I happen to be writing up some routines at the moment and thus had to decide upon names for some of my most recent ideas, which reminded me of this thread.
Personally, I'm starting to find the single-word, 'cool' names such as 'Counterfeit' and 'Alchemy' a little tiresome. Being that my mentality is somewhat old school, I love trying to come up with funny names, or names that give some hint as to what the trick entails. Sometimes they are references to other things and sometimes they might hint at a trick that inspired the handling.
For example, I'm currently writing up a variation of Henry Christ's'Tally-Ho!', except my variation uses the Bicycle card box. Therefore, I named it 'Christ on Bike' (a very British exclamation of shock).
Another example: I have a handling of Bill Goodwin's 'Hold the Mayo' (which is on my Youtube channel) which I called 'Pass The Mustard.' It doesn't really mean anything, but it ties the effect into the routine that inspired it.
One More: I have a version of Max Maven's 'Three Piece Suit' (from Best of Friends Vol3). Given my version uses a much simplified handling, I called it 'Cheap Suit'.
Just thought I'd share a few examples of where I get my trick names from.
Rev
I rather enjoy your titles!
I myself am a bit less creative I feel lol. My titles usually have something to do with either the trick that inspired it, or having some relative name to the effect itself. For example:
-"Dicewave": Inspired by brainwave and uses dice
-"Tu Tu Transpo": A play on the title "Tu Tu Tango" which is the restaurant I was testing it in at the time.
-"Tour de Force": Means "Triumph" in French
-"Hatline Prediction": A hatline refers to the line a busker would say to ask for donations.
-"Chicago Closer": My handling of the "Chicago Opener" lol
-"Ambitious Ink": Rather than an ambitius "CARD" it is the ink or signature itself that is jumping from card to card.
etc.....
So as you can see the names are not super creative, but also not random either. Though "Applesauce" is clever in the way that it gets more hits in a google search, If I saw a trick on the shelf called "Applesauce" I would assume it had something to do with applesauce or maybe some street magic effect that doesn't interest me. So it is up to you how you name the effect. Just DO NOT name it something that will reveal the method.
For example (will be as brief as I can so I do not reveal anything), there is an effect called blackout on the market that instantly tipped the method to me before I even bought it. So be careful about things like that.