How did you name your cat?

I was watching a movie when I hadn't named Wesley yet and the main character was named Wesley so right then I named him that because I thought it was cute. And Sox got her name because my husband and I were trying to think of a name and we love the Red Sox so we thought Sox would be cute.

Chynna:

She is all white with green eyes. I didn't want to call her something like "whitey" or "snowy" because I like "normal" names for my cats.

Her fur is so soft and silky... like feather down, and touching her reminded me of the feel of china, as in dishes. But that was hokey, So I decided to vary the name to "Chynna." I've since found out that apparently there is some wrestler by that name. But my Chynna has had her name for 15 years.

Abby:

I adopted her from a friend's daughter's former roommate. She came to me with the name Abby (Abigail really, but shortened to Abby). She was 4 months old at the time and she looked like an "Abby" and I didn't think it fair for me to change her name when she was already used to being called Abby.

Katie and Gracie are just cute girl names that I like, probably what I would have named human baby girls if I'd had them. Pete and Claire are named for St. Peter and St. Clare. I was inspired by a trip I made to holy/historic sites in Italy a few months before I met them. They actually started out as Francis and Clare, but my gray/white boy seemed more like Pete than a Frankie. I hope to have a Frankie someday, though!

Fina was from a video game.
Coriander was from a spice.
Izobelle was common-place smelled differently, Sebastien was just a cute name, Shiloh (now Flea) was because we saw fleas crawling all over him before treatment. Savannah, just a cute name, should have been named MOUSE Sophie, a cute name, and Sydney, a cute name.

Originally Posted by Sibohan2005

Duke (RIP) was named for the Duke of Richmond from whom we are decendants

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Whoa, part of my family has some strange ties with the Duke of Richmond, assuming it's the same duke!

Anyway, Quill is named for his fur/tail's resemblance to a big, soft feather. And it also just popped in my head a few days after we adopted him.

Delilah was a name I'd always liked for a cat and thought was pretty, and so when I brought my pretty kitten home that's what I called her. I often shorten it to "Lila".

I let my kids name Blue. She has her Siamese mom's blue eyes, and the kids hadn't seen a blue-eyed cat before, so they named her Blue. I don't think it particularly suits her, but at this point I can't imagine calling her anything else.

Piper is a name that's always reminded me of happy little girls, and that's exactly what Piper was.

Bastian is named after the little boy in "The Never-Ending Story", which was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid.

I really wanted to stick with the Never-Ending Story theme and name Griffin either Falkor or Atreyu, but DH didn't like either of those. Griffin is a name that just popped into my head and it seemed to fit.

Wow this amazing and facinating

I do think that Loki (norse god) is way much better than the angle of death from Dogma but i still love the name and the film :-)

Matilda is named after the book by Roald Dahl. It was my favorite book when I was a kid. We call her Mattie also. The nickname fits her because she always looks mad and her hair is long (and can get matted if you don't take care of it). When I adopted her, her name was Claudia but I didn't think it fit her.

I wanted a name of a children's book character for my kitten, and I *really* wanted to name her Sophie. My SO wanted to name her Zoe. I didn't want Zoe, he didn't want Sophie, so....her name is Chloe. She really looks like a Chloe though, I think. It kind of bugs me that she isn't named after anything like Matilda is but I'm weird like that. Chloe's foster mom called her Mattie but that's what we call Matilda so we had to change it.

My mom took me to adopt Popsie and she had a black and white cat named Popsie when she was young. My dad said we couldn't have a male cat but I wanted him soooo bad so she said if we named him Popsie I could get him. My mom, bribing a ten year old.

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Chassis, Caliper, Tailpipe - My dad owned his own auto repair business for years, and all our cats had been born at his shop by strays he had as shop cats. We would name them after car parts. We decided to keep the tradition going with Chassis. Then we moved and my dad left the shop behind. We adopted Caliper and Tailpipe, and kept the tradition with them as well.

