Cool Cat Names: Cool Cat Names for Cool Cat Owners
Are you looking for a cool name for your cool cat? Picking the right cat name can be an important job and a difficult job. The name you choose can say as much about you as it does about your cat!
We also have several lists of cat names on our site, including lists of over 1200 names and some uncommon cat names.
Cool Cat Names
- Alexei
- Allergen -(because of my daughter’s allergies to cats)
- Aloha
- Alush – (pronounced “AH-loosh”), which means the dark time of the night, as in that period after the last flicker of twilight and before the first hint of dawn, in the Alurhsa language which is my own
- Anastasia
- Angelus – is a cool cat name and a character from the tv show Angel
- Angus
- Arabella
- Ariel
- Aristophanes
- Arky
- Artemis
- Asia – Great for a Siamese
- Aslan
- Aspirin
- Atreus
- Aurora
- Azure Pouf
- Baggins
- Bagpuss, (born in a bag)
- Bardot
- Batman
- Beatrice
- Beausephus
- Beavis and Butthead
- Beeker Beek or Beekie for short
- Bijou
- Bitsy
- Blitzen (Bissie)
- Blue
- Bluebell
- Blyss
- Bob
- Bodger
- Bodhi
- Bodhisatva – Bodhi for short(man of wisdom in Tibet)
- Bonsai
- Boo-Dee
- Booker
- Boris
- Braden
- Bruiser McAvity (Bru Bru)
- Buckethead
- Buddyboy
- Buggie – Bugg for short
- Burble – after Lewis Carroll, “and burbled as it came!”
- Buster
- Butter cookie
- Cairo
- Cash for Johnny Cash.
- Casino
- Caspur Ghost-Walker
- Cecilia
- Chai
- Chance
- Chance – second chance at life
- Chantilly Lace
- Charis (which is Greek for “Grace”)
- Chas
- Cheddar
- Cheetah
- Cheeto (like Cheeto chips)
- Chevy
- Chewbaca
- Chicken – because that’s what she is (Chickie for short)
- Chieme – (a famous Asian female singer)
- Chocolate Chip (Chippie)
- Claudette (a small, clawy thing)
- Cobwebb
- Coconut
- Colleen
- Cool
- Contessa
- Conway
- Cooper – named for Cynthia Cooper, the WNBAs first superstar!
- Cootie
- Corinaga (Corey)
- Cozmo
- CQ (or Crazy Quilt)
- Crabby Joe
- Crumpet
- Damnit
- Dancer
- Desari
- De-Tail (feral, only has half a tail)
- Dexter
- Digit
- Digit (great for cats with extra toes)
- Dobby
- Dolce
- Domino
- Douzi” – after a character in a Chinese movie “Farewell My Concubine”
- Ducatti
- E.T.
- Earl Grey
- Egg, (born on Easter Day)
- Elegant
- Elliott
- Emilio
- Familiar – learned in European History class where we discussed how cats, especially black ones, were considered a witch’s “familiar”
- Fancy
- Fat Man Scoop
- Feather – because of her tail
- Felix (luckiest cat ever)
- Fendi
- Figaro
- Flo
- Foofie
- Foofur
- Fox – after Fox Mulder, hero of “The X-Files”
- Freak
- Frida
- Frog
- Furbie
- Furby
- Furge
- Furrari
- Gabbana
- Gateway
- Gem (for sweeties!)
