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"Q"  We have no idea where the name came from. We rescued her and that was the name she came with. But for some reason, it suits her.


Comment by Kate
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Marika  My husband named her Marika because he liked the sound of the name. She is the only kitten of Ripple's that we kept and she was born in our hall closet....

Ripple  When we first brought her home as a kitten, her colouring reminded me of what a tub of Butterscotch Ripple ice cream looks like when you take the lid off....

saffie  my cat is call saffie and some how she brings me luck

ginger  because our cat colour is ginger

comment by kate
i used to have a ginger cat and we called her ginny.

Maestro (Micetro)  We love music, all three kids play piano and cats like mice!

comment by kate
like it, very original.

Riley  it sounded cute!!

Moe  That was already his name when he was adopted. I call him Spawn too. He's a baddie.

Pumpkin Patch  She is a calico with orange and black coloring, and she was born on Halloween!

Jaeda  Her eyes are bright green like jade and she's siamese mix so she's got the oriental look. then i just decided to spell it differently

Mr. Bojangles  Just loved the name and the song.

comment by kate
I love that name too, do you cll him Bo for short i wonder.

Nermal  He looks just like Garfields cousin. Grey and fluffy and oh so cute!

fluffy stink poo mungalinga  cool name

Kippy  Kippy was found motherless when she was 3 weeks old, together with her four siblings, on Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday. Hence the name Kippy. She and ...

Blackie  We got "Blackie" from a local shelter at 7 years of age. He's a little rough around the edges, and as you can see from this particular picture, he has ...

Eggmund P. Longbody  Eggy grew up to become Eggmund P. Longbody.

Eggy  This is "Eggy". He was originally given to us by some friends who developed allergies to cats. When we got him, they thought he was female, so his name ...

bob the cat  because not a lot of cats have that name

Comment by Kate
well that is true, it is a very no nonsense name that people don't usually bestow upon their ...

Gizmo  When we first picked her up she looked like the character from the movie Gremlins.

Otis  I named my boy cat otis because i thought it was a catchy name haha! and it was opposite or melo and otis which i liked and he loves his name very much ...

blaze  because this is a really cool name.

comment by Kate
Great name for a little kitten too. As most of the time i'm sure they are a blur as they whizz ...

Tanner  Tanner is a good cat name cause, if your cat is tan, this is a good name for a girl of boy cat.

Comment by Kate
So true it is a good name for either ...

MIA  Mia - is a character from the film Pulp Fiction, she is very feline looking and a bit of a minx

FiFi  Short for PHOEBE

Comment by Kate
I often wondered what Fifi was short for and i wouldn't have guessed that it was Phoebe. I wonder if you named her ...

Jasper  Because it's a cool name

Miss Anthropy  Misanthrope is a hatred for humanity, she is a very verbal black cat that complains, complains, complains!

morgan hamilton Mouseripper  Maine coon cat, great hunter and jumper!

winston  HE'S A VERY BEAUTIFUL MALE PERSIAN VERY NOBLE AND STUFFY LOOKING SO I CALLED HIM WINSTON. I THINK IT WILL FIT HIM A LITTLE BETTER WHEN HE GROWS OLDER.

Foxy  We named her this because she is white like the cute arctic snow fox that we saw at the zoo a couple of weeks ago!!!

ficus  she was born in the plant department at a local discount store. so i thought a name of a plant would do best.

Angel  when we got her she seemed like she was glowing, as if she were an angel.

Chance  Not my cat but a neighbors cats' is best friends with my cat (Leo) and at first I didn't know why he was named that but then after watching him for a while ...

Brick  At first we didn't know our cat was a female. She's a black cat but on the back of her arms and legs and on her chest is a "brick" red color. Which is ...

Koshka and Meo  I couldnt think of the right name for my siamese so I looked up cat names in different languages. Koshka is the Russian word for cat. I later got a black ...

Bramble and Blackberry  Two feral kittens found in the middle of an overgrown patch of brambles.
One is short haired black except for the tips of her back paws hence Blackberry
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Zippy  after "Zippy The Pinhead" cartoon character

Comment by kate
This must be an American character as i have never heard of him before. here in England ...

