Are you looking for that perfect cat name that just fits your kitty? Naming a cat can be difficult. One way many pet owners do it is to look for a name that goes with your cat’s personality or physical characteristic? For example, is your cat playful?

Here are some names ideas for cats that are known to be “playful”. I hope this helps you find the perfect name for your cat!

Do you have any suggestions for additional traits or cat names? Email us your cat name ideas and we will try to add them to our cat name list!

Cat names for “playful cats”

• Arrow
• Batman
• Bizzy
• Bouncin Beemer
• Bullet
• Chaos
• Cobra
• Dancer
• Dash
• El Nino
• Flash
• Fugazi – Vietnamese for “Chaos”
• Frantic
• Frisky
• Gunner
• Harley
• Havoc
• Hurricane
• Hypurr
• Kaze (means wind)
• Jackal
• Lightening
• Lkaika, which means “the brave one” in Hawaiian
• Lively
• Mischief
• Mimi – Mimi, short for Screaming Mimi was bellowing at the back door
• Monkey Business
• Naughty
• Ninja – for the cats ability to get us at every corner…
• Nibby
• Nibby Nose
• Nike
• Paint Ball
• Picabu – for a cat that likes to play Peek-a-boo
• Pitters
• Pitty Pat
• Pogo – would jump like a pogo stick!~
• Pounce
• Puck
• Reebok
• Radar
• Reckless
• Rascal
• Rufus (sweet and slow moving, sometimes “goofy”
• Rumble
• Ramble
• Rambo
• Ruffian
• Rocket.
• Scatter
• Shooter
• Skeeter
• Skittle
• Skittles
• Sniper
• Sneakers
• Spanky
• Spaz
• Speedo
• Speedy
• Spirit
• Spunky
• Sticky
• Striker
• Taz
• Thumper (from Bambi)
• Tornado
• Trouble
• Turbo
• Xena (named after Xena Warrior Princess because of the way she jumped from place to place)
• Vroom Vroom
• Wild Thing
• Wiz
• Zannie
• Zig-zag
• Zippy (fast – can’t catch this one)
• Zippity do dah
• Zips
• Zorro
• Zoom

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