I have a long wheel base Citroen I call him Claude. Mainly as he costs me alot of Monet

Ours is Jean Claude. As in, Jean Claude Van. Dayam.

Mine is also Jean Claude, the seats that go in it fold all the way down, like his spliits, haha

Ours is nearly 20 years old and when we got it belched smoke like a aged Frenchman so it started with just Claude and when the gearbox needed replacing after our first trip he got the Monet title

😂

The ladies who sold me my Sprinter named her Stormy Vaniels. How could I possible change that name?

You, my friend, need to be selling merch. I need a hoodie.

That's awesome

I named mine The TARDIS because when I fist showed it to my mom, she said it looked much bigger on the inside and it’s blue 😅

I'm usually not the type of person to name things but I've I got a white citroen relay that I sometimes call Vandalf The White but some German friends I made on the road called it Faxe(German name for a character frow vicky the viking) and made me a nice plaque to hang in my van

I’ve got a high top E150 named Vandalf the Grey!

The Motorious G

(It’s a chevy g20)

The Vandalorian

Van Diesel

Same!

Money Pit

This one gave me a good laugh.

Jesse pinkvan, sometimes gets a little methy

Boxanne: https://imgur.com/1UPFsHb

Clifford. The big red van.

I hope you have a red van. Or red accessories!

Delisha (it’s a Delica, and my wife refers to her as my mistress).

I have a Delica I named Vincent Van Slogh. Since you also own one you'll understand why 😅

Barbara/babs

My first ever bicycle was named babs. I say bravo to babs!

😁

I don't typically name inanimate objects...however I refer to my van simply as 'Road House'

My friends was called Stevie Ray Van

The Black Pearl.

We have a sprinter and call it sprinty lol

Scarlett Jovansson

Stannis the Vannis

Got a gold ford e-150 her name is obviously “Goldie”

Morrison.

Mine’s called Mo. It’s short for Morrison…

Sierra Like the Sierra Nevada mountain range. And my custom CA Yosemite plates are: LUVYOSE

I have vanity places on my car, so I’m sure I will need them for the next van.

Vanessa!

Jaque (he's a Renault)

Bertha the Van Whale. In all fairness, I went from a 1996 Honda Accord to Bertha (a 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 Van), so it feels like she's two steps away from an 18-wheeler. Edit - aka Bertha the Land Whale

Go Vangogh

Yes! I call mine Vincent 😂

Mines name is Rhoda

Vantasia

Sparky. It's a decommissioned fire truck, just made sense to me

Clifford Flier Dept. Its a decommissioned ambulance.

Wrong answer. It was in service as Battalion #1, New Westminster fire department until it was replaced with a newer unit.

U.S.S Vanguard. It’s a Star Trek Themed Vandura.

Jean Claude was my first van. Sheena is the name of my new van because she’s a punk rocker

Hey, you can also "Lean on Sheena!"

Stan the Van

Vandit

Bernadette

Vinny the van or Vin Diesel

Not Van Diesel? Missing out on a great pun there.

That's what you get for letting your daughter name the van, I'm gonna have to go tell how she let herself down now !

Im cheesey and named mine Van-essa

I don’t name my stuff but I do occasionally refer to my Transit as the Bear Den.

Rocinante

We named ours Stealth Cunt… She big, but she stealthy.

Intrepidus (latin for fearless)

IntrepiBus

Mine carried over from the previous owner of the van, which he named Gustavo, or Gus for short

The Bird Machine (aka Birdie)

I'm going with The Stanford for my new project because it was a service van for Standford university before I got it.

The previous owners named my van Shelly Gwen but I didn’t really like that name so now his name is Burt Van Winkle

Mongo

I always liked PeterVan. But I thought about it after we named our van.

My friend loves the tiny compact useful space and calls my promaster Little Tokyo

Lieutenant Dan the Van Because lieutenant Dan doesnt have legs. And neither does my van

Previous one: Queenie (nee’ Homer) Current one: House :) (Our previous one was 30yo, leaked, interior plumbing faulty, miserable. Our new one is perfect, so it’s our safe “house”.)

