Just had a thought, and hence a question, inspired by another thread related to landing on Pluto.

Although I think such a venture is completly unfeasible, not to mention pointless, it made me wonder what someone born on Pluto would indeed be called.

Would someone from Pluto be known as a Plutonian?

And going on from that, how about all the other planets, and for that sake, all the other bodies, moons, asteroids etc. throughout the Solar System.

Mercury = Mercurian
Venus = Venusian
Earth = Earthling
Moon/Luna = ??? (Moonie?)
Mars = Martian
Jupiter = Jovian
Saturn = Saturnian
Uranus = Uranian
Neptune = Neptunian

Are they all correct? And the other question to come from this would be if one were to be born on one of the moons of one of the Gas Giants, would people from the Jupiter system be generally known as Jovians, or would they all be known by the name of their particular moon, Europans, Callistans, Ions?, Ganymescians?

I don't know, interested to hear would other people think about some prominent moons

Deimos = Deimons???
Phobos = Phobias???
Europa = Europans (Surely an easy one)
Ganymede = ???
Callisto = ???
Io = ???
Titan = Titans???
Iapetus = Iapetitians???
Dione = Dionians?
Triton = Tritonians???

There's some, but feel free to add your own - there're plenty of moons and heavenly bodies out there to choose from.

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Moon/Luna = Loonies?

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The poor guy who is borned on the small pluto's moon would be called "S/2005 P1ian"

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Plutonian (adjective): Pertaining to the planet Pluto. As in "plutonian rocks".
Plutonian (substantive): An inhabitant of Pluto.
Indigenous plutonian: Member of a species originiting on Pluto.
Native plutonian: Someone who was born on Pluto.
Plutonian national: A member of the Plutonian nation.
Plutonaut: A visitor to Pluto, usually a member of one of the first scientific expeditions.
Plutographer: Someone enganged in making maps of Plutonian terrain.
Plutography: The study or description of Plutonian terrain.
Plutologist: Someone who has made Pluto (the planet) the object of his or her studies.
Plutology: Branch of petrology: the study of Pluto as a petrological object (as in geology, selenology, mercurology, etc.)
Plutolater: Someone believing in or worshipping Pluto (the classical deity).
Plutolatry: Belief in or worship of Pluto.
Plutonic: A term for igneous petrological formation, not necessarily associated with the planet Pluto. As in "the surface of Io is almost completely plutonic in character"
Plutino: A solar system object associated with or comparable with the planet Pluto.
Plutinologist: Someone who has made Plutino's the object of his or her studies.
Plutinology: The study of the plutinologist.
Plutinonomy: The study of the orbits of Plutino's, mainly important in Outer Solar System navigation.
Plutinonian (adjective): pertaining to the plutino's. As in "Plutinonian Confederacy".
Plutinonian (substantive): Inhabitant of a Plutino (specific names, such as Sednian, Quaouarian, Charybdian, are more usual).

Mars - Marsian (marz-ee-an) not Martian (marsh-un), unless we change Jovian to Jupiterian
Earth/Terra - Terran not Earthling
Luna - Lunan, or Loonie
Deimos might as well be Deimon muhahaha
Phobos - Phobans
Ceres - Cereans (seer-ee-an)

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See: Wikipedia: List of adjectival forms of place names

Planets
Planet Adjective Demonym
Earth Earth or World or Terran Earthlings or Terrans
Jupiter Jovian Jovians
Mars Martian Martians
Mercury Mercurian Mercurians
Neptune Neptunian Neptunians
Pluto Plutonian Plutonians
Saturn Saturnian Saturnians
Uranus Uranian Uranians
Venus Venusian Venusians

Moons
Moon Adjective Demonym
Callisto (moon) (of Jupiter) Callistonian Callistonians
Europa (moon) (of Jupiter) Europan Europans
Ganymede (moon) (of Jupiter) Ganymedean Ganymedeans
Io (moon) (of Jupiter) Ionian Ionians
(The) Moon (of the Earth) Lunar Lunians
Titan (moon) (of Saturn) Titanian Titanians
Triton (moon) (of Neptune) Tritonian Tritonians

Maybe "demonym" will help you Google for other opinions.

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What about the people living on the Sun? Solarians?

And the people living on the inside of our hollow Earth?

People who don´t know where they are living? Confusians?

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Very interesting list you've provided there. I actually just thought of another possible name for those people who live on Mercury, Mercurials!

Good questions, are you volunteering for a mission to the surface of the Sun? lol!

As for the people living inside the Earth, I think the word we have for them is `troglodytes'(although that could easily be wrong - I've never actually met them myself so I can't be sure)

As for the last question, that is a salient point, I've met quite a number of Confusians around these parts, but honestly, there's not much point asking them where they're living, because they clearly have no idea, or indeed concept, of that sort of complicated and complex sort of construct.

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In all my years I never liked the term Terrans, since no one ever uses the term Terra for earth except in books. Earthers is of course clumsy and derivative. Wouldn't we call them Innies and Outies?

FOlks living on the SUn would be called Cinders.

Flatlanders.

And for a very long time they will constitute
at least 99% of the human race.

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I have a deep aversion to being called an Earthling. How about Gaians?

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Tellurians? (and Selenians from the moon?)

The hollow inside of the Earth is, for reasons unknown to me, called Pellucidar, so its inhabitants should be Pellucidarians, or perhaps Pellucidariotes. (I don't know from which language Pellucidar derives.)

Inhabitants of the moon were called Selenites by H.G.Wells, though Selenians or, preferably, Seleniotes might be plausible alternatives.

In general, if a place-name derives from the Greek language, an adjective ending with -iote should be used: so we would have Callistiotes and Ganymediotes rather than Callistians and Ganymedians. (Just like the inhabitants of Cyprus are Cypriotes.) But Pluto is a Latin word, hence we have the adjective Plutonian and the substantive Plutonians.

By the way, a Plutocrat is someone who rules because he of she is rich; plutocracy is government by rich people. Plutocrat would therefore not be the proper title for the ruler of Pluto; this person might be called the Plutarch, though Plutarch is also the name of a classical author.

Inhabitants of the Sun should be called Solians (not Solarians, all inhabitants of the Solar system are Solarians) or Heliotes (not Helotes, those were slaves of the state in Sparta).

The name Pelucidar is fictional, it was coined by
Edgar Rice Burrough for a series of novels, in 1914.

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I'm thinkin' Selenian might end up being the Lunar native term, in keeping with the Earth native term Terran.

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Plutonian females are gorgeous, but as luck would have it, they are also completely platonic. (Likely plutonic as well, i.e. living deep under the surface.)

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Luna = Lunatics?

yes

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Funny you mention Lunatics, I used to play for an indoor soccer team with a very similar name.

The Lunatiks

In fact, I'm amazed the website is still there, given it hasn't been touched in nearly 5 years!

Very funny site actually, a lot of great anecdotes about the stresses and strains of playing on an indoor soccer team. We won something like our first 18 games in a row, including a Premiership, but after that we started to stumble and finished 3rd or 4th (out of 8 or 9) in the next four or five seasons - although, each season we were without fail promoted to a higher division, so its not as bad as it sounds.

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The only Plutonian females I have seen have long floppy ears and a thin wagging tail. They sniff things a lot.

Moleans
Nice.

And let's send all the ruffians back to Ruffia.

Plutan--inhabitant.