How did you name your kitties?

I named Dixie, Dixie because she looked exactly like a cat who lives next door, and that cat's name is Dina, so I wanted to look for something close to that. How did you name your cat(s)?

Skinny..... He was so small not now

Cindy....... Since she was the neighborhood stray, our street name is Cynthiana it was appropriate to name her Cindy.

Eleanor...... She had that name from a previous owner, we liked it, she liked it, didnt change it when we adopted her.

Thumper..... Her tail thumps against you when she is content. Thus name Thumper

Beeper...she chose us as her humans when she was a young feral (TNR-ed and everything). Her 'meow' was more like a 'meep' and she sounded like someone's pager going off, hence her name.

Scully...petite, red haired, not afraid to share her opinion. We're big X-Files fans

Prince John (aka PJ)...you know the Prince John from Disney's Robin Hood? The lion who sucked his thumb and generally acted somewhat...needy That was PJ as a kitten - he looked like a lion cub but had the temperament of a mouse

Miko - within moments of being born, still attached to mama, she attempted to scale Scully's side and continued to climb anything and everything she could. Add to that her large round eyes and extreme curiosity, she reminded us of a monkey. Her name is a variation on a Spanish term meaning "little monkey".

Stephanie...at four weeks old she was the only kitten we hadn't named yet. A good friend of mine had recently moved to Colorado, and I was talking with her on the phone. "You should name a kitten after me." I did, and now my friend just adores her little namesake.

Mystik - because she had an "M" on her head and we wanted something unique.

Marty - my brother-in-law named him.

Joey - named after Joey Ramone from The Ramones.

Tabby: I was reading a list of female cat names to my family, and when I got to "Sydney" we all thought it was cute. So I said, what about a middle name? (It's a family thing - everyone needs a middle name! ) We thought "Tabitha" was cute because she's a tabby. But we thought it sounded better the other way around - Tabitha Sydney! But everyone calls her Tabby.

Tucker: His initials had to match Tabby's - T.S. (That's another family thing! ) Some of you may remember when I got him - I called him the "new kitty" for several days because naming him was hard. I was looking at male cat names starting with T. "Tucker" sounded cute ... but the funny thing is, at the same time I got an e-mail from Laurie suggesting it! So what about a middle name? "Steven" of course! Tucker Steven!

My tribe all have their given names, which is a descriptor of their personality, or their appearance, or how they came to be part of the tribe. Their second names are their "Jellicle names", from the musical "Cats", which is also where jellicle tribe comes from

Turvy Demeter was the last to be adopted from her litter and is half of the twin duo "Topsy and Turvy". Demeter is her jellicle name.

Mischief Mistoffolees had the shelter name Mischief, and became M. Mistoffolees when he joined the tribe.

Diva Etcetera D'Calico was named Diva when my mom found her, the rest given to her when I brought her home.

Blondie Rumpleteaser, because she is such soft red to buff that she looks blonde all over.

Hobo Skimbleshanks because he rode into town in a railroad boxcar, a little orphaned Hobo (Skimbleshanks is also the railway cat in "Cats")

Peanut Butterum and Sassy Sasparilla: Peanut and Sassy were their shelter names

Trace Tumblebrutus was found as a stray on Cumberland Trace road, Tumblebrutus because he is missing a leg and Tumblebrutus was Growltigers bosun on his pirate barge in "Cats".

Mickey was named after Mickey Mouse, because when he was a kitten... he had HUGE ears for his size.

Tucker - named after NHL player Darcy Tucker.

Billy - named after NHL player Billy Guerin.

Eddie - named after NHL player Eddie Belfour.

Marty - named after NHL player Marty Brodeur.

(yes, we are big hockey fans! lol)

Tommy - just a name we picked that suited him. We called him Robbie for a short time, but Tommy/Thomas suited him better, and stuck!

Lola ~ After the Kinks song, "Lola".

Abbey ~ We called her that because we really liked the name Abbey for a child, but it is so common we figured we would never use it anyway.

And every time I hear that song, I think about your girl!

And every time I hear that song, I think about your girl!

Shadey - it looks like someone took a pencil and "shaded" him in.
Elliott - I just have always loved the name, and thought it suited him.
Imhotep - I love anything to do with Ancient Egypt, and the name means "He who comes in peace.".
King Tut - Sticking with the Egyptian theme.
Nefertiti - Egyptian theme.
Osiris - Egyptian theme.
Horus - Egyptian theme.
Cleopatra II - Again with the Egyptian theme, but she was named after my first Cleopatra who died exactly one month before her birth.
Isabella - She came with this name and I loved it. Her full registered name is Lumax Isabella of Balinan.

