For me it’s usually “the Peavey”, “the P”, “the other Peavey”, with the exception of Stingumathing. That said those are just nicknames. When I’m being formal it’s “you f!@#%^& thing”.
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My Fender Jazz (off-white body color and dark red, tortoise shell guard) is a she… And I call her The Red Witch.
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Mine is an “It”. Named after Uncle Itt.
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That is a harsh criticism on modern-day Hollywood 
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Until a bass says to me “Hey, slap me!” … it will always be “it”.
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It is/was typical to refer to ships as “she” with the idea that she was protecting her crew, and that was carried on to other types of vehicles. To me though, it makes little sense to arbitrarily gender other inanimate objects… I don’t name my bass, if I refer to it it’s “my pbass” or “my sire 5 string”. Even if something is masuline or feminine in other languages, i’m still going to call it “it” in english. A dress is masculine in spanish, are you going to call a dress “he”?
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Aww man, now Lisa feels left out.
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It’s “it” for me… like others here English is my second language, and the first time I heard someone call a car “she” I was 
confused, it didn’t sound right, still doesn’t even though in Spanish everything has a grammatical gender to keep the melody of the language, not to assign actual gender… anyways I only have one bass, so it’s just the bass
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Upon a little research, in English it comes down from 1375. English is a Germanic language, and German derived the word for ships from Latin, where Navis means ship, and the word is gendered feminine. All Latin words are gendered masculine, feminine, or neutral.
And it just carried forward to planes, trains, and automobiles. And instruments.
One of the most famous instruments has got to be Lucille.
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She’s next. Or maybe Vanity.
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Appolonia would be a good name now what I think about it.
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Purple rain, purple rain!
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I don’t know - have you seen the latest Matrix film ? 
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One of the guys on my Worship team calls my fretless Jazz “Risky” and the name has stuck.
No idea why he calls it what he does for he did not even know it was fretless until I showed him.
All in fun but I am going to get the word risky in Hebrew put on my bass
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I’m thinking Brown Mark will not quite make the cut.
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Brownmark would be a great bass name!
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Step 1, get a brown bass.
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‘P Bass’
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