How'd your dæmon get its name?

[Okibi]

I'm just curious about how everyone here named their dæmon, since there isn't any specific way to. I'd also like to see which choice gets the most votes. =P For me, the answer was #6. Before Rannock had a name other than My Dæmon, I randomly called him "Rookie" during one of our playful arguments outside. We decided almost right away that this was to be his name. ^^

[StephXZed]

Well, at first, when Zed was just a simple 'voice', I didn't want anything flashy or annoying. Zed just popped into my brain as being rather mysterious and sly, kinda, because I didn't know much about this voice.

When I finally 'claimed' him as my daemon we tried to change it, but Zed it finally stayed. Nothing else worked.

There's also a person in MIB who's name is Zed. I didn't know that until last Saturday.

[Kirryn]

With me and Etirienne, it was weird...he was called "Etienne" for about six months (after I stopped calling him "my dæmon", I mean), and it was...I don't know, odd. Like there was something that didn't quite click. And then one day, I said, "It's Etirienne, isn't it?" and it just fit! And he's been Etirienne ever since ^_^

[Cho]

For me it was also number six. I had been struggling to find a good name for him for a couple months and then suddenly the name "Kirjavi" popped into my name and it just fit perfectly.

Etirienne-sorry, I'm slow. Welcome to the community and it's nice to meet the both of you! Etirienne is a pretty name! I'm Cho and my margay daemon is Kir.

[Monkey and Bellanei]

Wei spent a lot of time thinking of the name. So, I guess we chose it together....

[SNL_Ali]

Popped into my head. Stuck ever since!

[Key & Nax]

I came up with my dæmon's name when I was about ten or eleven years old, straight after I'd read HDM for the first time. I was thinking, "Wouldn't it be cool to have a dæmon..." and all of a sudden 'Panaka' came into my brain and I knew.

I didn't meet him until years later, though, when I clicked on a random link and found the Dæmon Page...

[ice]

We thought of it together, but she gave me the first few letters, so it was both 1 and 2.

[Kroven/Fenris]

Read a fan fic, saw the name Fenris and it just clicked. ;D

[Cat]

Hmm ... Am I the only one whose dæmon told them directly? Oh, wait, no ... someone voted that ... Well. I believe Pocket was also the only dæmon to suddenly pop into existence. I'd never read Okibi's site or HDM before I'd met him. It felt so weird when suddenly there was what felt like another being in my mind ... Thank goodness my friend had read HDM ... anyway. I'm rambling. Pocket has always been his name, but I did also give him the name Pandareos. Still ... Pocket's the name he was meant to have.

[rave & phair]

Mine is a cross between One and Two, but I voted the latter.
I coined the word "darket" about a week before meeting him. A week after I met him, I was trying to fit that word into a poem--he fluttered up onto my shoulder and said "That's it."

Interesting poll question.

[Annie]

Heh, I'm not quite sure if I should vote the last one or the third one. I was looking through a list of generated names for ideas and I saw Rhokath. I didn't like 'Rhokath' too much because it didn't have a meaning to me. Rho told me that Rhokath was his name and that it ment 'Wild Magic'. Which is also something he believes I posses. (If you have ever read the Immortal series by Tamora Peirce then you know what I'm talking about.) *shrugs* He tries to get me to meditate and work with it, but it's strange for me. When I try I feel this weird power vibrating through my body, and no it's not my heartbeat because I can feel that as a separate thing. (for a while I thought it was my heart beat until i realized i should listen for it just to make sure) It's very strange.

EDIT: Also I think maybe it came in a dream....I'm serious. I was dreaming that this lady was telling me my daemon's name, and I tried so hard to remember it...It reminded me of the word 'cocoa' and yes, 'Rhokath' does remind me of 'cocoa' I couldn't remember it for a very long time, then I heard the word 'Cairo' and thought that might be it because it seems similar to 'cocoa' When I first read the name Rhokath, something in the back of my brain said 'that's it!...Right? Yeah, that's it!!!!' I didn't know what my brain was talking about until just now, when I thought about it some. Just a thought. Might be it, might not. Dunno. It probably is though....

[Monkey and Bellanei]

I figured it out- I found a notebook with, on one page, just names crossed out. I added things to the name 'Bell' and wei finally settled on Bellanei (Bell-Yan-Aye). I figured it out probably after two days or so. Don't know the exact date, but it was during winter break, which could be anytime this week or the week after.

[Zen]

Falel's name from Kalel, a name I made from the Elvish roots in the back of The Silmarillion. ( XD ::geek:: ) I just modified it slightly... for some reason the letter 'k' in the front didn't feel right. So, I went throught the alphabet backwards, trying to figure something out. Falel seemed the best fit.
Also, roughly translated in Hebrew it means 'wonder of God'. Which dæmons are. ((Wei just felt like telling you that. XD))