We have a Tubes.  A grey stripped tabby with white paws and chest.  I have
no clue why we called him Tubes.  We got him from the pet store.  We went in
looking for fish and my husband says Moppie come over here so I said okay.
So he said I want that one.. pointing at Tubes and he said I'm gonna name
him Tubes.  So now he's Tubes.

We also have a Calli.  She's probably called Calli cause she's a Calico.  We
were both going back to school and said well the best company for a cat is
another cat so off we went to the animal shelter and got Calli.

Tina

We have Servalan, which is the name of a character in a show
called Blake's 7.  The cat and the character had some very
similar attitudes.

Redaunt was my husband's cat, named after a D&D character of his.

Chelsea Quinn came to us with the name Chelsea, so we added
the Quinn to make her science fiction-y, and because it just
yelled better when necessary.  :-)

Nightwind came to us as Tulip, which simply wasn't elegant
enough.  She is a  black kitty.

Yoda came to us with that name, probably given for his
rather prominent ears.

Annakin and Obi Wan were our replacement kitties when Yoda
died young, so we continued the theme.

SAMK

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Diesel - when he was a kitten he released noxious fumes just about everytime
you picked him up (eventually he out grew this).

Just tell them you're a fan of the space program and that is why you
chose the name Tang.  

What am I missing, what is wrong with naming a cat Tang?
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Clucky and Munch are brothers.   Munch is named Munch because he was the
runt of the litter, and no bigger than a Munchkin.  In fact, for the
first month I had him, I carried him around in my insulated plaid-
shirt's breast pocket.  

Clucky Chicken was a big 'fraidy-cat, hence chicken.  Just very reserved
and fearful.  Plus, his hair didn't really lay against his body...it
looked vaguely like chicken feathers.  Plus, being an orange tabby, he
was kind of chicken colored too.  
Damn I miss him!  

Off topic, but do cats who've spent their lives together eventually
realize that their deceased brother/sister is missing?  I don't think
Munch knows he is gone yet...he just knows something is amiss with me.  
It seems I had read that cats grieve for their comrades.

CF

I have a bunch. I basically let my inner child name my babies since it is my
inner child that talks to them.

1.  Mamma Titty (the matriarch)
2.  Blue-Bellses
3.  Cry-Baby
4.  Bobby-Tat (a bobtail)
5.  Tommy-Tat (tom cat)
6.  Tom II Sugar Tat (Tommy's son)
7.  Sophie-Tat
8.  Wiskers
9.  Idzey-Todzey (little todler)
10. Ittle-Fuzzy
11. Tseety
12. Tseet-Tsu (Tseety II)
13. Boo (scardy cat)
14. Cross Eyes
15. Winnie
16. Turpy-Tine
17. Krabby-Tat
18. Jijaw Bunny-Tat (That's my baby!!!)

Oh! and my name is Daddy-Tat
except my wolf calls me Daddy-Doggy

Edgar and Poe.

I wanted to name my first cat after a famous scientist - Schroedinger.  My
girlfriend... well, she said "no."  I thought it was brilliant, but yanno.

So after running through the list of names (Newton, Tesla, Bohr, etc), we
couldn't agree.  So we went for authors and artists instead.  Joyce,
Shakespeare ("Shakes"), Homer, Proulx, Rembrandt, Kant, Gogh.

Then we decided on Poe.  Name of *two* famous artists, and she thought it
wasn't so geeky.

Then we got another cat... Edgar was the natural choice.  We call him Eddie,
but I love telling people I have Edgar and Poe.

Anyone think I need a third cat?

Jon

my cat's name's Maggie,after Liz Taylor's character in "Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof "

Ok, 8 names so get ready:

My first cat was named Tyrone - because he was white, my dad gave him a
"black" name.  He was big, beautiful and my baby.  I miss him.

Z - cat #2, because he was striped like a zebra

#3 - Elmo - liked Elmo from Sesame Street, thought it would be a good name
for a cat, he's crabby, not at all like his name sake.

#4 - Stumbles - got him from my vet, the techs had named him, it fits.  Has
neurological problems, can't walk a straight line to save his life,
sometimes he falls, he's a sweety.  One of the most affectionate cats I
have.

#5 - Tiny Shorty Little Guy - my first foster failure - he was super tiny
when I first brought him home (3 weeks old), and it fit.  His "proper" name
is Slate (he's grey) but we never call him that.

#6 - Tia, runt of a litter I was fostering, she needed a tiny name since she
was the smallest.  Fell in love w/her and kept her.