Pizzicato - Pizzi for short  I am a church musician, I heard from a friend that his church's minister of music called her cat "Magnificat". I loved it, but the name had been taken ...

Fluffy Pantalonies  He's a very fluffy boy with especially fluffy bum / back legs (pants).

comment by Kate
Oh i love those cats with the big fluffy pants on. I used to ...

Moon  a pale gray colored cat

coffee  brown and black hyper cat

Comment by Kate
like the name a lot. I don't think i have heard of a cat called that before. Can you tell us more about them,...

sulies, fizz, bisto ,puss,  I wanted a name for a cat and was watching my uncl sulies on bbc and it stuck! hes a boy
Fizz because she is fizzy
Bisto after the gravy
puss don't ...

blackberry  Because shes black

Comment from kate
so it's not because you are a techno geek and love the new blackberry phones then. That vwas my first thought ...

Roswell  cos he had big eyes like an alien.

Good Name, has a rather posh ring to it as well. I can just imagine calling him in for his tea. Roswell, Roswell....

Ponce deLeon  Because he was a little explorer when I got him home. He explored everything! I call him Lee for short.

Oh he does look for of mischief and definately ...

Sammy  She was a stray cat, and at that time we were unsure if she was a boy or a girl. So we figured we would name her something unisex.

Tofu  She is solid tan. And I think she might be Asian.

Hi, i Love the name, it would have been great to have seen a picture of a cat names Tofu. The name ...

Hippie  becuase i like hippies

What an original name, i like it and what better reason to name a cat. But does your cat wear flowers in their fur? Kate

raven  She's sleek and very "birdlike" as she flies through the air. She's a shiny black cat with "intelligent" eyes and can be quite stealthy. She had ...

Soekie  She always use to hide around the house when she was a baby, and I always had to search for her. I just thought the name suited her, she is almost 5 and ...

Thunder and Lightning  We adopted our brother and sister from the local animal shelter. Lightning is our male and came with his name. His sister was charcoal or something similar....

Snuggles (Snuggy for Short)  He is so snuggly and cute like a little teddy bear especially when he was a kitten. He is my little snuggy bear.

Darka  she is black

Comment by Kate site owner
well you can't say fairer than that but does she have a dark personality to go with her colour and her name ...

Dickens  When he was a kitten, my sister said, "He's a little Dickens, isn't he?" and it stuck! We had been calling him Psycho-kitty, but this sounded much better....

Pepper  We named our little cat Pepper because she is peppy and all over the place. She is also a gray color and kind of looks like pepper.

George  Geroge got "her" name from Curious and George of the Jungle. She was found at a fast food place, very tiny and very scared. She was found in Oct so I ...

Apirl  she cute and she born in april

Tequila  Well, she is a domestic long hair mixed with calico so she has calico spots all of her head and butt that are the color of tequila. Also, I wanted to name ...

Nester  I gave my cat this name because he is a really weird cat and the name just suits him!

Note from Kate site owner
tell us more, why is he weird?

Prissy, Pumpkin, are 2 of my cats I have more lol  I named Prissy her name because she has always acted like she was a priss you know one of those girls who primps all the time ...who thinks shes all that ...

Gala  Galadriel, from lord of the rings, the name was given my my nice but I didn't like it, Gala sounds much better

Curry, Chili, Saffron, Vanilla, Cayenne  Curry, After thai red curry, since he's red.

Cayenne, Since she's a red girl with energy in abundance.

Chili, She is red.

Vanilla, My white couch-...

Sophia  i named our cat sophia after the character from the golden girls because shes just like a fiesty little old lady, but looks so sweet and innocent

Pepper  She was black like Pepper and she had a lot of energy (she was "peppy".

holstein  he's black and white like a holstein cow and we live in wisconsin.

Comment by Kate site owner

Great name and very original too. :)

Colby  color of colby-jack cheese

Picali  Picali means small in italian. and our cat is so tiny.

Taylor  I named Taylor after the actress Elizabeth Taylor. When she was a kitten, she had fluffy black hair. For some reason Taylor's halo of hair reminded me ...

