Cat Names from Alonzo to Zizi

I once had a cat named Tabitha NN Tabby. She was a tabby, but that had nothing to do with her name. She was named after Tabitha Twitchit.

My current cat is named London. The cat I had for most of my life was Flower, sometimes Flower Rose and sometimes Flower Power and occasionally Flower Marie, and rarely Flower Power Rose Marie. I briefly had a cat name Nicki when I was 4, and before that we had a cat named Fatima (we pronounced it fuh-tee-ma).

I very much want a fluffy white cat named Odessa Snow and a fluffy orange cat named either Cleo or Chloe. Cleo is the fish in Pinocchio, that’s the inspiration there. I know, it’s a fish, not a cat, but for some reason as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to name a fluffy orange cat after it!

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I want some cats named Henry, Hilary, Harriet, Harmony, and Harold. I would call them all Harry for short. They would be my 5 Harry cats.

This is a great blog! I love Lionel and Pippa the most. But I think it’s Fanchette instead of Franchette. I only know that because “Claudine in Paris” is one of my favorite books.

I don’t know if anyone out there is old enough to have heard of a singer called Earth Kitt?

Well, we have a tortoiseshell cat called Eartha KITTY. She has a twin (ginger male) called TIGER Woods, but I think he is currently considering changing that with all this controversy around about his namesake!!

I have six cats in all (as well as the six teenagers you know about already). The others are Pearl (who is a white female, and I also thought this was quite cute because it could be spelled PURRl!), and Foxy and Roxy, and Amber (who is a ginger three-legged MALE, so I comfort him by saying his real name is Ambrose. He doesn’t seem to care).

Loved this blog. I love cats, and strangely, I looked up AILurophile in the dictionary and it means cat lover.

AILsa the AILurophile xxxxx

Drop Zizi off your list if you ever have any contact with French folks… it’s a kid word for penis.

I am cracking up over here! My husband LOVES the name Clovis and I NEVER thought I would see it on any nameberry lists! I’ll have to tell him. Too funny!

I love ‘cat ‘ names! The current cat is Samson “Sam” but the oldest kid is Leo. I could happily have a dozen kids and give them all cat related names. I’m probably going to have to have a dozen cats.

I love so many of these names, Clarence is a long time love and can be found near the top of my list along with: Cleo, Felix, Henrietta/Harriet, Jemima & Mehitabel (as Mehetabel is a middle for me). Fritz greatly appeals as a nickname, too bad I dislike Frederick. Just beware, Fritz the cat is a nearly pornographic little furball. I think the assocation is dying, but there may still be folks that remember that one.

Dinah’s darling and is one I’m just starting to really think about. I think she’s very sweet.

Pippa & Elsa are on my lists as nicknames, too. And all those Leo- names? If I could, I’d use them all.
As is, I’m still trying to rationale out a Cleo with a big brother Leo (out of the house but still…) *sigh*.

Maybe I’ll just have to use Llewellyn in the middle somewhere!

Like I said, I love cat names!

Love all the Leo’s, Orion, Cleo, Dinah (probably because I’m reading Alice in Wonderland right now…), Aslan!, Beriloz and Toulouse (you forgot Abraham deLacey Giusepe Casey Thomas O’Malley =P and Marie)… My cats are Bogey (Beauregard), Sunny, Walter Gibbs (answer to Walt almost exclusively!), Custard and Edgar. The two strays we feed are Cassidy and Medusa (I wanted Circe, but it was rejected!) Great post!

I love Patrina! What a fabulous name.

My mom and I have four cats, but before we moved we had eight. Their names – in order of age, no less – are Michaela, Chicago, Bear, Tigger, Romeo, Rubin (he was Ruby until we found out he was male), Tigs, and Jasper. Yes, we had two cats named Tigger. One of them was my oldest brothers’ cat until he moved into a new house that didn’t allow pets and dropped her with us.

