How did your cat(s) get their name(s)?

Originally Posted by laureen227

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Yes! That is my master plan. One of them, hower is already spoken for, so if Adagio has some boys, one will be Leo. The rest I will give cute little names before they are adopted out

Both of mine are Himalyan and Sparky was orginally named Kahlua & Cream because her color looks like the Kahlua & Cream drink, she is creamy white in the middle with chocolate color tips, feet and tail. We tryed calling her Kallie but it just didn't work, she ended up Sparky as she is such a live wire.

Lani is named Princess Kalani as she is such a little princess, and she knows it. She walks around like royalty flipping her tail and acting regal.

All of mine are adopted, two came with another name that we changed to give them a new start and the other two we named.

My RB cat Sphinx had another name from the shelter that really didn't fit him. We renamed him Sphinx because he was soquiet, regal and wise seeming - like the Great Sphinx of Egypt.

Kuce was the other shelter cat and her old name was Polly which also didn't fit her. It took us a few days to get to know her better and looking on the internet for name and came across her name. Kuce means "The Quiet One." It fit her at first but now that she has settled in and is hovering around 15 years, she has turned out to be very vocal......

Luvbug was a stray at our apt. complex that someone had dumped and was 2 pounds underweight. He was so scared but trusting. Once he came to stay, he has turned out (In less than a couple of weeks) to be such a loving, sweet and very quiet boy. He just can't seem to get enough love.

Lil' Jag we found as a 3.5 month old kitten in the tirewell of my brothers Jaguar Coupe, hence her name Lil' Jag. She is by far the smallest one of our cats, but not by much. What she lacks in size, she makes up for in attitude and voice.

tabitha - have always loved the name, think i probably heard of it from the tv show bewitched. that fits tabby as she can be a little 'witch' at times!

milo - my daughter likes a band called yourcodenameismilo. good name and suits him down to the ground.

shinobi - my favourite band are lostprophets. one of their songs is called shinobi versus dragon ninja. i believe the name originally came from a nintendo game and shinobi can perform some quite stunning ninja moves!

My very 1st cat as a child was named Tibby bc she was a tabby, I guess.
As a young teen I got a 1/2 grey persian & named him Fluffy. My 1st adult cat was a pure bred silver shaded persian & his name was Smokee which was part of his pedigree name. Then we got a torty & I named her Coco. My present cat, Blossom, was a foundling. I was going to hand her in to the vet who runs a cat adoption centre, but they couldn't take her in. On the way home, stuck in traffic, I started thinking of names. It was early spring & she has a bright coloured face, like a flower, so I thought of Blossom.

Roxy- From the internet! It was me and DH's first pet together-a present from him to me when we were dating-and we looked at a pet name website, wrote down our top 7 and settled on Roxy!

Stitch-well from "Lilo & Stitch", of course!!! I LOVE that movie! Stitch is a rescue-turned foster-turned pet! So we didn't know we were keeping her when we named her, but I LOVE her name She fits her name well too, like the movie she is oh-so cute and cuddly but a terror at the same time!

Mistoflees- I named him after the T.S. Eliot poem. And yes, he was black from his ears to the tip of his tail. He's since gotten white pieces of fur on him. He's 16 years old, I think the white furs are grey hairs (that Sneaky's given him )

Sneaky Pie- Named after the cat heroine in Rita Mae Brown's series. I just love her books. Sneaky's a tortishell tabby, so she really doesn't look like Sneaky Pie Brown.

If we wanted, I guess she could be SneakyPewter. She's got Sneaky Pie's personality. She's got Pewter's weight

All the cats I had when I lived with my parents were named after car parts, mainly because my dad owned an auto repair shop, and all of them were born there! We kept to the tradition even after we moved away and named the next 2 cats Caliper and Tailpipe.

Monte got his name after "Monte Carlo", the car Rob has. My dad proposed that name to us. We were looking at different languages and how to say "cat" in them, and ended up with Katina. I was looking at Italian for female kitten, and it said "gattina". Rob thought I said "Katina", and that sounded prettier and original, so it stuck

We call her Baby Cat most of the time anyway, because she's sort of a runt ... she's also called Stubby & Chubby ... with her short legs and kitty chub

Teddy is named after my late grandfather because he was such a heavy sleeper as a kitten. You could literally pick him up and (gently) shake him and he wouldn't wake up. He used to scare me so badly! Also, Teddy went crazy for his bottle as a baby and would get very impatient if I took too long to make it. My grandfather was also impatient and grumpy if he wasn't fed on time.
Nicknames: Teddy-Bear, Ted, Noo! Don't do that!
My friend's boyfriend's nickname for him (He always has to have another name for them. lol): Theodorable

On a side note, I didn't count on the creepy factor that came with naming him after my grandfather. My grandmother yells at Teddy in the same tone of voice she yelled at her husband in. lol

Even though Milo is my kitten, I wanted everyone in my family to agree on his name. I wanted to name him Aiden, but I was shot down. Milo was actually suggested by someone on TCS. Since he looks so much like Milo, from Milo and Otis, I liked it... and it was the only name everyone agreed on.

Nicknames: Oh my Milo! Milo-My! My-My
My friend's boyfriend's nickname for him: Milotious

Originally Posted by purrrplej

Hi - recently on The Cat Site there was a discussion of whether people's cats had middle names. That got me thinking, how did everyone's cat(s) get their name(s)?

