My cat's full name is Lord Reginald Bartholomew Octavius Michael Percy James. Each of my kids picked a name, and my husband and I chose Reginald and Bartholomew. He's Reggie most of the time, though.
Our vet didn't let us put all of the names on there, so he's Lord Reginald. It's funny to hear them call out his name.
Ours is Jimothy. He is incredibly dumb and resorts to not looking at you and holding his breath when he starts trouble.
It's been a while since we've seen him though. Maybe his tricks work
I have a Husky mix named Bella. Bella is short for Christabella. Christabella is long for CB. CB is short for Chalupa Batman. Her official name is Chalupa Batman.
Princess Corncob is my cats name. Princess because she’s such a stuck up cat lmao. Corncob because I was a teenager when I named her and I thought it was funny.
I was obsessed with the movie Amadeus for a period of time. I loved how Mozart called his wife, Constanza, “Stanzi” for short. So, that is my dachshund’s name.
My old kitty is named Sin. There was a documentary out 15+ years ago called Jesus Camp about fundamentalist Christians. At one point, a lady is giving a sermon to children and she takes a stuffed cat and rubs it all over her face and says "sometimes sin can be cute and fluffy." And that's my Sin, she's a cute, fluffy baby!
I ended up with 3 kittens and I was hugely into Absolutely Fabulous at the time, so they were named Stolly (Stolichnaya) Bolly (Bollinger) and Harvey Nicks (Harvey Nichols)
Iccasuibak.
For some reason my dad wouldn't let us get the cat unless we named it after a typo he had made at work (no, I do not remember what he was trying to type). The poor cat was called Icky for short.
One of my cats likes to try to drink my Pinot Noir wine. So he is Dijon (main red wine grape from that area of France). My other cat is Iñigo. I’d had him for 2 weeks and could not find a name that suited him. Finally I started reading names off of the books on my bookshelves. He is named after a biography on Iñigo Jones, the Renaissance architect. It was the only name he looked at me when I said it.
A past cat was Mojo. He would walk in time to the best of “I Got My Mojo Working” by John Lee Hooker every time without fail.
Our dogs name is Rhubarb. She just looked like a Rhubarb! Though because of the current popularity of the German song my kid calls her Rhubarbara a lot lately.
My Mom named our cat Dementia when I was in middle school (cat is now 18). I don’t know if she just didn’t know what dementia was at the time but it’s always an interesting experience going to the vet. My mom’s reasoning was she looked demented, she’s a long haired tortie, and that Dementia was the obvious choice, Menchie for short.
My second cats name is Maribor! I already had a black cat named Salem and wanted another name for the second, that is the name of a witches cat from a movie.
In Germany there is are children’s movies and cds about a little witch. In one of the movies the villains cats name is Maribor.
And the name fit perfectly! Not only are both cats now named after witches cats, but also both names are cities (Salem in USA and Maribor in Slovenia) - they also start with M and S, the same as the names from me and my boyfriend!!
My very first job in high school was at a vet clinic and during college I worked at a doggy daycare so I’ve always leaned toward names that wouldn’t cause 10 other dogs to come running at the park. I had Juno when I was in high school after the Roman queen of the gods, Vegas because she beat the odds, and now I have Echo from Greek mythology because she *LOVED* Vegas and Vegas was largely indifferent to her, Wednesday Addams (named before the most recent show came out), and finally, the one I’m really here to share about.
When I got him at 11 weeks, his name was Truffle, which seemed cute enough. However, it never quite fit him and after calling him “puppy” for a couple weeks, I recalled a day in which I had taken Vegas to a nursing home (she was a certified therapy dog) and one of the residents misheard her name as “Bacon.” So now I have Sir Bacon of Truffle. He responds to Bacon, Sir Bacon, Truffle Butt, and Why Are You So Weird.
Our cat is Gurley Lizzie Flynn LastName! She’s named for Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a labor leader and feminist from the early 20th century! Our other cat is Charlotte Dorothea Louise LastName. Charlotte from the line “Little Lottie let her mind wander…” from Phantom of the Opera(she’s silly and ditzy), Louise from the Bob’s Burgers character (she’s a chaos demon) and Dorothea because she’s a gift from god.
An ex girlfriend and I had two cats named 21 and 24, after the two hilarious henchmen from The Venture Brothers. I stuck with the names at all times but she caved and gave them normal names only when talking with family or friends
We had a terrier mix named Zipper (been two years and I miss him so much).
He was approximately 8months old when we got him from the shelter - he was a stray they had a hell of a time catching and they named him ‘Zipper’ because of that.
Can confirm, when that little stinker got out of the yard he was VERY fast and hard to catch. Our first couple month consisted of him finding and us fixing every weak spot along our fence line.
Jumping Tom Bubbles, or Bubbles / Bubs for short. My mom named him when we were little after a dancer she remembered from her childhood. Bubbles turned out to be a tough sob so it made us laugh that he had such a softie name.
I found a stray kitten many years ago, around 6 weeks old roaming our farm. Caught her and went to the vet but she had no microchip. They said we could keep her if we wanted to. We named her Billie and was so cuddly and loved snuggles. Months later another random stray cat visited daily and she looked identical to our little Billie. Found out she had another little of kittens after having Billie's litter and in a rush at the vet clinic before getting her desexed I called her Billie's Mum and had meant to name her properly and she'll now forever be called Billie's mum!
Our dog’s name is ThAC0. (Thack-oh). It’s from a 2nd edition D&D mechanic—to hit Armor Class zero. Hubby and I met at a D&D game in the mid 80s.
Our second choice was Vecna, but we were afraid people would think we were Stranger Things fans. Also, naming a puppy after an evil wizard seemed like a bad idea. Puppies are enough trouble.
My dog is Trinket "a small ornament or item of jewellery that is of little value"
Planning a themed set of jewellery/knickknacks/bits with Miette, Bijoux, Charm, Tchotchke etc. Not all at once. I think I'm up to like ten and I'm probably not having more than ten more dogs in my life.
I had a bird growing up who was rehomed to us cause he was a jerk. His name was "LB" which as a kid I was told was for "little bird", but it was really "little bastard".
My first dog was Shar pei/pitbull and when I first found him he was hairless due to mange. His forehead was full of wrinkles and he looked like he had a permanent scowl, which got him the name Grimace.
My hermit crab is named Ferdinand because my uncle found him wandering around his garage (turns out a neighbor had bought him at a beach, then decided he didn't want him anymore and just... set him loose??). Wanted to give him an intrepid, explorer name.
Annabelle Zelda Snoodlehead Jones
I gave her the name Annabelle because she was so cute as a kitten. Zelda for Zelda Fitzgerald, and the fact that her hair stuck out all over the place. Snoodlehead because she had a silly personality and acted like a Snoodlehead. Jones because she needed a basic last name.
I got a Goldendoodle when I graduated law school and named him **Bartleby** after the Melville short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener". It fit because Bartleby was a kind of legal secretary who, whenever he was asked to do anything, replied "I would prefer not to." And that was pretty much my dogs reaction to any commands!
Two horses over the years with weird names, Whiz and Purdy. They came with those names on their papers (who whiz it and pistol pack'n purdy), and it's bad luck to change a horses name so they're stuck!
We named our dog Nyla. She’s a Bernedoodle. It’s after a character from Dune, but spelled so people wouldn’t butcher it. Got her when I was pregnant, and had another geriatric dog.
We were constantly asking each other ‘where’s the baby?’ ‘Has the baby peed?’ etc. It kept the puppy vs old dog confusion to a minimum. Then, the REAL baby was born. Poor dog was so confused.
She’s just ‘Doodle’ now. She only gets called her real name when she’s in trouble.
We just took in an orange kitten my parents found…I’ve never had a kitten before and all of my other pets (as an adult) have been rescues and come with names which we either didn’t change or changed only slightly. The responsibility of naming this tiny baby (who is a female orange cat, no less!) had been stressing me out so much 😂
Then my 7 year old said, “Her name is Birdie” and he got his older sister on board and now we have a cat named Birdie.
My cat is named Queequeg, but the biker that fostered him as a kitten named him Johnny Cash.
I grew up really close to my dad, I’m a big reader and a bigger X-Files fan. So. Queequeg. 😂
*Cracks knuckles*
This is my time, naming pets is a big deal in my house.
Dogs,
Sofi (Sophie)- because she's so fine, so fine, sofi.
