# Help me name my cat!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 5, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667 "2003-10-05T04:49:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Blibbleblabble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blibbleblabble)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/1 "2003-10-05T04:49:42Z")
I got a 4 month old kitten about a week ago, and I still haven’t named it! She is black, with orange eyes.
Any ideas for a good, unusal cat name? Or even a good name from a movie character, or comic book character, or anything! Get creative! It doesn’t even have to be a real word or name. What do you all think? What should I name my cat?
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### Author:  [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/2 "2003-10-05T04:57:36Z")
Black, with orange eyes? I’m thinking a Halloween name, like Pumpkin, or Goblin, or Devil, or something. Or you could always go with Spike. That’s a kitty name I’ve always liked.
Got any pictures?
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### Author:  [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/3 "2003-10-05T05:23:36Z")
Supercalifragilisticexpealadocious
or Soup for short
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### Author:  [@if\_you\_don\_t\_know\_i\_won\_t\_tell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if_you_don_t_know_i_won_t_tell)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/4 "2003-10-05T06:05:00Z")
Quantum Flux. I have a black cat with orange eyes too, his name is Alex, but if I ever get another one, I’m naming him Quantum Flux.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/5 "2003-10-05T14:50:23Z")
Blither
Blitter
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/6 "2003-10-05T14:50:24Z")
Well, don’t name it John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt. That’s my name…
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### Author:  [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/7 "2003-10-05T15:04:25Z")
Cougar Excalibur!
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### Author:  [@GuyMontag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyMontag)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/8 "2003-10-05T15:09:53Z")
Pickles
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/9 "2003-10-05T15:58:20Z")
Beast
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### Author:  [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/10 "2003-10-05T16:06:42Z")
I always liked “quibble” for a kitten.
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### Author:  [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/11 "2003-10-05T16:08:44Z")
Name it dog.
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### Author:  [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/12 "2003-10-05T16:16:53Z")
If it purrs loudly, Muffler.
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### Author:  [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/13 "2003-10-05T16:18:12Z")
This isn’t at all related to her coloring, but I knew a cat named Snickers once. Cutest name ever. Or how about Skittles? Pickles, as mentioned by **Guy Montag** , is also good. FTR, I’ve never had any kitties with food names.
If you want to stick with the goth theme and/or go literary, there’s always Raven. Or, even better, Nevermore.
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### Author:  [@BethCro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BethCro)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/14 "2003-10-05T16:19:37Z")
We really need more info as to the personality of the cat. I always wait a couple of weeks before the naming ceremony, just to see what would suit. However, I usually come up wit pretty dumb names.
Murdoch - hated the litter tray, but heaven help you if you left a newspaper lying around. So, for his habit of trashing newspapers, he was named after Rupert Murdoch.
Sugar Ray - little black cat, one heck of a fighter, hence the name.
Columbine - looked like a little harlequin with her black n white face, but couldn’t imagine shouting ‘Harley’ for such a lil cat when it was time for dindins. Named after Harlequin’s significant other.
Erica - okay, that was down to a bf of mine. Named after Eric Cantona. Turned out to be female. Added the ‘a’ to avoid confusing her sexually.
Sylvester - unoriginal, looks like Sylvester out of the cartoons.
Sam - meant to be named ‘Fawkes’ as he adopted me on Guy Fawkes night. Bf thought I was naming him after Fox Mulder and got jealous. Called S.A.M, for surface to air missle, which is how he reacted to his first few days with the rest of the zoo.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/15 "2003-10-05T18:19:40Z")
Dogfood
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### Author:  [@Calliope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calliope)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/16 "2003-10-05T19:21:01Z")
Name her Boo Radley.
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/17 "2003-10-05T19:56:03Z")
Flibberdygibbet
Whatsit
Sam Hain (or Samantha Hain since it’s female)
Gollum
Cecilia (after our very own Perfect Master)
Shaddapandletmegotosleep
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/18 "2003-10-05T22:12:54Z")
**The Wrong Girl** caught my thinking right away. Hallokitty. Kind of a dark side of the cutesy Hello Kitty.
An orange-eyed black female sounds too beautiful!
Let me know the final decision, and send kitty pictures!
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### Author:  [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/19 "2003-10-05T23:21:29Z")
Kitty.
ok so it’s rather…generic. But ours was a stray and all cats answer to kitty soooo there you go.
or Pretty, that works heh.
Only others I named were my two dogs, Oreo and Twix. So why not name her Reeses?
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### Author:  [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-cat/205667/20 "2003-10-05T23:50:23Z")
**Witchy Woman** - Witchy for short.
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