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For my breeding horses, I try to pick a name that has something to do with combining the parents names together. I use an online thesaurus a lot to find similar words, and sometimes the connections are kinda loose, but whatever.

So like this guy: Sandpiper Sauce, his sire is Sauce Spokesman and his Dam is Snappy Seagull. A Sandpiper is another type of bird, so that is the relation to Seagull and Sauce comes straight from his sire.
https://mesa.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=2771640

This one: Cougar Charisma, his sire is SmoothCat and his Dam is Attractive Mood. Cougar is related to Cat, and someone who is Attractive might have a lot of Charisma.
https://mesa.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=2959827

Totally use the random name generator for show horses.

I also combine the parents name but add a twist to it so it is unique.

Example:

(the parents names are Phantom Rose Boy and RS Pretzel twist )


Twisted Roses

@RamshornSportHorses Irachenok is my boy. It's called: keyboard smash and then delete/add letters until it sounds kinda like a name. :)) (If it does mean something, then, I totally knew that)

Anyways, I usually combine parents names like above, use random name generator to get inspiration, or base it off how they look.

lol I’ve wondered the same thing!

I do mostly what RAM described too.

My Mesa account is following a more stock breed format in naming (and I've got those horses dressed in western tack) in which parents' names get combined and eventually particular lines will be identifiable by a common name (think of all the Docs and Lenas and Cats in the AQHA world!)

My Forest account, I'm trying to land on that classy elegant warmblood naming that other players have mentioned above... it's harder than it seems like it should be, LOL, especially if you want to find a way to honor parentage within the name. Foundation stallion ended being named Holocene because that was the name of the song playing at the time I named him, but then trying to keep that name theme going for offspring was a challenge and I ended up way in the weeds on Wikipedia trying to pick other epoch names.