- George
- George O’Malley
- Geronimo – brave Native American Apache Chief
- Gia
- Gimli (Lord of the Rings)
- Ginger Nut (like the biscuit)
- Girlie
- Goblin
- Gozer
- Guinea Pig
- Guster
- Gypsy
- Hagrid
- Hamlette
- Happy
- Harry Potter
- Hathaway – after the 50’s machine advertised shirts
- Heidee
- Helios
- Hobbit
- Holstein
- Honey Bee
- Hooter
- Horatio
- Hzarad
- Ice
- Ice Cream
- Indigo
- Isis
- Jackie (Robinson)
- Jade
- Jasmine (sweetest personality ever)
- Jasper
- Jazz
- Jazz
- JB (short for Jumpy Bean)
- Jinx
- Joey
- Joey Chandler Ross ( for TV series “Friends”
- Journey
- Juliette
- Jumpy Reindeer Tutu (named by a 4-year-old)
- Kahlua
- Kai
- Kasumi is a cool Japanese name that means mist
- Kat
- Katmandu
- Keeks
- Keeper
- Kelly Springfield (tuxedo cat with 4 white paws or whitewalls)
- Kerplunk
- Khubla Khan
- Kira Leigh Dean
- Kismet
- Kissaelain (cat in Finnish)
- Kissyfur
- Kit Kat
- Kitters
- Ko-ishi (pronounciation Koe-eeshee) means pebble in Japanese
- Konnan – Trouble in japanese
- Kuma (means bear in Japanese)
- Kushi (koo-shee), which is short for “utsukushi”, Japanese for “beautiful”
- Kwai
- Lady Kotton
- LaGatita (small cat in Spanish)
- Lambchop
- Lan Na – became famous for its Buddhist scholarship and literature
- Lance
- Latifa
- Legolas ( from The Lord of the Rings)
- Leila
- Leisha
- Leon
- Lestat
- Licorice
- Lilo
- Lizzie
- Loki – ancient God of Mischief
- Lolei
- Looby Loo
- Lottie
- Lotus
- LuLuBelle
- Luna (short for lunatic!)
- Mabel
- Machiavelli
- Mackie
- Maddux
- Magic
- Mahalo Marmalade Magoo – In Hawaii Mahalo is used to say Thank You and slang for Hang Loose…which fits Mahalo perfectly!
- Maizy – for cats with orange and golden colors – one cat’s owners thought of the decorative dry corn in the fall – the other name for corn is maize
- Mandrake
- Mandrake
- Mardi Gras
- Marilyn Meow
- Marmalade
- Marvin
- Matisse
- Mauser and Purdey
- Maybella
- McMurphy – after Randall P. McMurphy of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, perfect for a red cat!
- Meewa
- Memphis
- Menya – (Hebrew for Peaceful).
- Mephistopheles
- Mercury
- Merideth
- Merlin
- Mia
- Mice-tro
- Milo
- Minette
- Minko
- Minnie
- Minus
- Minx
- Miracle
- Mithra
- Mitts
- Mitzi moo
- Mompeli (doesn’t mean anything, named after another Mompeli)
- Moo
- Mo’o – which in Hawaiian means, lizard
- Morgan Le Fur – a Himalayan, ‘nough said!
- Motor (found in the engine of a car)
- Moxie
- Mozart
- Mr. Magoo
- Mr. Meowgi (like Karate Kid only with a kitty twist!)
- Mr. Tibbs
- Mrs Norris,
- Mry (in Egyptian means Beloved)
- Mugwai
- Mur-mur
- Murphee
- Nala – name of Simba’s friend in Lion King but more importantly, means “gift” in Swahili
- Napkin
- Narsil( from The Lord of the Rings)
- Nefertiti
- Newton (Newtles)
- Ni Tcha – (ni (milk) tcha (tea)) Chinese for tea with milk. Great for cats light brown in color.
- Nicole
- Niddle Bug
- Ninja
- Nip (from Catnip)
- Norman
- Nubbie b/c her tail is just a nub
- Octavius or gus-gus
- OJ (like Orange Juice not OJ Simpson)
- Olive
- Olivia
- Onyx
- Oscar
- Othello
- Oven Mitt – was so named after the infamous Arby’s Oven Mitt character on their commercials. True to his character, my little girl is ALWAYS on the tail end of a large, loud, unfamiliar noise or bang which ALWAYS results in a huge cleanup of the disaster.
