Looking for a name for a black cat? These are 83 names from the Mad Cat Cartel name book whose meaning points to a black coat: words for black and for night in many languages, black stones and sweets, gods of the dark, and the names of famous black cats.
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Midnight marks the exact turn of the night, the hour folklore hands to ghosts and witches. A black cat named for that hour does its best work once every lamp is off, crossing dark rooms in silence. Called softly from a dark doorway, the word alone feels hushed and nocturnal.
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Cat ID · 01 · Common
Midnight
Elegant · English
Midnight marks the exact turn of the night, the hour folklore hands to ghosts and witches. A black cat named for that hour does its best work once every lamp is off, crossing dark rooms in silence. Called softly from a dark doorway, the word alone feels hushed and nocturnal.
Memo from the desk of Capo Clawzano
I judge a night's work by how little anyone remembers of it. Midnight leaves the same record: no dropped ornaments, no prints on the counter. No lamp ever catches it twice. Only the level in the bowl drops.
Shadow descends from Old English sceadu, the same root that gives shade. As a noun it can also mean a spy who follows someone unseen. In that second sense, it names the dark cat who trails a person between rooms and turns up in doorways unheard.
Memo from the desk of Capo Clawzano
Shadow gets a post on my crew, the one with no title and no paperwork. It will cover every exit here, and no visitor will ever catch it in a photograph.
Onyx is the banded black stone carved into cameos and polished into inlays, and it gives a dark-coated cat real weight and shine. Its root is the Greek onyx, a claw or fingernail, an apt source for an animal whose own set stays sharp.
Memo from the desk of Mewster
At any valuation, dark stones get underpriced by people who confuse colour with cheapness. Onyx corrects that error every time it crosses a lit hallway and the table goes quiet. I would not part with the name for any offer, and I say that about very little.
Raven, a clever and slightly ominous name, suits a dark cat who watches the family from high shelves with an unblinking stare. Odin, highest of the Norse deities, keeps two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, thought and memory, who fly over the world and bring the god news.
Memo from the desk of Albus Whisker
I have run puzzle trials on crows, and Raven opens a sealed treat box by the identical patient method. Keep a notebook of every attempt, since a method that tidy deserves a page in the journal.
Licorice traces to the Greek for sweet root, and the black twisted candy made from it suits a sleek cat who sleeps coiled in a tight twist. The word has a sly, sticky charm, sweet at first and sharp after.
Memo from the desk of Meowchi "Chi"
Licorice is the sweet nobody agrees on, and splitting a crowd is the smartest use of charm. Some visitors reach out and some refuse, and whatever divides a room never gets ignored.
Ebony describes a jet-black cat of polished calm, after the dense dark heartwood prized by cabinetmakers and instrument makers. The wood is dense and heavy, and the name has the same weight: deep, smooth and serious. Given to girls for decades, it feels homely, not exotic.
Memo from the desk of Lady Purrington
Ebony needs no ornament, which spares me from designing one. I will draw her once, in charcoal, and show no one.
Nyx is ancient Greek for night and the name of its goddess, the mother of Sleep and Death in Hesiod's account. Homer says even Zeus feared to displease her, which gives Nyx a quiet, formidable power. It conjures a black cat who keeps out of sight all day and takes over the house once the lamps go off.
Memo from the desk of Lady Purrington
I tried to sketch Nyx at dusk and caught only an outline and two lit eyes, the most truthful portrait I have made in years. Black silk is hard to draw, and she knows it.
Noir, the French word for black, gives a black cat the walk of a detective from the old crime films, half in shadow and never in a hurry. It sounds sleek, cool and a little dangerous, with the style of an old thriller shot in black and white.
Memo from the desk of Capo Clawzano
I work best in rooms with one lamp and three exits. Noir prefers the same arrangement. It slips past the bedroom doors after hours unseen. It is simply in the other chair when someone flips the switch, as if it had been there all evening.
Ground from dried peppercorns, the sharp spice found on every kitchen table gives Pepper its name. The name is quick and peppy, and it suggests a cat with a quick temper and a hiss ready for anyone who takes liberties.
Memo from the desk of Chef Paulie Gatto
I keep the pepper mill on the top shelf now, and the reason has whiskers. A cat called Pepper treats every shaker in my kitchen as family property. The real spice belongs in a closed cupboard, because one sneeze from that nose ends lunch for everyone.