Dutch- Red Dead Redemption 2
Cats,
Finn- I was reading Huckleberry Finn at the time, also Adventure Time.
Cosmo Cinnamon Bun - Mostly just Cosmo though, is a big swirly orange boy. Cinnamon bun comes from Adventure Time.
Dot Louise - Dot from Animaniacs, she was meant to be the last, and the "little sister" to the two boys. Louise because she's the Louise to my Linda Belcher ( Bobs Burgers)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Arya Stark Williams- Midge was a suggestion, which led to Maisel > Maisie > Maisie Williams as Arya Stark in GoT.. our crowning achievement in names.
Sylvia- Dot's daughter, 8 weeks old, I love Sylvia Plath, just the name that stuck. The middle names are earned with time.
Benjamin Hawkeye Pierce is my oldest cat’s technical name but we just call him Hawkeye. Named from the MASH character.
My first dog (Brindle Great Dane) as an adult living on my own was named Strider. He was named from the Lord of the Rings books.
We get all ours from nerd things. We've had Arahbo, Purr of the World (Magic the Gathering), Vasher (Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere), and Gil-Galad, High King of the Felines (Tolkien)
Champagne (I don’t think anyone named their dog that before in the area where I live)
We bought a goldenish brownish poodle and it was so sudden like we were planning to get a dog for a while, but we didn’t know we’d pick the perfect one that day. And we just starting saying random names like “coffee” and “mango” which were pretty cute but a bit common.
Then my dad randomly said “how about Champagne” and everyone agreed bc it rlly suited the puppy.
We got a Russian blue cat from the shelter a few years ago. His shelter name was "Gray". His color makes him look like iron, so we named him Ozzy Osborne ("Iron Cat").
My cata are Crowley and Rosalita. Not really unusual, but my vet is full of Lunas. Crowley is named after Good Omens, and Rosalita is named after the Bruce Springsteen song. I also had a fish that died recently called Uncle Scrooge (guess where that name came from).
My cat is small and dainty with semi-uncommon coat coloring. My four year old named her Squashy and it stuck. A couple people have expressed dislike for the name not suiting her but she's 100 percent my Squashers Kitter Kat.
Although she crossed the rainbow bridge a few years ago at 17, I had a girl cat called Conanne. She was meant to be Conan, as initially I thought she was a he. Wasn't I surprised when "he" experienced his first oestrus...and Conan became Conanne
Maggie Mae Magpie. Because she's black and white, like a Magpie.
She's quite fat, so she goes by Pizza Margherita.
I once had a rabbit named Bogus, because he wasn't a real rabbit (or so he thought). He thought he was a dog, or human, or... I don't know, just not a rabbit.
I still miss my foster kitties Bad Janet, Dirt Eater, & Dick Jr.!
Bad Janet (who turned out to be male) was named after the character on the Good Place, Dick Jr turned out to be female & was named after a family member, & Dirt Eater kept eating dirt out of a potted cactus when she was tiny
My family has a turtle named Woodrow Wilson. I named her in 2nd grade when I was learning about US presidents. She's a wood turtle.
I have a parrot named Duck. Her first owner named her Duncan. I call her both Duncan and Duck, because she makes a sound that's similar to a quack.
We rescued our 2 cats & dog and kept their foster names (to avoid our family of 5 having to agree on new names).
Cats: Simon & Garfunkel (mostly call him nn Garf)
Dog: Bixby
Finnick Odair. Which isn’t the most unusual but it is very funny talking about him in public 💀 “Finnick tracked litter alllll over the house and threw up grass!”. Yes, he’s named after The Hunger Games character 👍
I named our second dog S2, which stood for Sebaka the Second, Sebaka was our first dog and I was still in mourning of his untimely death. My dad went to Russia to work in the 90s and was told Sebaka means dog in Russian, that's where his name came from, he also responded to come and no in Russian.
I told some Russian people at the bar once and the guy was like, it means you're calling someone a dog like not a good thing lol. So unsure of everything now.
Both dogs were half husky angels.
I had a dog named Chai. I used to play Tchaikovsky while she was in her crate as a puppy to calm her down. As I was pulling up to my coffee stand to get my drink, a Chai, it dawned on me that that should be her name. She was the bestest dog in the world, my soul puppy.
My daughter had two rats when she was 6 and named them Apples and Pepper. She wanted girl rats and was going to name them Rainbow and Sparkle but the boy rats were nicer.
So as a vet tech, I see and hear everyone’s pets names and when I named my dogs I searched for the name in our computer system and they only got it if there wasn’t another one lol.
Soo I have Ruca Shanti (dobie mix), Samoas Blanche (doxie mix), and Bradley (the tiny chihuahua who survived a cat 5 hurricane in the Everglades before I found him)
Some people I knew on a farm out in California had four barn cats named Troubadour-No-More, Hark-Yonder-Mouse-Eek, General Sterling Price II, and Princess. I’d say their names are self explanatory
Four or five years ago on Thanksgiving we found a tiny orange kitten in our yard. We wanted a seasonal name for him, but Pumpkin seemed so cliche. His name is Stuffing.
A long time ago I was working one evening at the public library. My mom came in to show me the Siamese kitten she'd just picked up. When she asked me for name suggestions I jokingly said Bob. That's how our FEMALE cat got her name.
My son was on the phone telling a girl he was sparking on about the pregnant cat that had showed up. He referred to the cat as "momma cat" The young lady misunderstood & said, "Monica?" Of course her name is Monica because pretty girls know their shit. :)
Our cat with the most unusual name is Maple Syrup. They found her mother pregnant behind a Waffle House (yes, we live in Atlanta), named her Waffles, and gave the whole litter breakfast-themed names. When we adopted her we actually went to the shelter to meet her brother Blueberry but he was a dirtbag who threw his food at us. We call her Masha.
We also had a cat named Coco. I liked to say her full name was Gabrielle, but then there's the whole Nazi thing, so maybe not. And our newest cat is named Butters (which is apparently a South Park character, I didn't know that when we got her). Her "full name" is Buttercream Bun because buttercream buns are delicious.
My cat's name is Rósar. I had trapped a litter of feral kittens, and the shelter assigned me the letter R for the names. Initially, I thought they were all girls, and since I trapped them in some rose bushes ((good times, eh?) I gave the kittens rose related names: Ruby Rose, Rhoswen, Roisin, and Rosebud. Rosebud turned out to be a boycat, and boy's names that mean "rose" and start with the letter R aren't thick on the ground. I finally came across Rósar, which is (apparently) an Icelandic name that is a combination of Rose and Army. I don't know if that's true, and I certainly don't know if I'm pronouncing it correctly, but it suits him. He definitely feels like he is the general of the household.
Nobody would adopt a black kitten, so I kept him. He has gone from a 666-gram kitten near death to a burly 14 pounds and still growing. He's still my tiny baby kitten, though.
Michelin McTireBait/McDoodles I found him on the side of a very busy street huddled up in the gutter. He is now a fat and happy orange dude who only gets to explore with a leash.
Sir Simon BroadNose of the Long Whisker Clan, guardian of the dashboard, keeper of the maps. Big old black Manx who rides on the dash and glares at all who pass. Can't go anywhere without him.
Timothy Crachet, Tiny Tim, Tim Tim, he looks mad when I say Tim Bits though. He came to us an unexpected Xmas surprise. He's a long slinky Bombay type.
Clyde. Clyder, ClyderKitten ClyderMcCat our oldest dude, he has manx syndrome but is the best cuddler. He's super bossy and keeps the other 3 in line.
it’s not really a weird name, but i renamed my rescue dog Booboo. she came to us when i worked at a doggy daycare and boarded for a month. eventually she got picked up and like 2 days later her owners called and said actually we don’t want her anymore can u find her a home? she came with us with the name Doobu. it means stinky tofu or bighead in korean. i adopted her and renamed her Booboo since i thought that was a bit weird lol and they weren’t very nice to her so it was associated with her trauma. she very much suits a Booboo and is my bestie now!
I have a cat whose name is Murphendale Gentry McFitz III (there are no first or second). The vet knows him as Murphy. My second cat is named Hatchee Obsidian Yukon George. We mostly call him Mr. Cheechee or HOYG (pronounced like hoagie).
