Whats in the name?

Hey guys. I was wondering, where did you get your names for your kittys? whats the reason behind there loving names?


heres the reason in mine!

Ollie short for Oliver;
My nan had a cat when I was growing up, she had him LONG before I was born, he was named after the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy) my nans cat looked alot like Ollie and his name was Stanley. I adored him so much, and took him treats, and really looked after him, even at such a young age I adored cats. he died when I was about 6, I was extremely sad, and I felt really lost, and I mean really lost, my mum decided our family should have a cat, we went to a pet store, back when they still sold cats over here in pet stores, and we picked him out, We named him Oliver, because of the Laurel and Hardy connection. he's grew up with me since I was 6. he's 14 this year.


Missy;
I love to draw, and make characters, I made a cat character many years ago, and named her Missy kitty. when I got Missy from a shelter, I kept calling her little missy, and the name just stuck.

Simba;
Not long after Simba was born he had a horrid eye infection, when I bathed his eye and looked after him, as he got older, he purred so loudly, and sounded like baby Simba from the lion king, he also had simllar head makrings to baby simba, and it just stuck.

Star;
I love stars, stars in the sky, or anything star shaped in general. I have a star mood changing necklace, when Star was very young he kept running off with it, then he kept chewing my stars on my wall, they glow in the dark, when i walked in, I said, ''oh no not the stars!!'' he looked at me and ran over, I said to him, do you like stars, and he just purred his head off, thats how he got his name.


How about your kittys?

Hmmmm....actually Hobbs was named by me after we took him in as a stray.....he just looked like a total doof, and he was always a mush....so we went from "Mr. Hobbs" to just plain Hobbs. It just seemed to fit.

Blueberry wasnt named by me but my kids must have heard she was Blue Point so my daughter named her Blueberry at the Ragdoll breeders. Actually her papers (somewhere in my house) have this long regal rediculous name....like "Blueberry of the House in the Royal Mountain Valley" blah blah. I cant even remember what it is, but to me she is just my sweet snobby "fattie Blue-Bee"

Sweetie got her name because when I went to see her before I actually adopted her, no other name fit, but Sweetie! The first time I visited her before I got her, when she was only about 5 weeks, she let me hold her and rock her gently on a swing on the porch at that house. She's always been very kind and gentle in nature - most of the time.

Precious has this name because she is Sweetie's daughter. When I first saw her when she was very very tiny little kitten, just a few hours after Sweetie gave birth to all the kittens, I fell in love with this one little girl kitty. She was the runt of the litter, and had a very intricate tabby fur pattern from when her pattern began to show more. When her eyes opened, they were the most deep blue (kittens' eyes are blue at first) of the litter. She was just a precious, fragile little doll from the start.

Sashka means `to spring' in Russian, and she is a Russian Blue, and she's a real jumper and climber, so it seemed appropriate!

Sunday, well, because we got her on a Sunday

Cairo because as a kitten she had a beautiful pointy face with lovely wide big ears and eyes, and she just looked like a `Cairo'.

Princess and Mina were named by Max years ago when he got them - although I have to say Princess suits her name perfectly!

MieMie - It's pronouced meemee, she got her name because that's what came to mind at the time lmao

Buddy - We were calling him buddy until we thought of a good name, and before we new it, he was already responding to his name, so he kept it...

Harley - When she was born she was named twister because of her patterns, then we realized she has a loud motor that you can hear from the other end of the room so my fiance goes, just like a little Harley Davidson...

Gizmo - Her name WAS Hurculese (she was the extreme runt in the group, and my little rescue, she was born breached with the embryo sack broken and still stuck inside mommy, when I pulled her out she was blue, so i rubbed her w/ a towel until she started crying!) until we found out she was a girl. So my fiance decided to name her Gizmo cuz he always wanted to name something Gizmo, lmao

JoJo - I'm not quite sure where it came from... i was just trying different names and such to see what she'd turn her head for... and that was the first thing.

Jack - Originally I was going to name him Josh, because I'm a Grobanite (Josh Groban, the singer, if you didn't know). but when I picked him out, the ladies at the rescue told me his name was Aaron, but his nickname was Jackrabbit, because he has these incredibly powerful back legs. So I shortened it to Jack. It turns out that it's still Groban related, since JG's dad's name is Jack.

Amanda

Nice idea for a thread.

Mushi's name was thought through for days. So many different this kitty almost had.

His name is "mister Mushi Face" because he looks like "mister" kinda cat. And Mushi Face is because we were looking for A "mushed face" cat.

My Tucker is ten years old. When I got him as a kitty, I had several names in mind. The two that I remember most was Tucker and Loki. I had read Tucker in a book somewhere...can't remember which one now...and it had sounded so sweet and I really liked it. Loki is the norse god of mischief. Since he was such a sweetie I went with Tucker. That and nobody else liked the other names so much. But Tucker seemed to suit him. His middle name is Pern...which is the name of a fantasy land that Anne McCaffrey writes about. I had been reading a lot of her books the summer that I was blessed with Tucker. About three years later I took in two sweet brothers. They were both all black. (I had always wanted an all black kitty! and now I had two!)By this time I realized that I should have named Tucker, Loki...because the mischief part really suited him. Plus I liked the name so much. So I named one of my kittys Loki Ashlar. Ashlar is the name of a character in an Anne Rice book. His brother I named Ramses Amun-Ra, because I am a huge Egyptian fan. Ramses has since passed on. ( But I plan on naming any other boy kitty that I get Ramses II. Normally, I wouldnt do this. But it seems approriate to me because Ramses II was Ramses the Great. )

So my terror of a cat is named the sweet-sounding Tucker. And my sweet cat who is so good natured and friendly and lovey...is named after a god of mischief. LOL.

