If you're still doing these, top 5 cat names
I'm still doing it, I've still got a couple to go. I just paused in writing answers. Anyway: CAT NAMES! CAT NAMES!
I've done this by category because otherwise I'd take all year.
Food. There's (nearly) no item of food that will fail. All of these evoke a cat: Mushroom. Cinnamon. Clementine. Cupcake. Biscotti. Pumpkin. Pannacotta. (Radish.) Hit after hit after hit. Even though names like Momo and Mochi are decidedly oversaturated, I think they're still good enough to be highly rated anyway. What if you have a cat and they ARE just a little mochi? What else are you meant to call them???
I think generally "high contrast human names or titles" is its category here. So I like the dissonance between That's a Cat and a Big Convoluted Name or an Important Title, right? Like, a cat called Professor Terrence? Mr Merryweather? Very good.
Literary and mythological references can be good or they can be devastatingly overexposed, like all 481,850 cats that got named Loki or Luna (NB: sorry to any Loki/Luna cat owners reading this — statistically some of you would be). But I do like a cultural reference, especially if they're iconic but interesting. The more unnecessarily grandiose, the better. Agamemnon. Sir Lancelot. Morgoth. Nyarlathotep (the vet will not like that one, I fear).
Names that describe something about the cat. Paws. Whiskers. Mittens. Fluffy. Patches. Shadow. Socks. You know? This is a real workhorse of cat naming. I feel this is a very traditional but also respectable way to name a cat.
I'm not sure about a fifth category, honestly, so I'll just share an anecdote. In my personal knowledge, there exists a cat named Iconoclast out there somewhere. I hope she's living up to that one.