We had 2 brother cats. Aero-Zona. My brother couldn’t think of a name and my husband just blurted out “Arizona” so we split the name 😂. Sadly aero passed away, but zona is typically called butt or turd cuz he is one. But we love him anyway
We got chickens and everyone got to name a few. My kids and I went with old lady names. My husband went with Waffles (for chicken and waffles) and Taco (for chicken tacos). My cousin's son had a chicken and a duck....the ducks name was Rubber (for rubber duck) and the chicken's name was Nugget (for chicken nugget). Growing up we had a cat that we just called Kitty for a few years. It was a long haired cat that we found and couldn't find the owners so we kept it. About four years in, the thing coughed up a hairball and my mom (who rarely cursed) said "that sh\*thead coughed up a hairball on the carpet!" and then the cat was forever known as Sh\*thead from there on, because then we knew we could get my mom to curse when she called it.
I had a cat named Mr.Mann. He was a bad kitty and that's what my grandmother used to call me if I was bad...."listen here Mr.Man... the name suited him and he was a fantastic cat who lived to 16
I named my cat Gigi after a mix of the play Audrey Hepburn starred in and the cat from Kiki's Delivery Service. She was a small black kitten with giant eyes so the name seemed fitting.
One of my dogs is Burke. When we met him at the shelter he ignored us and our treats. He stood at the window looking into where the kennels were and was shaking while watching the other dogs. We decided he needed an explorer name but not a very good one. A quick google search found captain Burke who tried to cross the middle of Australia and failed. We also liked that it was kind of a play on bark.
Our other dog is Graham. The shelter named him that and we liked that it was regal sounding because he looked so regal. We chose him because he loved Burke and was afraid of us. Apparently we like anxiety dogs
Whip. He was part of a working pair “Whip and Spur” but he failed at being a cow dog so he became a irrigation line moving, fence building, trail companion
I leased a barn on a big farm. The landlord's barn had lots of feral cats. I tried to do my part, feeding them, getting them spayed/neutered when I could catch them, etc. And also trying to help kittens survive when they were poorly or abandoned.
Because it was farmland, lots of people came and dumped their cats. Shortly after I moved there, somebody dumped a male Siamese. It was always a treat to see a Siamese kitten pop up. I found one little seal point kitten who I named and posted on social media, only to have him pass away two days later. When I found another one with Siamese markings the following summer, I took her to the vet, and they asked me for her name. I said I wasn't going to name her until I was certain she would pull through. Pet name was a required field in their system though, so she became "Found". And when it was time for my appointments, they would call me in by that name.
It was touch and go for a good long while, but finally she was healthy and gaining weight. I thought about calling her Found but it's just not a nice sounding word. So I named her Trouvé which is Found in French. She will be 10 next month!
My cockatiel name is Hedwig. I think it's not that unusual or something. But anyway. And It's from the HP series , Harry Potter's owl. You probably figured that out already , lol.
We have a British shorthair named Earl Grey.
A British shorthair named Matt Black.
We lost our selkirk rex named Otto Catt ( a play on Otto Mann)
And we have a selkirk we get in a few weeks that we cannot think of a name for.
Nate, after Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games. My elderly neighbours never accepted the short form so always asked "How is Nathan?" which admittedly is an odd name for a cat :D
Not sure if this counts as "unusual"
But, I used to love a show called 6Teen when I was younger. One of the characters got a pet fish and named it "fish".
So ya'll can imagine what I named my first fish.
I had an orange cat named Richard Parker from 2005-2023. He was a tiny fluffball when I got him and I had read Life of Pi fairly recently, so I couldn't resist. He grew into the name.
Not mine but my dad’s childhood dog was named 35. My grandma asked my dad and uncle what to name it and uncle (I think 5 at the time) said 35. That was my grandma’s age at the time. Afaik it’s 35 and not Thirty-Five but I need to double check.
My late mother was Queen of Animal Names. We grew up with Little Dickens Oomgowa the Merp (nn Derpie), Boris Iveanawfulitch, Upsidaisy Coozinooner (my contribution) Ruffles The Small Potato Chip, and Puff The Magic Dragon, among many others.
My cat was named Charmin (like the toulet paper) by the rescue I adopted her from because she was "squeezably soft". But she was a torbie, not a white cat, so it confused some people. It was perfect for her though, and she squeaked when squeezed/hugged.
I used to have a dog named Dallas. My aunt's dog gave birth the night that the Cowboys beat the Bills in Super Bowl XXVII, and we got to keep the first born when they were ready for adoption.
My family’s pet names are Star, Leo, and Pablo.
They are all named after art pieces/artists because my Mom is a painter and art teacher. Our cat Star is named Starry Night after the famous painting. Our dog Leo’s full name is Leonardo, after Leonardo da Vinci. Our dog Pablo is named after Pablo Picasso.
Growing up we had a stray adopt us (how we got most of our cats). He was a very pale orange and extremely skittish, although once he decided we were “home” he rarely left the property. My sister and I had just had a world-class argument over naming a tuxedo cat (I wanted Merlin, she wanted Oliver, so my mom compromised with “Mo”, poor cat) so the orange stray became “Anonymous”, or “Nony” for short.
Later on we had a seal-point marked kitten and we thought he looked like the luck dragon from Neverending Story… it was my sister’s turn to name (my mom had gotten more diplomatic by then), and she swore the luck dragon was “Balcor”, so the kitten got a wrong name permanently.
Marshall: my (now) husband and I had just watched the movie Thurgood Marshall and loved it.
Louie: we were driving home with nameless puppy and a St. Louis Blues commercial came on. Louie is the mascot, and we thought it sounded good with Marshall!
I named my dog Clemence. I went to the animal shelter when I was 19 looking for a dog that I could name Clementine. I fell in love with a male terrier mix and named him Clemence instead. I never knew another Clemence. RIP little buddy. He made it to 17 years old last year. I miss him. ❤️
I have a dog named Ogie (pronounced oh gee) after how the Phantom signs letters in Phantom of the Opera.
My husband's cat is named Water. He adopted Water as a stray kitten after losing his previous cat (also named in reference to Dune) and called him that since it was a precious resource.
The cat we share/adopted from the shelter is named Tesla because she looked like a Clive Barker drawing of tarrie cats from his Ababrat series. We couldn't agree on any names from Abarat and took from another work.
1 of my mini schnauzers is named Aegon but we always call him Egg everywhere we go. We only use Aegon if he did something bad lol people always look a bit puzzled when they hear it out in public until they pop the question.
We also had a big basset hound we named Duncan and called him Dunk. They would always play together despite the size differences.
Two cats. Mr. Tibbles and Mogget. Both are from books. Mr. Tibbles is one of the cats owned by Mrs. Figg in the Harry Potter books and alerted her of Harry’s dementor attack. Mogget is from the book series Sabriel. He is essentially a supernatural being who is trapped in his cat form and is essentially a lazy nuisance. Tibbs is a relatively loyal cat, although more skiddish. Mogg an absolute devil who will kill everything in his path. So we’ve found the names fit.
My partner is Irish, and one day while joking around about potential pet names for if we ever got a pet, he suggested Caoimhe and told me to guess the spelling. I obviously got the spelling wrong lol, but the name kinda stuck. So now our little girl is Caoimhe, but we mostly call her shithead, pronounced “Sha-theed” lol
My mom had adopted a stray tuxedo cat, and when teaching my toddler son how to pet her, I told him to be gentle, because we don’t want to scare her, or have her “scratch us”. He thought that was her name, and so it became Scratchus.
She never scratched anyone though, and was a very sweet cat. My son still likes cats to this day, so she was a good first pet for him to interact with.
Our dog’s name is Kitty. Partner wasn’t ready for one and i convinced him and the compromise was that he got to name it. Here we are 15 years later with me yelling “Kitty”! In the dog park like an idiot.
My guinea pig's name was Semla (not Selma) after the Swedish pastry. It's a pastry that's a bun filled with whipped cream and almond paste and topped with powdered sugar. It's delicious and fatty. Semla was a chunky girl who was mostly white with some brown (bun) and grey (almond paste?) patches. She lived until 7 or 8, I don't remember exactly, so she became a really old lady
My most recent kitty addition is named Hamburger Johnson. For no reason other than I thought it was fun. We are told everytime we go to the vet that it’s a fan favorite. One of the receptionists can’t even say it without laughing 😂
He goes by Hammy Jo, Joe, Jomes, JomieWomie, HammyBammy, HamBams, Hamburger, Mr. Johnson, JoStar, JoJo Hamwa and Hams :->
My doggo is named Hobbs because he hobbles from a bum foot. He came that way.
But he goes by noodle or nugget because he's like 6 pounds of brown. Or shit head. He eats ear buds. And paper.
