The Top 10 Names NOT to Give Your Cat

I always named cats after mythological personalities. Now I have a one year old seal point that I named Lupus (he looked like a baby wolf) now I adopted a new blue point kitten and I cant get a name for ..can anyone help me!

So said the wise man known as Old Possum. :-)

That said, I do love me some cool and interesting cat names, and the more epic, the better.

I have my Siouxsie Mew, named after one of my favorite punk rock divas. She had a sister, Sinead O'Kitty, who used to love it when I played songs by her namesake.

Then there's Thomas T. Bombadil, who came to me with the name Thomas ... and I just thought he needed a bit more than that because he was such a nature spirit of a cat.

My beautiful baby Dahlia (RIP) came to me with the name Blackie. Yes, seriously. I was also told she was a boy, so I originally named her Black Jack Davey after a character in an old folk song. But then when she shoved her butt in my face and I found out that she was absolutely NOT a boy, I tried a bunch of other "D" names because she seemed to like that sound, until I came up with Dahlia, which then became Dahlia P. Kittenface.

And lest we forget lovely, sweet Bobette, who became Chrysanthemum Kiss-Kiss Bobette Jellylorum Kelley ... or Kissy for short.

Belladonna came to me with that name, and she was often called Bella by the people at the shelter, but Belladonna Moonshadow Kelley just seemed to be a good fit for her.

If I were tasked with naming kittens that came into my care, I'd think about naming them after groups from stories, movies or poems. Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer. Frick and Frack. Frodo, Samwise and Merry. Hawkeye, BJ, Radar, Hot Lips, Ferret Face, Colonel Potter. That sort of thing.

I once had a tuxedo kitten who shared my life.  When I first gazed upon his face, the name 'Walter' came to me.  But Walter was a bit of a plain name...so I added 'Chroncat', in honor of my favorite news reporter.

My cat Archie got his name because I found him off of Archer Rd, behind the Arch view restaurant. Archer seed a bit formal, so we went with Archie. I swear he thinks his name is "Archino" though, because I'm always yelling, "Archie, NO!!!" After taking him to get neutered, I stopped off at a local pet boutique to pick him up some snacks and toys to help him feel better about the day's events, and the owner announced she had a 4 week old kitten in her garage that someone had abandoned, and a friend had trapped. She then convinced me kittens do better in pairs, and I brought him home. Archie was not happy, as he'd already had a traumatic day, and hissed at this little guy. It reminded me of Garfield trying to ship his cousin Nermal, the World's cutest kitten, to Abu Dhabi. So we named Archie ' kitten Nermal. They're best buds now. 8)

I think, with the exception of things that are swears and nasty slurs and so forth, most names are fine. I knew a very good Fluffy and Lucky, once upon a time. My current cats I adopted with their names (Monkey Bear [goes by Monkey] and Kira), and my previous cat was Niko but I misheard and so he became Miko when I adopted him from my gran's neighbour. My gran's last cat was Lutje which means little one in German (spelling Canadianised). The cat before that was Muske which means little mouse, it's used as a term of endearment, and when we adopted him (Siamese/tabby cross) he was so tiny and scrawny he looked like a little rat according to my grandpa, and the name Muske then came out and stuck :)

I did name a cat Pandora once and I do not recommend that - she was like opening a box of trouble in my house. I was young and in university and wound up adopting her to a nice family with children who said she was the best cat they ever had. Either they had some AWFUL cats, or she was just lonely when I wasn't home and acted out when I was...

Mickey: As in Mickey Mouse, ginger rescue who liked to steel my (clean) socks and hide them in a corner, under the bed, or in my shoes.

Mona: Britsh Blue who always looked like she was smiling, so I named her after Mona Lisa.

Peanut: He was a ginger and white shorthair with the aggression of a peanut. He'd always rool on hos back for  cuddles and was friendly with everyone. Once he came home with a mouse in his mouth - he was very challenged in the hunting department - and I'm convinced the two of them made a pact and the mouse jumped into his mouth just for a laugh. The mouse was perfectly fine and got released into the wild.

Tiger (whoops!): A black and grey striped tabby wuth a white chin and belly. Got her at 10 weeks old. She's now 17 years old, arthritic and has chronic kidney disease. Nicknames: Tiger Lily, Mullemaus, Muzelchen (yes, German). She's my little old lady who used to be a prolific hunter.

Biscuit: Named after ginger nut buscuits. Suits him to the ground. He's ginger (and white) and he's a complete nutter. He's also my little shadow and following me around the house.

And finally: Scoop. A black and white rescue, he was named after the vet nurse who hand-reared him. Named so because he shovels his food down at amazing speed. 

Great lists!  Our last couple of cats have had Scandinavian names.  Right now we have Ansgar Fritjof.  Fritjof means "theif of peace" and he has lived up to his name every day for all 8 years he has been with us.  :-)

thank you. i will now be naming my kitten loaf.