The heraldic word for black, sable is also the dark marten whose fur has been prized for centuries, and it lands well on a cat with a deep, glossy coat and an unhurried walk. Its trail runs back through French to the Slavic languages, where the Russian form is sobol. It sounds expensive without trying, quiet luxury carried by a single word.
Memo from the desk of Stitch Romano
Visitors hang their coats before they notice Sable curled on the hall chair beside the rack. A coat that dark and even reads as good cloth. I checked the nap twice. My only grievance: it sheds on my lapels and nobody else's.
Obsidian is glossy black volcanic glass, and the cat it names is sleek and dark, with a coat that throws back lamplight like a polished stone. Pliny the Elder credited its discovery to a Roman called Obsius, who found it in Ethiopia. The stone is famous for edges finer than a steel scalpel, so the name is sharp as well as dark.
Memo from the desk of Mewster
You start modestly priced for a stone, which is how I like my best holdings to begin. Dark, quiet and hard to scratch, it matches everything I keep. Your cushion is the one by the vault, where the dark assets live.
The Greek ekleipsis, a failing or abandonment, gave English eclipse, the moment one body in the sky hides another. It feels dramatic and celestial, a brief darkness at noon that stops people mid-sentence. Here it marks a black cat who blocks the light by settling across an open book or a laptop screen.
Memo from the desk of Lady Purrington
The models complain that Eclipse steals each fitting by stepping between them and the lamp at the worst moment. Soon the whole atelier will speak of Eclipse in hushed tones, as people speak of a rival designer.
Blackie is the fond diminutive of black, a coat-colour pet name heard in back gardens and farmyards for generations. It has a homely, unpretentious ring, the name of a black cat who trots over at a word and wants nothing grander than a lap.
Blackpurr joins the plainest colour word to the softest noise in a cat's repertoire, so one word covers the coat and the soundtrack at once. It is mellow and unshowy, a name for a black cat who replies to every call with a purr instead of a meow.
Pressed out is the literal sense of espresso, Italy's short, dense shot of coffee brewed under pressure. It makes an intense name for a cat that is wide awake, does everything in short bursts and then goes perfectly still.
Nero is Italian for black, and in ancient Rome it was a surname of the Claudii, which Suetonius explained as a Sabine word for strong and valiant. It is a polished, old-world name, and it settles on a black cat who moves through the rooms with unhurried dignity and never quite looks at anyone.
Sumi is Japanese for the inkstick of soot and glue that calligraphers grind on a wet stone, and the name finds its match in a black cat who moves with the slow care of a brush. As a Japanese girl's name it can also take characters for clear or pure, giving the inky image a calm, clean finish.
Umbra is Latin for shadow, and it lends quiet, serious weight to a cat in black who crosses the house in silence. In astronomy the umbra is the darkest inner part of a shadow, the zone where an eclipse is total.
Night in Latin is nox, and Roman poets also used the word for the goddess of night, their counterpart to the Greek Nyx. Short and almost a whisper, it closes with an x that sounds like a door clicking shut. It is a nocturnal name, and the black cat behind it dozes all afternoon and starts patrolling the hallways after midnight.
Greek abyssos means bottomless, and through Latin it became abyss, the word for a depth nobody has measured. The name is dark and unfathomable, and the cat called it disappears into unlit rooms and watches from places the eye cannot reach.
Cats can see in about a sixth of the light people need, thanks to a reflective layer behind the retina, and Night Hunter makes that gift the whole point. It is a stealthy, practical label for a cat that patrols the house after lights out and pounces on anything that twitches.
Draven is a modern coinage that sounds like raven with a hard D at the start, and it settles easily on a brooding cat given to watching from high shelves. The name became known through Eric Draven, the avenging hero of the 1994 film The Crow. Spoken softly, it has a gothic hush that sounds best after dark.
Ravenor builds on the raven, the bird of legend and omen, and adds a lordly -or ending, so it could be a brooding knight from an old saga. Ravens are known for their cleverness, and Ravenor holds on to that edge. It goes to a cat who appears silently and always knows who is at the door before anyone knocks.
Group 02 · 6 names
Famous black cats
Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Binx from Hocus Pocus, Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service, Bagheera the black panther of The Jungle Book, Luna from Sailor Moon and Felix the Cat.
Salem is the name of the sardonic talking cat in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and it belongs on a cat with opinions and a dry way of delivering them. Behind the pop culture sits the biblical town of Shalem, Hebrew for complete or safe, so the word is gentler than its spooky reputation.
