What’s In a Name?: How Bloggers Chose Their Blog Names Part 3

It’s time for another edition of What’s In a Name? I always love hearing the stories behind people’s blog names, so I hope you do too. If you haven’t given me the story of your own blog name yet, leave it in the comments, and I might just do a part four!

What’s In a Name?: How Bloggers Chose Their Blog Names

My blog name is rather simple… it’s my name and then I just tacked on “Reads” to the end. I spent hours and hours trying to brainstorm something a bit more creative, but this is the one I kept coming back to. I really like my first and middle name, so it worked out. The funny part is, I have another hobby, photography, and my name for that is “Erica Robyn Photography.” So I haven’t been the most creative… but it does help with personal branding! I just loop everything in and keep the focus on my name.

• Erica, https://www.ericarobynreads.com/

When I started my blog, I wanted to post on a variety of topics. I planned to talk about my mom’s cancer battle, books, and gluten-free cooking. All of the names that I thought of were taken so I settled on Carole’s Random Life. I ended up only posting about books so my blog has always been a book blog. My daughter suggested I add in Books to my blog name so it is now Carole’s Random Life in Books.

• Carole, https://carolesrandomlife.blogspot.com/

Mine’s not super original in that I’m a Libra who likes all things Bookish, therefore my blog is The Bookish Libra. Since I like to write fair and balanced reviews, I liked the idea of using my zodiac sign since Libras are supposed to like all things balanced.

• Suzanne, https://thebookishlibra.com/

Mine originally was Deanna Writes, but since I started doing more book reviews I switched it to Deanna Reads Books, although I do write about non-bookish things now.

• Deanna, https://deannareadsbooks.blogspot.com/

I originally wanted mine to be “Life by Louise” (which is my middle name), but that was taken so I switched to “as” instead. It works because occasionally I’ll shorten it to LaL. I also originally signed off on posts as Louise but I use my actual name now.

• Audrey, Life as Louise  https://audielou.com/

I blog with my four sisters and my sister-in-law, and we named our blog This Blue Dress. We wanted a symbol of something we all shared together, and we settled on a beautiful blue dress that most of us wore to prom. My sister-in-law and one of my sisters also shared a blue dress! It also fit our tagline “A Closet Full of Inspiration.”

• https://thisbluedress.com/

When I first started my blog I called it Bon Chic Bon Gastronomique as a play on the French phrase Bon Chic Bon Genre which refers to kind of a preppy style. I studied French in college and used to be a French teacher. I wanted to combine my loves of style and food. I realized quickly that it was really hard to spell and super impractical. So a few years ago I changed it to my first and middle names, Shea Lennon. I figure my name won’t change and it doesn’t lock me into any specific niche, so I’m sticking with it!

• Shea, http://www.shealennon.com/

My husband and I decided on ours because of our matching tattoos – No Compass Necessary – I know it might be a little odd and hard to spell but it makes sense for us!

• Cassie, https://www.nocompassnecessary.com/

The blog was just supposed to be my thoughts on all kinds of things. Not really reviews or about books so I thought – here’s my opinion – For what it’s worth.

• Karen, http://www.fwiwreviews.net/

The original WLABBers bonded over their shared love for Cassandra Clare and her Shadowhunters books, and the blog name is a play on one of her famous quotes “We live and breathe words.”

• Sam, http://weliveandbreathebooks.blogspot.com/

I had a terrible time coming up with a name. I tried all the generic ones “Shannon Loves Books” and other such nonsense) but finally came up with this one- it’s a quote from Catching Fire, which is perfect (when Plutarch is dancing with Katniss, and he tells her he has a gamemaker meeting, shows her his Mockingjay watch and says “It starts at midnight” pointedly- this also comes back around later of course. Anyway, plus the fact that the only I time I was ever blogging was quite literally at midnight… it just kind of worked!

• Shannon, https://itstartsatmidnight.com/

Frequently I’ve thought about changing my blog name because I felt it was WAY too long – and honestly, it IS long. At 15, I didn’t THINK about specifics and just wanted a name. Funny enough, I was opening a gift in Wizard101 and got a bobblehead named Milos Bookwyrm, who is a side character. He’s in a world called Dragonspyre, so that’s kind of how I imagined the blog to be? I know I started with an owl, but I FINALLY got a dragon, which I think fits the name MUCH better. I didn’t want to use my name either, in the case I wanted to add other people or be too centered on books in case I went beyond. My core IS books, so while I’ve branched beyond (and now feel like I’m in a niche crisis), Bookwyrming Thoughts still fits?

• Sophia, http://bookwyrmingthoughts.com/

I remember when I wanted to start my blog, that I kept thinking of things I wanted to do with it. Books, without a doubt but.. I wanted something more than that? Some other “part” of me to incorporate as well. Which is how I came upon food but.. that sounded so lame – and everything else I came up with as well, until I started looking for something more fun than “food”. Aaaand then Books & Munches was born, hah. Haven’t regretted it once since!

• Kathy, https://booksandmunches.com/

I was reading A Dance with Dragons at the time and as I was racking my brain of something that was a little different A Dance with Books came forward, haha. Thanks George R.R. Martin.

• Annemieke, https://adancewithbooks.wordpress.com/

My name came from a desire to be candid and something that went along with books.

• https://candidcover.net/

My blog’s name is a mash-up of two book club name ideas that were bounced around with me and my friends (Book Sniffers & Bibliophiles Anonymous). However, when our book club idea fell through, I started my blog. Both of those names were taken on Blogspot at the time, so I wound up combining the two to get Book Sniffers Anonymous… and the rest is history.

• Kristin, http://booksniffersanonymous.com/

Mine is rather simple. I was always a dog person and so my nicknames and user names tended to reflect that more often than not. When I adopted my cat Parker, I wanted to show some love to my cat as well. And frankly, Musings of a Bookish Kitty has a nicer ring to it than Musings of a Bookish Puppy or dog–or even Canine. At least to my ears. Combining books with my love for animals was a good fit for me.

• Wendy, https://www.literaryfeline.com/

My blog name crushingcinders was first an online password made up one day when I was frustrated with the image of the perfect princess being how women are compared with.

• Sue, https://crushingcinders.com/

I wanted something to do with reading and something to do with the night (since I love both those things), and I really like alliteration, so “Metaphors and Moonlight” is what I came up with and what stuck.

• Kristen, https://blog.kristenburns.com/