# Roomba names

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roomba-names/633066>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 29, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roomba-names/633066 "2012-08-29T19:51:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roomba-names/633066/1 "2012-08-29T19:51:58Z")

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In [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=642622) thread there is a discussion about Roombas and it seems like a lot of people have named theirs.

I don’t have one but my mom named hers ‘Rambo.’

Who else named their Roomba?

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**Author:** ![Charley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roomba-names/633066/2 "2012-08-29T20:56:42Z")

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My daughter was 4 when we got ours and she named her, Daisy.

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**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roomba-names/633066/3 "2012-08-29T21:13:23Z")

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Not a roomba, but my parents named their robot pool cleaner “Bruce” after the mechanical shark in Jaws.

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**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roomba-names/633066/4 "2012-08-29T21:29:17Z")

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Ours doesn’t have an official name (mostly because my husband rolls his eyes at the thought), but I think of it as “Bonk”. It certainly does, a lot.

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**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:** [August 29, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roomba-names/633066/5 "2012-08-29T23:17:36Z")

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Not a Roomba, but we used to have a shop-vac with a missing wheel. We called him “Tripod,” after our dog.

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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roomba-names/633066/6 "2012-08-29T23:27:26Z")

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mine is “roo” of course.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roomba-names/633066/7 "2012-08-30T00:14:20Z")

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Robby. What can I say? We’re painfully unoriginal, sometimes.

I lobbied for either Andrew or R. Daneel, but I was overruled. Harrumph.

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**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roomba-names/633066/8 "2012-08-30T00:25:29Z")

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Sonny. From the movie I, robot.