Thackery Binx, the boy cursed to live as a cat in the 1993 film Hocus Pocus, guards the Sanderson sisters' old house for centuries. The name itself is short and crisp, with a loyal, slightly spooky charm. The likely bearer is a steady cat who walks the halls at dusk and stays close to the youngest people in the house.
Jiji is the talking cat who rides on Kiki's broom in Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service, and the name has come to mean a dry-witted cat who comments on everything from a high perch. The doubled sound is bright and easy to say, yet the character's sarcastic streak keeps it from being merely sweet.
The black panther of Kipling's The Jungle Book, friend and protector of Mowgli, is called Bagheera, from the Hindi word for panther or leopard. Give it to a watchful cat who keeps an eye on the youngest in the house and moves without a sound.
A chart-topping cat name today, Luna is the Latin word for the moon, which the Romans also honoured as a goddess. Latin luna also gave English lunacy, the old word for madness thought to wax and wane with the moon, so the name hints at a dreamy cat who dozes all day and tears down the hallway at midnight.
Felix is Latin for lucky or happy, and it has been in use as a personal name since Roman times. The cat behind it is cheerful and lucky in scrapes, landing on his feet and strolling off pleased with himself. Felix the Cat, the cartoon star of the 1919 silent shorts, is much of why cats keep getting it.
Group 03 · 15 names
Night and shadow names
For the cat you only find by the two eyes glowing under the sofa.
Nightpaw follows the naming style of Erin Hunter's Warriors novels, where young cats in training carry the -paw ending until they earn a full warrior name. The night half gives it a nocturnal air, and the cat behind it is a dark figure making its rounds once everyone is asleep.
Nightwhisker names a nocturnal cat who finds the way through the dark house by touch, whiskers brushing each door frame to judge the gap. Real whiskers do that work, reading faint air currents and the width of an opening before the body follows. The compound might name a character in a woodland adventure story, gentle rather than sinister.
Shadowpurr is a cat for the unlit corners, a black shape that slips along the wall unheard until a low purr gives away where it has settled. The compound sets a stealthy image against a warm motor, so it reads quiet and affectionate at the same time.
Shadowmew suits a black cat who drifts along the hallway unseen, betrayed only by one soft mew from the dark. The first half promises stealth and the second half undoes it, since a mew is the one sound no shadow should make. Said softly, the name has a lullaby lilt, closer to a whisper than a warning.
Shadowra is invented, the plain word shadow given a grand -ra ending, and it hands a cat who stalks the hallway in silence the title of a stage villain. The effect is theatrical and sinister, all cape and no real harm. Shouted up the garden, it could be the opening line of a Saturday-morning cartoon.
Queen Shadow crowns the darkest part of the room and gives it to a black cat who rules from under the furniture, seen mostly as two eyes and a slow tail. Royalty and darkness together sound grave and slightly gothic, like a portrait hung behind drawn curtains.
Shadow Fang pairs darkness with one bared tooth, and the black cat carrying it crosses unlit rooms soundlessly, noticed only when it yawns. The pairing could be a title from a fantasy novel, quiet first and dangerous second.
Shadowfang pairs the darkness a hunter hides in with the tooth it strikes with, two blunt syllables joined into one fantasy-style compound. Said aloud, the hushed sh slides into the hard f and ng, a slow approach that ends in a pounce. The name gives a stealthy, slightly theatrical menace to a black cat that lurks beneath the bed and ambushes passing feet.
Shadow Raider joins darkness and plunder, and carries the hush of a night operation along with the cheek of a pirate. Low to the floor and unseen along the skirting boards, this black cat surfaces only when a stolen glove turns up on the landing.
Norse legends told of the skogkatt, a fairy cat of the mountains, and SkogShadow borrows its opening and adds the English shadow. The pairing has a hushed, woodland feel, as if something moved between the pines a moment ago. On a dark cat of the Norwegian Forest breed it matches a habit of watching from under the furniture and vanishing before anyone looks twice.
Darkfang pairs shadow with a bared tooth and gives both to a brooding black cat who yawns wide at strangers to show off a full set of teeth. The pairing has the swagger of a video-game villain, menacing on paper and much softer once the purring starts.
Noctra is made up from Latin nox, genitive noctis, night, and the cat behind it dozes away the daylight and begins its patrol when the household settles. The hard -ctra ending gives it a nocturnal edge without tipping into villainy.
