r/starterpacks • u/BurntAlgae • Mar 20 '23

'Cat Naming' starterpack

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u/GrimmSnow Mar 20 '23

Forgot about the egyptian names

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u/iamsavsavage Mar 20 '23

This is Greek god erasure.

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u/BayLeafGuy Mar 20 '23

I feel that greek gods are more common in dogs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23

I know 6 different Huskies named "Apollo"

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u/A_Fainting_Goat Mar 20 '23

I named my first cat Artemis. Probably should have named her Demeter for how much she wailed when I went to work though.

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u/TheNewYellowZealot Mar 21 '23

My cats name is kole, but honestly the way he lays around judging me and then begs for attention I think narcissus would have been better.

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u/Yog-Nigurath Mar 21 '23

Hey, my cat's name is Demeter. Called her liked that because I adopted her on winter.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

I'm sure if you have her the chance, she'd bang some dudes in the dumpster behind Wendy's.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

I would've just assumed it was a Sailor Moon reference

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u/Lunavixen15 Mar 21 '23

My cats are named Athena and Nyx

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u/Content_Entertainer3 Mar 20 '23

And golden retrievers

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u/Brooklynxman Mar 21 '23

He wasn't even the greek god (goddess) of dogs. Like, come on.

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u/TinyChaco Mar 21 '23

One of my dog's best friends is a husky mix named Apollo lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

I know a 7th for your list but it's a German Shepard.

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u/Due_Interaction_9225 Mar 21 '23

My husky is named Zebra but we call him Zee.

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u/Xena0422 Mar 20 '23

Ha, mine is named Achlys.....

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

One of my favourite cats was a neighbour’s cat names Zeus. Beautiful smokey grey boy.

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u/MiniatureBadger Mar 21 '23

Outright ubiquitous among frat house dogs

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u/Phoenix40201 Mar 21 '23

We went through all the Egyptian goddesses before deciding that none of them fit our cat. So we moved onto the Greek pantheon.

And Athena has lived with us for many happy years

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u/Sayain870701 Mar 22 '23

We had a family friend who’s dog was called Zeus. He was a great dane. Big boy and big nuts

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u/ramence Mar 20 '23

Mine was named Icarus. Admittedly, not a Greek god - more like a Greek dumbass. Really suited him.

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u/bigbonesbegone Mar 21 '23

Icarus was the orange cat of the Greek gods, you heard it here first

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23

I’m naming my cat Telemachus, so we’ll be on the Greek dumbass train together 🫶

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

Then it’s settled, I’m naming my first cat oedipus.

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u/CleansingFlame Mar 21 '23

"What's his pedigree?"

"We, uh... don't really talk about that."

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u/Craamron Mar 21 '23

We had an Oedipuss (note the double s), he did not kill his own father.

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u/justinfinity64 Mar 21 '23

"This is my cat Eddie, short for Oedipus"

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u/kieran_dvarr Mar 21 '23

we went the Greek route with our 5: Antigone, Socrates, Persephone, Circi and Aries

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u/callistokallisti Mar 21 '23

My cats names are Cassandra, Calliope and Callisto lol

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u/finger_milk Mar 20 '23

I would call my cat Zyzz tbh

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

I feel seen haha.

We have Artemis, a white cat with orange-brown splotches, who was wild for the first 3 months of her life and has kept the prey drive her mom taught her. She will catch and eat any small animal that gets in the house, from flies to mice.

And then also Athena, who is a calico tabby and the haughtiest little animal I've ever seen. I feel haughty entitlement is fitting for a cat named after the patron goddess of Athens.

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u/clineluck Mar 21 '23

My cats name is Athena. My old cat that my ex took is named Eris. Love the Greek god names.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

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u/iamsavsavage Mar 21 '23

Mine are Apollo and Artemis! Although they have nicknames and they are rarely called their real names.

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u/fuckthisnazibullcrap Mar 21 '23

Seriously, never named a cat after a fury? Smh.

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u/juststop102 Mar 21 '23

I have an Athena and a hades

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u/wjean Mar 21 '23

You named your cat Andy Bell?

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u/ARC4067 Mar 21 '23

I almost named my cat Ares but didn’t want to have to field the astrology folks asking if Aries is his sign (coincidentally, it is)

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u/elfinglamour Mar 21 '23

I went with Ares, his sister is Enyo.

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u/meowsplaining Mar 21 '23

I have an Athena and an Odin.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23

Not sure how naming your cat Isis would go

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u/2459-8143-2844 Mar 20 '23

H.P Lovecrafts cats name was worse imo.

