I name my computers according to either the purpose, the OS or, a combination of the OS and use of the box. The first server that I implemented on my network, I named "srvr1", lol. My personal machine that I use daily is running Gentoo so, I named it gbox. rather simple but, I think simple is good sometimes.
Thats similar to how I set mine up as well, I run multiple os'es and have multiple machines, so I tend to name em server and ubu-desk or win-desk1 and virtubox-1 ect.