Aww your precious new bundle of meows, purrs and black fluff has just come home. It’s so cute and funny, but now you need to search for good black cat names to find a suitable name for life.
Black kittens are no harder to name than any other colored kitties, but there seems to be an air of mystery about these little fellas. As kittens they are playful and get into as much trouble as all other baby cats do. But as they mature they appear sleek, graceful and even somewhat aloof.
Black cats give the impression that they just seem to “know” things. Well, just don’t let this facade fool you! They desire a seriously good smooching, or a hug just as much as any other pet, and probably more so.
Figuring Out Names for Black Cats
But what are you going to name your black cat? Kittens seem to react to one syllable names a lot better than longer ones. And its always easier to call out a name that flows, or one ending in an “e” or “y” sound. Always remember to make it something you are happy to yell out loud in your neighborhood … as you try to reclaim your prowling kitty if they are an outside cat.
I have listed some suggestions below, but remember you can also be original and think outside the box. Like … why name your black kitten Inky, Blackie or Midnight – when you could be totally original and call them something unexpected like Snowflake, Goldilocks or Spot instead!
Watch your cute little black bundle for a while. What are their traits, what is their personality like? Are they playful, sporty, sneaky, sleepy? Maybe they are a Ninja or a Clawdia, a Catzillah, or a Catanova, a Pawdoor or some other play on words?
Most of all enjoy your new black kitten while it is small, because they grow so fast. Remember also that the funny, cutesy or macho black cat names you bestow upon them will last their lifetime. So just make it something you like.
List of Black Cat Names
| Abracadabra Abrae Absinthe Ace Ace Of Clubs Ace Of Spades Addams Africa Alacazam Apocalypse Ash Asha Asher Ashes Asheton Asphalt Bad Luck Badlands Bagheera Balcundi Barack Bat Batty Beauty Bedtime Beelzebub Begemot Bitumen Bitumen Bituminous Black Angus Black Bart Black Beauty Black Cat Black Hat Black Ink Black Knight Black Magic Black Mamba Black Night Black Olive Black Opal Black Orchid Black Panther Black Pepper Black Pete Black Puma Black Racer Black Widow Blackbeard Blackberry Blackbird Blackest Blackie Blackjack Blackmalkin Blackout Blackster Blackstone Blacktop Bones Bootleg Boots Bowtie Boycott Broom Bruno Burma Burnt Carbon Cat Burglar Chakuda (black in Chichewa) Chance Char Charcoal Charm Charmed Charna Charred Checkers Cheerless Chesspiece Chimney Chimney Sweep Cinders Claudia Claudio Clawdia Clawdio Clawed Cleopatra Clouds Cloudy Cloudy Club Coal Coal Tar Coaldust Coffee Bean Coke Cola Cole Conjura Conjure Conjure Cool Cat Cool Jazz Cool Kitty Coolie Coolio Cooyung Copperfield Corey Count Chocula Count Dracula Crow Crow Cyclone Czarny (black in Polish) Daffy Daffy Duck Dark Dark Chocolate Dark Cloud Darkside Darkstar Darkus Darth Vader |
Death Demon Denzil Devil Diablo Diabolic Dingy Dirty Dolan Domino Dracula Drak Du (black in Welsh) Duanna Dubh (black in Irish) Duke Ellington Dusk Dusky Dusty Ebon Ebony Eclipse Egypt Eightball Elvira Elvis Ember Enigma Eve Fate Fekete (black in Hungarian) Felix Fia Fluke Fortuna Friday Funereal Good Luck Graphite Graveyard Guenhwyvar Guinness Gun Metal Hades Halloween Hecate Hitam (black in Indonesian) Hocus Pocus Hoodoo Horseshoe Hue Huyen Immortal Imp Inca India Indian Ink Indigo Indistinct Ink Ink Inka Inklike Inkspot Inkwell Inky Ireng (black in Javanese) Isis Jack Tar Jamal Java Java Bean Jazzy Jet Jet Black Jiji Jinx Joker Juju Juodas (black in Lithuanian) Kala King Knight Kooroola Kuroneko-sama Legend Licorice Lights out Livid Luci Lucian Lucifer Luck Lucky Lucky Charm Lucy Magic Magpie Majestic Mamba Marmite Melanoid Melonie Merlin Midnight Miles Davis Ming Misty Mittens Mocha Mojo Mono Monotone Moon shadow Moonless Moonrise Mora Morgan le Fay Morgana Moritz Morticia Mourning Murky Musta (black in Finnish) Mystery Mystic Mystic Myth |
Mythical Nebulous Nero (black in Italian) Nhema (black in Shona) Nigel Night Night Stalker Nightflight Nightlife Nightmare Nighttime Nigrum (black in Latin) Nimbus Ninja Noir (black in French) Nyeusi (black in Swahili) Obsidian Obsy Occult Omen Onyx Orion Othelo Overcast Pagan Pango (black in Maori) Panther Panthera Pepper Pepsi Phantom Pharoah Piceous Pigment Pitch Pitch Pitch Black Pluto Pocus Poe Pollution Preto Preto (black in Portugese) Prince of Darkness Puma Rain Cloud Raven Roadway Rootbeer Sabbath Sable Sabrina Salem Samantha Satan Satanic Sauda Schrödinger Shade Shadow Silhouette Sillabub Silvi Silvia Silvio Sin Sinister Sister Sledge Siyah (black in Turkish) Slate Smoke Smoke Stack Smokey Socks Somber Sombresta Sooty Sootystar Spade Flush Spades Speakeasy Spooky Starless Starry Night Storm Storm cloud Stormy Stygian Sullivan Sunless Supernatural Svartalf Swarthy Swartz Sweep Tabitha Tacca Tar Tar Tara Tarantula Tarmac Tempest Thunder Tobias Top Hat Unlit Vader Vague Vamp Van Gogh Vandal Velvet Vlad Voodoo Warlock Wednesday Wicca Wiccan Witch Witch Witchcraft Witches Hat Witchie Wizard |
Cat Names Books
And if you are still stuck, here are some books with a plethora of black cat names as well as for any color:
More Than 3000 Names for Cats and Kittens
Cat Names – A Cat Lovers Guide to Naming Cats
Theme Cat Names for Colorful Cats
Hey thats cool what a really great list of names. My cat’s new name is now Nimbus hes soft and fluffy like a cloud – thanks for the list thats awesome.
Thank you Emily. Best wishes for you and little Nimbus – you chose a great name! Is he a black cat?
It’s wonderful to have you on our side, haha!
Happy to be on your side too! Do you have a black kitty?
My little black cat is called Altair. This the name of a beautiful star, but I rarly find it – I can’t see it – without some help from my brother and his telescope….
So Altair, was a baby-stray cat, and for two week I didn’t see him – only for moments – before he started to trust me and in humans in general.
That’s when I started to call him like this: my little star.. I wish I could see you.
Altair is a really lovely name for your little black cat. He is a very lucky kitty to have found you!