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WOW! That is very CLEVER I love it!
As for my crew:
JC My daughter named him after JC Chasez of NSync
Joey He's a rumpy Manx and as a kitten with those long, long back legs, he reminded me of baby roo
Cinder Cone jet black and rescued from the CA rest area, Coso Junction, next the Cinder Cone hill
TommyScott originally just Tommy for tomcat - he was extremely feral; once he decided to join the family, we added Scott after a beloved RB orange tiger-stripe
Andrea was rescued from the side of Hwy. 49 outside the city limits of San Andreas, CA
Dax was the name of an actor in Idiocracy
Tobey spittin image of Toby, my grandson's 2nd cat
Joanie Cat identical to the JonnyCat kitten, but turned out to be a girl
Minnie J looks a lot like Joanie
Frankhad deep, deep blue eyes like Frank Sinatra
Caseylooks like my sis's RB Persian Casey
Stanleyvery shy, seems Stanley fits well
Bobnamed by my vet's grandchildren

I wanted to name my Kitty Jasmine, but I was out voted by the kids and Dh, she is named Lucky, because she is lucky I found her. I found on the lawn on a few hours old.

Peanut's name just kind of grew on her. She's just a Peanut. I had a little black hamster named Olive just because she was an Olive.

Priscilla got her name because I thought it was so stuck up that she wouldn't drink water out of her dish, she has to drink it off her paw, and this flick thing she does with her tail. Sooooo stuck up.

Loki, after the norse god, well no other name would be right for him. He's very mischievous and is always trying to win the hearts of the ladies. He's just the sweetest red baby you've ever seen.

Same for Frisky. No other name would fit her the way it does.

Misty is this little, maybe 4 lbs soaking wet, fair seal point siamese. Tia Maria on the other hand is her very darkly pointed daughter. I think Chrissy, the other daughter, could have had a better name, it doesn't fit her so well. Furrball is just this huge, 18 lb, big boned siamese. I don't know how a cat so big came out of a cat as small as Misty. Bruiser, well he always fought the hardest to nurse as a kitten, "beating up" the other kittens, bless his heart.

Muffin was my first cat, and I was allowed to name her. What other name would a 3 year old pick? haha. Cleopatra was this regal old siamese that lived to the ripe age of somewhere between 20 and 22, I don't remember exactly. Gramalkin, well as you can guess, was a long haired grey cat that unfortunatly passed when I was very young. I have only very vague memories of her.

There have been so many cats in my life, and I hope to meet the ones that have passed on again one day.

I recall posting my furbabies names in a previous thread, but instead of re-writing it again, I just copied & pasted my reply from that thread to this one...

Maverick was Maverick, and I kept the name the same for him b/c I thought it was cool,

and he had a 'purr'-sonality like a maverick.

Winchester was Augustus Cesar (Gus for short), named by the people who rescued him after some

threw him out of a car window. I thought he was a little "pistol,"

so I renamed him Winchester.

Geronimo was Lucifer. I'll admit he can be a little "demon"

sometimes, but he's not "evil" (he just has "issues"

). I considered him more of a "warrior," so I chose the name Geronimo.

I don't recall Spencer's former name: he had one (given to him by the people who worked at my b/f's workplace), but it didn't fit him. He looked like a Spencer to me.

I originally was gonna name him Caruso, but it just didn't seem to fit.

Gabriel was Griz: I have no idea why the humane society people named him that. To me he looked like a little "angel,"

so I called him Gabriel.

Those are the cats that I have now: the following are the cats I used to have, before they crossed over the Rainbow Bridge....

Shadow was Hector (YUK! - those people at the HS sure pick some real hookey names!), and Sterling was Baby (another HS name): he got his name b/c of his beautiful silver color.

Foxy was always Foxy (he was previously my sister's cat, and she named him). I never bothered to change it, b/c I thought he was "foxy."

I don't recall Damian's former name, either. But it was another hookey one given to him by the HS people. I named him Damian, b/c he had just a touch of "evil" in him.

BuffPuff & Cheeto were always BuffPuff & Cheeto: they were given to me as kittens by my former landlord. BuffPuff looked like a little puff of fur, amd Cheeto was named Cheeto b/c of his orange color.