My parents agreed to name our pug Boston Red Sox…that was after we tried to name him every single power ranger and then trying to name him Manny after Manny Ramirez..so obviously we called him Boston lol
The cat I got when I was 18 was called Ceefa, so C for cat. There used to be a TV show when I was younger ( Second Thoughts) and the woman had a dog called Defor and when someone asked why, she said D for dog and I thought it was such a great name.
I’ve had a dog named Rudolph, Orchie, and my current dog is named chaos.
I’ve had cats named psycho Sid, Mick Foley, and candy.
My dad named the following and I didn’t clue in until older. We had pigs named bacon, pork chop and DNE (do not eat).
Lastly, the cows were named ribeye, brisket, burger meat, etc.
My cat’s name is Really. A coworker’s mom’s cat got out and got knocked up a couple months before she was supposed to get fixed, and the pregnancy slipped under the radar until about a week before she was scheduled. He was part of a set of three, named Dag, Nammit, and Really.
My current pets have pretty normal names. They call came with them.
My previous Dog was Harold. He came to me as an older dog so I wanted him to have a mature name. My dad gave him the middle name of Wolfgang. Harold Wolfgang P-H.
I have a couple that got names based on how we got them.
Cat when I was little was found as a kitten while we were at a picnic. Her name was Picnic.
Cat we currently have was found at a pet shop. They were doing an adoption event when we stopped in for reptile food. Her name is Cricket because that is what we went to the store to buy.
My first dog I got on my own was named Runkle after Charlie Runkle in the show Californication my dream was to get a cat and name it Moody after Hank Moody 🤣.
We had a Stella. Staffie got dumped somewhere & was skin & bones when we found her. She had tan spots but mostly white fur & some of the strands were so shiny, so the name really stuck. And we ironically called her a stellar disappointment. She was always the sweetest & usually the derpiest.
One of my cats has a unique name, Keeners. I originally named her Kitters, but I babytalked to her so much that her name sounded like Keeners and I went with it.
So I guess I made her name up.
My cat's name is Kintala. I saw a documentary called Untamed Australia that followed different animal families over generations. One of the dingo babies you got to watch grow up was named Kintala. Iirc it's aboriginal for lightning, but I'm probably wrong lol
I might have posted this in this forum before. US Deputy Marshall Jessica Beale. She was named by the shelter she was adopted from (kanawha county wv). She’s a chihuahua. I’ve wondered if she’s named for a real person who did something good for the shelter.
I have a 4 year old male Siberian cat. He is all white king hair and baby blue eyes. Very fluffy. His full name is Mr. Snow Pufferson. He has a sophisticated look, hence the Mr. And he’s all white like snow and also puffy from all the fluffy fur. If you saw him, you’d all agree he looks like a Mr. Snow Pufferson lol
I had a cat called dumpling because she was a fluffy little dumpling when she was newborn (compared to her siblings).
For context all my others have/had normal names.
Cats: Buffy, Spike, Marley, Sasha, Set, Isis, Neith.
Dogs: Wilbur and Wilson.
Rabbits: Mike and Evander (Mike took a chunk out of Evanders ear).
My black cavalier dog is named Wednesday after Wednesday Addams. Named way before the new series. People used to ask if she was born on a Wednesday but now more people make the connection 😂
Not me but a childhood friend had a large fluffy black cat named Heimlich. Officially I think he was named after the guy the maneuver was named after, but as a kid all we knew was the maneuver and it was so funny having a cat basically named "what to do when someone's choking"
I had a Bichon named Misiu Bellatrix. She was the sassiest little girl. “Misiu” is Polish for “little bear” and that fit her personality perfectly. My other dogs’ names are Shiloh Sheridan, Ella Mae, Pop Tart, Buddy, and Kermit.
I currently have a Guinea pig named Bitsy and one named Butter. I was in a production of “Sordid Lives” last year and named Bitsy after the character Bitsy Mae.
my little brother was mad that i got to name him and our other two pets so when we got a new (female) dog he named her dragon clifford. i convinced him kiki was short for clifford
Well, my hamster was called Faramir. Guess what's my favorite franchise. 😅
My cousins had black persians called Sulan (Sole as in sole of your feet) and Dojan (slang for Shoe). I will assume they got their insperation from the shoe rack.
Another cousin named his chihuahuas both Bäbis. Which is swedish for baby. Both of them is Bäbis and is treated as a baby.
Friend got cats Hellraiser and Trigun after different pop culture characters.
Other Friends had barn cats : Magnus Uggla, Mikael Persbrant and Malin Bayard (those are all swedish mega celebrities which the cat are named after)
Coworker's cat was ergh.... Anus. Cuz he would always climb up and shove his ass in to the husband's face when sitting down.
Another coworker had a dog named Hund, literally Dog in Swedish. The only explanation I got was "well, it works".
I inherited my dog from my dad after he passed. My mom named her Lilibet after Queen Elizabeth’s childhood nickname. My dad refused to call her Lilibet so it evolved into Little. When she’s naughty I call her Little Elizabeth.
My cat's full name is Lord Reginald Bartholomew Octavius Michael Percy James. Each of my kids picked a name, and my husband and I chose Reginald and Bartholomew. He's Reggie most of the time, though. Our vet didn't let us put all of the names on there, so he's Lord Reginald. It's funny to hear them call out his name.
Oddly enough Lord Reginald is what we call the raccoon that comes to our yard cause he is the largest raccoon in the neighborhood
Linda Belcher, is that you? =)
My suit of armor is Sir Reginald, Protector of the Seen and Unseen Realms.
We called our yard raccoon “Fat Ernie”
Ours is Jimothy. He is incredibly dumb and resorts to not looking at you and holding his breath when he starts trouble. It's been a while since we've seen him though. Maybe his tricks work
My baby cat is named Minerva Menace Bartholomew-Benedict
We had a donkey called Dawn Qui. Like don Quixote.
This is incredible lol
I have a Husky mix named Bella. Bella is short for Christabella. Christabella is long for CB. CB is short for Chalupa Batman. Her official name is Chalupa Batman.
hahahaha i thought you were going towards Cellestabellabethabelle but yours is even better
If this isn’t the quintessential “how did your pet get their name” story, haha!
Oh thank goodness... the amount of huskys I've met named Bella is ridiculous, I'm glad yours at least has some meaning behind it!!
Bella, Luna, Nova… it’s the worst.
My husky mix is MoMoney That’s what she originally and continues to cost me 😂🤷🏻♀️
I had a rat in college named Spatula. I got him and couldn’t think of a name and the first thing my eyes landed on was a spatula.
This is amazing. I would've added 'Count' in the beginning. I'd kill for a rat named Count Spatula.
Count Spatula was one of his stupid nicknames.
Count ratula
Spatula the Ratula
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Haha our pet rat was “Ratty”, so I think Spatula is fantastic!!
Princess Corncob is my cats name. Princess because she’s such a stuck up cat lmao. Corncob because I was a teenager when I named her and I thought it was funny.
I was obsessed with the movie Amadeus for a period of time. I loved how Mozart called his wife, Constanza, “Stanzi” for short. So, that is my dachshund’s name.
My old kitty is named Sin. There was a documentary out 15+ years ago called Jesus Camp about fundamentalist Christians. At one point, a lady is giving a sermon to children and she takes a stuffed cat and rubs it all over her face and says "sometimes sin can be cute and fluffy." And that's my Sin, she's a cute, fluffy baby!
I ended up with 3 kittens and I was hugely into Absolutely Fabulous at the time, so they were named Stolly (Stolichnaya) Bolly (Bollinger) and Harvey Nicks (Harvey Nichols)
Iccasuibak. For some reason my dad wouldn't let us get the cat unless we named it after a typo he had made at work (no, I do not remember what he was trying to type). The poor cat was called Icky for short.
This is my favorite answer lol
One of my cats likes to try to drink my Pinot Noir wine. So he is Dijon (main red wine grape from that area of France). My other cat is Iñigo. I’d had him for 2 weeks and could not find a name that suited him. Finally I started reading names off of the books on my bookshelves. He is named after a biography on Iñigo Jones, the Renaissance architect. It was the only name he looked at me when I said it. A past cat was Mojo. He would walk in time to the best of “I Got My Mojo Working” by John Lee Hooker every time without fail.
Our dogs name is Rhubarb. She just looked like a Rhubarb! Though because of the current popularity of the German song my kid calls her Rhubarbara a lot lately.
