Naming Your Black & White Cat: Name Ideas for Black and White Haired Cats

Naming Your Black & White Cat: Name Ideas for Black and White Haired Cats

By: Dr. Debra Primovic

Are you looking for that perfect cat name that just fits your Kitty? Does your cat have black and white hair?

Naming a cat can be difficult. One way many pet owners do it is to look for a name that goes with your cat's physical characteristic such as his coat color.

Here are some cat names that can be associated with those black and white hair-coated cats! I hope this helps you find the perfect name for your cat!

Do you have any suggestions for cat names? Email us your cat name ideas and we will try to add them to our cat name list!


  • Adam 12 call him Adam For the Tv show "Car 54, where are you" and the phrase "1 Adam 12" . The police cars were always black and white back then.
  • Bessie - Bessie; i.e., black and white spotted like a cow
  • Boots
  • Butler
  • Bogart
  • Buster – from Bustopher Jones with white spats." (Spats are worn over the shoes.) from the musical "cats"
  • C.
    C for coffee and cream
  • Cookie
  • Dean Martin (black and silver)
  • Domino
  • Dotty
  • Eightball – just like the black and white pool ball
  • Foxxy
  • Fred Astaire in a tux
  • Frostbite – named for a cat some white tips
  • Gala (after a black tie Gala opening)
  • Groucho
  • Hydrox
  • Hoho – named for a cat that was like the hoho cake – black with white down his middle
  • Jazz
  • Jazzy
  • Kruella-Deville (in short just Kruella), after the movie the 101 dalmatians.
  • Knuks
  • LYKRYSH for Likorish
  • Magic - like a magician in a tuxedo
  • Mittens
  • Moo
  • Moomoo. - like a cow
  • Monk, for Thelonias Monk -he's black and white like a keyboard
  • Oreo
  • Patches
  • Panda
  • Peppie Lapew – named for a black and white cat that the owner had had since hes been 4 days old. He was rescued from a fox. ( The fox was getting ready to have him for dinner. At first we thought maybe he was a skunk so I named him PEPPIE
    LAPEW.....
  • Petey because he has the black patc around his eye just like the dog on the little rascals Pete
  • Puck - because he looked like a hockey puck
  • RITZ - our tuxedo black and white who was always dressed as though "puttin' on the Ritz
  • Skunk (who also sometimes answer to Pepe Le Pew (after the cartoon character).
  • Socks
  • Spot
  • Sox
  • Sock-e (for cat with 4 socks)
  • Starburst (black with a little white)
  • Stinky (after a skunk)
  • Sundae
  • Sylvester
  • Three Socks
  • Tweetie Bird (just for fun)
  • Topper - Topper after the movie and series - Topper was always dressed
  • Trooper
  • Tux
  • Tuxxy
  • Widget
  • Wookie – for one of the Ewoks from Star Wars
  • Yinyang
  • Zebra Dudle
  • Zebra – Zebs for short
  • Zorro




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    Doesn't matter how or what you would like to name your cat, we have the perfect name for you. Are you looking for a cat name to go with personality traits such as independent cats, playful cats, funny cats, cute or beautiful cats, loving cats, sweet cats, big cats or cats with big personalities, small cats, smart cats, not so smart cats, ornery cats, or talkative cats? Or how about a stray or rescued cat?

    Or are you looking for a name your cat based on his hair coat color or type such as he is white, brown, orange or red, grey, black, tabby, calico]],yellow or a fluffy cat. Check out the links associated with any of those words and your get our list! We have the perfect name for your cat!

    Here is even a list of over 1200 common pet names. Or maybe you just want to look for an unusual names. How about cool cat names? We have tons of those!

    Do you want to know what the most common cat names mean? Learn about the "meaning" behind common Male cat names and Female cat names.

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