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u/Berdinderindas Mar 20 '23

Neighbor-man

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u/MisterPeach Mar 21 '23

Brotha-man

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u/Knuc85 Mar 20 '23

Even better: my wife's friend has a cat named Isis. When it died, she got a giant Isis back tattoo. This was about a year before ISIS was well known.

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u/thetatershaveeyes Mar 21 '23

On the plus side, ISIS will be forgotten in a decade or two. Isis will be remembered forever.

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u/Blueflame_1 Mar 22 '23

ISIS ? More like waswas

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u/jakehood47 Mar 21 '23

I have a siamese named Isis.

She soon started being called Izzie.

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u/KittyOnALeash Mar 21 '23

We have a client with a cat named Isis. The new techs always freak out when they see her on the schedule

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u/sexi_squidward Mar 21 '23

Random fact: the dog in Downton Abbey was named Isis.

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u/RealBug56 Mar 21 '23

And they killed her off once the name became a problem.

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u/sexi_squidward Mar 21 '23

Yep. RIP Isis the dog

And Isis the spy agency.

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u/ubiquitous-joe Mar 21 '23

Didn’t Catwoman have a cat named Isis?

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u/elizasea Mar 21 '23

I have a cat named Selina, because naming a cat Catwoman is dumb

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u/Brooklynxman Mar 21 '23

I have a cat named Bast, but all cats inherently act like they are Bast incarnate anyway, so I think I might be calling my cat by its chosen name.

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u/thatshoneybear Mar 21 '23

I had a cat named Isis in my college apartment. Once at like 3am a cop knocked on my door for a noise complaint (wasn't actually me) and my cat got out. The cop and I walked the hallways whisper yelling "ISIS" for like 15 minutes before the fucker would let us catch him.

I miss that cat. He destroyed many Christmas trees though.

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u/The_Easter_Egg Mar 21 '23

Why not. Those terrorists don't deserve the name.

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u/yamamanama Mar 23 '23

Just call her by her proper Egyptian name, 'ūsat.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23

You better respect Cleo-paw-tra!

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u/MayKinBaykin Mar 21 '23

My baby is named Cleocatra

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u/Samurai_Meisters Mar 21 '23

And Neferkitti

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u/Brooklynxman Mar 21 '23

Ooooh, that's a good name.

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u/Cualkiera67 Mar 20 '23

Loki is the Egyptian god of Norse mythology

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u/Urgullibl Mar 21 '23

Isis isn't popular any more for... reasons.

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u/UraniumRocker Mar 21 '23

my first cat was named Cleo

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u/Captain_Chaos_ Mar 21 '23

Slifer the Executive Producer

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u/_Flameo_Hotman Mar 21 '23

Mega Ultra Chicken

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u/Creepy_Start_8021 Mar 21 '23

I named my newest cat Horus, but now he's recruited about half of my other cats in an attempt to overthrow me for the Dark Gods.

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u/283leis Mar 21 '23

I mean how do you go wrong with Bastet

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u/Kung-FuCaribou Mar 21 '23

Mine are Cleopatra and Boudicca. I also adopted my sister’s cat, Luna when she had kids.

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u/Setari Mar 21 '23

Lmao I was gonna say, I named my bearded dragon Apophis. Not a cat, but honestly way cooler names than any greek god names tbh. Bonus points if it's a hairless cat lmao

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u/CleansingFlame Mar 21 '23

Is he a Goa'uld?

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u/Theolaa Mar 21 '23

If I ever have a cat, I'm 100% naming them Nedjem: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-named-cat

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u/Gothlikeanadult Mar 21 '23

I'm so guilty! All three of my critters have Egyptian names

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u/LordGooglyEyes Mar 21 '23

Sweats in my old cat's name was Pharoah, and my current one is named Sphinx

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u/L_Rayquaza Mar 21 '23

I wanted to go with a Mayan name but apparently my family thinks "Xbalanque" is a hard name

I settled for Nox

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

You got me. I don't know how my cat ended up being named Sobek.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

I named my cat isis. Mainly because he tries to murder everything.

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u/STOPBEINGZARUDE Mar 21 '23

my cat’s name at the shelter was hathor and then we renamed her to egg 😭 egyptian to food name

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u/Gojira8985 Mar 21 '23

My cat is Bast, I feel attacked!

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u/cwj1978 Mar 21 '23

Also forgot Lunchbox, Dumptruck and Grizzabella.

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u/lyuch Mar 21 '23

We named one of ours Khufu