Cats used to be given “Cat” names. However, starting in the 1980s, pet owners began giving regular “people names” to their pets. Nowadays, the yearly list of the most popular names for pets is indistinguishable from the list of most popular human baby names.
Traditional or classic cat names are poised for a comeback. They are retro and fun. It makes a lot of sense to give cats true feline names. In the United Kingdom, one of the most traditional names for cats is Tibbles or Tibby. When you mention “Tibbles,” no one is going to think that you are talking about a person!
Here is a list of wonderful classic and traditional cat names:
Banjo
Beans or Bean or Beanie
Belle
Bobcat
Blossom
Blue
Blackie
Boots
Brownie
Butch
Buttons
Butterscotch
Buster
Cat
Chance
Cheshire Cat (or Chess)
Cinnamon
Claude
Copper
Cleo
Cupid
Dinah (Alice in Wonderland’s cat)
Duchess (from the Aristocats movie)
Dusty
Fannie
Felix
Fifi
Figaro
Flopsy
Flossy
Flip
Fluffy
Fitz or Fitzy or Fitzgerald
Fritz
Ginger
Happy
Hazel
Jenny
Josie
Kitty or KittyCat
Lady
Lucky
Luna
Meow
Midnight
Minnie
Missy
Miss Meow
Mister
Mister Jinks
Mister Whiskers
Misty
Mittens
Mimsie
Morris
Mouse or Mouser
Mr. Jinx (from the Huckleberry Hound cartoons)
Oliver
Oscar
Paws
Penny or Penelope
Percival or Percy
Pixie
Pumpkin
Puss (as in Puss N Boots)
Putty Tat or Putty Cat (after the Looney Tunes cartoons)
Roscoe
Rufus
Sam
Sassy
Scamp or Scamper
Scratchy
Scruffy
Sergeant Tibbs (from 101 Dalmatians)
Shadow
Socks
Sooty
Spooky
Spot
Smudge
Smokey
Snowball
Stinky
Suzy or Susie
Sylvester (from Looney Tunes cartoons)
Rusty
Tabby
Tacey
Tacky
Thomasina
Tiger
Tigger
Tom or TomCat
Top Cat
Topsy
Trixie
Valentine
Whiskers
