Literary cat names

"Noble"; Wonderland's explorer

Germanic origin, female, 2 syllables

"Lion of God"; Shakespeare's airy spirit

Hebrew origin, female, 3 syllables

After Jane Austen

Latin origin, female, 2 syllables

"She who brings happiness"

Latin origin, female, 3 syllables

The French novelist who adored cats

French origin, female, 2 syllables

Alice's cat

Hebrew origin, female, 2 syllables

Shakespeare's star-crossed heroine

Latin origin, female, 3 syllables

The alley cat of Archy and Mehitabel

Hebrew origin, female, 4 syllables

After Morgan le Fay, the Arthurian enchantress

Welsh origin, female, 3 syllables

"Help"; from Hamlet

Greek origin, female, 4 syllables

Odysseus's patient wife

Greek origin, female, 4 syllables

A violent storm; Shakespeare's last play

English origin, female, 2 syllables

Queen of the fairies

Greek origin, female, 4 syllables

"Lion"; Narnia's great lion

Turkish origin, male, 2 syllables

"From Attica"; To Kill a Mockingbird

Latin origin, male, 3 syllables

The black panther of Kipling's The Jungle Book

Hindi origin, male, 3 syllables

The grinning cat of Wonderland

English origin, male, 2 syllables

Hermione's clever, squashed-faced cat

English origin, male, 2 syllables

"Enduring"; author of the Inferno

Italian origin, male, 2 syllables

Pride and Prejudice's proud hero

French origin, male, 2 syllables

Wilde's ageless Dorian Gray

Greek origin, male, 3 syllables

Tolkien's grey wizard

English origin, male, 2 syllables

Fitzgerald's party host

English origin, male, 2 syllables

For an indecisive cat

English origin, male, 2 syllables

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

English origin, male, 2 syllables

After the writer famous for six-toed cats

English origin, male, 3 syllables

The tiger of Calvin and Hobbes

English origin, male, 1 syllable

Wodehouse's unflappable valet

English origin, male, 1 syllable

T.S. Eliot's Mystery Cat

English origin, male, 4 syllables

The wizard of Arthurian legend

Welsh origin, male, 2 syllables

Sherlock Holmes's criminal mastermind

Irish origin, male, 3 syllables

One of T.S. Eliot's cat burglars

English origin, male, 4 syllables

King of the fairies

French origin, male, 3 syllables

A small apple; also a hobbit

English origin, male, 2 syllables

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

Latin origin, male, 2 syllables

After Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote "The Black Cat"

English origin, male, 1 syllable

Shakespeare's mischievous sprite

English origin, male, 1 syllable

For a detective-grade snoop

English origin, male, 2 syllables

Puss in Boots, the clever fairy-tale cat

English origin, male, 1 syllable

"Pilgrim to Rome"

Italian origin, male, 3 syllables

The great detective

English origin, male, 2 syllables

T.S. Eliot's Railway Cat

English origin, male, 3 syllables

The loyal sidekick

English origin, male, 2 syllables

The patchwork-costumed clown

French origin, unisex, 3 syllables