# Names for a pet, with "white color" connotations? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 17, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088 "2019-05-17T00:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/1 "2019-05-17T00:36:53Z")
I need names for an animal, where the defining factor is a pure white coat. This is a female, although androgynous names are welcome. Any language is welcome. Back story: I’m breeding a less well-known species of rodent (African soft furred rats, or ASFs) and finally hit a big personal goal of getting self (solid colored) in an all white individual. Not albino; she has black eyes. Scoff, but they haven’t been domesticated yet and don’t have the rainbow available in regular rats or mice. I think I have the first/only self ASF in my state, which is neat-o for the rodent breeding community. Admittedly a small tribe. I just recently bred her opposite - solid ASF in dark brown - so feel free to suggest names for them, too! ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/2 "2019-05-17T00:44:30Z")
Angelica for the female and Damion for the male? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/3 "2019-05-17T00:48:25Z")
Bianca. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/4 "2019-05-17T00:50:54Z")
Snow is an obvious one, as is Blanca. Ooo, expand Ulfreida’s Bianca to Miss Bianca (from The Rescuers). From here: [Names with "white" in Meaning - Behind the Name](https://www.behindthename.com/names/meaning/white) the ones I like are: Arwyn, Blanche, and Guinevere. From here: [https://wagwalking.com/name/dog-names-meaning-white](https://wagwalking.com/name/dog-names-meaning-white) Blizzard, Frost, and Pearl. Also Buttermilk. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/5 "2019-05-17T00:57:45Z")
I like Arwyn and Pearl. May I possibly trouble you for a picture of your lovely furred friends? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/6 "2019-05-17T00:58:13Z")
Whitey. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/7 "2019-05-17T00:59:16Z")
Fokey. short for 4,000 kelvin. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/8 "2019-05-17T01:01:33Z")
Q-Tip Puff Sparkle Tinker(since you’ve been breeding for this result) ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/9 "2019-05-17T01:17:51Z")
Call them both Mokona. [https://www.google.com/search?q=mokona&client=ms-android-metropcs-us&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizseCUsqHiAhXidd8KHWmnBZEQ\_AUIFSgC&biw=360&bih=512](https://www.google.com/search?q=mokona&client=ms-android-metropcs-us&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizseCUsqHiAhXidd8KHWmnBZEQ_AUIFSgC&biw=360&bih=512) ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/10 "2019-05-17T01:26:33Z")
Japanese: Haku, Shiro, Yukie ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/11 "2019-05-17T02:08:48Z")
Beck has always sounded great to me;) I have very pale blond to silver hair. And I’m not an albino either. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/12 "2019-05-17T02:15:11Z")
Pure white, so… Blackie? ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/13 "2019-05-17T02:25:42Z")
Alba. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/14 "2019-05-17T02:32:04Z")
Marshmallow and Hershey ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/15 "2019-05-17T02:33:04Z")
Iztac ---
**Author:** ![BlueInfinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BlueInfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueInfinity)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/16 "2019-05-17T02:46:04Z")
I second “Bianca.” It is the feminine Italian form of “white”, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/17 "2019-05-17T02:58:34Z")
Various foreign words meaning white Ak (Turkish) Albus (Latin) Baltums (Latvian) Bela (Macedonian) Bodas (Sundanese) Branco (Portuguese) Cad (Somali) Chena (Shona) Dawb (Hmong) Fotsy (Malagasy) Funfun (Yoruba) Geal (Irish) Gwyn (Welsh) Hvid (Danish) Ke’o-ke’o (Hawaiian) Khaw (Thai) Lefko (Greek) Niveus (Latin) Pandhara (Marathi) Pur (Romanian) Puti (Filipino) Safeda (Punjabi) Seto (Nepali) Shiro (Japanese) Spitak (Armenian) Telupu (Telugu) Tetri (Georgian) Trang (Vietnamese) Ucha (Igbo) Valko (Finnish) Veḷḷai (Tamil) Wit (Afrikaans) Zoreya (Chichewa) Zuri (Basque) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/18 "2019-05-17T03:40:04Z")
Brownyn is from a Welsh name, meaning “white / fair breasted” ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/19 "2019-05-17T04:57:05Z")
My all white ball python is named Cracker. I make no apologies for that. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088/20 "2019-05-17T05:02:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Various foreign words meaning white > Albus (Latin) > Branco (Portuguese) > Niveus (Latin) Alba, Branca and Nivea respectively, being a lady. In Portuguese the gent’s color is Castanho; Marrón or Castaño in Spanish. Castanho/Castaño also means the chestnut tree, and chestnuts are marrons (marron singular) in French. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-pet-with-white-color-connotations/834088.md?page=2)