I felt so “on it” about Baby Horse’s name. I had it narrowed down before he was even conceived, and it didn’t take me very long into Sadie’s gestation before I settled on Magic Word – barn name Presto. It had to be an M name because we had fully intended to take this foal RPSI, Sadie’s registry of birth. For them, foal names follow the first letter of the sire’s name. Mighty Magic = M.
But then a few weeks ago Michelle and I started brainstorming about some other things, and I got some news about Sadie’s registration status (great news! which I will share whenever it’s all final). For several different reasons, it would really be tremendously easier if we did sBs for registration instead. I don’t mind this at all, because the sBs folks were so incredibly gracious to us on our Belgium visit a couple years ago. They’re super nice, and while sBs is a small registry, they’ve managed to produce a lot of good horses.
Plus their brand looks like the Budweiser symbol, which greatly amuses me for some reason. This is a Budweiser Warmblood, y’all.
All was well and good with that until Michelle reminded me that their naming convention is different – they do a certain letter every year. This year it’s L. So close to M, but not. You know what doesn’t start with L? MAGIC WORD.
Well shit.
So I’ve spent the past week trying to figure out a decent L name with little success. Karen threw out Like Magic, which is the only one I like so far. And it still works with Presto. I’ve googled magic terms, harry potter spells and characters, french words, you name it. No luck. You’re killing me, sBs.
I mean, I could just put Le in front of Magic Word for registration purposes and be done with it (and just drop the Le for showing) but that seems kinda Lame (bonus points for L-word). Anybody got ideas for L names that have something to do with magic in some way? I suddenly feel so unprepared.
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Levitate or Leviosa?
Nothing like adding to the stress of a new baby! I’m so picky about names I’d be freaking out
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I like Leviosa except it ends in a which to me makes it feminine. So I nixed that one, unless it fools us and pops out a filly. Levitate I feel is a bad omen, like the horse will be naughty as hell LOL.
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All I can picture here is Hermione’s quote, “You’re saying it wrong. It’s Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa.”
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I was going to say Leviosa too! Levi is a cute nickname…I like Presto too.
Keeping with the HP/magic theme, Lucious Malfoy would be a hilarious name for competitions. As in your competition will be like, “Oh shit here comes Malfoy.”
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Hahahaha
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LOL that’s amazing. So many cool magic names!!
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Well, what about instead of Leviosa you have something like Leviost or Levioste? (My brain thinking of it as Leh-vee-augh-st lol). Although I have to say I do love LeMagic Word. That would be GREAT LOL.
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Leviosa is great! Especially if you’re planning to jump and/or go airborne in some capacity! 😂
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LEVITATION
The ability to float oneself, another person or an object, with no apparent means of support, as if the rules of gravity do not apply.
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I’m superstitious about naming them things that I don’t want them to live up to, and with levitate/levitation I’m picturing a horse that’s so naughty it never leaves the stratosphere!
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Oh I pictured a horse jumping so effortless it looked like gravity did apply to it. 😊😊
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I had that image for about 2 seconds before I pictured a horse so damn naughty it never actually came back down to the ground LOL.
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Absolutely no help as I am the worst at naming anything, but as a side note I now know that labeorphily means the study of beer labels and will hopefully be using lardaceous (of or pertaining to lard) in my vocabulary on a more regular basis.
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Lord of the Rings … Not that I’ve seen the movies though, haha.
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I know this seems weird because I loooove HP and Narnia… but I hate LotR (shhh don’t tell anyone).
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Ditto.
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There’s always Lumos:
https://www.pottermore.com/explore-the-story/wand-lighting-charm
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Yeah thats the best one but there are SO MANY Lumos’ out there now.
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Oh well… maybe it’s not the worst idea to avoid giving your horse a name that literally means “light up”. 🙂
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Yeaaaaaah probably not! lol
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Legerdemain : it means ‘skilful use of one’s hands when performing conjuring tricks.’
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I liked that one but didn’t think anyone would ever be able to pronounce it correctly (or know wtf it meant).
Maybe I’m not giving announcers enough credit.
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A direct translation would be ‘Light of Hand’, which would work 🙂
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+1 to Legerdemain (or Light of Hand) from Jill – that was my very first thought.
I think the announcers would figure it out, my last mare was Callirhoe, it took a few tries but if they can figure that out they can figure anything out.