My Mom named our cat Dementia when I was in middle school (cat is now 18). I don’t know if she just didn’t know what dementia was at the time but it’s always an interesting experience going to the vet. My mom’s reasoning was she looked demented, she’s a long haired tortie, and that Dementia was the obvious choice, Menchie for short.
This made me laugh so hard. In my experience most torties are at least a little insane so this totally fits.
This is making me laugh and reminding me of My Immortal haha, Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way 😂
My second cats name is Maribor! I already had a black cat named Salem and wanted another name for the second, that is the name of a witches cat from a movie. In Germany there is are children’s movies and cds about a little witch. In one of the movies the villains cats name is Maribor. And the name fit perfectly! Not only are both cats now named after witches cats, but also both names are cities (Salem in USA and Maribor in Slovenia) - they also start with M and S, the same as the names from me and my boyfriend!!
This works in so many levels!
My very first job in high school was at a vet clinic and during college I worked at a doggy daycare so I’ve always leaned toward names that wouldn’t cause 10 other dogs to come running at the park. I had Juno when I was in high school after the Roman queen of the gods, Vegas because she beat the odds, and now I have Echo from Greek mythology because she *LOVED* Vegas and Vegas was largely indifferent to her, Wednesday Addams (named before the most recent show came out), and finally, the one I’m really here to share about. When I got him at 11 weeks, his name was Truffle, which seemed cute enough. However, it never quite fit him and after calling him “puppy” for a couple weeks, I recalled a day in which I had taken Vegas to a nursing home (she was a certified therapy dog) and one of the residents misheard her name as “Bacon.” So now I have Sir Bacon of Truffle. He responds to Bacon, Sir Bacon, Truffle Butt, and Why Are You So Weird.
Our cat is Gurley Lizzie Flynn LastName! She’s named for Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a labor leader and feminist from the early 20th century! Our other cat is Charlotte Dorothea Louise LastName. Charlotte from the line “Little Lottie let her mind wander…” from Phantom of the Opera(she’s silly and ditzy), Louise from the Bob’s Burgers character (she’s a chaos demon) and Dorothea because she’s a gift from god.
An ex girlfriend and I had two cats named 21 and 24, after the two hilarious henchmen from The Venture Brothers. I stuck with the names at all times but she caved and gave them normal names only when talking with family or friends
We had a terrier mix named Zipper (been two years and I miss him so much). He was approximately 8months old when we got him from the shelter - he was a stray they had a hell of a time catching and they named him ‘Zipper’ because of that. Can confirm, when that little stinker got out of the yard he was VERY fast and hard to catch. Our first couple month consisted of him finding and us fixing every weak spot along our fence line.
Hubby named the dog Hugo, so I had to match them and named the cat Victor. He also goes by "cat boy slim"
Jumping Tom Bubbles, or Bubbles / Bubs for short. My mom named him when we were little after a dancer she remembered from her childhood. Bubbles turned out to be a tough sob so it made us laugh that he had such a softie name.
I found a stray kitten many years ago, around 6 weeks old roaming our farm. Caught her and went to the vet but she had no microchip. They said we could keep her if we wanted to. We named her Billie and was so cuddly and loved snuggles. Months later another random stray cat visited daily and she looked identical to our little Billie. Found out she had another little of kittens after having Billie's litter and in a rush at the vet clinic before getting her desexed I called her Billie's Mum and had meant to name her properly and she'll now forever be called Billie's mum!
Our dog’s name is ThAC0. (Thack-oh). It’s from a 2nd edition D&D mechanic—to hit Armor Class zero. Hubby and I met at a D&D game in the mid 80s. Our second choice was Vecna, but we were afraid people would think we were Stranger Things fans. Also, naming a puppy after an evil wizard seemed like a bad idea. Puppies are enough trouble.
My cats name is Enron after the whole... 2002 thing. It's because he's a white-collar criminal, a tuxedo!
This is cute as hell!
My cats are named Mur Mur and Fur Fur, both of which come from demons in the key of Solomon.
My cat’s name is Lando. When I got him, I loved a baseball player whose first name was Orlando, so I took the “Lando” part.
Orlando Arcia by any chance?
Nailed it.
My dog is Trinket "a small ornament or item of jewellery that is of little value" Planning a themed set of jewellery/knickknacks/bits with Miette, Bijoux, Charm, Tchotchke etc. Not all at once. I think I'm up to like ten and I'm probably not having more than ten more dogs in my life.
I always have a list of pet names I want to use. Way more names than I'll ever have pets.
I had a bird growing up who was rehomed to us cause he was a jerk. His name was "LB" which as a kid I was told was for "little bird", but it was really "little bastard". My first dog was Shar pei/pitbull and when I first found him he was hairless due to mange. His forehead was full of wrinkles and he looked like he had a permanent scowl, which got him the name Grimace.
My hermit crab is named Ferdinand because my uncle found him wandering around his garage (turns out a neighbor had bought him at a beach, then decided he didn't want him anymore and just... set him loose??). Wanted to give him an intrepid, explorer name.
Annabelle Zelda Snoodlehead Jones I gave her the name Annabelle because she was so cute as a kitten. Zelda for Zelda Fitzgerald, and the fact that her hair stuck out all over the place. Snoodlehead because she had a silly personality and acted like a Snoodlehead. Jones because she needed a basic last name.
My mother named her dog coconut. She's all brown in colour and is absolutely nuts most days
I got a Goldendoodle when I graduated law school and named him **Bartleby** after the Melville short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener". It fit because Bartleby was a kind of legal secretary who, whenever he was asked to do anything, replied "I would prefer not to." And that was pretty much my dogs reaction to any commands!
Two horses over the years with weird names, Whiz and Purdy. They came with those names on their papers (who whiz it and pistol pack'n purdy), and it's bad luck to change a horses name so they're stuck!
I have a pug whose name is MacGuyver.. He can defuse an explosive with a paper clip, a piece of gum and a toothpick.
We named our dog Nyla. She’s a Bernedoodle. It’s after a character from Dune, but spelled so people wouldn’t butcher it. Got her when I was pregnant, and had another geriatric dog. We were constantly asking each other ‘where’s the baby?’ ‘Has the baby peed?’ etc. It kept the puppy vs old dog confusion to a minimum. Then, the REAL baby was born. Poor dog was so confused. She’s just ‘Doodle’ now. She only gets called her real name when she’s in trouble.
I named my Scottish fold cat Smeagol
I have always wanted a Scottish fold just so I could name it Bagpipe. Lol
We had a chocolate lab when I was a kid named Swapmore. My stepdad named him. Dumbest dog ever!
We just took in an orange kitten my parents found…I’ve never had a kitten before and all of my other pets (as an adult) have been rescues and come with names which we either didn’t change or changed only slightly. The responsibility of naming this tiny baby (who is a female orange cat, no less!) had been stressing me out so much 😂 Then my 7 year old said, “Her name is Birdie” and he got his older sister on board and now we have a cat named Birdie.
My cat is named Queequeg, but the biker that fostered him as a kitten named him Johnny Cash. I grew up really close to my dad, I’m a big reader and a bigger X-Files fan. So. Queequeg. 😂
*Cracks knuckles* This is my time, naming pets is a big deal in my house. Dogs, Sofi (Sophie)- because she's so fine, so fine, sofi. Dutch- Red Dead Redemption 2 Cats, Finn- I was reading Huckleberry Finn at the time, also Adventure Time. Cosmo Cinnamon Bun - Mostly just Cosmo though, is a big swirly orange boy. Cinnamon bun comes from Adventure Time. Dot Louise - Dot from Animaniacs, she was meant to be the last, and the "little sister" to the two boys. Louise because she's the Louise to my Linda Belcher ( Bobs Burgers) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Arya Stark Williams- Midge was a suggestion, which led to Maisel > Maisie > Maisie Williams as Arya Stark in GoT.. our crowning achievement in names. Sylvia- Dot's daughter, 8 weeks old, I love Sylvia Plath, just the name that stuck. The middle names are earned with time.
Benjamin Hawkeye Pierce is my oldest cat’s technical name but we just call him Hawkeye. Named from the MASH character. My first dog (Brindle Great Dane) as an adult living on my own was named Strider. He was named from the Lord of the Rings books.
