130 Famous Cat Names From Pop Culture

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There are many great cat names.
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If you're obsessed with pop culture, not just any old name will do for your new cat or kitten.

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No, you'll need something special and distinctive, something that says as much about your good, discerning tastes as it does about his or her catty temperament.

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If that sounds like you, you've come to the right place, because assembled below are 130 names plucked from across the pop culture spectrum: movies, TV, cartoons, the interwebs, and more!

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Famous cat names from movies

• Baby ( Bringing Up Baby )

• Binx ( Hocus Pocus )

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• Blofeld's cat, ( From Russia With Love )

• Butch ( The Incredible Shrinking Man )

• Clawhauser ( Zootopia )

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• Charlie ( Charlie the Lonesome Cougar )

• Dandelo ( The Fly )

• Déju Vu ( The Matrix )

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• Don Corleone's cat ( The Godfather )

• Duchess ( Babe )

• Figaro ( Pinocchio )

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• Floyd ( Ghost )

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• Jones or "Jonesy" (Ripley's cat in Alien and Aliens)

• King Leonidas ( Bedknobs And Broomsticks )

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• Lucifer ( Cinderella )

• Marie, Berlioz and Toulouse ( The AristoCats )

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• Meowthra ( The Lego NINJAGO Movie )

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• Milo ( The Adventures Of Milo And Otis )

• Mr. Bigglesworth ( Austin Powers )

• Mr. Bitey ( Kick-Ass )

• Mufasa ( The Lion King )

• Neutron ( This Island Earth )

• Pyewacket ( Bell Book And Candle )

• Rajah ( Aladdin )

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• Rhubarb ( Rhubarb )

• Sassy ( Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey )

• Scar ( The Lion King )

• Simba ( The Lion King )

• Si and Am ( Lady And The Tramp )

• Snowbell ( Stuart Little )

• Thomasina ( The Three Lives of Thomasina )

• Tonto ( Harry And Tonto )

• Winkie ( Escape To Witch Mountain )

• Zunar-J-5/9 Doric-4-7 ( Jake, The Cat From Outer Space )

Famous cat names from TV

• Azrael ( The Smurfs )

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• Baba (Boris Karloff anthology series,Thriller)

• Bandit ( The Office )

• Bast ( American Gods )

• Cringer/Battle Cat ( He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe )

• Benny The Ball ( Top Cat )

• Brain ( Top Cat )

• Choo Choo ( Top Cat )

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• Fancy-Fancy ( Top Cat )

• Lord Tubbington (Glee)

• Lucky ( ALF )

• Midnight ( Mama's Family )

• Mimsie ( The Mary Tyler Moore Show )

• Miss Kitty Fantastico ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer )

• Monkey ( Perry Mason )

• Pandora ( The Brady Bunch )

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• Rusty ( Mission Impossible )

• Salem Saberhagen ( Sabrina The Teenage Witch )

• Scratchy ( The Simpsons )

• Ser Pounce ( Game Of Thrones )

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• Smelly ( Friends )

• Spook ( Top Cat )

• Spot ( Star Trek: The Next Generation )

• Snowball(s) ( The Simpsons )

• Toonces the Driving Cat ( Saturday Night Live )

• Zazzles ( The Big Bang Theory )

Famous cat names from books, cartoons, and pop culture

• Aslan ( The Chronicles of Narnia )

• Bagheera ( The Jungle Book )

• Behemoth ( The Master And Margarita )

• Blinx ( Blinx: The Time Sweeper )

• Buttercup ( The Hunger Games )

• Carbonel ( Carbonel: The King Of Cats )

• Cheshire Cat ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland )

• Chowder ( Chowder )

• Church/Churchill ( Pet Sematary )

• Crookshanks ( Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban )

• Dax ( Tuf Voyaging )

• Diesel ( Arsenic And Old Books )

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• Felix ( Felix The Cat )

• Garfield ( Garfield )

• Ginger ( The Tale Of Ginger And Pickles )

• Griddlebone ( Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats )

• Gumball ( The Amazing World of Gumball )

• Hats ( The Cat In The Hat )

• Heathcliff ( Heathcliff )

• Hobbes ( Calvin And Hobbes )

• Kitsa ( The Indian In the Cupboard )

• Kitty White (Better known as the fictional Japanese cartoon character Hello Kitty)

• Krazy ( Krazy Kat )

• Koko & Yum Yum ( The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers )

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• Mr. Jinks ( The Huckleberry Hound Show )

• Mogget (Abhorsen)

• Pewter ( Tail Gait )

• Pixel ( The Cat Who Walks Through Walls )

• Skat (Rapping cat appearing with Paula Abdul in the video for "Opposites Attract")

• Smarf ( Too Many Cooks Adult Swim infomerical)

• Sprockets ( Mission To Universe )

• Stimpy ( Ren & Stimpy )

• Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr ( Looney Tunes )

• Tab ( Watership Down )

• Tailchaser ( Tailchaser's Song )

• Tigger ( Winnie The Pooh )

• Tinker/2 ( We3 )

• Tom ( Tom & Jerry )

Famous cat names from the internet

• Choupette (The pet and "muse" of designer Karl Lagerfeld)

• Cole and Marmalade (Adoptees who became huge YouTube celebs)

• Colonel Meow (World record holder for fur length)

• Grumpy Cat/Tardar Sauce (Viral superstar known for dour expression (the result of an overbite))

• Hamilton (The hipster cat with a milk mustache)

• Henri, le Chat Noir (Film noir "existentialist" cat)

• Keyboard Cat (One of YouTube's first memes and breakout stars)

• Lil Bub (Alien cat and star of Lil Bub & Friendz)

• Maru (Japanese cat with a love of boxes)

• Nyan Cat (Rainbow pop-tart streaking across the pixelated cosmos)

• Princess Monster Truck (Famous Brooklynite)

• Pudge (Instagram star)

• Sockington (Early Twitter celebricat)

• Waffles (Adorable Scottish Fold without ears)

Famous cat names from history and real life

• Félicette (Cat astronaut sent into space for 15 minutes in 1963 by the French government)

• Humphrey (Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office)

• Ketzel (Tuxedo cat who won a prize for a piano composition)

• Leo (The MGM lion)

• Morris (Spokescat for 9Lives)

• Matilda and Hamlet (Resident cats of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City)

• Mrs Chippy (cat on the Ernest Shackleton expedition)

• Orangey (Famous showbiz kitty who appeared in numerous films and tv shows)

• Room 8 (Stray cat who famously wandered into a Los Angeles school and lived there for a decade or so)

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• Schrödinger (Famous thought experiment devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935)

• Snacks (Unofficial mascot of L.A. band Best Coast)

• Socks (Bill and Hillary Clinton's cat)

• Stubbs (Honorary mayor of Alaskan town until his passing in 2017)

• Tabby and Dixie (Abraham Lincoln's cats during his presidency)

• Tibbs (British Post Office's resident cat who lived at their agency's headquarters)

• Tommaso (Italian stray who inherited $13 million dollars from his late owner)

• Trim (Resident ship cat on the HMS Reliance in the early 1800s)

• Unsinkable Sam (Badass survivor of three (3!!!) shipwrecks)

Do you need more inspiration for your new pet’s name?

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