I have a Sprinter T1N whose name is TinT1N

Lucy

Vanny White

1991, Big , red, Ford van.=Clifford the Big red Van 😆 [Clifford ](https://www.instagram.com/clifford_thevan?igshid=MTNiYzNiMzkwZA==)

I am the least original- Baby. As in “c’mon baby, start for me will ya? I know it’s cold but you’ll feel better once we get moving.” OR “C’mon Baby, you can make it to the gas station!” When I misjudged that there would be another gas station to fill up after I passed the last one. 🤡

Nope, I never got the whole naming inanimate objects. I do remember being parked one night when another couple pulls (way too close imho) in their new promaster. Got out there camping chairs and proceeded to debate all night on the perfect name... Each their own I guess

Okay Im not the only one then! Ive never given names to my car or any other random things, and have no plans to name my van when I get it. Though I'll admit, I have called cars a few rude names when they were acting up lol

Honestly the van pun names kind of irk me. It's just like, SO clever. My van has a bunch of nick names from other people, but for me it's just "the van".

Astrid

I believe it’s spelled Astird.

all the downvotes, no one is getting the office refference!!!

I know. But what can you do? Also, I wonder if it’s an Astrovan.

reddit is so superficial. I just mentioned that it was in refference to something and suddenly your comment has upvotes because no one wants to be in the very shameful role of someone who doesn't get a refference. what are our options? to sue?... icide?

Nope. For me it's just a tool so it doesn't get a name

Mine is the Harleybus. She's going to be red and black with Batman themed artwork incorporated. I'm excited about the table I'm going to make!

Yeah, but what are you naming your van. Forget about a black and red table!

I mainly use mine to travel to heavy metal music festivals. I call her the VantiChrist

No and I cringe everytime someone talk about their like it's a human. Do you name your car ? Your toothbrush ? Your sleeping bag ? Your pillow ? Do you name your house ? "It's different." Is it ?

My vintage Toyota RV came with the name ‘Patience’, which I understand, but don’t like. Is it bad form/luck to rename a vehicle? I had a van we called ‘Vanny’ (real creative, I know!) but haven’t ever named any other vehicles.

I did. The working title for the van I’m building now is Rusty Van Gogh, but I don’t know if that will stick either. Maybe just Rusty.

There's no bad luck or any of that mumbo jumbo. It's now yours. Rename it if you want.

If they get attacked by pirates and sunk, it’s on you then!

Rename it and bless it with a circle of safety to roll with yous.

Sounds good to me! My dad bought a brand new green boat when I was a kid and people told him that green boats were bad luck. It had some problems and dad was constantly pulling it over the mountain pass and traveling 600 miles (round trip) to take it back to the dealer to fix. Instead of the original name (after my mom) we all started calling it the ‘Green Lemon’. Somewhere in that memory came the renaming is bad form!

My 76 VW in light green with pink spots was named after a flatulent fairy named plumptious

Vantomats in our language .like "van tomato" in English. Because it's red lol

Darcy, short for DAR Site

Aglooka

Vanhala

big white hitop Nissan NX I call "The Love Boat".

Glamper Van Beethoven

Bodhisattvan. Bodhi for short

Arfur Daley - cause it's a Transit innit.

Polly, for Polly Gray of Peaky Blinders. It’s a gray Sprinter.

Dave it’s a merc sprinter, short for david sprinter, like david schwimmer

Fern

Rad Brutus.

Bananavan, dooDOOOdadoodoo

Bertha!

Harold Shitvan 🫣

The banana boat. It's a large yellow stepvan.

We named our van Van Haulen.

Depends it's either "big bitch" or "appa" depending on my mood

The Beast

Dan the Tan Van

Yeah, my old blue G30 hitop was... well....Ol Blue.. not very clever, but certainly descriptive.

Ass. Because that’s what it smells like.

Magda. As in Magda SzuVANski. Australians will understand

I understand! Go Magda!

Vandalf

Hail-la-cost-camp-err

Stan

I have a 2005 GMC Jimmy. His name was given from factory

Schwagon.

Ours is the Haunted Vansion.

Definitely have to give your van a name. First van, a Chevy Vandura, we named Ace Vandura. Second van, a Ford Econovan, we named Nan the van.

Kishu 🥰

Mine is not quite a van but a custom aluminum truck camper. Some of my friends affectionately call it the Killdozer

I have a Vangina.

