Cats are intelligent, highbrow, and sophisticated creatures that deserve a name befitting them. If you’re a bookworm, literary cat names showcase your cat’s smarts and refinement.
Whether you like the wizarding world of Harry Potter or classics like Pride and Prejudice, here are our 130 picks for literary cat names for your cultured and elegant kitten.
How to Name Your Cat
Naming your cat can be challenging when there are so many names to choose from. Luckily, when it comes to literary names, you can just choose a name from your favorite book. But if you still can’t decide or you’re a bookworm that doesn’t have a favorite, you may still need help choosing a name or wonder if there are names you’re forgetting.
Check out our list of names for ideas and inspiration, and if you still can’t decide, enlist the help of your friends and family. Have them pick their favorites, and you can even create a poll on social media and let your followers vote. If all else fails, write down your favorite names and draw one out of a hat.
Names Inspired by Iconic Literature
You can find some of the best pet names in iconic classic literature. Since most of these books are still popular today, people who meet your cat will recognize the well-known literary characters the feline was named after.
Ichabod from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Tab from Watership Down
Argos from The Odyssey
Huckleberry from Huckleberry Finn
Gulliver from Gulliver’s Travels
Havisham from Great Expectations
Dantes from The Count of Monte Cristo
Darcy from Pride and Prejudice
Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility
Fitzwilliam from Pride and Prejudice
Bertram from Mansfield Park
Churchill from Emma
Victor Frankenstein from Frankenstein
Karamazov from The Brothers Karamazov
Cosette from Les Miserable
Jean Val Jean from Les Miserable
Caliban from The Tempest
Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Quixote from Don Quixote
Scarlett from Gone with the Wind
Rhett from Gone with the Wind
Algernon from Flowers for Algernon
Ishmael from Moby Dick
Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Iago from Othello
Ozymandias from Ozymandias
Gatsby from The Great Gatsby
Holden from The Catcher in the Rye
Sherlock Holmes from The Hound of Baskervilles
Atticus from To Kill a Mockingbird
Samsa from The Metamorphosis
Dalloway from Mrs. Dalloway
Lolita from Lolita
Mrs. Ramsay from To the Lighthouse
Smiley from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Marlowe from The Big Sleep
Kurtz from Heart of Darkness
Spade from The Maltese Falcon
Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea
Barnes from The Sun Also Rises
Big Brother from 1984
Charlotte from Charlotte’s Web
Benjy from The Sound and the Fury
Tarzan from Tarzan of the Apes
Zhivago from Dr. Zhivago
Lennie from Of Mice and Men
Archer from The Age of Innocence
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Names Inspired by Modern Literature
Modern-day literature has given book lovers plenty of memorable characters over recent years. So, why not get inspired from one of the many popular series when naming your cat?
Harry Potter from the Harry Potter series
Hermione from the Harry Potter series
Weasley from the Harry Potter series
Voldemort from the Harry Potter series
Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series
Draco from the Harry Potter Series
Hagrid from the Harry Potter Series
Jon Snow from A Song of Ice and Fire
Daenerys from A Song of Ice and Fire
Cersei from A Song of Ice and Fire
Arya from A Song of Ice and Fire
Sansa from A Song of Ice and Fire
Tyrion from A Song of Ice and Fire
Stannis from A Song of Ice and Fire
Theon from A Song of Ice and Fire
Bran from A Song of Ice and Fire
Brienne from A Song of Ice and Fire
Baelish from A Song of Ice and Fire
Sandor from A Song of Ice and Fire
Viserys from A Song of Ice and Fire
Oberyn from A Song of Ice and Fire
Jorah from A Song of Ice and Fire
Varys from A Song of Ice and Fire
Melisandre from A Song of Ice and Fire
Drogon from A Song of Ice and Fire
Viserion from A Song of Ice and Fire
Rhaegal from A Song of Ice and Fire
Katniss from The Hunger Games
Peeta from The Hunger Games
Primrose from The Hunger Games
President Coriolanus from The Hunger Games
Bella from the Twilight series
Edward from the Twilight series
Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings
Frodo from The Lord of the Rings
Bilbo from The Lord of the Rings
Sauron from The Lord of the Rings
Smeagol from The Lord of the Rings
Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings
Arwen from The Lord of the Rings
Sauron from The Lord of the Rings
Saruman from The Lord of the Rings
Galadriel from The Lord of the Rings
Smaug from The Hobbit
Thorin from The Hobbit
Jack Torrance from The Shining
Lisbeth Salander from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Nancy Drew from the Nancy Drew series
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Names Inspired by Famous Authors
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
Agatha
King
Chandler
Faulkner
Jane Austen
Vonnegut
Coben
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Edgar Allen Poe
Mark Twain
Dickens
Orwell
Harper
Capote
Nabokov
Kerouac
Steinbeck
Salinger
Arthur Conan Doyle
Roald Dahl
Tolkein
Kafka
Sylvia Plath
London
T.S. Eliot
Anne Rice
Shakespeare
Bradbury
Fleming
Whitman
Melville
H.G. Wells
Dickinson
Conclusion
Hopefully, this list inspired you with names for your cultured cat, whether you want a villain, a hero, or a quirky character that reflects your rambunctious cat’s personality.
Nicole is the proud mom of 3 rescue fur babies, Baby, a Burmese cat; Rosa, a New Zealand Huntaway; and Mac, a Lab/Mastiff. A Canadian expat, Nicole now lives on a lush forest property with her Kiwi husband and new baby daughter in New Zealand. She has a strong love for all animals of all shapes and sizes (and particularly loves a good interspecies friendship) and wants to share her animal knowledge and other experts' knowledge with pet lovers across the globe....Read more
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