# A question for Cat people:: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607 "2020-09-26T17:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/1 "2020-09-26T17:30:51Z")
In a perfect world and you got a new Cat, what is your new Cats name? Mine would be -Mandoo. as in Katmandu I can’t say I invented it. I heard it on TV. It made me laugh so hard. I like, like it. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/2 "2020-09-26T17:36:26Z")
I personally don’t care for cats, but if I had one, I’d name him **Hercules**. After the Elton John song. Sean Spencer (from the TV show _Psych_) had a cat named Chairman Meow. I thought that was pretty clever. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/3 "2020-09-26T19:41:49Z")
In a perfect world… “Excellency” ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/4 "2020-09-26T19:44:54Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > In a perfect world and you got a new Cat, what is your new Cats name? > > Mine would be -Mandoo. > > as in Katmandu Especially if it was a Himalayan cat 😏 **Boo** ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/5 "2020-09-26T20:00:55Z")
I’d have to go back to the names I vetoed that my kids chose when they were little for our two cats. I know, it sounds horrible, but I did, so hell yeah, Spider and Cow for the next 2 cats ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/6 "2020-09-26T20:14:48Z")
In a perfect world, one in which it would not be a self-fulfilling prophecy, Underfoot. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/7 "2020-09-26T20:46:43Z")
Stevens ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/8 "2020-09-26T20:48:43Z")
In my experience, most of the time the cat finds a way to tell you its name. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/9 "2020-09-26T20:51:17Z")
My dad’s cat was named “Dammit.” (And that was before they did the same joke on JAG.) I’d name mine “Carrycat,” but it’s a short story. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/10 "2020-09-26T20:54:53Z")
My answer is complicated. Suffice to say our family developed a theme for naming cats. Jewels, semi-precious stones, metals… The current cat in my life is Jasper. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/11 "2020-09-26T23:09:09Z")
I like giving mundane human names to cats (and dogs). But I can’t say what name would fit a cat in advance. I have named a few cats after Golden Age film stars, and we currently have a Lillian Gish. We’ve had a Joey, a Dennis, a Lucy, an Irene, a Madeleine, a Hope (among many others), so who knows what we might come up with next? Although, my son says he wants the next pet to be a Gromit, whether it’s a dog or a cat. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/12 "2020-09-27T05:03:24Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Mine would be -Mandoo. > > as in Katmandu How about -Astrophe of -Aclysm? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/13 "2020-09-27T06:39:37Z")
In a perfect world,I would live in California… in beautiful Big Sur. And my cat would, of course, be named… Big Pur. . . . . . . . (go ahead—admit it…-----you smiled before you groaned. 🙂 And you’re still smiling now. 'Cause you’re a cat person.) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/14 "2020-09-27T06:41:43Z")
I admit it. I laughed out loud. Big Pur is very funny. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/15 "2020-09-27T07:49:24Z")
I’ve had a cat named “Fish” before. But I like the convention of naming them normal names. My sister-in-law currently has Fred and George, and various friends have Frank and Lola, and someone named their kitten Charles Land, esquire after their previous cat Peter died. I recall reading somewhere that Katy Perry’s cat was named Katy Purry ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/16 "2020-09-27T10:26:38Z")
I believe her cat is actually Kitty Purry. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/17 "2020-09-27T10:43:37Z")
🤦‍♂️ You’re right. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/18 "2020-09-27T10:51:41Z")
For a female, Phoebe, Daphne, or Chloe. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/19 "2020-09-27T14:36:39Z")
I’d like to have two cats, named Thing One and Thing Two. But it would be confusing when I had to call them or talk to them (call both of them Thing?). ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607/20 "2020-09-27T16:00:21Z")
those are awesome names for cats, but ya still gotta hold off to make sure the name fits. If and when I get another cat of my own, it will probably be named, oh so imaginatively, Cat, possibly Kitty, or maybe even Kitty Cat. Nah, I always named my cats for some personality characteristic they displayed, princess, prince, bitty brat, rugrat, mouthy etc [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-cat-people/921607.md?page=2)