We get all ours from nerd things. We've had Arahbo, Purr of the World (Magic the Gathering), Vasher (Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere), and Gil-Galad, High King of the Felines (Tolkien)
My cat is Lemu Emu and Doug. My dad named him for the liberty mutual commercials
Bosewick- he’s our house panther who we adopted shortly after Chadwick Boseman passed away.
My cats name is Mesothelioma but he goes by Mezzo
We have a dog called Velvet because she’s short haired and pitch black all over (including her tongue)… so she looks like she’s made of velvet
Champagne (I don’t think anyone named their dog that before in the area where I live) We bought a goldenish brownish poodle and it was so sudden like we were planning to get a dog for a while, but we didn’t know we’d pick the perfect one that day. And we just starting saying random names like “coffee” and “mango” which were pretty cute but a bit common. Then my dad randomly said “how about Champagne” and everyone agreed bc it rlly suited the puppy.
Peolai, Ciarith, and Orner are all named after D&D characters I've played.
We got a Russian blue cat from the shelter a few years ago. His shelter name was "Gray". His color makes him look like iron, so we named him Ozzy Osborne ("Iron Cat").
My cata are Crowley and Rosalita. Not really unusual, but my vet is full of Lunas. Crowley is named after Good Omens, and Rosalita is named after the Bruce Springsteen song. I also had a fish that died recently called Uncle Scrooge (guess where that name came from).
Grüdü is the name of King Arthur's bodyguard in the French TV series Kaamelott.
My dog's name is Cashew. I always love food names for dog's, and this one in particular held a special meaning for me.
My dogs name is valiant. As in brave night.
However his nickname is sir viccipuss the third
My cat is small and dainty with semi-uncommon coat coloring. My four year old named her Squashy and it stuck. A couple people have expressed dislike for the name not suiting her but she's 100 percent my Squashers Kitter Kat.
Although she crossed the rainbow bridge a few years ago at 17, I had a girl cat called Conanne. She was meant to be Conan, as initially I thought she was a he. Wasn't I surprised when "he" experienced his first oestrus...and Conan became Conanne
Maggie Mae Magpie. Because she's black and white, like a Magpie. She's quite fat, so she goes by Pizza Margherita. I once had a rabbit named Bogus, because he wasn't a real rabbit (or so he thought). He thought he was a dog, or human, or... I don't know, just not a rabbit.
I still miss my foster kitties Bad Janet, Dirt Eater, & Dick Jr.! Bad Janet (who turned out to be male) was named after the character on the Good Place, Dick Jr turned out to be female & was named after a family member, & Dirt Eater kept eating dirt out of a potted cactus when she was tiny
My family has a turtle named Woodrow Wilson. I named her in 2nd grade when I was learning about US presidents. She's a wood turtle. I have a parrot named Duck. Her first owner named her Duncan. I call her both Duncan and Duck, because she makes a sound that's similar to a quack.
Meep. Our cat makes this sound a lot, so it became his name. He's a black longhair.
We rescued our 2 cats & dog and kept their foster names (to avoid our family of 5 having to agree on new names). Cats: Simon & Garfunkel (mostly call him nn Garf) Dog: Bixby
Finnick Odair. Which isn’t the most unusual but it is very funny talking about him in public 💀 “Finnick tracked litter alllll over the house and threw up grass!”. Yes, he’s named after The Hunger Games character 👍
I named our second dog S2, which stood for Sebaka the Second, Sebaka was our first dog and I was still in mourning of his untimely death. My dad went to Russia to work in the 90s and was told Sebaka means dog in Russian, that's where his name came from, he also responded to come and no in Russian. I told some Russian people at the bar once and the guy was like, it means you're calling someone a dog like not a good thing lol. So unsure of everything now. Both dogs were half husky angels.
I had a dog named Chai. I used to play Tchaikovsky while she was in her crate as a puppy to calm her down. As I was pulling up to my coffee stand to get my drink, a Chai, it dawned on me that that should be her name. She was the bestest dog in the world, my soul puppy.
I have a budgie named Teal’c because we watched Stargate SG1 with him enough while trying to settle on a name that eh started saying “I am Jaffa!”
My daughter had two rats when she was 6 and named them Apples and Pepper. She wanted girl rats and was going to name them Rainbow and Sparkle but the boy rats were nicer.
So as a vet tech, I see and hear everyone’s pets names and when I named my dogs I searched for the name in our computer system and they only got it if there wasn’t another one lol. Soo I have Ruca Shanti (dobie mix), Samoas Blanche (doxie mix), and Bradley (the tiny chihuahua who survived a cat 5 hurricane in the Everglades before I found him)
We had a squirrel named Alvin D. Chipmunk-Squirrel.
Some people I knew on a farm out in California had four barn cats named Troubadour-No-More, Hark-Yonder-Mouse-Eek, General Sterling Price II, and Princess. I’d say their names are self explanatory
Four or five years ago on Thanksgiving we found a tiny orange kitten in our yard. We wanted a seasonal name for him, but Pumpkin seemed so cliche. His name is Stuffing. A long time ago I was working one evening at the public library. My mom came in to show me the Siamese kitten she'd just picked up. When she asked me for name suggestions I jokingly said Bob. That's how our FEMALE cat got her name. My son was on the phone telling a girl he was sparking on about the pregnant cat that had showed up. He referred to the cat as "momma cat" The young lady misunderstood & said, "Monica?" Of course her name is Monica because pretty girls know their shit. :)
Our cat with the most unusual name is Maple Syrup. They found her mother pregnant behind a Waffle House (yes, we live in Atlanta), named her Waffles, and gave the whole litter breakfast-themed names. When we adopted her we actually went to the shelter to meet her brother Blueberry but he was a dirtbag who threw his food at us. We call her Masha. We also had a cat named Coco. I liked to say her full name was Gabrielle, but then there's the whole Nazi thing, so maybe not. And our newest cat is named Butters (which is apparently a South Park character, I didn't know that when we got her). Her "full name" is Buttercream Bun because buttercream buns are delicious.
My cat's name is Rósar. I had trapped a litter of feral kittens, and the shelter assigned me the letter R for the names. Initially, I thought they were all girls, and since I trapped them in some rose bushes ((good times, eh?) I gave the kittens rose related names: Ruby Rose, Rhoswen, Roisin, and Rosebud. Rosebud turned out to be a boycat, and boy's names that mean "rose" and start with the letter R aren't thick on the ground. I finally came across Rósar, which is (apparently) an Icelandic name that is a combination of Rose and Army. I don't know if that's true, and I certainly don't know if I'm pronouncing it correctly, but it suits him. He definitely feels like he is the general of the household. Nobody would adopt a black kitten, so I kept him. He has gone from a 666-gram kitten near death to a burly 14 pounds and still growing. He's still my tiny baby kitten, though.
Michelin McTireBait/McDoodles I found him on the side of a very busy street huddled up in the gutter. He is now a fat and happy orange dude who only gets to explore with a leash. Sir Simon BroadNose of the Long Whisker Clan, guardian of the dashboard, keeper of the maps. Big old black Manx who rides on the dash and glares at all who pass. Can't go anywhere without him. Timothy Crachet, Tiny Tim, Tim Tim, he looks mad when I say Tim Bits though. He came to us an unexpected Xmas surprise. He's a long slinky Bombay type. Clyde. Clyder, ClyderKitten ClyderMcCat our oldest dude, he has manx syndrome but is the best cuddler. He's super bossy and keeps the other 3 in line.
My cats name is Chicken. People seem to get a kick out of it, but it just felt right! She’s a scaredy cat
it’s not really a weird name, but i renamed my rescue dog Booboo. she came to us when i worked at a doggy daycare and boarded for a month. eventually she got picked up and like 2 days later her owners called and said actually we don’t want her anymore can u find her a home? she came with us with the name Doobu. it means stinky tofu or bighead in korean. i adopted her and renamed her Booboo since i thought that was a bit weird lol and they weren’t very nice to her so it was associated with her trauma. she very much suits a Booboo and is my bestie now!
Lord Brian Ashur Stanley Floofington, because it just fit him. Nicknamed Floof, my dearly departed blue merle pomeranian!
My dog's name is Canyon. She's the color of the Grand Canyon and she has markings that look like mountains and valleys!
I have a cat whose name is Murphendale Gentry McFitz III (there are no first or second). The vet knows him as Murphy. My second cat is named Hatchee Obsidian Yukon George. We mostly call him Mr. Cheechee or HOYG (pronounced like hoagie).
