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Top 200+ Black Cat Names (With Their Meanings)

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Male Black Cat Names

Male black cat with green eyes.

These male black cat names are inspired by nature, magic, and mayhem.

A

Aadhar — Darkness

Alaric — Universal ruler

Ankoku — Blackness

Asher — Happy, blessed

Astrophel — Star lover

Astaroth — the Great Duke of Hell and part of the evil trinity with Beelzebub and Lucifer

Athan — Immortal

Azrael — The angel of destruction and renewal

B

Bazil — King; also a Mediterranean herb used in love magic and divination

Badru — Born during the full moon

Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetlejuice) — The 10th brightest star in the night sky (the right shoulder of the constellation Orion)

Betzalel — In the shadow of God

Binx — The black cat from Disney’s 1993 American fantasy comedy horror film Hocus Pocus

Bran — Raven; the Celtic god of death

C

Ciaran — Dark

Cole — Swarthy, coal-black

Colton — From the coal, dark town

Corbin — Crow

D

Dade — Dark one, exploited

Daku — Dark

Damien — Untamed

Dante — Enduring, everlasting

Dinsmore — Dark moor

Dorian — Gift; a young man who sells his soul to the Devil for eternal youth and beauty from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Douglas — Black river

Draven — Child of the shadows

Draco — Huge dragon; also the 8th largest constellation in the night sky

Duncan — Dark warrior

Dyrk — One who admires nighttime

E

Elatha — art, knowledge; the god of the Moon in Irish mythology

G

Golgotha — Skull

Grimshaw — Dark woods

H

Hades — Greek God of the Underworld

Hari — Dark, tawny

Hiei — Flying shadow

Houdini — To appear, vanish; also Harry Houdini, a Hungarian-born American magician famous for his death-defying escapes

Howl — To cry out loud; also the self-indulgent and insecure young wizard in the fantasy novel Howl’s Moving Castle by British author Diana Wynne Jones

I

Ingram — Raven of peace

J

Jack — God is gracious

Jet — A velvety black gemstone

K

Kage — Shadow

Keir — Dark, black

Lennon — Blackbird

Lucifer — Bearer of light

M

Maverick — An unorthodox or independent-minded person

Morris — Dark-skinned

N

Nigel — Dark, black-haired

Noir — Black

O

Orpheus — The darkness of the night

Osiris — The Egyptian god of the underworld

Orion — Hunter in Greek mythology; also a famous constellation located on the celestial equator

Q

Quillon — Crossing swords, strong

R

Ransley — Raven meadow

Reito — Beautiful, dark moon

Renwick — Raven settlement

Rigel — The 7th brightest star in the night sky (the left leg of the constellation Orion)

S

Sirius — Friend of God; also the brightest star in the night sky

Shiva — The Hindu god of destruction; also part of the Hindu trinity that includes Brahma, the creator, and Vishnu, the preserver

Smoky — Smoke-filled

Severus — Stern, harsh; also the Potions Master, Defense Against The Dark Arts, and Headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

T

Thanatos — The personification of death in Greek mythology

Tsuki — Moon

Tsukikage — Moonbeams

V

Vader — Father; also the main villain of the popular science fiction franchise Star Wars

Volkan — Volcano

Y

Yama — The Hindu god of death

Yami — Dark

Z

Zalaam — Darkness

Zalaph — Shadow

Zero — Void

Zorro — Fox; the masked Mexican hero created by pulp fiction author Johnston McCulley in 1919

Female Black Cat Names

Female black cat sitting beside flower pots.

These female black cat names pay homage to ancient underworld goddesses, twisted fairy tales, and the dark side of mother nature.

