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39 Pop Culture Cat Names, With Meanings
Cat names from film, TV, books and games — Aslan, Simba, Loki, Salem, Bagheera and more, with real meanings where they have one.
Cats have some of fiction's best-remembered names, and the famous ones anchor this list: Garfield the lasagne-loving tabby, Salem from Sabrina, Binx from Hocus Pocus, Bagheera the panther of The Jungle Book, and Tigger with all his bounce. Aslan, the great lion of Narnia, and Simba from The Lion King both actually mean lion — Turkish and Swahili in turn — which is why they suit a cat so well.
A few more carry real meaning behind the reference: Cosmo is Greek for order or the universe, Nemo is Latin for nobody, Gandalf is Old Norse for wand-elf, and Loki is the Norse trickster god himself. The rest — Jinx, Morticia, Yeti, Dobby — are left as the word-names and character names they are rather than dressed up with an invented origin. It runs A to Z below.
All 39 pop culture cat names, A–Z
Sanskrit · noble
Turkish · lion
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Scottish · fair-haired
Persian · treasurer
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Greek · order, universe
Spanish · devil
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German · pledged to God
Scottish · fair, white
Old Norse · wand-elf
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English · hare meadow
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Sanskrit · action, fate
Norse myth
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African
Latin · nobody
Latin · rain cloud
Japanese · stealth warrior
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Swahili · lion
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Slavic · ruler
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English · victorious protector
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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