I really want a female shiba and in my heart her name is Sunny. I have wanted this for several years now but there's always some kind of extenuating circumstance that gets in my way. Usually, I name pets after cartoon characters.
I started out with a hamster I named Puar (I was a DBZ fan) and after him, a hamster named Rutee (after the Tales of character) and then hamsters Nash (Lunar) and Yuki (Fruits Basket).
I had a LOT of guinea pigs (16 of my own, fostered 3 others). Some I named myself, some were adopted from shelters and I didn't change their names. They were Crewger (Dragon Knights), Rastaban and Zozma (SaGa Frontier), Jinx (Teen Titans), Rem (not sure), Grey, Snowball, and Frosty (adopted, didn't name them), Chevalier and Cozette (just French names), Syris (I just liked it), Stryker (didn't name him), Haru (Fruits Basket), Minion (Megamind), Boo and Lemmy (Mario). I stopped keeping guinea pigs... Some of them died in a way that made it traumatic. The last one, Lemmy, died a couple of years ago of a sudden stroke and it broke me. I miss having the little critters, though. There's just nothing quite like them in the world! Keep in mind, I had 2-6 at a time, I didn't have all 16 at once.
Then my cats. Susumu was my very first cat, a black and white that chose from a litter my sister's cat had. I was in love with her from the literal day she was born, when I picked her. I brought her home when she was old enough and I loved her so so much. The way she passed away still pisses me off to this day but that's not a story for this post.
After Susu, I took in another black and white female, Belle, who had been left behind when her owners moved out. I discovered she was pregnant... like two days before she gave birth to three all black males. We thought they were all girls though so my husband (boyfriend at the time) and I named them Verdandi, Skuld, and Urdr. Urdr was adopted to my husband's coworker who renamed him Six. Verdandi became Dandy. We also had an outdoor cat we called Charlie (after the character on Lost, but she turned out to be a girl. Name still worked.) Belle and Skuld passed away within 3 days of each other in March 2022. We had to put Charlie down after a year long battle with kidney failure. That was in November.
Right now I have Dandy, Rigby, Moxxie, and Momo. Dandy is the oldest, he's 13 and I've had him for every one of those years. Rigby was named after the Regular Show character. Moxxie after the Helluva Boss character and Momo after the lemur in ATLA.
Sorry this got long. I like the names I picked over the years, even if some of them make me cringe a little now. But I'd say of all the current names, Rigby is my favorite. But then I do have a fondness for pet names ending in the y or ie sound. <3