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i'm the same for the most part, but sometimes i come up with the name first and base the song around how that name feels to me

I typically name the song before it's finished. I assess the current feel of the song, consider where I want it to go, and then name it to help guide the idea. (ex. The Great Machine)
Sometimes I just pick things that sound cool, (ex. Kyanite)
Some of my songs are tied back to a personal narrative universe I have, and so those are named off of people, events, or ideas in that universe. (ex. Plasmogenesis)
And the remainder of my songs are from a series, so they get named accordingly. (ex. Experiment Log 3)

I really struggle with naming. Half of my tracks are just a date.

I find naming my tracks pretty hard. Because I'm consider myself a technical person, I have some approaches that I make towards naming a track that I guess I can briefly share here.
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1. Emotion. Emotion is a strong element of personality, and there are very many words in English (and I assume other languages) that attempt to define an evoked emotion. For example, a track of your may make you feel...somewhat relaxed. Find a two words or words that match the emotion of your track. If you wanna, break the word and fuse it into one.
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2. Songwriting. I'm actually not sure of the definition of songwriting (and Google dictionary doesn't help) but I believe to be the overall structure of a musical piece over its duration. That's another approach, define the structure of your song with consideration to sound design. Is it built like trance? Does it wobble? Can you throw your hands in the air to it or does it break under your feet? This somewhat ties back into emotion.
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3. Vocabulary. A final supplement to keying single-word track names is vocabulary. With more vocabulary under your belt, there are lot more words - many more descriptors - that you can grasp when arriving that stage of naming your track. I also recommend sometime translating words from your native tongue to other languages. Sometimes the description of the word is right - but it's pronunciation or general cadence doesn't fit quite right.
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   That's all I have to say about what I usually do for naming tracks (still applies to single words). I don't like coming out of my shell often, but there yah go..

You know how some songs get you imagining a whole story even if they're not a concept album piece? That's kinda how I think about my tracks even before I get to writing lyrics. Themes normally become the title for my songs so that I can guide people listening just a little bit closer to understanding what the whole thing is about.

Emotions and thoughts fs.

I come up with a variant of saying the song is trash, and that becomes the name

something that sounds cool

Life

a lot of my tracks come from phrases i come up with. i have a list on my phone of a bunch of random lines i plan to use as lyrics. sometimes a specific one will stick out to me, and it becomes a mantra for whatever track i'm working on. then i end up using the line (or something relating to it) as the track name. for instance, I'll Show You Ugliness was a line I wanted to use before it became a track
other times i'll have some throwaway placeholder name all the way up until i write lyrics and just straight up grab a lyric or grab a theme from the lyrics and use that

I usually name my songs after i make them at the end and i try to name them according to the mood they give off.

Sometimes I actually base my music on a word, feeling, or sentence, and that's the draft's title from the start.
Other times, however, I divide into two categories:
-shitpost/bad music
-actual tracks
if it's the former category, I usually just name some random shit or self deprecation; if the track is the latter, I guess I name it however, or how it makes me feel.

spoonfuls of alphagetti or reading dookies like tealeaves