#7 - Mama Zoo - another foster failure - she was a nursing mom somebody
dumped at my local zoo.  They took her to the shelter, and one of the
shelter workers called her ZooZoo.  I started calling her Mama Zoo, I didn't
expect to keep her, and by the time it was decided she would stay I couldn't
think of another name.  My dad calls her "Foo Foo"

#8 - Bobby - another foster failure, they named him at the shelter.  I've
been calling him Robert, Bob, Ralph and Wobbles - again didn't think he'd be
staying, now used to calling him Bob.  Once again, another cat
w/neurological problems, not as bad as Stumbles, but noticable.

After three foster failures, will I still foster?  Yes, but no more adults,
I feel too bad for them and end up keeping them.  Only orphans from now on,
just gave up four yesterday and cried! :)

I've got three dogs too but I'll spare going thru anymore names!  :)

Loved reading everyone's. :)

I love the idea of having themes and for now, ours is basically just having typical people names.

My oldest "kitty" (hehe) is Maddie. She is 18 and the reason we named her shows her age. My dad brought her home from a litter and at the time our family watched Moonlighting with Bruce Willis and Cybil Sheppard. Cybil Sheppard's character was named Maddie, or Maddy, we just ended up spelling it with the ie. I just liked the name. :)

Our other kitty is about 1 1/2. Her name is Jane. We got her from the humane society a few months ago and her name was Kitters. That name was just ringing with kids naming her that and hubby and I just aren't into those kinds of names. I just liked the name Jane always, and it fits because she is a grey striped tabby which, to me, is almost a too common cat so I think "Plain Jane" or "Jane Doe". We've got some nicknames for her. My hubby called her Spawn of Satan for a while because she harrassed the dog and Maddie A LOT when she first moved in. Now we joke and call her Spawn sometimes. Then I will also call her Little Jane cause she is still small compared to Maddie or I will call her Jane Hobbs when she is laying out cause it reminds me of Calvin and Hobbs with the long cat that looks stretchy.

Anyway! I'll shut up now. LOL :)

 What is/are your cat(s) names and how did you come up with them?

 I have Pounce who was named when I got him and doesn't fit him since
 he is very dignified and hasn't "pounced" in years.

 I have Blade who couldn't retract his front claws as a kitten and so
 was always scratching us with his "blades"; also we had just rented
 the movie Blade and our Blade has very prominent fangs (like a
 vampire).

 I have Jazz who when I got her I wanted my cats to be PB&J so I was
 looking for a J name, my boyfriend at the time was a jazz musician.
 Funny thing is the person I know who adopted her sister named her
 Jazmine.

 I have Toast who is a Himalayan mix and so her "edges" are all
 "toasted".

 I had an orange cat named Tang, we considered OJ but I didn't like the
 OJ Simpson connection so we went with an OJ alternative.  I didn't
 consider the alternative meanings of Tang and some of my less mature
 friends thought it was amusing I named a Pussy-cat Tang.

 When I was a little girl I had Precious who was a Russian Blue, and
 this cutesy name didn't fit him as he grew older (he was Mr. Attitude
 and a half) so I didn't want any of my other other cats to have cutesy
 names

We have one cat called Caspa that was named after Casper the friendly ghost.
She's gray and used to shadow DH a lot as a kitten so he named her that.

Our new kitten is a Bengal and we read they have as much energy as Tigger in
Winnie the Pooh so we're naming it Tigga (with the A so it matches Caspa
with an A)

So both of our cats are named after cartoon characters and both of them have
names deliberately modified to end with an A simply because we like it
better that way.

Saturday when I called the vet to get Toast's test results (which still
aren't in) they couldn't remember what name they had put her under since she
didn't have a name at the time.  So after that search I recommended they
update the file with her name.  When she heard I had named her Toast she
laughed so hard she dropped the phone and had to tell three other people
before she was able to calm down enough to change the file.  She said the
funny thing is that she didn't remember which cat Toast was till she heard
the name.

Before I was born my parents took in a kitten which was the offspring of a
half-feral rescue cat. She was called "Fang". When she later had six kittens
of her own, they kept one, she was named "Olga" after the Russian gymnast
Olga Korbut.

I now have two cats called Smokey and Smudge. Smokey is a "smokey" grey
colour all over, hence the name. Smudge is a tabby with some white "smudges"
on her back. It also helps that both names begin with "sm" which links the
names together, as they are both from the same litter.

When I was at school our bearded Scottish English teacher (he was Scottish,
taught English), had two cats called "Ethnic Minority*" and "Bastard?",
although I gather he had some nicer names for them as well

=# Amos E Wolfe #=

*due to being black
?due to being a "bastard" as all animals technically are

I have Marquette, I named her after the town (Marquette, Iowa) I found her
in while on vacation. And I have Graycie Mae. She is a gray tabby and
southern born and bred...so she needed a 'southern'  name.
K