Obscura is Latin for dark or hidden, obscurus in its feminine form and the root of English obscure. Most people know it from the camera obscura, a darkened chamber in which a pinhole throws an image of the outside world onto a wall. In a cat it reads as secretive: the one who watches the family from unlit doorways and is rarely seen arriving.
As a name, Tenebris is an invention taken from a Latin phrase, in tenebris, in darkness, where tenebrae means darkness. It has a low, hushed weight, and it settles on a cat who keeps to the space behind the drapes and appears only with the lamps off.
Murk is English for thick darkness or gloom, and Murkito gives it the Spanish -ito ending of a boy's pet name. The mix is shadowy but friendly, like a pet name for someone who prefers the unlit corner. It suits a black cat who vanishes in a dim hallway and reappears, silent, at your feet.
Group 04 · 12 names
Witchy black cat names
Black cats and witches go back a long way in European folklore. These names lean in.
Salem, the town of the 1692 witch trials and the name of the talking cat in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, is a long-standing pick for a black cat who drifts through the rooms like a rumour. The surname Moonshadow is the outline a body throws on a moonlit floor, quiet and uncanny. Together the two halves read like the full name of a character in a gothic novel.
Nightshade is the plant family whose wild members, deadly nightshade above all, have a long reputation as poisons, and with Salem, the town of the witch trials, leading it gives a cat who keeps to the dimmest corner of the house a properly gothic name. The effect is sinister but theatrical, like the poison-garden villain of a gothic novel.
Salem is usually traced to the Hebrew root of shalom, peace, though popular culture ties it firmly to witches and their cats, and the Spellcat epithet swaps the caster in spellcaster for a cat. The title sounds bookish and whimsical, a good fit for a cat who sits on open books and stares at the pages as if reading the instructions.
Little Black Witch is a fond, picture-book label for a black kitten with a witch's sense of mischief, batting at broom bristles and vanishing into the laundry basket. The three plain words could head a children's story. The word little keeps it cute, while witch allows for trouble.
Nightwitch borrows the old folklore of witches who rode out after dark to bring bad dreams, and gives it to a black cat that has a sinister streak. The tone is villainous in a pantomime way, all glare and no actual menace. The closing -tch lands like a hiss from a cat watching out of dark corners.
Midnight Spell Cat names a black cat who seems to be casting something as the clock strikes twelve, tail flicking over an invisible circle. The words are plain, but in a row they turn ceremonial and gently eerie.
Morgana is the Italian form of Morgan le Fay, the enchantress of Arthurian legend, and Nightspell adds magic worked after dark. The pairing sounds regal and nocturnal, right for a cat who presides over the bed once the household is asleep. Called in full it has the weight of a storybook title, while the first name alone serves well for everyday use.
Lilith is a night spirit of ancient Mesopotamian and Jewish folklore who became a favourite figure of gothic fiction, and Darkmoon names the new moon, when no moon shows at all. Together they sound brooding and proud, and the cat answering to it refuses to come when called and appears only when she has decided to.
In Jewish folklore Lilith is a dark feminine figure, and the Nightwitch title recasts her as the friendly witch of a bedtime story. It feels spooky but playful and belongs to the cat who waits for darkness to chase invisible things across the floorboards. For everyday calling the epithet can drop away, and the first name does the work alone.
Hecate ruled crossroads, magic and the night in ancient Greek belief, and she is often shown carrying torches. Here she belongs to a black cat with a nocturnal streak and a steady, unwavering gaze, the one who sits where two hallways meet and decides which way the evening goes. Noir is simply French for black, and it gives the old goddess a film-noir finish.
Hocus Pocus gave the world Binx, a boy cursed into a black cat, and Nightwhisper hands the name to a cat who talks back in a low murmur in the small hours. The pairing is spooky but kind, a guardian, not a villain. One syllable carries the Halloween reference, so the longer half only sets the hour.
Jiji is the black cat who rides Kiki's broom in Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service, and Moonshadow adds the night sky they cross, for a cat with a dry comment on every situation. Jiji's half is storybook and wry, a familiar more sardonic than sweet.
Group 05 · 12 names
Gods and goddesses of the night
Night, darkness and fate from old mythologies, for a cat who already rules after dark.