Hooray for X-Files! We once had a bird named QueeQueg.

Anyway, Monkey had his name from his previous owner. It really suited him, since he behaves like a crack monkey most of the time.

For Yoshi, the name was suggested by a friend. The people who found Yoshi had been calling him Captain Jack, but I just didn't think that suited him, but I couldn't think of anything that did, until my friend (who knows I like Japanese names) suggested Yoshi.

Emma -- I always liked the name, it also was short so it would be easy for her to understand.

Eugene-- my husband insisted ( His Name )

Jack -- That was his name when I adopted him It suited him and I liked it.

Linda

Pippin, Merri & Sam



We both love the Lord of the Rings trilogy and wanted to name our Boyz after some of the Hobbits. I wasn't keen on Frodo so we choose PMS Rita's sister recently adopted a cat in Kingston and named him Frodo.

Will named Sash. He was originally named Sasha until we found out he was a little boy and then we just shortened it to Sash. Sounded a little more boyish I thought. My sweetheart.

Milo- I picked out his name before I even saw him...I had a list of names for boys and girls...when I saw him at the SPCA I said there's my Milo.

Georgie- well she was a neglected kitten (bad neighbor)...she came to our house nearly everyday for a month Oct/Nov2003. Finally we kept here in...Ty said lets name it George...just being silly. Anyway...I look at her private parts and said nope it's a George EEE or Georgia. General Hospital the soap was on at the time and they have a female character named Georgie.

Lucky- we brought her/him home and within 10 minutes...I said you are so lucky to be here with us. DING DING DING ...Lucky is a cute name called Ty on his cell and said his name is Lucky. I wanted a neutral name in case.

The funny thing about all their names ...all 3 names are on General Hospital now.
Lucky
Georgie
They don't have bio on Milo b/c he has a very small part. BUT when he is on. lol

Munchie:
Mom named him because he ate like a little munchkin.

Tooties:
Her original name was Princess. Somehow, she took on the name Princess Cutie Patootie which is now a nickname of hers. It was shortened to Tooties soon after.

Poopsie:
Her original name was Lucky due to the conditions in which her previous owner found her. However, it seemed she LOVED to come into the bathroom while I was in there and want to sit on my lap!!! So that is how she got the name Poopsie. And with her facial expressions, that name was very fitting for her.

Willie:
To be honest, I really do not know. I guess that was the first name that popped up...

Nice little stories all!

Jones - after Ripley's orange cat in the movie Aliens
Sasha - I just love the name!
Marley - I wanted something different... And I like Bob Marley.

I also prefer giving my cats people-ish names!

My boyfriend named Scratch - not cause she was scratching us or anything, more like what the kitty is doing in my avator. My boyfriend uses the turntables.

Phoenix was a huge deal for some reason. But I've always liked the name and it was so hard to find a suitable name. So Phoenix was the only one everyone could agree on.

Bellas original name was Bonita - Spanish for beautiful. So we changed it to the Italian word beautiful - Bella

When we adopted Cindy, her name at the time was Elise. She definitely did not look like an "Elise", so our family put several names in a hat and up came "Cindy".
We then look for a middle name for her, and chose "Lou"--so that made her Cindy Lou, as in Dr. Seuss's Grinch story (Cindy Lou Who).

Little Ed was named after the hyena from Lion King because he always has his tongue hanging out.

Timm was named after Tim Horton's Coffee

Mary Jane was...well you figure it out...

Fraulein Vonstashvitz evolved from Stash name after...well you figure it out....she is the daughter of Mary after all!

I've had mucho problems naming cats except for Rocket. His name came to me in about 10 seconds the first time I met him because it seemed all he wanted to do was "blast off." However, the other cats were harder to name. Mellie actually went by another name for a month until I decided it didn't fit. I tried out numerous names on Twinkie and finally settled on Twinkie because it was a name he seemed to respond to. So actually it was a name HE picked, because I don't partitcularly like it. Be he does, so that's fine.

Me too!

Noah This is Colleen's Babe, she named him after the character in "Legend of Legia" it is a playstation game


Lucifer Named after the cat in Cinderella, as well as the devil - it really fits him


Yayo honestly named by my first room mate sylvio - he is a really sketchy cat, - he fits his name very well too

This just came to me... I was at the vet once and there was this cuttest cat ever and his nsame was Linus.. pronounced line-us.... loved that name for a male