why I’m not allowed to go to the reptile shows anymore, even to look 😉 She is quite adorable! We had a corn for a number of years – he was beautiful orange and red with very little black. When he was a baby, he had a thing for hiding in long hair and sticking his head out like a periscope. I like Medusa for a school snake name, although Cleopatra has always been a favorite snake name of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/38 "2002-07-08T23:53:03Z")
I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned “Yvonne” yet. (what I initially thought when reading the OP) Or maybe they have, but I missed it. Anyways, as for “Y” names? These names are from my baby name book: [ul] [li]Yaffa (Hebrew for “lovely”)[/li][li]Yalena (a Russian variant of Helen, which is Greek for “light”)[/li][li]Yaminah (Arabic for “suitable, proper”)[/li][li]Yehudit (Hebrew for “praise”)[/li][li]Yetta (an Old English diminutive of Henrietta, which is Old German for “ruler of the house”)[/li][li]Ynez (Spanish variant of Agnes, which is Greek for “pure”)[/li][li]Yoko means “good, positive” in Japanese[/li][li]Yolanda is the Spanish version of Violet
 and is Greek for “violet flower”[/li][li]Yonina (Hebrew for “dove”
 maybe not the best name for a snake if you’re going on name meaning alone)[/li][li]Yosepha (a feminine form of Joseph, which is Hebrew for “Jehovah increases”)[/li][li]Ysabel (a variant of Elizabeth, which is Hebrew for “pledged to God”; via “Isabel”)[/li][li]Ysanne (a modern name which is a combination of Elizabeth and Anne; found in Britain)[/li][li]Yuliya (a Russian variant of Julia, which is Latin for “youthful”)[/li][li]Yvette is actually a diminutive of Yvonne[/li][li]Yvonne (a feminine form of Ivo, which is French [from Old German] for “yew wood”)[/li][/ul] Variants of the above names which also start with Y: [ul] [li]Yaffah[/li][li]Yelena[/li][li]Yamina, Yemina[/li][li]Yudita, Yuta[/li][li]Yette[/li][li]Ynes[/li][li]Yona, Yonah, Yonina, Yoninah, Yonit, Yonita[/li][li]Yosefa, Yuseffa[/li][li]Ysabell, Ysabella, Ysabelle, Ysbel, Ysbella, Ysobel[/li][li]Yulenka[/li][li]Yevette, Yvetta[/li][/ul] Variants of “Yasmin” (Arabic for Jasmine): [ul] [li]Yasmeen[/li][li]Yasmeena[/li][li]Yasmena[/li][li]Yasmene[/li][li]Yasmina[/li][li]Yasmine[/li][li]Yazmine[/li][/ul] Variants of “Yolanda”: [ul] [li]Yalanda[/li][li]Yalonda[/li][li]Yola[/li][li]Yoland[/li][li]Yolande[/li][li]Yolanta[/li][li]Yollande[/li][li]Yolantha[/li][li]Yolanthe[/li][li]Yulanda[/li][/ul] F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/39 "2002-07-09T00:01:19Z")
Forgot to mention another movie tie-in for your bouncing baby. Since you’ve got a male named Henry, how about [June](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0099762)? That would be her birthday month as well. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834/40 "2002-07-09T00:14:45Z")
Well, just so long as you don’t name her Anne, Katherine, or Jane. F\_X [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gots-a-new-baby-snake-wanna-help-name-her/117834.md?page=3)