A

Achlys — The Greek goddess of everlasting night and the mist of death

Adreanna — Darkness

Aloka — Shadow

Amaris — Child of the moon

Amaya — Night rain

Aradia — The Italian goddess of the moon and queen of the witches

Aruna — Moon love

Aspen — Quaking tree

B

Bastet — The lower Egyptian goddess of the home, domesticity, women’s secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth

Belladonna — Beautiful woman; Deadly nightshade

Bellatrix — Female warrior

Bonnie — Pretty, attractive; also a very powerful witch and one of the main female characters on the CW’s The Vampire Diaries

Blair — Battlefield

Branwen — Beautiful raven

C

Cassandra — Unheeded prophetess; also the daughter of King Priam and Trojan prophetess that foresaw the fall of Troy in Homer’s ‘The Iliad’

Ciara — Little dark one

Circe — The Greek goddess of sorcery

Celeste — Heavenly

Chhaya — The Hindu goddess of shadows

Clio — Glory

D

Dahlia — Valley flower; also the national flower of Mexico named after Swedish botanist Anders Dahl

Danika — Morning star

Drusilla — Prophecy

E

Ebony — Deep black wood

Eris — The Greek goddess of strife and discord

Eleena — Shining in the darkness

Elvira — Truth

Esmeray — Dark moon

G

Glinda — The good witch of the North in the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz

H

Hecate — The Greek goddess of magic and witchcraft

Hel — The Norwegian goddess of death

Hermione — Messenger, earthly; also the main female witch in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series

Hesperia — Evening star

I

Izanami — The Japanese goddess of death and queen of the underworld

J

Jocasta — Shining moon

Jemisha — Queen of the night

K

Kali — The Hindu goddess of death and destruction (Sanskrit: “She Who Is Black” or “She Who Is Death”)

Kalma — The Finnish god of death and decay (Finnish: “The stench of corpses”)

Kanika — Black cloth

Keket — The Egyptian goddess of darkness

Kiera — Little dark one

Kindle — Set fire, to glow

L

Lamia — An evil witch-queen in the 2007 fantasy movie Stardust; also a Greek monster with the head and breast of a woman and the body of a serpent

Laylah — Night

Leanira (pronounced ley-ah-NEE-ra)— Black butterfly

Lilith — Ghost, night monster

Lisha — Darkness before midnight

Livana — Lunar

Lorelei — Enchantress

Lucinda — Light; also Samantha’s black cat familiar in the 1964 TV show Bewitched

Luna — Moon

M

Magena — Moon

Maleficent — Doing evil or harm; also the evil fairy godmother in Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault

Medora — Ruler

Mei — Dark

Melantha — Dark flower

Melaina — Dusky

Melanie — Someone who is covered by shadows

Miyako — Beautiful night child

Morrigan — Irish goddess of death, destiny, and war (Irish for “Phantom Queen”)

Moriah — The hill country; also a large black cat in the 1974 World Fantasy Award-winning novel The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

N

Naenia – The Roman goddess of funerals

Nisha — Darkness of the night

O

Orenda — Magical powers

P

Pandora — All-giving

Persephone — The goddess queen of the underworld and wife of Hades in Greek mythology

R

Rosemary — Dew of the sea; also a Mediterranean herb that’s used to ward off evil spirits and witches

S

Sabrina — Welsh Goddess of the River Severn

Sage — Wise; also a Mediterranean herb used to purify and cleanse a religious space

Samara — Guardian, protected by God

Sauda — Dark Beauty

Sombra — Shade

Stella — Celestial Star

Sukie — Lily; also a mild-mannered and tender-hearted witch from John Updike’s 1984 fantasy novel The Witches of Eastwick

Sybil — Oracle

T

Turaya — Star

Tia — The goddess of peaceful deaths in Haida mythology

U

Umbra — Shadow

Ursula — Bear; also the evil sea witch in Disney’s 1989 feature film The Little Mermaid

V

Valonia — Shadow Valley

Vespera — Of the evening

W

Willow — Willow tree; also an extremely powerful teenage witch on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Winnifred — Holy, blessed; also the head of the Sanderson witches in Disney’s 1993 cult classic Hocus Pocus

Winter — Time of water

X

Xena — Guest, stranger

Z

Zelda — Gray battle

Zila — Shadow

Gender Neutral Cat Names

Black cat with golden eyes.

