# New Kitty! Need name suggestions. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343 "2008-02-05T03:47:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/41 "2008-02-06T08:04:13Z")
Schroedinger. Just because if we ever get a cat, I’m going to insist on naming it Schroedinger 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Leah\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@Leah\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leah_M)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/42 "2008-02-06T08:36:01Z")
I’m horrible at names, but he’s a lovely kitty. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/43 "2008-02-06T08:44:42Z")
Perry. Perry Plegic. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/44 "2008-02-06T10:43:46Z")
I have a friend who named his dog Diogi and his cat Ciati (d-o-g and c-a-t, get it?). 😛 Another friend named her cat Purrkins. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/45 "2008-02-06T11:12:24Z")
[QUOTE=flodnak] Schroedinger. [/QUOTE] Heh. Our next cat is \*soooo \*getting this name if I get to choose! 😃 **brewha** – We called our current cat, who looks a lot like yours, “ **Silly**.” This solves two problems at once – it fits :p; and it’s something that comes naturally and doesn’t require a response. Mostly, it beats “Moron” (which is what I find myself calling him most of the time, anyway…) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/46 "2008-02-06T13:43:41Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] I have a friend who named his dog Diogi and his cat Ciati (d-o-g and c-a-t, get it?). 😛 Another friend named her cat Purrkins. [/QUOTE] I also know someone with a dog damed Diogi. You’d be surprised at how many people don’t get it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/47 "2008-02-06T15:20:29Z")
[QUOTE=flodnak] Schroedinger. Just because if we ever get a cat, I’m going to insist on naming it Schroedinger 😛 [/QUOTE] I have a cat named Schrodinger because I always wanted to name a cat that and my intent was that she would be my last cat for a good long while. The name is a mouthful and she was a girl and it just didn’t seem to fit so it morphed into Dinger and sometimes Dingy (hard g) because that suits her. I hand raised her with another kitten (not her sister, they came in at different times but were the same age), the other kitten ended up with the name PurrAnna (Purr - Ahna) because of the way she attacked the nurser bottle, the name suited her then and it still does now for other reasons. ---
**Author:** ![RedRosesForMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/48 "2008-02-06T15:35:57Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] _Seamus_ (because it’s a beautiful name) [/QUOTE] That’s (one of) my kitty’s names. [Here he is](http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j8/seaworthy82/toughseamus.jpg) when he was much younger and in my messy old apartment. He is rather accident prone too. Took a bumper to the gourd once but suffered no long-term damage. It might fit. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/49 "2008-02-06T15:53:24Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] I also know someone with a dog damed Diogi. You’d be surprised at how many people don’t get it. 😛 [/QUOTE] There was a deputy and his k-9 that were killed in the line of duty here in my hometown, so there are bumper stickers everywhere memorializing Matt and Diogi. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/50 "2008-02-06T18:15:32Z")
[QUOTE=Cheez\_Whia] How about Rex? It means king, and you don’t have to cut it short before you can use it. (I agree with the Gaffer about names.) He sure is a handsome fellow. Congratulations! [/QUOTE] Rex is the name that immediately came into my mind when I saw his picture. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/51 "2008-02-06T18:26:28Z")
after reviewing all the entries, i’m now voting for winston. just don’t name him churchill, too, because that’d get shortened to church and that would be too creepy, because of ‘pet sematary’ by stephen king. :eek: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343/52 "2008-02-07T00:18:04Z")
Socrates, Shere Khan, or Rudyard (after Kipling). Moses is another good choice, I’d say. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-need-name-suggestions/436343.md?page=2)