Girl names 10
- Barbara
"Foreign"
- Brenda
"Sword"
- Fiesta
"Party"
- Fifi
A poodle name, on a cat
- Jinx
A charm, or a streak of bad luck
- Linda
"Pretty"
- Nut
Goddess of the night sky
- Tortellini
The stuffed pasta
- Tortilla
For a tortie with jokes
- Tortuga
"Turtle"; a nod to the tortoiseshell coat
Boy names 37
- Admiral
Commands from the windowsill
- Bandit
For the masked face
- Bishop
Moves diagonally across furniture
- Blizzard
For a white whirlwind
- Captain
Sets the course
- Cauldron
For a cat who's always brewing something
- Cheddar
The orange cheese
- Cheeto
Bright orange and slightly chaotic
- Dennis
From Dionysius
- Garfield
The lasagna-loving comic-strip cat
- Gary
A human name, delivered deadpan
- Gato
"Cat"
- Gerald
"Rule of the spear"
- Goose
The ginger cat in Captain Marvel
- Hamlet
For an indecisive cat
- Hocus
Half of "hocus pocus"
- Jeeves
Wodehouse's unflappable valet
- Lord Fluffington
For a floof of rank
- Mackerel
The name of the striped tabby pattern
- Maestro
"Master"; the conductor in tails
- Meatball
For a round, solid cat
- Moose
Large, Canadian and gentle
- Mountie
Always gets his mouse
- Mr. Whiskers
A timeless honorific
- Mungojerrie
One of T.S. Eliot's cat burglars
- Nacho
Cheesy; also a nickname for Ignacio
- Picasso
After the painter, for an abstract coat
- Pocus
The other half
- Pollock
After the splatter painter
- Professor
Seems to know things
- Purrlock
For a detective-grade snoop
- Sir Reginald
Reginald means "counsel power"
- Skimbleshanks
T.S. Eliot's Railway Cat
- Steve
Stephen means "crown"; on a cat it means comedy
- Taco
Folded and happy
- Topolino
"Little mouse", which is the joke
- Tut
After the boy king Tutankhamun
Unisex names 34
- Bagel
From beygl, a ring-shaped bread
- Chipmunk
Small, striped and busy
- Chonk
For the generously built
- Croissant
"Crescent"
- Denim
Blue cloth, originally "de Nîmes"
- Fudge
Soft brown candy
- Gnocchi
"Little lumps"
- Goblin
A small menace
- Gremlin
Chaos at 3 a.m.
- Holstein
The black-and-white dairy cow
- Loonie
Canada's dollar coin
- Noodle
For long, floppy cats
- Oatmeal
Comforting and beige
- Oreo
The cookie
- Otter
Playful and sleek
- Pancake
Flat out on the floor
- Penguin
A formal waddler
- Pesto
"Pounded"
- Pickles
Briny and unpredictable
- Pigeon
Unbothered city energy
- Potato
Low effort, high comfort
- Poutine
Fries, curds and gravy
- Pretzel
Twisted and brown
- Skunk
Black and white, with attitude
- Spud
A potato, affectionately
- Squirrel
"Shadow tail"
- Thyme
The herb; ask what thyme it is
- Toast
Golden brown
- Tofu
Pale, soft and unbothered
- Toonie
Canada's two-dollar coin
- Toque
The Canadian winter hat
- Waffle
Crisscrossed and golden
- Wasabi
Small but fiery
- Zigzag
Stripes with no plan