Choosing names for cats, especially black cats, can be very challenging. Quite often, the owner of a black cat unnecessarily limits his or her choices of names to those that reference some form of "black" or "magic". This approach, while providing many good names for kittens, eliminates a large variety of names relating to other appropriate subjects such as attitudes, mythology, the underworld, and even disease and death (for the darker personality).
Names for Black Cats From Everyday Conversation
Everyday conversations often touch on words synonymous with darkness and blackness, but they also touch on words that allude to something dark but with a slightly more upbeat or contemporary meaning. Words such as these make an excellent choice for a black cat name.
- Dusk
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Sphynx
- Grimm, as in the Brothers Grimm
- Frost
- Nova
- Fate
- Pitch
Names for Black Cats From Mythology
Mythology is a natural source for black cat names. Ancient world religions are filled with dark gods and questionable beings. A small sample of names is found below.
- Morpheus - Greek god of dreams
- Anubis - Egyptian god of the dead
- Andrasta - British goddess of war
- Discordia - Roman minor goddess of discord
- Morrigan - Irish goddess of war
- Druden - Germanic female demon
- Qandisa - Moroccan demon
- Picullus - Prussian god of the underworld
- Govannon - Welsh god of blacksmithing
- Taranis - Celtic thunder god
- Gwydion - Celtic warrior, bardic, and magician god
- Tethra - Irish god of the sea and the underworld
- Jotun - Germanic troll or demon
- Puck - A malevolent spirit in northern Europe
- Terminus - Very old deity of boundaries
- Zotz - Mayan bat god
Black Cat Names From History
Choosing a black kitten name from history allows the creative pet owner to select a name to emphasize one of the most often ignored tendencies of the typical cat, a pensive and arrogant attitude. The following list includes individuals and societies that are often considered to represent one of these traits.
- Dracul
- Visigoth
- Socrates
- Sparta
- Boudicca - Celtic warrior queen
- Stygia
Black Kitten Names For the Darker Personality
In some cases the owner of a black cat may have a personality more attuned to the darker, scarier corners of everyday life. For those owners, the list below offers a few good choices.
- Hades
- Styx - The mythological river between Earth and Hades
- Reaper
- Graves, as in Robert Graves
- Medusa
- Iya - Sioux embodiment of evil
- Balor - Irish Celtic god of death
- Pandemic
- Muerto
- Scourge
- Bane
- Bubos - The inflamed lymph nodes caused by the Black Plague
Choosing names for black cats offers a good opportunity to be creative and distinctive. A little research (or listening to the right conversation) will yield many more names that are ideally suited to black cats.
Additional black cat names can be found in More Great Names For Black Cats.
