Pet names
43 Male Cat Names, With Meanings
Boy-cat names that fit a tom — Felix, Leo, Oliver, Simba and more, with meanings where they're real.
A tomcat suits a name with a bit of swagger or a bit of humour, and this list leans both ways. Felix — Latin for lucky — has been a cat's name since the cartoon; Leo means lion and fits a ginger tom perfectly; Oliver, Milo, Simba and Jasper round out the ones people pick again and again.
The names below run A to Z, each with its meaning where it genuinely has one: Cosmo is Greek for order or the universe, Casper is Persian for treasurer, Theo means gift of God. Garfield and Tom are on the list too — sometimes the obvious cat name is the right one.
All 43 male cat names, A–Z
English · elf counsel
Greek myth
German · bold, genuine
Turkish · lion
Word name
Word name
French · handsome
Hebrew · son of the right hand
Persian · treasurer
Latin · fortress
English · the metal copper
Greek · order, universe
Spanish · devil
English · wealthy guardian
Latin · happy, lucky
English
Greek · farmer
Greek myth
Germanic · home ruler
English · God is gracious
Persian · treasurer
Latin · lion
Norse myth
German · famous warrior
Latin · greatest
Germanic
Latin · nobody
Italian · black
Latin · olive tree
Irish · deer lover
Greek · the panther
French
French · oarsman
Hebrew · God has heard
Swahili · lion
Hebrew · he has heard
Greek · gift of God
Greek · gift of God
English
Word name
Hebrew · God is good
English
Slavic · ruler
Every name here is one people genuinely use for a pet, and each is drawn from the same hand-checked list behind our full names finder. Where a name has a real, settled meaning we give it; word-names like Biscuit or Shadow are marked as word-names rather than dressed up with an invented origin. The count in the title is the real number on the page, and we add to it over time.
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