Whaaaattt!!!?!! 
Rauli! A Finnish male name! 
It sounds so funny! I can imagine a dialogue like:
– Have you seen Rauli?
– He’s hoovering there under the bed!
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I hope this not something that Finnish men usually do 
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Do you mean basses or robot vacuum cleaners? How did you come up with the names?
Robot vacuums.
Badgers are an ongoing joke with our kids. Maude is my wife’s nickname that she hates.
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@Whying_Dutchman How many basses do you have? I remember reading about Ronin and The Pink one (was this the name?). Do all your basses have names? How did you come up with Ronin?
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My other basses don’t have names. Just an identifier. “The Reverend” “The Fretless” “The Sire” “The Ibanez”.
The new SBV-550 I got from @howard is the Rad Bass. It will probably become “Rad Red”, “Red Rad”, or “Radical REdward” (in reference to Cowboy Bebop)
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How does she feel about having a robot vacuum named after her?
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These are very cool names!
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I have:
- Ronin - that’s my park bass. It’s sneaky, but powerful And black.
- Pink’s Hot - cause it is kind of pink (well, it’s not at all, but for argument’s sake). It’s not very “heterosexual”, but I am man enough to play it proudly
- Minty-minty-mint - cause of the colour. And the absolutely great Dutch Mentos commercial from the 80s…
Classic!
EDIT
Ooooh - and I have a little bass hidden under the bed. It’s called “Chucky”
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The same way she feels about having Maude as a nickname, it she doesn’t know how to change the name in the app 
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Looks so awesome after you changed the pickguard colour!
I think it isn’t a girlish pink, more of a metallic lavender? I don’t like pink, but I like the colour of that bass.
That’s a great name! 
Nooooo! It’s named after the freaky toy from that movie? I would prefer an Alien under my bed!
Ps: I watched Alien when I was a young child. I didn’t find it scary, except for the “facehugger” (the thing that jumped from the egg and grabbed someone’s face). I remember that before going to sleep after watching the movie as a child, I looked under my bed, just in case
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Yeah! It’s @Wombat-metal ‘s fault. He inspires me to most nonsense here (keeping basses cause they have a name, modding cheap basses…)
Well, you found a name for your bass: BassHugger
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Naahh, naming it after that creature would mean it would have to be stored under the bed, like Chucky. Maybe someday a name will just come to mind.
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Those are great names.
I never named instruments until I got my SBV-800MF, because it was just too damn obvious to name it “Miki”.
…and so then the natural name of my current seafoam green SBV-550 would then be “Fumi”.
My matte black BB734a is named “Captain BAMF”. It just fits. Here’s Hooky playing one, you’ll see why. I should get a pirate sticker for it when the matte starts to wear smooth:
His son Jack has one of the burst ones there too, he owns 11 of them in different colors, some custom colors he uses for the Smashing Pumpkins.
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These are great names! I would probably have named that bass as Miki as well.
If someday I would buy a Schecter Simon Gallup signature bass, it would be easy to name it Simon. But the current Squire is difficult to name. I’ll eventually come up with a name. I have some ideas, but none of them resonates with it…
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Wait… If I only have one bass, and then I name it… Could this lead me to acquiring more bass guitars? 
I have to seriously think of all the possible consequences of this deceptively simple decision…
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My three guitars are all red, I call them Red, Green and Blue, in order of acquisition.
Because I am odd that way
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When reading through the Forum, I saw many guys gave their basses female names. But to me it’s exactly as @andrea-slnd said: if I had to give it a name, it would be male because of the tone. When I got my black Fender acoustic-electric bass, the name “Black Beauty” came into my mind. But nope, that is the name of a horse from books resp. movies and way too cheesy. So no way! My Squier Affinity PJ doesn’t have a name, I think of it as “The Bass”. I don’t think that a bass necessarily has to have a name anyway.
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I have a lot of basses, but only two have names: my new metallic black Dingwall SP1-4 is “Ebony” and my Ducati white Dingwall SP1-5 is “Ivory”.
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