~KK~
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Pixie - a mischevious spirit:

Well when Pixie first came to me, the first thing I did was take pictures and email them out to friends & family, asking for suggestions. I received several suggestions....and was settling on Pixie. Then she discovered the closet door in the computer room. Always kept shut, it's the only way down to a crawl space under the house. (four and half foot tall crawl space, well lit.) Now, you have to pull several boxes out of the closet, flip up the rug, then crawl down a ladder to get there. Couldn't find the cat....saw the door was open....but nothing disturbed...hmmmm. Still....no sign of her elsewhere...so pull everything out, climb down...yup...there she was. Get her, get back up the ladder.....put everything back....firmly close the door this time.

An hour later....no cat. Door open, again. Pull everything out, flip up the rug....and there she is, sitting on the ladder. Of course, the minute I reached for her, down the ladder she went. Right at that point, I called her a witchy B.... At which point she starts circling the ladder, meowing woefully, help me help me...can't get back up. Uh huh. Sure. We had a bit of an arguement....and then she trotted right back up the ladder, smug as can be.

So far this is the only door she's proven she can open - and it's now locked.

So now her name is Pixie Witch - Pixie for short.

Furrari - fastest zoomies as a kitten. Even before his eyes were open he would zoom off the countertop at feeding time if I didn't get a really good grip on him. I hand raised him and his sister (RIP) Harley Softtail who had a beautiful fluffy tail. Fari's not so fast anymore, he needs a step stool to get on the bed with me (he's 15 years old).

Freya - the Norse goddess of love and war. Her chariot is pulled by two cats.
My Freya is a talker and a cuddler who loves to clean my face with her tongue. She weighs all of six pounds but the boys don't mess with her.

Elijah Blue-eyes - I picked him out of a litter before his eyes were open. Since he was staying with mom cat until eight weeks I asked the people who owned the mom to call him Elijah or Eli. He's a beautiful MLH flame point with blue eyes! I make my living in working for garden centers and there is a beautiful variety of ornamental grass called Elijah Blue-eyes Blue Fescue. For some reason that just clicked as a great name for a blue-eyed cat.

Lilly, because of her "tortitude" was named after the goddess Lillith. Lillith was too difficult to say all the time, so we ended up with Lilly: Lillith is the archetypal Unshackled Woman who refuses to be controlled. Lillith passionately claims her personal power, stands firm on her convictions, and is driven by an internal motive. She was considered a Divine Lady in Sumerian texts.

Forrest was named by the lady who trapped him as a feral. She said he could run faster than any kitten she'd ever seen. So, she named him from the character Forrest Gump ....Run Forrest...RUN.

When we brought Sal back from the breeder, we werent too sure on the name. His face is a bit panda/racoon -esque so I wanted somehting related but in the end we settled for Salvatore. Sal wouldnt come out of the carrier, he stayed there for over 2 hours and when we finally took him out he just purred and glued himself to me. I was like: "aawwww, you're such a big pussy!" (he was 5lbs at 15 weeks) and we remembered that there's someone in The Sopranos that was nicknamed that... And the guy's name was Sal, so thats how we named him!

Satchmo was named after Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, we wanted a "black" name. And Paco was a "Rambo" when I adopted him, but I didn´t like the name - I wanted a spanish name and so he became Paco.

Seamus got his name because I wanted an Irish name and I thought it'd be funny to have a cat named Seamus... he has quite the sense of humor smacking me in the head for the fun of it, so it fits.

My first thought for naming my girls were flower names. One was going to be Daisy...I'm not so sure about the other anymore. But DH said that was too girls! (But they are GIRLS! )

So my next idea was to name them after characters from my favorite comic strip, Mutts! So since the main cat character is a tuxie cat, Mooch became Mooch (although Mooch in the strip is a male cat). The gray cat in the strip is Sourpuss, but I didn't want to turn Noodles into a real sour-puss, though she can be one, she became Noodles. Which is just another character that I like in the strip.