People who know me know I absolutely adore cats…and that I love everything about cats, including naming them! I’m also a big fan of books, so combining books and cats? Well, you’d better believe that’s exactly my cup of tea. That’s why I’m so excited to share the best literary cat names with you today!
Whether you’re getting a new cat soon (or already have one), helping someone else name their cat, or simply daydreaming about the time when you can have your very own literary kitty, this list of literary names for cats is sure to be the inspiration you’re looking for!
Inside this list, you’ll find famous literary cat names (aka names of cats in literature), cat names inspired by literature (your favorite characters!), literary cat names based on author names, famous writers’ cat names (so you can steal their cats’ names for your own cat!), and literary cat name puns (in case you want a punny take on your favorite author or character).
There are so many literature cat names to choose between, so whether you’re looking for literary male cat names or literary female cat names, this is the list for you. And whether you’re wanting to name your cat after famous fictional cats and famous cat names in literature, or simply want to go with a name of one of your favorite characters, this list has it all.
So read on to discover the best cat names from literature and find the perfect name for your new feline friend!
Famous Fictional Cat Names
- Alonzo (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Bombalurina (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Bustopher Jones (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Buttercup (The Hunger Games)
- Cat (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
- Cat Morgan (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Cheshire Cat (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
- Church “Winston Churchill” (Pet Sematary)
- Coricopat (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Crookshanks (Harry Potter)
- Demeter (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Dinah (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
- Dragon (Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH)
- Electra (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Fiddle (Charmed Life)
- Firestar (Warriors: Into the Wild)
- Ginger (The Last Battle)
- Ginger (The Tale of Ginger and Pickles)
- Great Rumpus Cat (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Greebo (Wyrd Sisters: A Novel of Discworld)
- Griddlebone (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Growltiger (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Harry Cat (The Cricket in Times Square)
- Jellylorum (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Jennyanydots (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Liszt (Edward the Conqueror)
- Macavity (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Maurice (The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents)
- Miss Moppet (The Story of Miss Moppet)
- Mister (The Dresden Files)
- Mittens (The Tale of Tom Kitten)
- Mogget (Sabriel)
- Moxie (The Subtle Knife)
- Mr. Mistoffelees (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Mrs. Norris (Harry Potter)
- Mungojerrie (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Munkustrap (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Old Deuteronomy (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Pluto (The Black Cat)
- Princess Arjumand, aka “Dearum JuJu” (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
- Ribby (The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan)
- Rum Tum Tugger (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Rumpelteazer (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Sagwa (The Chinese Siamese Cat)
- Simpkin (The Tailor of Gloucester)
- Skimbleshanks (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)
- Small Bob (House of Hades)
- Snowbell (Stuart Little)
- Socks (Socks)
- Squire Gingivere (Mossflower)
- Tab (Watership Down)
- Tabitha Twitchit (The Tale of Tom Kitten)
- The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat)
- Tom Kitten (The Tale of Tom Kitten)
Literary Cat Names Based on Book Characters
- Albus (Harry Potter)
- Argos (The Odyssey)
- Aslan (The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe)
- Bartleby (Bartleby the Scrivener)
- Bilbo (The Hobbit)
- Caliban (The Tempest)
- Catbert (Dilbert)
- Chewie (Captain Marvel)
- Cosette (Les Misérables)
- Dantes (The Count of Monte Cristo)
- Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
- Dobby (Harry Potter)
- Ebenezer Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)
- Elrond (Lord of the Rings)
- Frodo (Lord of the Rings)
- Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)
- Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
- Garfield (Garfield)
- Gilgamesh (The Epic of Gilgamesh)
- Gimli (Lord of the Rings)
- Groot (Guardians of the Galaxy)
- Gulliver (Gulliver’s Travels)
- Hagrid (Harry Potter)
- Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)
- Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
- Huckleberry (Huckleberry Finn)
- Iago (Othello)
- Ichabod (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
- Ishmael (Moby Dick)
- Jean Valjean (Les Misérables)
- Katniss (The Hunger Games)
- Kubla Khan (Kubla Khan)
- Liesel (The Book Thief)
- Lisbeth (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
- Max (Where The Wild Things Are)
- Milo (The Phantom Tollbooth)
- Miracle Max (The Princess Bride)
- Miss Havisham (Great Expectations)
- Miss Marple (Miss Marple)
- Miss Peregrine (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
- Oliver (Oliver Twist)
- Ozymandias (Ozymandias)
- Peeta (The Hunger Games)
- Pennywise (It)
- Percy (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
- Peter Pan (Peter Pan)
- Pippi (Pippi Longstocking)
- Pippin (Lord of the Rings)
- Princess Buttercup (The Princess Bride)
- Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
- Queequeg (Moby Dick)
- Quixote (Don Quixote)
- Sancho Panza (Don Quixote)
- Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
- Scarlett (Gone With The Wind)
- Tigger (Winnie the Pooh)
- Tinker Bell (Peter Pan)
- Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet)
- T’Challa (Black Panther)
- Wilbur (Charlotte’s Web)
And so many more! Characters from your favorite books make perfect names for your beloved cat, so these are just examples to get you started!