- Page
- Panther
- Patty
- Pauline
- Peace
- Pebblz,
- Peeps – because she always peeps around the corner at you
- Pekin
- Penguin
- Pepper (salt and pepper colored)
- Percy
- Perkins (lived on a boat with Perkins engine)
- Peterbald
- Petey
- Picabo
- Picasso
- Pippin
- Pistol (because he’s a little pistol)
- Pitty Pat
- Pooka
- Posh (after Victoria & David Beckham)
- Ptolemy after the Macedonian general who succeeded Alexander the Great in Egypt and founded the Great Library of Alexandria, where they sought to collect “All the books in the world”. Knowledge is Power!
- Prada
- Prowler, Pouncer and Maule (after aeroplanes)
- Puddles
- Puddy
- Puddy Face
- Purrcy (cat with a loud purr)
- Purrsia (play on Persia & purring)
- Purry Mason
- Pyewacket
- Ragweed
- Raider
- Ranger (for a cat that liked to roam)
- Ratbait
- Redgee
- Rembrant
- Retread (a stray, all black)
- Rhapsody
- Rhea
- Rintintin
- Robbie
- Roly Poly
- RonRon (French for purring)
- Rosco Rorschach (Rocky Okie)
- Rubyred
- Rumor
- Rumpers
- Runt
- Sadie
- Saki
- Salem
- Sambolino
- Samui
- Sandy (Koufax)
- Santee River – for the Santee River
- Sapphire
- Savannah
- Sayang (is a Malay word for Love, Sweetheart, Darling)
- Scarlett O’Hara
- Scat
- Schlitz
- Serena after Samantha’s cousin on Bewitched
- Serendipity
- Sergei
- Shabba
- Shabeth
- Shane
- Shaquille
- Sherbert (like orange sherbert)
- Shipley
- Shiraz
- Shnuffles
- Shyla
- Sid
- Simberella- Female version of “simba”
- Sirah
- Skittles
- Slick
- Slippers
- Snagglepuss and Jinksy
- Snapper
- Snigglefoot
- Sparkle
- Spaz
- Spider
- Spike
- Spock
- Spot – Data’s cat in “Star Trek, The Next Generation”
- Spyda (spider)
- Sticky
- Stoner
- Stormy
- Stormy
- Stretch
- Stryder
- Sugar
- Suki (means love, fondness or favourite in Japanese.
- Sunami
- Sushi
- Tank
- Taxi
- Taxi
- Taylis – because she has no tail–you know tail less.
- Taz (Tazmaian Devil)
- Terk…the gorilla off Tarzan
- Texas by the Native Americans – it means ‘friends’
- Teyha – Pronounced Tey-yah, Precious in Native American
- Tia ( for great actress named Tia Mowry)
- Tiger Lily
- Tigerfuzz (named cuz he was just a ball of fuzz with tiger stripes)
- Tigg
- Tiki
- Tilkaracha (an ancient Siamese king) – AKA Tiki
- Tilo – for Tilokaracha and ancient Thai or Siamese king (ruled 1441–87)
- Toffee
- Topsy
- Toscala
- Toulouse
- TrapHer (feral, speaks for itself)
- Tripper
- Twitcher
- Twix – Twix canday
- Two Nicks (two nicks in her ear from fighting)
- Twotone
- Tycho (we say it tee-ko) after Tycho Brahe whose work led to the discovery of the Cats Eye nebula
- Velcro (he used to stick to you)
- Venus
- Violet
- Vishy…. short for Vicious-Licious
- Voxie (enough said — very loud cat)
- Vuitton
- Weasley
- Wee Willy Winkie
- Whisker Sanchez
- Widget
- Wilber
- Wilbert
- Will Farell
- Winston
- Witlof (Dutch for a kind of cabbage)
- Wolfface
- Woody
- Woogie
- Wookie
- Woozle
- Wrigley (Like the chewing gum)
- Xander
- Xander
- Xena zuzu
- Xerxes
- Yoshi (means good or adopted child in Japanese)
- Zambuca
- Zed
- Zeebee Jeeb
- Zin
- Zinta – means natural and exploring
- Zonker
- Zorro