Lonzo  He looks like a bear

Iris Pyewacket  Iris because we like flower names, but she goes by Pyewacket or Pye after the witches familiar from the Salem witch trials.
She is always by my side,...

Flounder  A friend of mine had a Maine Coon he named Flounder. When he announced he was getting a divorce he called me to see if I wanted Flounder. I was ecstatic!...

Charlie  He's a boyish, playful kitten, and it suits him.

Zion   Very peaceful! I love Zion!

N.O.E.L.-  My cat's name is actually Noisy, Ornery, Energetic,but Lovable- the anagram N.O.E.L. He was given this name for two reasons- 1) it was almost Christmas ...

Cocoa  I gave this name to my kitty because he is blakish-brown and he snuggles up to you and keeps you warm like cocoa.

Oreo  because he looks like a oreo

Dot  Named after Dot Cotton from the British soap Eastenders, plus she has a cute brown dot on her upper lip. Depending on how well behaved she is, she's also ...

Tilly   When we got her and her sister, I wanted to call her Ethel! (her sister is called Dot, and Ethel was Dot's best friend in the British soap Eastenders). But ...

Fog  He was a gray (and the poem)

Babooshka  My boyfriend and I both love the Kate Bush song and although we're still waiting for our little Maine Coon kitten, when we saw him, we knew it was right....

Barkybonshnouzer  I named my cat this because it was spunky, random, and when he meowed he sounded like a dog!

Kittums  I named my cat Kittums because she has a kissable tummy.

Cupcake  I named my cat this because she is sweet like a cupcake, and i very enjoyable.

PaPa Flash  He came to me with the name when I adopt him .

Tiger  She looks and act like a tiger does. She started stalking us when she was a kitten, Now she catches mice and bugs. Just like a tiger you can't predict ...

Luna  It just seemed appropriate since she was saved from a sure "kitten dumping" on a cool summers night under the largest full moon I can remember ever seeing....

Domino  He was born with 3 black dots on each side of his spine, in a row, and across from each other. he literally looks like a domino with 6 spots. the rest ...

Paris  Paris is a long haired cat and she always looks like she just stepped out of the groomers. She reminded my daughter (who named her) of Miss Hilton. She ...

Cleotis  Why I named my cat this: Because when we adopted him we weren't sure if he was a male or female. Since his eyes looked like he had on eye liner we thought ...

Storm  When I brought her home she created such a storm between the 3 children who each wanted to have her. We couldnt decide over 3 names in the end we put them ...

Fleaco  My roomate and I wanted to name her a name neither of us have ever heard before. We came up with Fleaco short for Flea Company. Definatly different, and ...

Ben Mouseman  Also found wandering around by himself and only about a month old - he caught is first mouse 4 weeks later. A beautiful silver cat with a distinctive smile ...

Oliver  Oliver was found all by himself in a hotel garden when he was less than 10 days old. We fed him by syringe and he always wanted more - like Oliver Twist....

Prince  I already had a cat named Diana, so I figured it would be cute, Pricess Diana, and her husband a Prince, name leaves me at the moment though, but my grey ...

Molitor  When we recieved him from a litter we were told he was a girl. So we named "her" Molly. Well a couple monthes later surprize! she was a he :)So we changed ...

McLaren  Because he is a pure bred cat and is fast on his feet like the formula one racing car named after the New Zealander Bruce McLaren who was the first to ...

Kramer  I got my cat second hand - they had named him peaches and cream (normal orange tabby) I could not see myself calling him with that name. I just started ...

Fiesty  when we first got her six months ago she could not be still. constantly on the move,getting into everything,sooo the name just fit. she still is Fiesty ...

Wilson  When we first got this cat off the street he hid from us all the time and you could only see his eyes when he did.Wilson comes from the character off of ...

Saki  I was obsessed with the ninja turtles when I got this cat I wanted to name him from one of the characters. Shredder was the bad guy but his real name was ...

Queenie  I named my cat "Queenie" because she reminded me of royalty when I first saw her. She is a beautiful calico with a mixture of yellows, blacks and white....

