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Cat names from famous cats in books and poems

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Cats have starred in books for hundreds of years. Puss in Boots outwits an ogre in Charles Perrault's tale (1697). Alice's cat Dinah waits at home through all of Wonderland. T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) gave the world Macavity, Mr. Mistoffelees and Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat.

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20 names, good for cat.

ShortlistNameBoy or girlWhere it comes from
DinahGirlAlice's cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
CheshireEitherThe grinning cat in Wonderland.
PussBoyPuss in Boots, from Charles Perrault's fairy tale.
MogGirlJudith Kerr's forgetful cat.
MacavityBoyThe Mystery Cat in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Mr. MistoffeleesBoyThe conjuring cat in the same book.
SkimbleshanksBoyThe Railway Cat in the same book.
Rum Tum TuggerBoyThe cat who always wants the opposite, from the same book.
JennyanydotsGirlThe Old Gumbie Cat, from the same book.
Bustopher JonesBoyThe cat about town, from the same book.
Pussy-catEitherWho sails away with the Owl in Edward Lear's poem (1871).
MehitabelGirlThe alley cat in Don Marquis's archy and mehitabel.
HodgeBoySamuel Johnson's cat, who has a statue in London.
SimpkinBoyThe tailor's cat in Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester.
Tom KittenBoyBeatrix Potter's kitten who loses his clothes.
KittyGirlAlice's black kitten in Through the Looking-Glass.
EurekaGirlDorothy's pink kitten in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.
Slinky MalinkiEitherLynley Dodd's sneaky black cat.
PeteBoyPete the Cat, who keeps cool in his white shoes.
SplatBoyRob Scotton's Splat the Cat.

Tick the names you like, then take them to a family vote.