We’re down to just Chicago, Bear, Tigger, and Rubin right now. Romeo ran away when we moved, Jasper has been hiding from us at the old house, and Michaela & Tigs died shortly before we moved.

I love naming cats. We also had a cat called Arthur for a while, but he ran away too. We called him Arty or Artemis most of the time, haha. We’re big nickname people.

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I really love Leopold, Orion, Felix, Morris, Dinah and Demeter and many others! I actually knew a big fat orange cat named Morris that a lady owned and kept him at her store. He was kind of mean … D: But he was cute. My cat as of now is named Galena and goes by Shar-Shar.

Susan: Thanks, a slip of the finger—Fanchette now fixed.

As a certified cat-lover, I adore this list. Thank you! My current kitties are Esmerelda and Zelda. Of this list, I love Dinah, Faline, Salem, Toulouse, and Patrina. I might also suggest for this list two Swahili kitty names: Paka (pussycat) and Sanura (kitten).

Naming cats/pets is more fun than naming people!!! I have three at the moment and took careful consideration for their names lol.
Ishtar Bailey (Bailey cuz, his fur is the colour of Baliey’s Irish creme), Minoux Scooter and Kurita Garfield

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My parents named their cats Lionel, Oscar and Sophie (occasional middle name Patricia) which, if I’m honest, I think are preferable to the names they gave their children!

Archy actually belongs on a list of cockroach names, should you ever be moved to compile one. He was a cockroach who typed his poems (often about Mehitabel) on an old manual typewriter at night.

Oops!!

You forgot Binx, from Hocus Pocus! His human name Was Thackeray Binx, but he was turned into a cat.

There are some great names on this list. I have two cats named Benoit and Mélie.

Cool list, some really amusing ones amongst it! Also try these cat names for more ideas!

Love the names LEO and LEV.

I’ve had several cats during the course of my lifetime, but the cutest name was NOKI. (The strangest name was CUCUMBER.)

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I cant beleive there isnt a million comments on this page! Adorable!

Thanks so much for the inspiration-I love so many of the cat names listed here! What a great blog entry! I volunteer at my local animal shelter and foster kittens for the shelter at times, so I like to have name ideas stored up for when I need to name feline friends. So, as you can imagine, these names will come in handy! I’ve had the opportunity to name many felines the past few years-both adult kitties at my local shelter and foster kittens I’ve cared for at home. Some of my favorite names I’ve given to kitties are: Ambriette, Maizie, Wick (I gave this name to a boy cat who had a white mark at the end of his black tail, for it reminded me of a candle wick!), Franklin, and Teagan Rose. The names of my own kitties I’ve adopted are Nellie and Jennings.

Our two kitties are Frankie and Lucy (Francois and Lucille when they are snobbish).
I’ve also had a Dinah, Buffy and Missy.

I always thought that Polixenes (from A Winter’s Tale) would be a cool name for a cat, but then when I adopted a kitten it just didn’t fit her. Maybe some kitty in the future will step right into the name. (As for my cat, I went with the time-honored philosophy of naming your pet something you wouldn’t inflict on a child but like anyway – her name is Eilidh.)

we have a Maine Coone kitten and we need a strong name for a big boy we, have a Harley D , a Theo (A big big Maine Coone boy ) and a 29 year old female called Athena
so something unusual please

We just adopted a pure bred Persian and her name is Dutchess Von Schmoosh Schmoosh the Third.

I am trying to think of appropriate name for new cream burmese girl cat in our family. The best names I’ve heard (already taken by mates) are:-

Chairman Mioaw and Mogwai – so cute! My 4 year old wants to call her Mrs Cat.

I’ve been trying to think of cat-related baby names for my cat-obsessed best friend She already loves Kitty and Felix, might try running Samson, Milo, Leo and Dinah by her too!

Our cat is called Ducati, she suits it too: goes everwhere at 100mph and breaks a lot!

Don’t forget Jennie from Paul Gallico’s book of the same name and Jenny and Pickles from Esther Averill’s School of Cats series and Pickles the Fire Cat.