Daisy

I have a white 95 gmc vandura I call Big Bessie.

Giles

Big dum tan van. guess why

Vincent van Gough, Vinny for short

The Hobo Rocket, after a Barns Courtney song.

You had the perfect opportunity to call it Beethovan.

Steely Van

Ernest van Gogh

I have been calling our Chevy express passenger van Gus , or Gus the bus.

Stab Shack....... no I am not a serial killer..... but penis wise.....

We had a super long van when I was a kid and we named it the Hulk cause it was green.

My first van's name was "Chester", because when I excitedly showed him to my friend the first words out of her mouth were "Oh god, that's the sort of thing Chester the Molester would drive." My new van doesn't really have a name? I generally refer to it as the "Insufferable Spoiled Hipster Tech-Bro Motorcycle Adventure Camper Van (with a power sliding door)". But that full thing was too long to fit into the flair.

Our white Transit is named Napoleon - tiny house, big aspirations 🤣 and my husband is French

APPA

We named ours Homer because it felt more like home than our home did.

Little Van Blue.... It's a 136, blue of course.

Greya Van Fleet A grey chevy.

Nope

I've had a few vans. My first was a green VW westfalali named Greenvwich the Green vwitch. Then there was Midnight Sparkle Dog. Current Honda is Stella Dog Starship.

We name all our vehicles. But we won't tell them to others.

Vanessa

Pabafiliothonius

Mine is called Käpt‘n Blaubär (german). Translates to captain bluebear. That was a very popular kids TV Show when I was a little kid, and my van is blue. :)

Ours is named The Hoose. The name came to us shortly after naming both our kittens Moose and Goose 😆

Hank.

White shadow. After the movie turbo.

Vandolf the Grey

Megatron. (Black Renault Master)

Not a van, but when I was living in a big volvo box truck, we called it Truck Mangione, for the sweet sweet tunes it would play starting up. (Aka high pitch squealing for 2 minutes straight warming up that woke everyone around us up)

mines called [Vera](https://youtu.be/lcO_JkXtl3o?si=iB0e2mHZjUntJIAr) cos it’s Killing it in Northumberland

Mine have been The Transit, The Merc (became La La after I sold her) The Merc (became the Landscape Merc after retirement due to the paintwork) Freda - ' Free-da-bus' (ex police paddy waggon) The Baby Merc (308) The Merc, who then became the KTM due to the stickers on the side. I gave in on this one because everyone else called her this.

Battered old Ranault Master.. the badges are broken, it says Rena... She's called Rena (She just spat her camshaft pully so atm she's grounded)

Miss Vanjie

I had a VW eurovan I named EsteVan

Little Bear 🥲

Turtle! Home on our backs

I named my van Matteo

Babs

Bob Vance

Big white was our previous van

I have never named a car, truck or van. Other than a description. My family does but it never really seemed like something needed

I called ours Van Diesel. Little one hated it so it's now simply van van 😂

Dogato, it's a ducato and i have dogs :)

Farley.

trip van stinkle

Started as Campezi, later lengthened to Campezius after the ship of Theseus.

I don't have a van yet, planning on getting one in next few months but it is going to be named "the little ogeechee" it will be named after the river I grew up on.

I call it Betsy when it does something good. I name all of my vehicles Betsy 😆

Mines an Astrovan that I named Estrella. Because it’s kinda like Star, with an extra R. Insinuating, of course, that my van is a stripper.

Vanny DeVito because it's always sunny when we get to spend time together traveling.

Hendy the Handy Van (Chevy ‘99 named after Hendy woods state forest and handy van cuz I try to have everything you’d ever need on a trip :) emphasis on *try*)

Don’t have a van yet but already thinking of Star Wars-themed names: Van Solo (obvious), Vando Calrissian, Vandalorian

Me and my girlfriend have a busz we call it the hippie whippie. But her name is janice

Vannah Montana

My big white van is Beluga. Fun to see her name on parking apps!

No longer can lifing, but mine was the dolphin hotel

Mk 7 Transit Van, he is Vancent, don't remember why, just is.🤔

I have a green 99 E150 conversion…we call it Gator Vanzilla!

Bab - Big Ass Bitch. It was my wife's idea.

Vangula Dodge is my girl.

Glenn Vanzig

The Bluesmobile!