Looking for more cool Harry Potter names? Check out these excellent Harry Potter names for cats!
Literary Cat Names Based on Author’s Names
- Agatha (Agatha Christie)
- Asimov (Isaac Asimov)
- Chaucer (Geoffrey Chaucer)
- Dante (Dante Alighieri)
- Dickens (Charles Dickens)
- Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
- Edgar (Edgar Allan Poe)
- Eliot (T.S. Eliot)
- Ernest (Ernest Hemingway)
- Fitzgerald (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Flannery (Flannery O’Connor)
- Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway)
- Hugo (Victor Hugo)
- Jules (Jules Verne)
- Keats (John Keats)
- Kerouac (Jack Kerouac)
- King (Stephen King)
- Kipling (Rudyard Kipling)
- Langston (Langston Hughes)
- Lewis (C.S. Lewis)
- Maya (Maya Angelou)
- Millay (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- Morrison (Toni Morrison)
- Orwell (George Orwell)
- Poe (Edgar Allan Poe)
- Seuss (Dr. Seuss)
- Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
- Steinbeck (John Steinbeck)
- Sylvia (Sylvia Plath)
- Thoreau (Henry David Thoreau)
- Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- Twain (Mark Twain)
- Woolf (Virginia Woolf)
Names of Famous Authors’ Cats
- Apollinaris (Mark Twain’s cat)
- Bambino (Mark Twain’s cat)
- Beelzebub (Mark Twain’s cat)
- Beppo (Lord Byron’s cat)
- Blatherskite (Mark Twain’s cat)
- Bob (Charles Dickens’ cat)
- Boris (Frank O’Hara’s cat)
- Calvin (Harriet Beecher Stowe’s cat)
- Cattarina (Edgar Allan Poe’s cat)
- Chanoine (Victor Hugo’s Cat)
- Coconut (Neil Gaiman’s cat)
- Daddy (Sylvia Plath’s cat)
- Fatso (Ernest Hemingway’s cat)
- Friendless (Ernest Hemingway’s cat)
- Furhouse (Ernest Hemingway’s cat)
- Gavroche (Victor Hugo’s cat)
- George Pushdragon (T.S. Eliot’s cat)
- Hermione (Neil Gaiman’s cat)
- Hodge (Samuel Johnson’s cat)
- Jellylorum (T.S. Eliot’s cat)
- Le Docteur (Alexandre Dumas’ cat)
- Littless Kitty (Ernest Hemingway’s cat)
- Lucky (L.M. Mongomery’s cat)
- Magnificat (Philip K. Dick’s cat)
- Minou (George Sand’s cat)
- Mr. Peter Wells (H.G. Wells’ cat)
- Mysouff I (Alexandre Dumas’ cat)
- Mysouff II (Alexandre Dumas’ cat)
- Pear (Stephen King’s cat)
- Pestilence (Mark Twain’s cat)
- Pettipaws (T.S. Eliot’s cat)
- Pod (Neil Gaiman’s cat)
- Princess (Neil Gaiman’s cat)
- Princessa (Ernest Hemingway’s cat)
- Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw’s cat)
- Roy (Gillian Flynn’s cat)
- Shopsky (Ernest Hemingway’s cat)
- Snow White (Ernest Hemingway’s cat)
- Soapy Sal (Mark Twain’s cat)
- Sour Mash (Mark Twain’s cat)
- Timothy (Dorothy L. Sayers’ cat)
- Tuscaloosa (Alice Walker’s cat)
- Tyke (Jack Kerouac’s cat)
- Wiscus (T.S. Eliot’s cat)
- Zoe (Neil Gaiman’s cat)
Literary Cat Pun Names
- Agatha Hisstie
- Albert Catmus
- Anna Clawrenina
- Anne McCatfrey
- C.S. Mewis
- Catnip Everdeen
- Catniss Everdeen
- Catticus Finch
- Charles Kittens
- Christopher Meowlowe
- Daphne du Meowrier
- David Coppurrfield
- Edgar Allan Paw
- Emeowly Dickinson
- Franz Catfka
- Geoffrey Clawcer
- Harpurr Lee
- Harry Pawter
- Henry David Purreau
- Holden Clawfield
- J.K. Meowling
- Jane Pawsten
- John Bunyarn
- John Purrving
- Margaret Catwood
- Nathaniel Pawthorne
- Oliver Hisst
- Prince Catspian
- Purrcy Jackson
- Purrlock Holmes
- Truman Catpote
- Purrnest Hemingway
- Romeow (& Juliet)
- Rudyard Kitling
- William Shakespurr