Help with kitten names!

TNP

Roman Emperors.

Pavel

Popes!

Admittedly this will mean you have twenty-something cats named John…

eye8urcake

Grunge bands.

crawfish

my go to are onomatopoeias.

Aria

Our cats were all named after Russian monarchs and our dogs after Shakespeare characters…

Then we got a cat I insisted on naming Jane Pawsten.

TNP

@Pavel said in Help with kitten names!:

Popes!

Admittedly this will mean you have twenty-something cats named John…

Cats named Innocent? Talk about a misnomer.

junipersky

I love you all!!

Mourne

@junipersky There must always be one cat in a litter named ‘Bandit’ cuz cats are jerks and why not name one a jerk officially?

junipersky

@mietze said in Help with kitten names!:

Jazz musicians
Children’s lit characters

So we have TEN kitties that need names.

2 gray with cream tabby marking mamas (sisters, basically twins)
1 black (tiny white dot on chest) teenage girl
1 back tiny baby boy
1 black and cream tiny tabby baby boy
5 various shades of tiny full gray/gray tabby (4 boys, 1 girl)

There are lots of good ideas in this thread but I can’t come up with 10 full names!

Another possibility is giving mamas a theme name, then the teenager, and then the 4-week-old babies

Also we could theme mama and her 7 babies, then another for her sister and her teenage baby.

TNP

Greek titans
Egyptian gods
Moons of Jupiter
Constellations
zodiac signs

There may be some crossover there.

GF

Side dishes for a holiday gathering
Non-English words for “smooch”
Characters from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Articles of clothing
Spices in your kitchen

dvoraen

@GF said in Help with kitten names!:

Side dishes for a holiday gathering
Non-English words for “smooch”
Characters from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Articles of clothing
Spices in your kitchen

I came here to suggest articles of clothing, but the more – I’m not sure what the term is – non-American? – names of clothing: kimono, tunic, kaftan, beret, sombrero, and so on.

Arkandel

@dvoraen +1. But since these are felines with deadly claws, perhaps ‘exotic’ types of weaponry as well! Katana, madu, zhua, kukri, sibat, etc.

dvoraen

@Arkandel You can never go wrong naming a feisty kitten Wakizashi.

mietze

I think the funniest (And nerdiest too, but I do live in a tech/software dev heavy area) naming theme I’ve seen thus far is coding languages. There’s a metric fuckton of those. Possibly people wouldn’t get it but they might be tickled if they do.

Python, Ruby, Cobol, Java, Pascal, Perl, Rexx, Erlang, Haskell, Opal, Q, Ada, Cee, Cleo, Fortran, Turing, Basic, so many more. I think it would be hilarious.

elsepethne

Characters from The Chronicles of Narnia? Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy, Mr. Tumnus, Caspian, Eustace, Shasta, Polly, Digory, etc. But clearly the best would be Reepicheep, because why not a kitten named after a talking mouse?

Characters from the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings seem pretty accessible too.

junipersky

I have forwarded ALL of these to the review committee (aka my husband.)

I’m also starting to suspect that the nursing mama might be the only mama, including the mother of the other adult and the teenager. Just one extended family.

junipersky

Poop. I loved all of these name ideas but husband shot them down.

HE wants Avalanche players names, but over my dead body will we name a kitten Landskog (or however it is spelled!!).

We compromised and went with wildflowers. Mostly Colorado, but I went outside for one.

Mama: Cleome
Not-Mama: Sweet Pea
Teenager: Mountain Rose
Babies:
M- Clover (big eye all gray)
M- Flax (Gray all)
M- Aster (black and cream tabby)
M- Mallow (all black)
M- Peony (gray tabby)
M- Bluebell (BIG gray tabby)
F- Columbine (gray tabby)

TNP

@junipersky said in Help with kitten names!:

F- Columbine (gray tabby)

Umm. First thing I thought of was the shooting. Just a thought.

junipersky

@TNP

It is, but it is also our state flower.

So when I said we had one little girl and our theme was Colorado flowers the reaction I got was, “Her name is Columbine right?”