Is this common?

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I noticed my daughter has very logical names for things. She names objects or people based on logical names. An example is that she has a green dinosaur and she named him green. Her other dinosaur is named plant because is it a type of dinosaur that eats plants. Her goldfish is name gold... guess why. Ta da he is gold. lol She also has names for people based on logical things as well. Like I have a very round face so she calls me pizza.

I was just wondering if this was common with other children or adults with AS.

One day at lunch time DS was in the kitchen with me as I was heating something up in the very ancient microwave we had when smoke started billowing out of the microwave. DS loudly exclaimed as he ran from the room "There's STINK in my face!" We thought this was a very apt description. One of his favorite toy animals is a giraffe with its eyes closed and he named it "Baby close eyes". If I thought for a while I could probably come up with lots of these.

Our son does the same thing. We have this old old stuffed dog with a wind up music box inside, he calls it "pup pup sing sing". We also brought home a wood sculpture of a cat, that has a leather collar with a bell hanging off of it. He named it "bone kitty". We were kinda surprised until he showed us the bell, and the opening on it was shaped like a bone His latest stuffy (a dog) has been given the name of "woofie" and his robin webkinz is "robby".

My 8yo aspie girl does the same thing - tigers named stripey, goldfish named goldie, etc... She's been doing this since she could talk. We asked her why she chooses those names and why not a name like 'Bob' or 'Carly' now that she in quite old enough to grasp the naming concept. She plainly states it's 'because that's the name they look like to me.'

Fair enough. Hard to argue with that logic.

Yep, sounds familiar. Every stuffed animal has a very practical name, as do the pets.

In the book "Look Me in the Eyes," John Elder Robinson talks a lot about this throughout the memoir.

When my daughter was a baby and we were naming her toys, we called them all things that related to how they looked, etc. E.g. her favourite teddy is called 'Duncan' as he wears dungarees and her elephant is called 'Chester' as he has a label which says, Marks & Spencer, Chester. It was logical and an easy way to remember and we've never forgotten the names of her many toys. She names her toys in a similar way. She has a plastic alien called 'Peopler', because he looks like a person. For some reason, the smiley faced yellow stretchy man is called 'John', and the Chicciobello doll is called 'Pop Star', which are both peculiar names for our household.

enjoy that one.. LOL my girl names everything these creative names.. everything has a name and she gets pretty irritated when others don't remember them or pronounce them correctly, etc. It's a pain in the rear and has been for years.

I find my kids do that kind of thing too. We lived in a two storey house just for a few months where the living areas were on the top level. My son called it 'the achy leg house''.
My daughter has a teddy that she has slept with since she was one. It's name? Teddy!
We are wildlife carers and their favourite part is naming the animals, always descriptive names like stripey, fluffy etc.

My son's favorite toy to hold was a plastic whale. Had it with him all the time. Once when he was three, he left it where we had to wait a week before we got it back. The lady who re-united him with the toy asked his name. He never had a name before so he made this up - My Whale Friend.

I'm sure it is quite common. I had a lot of stuffed animals as a kid, and most of them were dogs. Their names had one of these two sources: a "child-ified" version of their breed name (my stuffed dog resembling a German shepherd was named Sheppy), or randomly borrowing the name of a famous dog from a movie (example: I had a stuffed dog named Benji who bore no resemblance to the character of the same name). Non-dog animals had more arbitrary names, usually after their physical characteristics or life histories I made up for them. And all of my stuffed animals had the same last name as me, like Sheppy [my last name] and Benji [my last name].

So yes, it's definitely common to have a naming scheme for one's stuffed animals. My friends had a naming scheme in place too (one friend used the dominant color of the animal with a Y added to the end), although I was the only one who used a last name. It's perfectly normal, for aspies or NTs. Perhaps the tendency dates back to Adam and Eve being told to name the animals they find in the Garden of Eden if you're religious, or the natural human desire to give a scientific order to the natural world around them if you're not religious.