Q:
Keeping Pet Names
From an Anet dev back in 2012:
This is pretty much exactly what’s going on.
Tl;dr: we may change this some day, but it’s not going to happen in the near future, and it’s not a bug.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Ranger-pet-names-resetting-Merged
I’m a Moose, a ginger moose even.