I once met a boy cat named Vendetta.
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Well I guess if we're just throwing out cat names we've used
Boy: Rocky, Guardian, Scout, Peewee, Houdini, Big Boy
Girl: Socks, Magellan, Diva, Leia, Izzie, Ozzie, Fireball, Ditto, Belle, Oreo
I just kept the names from the shelter, in case the cats were used to them already.
The stray calico kitten that hangs out on my porch and in front of my front door I named Princess because she is regal and demanding.
One of my girl cats was literally named Girl Cat.
We currently have a female cat. We called her sky. Beforehand we had a male cat, all white with a black head. We called him yorshik. Which i'm quite sure it's a corruption of the russian for toilet brush... Poor thing.
Doing a quick search on “Yorshik” (Ёршик), of the very few sources I could find on the topic, while the word does seem to translate to “brush” there doesn’t seem to be any surface connection to toilet brush per se, though naturally it may be possible on a colloquial level.
This source that deals with meanings and etymologies of Russian words says:
Слово «ёршик» является диалектным выражением, используемым в русском языке для обозначения маленькой ёлочной игрушки в виде ёлочной ветки или шишки. Это слово имеет древнерусское происхождение и связано с древними славянскими обрядами, связанными с поклонением природе и деревьям.
Which DDG translate says means
The word "brush" is a dialectal expression used in the Russian language to refer to a small Christmas tree toy in the form of a Christmas tree branch or cone. This word is of Old Russian origin and is associated with ancient Slavic rites associated with the worship of nature and trees.
The only other resource I’ve found is this 11 year old YouTube video in Russian, that I can’t really understand. They seem to be joking about something, and “New Year” is mentioned, but I didn’t hear the word for toilet.
As far as I can understand, Yorshik seems to mean “brush” or “little brush”.
the name was born as a joke from my multilingual aunt and got deformed to hell by us not really knowing what it meant other than her vague explanation. It was most likely a longer word that got truncated into something more pronounceable in my native language, so it's not too out of the question that it lost a lot of meaning in the process. Though "little brush" also fit well with how bristly his fur was. So he may have gotten off better than we originally intended :-P.
When I was a kid our kitten was a rescue my mother brought home from the place she took horseback riding lessons - the kitten got stuck inside the chip machine's coin box, so it works more whenever you fed the machine coins.
We ended up giving her the oh-so-original name snowball. Then her colors came in and we discovered her to be a calico. Oops. Kitty it is then. RIP kitty.
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Girl cats: Himalaya, Sable, Shasta, Ka'ala, Pixel, Dingdong, Biscuits&Gravy, Wanda, Palomar (minsser)
Boy Cats: Mao, Theobroma (theo), Mr. 305, Buster, Britches, Cowcat, Tomlinson, Noodle, Handsome, Millie
I named by boy Willow, because he had very long limbs and tail, reminded me of the tree. the petsmart employee thought it was weird tho and only wrote 'Will' down on the form
Will O, the Wisp-y tail
Damnit it's true. My female cat's name is Aurora (Bora Alice) and my last male was simply named Siatie (c a t)
Counter argument: Potato and Spacy
My old friend had a male cat he named Leonidas.
Yes, he got him shortly after 300 came out, rofl.
I named my girl Selune... I guess I'm basic D=
I've had cats named Baldr, Hermóðr, Grendel, and Wotan. I've currently got a Valkyrie, Brynhildr, Freyja, and Freya (we got Freya when she was a year old because her owner couldn't keep her, and we already had Frejya, so...). But our current boy cats are Svartur ('cuz he's black), Robert, and Charlie.
My 2 boy cats:
- Named after a character in LotR
- Named after a kind of cheese
My buddy for 17 years, since passed - Bailey (because he was a tabby with a belly the same color of Bailey's Irish Cream.
My current littermates, brother and sister:
Girl: Willett Boy: Scout
Both named after bourbons - Willett and Smooth Ambler Old Scout.
Mine are two girl cats: Moose and Yeti. Moose is fluffy, majestic and too spart. Yeti is a dumb little angle baby
Our house is princesses for the girls and weapons for the boys.
Please tell me you have a cat named Glock. Or Smith & Wesson.
Our girl cat is Dweezil. Close enough.