Sterling  Due to her unique fur coloring and markings, she is not a common gray cat but instead a frosty luster to her coat whisch earned er the name the moment ...

Soxx  Soxx has white paws & is 5 months old now. He runs or walks in my direction when I call him and looks like a little tiger / cheetah wearing white sox - quite ...

Tuxie  She is a black & White tuxcedo cat rescued from a field where she was dumped. I fed her for 6 months and one hot day loaded her up and
took her to the ...

Sly  He is sneaky! he fetches balls like a dog, he loves water: He loves to take a bath!!! he sit in the bathtub and purrs while i'm washing him! He plays in ...

Pipilotta  I named her Pippy after Pippilotta The Long Stocking. It was just because she sounded like Pippy to me. And she was having these black stockings on her ...

Scarlet  I named her Scarlet because I just like the name. And because we wanted to call her with a name with C for climber - she always climbs - even now she is ...

Isolde  I named her Isolde because this name sounds very beautiful to me and in fact, in celtic it means beautiful. And she certainly is a beauty. We call her ...

Sid  We found him (or he found us) as a 5 wek old abandoned kitten. His head was much bigger than his body and he looked like Sid the sloth from the movie Ice ...

Minnow  She was named at the rescue centre from where she came. It absolutely suits her and she comes to it when she is called. Its also the name of a fish which ...

Fluffninn  my cat is fluffy so that is where we got the fluff from which is pretty explanatory. but the ninn came from an old cat the we had that died some years ...

Nelly  because she was a light colour and i just liked the name for her.,

Jemma  my friend had orange hair and her name was jemma, and my cat was ginger so i called her jemma lol. ,

Sooty  Because he was black. so i named him sooty as like the soot from a fire or something haha.,

Sandy  Because we live near the beach ,

Fred  I think my husband named our cat this because he has loved the show Fred Sanford since he was a child.

Limo  He was long, thin and loved to stretch out as long as he could...came from the shelter where he had been in a small cage for quite a long time. Also I ...

Piglet  He always comes within 10 seconds if you open the fridge or shake a bag of cat treats.

Demona  Because she is a demon! But a female demon so demon + a = Demona!

Rajah  I named my cat after the tiger in the Disney movie Aladdin because she was sweet and loyal and walked with a regal swank....just like my baby.... :).

Peanut  I found this cat in my garage he was so small i took him forever to grow and one day my son said he was as small as a peanut so that is how he got his ...

Sassy  Sassy got her name because the day after I got her she attacked the other 3 for wet food and ate it all so from that day one we called her sassy it fits ...

Princess  Princess got her name because she is spoiled we got her when she was only 4 weeks old so we had to raise her like a baby now she spoiled to the point of ...

Riley  I found her in the middle of the road in the small town of "Rileyville" in Page County, Virginia.

Molly  When I saw my cat in the RSPCA this name just came to me. I feel it suits her just right. She was called another name by the RSPCA but I do not think that ...

Raven  I named my cat raven cauz it's black and it is very flufy and cuit it has bleue eyes , gray and whit stripes and it looks like a tiger .

Dee Dee  My favorite football players nickname is Dee Dee.

Etta  My wife came up with this GERMAN name for the cat and means "Little One" in German as in Henrietta = Little Henry" However, I decided to see what it meant ...

Smudge  We called her "Smudge" as she has a grey nose & a beige smudge under her chin.

Sunny  A male cat name submitted

Alfie  After Alfie on Eastenders - a nice character.

Sage  I loved the idea of Sage.

Sarah  This cat had a hard time getting a name. She's a torty-siamese cross. I started calling her Sierra which I thought was pretty. But she did not respond ...

Harry  Our cat was named after who else but Harry Potter. The kids are Potter mad and so it seemed a natural choice to name our new little male cat Harry. well ...

Easter  We rehomed our cat during the easter holidays, she had just had a litter of kittens and the Easter story of being reborn and her just having kittens seemed ...

Banjo  We have a ginger tom which we named Banjo for no other reason than I am a banjo player myself and i collect all things to do with banjo's. When we got ...

 


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