My family

wsys named our pets actual names, so I grew up with cats and dogs called Winston, Roger, Basil, Dudley, Doris and Gloria. I am now proud Mama to four furbabies Gilbert, Clancy, Trevor and Barbara.  My Mom has a cat Esme and a dog Daphne

I have a cat called something along the lines of Grayie when translated into English, and she had a brother called Blackie (also when translated).

We had Jasmine, then she had three kittens.
My brother mistakenly thought the kittens were all female, and we named them Scout, Sugar, and Tiny.
Sugar was white and had medium-long hair. In fact, the hair on his chest curled, which I thought was very cool

Scout was orange, but he's faded to have the same color hair as my mother- blonde.

Tiny was grey, and he was the tiniest, well, until he grew up.

We had to switch Sugar's name to Mr. Sugar, since he was well, a he. 

Thanks to the vets.

(On a side note, our dog had puppies, and although it was years later, he still incorrectly got the animal's genders, but my mother and I were there. We didn't keep any of the puppies, although I wish we had kept Pudgy. The others were Jackie, Stormageddon Dark Lord of All(Stormy), Toby, and a couple others I'm afraid I don't remember. Unfortunately Stormy, true to her name(and as the only gray puppy) she wasn't very nice.... The rest of the puppies were black. Jackie had a white paw and chest, and was the smallest. Pudgy was well, pure black but larger and smart. Toby somehow had a little cut on his paw, but he was one of my favorites, and a very shy puppy.

Whoops, I'm rambling on about puppies on a cat website.

Anyways, I taught Mr. Sugar how to walk on a harness when I was 7, since he was my cat. None of my siblings bothered to walk their cats. I played hide and seek with sugar, and I actually never heard his voice. Then we move and well, he died at a young age via coyotes. Scouts the only one left, and he's grown to a decent age.

...is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think that I'm as mad as a hatter, when I tell you a cat must have three different names. -- T. S. Eliot "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"

My current two were named by the woman who rescued them. As they were 3 years old when I got them, I didn't feel I could change the names. Pilchard, who is a black long-hair, was named for Bob, the Builder's cat. Bob, the Builder is a product of the BBC and a "pilchard" is another name for "sardine". Leave it to the British to name a cat after a fish. The other cat is named "Mija", which means "little friend-female" in Spanish. 

My first cat was named "Shakespeare" because I'm an English major. After him, I had Penney, who was named by the woman who rescued her. She just liked the name. "Half-Pint" joined us, so named because, when we rescued her, she weighed 8 ounces, half of a pint. The next 2 were named "Betsy" and "Rascal". My daughter named them and she just liked the names. 

My daughter has a Maine Coon named "Faux". We named him that because Maine Coons get to be the size of small dogs and she was taking French in college when we rescued him. As big as he had the potential to be, we thought "fake" was a great name. He's not a cat, he's a small dog. Her 2nd cat is named "Tobey" and that is the name he was given by the people who had him before giving him to my daughter. She just recently added 2 kittens, "Jacen" and "Jaina". Jacen is a black short-hair (Something about adopting black cats must run in the family.) My son-in-law is a huge "Star Wars" fan and now has his "Darth Vader cat". But they chose the names of Princess Leia and Han Solo's children as the names for their new family members. (You can only find these names, currently, in books.) 

I play World of Warcraft and I have the ability to collect or tame cats as pets. I find myself thinking hard about what name to attach to these digital versions of cats. "The naming of cats is a difficult matter." Indeed it is. 

I have a Pipsqeek and a Luna-Tic currently - care to guess which one is the Tortie? Previous kittehs have been Chuckles, Mouse, Bumper and Grover T. Washington. I went through a bunch of gerbils named Rocky 1,2,3, etc when I was a kid, also!

Oh mine are not the normal at all, we have

Mookie - Black Siamese Male

Bizzy - Tabico Football shaped girl

Weemer - Grey Male totally spoiled mama's boy

PooChoo- Fat Maine Coon Mix Girl

MiiPii - Black stuby girl

Chewie -- fuzzy like the wookie, and after he recieved the name, started to chew on everything.  (Be careful what you name them!)  AKA  --  the Crazy Black One.

Stubby Kay  -- after the comedian and because she is part manx and has a poof of fur for a tail.

Maggie the Cat  --  although she is mostly white, the skin around her eyes is black.  It looks like eyeliner, so -- Liz Taylor's role in the movie "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

Ozzie -- he just looks like an Ozzie.  Dark red tabby with hugh green eyes.  

so can i name my cat skittles?

One day, she just decided to change her name to "Mittens" from Gypsy....., so we asked her....why Mittens? She said its a joke staff....I am all black....no mittens to be found......LOL. 

Hello! My cat was named max. He actually passed away today. He was only named max because we mixed him up with another cat that was named max so we just stuck with it.
 

It tool us a while and much back and forth with ideas to give this sweet boy a name. But he had a lovely rumbling purr motor, so we agreed n Harley.

FWIW, I have never met nor much heard of cats named Harley. I think it's momenst of fame ar sufficiently ov er that it's OK to use again.