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Names For Kittens.
Tips And Ideas For The Best Cat Names!

There are so many names for kittens and names for cats to choose from!


When you get a new kitten or cat, the sooner you can name her, the better. The earlier

Does YOUR kitten or cat have a great name?
Click here to share it with visitors to this page!
she starts hearing her name, the sooner she'll remember and learn it.

Once she knows her name, training her on everything else will be considerably easier.

I appreciate some people prefer to wait and see what their new furball's personality is like before they name her; this is fine, as long as it's a few days rather than weeks.

So, no pressure then... How on earth do you pick the best one? Click on the text links below for loads of suggestions and practical advice.


Ideas for Kitten Names and Cat Names

Cute Kitten Names A - Z

Female Kitten Names A - M

Girl Kitten Names N - Z

Male Kitten Names A - M

Boy Kitten Names N - Z


Some kitten and cat names are much better than others in the practical sense. Click on the link below for advice on the types of names that are good, and the types that should definitely be avoided!

Names for Cats and Kittens - How to Choose a Great Name!


A kitten's name is obviously no use to her whatsoever unless she knows it! Fortunately it's quite easy to get her to learn it...

Training a Kitten to Learn her Name


And finally...


Kitten Care
Loads of easy to follow, practical advice on raising and caring for your kitten.


Best of luck!



Has YOUR Kitten Or Cat Got A
Fantastic Name? Please Tell Us!

Did YOU give your kitten or cat a cute, cool or clever name? Please tell us their name and how you came up with it... it could be just the inspiration someone else is looking for!

And, of course, it will make your cat an Internet celebrity!

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Names For Kittens And Cats That
Other Visitors Have Sent In

Click on the links below for the stories behind the cat and kitten names that other people have shared - all written by visitors to this site!

Names for Kittens - Pepper  starstarstarstarstar
It was easy! She's a torbie, and her coloring looks like litter peppercorns.

Reply from Liz (Editor): That's a great name. One of my previous ...

Gatsby, Roxy, and Splenda  starstarstarstarstar
I adopted three orphaned kittens (two girls and a boy) which were abandoned on my farm. I named the boy Gatsby, as in The Great (he was solid black with ...

Chimi & Churri  starstarstarstarstar
I have two cats. They are from the same litter. One female and one male. They are inseparable.

The male is called Chimi and the female is called Churri....

Neo  starstarstarstarstar
I had a short list of names for kittens and I wouldn't let my friends leave my dinner party til one of the names stuck...

There was Scooter, Leroy,...

Hafez  starstarstarstarstar
When Hafez came to me as a kitten, I already had a male cat named Mustapha. I had named Mustapha after a guide that I had had while living in Morocco....

Chino  starstarstarstarstar
My cat was found by a friend of mine, he was a tiny little kitty and we decided to keep him because he had been abandoned and it would have made us too ...

K.C.  starstarstarstarstar
My family and I are not creative when it comes to naming our pets so we named our kitten Kitty Cat. We then abbreviated it to K.C.

Later, during her ...

Edwina Precious  starstarstarstarstar
My sister and I got this cat when she was a small kitten...she is not so small anymore!

My sister wanted to name her Precious, because as you can ...

Diva  starstarstarstarstar
This lovely Himalayan cat that I got from an animal shelter a few months ago had originally had the name of "Baby". The moment I laid eyes on her she ...

Der Squirtzdrameaner (aka Squirty)  starstarstarstarstar
Squirty was brought to us by her mother, who lived outside and knew we had indoor cats. We know she only wanted the best for her baby and waited one day ...

Vanessa  starstarstarstarstar
We went on holiday to Scotland 2 years ago and drove up to Loch Ness, which we'd always wanted to visit. We loved it there, it was really beautiful. We ...

Names for Kittens - Misha  Not rated yet
Misha was my long haired Manx Linx cat (she passed away about 3 years ago now). She looked like a long haired Siamese cat with the most beautiful big ...

Names for Kittens - Kiarra  Not rated yet
My daughter came up with this name. It took me about 2 weeks to remember her kittens name! We have now had her for 12 years and sometimes call her fat ...

Names for Kittens - Tigger And Pooh  Not rated yet
I got two male cats and they are both orange tabby cats. I thought Pooh was a girl at first and I named him Lulu originally lol!

I found out that ...

Names for Kittens - Star  Not rated yet
She is black (night time). She is a Star!

Reply from Liz (Editor): This is a lovely name. One of my friends has a little black cat called Starr ...

Names for Kittens - Bugsy  Not rated yet
It was unusual at the time, but I thought it suited him!

Names for Kittens - Eleanor  Not rated yet
I did a book report on Eleanor Rooselvelt in the second grade. I liked the name and thought it would be ideal for my kitten.

Reply from Liz (Editor)...

Names for Kittens - Teixeira  Not rated yet
We are very big Yankee fans and they also won the World Series in 2009 - so this name was totally appropriate. Mark Teixeira plays first base for the ...

Cleo and Kaiser  Not rated yet
We were giving our cats 'royal' names. Cleo is for Cleopatra. We named our boy Kaiser, which is German for king or emperor.

Tubby  Not rated yet
Names for kittens: Tubby

I bought three kittens - Ragdoll mixed with domestic, one for each of my sons. One is living at home still, the other two ...



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