The Name Origin of EVERY Animal Crossing Villager! | Gnoggin

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Published 2020-07-06
Have you ever wondered where the villagers in Animal Crossing get their names? Animal Crossing etymology in a way... sort of. What are the Origins of villager names? Why is Ankha named Ankha? What about Appolo? Dom? Marshal? Raymond? Fang? Al? Zucker? Marina? Filbert? Chops? Cobb? Big Top? And basically all of them.... In this video we go over these origins of every villager in Animal Crossing New Horizons!

And to be clear, I do just mean "Villagers" so no shop keepers, event leaders, etc. Villagers ONLY!

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All Comments (21)
  • @keitaro6190
    One thing he didn’t mention about Apollo is that his birthday is literally the 4th of July
  • @ktoon4725
    “We’re gonna keep this short” Looks at time: over an hour. Me: = I
  • 24:53 hate to break it to you, but while Fauna’s name is deer-based, female deer are actually called does. What her name is referring to are baby deer (also called fawns), and the fact that Fauna has spots in the back of her head matches this as well (young fawns have spots on their backs, and they lose these spots as they grow older and gain their adult coloring)
  • @sketchnotes2246
    Here's something fun to consider: The Dodos in the English version of New Horizons are named Wilbur and Orville. Considering they run the airport, I assume that's a reference to the Wright Brothers?
  • @sashalb6146
    About Gala, you said it's a red apple. Red apples are put in pigs mouths when they've been cooked... And the creators of Animal Crossing do seem to love dark humour
  • @ElPikminMaster
    6:44 Axel's Japanese's name translates to "extra large". English: Axel. XL. Extra large.
  • @drewby31
    i love how this guy does all this research on why the name’s are what they are, but not the research on how to pronounce non-english based names
  • @tesstrogen
    Zucker = German word for "Sugar", which explains the food-character of Zucker
  • @itmeeeeebip
    The way you pronounced some of these names activated my fight or flight
  • @blucanyon
    Did he ignore the fact that “Big Top” is just a name for circus tents?
  • @Laiiney88
    Apparently Nan and Chevre are references to a Japanese children's book. Basically the goats are pen pals and write each other letters, but they wind up eating the letters before they ever read them. So they write a letter back asking to explain what the letter had said in the first place. Oh and I think Zucker is supposed to be Takoyaki 😅
  • Actually, according to the Animal Crossing wiki, Chrissy's name is probably a reference to Christina Aguilera. Makes sense considering she's a peppy villager.
  • @t1dotaku
    As someone who had Graham on their island, he is definitely NOT a grandpa hamster. He's an IT nerd who sleeps on boxes in a server room and listens to Bubblegum KK on repeat.
  • @archiem6852
    "bianca is a white tiger" bianca, a snow leopard: am i a joke to you?
  • @chefclemenza903
    i like to imagine that the dudes at nintendo was just thinking “yeah i like the name amelia for this bird” and not thinking like this
  • @jdp4720
    The way he pronounces Cyrano de Bergerac just rips my little French heart
  • @Zakanuva
    Correction: "faun" is actually the name for a baby deer; female deer are called "does".
  • @Kasei87
    "Maple leaves are brown, just like this bear." Me, a Canadian: Excuse me?
  • Isabelle is called Isabelle because the localizers thought her head looks like a bag of bells there for Is-a-belle
  • Is anyone gonna talk about how he said Everybody Loves Raymond, then played the outro to Seinfeld, while playing a clip of Friends lmfaooooooo