Good names for a cat

An actual name of a cat my grandparents owned in the forties or something. Called 'Thomascat' for short.

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,

It isn't just one of your holiday games;

You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter

When I tell you, a cat must have three different names.

First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,

Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo, or James,

Such as Victor or Jonathon, George or Bill Bailey-

All of them sensible everyday names.

There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,

Some for gentlemen, some for the dames:

Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter-

But all of them sensible everyday names.

But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,

A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,

Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,

Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?

Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,

Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,

Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-

Names that never belong to more than one cat.

But above and beyond there's still one name left over,

And that is the name that you never will guess;

The name that no human research can discover-

But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.

When you notice a cat in profound meditation,

The reason, I tell you, is always the same:

His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation

Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:

His ineffable effable

Effanineffable

Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

-T. S. ELIOT-

Convention for humorously named cats is so that you get to say something amusing when you put it out, or call it in (source: Vienna in Rising Damp). Much less wittily you can call a cat "YRALLABNCHACNTS" and yell it loudly at your neighbours with no fear of (fair) reprisal.

Stevie D inspired me to name my next cat Brenda.

thanks Stevie D.

haha brenda is a great name for a cat. not so much for a person.

As in Walsh?

or the one in Six Feet Under?

"Stevens"

i'm taking care of a (female) cat named steven right now

Data data (or Dayta Dae Ta)

I like the double name as one name idea, a la Dwayne Wayne, but a cat. Darlene also (a la Brenda).

As in Walsh?

― tehresa, Sunday, August 2, 2009 8:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uh huh

can't wail til she's in her teen years...

surm, you are my hero <3

:D

Flonase

Passion Fruit

Stevie D inspired me to name my next cat Brenda.

thanks Stevie D.

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Sunday, August 2, 2009 8:47 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OH MY GOD

Carl Ticklefeathers Extreme Johnson

Gerald Q. Phlogiston

Mackworth Jigglesbottom Romeo Ficklepuss Bates

Vice Admiral James Stockdale

Tathagata Davida

Horatio

I want to name a pet Giuseppe too

Moussaka

Keiji (would have to be an all black cat)

Hammy

steve

Ernie

Ulysses

forks

Miss Yvonne

sir killingsworth murderton-jones

The Purrminator

norbert

i am also partial to forks

Keith

kettle bell

Single-Stage Enclosed-Impeller Back Pull Out Process Pump for Abrasive Slurries, Jr.

The Name of This Cat Is Talking Heads

Zither
Napolean

THE SLUT

they don't acknowledge their name anyway, I vote "Cat"

"meow"

King Tubby

Bob
Mel
Murph

Twila

my ex vetoed me calling our cat Dijon, and as one cat is quite enough for me to handle i hopefully won't be in the market for a new one for many years. so please call your cat Dijon if you like the name

We named our two cats (sister and brother) Chihiro and Haku, after the protagonists in Miyazaki’s Spirited Away(which all generations in our family adore). We often shorten the sister’s name to a simple “Chichi”.

Scrooge mcduck

I had a cat named Marquis for 18 years, til I had to put him down. He'd had two strokes and had gone completely blind. I cried like a baby. And though I spelled his name ala de Sade, it was really a nod to Mark E. Smith. Another cat lover. Anyway, always thought that was a good name.

If I ever get another cat, it will be named Margaret Dumont or Eleanor Bron.

Alexander Nestafarus Erasemus Swiffyfeathers Nose Emperor

our new kitten is Jackson, aka The Microbeast