Are you looking for that perfect cat name that just fits your kitty? 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 personality, physical characteristic or maybe how you found him or her? For example, is your kitty a
stray that you found?
Here are some names ideas for cats that are known to be strays or rescued kitties. Many strays are named for the street where they were found or the community where they were found. For example, I know a kitty named "Main Street" and another cat named "Belmont" because he was found wandering in "Belmont County". Another common way is by the day of the week that you found the cat – I know a cat named "Tuesday" that was found on a Tuesday.
I hope this list gives you some ideas or helps you find the perfect name for your cat!
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Stray or Rescued Kitty Names Abby, which was short for Abandoned Kitty.
Alley (found in an alley)
Angel
Attitude: Atti-cat
Berm (found by the side of the road)
Bingo – it was my lucky day when I found this one!
Bones (skin and bones when they found him)
Boyfriend - because I liked teling people I took my boyfriend and had him neutered
Buddy
Bum
Bumper
Cat Yeta - for yet-a-nother cat!
Cantmandu (for the city)
CDC (for my co-dependent cat – he is always at my side)
Chance (you took a chance on each other, or you have him a second chance at life)
Clinger – they way they stick to you
Caymen – he just "came in"
Diamond (a precious find)
DC – (darn cat)
Dumped (he was Dumped and we took him in)
Dreamer
Engie (for a cat found sleeping under the hood of a car - Engine)
E.T. – for a found sick kitty with big eyes and very little hair
Eponine- after a character, a homeless girl, in "Les Miserables"
Fleabag – found with fleas
FIONA CAT- If ya own a cat...ya may as well own 10.
Fightclub – took in a cat that had been in a fight and wounded
Found (pair of kittens were named Lost and Found!)
Foster (for foster child)
Gem
Gimpy – found limping
Glory
Gulliver ...And yes, Gulliver did travel...
Gypsy
Happy
Hazard
Heaven (you found a little piece of Heaven)
Heidi – used on cat that was scared and "hiding"
Hideaway
HodgePodge
Hobo
Houdini. He would disappear but always wanted to be found.
Hope – for a pet given home for a second chance
Hoover – the stray would eat anything
Gem (found a real gem!)
Impulse
Indira
Ivy (she "grew on me")
Jackpot – cat hit the jackpot when he found this home
Jesse - It means gift and he truly named for a cat that was a gift from God
Je t'aime. This is actually French for "I love you".
Journey (Cat was on a journey that led to you...or vise versa)
Karma
Kabootle
K.C. for Kitty Cat
Keeper
Kitty Cat
Kit Cat
LOST
Lotus
Lottie (found in a parking lot)
"Mo," as in One Mo' Kitty!
Noname
NONA (no name for a cat that didn't have a name)
Nuisance
Tenshu- 'little thief' – for a stray that kept eating all the outside cat food until the bowl was empty
Lechat (pronounced le sha) French for The Cat
Lucky
Main Street - found on Main Street
M.C. – for my cat
Malachi meaning a special messenger from God
Muzby because we must be crazy to take in another cat!
Tunji- American Indian Miwok- Means "cat"
Maybe – maybe she will make it and maybe I'll keep her
Margarita ( just like tequila bottles have a worm in the bottle, she had a worm in her neck when she showed up)
"Mo," as in One Mo' Kitty!
Miss Kittie
Mystakat he was a mystery cat
Newbie or Newton are great cat names for the new kids on the block.
Oops
Omi - (pronounced: "oh-mee")
Paycheck – started costing us our paycheck J
P.C. for Pussy Cat
Pest
Palomine, for Pal of Mine
Mr. Purrsuasive -"Purrs" or "Mr. P" for short!
Pooka means good luck charm
Poser who posed as a resident long enough to fall in love with
Random
Reiki - in Japanese means "spiritually guided life force energy" practiced by reiki masters who lay their hands upon the sick or injured to heal.
Pickles (was in a "pickle" when found
Podunk -found out in the middle of nowhere
Retread - found in an old tire along the road
Riffraf
Riley – now the cat is lving the Life of Riley
Romeo - for a cat that was roaming around and seems to be a real lover!
Roamin – he constantly wanted to roam until he was neutered
Rokkie! For the new kid on the block
Reuben, which is Hebrew for "He has seen my misery."
Ruckus (he created a Ruckus when we brought him home)
Secret
Scram
Scampy
Stitch
Solo (she is very much a loner amongst the rest of the cats)
Something - because we kept him for so long without a name that we had to call him something
Snafu
Stray Kitty
Sticky - cat stuck to us and sort of "chose" us
Stucker - I named one of our kittens "Stucker" after he got stuck up a tree, then stuck in my car, then stuck in the neighbor's garage overnight. And he stuck to us.
Sweetie
Taggers for Tag A Long. Because he tags along where ever I go
Tastrophe (Tass for short). I figured the "cat" part of tastroph
TC – that cat. We called him that cat so long we named him TC when we adopted him
Treasure – a real find
Tramp
Tuesday - Kitty found on that day of the week
Turnup – for a cat that just "turned up"
Vader -short for "Invader"
Velcro (he sticks with you)
Yonchi- means Lucky in Chinese (he's a rescued formally feral cat)
Yuuki - Means "spirit" in Japanese
WN WN - pronounced one one – waste not/want not
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