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Famous cat names

Borrowing a famous cat's name is a nice shortcut: the name has already been road-tested on a cat. Screen cats include Salem from Sabrina, Binx from Hocus Pocus, Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service, and Goose, the ginger scene-stealer in Captain Marvel.

Comics give you Garfield, Heathcliff, Felix and Hobbes; books give you Dinah, Crookshanks and T.S. Eliot's whole cast of practical cats. A few big cats (Bagheera, Simba, Aslan) are here because no house cat has ever objected to being compared to a lion.

30 names below, each with its meaning and origin.

Girl names 5

  • Dinah

    Alice's cat

    Hebrew origin, female, 2 syllables

  • Duchess

    The Aristocats' elegant mother

    English origin, female, 2 syllables

  • Marie

    The Aristocats' white kitten

    French origin, female, 2 syllables

  • Mehitabel

    The alley cat of Archy and Mehitabel

    Hebrew origin, female, 4 syllables

  • Tama

    "Jewel"; Tama the calico was a famous station-master cat

    Japanese origin, female, 2 syllables

Boy names 22

  • Aslan

    "Lion"; Narnia's great lion

    Turkish origin, male, 2 syllables

  • Bagheera

    The black panther of Kipling's The Jungle Book

    Hindi origin, male, 3 syllables

  • Berlioz

    The Aristocats' piano-playing kitten

    French origin, male, 3 syllables

  • Binx

    The talking black cat of Hocus Pocus

    English origin, male, 1 syllable

  • Cheshire

    The grinning cat of Wonderland

    English origin, male, 2 syllables

  • Crookshanks

    Hermione's clever, squashed-faced cat

    English origin, male, 2 syllables

  • Felix

    "Lucky"; also Felix the Cat

    Latin origin, male, 2 syllables

  • Figaro

    Pinocchio's kitten; also Rossini's Barber of Seville

    Italian origin, male, 3 syllables

  • Garfield

    The lasagna-loving comic-strip cat

    English origin, male, 2 syllables

  • Goose

    The ginger cat in Captain Marvel

    English origin, male, 1 syllable

  • Heathcliff

    Brontë's brooding hero, and a comic-strip orange cat

    English origin, male, 2 syllables

  • Hobbes

    The tiger of Calvin and Hobbes

    English origin, male, 1 syllable

  • Jonesy

    The ship's cat in Alien

    English origin, male, 2 syllables

  • Macavity

    T.S. Eliot's Mystery Cat

    English origin, male, 4 syllables

  • Mungojerrie

    One of T.S. Eliot's cat burglars

    English origin, male, 4 syllables

  • Pluto

    Roman god of the underworld; the cat in Poe's "The Black Cat"

    Latin origin, male, 2 syllables

  • Puss

    Puss in Boots, the clever fairy-tale cat

    English origin, male, 1 syllable

  • Simba

    "Lion"; The Lion King

    Swahili origin, male, 2 syllables

  • Skimbleshanks

    T.S. Eliot's Railway Cat

    English origin, male, 3 syllables

  • Sylvester

    "Of the woods"; the Looney Tunes cat

    Latin origin, male, 3 syllables

  • Tigger

    The bouncing tiger of Winnie-the-Pooh

    English origin, male, 2 syllables

  • Toulouse

    The Aristocats' painter kitten

    French origin, male, 2 syllables

Unisex names 3

  • Jiji

    The black cat of Kiki's Delivery Service

    Japanese origin, unisex, 2 syllables

  • Salem

    Town of the 1692 witch trials; from Hebrew for "peace"

    English origin, unisex, 2 syllables

  • Totoro

    The forest spirit of My Neighbor Totoro

    Japanese origin, unisex, 3 syllables

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