Naming imaginary friends

[Eleuthera]

Two days ago I was discussing something with a colleague and at a point in the conversation I was in need of a random name. I used "Henk" (Dutch for Hank), the same that has been my go to name for my "imaginary friend"[footnote]When jokingly talking about imaginary friends, I don't think I ever had an imaginary friend for real[/footnote] for 20+ years.

So, what do you guys call your imaginary friends, or what's your go to name for use in examples? Do you even have a go to name? Am I the only one who does this?[footnote]I know no one is ever the only one, this is a joke[/footnote]

I honestly don't have a clue where this name came from, I don't know any Henk's (and I'm sure I didn't know any when I was 14 and started using it.)

 

[Bertylicious]

I deliberately try to mix it up otherwise I start getting my analogies confuzzled.

You know I don't think I ever had an imaginary friend growing up. I had a teddy bear called Sandy. Does that count?

 

[Spambot 3000]

I sometimes use Clyde, the name Garfield gave to his imaginary friend. Or Bob, Bob is good, nice and simple.

 

[The Night Angel]

I sometimes use Clyde, the name Garfield gave to his imaginary friend. Or Bob, Bob is good, nice and simple.

Ninja!! I use Bob a lot too. If not I like to make it sound as over the top as possible, something like Sir William Jeremy Fornsworth the fourth.....

 

[Scarim Coral]

Not really for me, I can randomly make a name out of nowhere.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

The name of the imaginary friend (a father figure) I've had since early childhood was, in all creativity, John. When I was younger, John just sounded like an older mans name, so I went with it. As for names I can use right up out of nowhere, chief among them are Baratus and Parias. Both are names I think sound great, and they're from a childhood favourite video game of mine, Hexen. I can give either of those two names to pretty much anything.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

I call mine "The Boss". He likes to tell me what to do, sometimes good things, sometimes bad things. Don't always listen to him though.

 

[prinxess]

Mine was called Carmine because I was devastated at Carmine's death in the first Gears of War...

 

[DoPo]

Erm, none. I never used names, not even sure why should I. Although, I did have a plush mouse I called Jerry, I don't know if that counts.

 

[thesilentman]

I used Harold for mine. And part of my name has Kumar. Take a guess why I picked Harold...

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I don't remember it, but I was told by my family on one occasion that when I was real young, like between 3 and 5, I had one named Momo-Free and one called Gree-Bee.

My brother had one that he used as a scapegoat, whenever he did something wrong when he was young, he would say that Sander did it.

The funny thing is that a few years later at a movie theater, my mom heard a woman call out "Sander!" and a little redheaded boy ran up to the woman. So apparently my brother had a grounded name for his imaginary friend. Granted that I have never heard of anybody else called Sander since then.

 

[Eleuthera]

The funny thing is that a few years later at a movie theater, my mom heard a woman call out "Sander!" and a little redheaded boy ran up to the woman. So apparently my brother had a grounded name for his imaginary friend. Granted that I have never heard of anybody else called Sander since then.

Sander is a reasonably common name here in the Netherlands (at least two national radio DJs with that first name), so possibly your brother had a Dutch imaginary friend... And the Dutch are all trouble, it is known...

 

[Longstreet]

I only use it when i need to get out of something (weither that be something i don't want to do or avoid punishment for something i did)

Not a go to name though, just the first thing that i think off

 

[Sonic Doctor]

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Sander is a reasonably common name here in the Netherlands (at least two national radio DJs with that first name), so possibly your brother had a Dutch imaginary friend... And the Dutch are all trouble, it is known...

I never knew that. Hmm, the things I can learn each day. My brother had a troubled Dutch boy as his imaginary friend, while mine were faceless creatures.

Though now looking back, I remember that for a boy, I had an ungodly number of stuffed animals, that I talked with and such. Though that could be that I was a very sheltered kid. From elementary to early high school, I must have only got to go over to friends' houses maybe dozen times at the most. I never actually got to go out and hang out with friends until around my junior year of high school, and that was because I finally had a car. My friends from high school lived about 45 minutes away from me, the equivalent of around 2 to 3 towns away from me.