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cause one of the spiders said ...oh he has a sting....thats what i think
Because Bilbo baggins only had to stab the spider twice. The first time the spider shrieked. The second time he fell over dead. Bilbo said, " I shall call you Sting " I Think this is because the spider got stung so he shrieked really loud.
Immediately before naming the sword, Bilbo is described as being like a small fly, caught in the web of one of the giant spiders of Mirkwood. After he draws his sword and kills the spider, he dubs the sword Sting. While it's never explicitly stated why he chooses the name Sting, the timing of events makes the answer plain: the spider had thought he had a helpless insect in his web but it turns out that the fly had a powerful sting, like a bee, a hornet, or a wasp. A sting is a defense weapon insects might use against spiders and it is a kind of weapon a spider would understand - the spiders themselves refer to his sword as "a sting" (lowercase - i.e. not a proper noun). It's as if rather than the spiders being made large, Bilbo has been made small and is defending himself against spiders with an insect's weapon.
Because he kills a bunch of gigantic spiders and naturally if you were a spider you wouldn't want your prey stinging you. That is also why he names his sword sting.
He defends himself from a giant spider in Mirkwood by killing it. He then looks at his sword and says something along the lines of, "I shall name you sting!" because of the sting of pain it caused the spider.
Sting is not a person. Sting is the name of the sword that came into Bilbo's possession. The runes on the blade say that the sword's name is Maegnas, literally 'sharp point', and could be translated as 'Sting'. Bilbo gave the weapon that name though without knowing the meaning of the runes.
Bilbo named the dagger, the size of a sword for a hobbit, Sting after his battle with the spiders in Mirkwood. He named it Sting because it stung the spiders. During Frodo's rejuvenation in Rivendell in The Lord of the Rings, when they were about to leave, Bilbo gave him his dagger.
"Bilbo Baggins" is the name of Bilbo Baggins. Unless you're asking for his untranslated Westron name, which would be "Bilba Labingi".
Bilbo's mother was called Belladonna.