To the Greeks, Nyx was night itself, a goddess so old and powerful that in the Iliad even Zeus holds back rather than anger her. Lady Nyx gives that dark majesty to a black cat who keeps her own counsel and becomes busiest once the lamps go off. The title does real work, because it makes a primordial force seem like a guest expected for dinner.
Hesiod has Nyx, the goddess who is night, born from Chaos at the very start of creation, and Nyxie softens her into a pet name. Black-coated and full of mischief, this cat comes alive after the household goes to bed.
Nyx is the Greek goddess who personifies night, and with Shadow added it names a watchful cat that studies the household from under the sofa, all eyes and no outline. Night was an ancient power whom even Zeus was wary of offending. The plain English half keeps it practical, a title anyone can call into a darkened hallway.
Nyx Moonfang names a night-prowling cat that brings its catch to the foot of the bed. Nyx is night itself to the Greeks, a primordial goddess who predates the Olympians. The fang under the moon gives it a werewolf edge, like a horror film poster.
A cat stretched long across the bed after dark, slim and black-coated, is the picture here: Nyx the Noodle pairs Nyx, night in goddess form, with noodle, internet slang for any cat built long and bendy. Grand first and silly second, it could title a bedtime story.
Darkness itself goes by Erebus among the Greek primordial gods, born from Chaos at the beginning of the world, and it calls for a black cat who appears in doorways soundlessly. It is deep and hushed, with the weight of the shadow the old poets placed between the living world and the underworld.
In Hindu tradition Kali is the goddess of time and destruction, fierce toward demons yet worshipped as a protective mother. It belongs to a cat with a black coat and a commanding presence, fearless with intruders and tender with its own household. Her name derives from Sanskrit kala, which can mean black or time.
The Morrigan is a war goddess of Irish myth, linked with fate and prophecy and often seen as a crow, and her name is often translated as great queen or phantom queen. With Shadow after it, the pairing turns quiet and watchful, and it names a black cat who appears at the edge of a doorway and vanishes before anyone looks twice.
Among the Greeks, Nemesis was the goddess who paid back arrogance, and in modern English the noun names an arch-rival or the downfall nobody escapes. With noir, French for black, on the end, the cat wears black and waits patiently, keeping score of every slight and repaying it at a time of its own choosing.
Maia is the eldest of the Pleiades, the seven sisters of the star cluster, and the mother of Hermes. Nightpurr finishes the picture with a dark cat who comes alive after sunset and talks in low rumbles to anyone still awake. Maia was also an everyday Greek term for a mother or nurse, giving the compound warmth alongside the starlight.
In Greek myth Pandora was shaped from earth on Zeus's order and lifted the lid of the jar that held the world's troubles. Behind the Nightveil half is a black cat who slides through any door left ajar, to learn what lies beyond. Both halves are about coverings that hide something, a gothic pairing for a cat who cannot leave either one alone.
Pandora, all-gifted in Greek, was Hesiod's first mortal woman, and the jar she opened let every trouble into the world, leaving only hope inside. Add the French noir and the cat comes into focus: dark-coated and unable to leave a closed bag alone. Noir also recalls film noir, and the pairing carries the ring of a femme fatale in a crime picture.
Group 06 · 5 names
Black and dark in other languages
Italian nero, Spanish negro and sombra, Japanese kage, Latin tenebrae. Black sounds good in every language.
Nerino is an Italian boy's name that also reads as nero, black, softened by the affectionate -ino ending, so it belongs on a black cat who follows his person like a shadow. The diminutive keeps the dark colour friendly rather than ominous, the same pet-form shape Italians use in gattino, kitten.
Don Gato Negro takes the most ordinary Spanish description, black cat, and seats it behind a family title. The cat it names is dark and deliberate, crossing a room slowly enough for everyone to take note. In Spain, as in much of Europe, a black cat is read as an omen, and the Don settles the question of which kind this one is.
Sombra is Spanish for shadow, a feminine noun, so the masculine El before it gives a title, the shadow, instead of a plain word. The cat behind it is black, keeps to the edges of rooms and seems to arrive without crossing the space in between. Sombra also means shade, the cool patch under a tree, so the word promises cover as much as darkness.
Kagehana pairs kage, Japanese for shadow, with hana, flower, a made-up combination that conjures a bloom opening in the dark. It is meant for a black cat who hunts by stealth and turns up at your elbow without warning. Spoken, the contrast between its halves gives it a quietly dramatic, almost fairy-tale tone.