Molly was named before we got her, and I always felt that a pretty cat like her deserves a pretty name like Molly.
My wife named Megan, who we adopted as a kitten. She didn't give a reason, and I didn't ask for one.

Dion

Named after the rock and roll singer Dion dimucci, from Dion and the belmonts. They were a rock and roll band in the 60's. They sang "run around sue". Dion actually fits the last name because he is "DA MOOCHE" of food!!

Frankie

Frankie was named after Frankie Valli, another 60's singer.

Bast

Named after the egyptian cat goddess

Stanley

Named after Stan and Ollie.

Ollie

Named after Stan and Ollie.. They are brothers

Mort

Named by first husband

George

George is George...

Bonnie.... named after Bonnie and Clyde,, Her RB Brother was Clyde

Buddy ..., He was my Hubby's little buddy until he reached puberty and then he switched to me.

Sissy.... Buddy's sister. Hubby wanted to call her Sister, so we compromised.

Scamper.... When he was really little, her ran and scampered all over the place.

Princess... She is dainty and sweet. Like a princess

Stinker..... A name hubby started calling her that stuck

Soichiro: Named after Soichiro Honda the man who founded Honda Motor Company.

My family's current cats...

Dunlop: We call him "Dunny." He was adopted from a vet clinic. The previous owner brought him in after being run over by a car twice and refused to pay for his care. I guess the car had Dunlop tires on it.

Tiny Tim: Was adopted around Christmas time and looks like Timmy.

Some of our past cats, may they rest peacefully...

Timmy: I can't remember why I chose that name. I was seven years old and for me it seemed to fit.

Popeye: When we first adopted him, he had bad allergies in one eye that made him look like he was winking like the cartoon character Popeye.

Mad Max or "Max" for short: A big sweetheart of a cat that loved to play like a kitten, even as an adult.

Flakey: A female Calico that was the mother to Popeye. She had a flakey personality; a hard to figure out cat.

Bud: A cat my parents had before I was born and passed shortly after I was born. Apparenty he like to sleep in a Budweiser box.

Tosca Rune and I wanted a name that reflected our musical interests as well... something tasteful and something that suited the cat perfectly. We decided that we wanted an operatic connection, so we sat for days reading list after list of names of operatic heroines... once we got herhome however, the name wasn't hard to choose. She tried to throw herself out of a window just over our balcony. (It was shut, by the way... so all we could hear was a dull thud as she hit it) So Tosca was the obvious choice.... Short for Floria Tosca. We have our eyes on a big male Norwegian Forest cat mix, who is black and white like Tosca, but he has a little black moustache on a white face - he is the negative image of her. He's very very sweet and he's in Kattens Værn at the moment... he's come from a bad background and he seems to have chosen me for himself. I'm the only one he'll trust to brush him and he actively seeks my company... so we decided we'd give him a chance. We have to wait until he's stopped stinking (he was neutered pretty late in live, poor soul) but that shoudln't be too long. Until then, he's not going anywhere else. And if all goes well... we shall have a (Mario) Cavaradossi to come keep our little (Floria) Tosca company

Jade - because 10 years ago we already had Mick and Bianca (oddly enough in true Rolling Stones style Bianca left home and settled in with a neighbour, when Jade moved in)

Sol - because we already had Luna and Sol & Luna are spanish for Sun & Moon, she has a very sunny nature.

Charlie - No idea we thought of lots of name and tried to think of a spanish one related to Sun & Moon tried Marz tried Cfer (short for C for Cat) called him by those names but they didn't suit him. Then one day called him Charlie and it stuck.

Tommy - well because he is a Ginger Tom and I used to call my huband my Ginger Tom because when he was young he had very red hair & was a bit of a lad.......

both my current cats came with their names- I try not to change kitties' names, I don't want to give them an identity complex but I tend to name on themes, my last theme was NASCAR- I had Dale and Jr (For Dale Earnhardt Jr, my fave driver) Martin (for Martin Truex Jr, Dale's Teammate) and Talladega (my fave track) before that I had a biblical theme going, Jericho, Sampson, Delilah, My rabbit was Rebekah. I think my next bunch I'm going with Greek/Roman gods & goddesses.

Phenom is part of the racing theme her Dad gave her. A Phenom is a racing chasis we run so that led her her being called Phenom!

Usva: Mist in English, for obvious color reasons

Milla: Short for Kamomilla (camomile). She was actually supposed to be Ruska, autumn colors in English, but the kid in the foster family named her first.

Tilli (dill) and Timotei (timothy hay) just to continue the nature theme.

I looked at baby names on the internet. Then when I saw Bijou, since it is the french word for jewel and his eyes are like beautiful jewels, there was no question that this was the right name for him. Bijou is actually a female name but we didn't tell Bijou that - we don't want him to have a complex.

What a lovely thread idea!

Tibby's full name is Tybalt - the Prince of Cats! He was a big kitten and has always been quite the powerful one, so it just fitted well!

Molly chose her own name as I was trying to find one that fit! She decided that Molly was the best and I think she made an excellent choice!

Willow's name comes from his markings! I work a lot with willow charcoal and he looked like he could have been in the box and become all smudged!