# Recommend "House" names for my school **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636 "2008-03-25T03:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/1 "2008-03-25T03:20:37Z")
I teach at a middle school. We have separate “houses”, which are basically just teams of kids that have the same core teachers(Math, English, Social Studies, and Science). Anyway, this year the “house” names in our school are all sports teams. I teach for House Lions, and the other are all Michigan related sport team names. In 2006, I taught for House Chicago, and everyone had city names. I need suggestions for some cool themes that we could name the houses for next year. In the past, they’ve used Harry Potter, Survivor(tribe names), and other ideas. What might be some cool themes we could use for next year? I’m looking for something 6th/7th grade kids could get into and would be fun. Any ideas for house name? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/2 "2008-03-25T03:29:28Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] Any ideas for house name? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Religions - you can have a competition to determine the one true faith. ---
**Author:** ![DellieM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DellieM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DellieM)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/3 "2008-03-25T03:29:33Z")
Any ideas for house name? At our Secondary Colleges we have houses named after founding fathers and Civic Leaders of the city such as Hopetoun, Chaffey, Sturt and Deakin and other schools have named their houses after eminent Australian scientists or explorers. ---
**Author:** ![DellieM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DellieM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DellieM)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/4 "2008-03-25T03:31:21Z")
I’m actually surprised given the gambling nature of Aussies that we don’t have houses named after previous Melbourne Cup winners … Phar Lap, Archer, Makybe Diva … ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/5 "2008-03-25T03:33:10Z")
How about: Gregory Cuddy Wilson Cameron Chase Foreman and 13 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/6 "2008-03-25T03:56:27Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Religions - you can have a competition to determine the one true faith. [/QUOTE] Yes, I’m sure this would be wonderful. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/7 "2008-03-25T04:39:50Z")
Named after famous fictional doctors Watson House Fu Manchu House Who House House House Jekyll House Quincy House etc. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/8 "2008-03-25T04:42:11Z")
[QUOTE=NicePete] How about: Gregory Cuddy Wilson Cameron Chase Foreman and 13 [/QUOTE] What’s wrong with adding Cutthroat Bitch? ah yes, 6th and 7th graders…never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/9 "2008-03-25T04:44:36Z")
House Wax House Pancakes House Seven Betty Grables (National Lampoon’s _Doon_) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/10 "2008-03-25T04:55:15Z")
What about a Tolkien theme? There are Hobbits, Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, Trolls, and so on. Or place names. Gondor, Hobbiton, Rivendell… ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/11 "2008-03-25T05:05:19Z")
This is probably horribly geeky and if I were a student I’d probably hate it but considering their ages and the fact that there’s an Election in November maybe you could name them after branches of government. Senators Representatives Executives Judges If you want to keep with the “House XYZ” theme maybe you could conjure up something related to Washington D.C., White House, Pentagon, Smithsonian, Beltway etc. To simplify matters would could just go with Mount Rushmore presidents; Roosevelt, Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington. Give the kids an excuse to get curious about US History. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/12 "2008-03-25T05:16:06Z")
My middle school went with the names of colleges nearby. Downside: Rivalries. Upside: Gets kids thinking about college early. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/13 "2008-03-25T13:05:42Z")
It really depends on how many houses you have. Here are some themes that would work well if you had between 4 and 8, don’t know how well they would stretch to bigger numbers: Continents (Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe) Explorers (Cook, Columbus, Marco Polo, Livingstone) Shakespeare (Lear, Hamlet, Romeo, Puck, Othello, Cleopatra) Food (Italian, Chinese, French, Indian, Mexican) Famous queens (Victoria, Cleopatra, Elizabeth, Boudicea, Marie Antoinette) These ones you could expand fairly easily: Film genres (fantasy, drama, comedy, arthouse, animated, action, western) Music genres (rock, pop, country, classical, soul, gospel, disco) Capital cities of the world (London, Rome, Beijing, Nairobi, Singapore, Canberra) There are loads I could think of, but I don’t know whether they would appeal to 13 year olds. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/14 "2008-03-25T14:38:25Z")
House Corrino House Atriedes House Harkonnen House Richese etc. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/15 "2008-03-25T14:40:19Z")
Why not famous scholars? House Einstein House Gould House Newton (you get the idea) Or possibly famous Royal houses of the past, as sort of a history lesson. House Stuart House Lancaster House Capet House Bonaparte House Bourbon House Bernadotte House Romanov ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/16 "2008-03-25T14:42:59Z")
Ooo, wait, Peloponnesian wars: House Athens House Sparta House Corinth House Argos House Achaea House Megara House Samos etc. ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/17 "2008-03-25T14:50:40Z")
house BA Baracus house “Howling Mad” Murdock house Hannibal Smith house Templeton “Faceman” Peck There’s something there for everyone: house BA for the Jocks, house Hannibal for the young Americans that the world looks to for leadership, Faceman house for cheerleaders and the like, and house Murdock for the extravagant outcasts. I’d be in the last house ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/18 "2008-03-25T14:55:43Z")
Different groups of animals? Big cats, sea mammals, reptiles, farm animals (I’m saying choose names from those groups, not “House Big Cats” or “House Sea Mammals”) When I was a kid our “teams” were named…1,2,3,4,5 and 6. Whee! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/19 "2008-03-25T18:20:03Z")
Check out some university websites and see how they have named their residence halls. The newer ones frequently have some sort of theme in mind. For instance, there’s a set of dorms at UCSD named after famous exploratory ships, and UCI has a set named for places in LOTR. On the other hand a greater number of university dorms are probably named after founders and benefactors. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636/20 "2008-03-25T18:21:29Z")
[QUOTE=NicePete] How about: Gregory Cuddy Wilson Cameron Chase Foreman and 13 [/QUOTE] aww, I was gonna post that… 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-house-names-for-my-school/442636.md?page=2)