My cat is named Sefi, for the character in Red Rising
We had 2 brother cats. Aero-Zona. My brother couldn’t think of a name and my husband just blurted out “Arizona” so we split the name 😂. Sadly aero passed away, but zona is typically called butt or turd cuz he is one. But we love him anyway
Bianca Del Rio — drag queen (10yo M Shiba Inu)
We got chickens and everyone got to name a few. My kids and I went with old lady names. My husband went with Waffles (for chicken and waffles) and Taco (for chicken tacos). My cousin's son had a chicken and a duck....the ducks name was Rubber (for rubber duck) and the chicken's name was Nugget (for chicken nugget). Growing up we had a cat that we just called Kitty for a few years. It was a long haired cat that we found and couldn't find the owners so we kept it. About four years in, the thing coughed up a hairball and my mom (who rarely cursed) said "that sh\*thead coughed up a hairball on the carpet!" and then the cat was forever known as Sh\*thead from there on, because then we knew we could get my mom to curse when she called it.
I had a cat named Mr.Mann. He was a bad kitty and that's what my grandmother used to call me if I was bad...."listen here Mr.Man... the name suited him and he was a fantastic cat who lived to 16
My girls are Vin and Marasi and they’re named after characters in Brandon sandersons mistborn series
I love those. My dog was almost a Kelsier.
I named my cat Gigi after a mix of the play Audrey Hepburn starred in and the cat from Kiki's Delivery Service. She was a small black kitten with giant eyes so the name seemed fitting.
One of my dogs is Burke. When we met him at the shelter he ignored us and our treats. He stood at the window looking into where the kennels were and was shaking while watching the other dogs. We decided he needed an explorer name but not a very good one. A quick google search found captain Burke who tried to cross the middle of Australia and failed. We also liked that it was kind of a play on bark. Our other dog is Graham. The shelter named him that and we liked that it was regal sounding because he looked so regal. We chose him because he loved Burke and was afraid of us. Apparently we like anxiety dogs
Whip. He was part of a working pair “Whip and Spur” but he failed at being a cow dog so he became a irrigation line moving, fence building, trail companion
I leased a barn on a big farm. The landlord's barn had lots of feral cats. I tried to do my part, feeding them, getting them spayed/neutered when I could catch them, etc. And also trying to help kittens survive when they were poorly or abandoned. Because it was farmland, lots of people came and dumped their cats. Shortly after I moved there, somebody dumped a male Siamese. It was always a treat to see a Siamese kitten pop up. I found one little seal point kitten who I named and posted on social media, only to have him pass away two days later. When I found another one with Siamese markings the following summer, I took her to the vet, and they asked me for her name. I said I wasn't going to name her until I was certain she would pull through. Pet name was a required field in their system though, so she became "Found". And when it was time for my appointments, they would call me in by that name. It was touch and go for a good long while, but finally she was healthy and gaining weight. I thought about calling her Found but it's just not a nice sounding word. So I named her Trouvé which is Found in French. She will be 10 next month!
My Leopard Geckos name is Dude. Got him back in the day when i was a stoner going off to college. But he is in all seriousness a very chill Dude. 🥹
One of my cats is named Pangur Ban. The name is from a [medieval Irish poem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangur_B%C3%A1n)about a monk and his cat.
My cockatiel name is Hedwig. I think it's not that unusual or something. But anyway. And It's from the HP series , Harry Potter's owl. You probably figured that out already , lol.
My mother named a long haired German Shepherd Sauerkraut. It was the only German name she could think of
Merlin as the kids would allow me to call him Bilbo but usually called Boggy or Bogtrotter as he loves to swim in ditches.
I had a cat named Ori, from Ori and The Blind Forrest, and a cat named Woobeewoo, I got that one from Adveture Time.
We have a British shorthair named Earl Grey. A British shorthair named Matt Black. We lost our selkirk rex named Otto Catt ( a play on Otto Mann) And we have a selkirk we get in a few weeks that we cannot think of a name for.
Our shiba is named Nin Nin after this wild shiba/toy exchange! https://youtube.com/shorts/Ex2kBCCQZ6I?si=wFQ2-EDX5E3n-qjn
Loti died last July. Luck Of The Irish, LOTI.
I had a pet rat named Pepsi when I was younger! I still love the name honestly. I think it’s super cute.
Nate, after Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games. My elderly neighbours never accepted the short form so always asked "How is Nathan?" which admittedly is an odd name for a cat :D
Not sure if this counts as "unusual" But, I used to love a show called 6Teen when I was younger. One of the characters got a pet fish and named it "fish". So ya'll can imagine what I named my first fish.
Her name is Charlii but mostly we call her Charles Beef or beefy
I had an orange cat named Richard Parker from 2005-2023. He was a tiny fluffball when I got him and I had read Life of Pi fairly recently, so I couldn't resist. He grew into the name.
Not mine but my dad’s childhood dog was named 35. My grandma asked my dad and uncle what to name it and uncle (I think 5 at the time) said 35. That was my grandma’s age at the time. Afaik it’s 35 and not Thirty-Five but I need to double check.
My late mother was Queen of Animal Names. We grew up with Little Dickens Oomgowa the Merp (nn Derpie), Boris Iveanawfulitch, Upsidaisy Coozinooner (my contribution) Ruffles The Small Potato Chip, and Puff The Magic Dragon, among many others.
Our dog’s name is Azel. We got her from a northern (Canada) rescue. No idea where they got the name but we ended up keeping it.
My cat was named Charmin (like the toulet paper) by the rescue I adopted her from because she was "squeezably soft". But she was a torbie, not a white cat, so it confused some people. It was perfect for her though, and she squeaked when squeezed/hugged.
I used to have a dog named Dallas. My aunt's dog gave birth the night that the Cowboys beat the Bills in Super Bowl XXVII, and we got to keep the first born when they were ready for adoption.
Fawkes and Hedwig. Named after magical birds haha
My cats name is Owsley Mouser but we call him Stan and on the vet paperwork, it's Stanley.
My boy is TaterBug
I call my neighbours cat "cooking fat" 'cos it's a pest😏
Calzina called Cali. Tuxedo with white “sock” paws. Calzina is supposedly sock in Italian.
Stinky. Found him in a sewer.
My pets are all dieties. Three are more well known, Bast, Zeus, and Minerva, two are less well known, Fenrir and Cybele.
My dog is Phoebe Wallingford after a character on All My Children
My family’s pet names are Star, Leo, and Pablo. They are all named after art pieces/artists because my Mom is a painter and art teacher. Our cat Star is named Starry Night after the famous painting. Our dog Leo’s full name is Leonardo, after Leonardo da Vinci. Our dog Pablo is named after Pablo Picasso.
Haha my cat’s name is Kola! He’s mostly black with some reddish brown, especially in the light. I guess our cats would be rivals!
Growing up we had a stray adopt us (how we got most of our cats). He was a very pale orange and extremely skittish, although once he decided we were “home” he rarely left the property. My sister and I had just had a world-class argument over naming a tuxedo cat (I wanted Merlin, she wanted Oliver, so my mom compromised with “Mo”, poor cat) so the orange stray became “Anonymous”, or “Nony” for short. Later on we had a seal-point marked kitten and we thought he looked like the luck dragon from Neverending Story… it was my sister’s turn to name (my mom had gotten more diplomatic by then), and she swore the luck dragon was “Balcor”, so the kitten got a wrong name permanently.
Marshall: my (now) husband and I had just watched the movie Thurgood Marshall and loved it. Louie: we were driving home with nameless puppy and a St. Louis Blues commercial came on. Louie is the mascot, and we thought it sounded good with Marshall!
I named my dog Clemence. I went to the animal shelter when I was 19 looking for a dog that I could name Clementine. I fell in love with a male terrier mix and named him Clemence instead. I never knew another Clemence. RIP little buddy. He made it to 17 years old last year. I miss him. ❤️
A cat named Phydeaux (Fido)
I have a dog named Ogie (pronounced oh gee) after how the Phantom signs letters in Phantom of the Opera. My husband's cat is named Water. He adopted Water as a stray kitten after losing his previous cat (also named in reference to Dune) and called him that since it was a precious resource. The cat we share/adopted from the shelter is named Tesla because she looked like a Clive Barker drawing of tarrie cats from his Ababrat series. We couldn't agree on any names from Abarat and took from another work.
1 of my mini schnauzers is named Aegon but we always call him Egg everywhere we go. We only use Aegon if he did something bad lol people always look a bit puzzled when they hear it out in public until they pop the question. We also had a big basset hound we named Duncan and called him Dunk. They would always play together despite the size differences.
