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31 Mythology Cat Names, With Meanings
Cat names from myth — Bastet, Isis, Athena, Artemis, Freya and more, with real meanings where the name carries one.
No animal has a better claim on mythology than the cat, so the Egyptian gods lead this list. Bastet is the cat goddess herself — protector of the home; Sekhmet is her lioness counterpart, all fire and war; and Isis and Ra (the sun) round out a pantheon that genuinely worshipped cats. They suit a cat that clearly knows it was once holy.
After Egypt come the goddesses of the moon, night and wisdom, which fit a cat's temperament almost too well: Artemis and Diana, both goddesses of the hunt and the moon; Selene, whose name is simply Greek for the moon; Nyx, Greek for night; and Athena and her Roman twin Minerva for wisdom. Freya comes straight from Norse myth. A real meaning is given where the name has one — Selene the moon, Eos the dawn, Pandora 'all-gifted' — and the pure god-names are left with their pantheon and no invented gloss. A to Z below.
All 31 mythology cat names, A–Z
Greek myth
Greek myth
Greek myth
Greek myth
Egyptian myth
Greek myth
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Roman myth
Greek myth
Greek myth · dawn
Norse myth
Greek myth · earth
Greek myth
Greek myth
Greek myth
Greek myth
Egyptian myth
Roman myth
Norse myth
Latin · the god Mercury; quicksilver
Roman myth
Greek myth · night
Greek myth · all-gifted
Greek myth
Greek myth
Egyptian myth · sun
Greek myth
Egyptian myth
Greek myth · moon
Roman myth
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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