My cats usually start out with good names and end up with weird nns. My first cat was Licorice (Licky), and then I’ve had: Prince Caspian (Fuzzy), Tamsin (Beaky), and Charlie (who ended up being renamed Milo by my son because of the movie). Other family cats include Nicholasa (after the author Nicholasa Mohr but called Ninny), Bill George (my son again, from Soliloquy in Carousel and Curious George — a long story), Tybalt (Tibby, the Prince of Cats from Romeo & Juliet), and then foster kittens: Ginger, Taffy, Linnet and Louis (they all found good homes.) Current cats are still Tybalt (at 13), Shofar (he was born on Rosh Hashanah), Pip (from Great Expectations) and Simon (Simey) from Patricia Wrightson’s The Nargun and the Stars.

Also, I have a Border collie named Annabel May.

My cats are Jess and Alfie. Jess was originally going to be Zoe but when I got her, Jess just suited her more. Alfie was named after the Michael Caine movie, because he’s a little scamp and a hit with all the feline ladies!

They ended up with nns – Jessie Boo and Alfie Moo, they answer to Booey and Mooey respectively as well as their actual names!

My family have had other cats too…. two boys called Oscar and Oliver. Coincidentally Oliver was named for the lead in Oliver and Company. I think Oscar was after the baby in Ghostbusters 2!

@Leslie Owen, I love the name Tybalt for a male cat!

I named my cats Dinah and Caspar, but Dinah wasn’t named for the alice connection, it just suited her. Now I’ve only got Caspar left. He usually goes by Cas or Tater (I don’t remember how he ended up with that nickname) or simply Puss. I do know that if i ever have another cat (or a dog, my bf wants a dog) I’ll name him Oscar. Caspar and Oscar just seem to go together!

Also I’m a fan of giving pets ‘real’ names. Caspar almost ended up as James but I want to save that for my son – if I ever have one. I also liked Caspian but felt it was a bit out there, so Caspar is was.

As you see, waaaay too much time went into this! That’s what happens when you give a name obsessed person something real to name;)

My kitten is Squee. Or that’s the name we settled on *grins* my original choices were Sabbath and Sable (pure black and as a newborn kitten he looked something like a small rat) but the fiance vetoed all “angsty goth-girl names” and Squee is a comic character he likes. It’s also thankfully proved unisex since we just discovered 7 months in that ‘he’ is a ‘she’ and sounds very much like the cry she’s always had.

I have a cat named Desdemona Lioncourt (Mona for short. Sometimes nn Bunny.), and recently I fostered a litter of 6 kittens and their mother:

Lucy – Mommy cat (named by my mom)
Henry (m)
Spock (m)
Io (m, pr. eye-oh)
Sylar (m)
Optimus Prime (f, named by my little sister)
and Diana, later renamed Storybook (Story for short). Story was the one I kept out of the litter.

Naming cats is fun!

Rothko
Claude
Marjory
Jeremy

I have a cat named Ivan (as in Ivan the Terrible), but in no way does he live up to his name. He is super sweet. My neighbors have a cats named Tabitha and Ginger. My cousins just got a kitten and named her Hedy Lamarr “Hedy.”

Our cat has quite the name story: At the shelter, he was Junior. I was adamant on changing his name before we even got there since the shelter is notoriously bad at naming cats. His name was then Sebastian, as my mother thought he looked like a Sebastian. A few hours later, my sisters decided he was Spencer, nn Spency. I hated this, as our cat is mane coon and looks like an old man. I thought his name was Sebastian, so he went back to Sebastian, nn Sabby for my sister, Bas for me. Mom hated that now, especially Sabby. So, in my name nerdiness, I offered Sawyer, Sullivan, Elliot, etc. Finally, after delving into baby name books, his name is Isidore Lawrence, nn Izzy. We’re all happy with it, except everyone thinks he’s a girl.