How in the world do ponies pick their baby names? Rainbow Dash

>>30884430
They don't

>>30884439
Well yeah, it's the show creators who choose the name.
In fanfics though, there's usually a naming ritual of sorts or the mother just knows, like destiny works through them.
Like the premise of Deepthroat Cockslut, when the doctor asks what the new foal's name is, and the mother is mortified to have to tell them.

Fanon, that has some real world basis from the old days (much older than Beowulf old), gives a good explanation.

Your name is whatever others choose to call you by. Surnames are a much looser concept overall, and these names are liable to change throughout one's life.

>>30884500

Even the worst fanon is better than nothing.

>>30884486

Could be worse. Could have been an asseater.

>>30884439

Faggot.

>>30884500
Applejacks parents episode outright states ponies change their name all the time

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Magical brainwashing machine that tells them what name is right so their child could become a cog in this system too, just as their parents, grandparents and etc. were
But, sometimes, mistakes may happen too

>your grand parents Fruit Sprout and Water Bucket were farmers
>your parents Pear Leaf and Dirt Seed were farmers
>you, Soil Fresh and your wife Tree Kicker are farmers
>your wife gives birth to a foal
>thinking
>thinking
>you name it Coin Golden

>>30884439
This

Just like CM, they don't chose shit
Someone's in control, or something, whether it's a god or destiny or whatever
The same someone/thing that controls the element of harmony and created harmony in the first place

At some point during the pregnancy, both parents realize that they know the baby's name
They 'think' they're the ones choosing it, but it's not true

>you've been living in Equestria for a few years now
>you somehow found a way to survive, you got a job, you got a house
>you even became a person some ponies may find enjoyable
>enough so that you could find her
>she found you, rather, but that's not important
>you never thought it would happen
>but somehow... there you are. And there she is. Close to you.
>Close enough to want children.
>and somehow, pony magic made it happen
>she's been pregnant with your child for about 7months now
>you know that he's coming soon. She is.
>it's a girl. your own little baby girl, growing inside the tummy of your loving wife.
>you still haven't found a name for her
>you want to discuss it with your wife, but everytime you bring it up, she dismisses it adding a quick 'you'll see'
>then one day, you understand
>you wake up, and you know her name. the name of your little girl
>you turn to look at your wife, she just woke up too, at the same time as you
>and her anxious look tells you that she woke up for the same reason
>you can't believe it
>it can't be happening
>what the fuck is this shit
>her hoof on your hand stops you from freaking out
>'I-It'll be okay dear, I'm sure--'
"What the fuck?! Our daughter's name is going to be Gaping Fuckhole?!"
>then you got jailed for sending three hundred seventy-three threat letters written in blood to the princess