Naming Your Tabby Cat: Name Ideas for Cats with Tabby Haircoats

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Naming Your Tabby Cat: Name Ideas for Cats with Tabby Haircoats

By: Dr. Debra Primovic

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Are you looking for that perfect cat name that just fits your Kitty? Does your cat have tabby 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.

What is a tabby? A tabby cat has distinctive markings associated with stripes, swirls or dots. They are a coloration of many domestic cats.

Here are some cat names that can be associated with those tabby 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!

Amber

Bloche

HodgePodge

Knick-knacks

Oliver

Quin - My cat, Quinn, has the typical tortie coloring except that her face is half black. She looks as though someone painted the right half black with the separation between the black and multi right down the middle of her sweet face. I thought of harlequin and then Quinn.

Panther

Patches

Raya (means stripes in Spanish)

Ringo

Spotty

Streak

Stripe

Stripey

Sausage" - Saucy for short

Swirly

Tuppence

Tapestry

Tabby

Tabis (Tabby comes from French Word Tabis)

Tabs

Taz

Tiger

Tigg Mo - short for "tigger mous".

Tiggus – for a tigger – this owner often calls him Piggus"

Tigerfuzz (named cuz he was just a ball of fuzz with tiger stripes)

Tigger

Zeeman – from zebra because of the stripes

Do you have a tabby cat name suggestion? Tell us about the cat name and how you came up with it! Email us!

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, black and white, 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.

Do you have a name suggestion? Email us.