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When I first saw the title of this post I thought of ‘love’ and how people refer to love as the L Word or the big L. I am not sure if I thing it is funny, interesting, or do not like it at all lol. I think I might think it is funny! If I heard that announced in a class, I would chuckle and then want to see the pair. You would have a myriad of barn names to chose from with that category. You could even stick with Presto.
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Don’t joke…Robin’s registered name is Norfleets Little Luv. Her barn name when purchased was Luv. Easiest decision to change a horse’s barn name ever. rotfl.
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Love…er luv it haha
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El Amor Brujo – Spanish for “Love, the Magician” – (the title of an opera). Or skip the Spanish, which is a bit obscure after all, altho’ the “El” is pretty crafty, and just go with Love, the Magician.
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El is an E. I want something one word or two short words ideally, since it has WTW after it as well. Don’t want it to be a huge mouthful!
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Love it!
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I’m a big fan of folklore and Labezerin is demon associated with success and Lemuria is supposed lost continent, kind of like Atlantis.
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You had me til demon. LOL a success demon???
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yea, everything is lore is a demon. lol!
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This is Norse…Liefneis Flames A drink. Odin gave this drink to the hero Hadding to give him great strength and courage.
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Mine is completely cheesy but I thought of Love Potion or Love Spell. Probably not the best choice for a gelding. Lord of Illusion? L is tough! I also do like Karen’s suggestion of Like Magic and yours of prefixing with Le.
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Yeah I like using the word love if it’s a filly. Which… who knows, it might be! Fetal sexing isn’t 100% accurate.
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I think he should be LOL. Hahahahahahaha!
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then we can put the WTF (willow tree farm) suffix on the end instead of the WTW (willow tree warmbloods) and make it LOL WTF.
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YES!
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I just spit my coffee all over my keyboard hahahahahaa
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Just call him Lezbian and be done with it.
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Lezbo for short?
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There are a couple L Harry Potter spells that aren’t super overused like Lumos.
Levicorpus
Legillimens
Locomotor
There’s also the few variations of Lumos that would help differentiate; Lumos Maxima, Lumos Solem (only in the movie, but it still counts).
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I had a hard time with anything using the word corpus LOL. The rest I just didn’t think rolled off the tongue very well as a horse name. I swear I exhausted every HP terminology and glossary website on the internet.
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Lumineer?
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Little Bit of Magic?
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Liquid luck? Not very magic-y but HP fans might recognise it?
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I love Liquid Luck except the next place my brain went was Liquid Lunge, which is kind of a slang term for Ace. Now all I can think of is drugging lol.
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Also, lumoava looses translates to magic in Finnish, maybe too feminine?
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What about the french word “Levant” — the term Levant entered English in the late 15th century from French.[3] It derives from the Italian Levante, meaning “rising”, implying the rising of the sun in the east. (shamelessly stolen annotation from the interwebs)
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I like that!
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It also more commonly means the Middle East, so that may be something to think about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant
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The Levant is also refers to a large portion of the middle east where lots of cool fossil hominids can be found!!
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Little Bit of Magic
Less Talk, More Magic (eh… I don’t know about this one)
Lesson of Magic
Let the Magic Begin
Lumen – Latin noun for “light, star, brightness”
Lior – Hebrew for “Light for me”
Lemurian Star – Lemurian is said to be a lost land kinda like Atlantis. Idk, I was listening to so music while I was writing and I have some soundtracks mixed into my playlist. And one came up called that from Captian America. (who knew?)
^^ might wanna do a little research those first because I hardly know anything about it.
Lórien meaning “Land of Gold, dream”. I read above saying that you didn’t like LOTR but I found this one interesting.
Anyways, half of these are horrible but just throwing out ideas. And HH Azur is by far my all time favorite horse in the SJ ring. That mare and Mclain Ward make an amazing team.
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Too bad it wasn’t F instead and then you could have called him Fantastic Beast XD
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Le Fantastic Beast
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Liquid Luck is so cute! And Like Magic is great too.
Lord Voldemort. HAHAHA. Talk about a name being a bad omen.
Levi O Sa. Call him Levi. Then you could go around telling people, “It’s LeviOOOOsa, not LevioSAAA.”
Larch is a wandwood. But not a very pretty name.
Lord Stoddard Withers was apparently a breeder of winged horses in the HP universe and has a Chocolate Frog card. Sort of a goofy name though!
Chinese Fireball dragons are sometimes known as Liondragons – that’s kind of cool. But could also mean you have a horse that acts like a lion/dragon.
This is challenging!