These unisex Black cat names draw inspiration from astronomy, pop culture, Gothic short stories, and ancient death gods.

A

Ash — Ash tree, happy

Altair — The brightest star in the constellation Aquila the Eagle and the 12th brightest star in the night sky

B

Bambino — The black cat of American author and humorist Mark Twain

Blackwell — Dark stream

Blackberry — Fruit of the bramble

Blackie — One that is black

Blake — Fair-haired, dark

Blakeney — From the black island

C

Church — The black cat from Stephen King’s Pet Sematary

Chocolate — A food made from cacao beans

Cinder — Hot ashes

Coffee — A brewed drink made from roasted coffee beans

Comet — A head with long hair

D

Dade — Dark one

Darcy — Dark one, from Arcy, from the fortress

Delaney — Dark challenger

Donaver — Brown black

Draven — Child of the shadows

Dublin — Black Pool

Dusk — Sunset

E

Echo — Reflected sound

Eclipse — The hiding of any heavenly body by another

Elphaba (pronounced El-pha-ba) — The name of the wicked witch of the West in the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked

F

Fabre — Blacksmith

Fate — One of great destiny, faith

Friday — day of Frigga, the Norwegian goddess of marriage, love, and destiny and wife of Odin

G

Ghost — Breath, good or bad spirit

Gypsy — Wanderer

H

Hastie — Speedy; from the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

I

Inali — Black fox

J

Jiji — The black cat from Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 animated film Kiki’s Delivery Service

Jinx — Wicked spell

Jupiter — The supreme god

K

Keir — Black

Kyran — Black

L

Lethe — River of forgetfulness in Greek mythology

Licorice — A black-colored sweet made from the extract of the roots of the licorice plant Glycyrrhiza glabra

M

Mage — Learned magician

Mahogany — Dark wood

Midnight — The middle of the night

Moonshine — The light of the moon

Mugwort — A Eurasian perennial herb that’s used for healing, divination, and dreaming

N

Nebula — Mist

Nightshade — Shade of night

Nightmare — Terrifying dream

Nimbus — Dark cloud

Ninja — One skilled in stealth

Nirvana — Bliss

Nova — New; also the exploding surface of a white dwarf star

Nox — Night

O

Obsidian — Black volcanic glass

Olive — Olive tree; also the longtime love interest of Popeye the Sailor Man

Omen — Faithful; also a sign or warning of something good or bad that will happen in the future

Onyx — Deep black gemstone

Ouija — Spirit board

P

Patchouli (pronounced puh-choo-lee) — A bushy, tropical herb that’s associated with love, wealth, and sexual power

Pennyroyal — A toxic herb that’s carried to ward off the “evil eye” in American folk magic and Hoodoo

Pepper — Hot spice

Panther — Puma concolor, the largest of the small wildcats

Phoenix — From the ashes

Pluto — The black cat from Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Black Cat

R

Raven — Blackbird

S

Sable — Black

Salem — Complete, peaceful; also Sabrina Spellman’s black cat familiar in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Samhain — Halloween

Shadow — Shade from the sun

Stardust — Dust made of stars

Storm — Tempest

Styx — One of the rivers of the Greek underworld

Sullivan — Black-eyed one

T

Tamala — Dark tree

Twilight — The time between dawn and sunrise, or between sunset and dusk

V

Vega — Dweller in the meadow; also the 5th brightest star in the night sky

W

Wednesday — Day of Woden, the Norwegian god of death and war; also the only daughter in the dark comedy The Addams Family by American cartoonist Charles Addams

Y

Yarrow — A plant used in courage, healing, or love spells

Yin — In the shade

Z

Zil — Shadow

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Table of Contents

Male Black Cat Names

A

B

C

D

E

G

H

I

J

K

M

N

O

Q

R

S

T

V

Y

Z

Female Black Cat Names

A

B

C

D

E

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Z

Gender Neutral Cat Names

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

Y

Z

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