( ) I have no idea why Imgur has a NSFW warning on the post, I promise it’s only cats. So, r/namenerds, work your magic! And of course Manji is the brown tabby. As you can see, we really like pretentious long names easily shortened to cute nicknames. Here are some more unique cat names inspired by history: Horus God of the sky. Freyja Associated with cats in Norse mythology. For example, our tuxedo boy is named Oberon, king of the fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and also a moon of Uranus, and our floofy black kitten is named Grimalkin, historically a witch’s familiar, and in Macbeth there is a Greymalkin, which is an alternate spelling. Diana Turns into a cat in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. We like names with a fairy tale/mythology connection, a Shakespeare reference, and/or astronomy names. It doesn’t necessarily need to sound like Manji, because she has never once responded to her name (she’s a cat, afterall) and we mostly call her Meatball anyway. So, on to the request! I’d love for her new name to start with M, although I’m not 100% tied to it. (I also may be wrong about the meaning as I don’t speak Japanese, and I will happily edit the post if I’m corrected!)

Note, this is referring to the traditional good luck symbol common throughout a lot of Asia, not the hate symbol, but it still feels uncomfortable for me to use as a white American. I looked up the original meaning of the word, and a quick google tells me it’s the Japanese word for the swastika symbol. I have no interest in cars and I don’t like that it reminds me of that person. Her name is Manji, which I actually think is adorable, but I hate the association.

I’ve since met the love of my life and married him AND gotten two more cats that we’ve named together, and I feel kind of guilty that only one cat has a name that bums me out. I got her six years ago right before my ex and I split up, and her name is based on one of his hobbies (drift car driving).

Magical names for cats