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All I can think of when I think L is Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast. However, you could do Lumiere Magique or something along those lines. I’m not much help. if I ever needed to name a baby horse, I’d totally be on the struggle bus.
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Lumiere was going to be my suggestion too! What says magic like a talking candle?
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I think a talking candle is the epitome of magic. 😁 Maybe I’m also not the only one with the new beauty and the beast movie on my mind. Ha
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I’m such a sucker for French names and there are so many good L ones for boys. Hey, starting the name with “Le” sounds like it works as well (not lame)
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leave it to the magic
(too wordy?)
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Yeah, probably too long considering WTW still has to go on the end.
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Le Mot Magique.
Magic Word in french.
Voila.
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Oh man, I wish I had a blog so all these people could help me decide on a name for my yearling filly, I’m still struggling!
I love Liquid Luck as a HP nerd!
If it ends up being a filly by surprise I love Leviosa!
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Yeah I like Leviosa for a filly too!
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They might already be taken, but…
Lasting Spell
Let’s Make Magic
Love Potion (Number 9)
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Oh shit. I’m no help for this at all. I’m driving the struggle bus on naming ideas for my nugget at this point too and it is driving me bananas. I really do like Like Magic though. I do know a pony with the barn name of Magic…which came from his registered name being Bronzini. Rotfl. I know, I’m useless.
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Lumiere
Little Magic Words
Lamplighter
Lost Magic Word
Loquacious
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Lumenario/a? Kind of magic-y.
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Laputa (a magical floating island in the sky)
Likely Magic
Likely Magical
Literally Magic
Last Magic
Learning Magic
Lasting Magic
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– License To Do Magic (probably too long and maybe dumb??)
– Let There Be Magic
– Left To Magic
– Little Bit Magical
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Lux Magic
Lens Magic
Loch Magic
Lark Magic
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As you know my name ideas are awful. I barely managed naming my own horse with an L name!
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Another vote for Like Magic…short, simple, easy to announce.
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I’m the least creative person for this. Good Luck!
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Lord of Light, barn name R’hollor (only if you’re a Game of Thrones fan 😀 )
Le Magic Touch (husband tells me this the official French translation, I think with the Le it’s sexy enough for shows)
I also love Like Magic…
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Luck of the Draw?That’s not really a magic term is it? But there IS a lot of magic in gambling. I LOVE thinking of horse names, but this ones got me stumped
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How about “Literally Magic”? You know, as opposed to figurative magic 😉
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That sounds so millennial!! 😂
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Hahaha! It really does… maybe just Literal Magic?
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Le Magicien. French for “the magician”. You could change it to La Magicienne if it turns out to be a filly 🙂
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Or otherwise magical person… wizard/sorceress. You get the L and the magic theme
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Lone Star Magic
All this picking of names is making me want a baby…horse.
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Lucky Magic Word…. Presto
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I kind of love the sound of Legilimens, but I’m also a HP nerd. Otherwise the only ideas I keep coming up with a prescription drug names because help I work in a hospital. I mean, who wouldn’t want a horse named Levemir?!
http://phrontistery.info/l.html this has some interesting ideas!
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How about Likes Surprises? Then you can keep the name Presto.
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Non blogger but brainstorming.
la formule magique – not really sold on this one (too long) but means the magic spell in french and thought it tied both mighty magic and spellbound together.
Legend
Lawful magic
Last(ing) spell
My vote is with Like Magic. Seems to flow the easiest and not common/overused.
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And now I realize it’s westbound, not spellbound. Woops:)
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I went through this with the BWP, for an H and an I (see, Interlaken). It makes it more difficult because you don’t want to choose a name everyone else is likely to choose. A few suggestions:
Leap into Magic
Lachlan (just because I like the name)
Laudable
Labyrinth
Lasting Magic
Leeward (sort of fits with Westbound)
Legacy
Legit/Legitimate Magic
Le Magie (French for “the Magic”)
Limitless
Logical Magic
Longview
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Maybe:
Last Word
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Lord of Time (because I think that everyone needs a Doctor Who – themed horse name in their lives)
Lasting Magic
Ley Line
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The obvious choice: Longbottom
Also, Lupin?
Lithomancer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithomancy – “a form of divination by which the future is told using stones or the reflected light from said stones”)
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If you want something no-one in USA can pronounce properly, “Lumlingo Izwi” means “The magic word” in Zulu. Or “Lizwi Magic” in Xhosa. Or go totally wild with “Lentsoe Boselamose” in Sesotho!
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