Names! Why are they so difficult?

I have such a difficult time coming up with names. In my younger days I never had any trouble...now I am naming my horses things like Tennessee Titan because I have such a creativity block when it comes to naming horses. 

How does everyone come up with their names? I have decided it would be way too difficult to stick with the breed registry rules from Real Life registries. 

I like to have themes for my horses. All my horses are named after towns, cities, counties, countries, states/providences, and continents. So, I spend a lot of time looking up fun town names from Italy or Japan or even county names from Georgia or something like that.

Themes are super easy to work with because then you know exactly what type of names you are searching for. Here are some themes you could use: nature/weather terms, car brands/models, colors, songs, singers/bands, pretty much anything!

I hope this helped!!

I normally name my horses things or Natural disasters, like if the horse has white spots I name him/her something with snow. I hope this also helps!

Now I am not one for naming horses based off of things but if I have a creative block I put my music on shuffle for titles and click the "Random Horse" button at the same time. If I am lucky, there are some words I can combine into a name.

I get names by just about anything XD, food, drinks, TV shows etc. I also get them from fantasy random name generators. I currently have over 100 names up and ready for new horses that I get

Sometimes I too have difficulty in naming individuals so for weeks they go by their sire & dams name or the insulting TBC Name, but I have a theory its because the older people get the less imagination they have lol.

Since I normally combine sire & dam names for the foals its usually quite easy to come up with something amusing. However sometimes I have themes, usually for store foundations such as my 80s music Friesians or ancient Aztec cities Trakehners.

Sometimes, if it's just naming one or two horses, I wait until I hear something on tv or in a song to name them, but if I'm naming an entire group I use an adjective + noun generator.  Foals generally get some form of their parents names mixed together.

I get names from books, lines in books (like Tell Me, Texas), songs, nature, my RL horses (like RP Prides Precious),  a mood (like Graveyard of Memories and Storm of Sorrow, which I named after my grandpa passed away) and things that interest me, such as Butch Cassidy. they come from all over as u can tell, lol! XD

I use name generators, like www.fantasynamegenerators.com

or just type in horse name generators or even baby name sites

I have several ways of naming my horses. 1) first thing that pops in my head when I look at them. 2) combining dam and sire names to find a nice name (kind of like doing jumbled letters to find words) 3) name them in a different language because it just looks nice (google translate is great for this). I have some new 3 year old mares I named in french using google translate and the names look so pretty