Simba actually started out as Sabrina, just because I liked that name - and the pet-store folks assured me that the kitty was a female. When I took him to the vet for the first time, though, I was advised that I might want to change "Sabrina's" name! I just chose Simba because it was close enough to Sabrina to, hopefully, not confuse him too much. Plus, it was appropriate, since it was not too far removed from the days of "The Lion King," and I guess "Simba" means "lion," and he looks like a little lion, being an orange tabby.

Murray was named after Murray Head, who sang "One Night in Bangkok" in the '80s. I chose it because Bangkok is in what used to be Siam, and Murray is a Siamese. I also wanted an '80s connection because when Murray ran into my apartment with me that fateful night he "adopted" me, I happened to be on the phone with a friend who totally loves the '80s.

So, how did your kitty/kitties get their name(s)?

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Persi was a typo, I left the an off the end and decided to keep that as his name.

Scooter got his name from a Ron White comedy routine.
Pearl was the same color as the pearl white bike I used to have, with her shiny white fur.
Pepper was Pepe' Le Pew when we got her because she had a dislocated hip and would fall down in the litter box, and always smelled bad. Then we found out she was a girl, and she stopped falling down in the litter box, so we changed it.
Fluffy is named after Eric Cartman's cat from South Park.

Well my Blue got her name because of her eyes, we took one look at her and that was the first word we both thought of. We call her tiny also because she is so small. We also call her Kazootle as a nickname, believe it or not she answers to all of them! Marley on the other hand is another story. When we first saw him we immediately thought of a little lion, so I wanted to name him Marley because of a Bob Marley poster I saw with a lion on it. My boyfriend wanted to name him Mr. Beans because of his personality. And his name at the shelter was Buff Rascal. So his full name is Marley Buff Rascal Beans. We usually just call him Beans, Marley, or Mr Beans though.

When we got our tabby kitten from the rescue she was a little scratchy and one of the workers described her as a "little cow". so when we named her she became Ermintrude who is the cow from "The Magic Roundabout". She is always called Minnie or just Min and she has grown to be a sweet girl.
My son named our other cat.....Gingy, and yes he is a ginger tom

Lets see

Austin is named after the wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin. When I got Austin as a kitten wrestling was really popular and my son used to watch it alot. The kitten and my son used to wrestle so Austin kinda stuck.

Frisky- Such a common name but it truely fits him. He is always getting into some type of mischief, crawling through the heating ducts, getting up in the ceiling tiles you name it.

Priss or Miss Priss is just like the name suggests she is always concerned with her looks, constantly grooming, checking herself in the mirror walks around like the Queen.

Jack oh what can I say about Jack he is six toed on each foot and just the cutest thing ever. He was a true feral hated everyone and anything. Hissed, jumped at you but still showed up for breakfast every morning and dinner every night. One day he mananged to get himself into a box we had outside the door. We walked out and all the sudden this cat sprung out of the box like a Jack in the box. So we started calling him Jack. After that day he claimed the box as his and would sleep in it. One night I went outside to give the ferals some left over chicken pot pie we had had for supper as a treat. That was it, Jack was in love with pot pie lol. He let me pet him that night because he was just so into his pot pie and we have been friends ever since. No hissing, biting nothing and now he lives in the house where he gladly rolls on his back for belly rubs.

Domino a black and white tuxedo kitty. I call him Domino because he looks like one. All black with one white spot on his chest and one on his face. If you look at him from the front it looks like the Domino for 2. He is another Jack. He is a male feral who is not people friendly at all and very crafty I can't trap him to TNR him for anything. He will hiss and strike at you but at night he sits on the stoop of our front door when we have it open and watches us inside. He wants to be close but not that close it is so cute. When I come outside he will come running from where ever in the area he is and sit about 10 feet from me and listen to me talk to him. He follows me around but if I attempt to approach him he hisses at me. I have nick named him Hissy boy.

Sophie/Sophia is just a name that seemed to fit the baby nothing special about how she got her name.

Monster.. well when the guy who found him gave him to me, he was 4 weeks old & the guy thought he was a girl.. he was calling Monster "Misty". when i bought him home tho, my boyfriend didnt like Misty.. so i thought about it & named him Bella still thinking he was a girl. he was really really bad, so he had alotta nicknames, one of them being Monster. so when i noticed his thingys dropping, i asked the vet if he was really a girl or a boy like we were starting to think. the vet confirmed that he was a boy, i couldnt think of what to name him, so his nickname Monster just stuck. My boyfriend claims he can tell by a cats face whether theyre a boy or girl.. he said he knew all along that he was a boy, & he did always say he thought he was a boy before the vet told us.

Mittens belonged to my boss.. she couldnt think of what to name her, so my bfs mom(who works at the same place as me) came up with Mittens bc she has lil white paws.

Salem got his name from his previous owner after a cat on a tv show. Rocko got his name from a close friend who's cat had died and had the name Rocko so we decided it would be nice to honor him by using the same name.

Callie-She's a Calico.

Tolstoy- He is a Russian Blue!

When we first got him, his name was Jonesy. Yeah, we were not going to keep that. So we started tossing names around. I liked the name Jinx but my sister's friend had a cat named Jinx, and I didn't think it was that original... my mom liked the name Felix, I wasn't digging it so much but we decided to try it out for a while. It just wasn't fitting... he was Mr. Kitty for a while and we eventually just decided that he looked like a Jinx. So it stuck, but honestly we never call him that, he usually just gets called "kitty" lol.

Jinx has actually turned out to be very fitting for him--poor guy has been pretty jinxed!