What are your cat's names, and how did you get the name?

Ace - Named when we adopted him. I like the name, though.
Skittles - It just suited him somehow ... he was such a cute kitten and is a total spaz.
Pepsi - To go with Skittles.
Ozzy - Black cat (black fur, black pad, black mouth, black whiskers) found by the side of the road on Friday the 13th by my husband's little sister. Named after Mr. Osbourne, of course.

Here's a list of some of our adults with interesting names:

Hau Kea 'Ino : seal mink snow bengal. His name means Snow Storm in Hawaiian

Kahekili: brown spotted bengal. His name is the same as the last king of the island of Maui. We got him from Maui.

Blaze: brown spotted bengal. His whole name is Blazing A Trail. We named him this because he was the first one out of the nesting box and he ran all the way down the hallway his first time out.

Tinta Preta No Ouro: brown spotted bengal. We call her Tinta for short. Her name means "ink spots on gold" in Portuguese.

Mizu Tenshi: brown marble bengal. We call her angel, because her name means "Angel of the Water" in Japanese.

Minnie Chained Melody: brown marble bengal. Mini for short, she originally got the first part of her name by being the smallest of the females in her litter. The chained part comes from the chaining pattern to her coat and the melody part comes from her loud vocal chords!

Banka Mundi: brown marble bengal. Mundi for short, her name means "Goddess of the Hunt" in the language of India. As a youngster she was instant death on any insect that ventured into our home.

Majesty: brown spotted bengal. We call her Maggie for short, but she knows her name is majesty......don't ever name your cat majesty! They live up to their names and boy does she ever believe she is a queen!

Regent; brown spotted bengal. Regent got his name, because we wanted to call him something regal sounding without making him "Kingly".
It worked out well, because he knows he's special but he doesn't have an attitude about it!

Darwin-- well, he is a monkey boy.

Dakota-Lakin--- (My kuvasz dog) Well, dakota was left on our doorstep. I love the name dakota, and Lakin means found treasure.

Sam-I-Am--- (bullmastiff) Well, Sam had that name when she came to me.

Harley-Davidson--- (bouvier des flandres) I own a Harley myself. Thought it would be cute.

Miko. She's a Japanese bobtail cat I found as a stray when I was living in Japan. So of course she had to have a Japanese name. Miko is cute, and a popular pet-name in Japan. It can either mean "pretty girl" or "Shinto priestess". I like both meanings.

My boyfriend named Sash, he was originally named Sasha and then we found out he was a boy so we shortened it to just Sash!

Sluggo was named because of his grey patch just above his left eye. Makes him look tough, like he has a black eye. Hence the name. Pandora is named after "Pandora's box". The reason for this is because I really opened it when I brought home a 2nd cat! Hubby just flipped! He's ok with it now, amen.

1.Mickey - He just fit that name
2.Cammie - Because she was so beautiful, she needed a pretty name
3.Dunkin - It just came to me one day
4.Miniman - because he was small not anymore
5.Sissy- because she was in a busy shopping center parking lot alway's acting like a sissy, till I trapped her
6.Ziggy- because she is alway's zig zagging in the house
7.Zazzy- because she reminds me a of a stuck up kitty
8.Zinger- because she is a zinger
They are sisiers so I wanted them to be similar they are all sissy's babie girls rescued from the parking lot,

Mine of course is Reilly. My boyfriend named him before I ever met either of them..not too sure the reasoning behind it though.

Tiara is my hubby's little princess and wanted a name for her that was pretty. Toby, her son, we both share and I thought it would be a cute name for a cat. We desided to keep Tiara's other two babies as well. My daughter named her's Tasha because she liked the name. I desided that it was only right to name the other little baby something that starts with a T. So she got named Tyler! I'm so happy that we desided to keep the whole litter, knowing that they will have a forever home, and be treated the way they deserved. Spoiled Rotten!