Tenebra is a real word for darkness in Latin and Italian, usually heard in the plural, and the cat it suits keeps to the unlit end of the hallway. It sounds solemn and hushed rather than menacing. Called down a dark hallway, it carries more gravity than most pet names.
Group 07 · 10 names
Black and white cat names
For tuxedo cats, who wear black and white to every occasion. Figaro from Pinocchio and Sylvester from Looney Tunes are both tuxedo cats.
Oreo, the chocolate sandwich cookie with a white filling, was launched by the National Biscuit Company, today Nabisco. Crisp and graphic on a black-and-white coat, it suits a playful cat who rolls over to flash a pale belly. The two open vowels make it bright and quick to call, and on a tuxedo coat the name already looks the part.
Socks is the traditional name for a cat whose white feet look as if it has pulled on a pair of socks. The Clinton family's black and white cat Socks lived in the White House in the 1990s and became one of the best known cats in America.
A black kitten banded with white around the middle fits Baby Oreo, since that is the pattern that earns Belted Galloway cattle their nickname, Oreo cows. With Baby up front, it could be the youngest calf in that herd, sturdy and wide-eyed.
Lil is the stage-name prefix of hip-hop, worn by Lil Wayne and Lil Kim, so Lil Oreo hands a sandwich cookie a rap career. The cookie supplies the black-and-white look. Picture a swaggering cat who struts along the landing, tail high, as if the beat were playing for it alone.
Oreo Puff borrows the dark-and-light pattern of the famous sandwich cookie and adds puff, a word for anything soft and full of air. Expect a two-tone cat in full long fur, with a plush white bib that swells out between dark shoulders, fullest after a good brush.
Orio is a coined play on Oreo, the dark sandwich cookie with the white filling, with a nod to Oriental Shorthairs, and it lands on a playful cat dressed in high contrast from nose to tail. The cookie stays a visual joke and never a treat, since chocolate is poisonous to cats.
First applied to the red panda of the Himalayas, perhaps from a Nepali word, panda only later passed to China's bamboo-eating bear. It comes across as easygoing and slightly comic, calling up a two-tone cat who lounges belly up with all four paws in the air.
A black-and-white cat with dark patches around the eyes is the obvious match for Biscuit Panda. Panda borrows the bear's black eye patches, and Biscuit adds a warm, homely word of the kind people give a sweet-natured pet. Setting a wild bear beside a tea-time snack makes the name gentle and lightly comic.
Figaro is Geppetto's kitten in Disney's Pinocchio, and the name now calls up a house cat with a gift for sulking in plain view. It sounds quick and theatrical, and the moods it names tend to blow over within a minute.
A theatrical cat who schemes in detail and still comes away empty-pawed has the right name in Sylvester. The name traces to Latin silvester, of the woods, which gives a forest note under the comedy. Looney Tunes gave it fame through its lisping cartoon star, forever chasing Tweety and muttering sufferin' succotash.
All black cat names, A to Z
Open the full list, A to Z. Tap any name to read what it means and issue its passport.
The classics come from black things: Midnight, Shadow, Onyx, Raven and Licorice. If you want something less common, try a word for black or night in another language, like Nero, Sumi or Nyx, or borrow from a famous black cat like Salem or Jiji.
Are black cats lucky?
Depends on where you ask. In parts of Europe and the US a black cat crossing your path is said to bring bad luck. In England it was long considered good luck to give a bride a black cat on her wedding day, and in Scotland a strange black cat turning up at your home is a sign of coming prosperity.
When is Black Cat Day?
National Black Cat Day is 27 October. The UK charity Cats Protection started it in 2011 to celebrate black cats and help them find homes.
Are there names for black and white cats?
Yes. The tuxedo group on this page has names for black and white cats, from Oreo, Socks and Panda to Figaro and Sylvester, two famous tuxedo cats.
Do cats really recognize their names?
Yes. A 2019 study from the University of Tokyo, published in Scientific Reports, found that pet cats can tell their own name apart from similar sounding words. Whether your cat comes when you call is another matter.
How many black cat names are on this page?
This page has 83 names from the Mad Cat Cartel name book, picked because their meaning points to a black coat. The Cat Name Generator has more than 4,500 names if you want more choice.
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Midnight marks the exact turn of the night, the hour folklore hands to ghosts and witches. A black cat named for that hour does its best work once every lamp is off, crossing dark rooms in silence. Called softly from a dark doorway, the word alone feels hushed and nocturnal.
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