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I guess it is hard to keep coming up with names for new turtles!
Here at the office, we have a list of names to pick from that staff, friends and volunteers have come up with for our new untagged turtles. Some of them have meaning ("Darcy" - meaning dark one) and some of them are named for friends and family that we have lost. I will never forget the meaning of the turtle names Eleanor, BG, Homcy and Linda Sue. Some of the names we pick are just named because we are a bit lazy and often look online for a simple list of names. This year, we have been using a list of names we all learned when we were young - state names of the United States! They do seem rather fitting though, Montana is a native American Indian word meaning "mountain" (she was a big turtle..) and the turtle Nebraska nested on a calm flat night which comes from a word meaning flat water.