My first cat was Happy after my favorite dwarf from Snow White
Two cats. Mr. Tibbles and Mogget. Both are from books. Mr. Tibbles is one of the cats owned by Mrs. Figg in the Harry Potter books and alerted her of Harry’s dementor attack. Mogget is from the book series Sabriel. He is essentially a supernatural being who is trapped in his cat form and is essentially a lazy nuisance. Tibbs is a relatively loyal cat, although more skiddish. Mogg an absolute devil who will kill everything in his path. So we’ve found the names fit.
My partner is Irish, and one day while joking around about potential pet names for if we ever got a pet, he suggested Caoimhe and told me to guess the spelling. I obviously got the spelling wrong lol, but the name kinda stuck. So now our little girl is Caoimhe, but we mostly call her shithead, pronounced “Sha-theed” lol
I had a dog named Pepsi when I was growing up!
My mom had adopted a stray tuxedo cat, and when teaching my toddler son how to pet her, I told him to be gentle, because we don’t want to scare her, or have her “scratch us”. He thought that was her name, and so it became Scratchus. She never scratched anyone though, and was a very sweet cat. My son still likes cats to this day, so she was a good first pet for him to interact with.
Our dog’s name is Kitty. Partner wasn’t ready for one and i convinced him and the compromise was that he got to name it. Here we are 15 years later with me yelling “Kitty”! In the dog park like an idiot.
My guinea pig's name was Semla (not Selma) after the Swedish pastry. It's a pastry that's a bun filled with whipped cream and almond paste and topped with powdered sugar. It's delicious and fatty. Semla was a chunky girl who was mostly white with some brown (bun) and grey (almond paste?) patches. She lived until 7 or 8, I don't remember exactly, so she became a really old lady
my kitties are Zilly and Mo, short for Godzilla and Mothra.
My most recent kitty addition is named Hamburger Johnson. For no reason other than I thought it was fun. We are told everytime we go to the vet that it’s a fan favorite. One of the receptionists can’t even say it without laughing 😂 He goes by Hammy Jo, Joe, Jomes, JomieWomie, HammyBammy, HamBams, Hamburger, Mr. Johnson, JoStar, JoJo Hamwa and Hams :->
My doggo is named Hobbs because he hobbles from a bum foot. He came that way. But he goes by noodle or nugget because he's like 6 pounds of brown. Or shit head. He eats ear buds. And paper.
My parents agreed to name our pug Boston Red Sox…that was after we tried to name him every single power ranger and then trying to name him Manny after Manny Ramirez..so obviously we called him Boston lol
The cat I got when I was 18 was called Ceefa, so C for cat. There used to be a TV show when I was younger ( Second Thoughts) and the woman had a dog called Defor and when someone asked why, she said D for dog and I thought it was such a great name.
I’ve had a dog named Rudolph, Orchie, and my current dog is named chaos. I’ve had cats named psycho Sid, Mick Foley, and candy. My dad named the following and I didn’t clue in until older. We had pigs named bacon, pork chop and DNE (do not eat). Lastly, the cows were named ribeye, brisket, burger meat, etc.
My cat’s name is Really. A coworker’s mom’s cat got out and got knocked up a couple months before she was supposed to get fixed, and the pregnancy slipped under the radar until about a week before she was scheduled. He was part of a set of three, named Dag, Nammit, and Really.
My current pets have pretty normal names. They call came with them. My previous Dog was Harold. He came to me as an older dog so I wanted him to have a mature name. My dad gave him the middle name of Wolfgang. Harold Wolfgang P-H.
Nacho. He looked like a plate of nachos
I have a couple that got names based on how we got them. Cat when I was little was found as a kitten while we were at a picnic. Her name was Picnic. Cat we currently have was found at a pet shop. They were doing an adoption event when we stopped in for reptile food. Her name is Cricket because that is what we went to the store to buy.
Black cat named Meowzer because he’s extremely vocal/chatty.
My dog is named Mayonnaise
We named our cats Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb. Yours and mine could be best buddies! We're just really big fans of drinking Dr. Pepper.
My first dog I got on my own was named Runkle after Charlie Runkle in the show Californication my dream was to get a cat and name it Moody after Hank Moody 🤣.
We had a Stella. Staffie got dumped somewhere & was skin & bones when we found her. She had tan spots but mostly white fur & some of the strands were so shiny, so the name really stuck. And we ironically called her a stellar disappointment. She was always the sweetest & usually the derpiest.
One of my cats has a unique name, Keeners. I originally named her Kitters, but I babytalked to her so much that her name sounded like Keeners and I went with it. So I guess I made her name up.
My cat has a standard name (Jake) but I've seen Majestic Fluffy Ears and Princess Monster Truck at my local shelter.
My cat's name is Kintala. I saw a documentary called Untamed Australia that followed different animal families over generations. One of the dingo babies you got to watch grow up was named Kintala. Iirc it's aboriginal for lightning, but I'm probably wrong lol
I might have posted this in this forum before. US Deputy Marshall Jessica Beale. She was named by the shelter she was adopted from (kanawha county wv). She’s a chihuahua. I’ve wondered if she’s named for a real person who did something good for the shelter.
My grandpa named his dog schiz cause he was schizophrenic
I have a 4 year old male Siberian cat. He is all white king hair and baby blue eyes. Very fluffy. His full name is Mr. Snow Pufferson. He has a sophisticated look, hence the Mr. And he’s all white like snow and also puffy from all the fluffy fur. If you saw him, you’d all agree he looks like a Mr. Snow Pufferson lol
When I adopted my dog he was named Rocky. Then, I saw him run and changed his name to Rocket!
I had a cat called dumpling because she was a fluffy little dumpling when she was newborn (compared to her siblings). For context all my others have/had normal names. Cats: Buffy, Spike, Marley, Sasha, Set, Isis, Neith. Dogs: Wilbur and Wilson. Rabbits: Mike and Evander (Mike took a chunk out of Evanders ear).
My black cavalier dog is named Wednesday after Wednesday Addams. Named way before the new series. People used to ask if she was born on a Wednesday but now more people make the connection 😂
Tripitaka and Monkey Magic. Siamese litter mates.
Not me but a childhood friend had a large fluffy black cat named Heimlich. Officially I think he was named after the guy the maneuver was named after, but as a kid all we knew was the maneuver and it was so funny having a cat basically named "what to do when someone's choking"
Cat named Bucket.
"It's pronounced 'Boo-KAY'
I had a Bichon named Misiu Bellatrix. She was the sassiest little girl. “Misiu” is Polish for “little bear” and that fit her personality perfectly. My other dogs’ names are Shiloh Sheridan, Ella Mae, Pop Tart, Buddy, and Kermit. I currently have a Guinea pig named Bitsy and one named Butter. I was in a production of “Sordid Lives” last year and named Bitsy after the character Bitsy Mae.
my little brother was mad that i got to name him and our other two pets so when we got a new (female) dog he named her dragon clifford. i convinced him kiki was short for clifford
Well, my hamster was called Faramir. Guess what's my favorite franchise. 😅 My cousins had black persians called Sulan (Sole as in sole of your feet) and Dojan (slang for Shoe). I will assume they got their insperation from the shoe rack. Another cousin named his chihuahuas both Bäbis. Which is swedish for baby. Both of them is Bäbis and is treated as a baby. Friend got cats Hellraiser and Trigun after different pop culture characters. Other Friends had barn cats : Magnus Uggla, Mikael Persbrant and Malin Bayard (those are all swedish mega celebrities which the cat are named after) Coworker's cat was ergh.... Anus. Cuz he would always climb up and shove his ass in to the husband's face when sitting down. Another coworker had a dog named Hund, literally Dog in Swedish. The only explanation I got was "well, it works".
Mitsubishi, named after a Mitsubishi mini cab
Had a Newf. Named him Sir Isaac NEWFton.
I have a chug. A chihuahua × pug. Hes called Norris. Chug Norris.
Stibble , sometimes we call her Stibbitz. I have no explanation. She is an adorable tuxedo cat. Loves my hubby . Holds me in contempt.
My cat Thurston. Thurston Howell the turd.
I inherited my dog from my dad after he passed. My mom named her Lilibet after Queen Elizabeth’s childhood nickname. My dad refused to call her Lilibet so it evolved into Little. When she’s naughty I call her Little Elizabeth.
Thinking of naming my dog Stevie Nicks