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!

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Amber

Bloche

Cammi, short for camouflage

Cappuccino

Candy Cane

Cookie - because she was a light brown with dark brown splotches and looked like a chocolate chip cookie.

DappleDumpling

Fruitcake

HodgePodge

Knick-knacks

Indy. We thought she looked like what we call Indian corn.

Jennyanydots- for character from the musical CATS whose "coat is of the tabby kind with tiger stripes and leopard spots"

Harlequin.

Nutmeg

M & M (for lots of colors)

Marble.......my found little kitty look like beautiful black veined marble....

Marbella. Marb from the word marble since she looks like a marble cake and Bella because she is a beautiful little girl.

Mr. Bing Bing (Bing-a-Ling or Bing-Bing for short

Piper (she has piping type stripes)

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

Pebbles

Raya (means stripes in Spanish)

Reese - like the candy, named for a cat that has orange, brown, black, and a hint of yellow. I got her from my cousin, and her neighbor called her "R.P." for Reese's Pieces.

Ringo

Samuda

Spotty

Scraps

Speckles

Splatters

Spice

Streak

Stripe

Stripey

Sausage" - Saucy for short

Swirly

Smuze

Tuppence

Tapestry

Tabby

Tabis (Tabby comes from French Word Tabis)

Tabs

Taz

Tiger

Tigger Lilly

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

Tolkien after the author of Lord of the Rings

Zeeman – from zebra because of the stripes




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