Originally Posted by Miss Mew

Mine of course is Reilly. My boyfriend named him before I ever met either of them..not too sure the reasoning behind it though.

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Maybe he lives the life of Reilly?

Max: He passed on in July. He was given to me by another family and we did not change his name since he was about 16 mos old.

Speedboat: I tried to name him Simba. My husband called him Speedboat because he ran through the house full speed all the time. That is the name that stuck.

Muffin: My husband went fishing one day. He came home with no fish and a cat that was at the boat landing. He was such a little fluff ball, I just thought Muffin was appropriate for him.

Originally Posted by Arlyn

Vash - named after one of our favorite anime characters

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That's funny... we were trying to pick between Vash (from the anime) and Gus (a poker player). So we let him "pick" his name and he always went towards Gus. Gus reminds me of the little mouse on Cinderella. That was my favorite character from that movie.

Kandie Apple Kane /// I wanted to name her cookie cause the slight calico markings on head and tail reminded me of an oatmeal raisin cookie, but cookie was what we called the dogs treats... so Kandie it was... then I wanted Kandie Apple and mom wanted Kandie Kane so Kandie Apple Kane it became... Funny since she is a primadonna and not all the sweet...

Zoey Woey... Zoey was supposed to be chole but cleo kept coming out , cleo was a friends deceased cat so no go ... Zoey fit and the woey part is well she is a handful and so was Joey Woey my german shepard...

Diesel - Because was fiance was allowed to name him and wanted to make it something to do with cars - So he is named after a fuel!!

Portia - Because its a name I love from Shakespeare, and its a car!! I had to keep with the flow!!

The Sammycat got his name when he got his foot hung in the couch. He reminded me of the old children's tale "Little Black Sambo". Well to be politicaly correct and not to offend anyone who might hear his name in the vet's office I change it from Sambo to The Sammycat.

Now Oscar.....dear sweet Oscar, He got his name after "Oscar the Grouch". When my hubby brought him home he was a pitiful spitting, snarling mess. He was so weak that he couldn't even bite through anything, but he was hissing and spitting. I called him "Oscar the Grouch" and the name stuck.

Nacho - my bbrothers girlfriend named him.. I am not quite sure why she named him this.. but it suits him quite well!

Orion - He was named after the constellation. But now that we have him, and not my brother I say its after the greek god, who is the constellation, but.. anyway xD

Gordito - his name means 'short fat one' I believe in Spanish.. and when we na,ed him, he was just that.

Poptart - my sister alwasy wanted to naem a foster kitten Poptart.. and then she just named him it.. I wanted to name him Smear, because of the smear on his nose. but I think Poptart suits him much better.

We have 3 animals named after foods, Nacho, Poptart, and Kiwi(bird)
and then two after greek gods. Orion and Apollo, my dog =)

Bonnie.... She is the twin to Clyde who has gone over the rainbow bridge. I wanted names the complemented each other

Sissy.. My hubby wanted to call her Sister because she came with a twin. We compremized on the name.

Buddy .., Originally hubby wanted to name him Brother for same reason as Sissy's. I nixed the idea. I named him Buddy because he loves to cuddle in the morning.

Now the kittens..

Stinker... My hubby's name for one little girl. She is a little stinker.. LOL

Princess... The littlest girl. She is my princess

Scamper... The only boy and got his name because he scampers around playing all the time

Over the rainbow bridge is Clyde and Kiki, who died last year of kidney failure at the age of 20. Kiki's name was derived from the word kitty.. She was my sweetie that was a feral cat. By the time she died, you never could have told that she was a feral. She was totally tame and did not like to go outdoors.

Max and Alfie - no deep reason, just liked the names

Tigger, coz when he was born the people named all the kittens, so it didnt feel right changing his name. (i wanted to call him Gizmo) hehehe. But my mum wouldnt let me.

My auntie got one of his sisters her name was originally Melanie, but they changed it to Bunty.