Names for a Grey Cat
Bring a grey kitty into your home, and you will invite balance, harmony, hope, and liberty into your space. The grey cat symbolizes all of these spiritually enlightened qualities and more. Since your new steely cat is bestowing so many blissful energies upon your universe, consider honoring his silvery coat with one of these unique grey cat names.
Shiny Silvery Names for Steely Cat Coats
Argent
Argentine
Aspen
Bauble
Bedazzle
Bijoux
Bling
Blingus
Brazen
Casino
Chic
Chichi
Ching Ching
Chrome
Dazzle
Dressed to Kill
Driftwood
Gem
Glitter
Glitz
Ice
Jewel
Lux
Luxor
Mac Daddy
Mouse
Nickels
Palladium
Pearl
Pewter
Poncey
Posh
Scratch
Shekels
Silverado
Sparkles
Suited and Booted
Swank
Swanky
Tangalang
Tinsel
Tony
Treasure
Trinket
Tungsten
Vogue
Unique Rocky Cat Monikers
Flinty coats deserve rocky names! These grey cat names celebrate slate coats from the world of Hanna-Barbera and the monuments of Britain. Consider naming your grey kitty Barney Rubble or an Earth Day name like Cave or Cliff.
Banker
Barney Rubble
Bevel
Cary Granite
Cave
Cliff
Crusher Run
Etch
Flint
Flintstone
Pebbles
Pylon
Quarry
Strike
Rock Hudson
Rocky
Stone Age
Stonehenge
Stony Curtis
Talus
Monikers for Cats from Grey Animals
Badger
Blue
Burro
Butterfly
Catbird
Chickadee
Chinchilla
Cuckoo
Donkey
Eeyore
Ferret
Flipper
Foxy
Grey Seal
Harpy
Hawkeye
Joey
Junco
Kanga/Kangaroo
Kestrel
Koala
Ladybird
Maltese Tiger
Merle
Moon
Peacock
Pewee
Puma
Opossum
Rhino
Roo
Sparrow
Spider
Swift
Thrasher
Thrush
Titmouse
Vireo
Wren
Waxwing
Cute Female Names for Grey Cats
Ashley: The powdery charcoal remains of a fire.
Cinder: Gray residue of combustion; can be short for Cinderella.
Coke or Cokie: Used to distill metal oxides into metals. Cokie, like newscaster Cokie Roberts, is a cute name for a gray female cat.
Ember: Glowing combustible.
Exotica: Grey tabby house cat who is not allowed out, from Cats the musical.
Fuzzy: Hazy, blurry, or furry.
Grizabella: Glamour cat from the musical Cats.
Haiiro: Japanese pronunciation of “gray.”
Haze or Hazel: Mist.
Jemima: Youngest kitten in Cats.
Myst: Ancient spelling of “mist.”
Pepper: Black or white spice; the nickname of Police Woman, Angie Dickinson’s character.
Reardon: Hank Reardon, the protagonist of Atlas Shrugged, invents a new form of steel that is blue-green and far superior to stainless steel in strength.
Shade: Specter or ghost.
Tressym: Small gray cat with wings, frequently a good wizard’s familiar.
Cool Grey Cat Calls for Boys
Why not bestow your cute silver kitty with an artistic or literary name that reflects just how adorable they are?
Ansel: Ansel Adam, black and white photographer.
Baloo: The gray-blue bear who appears alongside Mowgli in Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967).
Christian: Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey.
Dorian: Literary character Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde‘s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890).
Earl: Earl Grey tea, flavored with bergamot.
Eeyore: The gray, pessimistic donkey from the Winnie the Pooh series.
Helmut: Helmut Newton black and white photographer and luminary of Vogue magazine.
Jellicle: Jellicle cats are a tribe of cats from the musical Cats.
Lange: Dorothea Lange, black and white photographer.
Man Ray: Black and white photographer and the name of William Wegman’s silver Weimaraner.
Munkustrap: Grey tabby cat in the musical Cats.
Nimbus: Gray rain cloud, also a halo that appears behind divine beings.
Old Deuteronomy: Wise, kind and grey leader of the Jellicle cats.
Thumper: Grey rabbit in Bambi.
Tom Cat: Grey cat in the cartoon series Tom and Jerry.
Yin/Yang: Opposing and harmonious forces, often symbolized with a black-and-white circular pattern.
Ghostly Cat Calls for Phantom Females
Masters of the night, it seems that cats can see in the dark. Lithe grey cats slip through the evening shadows, like so many shimmering spirits, making cats the favorite of the witches’ familiars. These shadowy grey cat names celebrate the silent stalkers of the netherworld.
Banshee: A wailing female apparition and harbinger of death. Her screeches in the night foretell a family member’s imminent demise.
Ghoul: Spooky spirit.
Haunt: Ghostly being.
Hellion: Rowdy and mischievous being.
Jinn or Jinnie: Islamic spirit with free will to choose good or evil.
Kelpie: Shapeshifting spirit of Scottish lore.
Khamot: Thai, luminescent ghost.
Kichkandi: Nepalese apparition.
Lele: Romanian, female spirit.
Leyak: Indonesian ghost.
Mogwai: Chinese ghost.
Moroi: Romanian vampire or ghost.
Mujina: Japanese spirit.
Phantom: An apparition or trick of the imagination. The Phantom of the Opera’s given name was Erik.
Pixie: Mischievous Irish spirit.
Shade: A ghost or being of the underworld. To “throw shade” or subtly display contempt.
Shadow: Specter of a ghost.
Shaitan: Evil Islamic spirit.
Specter: A terrifying apparition or ghost.
Spirit: Detached soul.
Sprite: European fairy.
Spook: Frightful spirit.
Umbra: Phantom or shadowy image.
Wraith: The ghost of a once-living person.
Meaningful Male Grey Cat Names
Ashton/Asher: Of the ashes.
Coal or Cole: Glowing, burned, or charred wood.
Fogger: Misty or bewildered.
Gandalf: Lord of the Rings trilogy wizard, Gandalf the Gray.
Greymalkin: The witch’s attendant or familiar from Macbeth.
Grigio: Italian for “gray.”
Gris: French for “gray.”
Grizzly: Grizzled in appearance.
Mercury: Quicksilver.
Reardon: Hank Reardon, the protagonist of Atlas Shrugged, invents a new form of steel that is blue-green and far superior to stainless steel in strength. Then he gets dumped by Dagny Taggart.
Slater: Gray shale.
Smokey: Having the qualities of smoke, and the smooth tones of Smokey Robinson.
Specter: Ghost or apparition.
Stoked: Pumped or excited.
Stoker: One who tends the fire.
Sully: To stain or tarnish; makes a good name for a sometimes sullen cat.
Cool Russian Names for Grey Cats
Russian Blue cats are renowned for their intelligence and loyalty, as well as their plush grey coats. These gentle felines are happy to follow their owners around the home, perhaps seeking the wisdom to become human. They retain a strong hunting instinct, so keep them occupied with toys that mimic mouse sounds.
The Russian Blue is descended from the cats that were companions to the Tsars. As such, names from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry make appropriate names for these silvery cats. The Golden Age began with Pushkin and ultimately led to novels, satires, and plays. These name ideas from Russian luminaries suit the noble legacy of this elegant cat breed.
Andrei: Prince Andrei Bolkonsky doomed, first husband of Natasha in War and Peace.
Checkov: Playwright and short fiction writer, also the helmsman from Star Trek.
Czarina: Russian queen.
Dmitri: Dimitri Karamazov one of three brothers in Dostoyevsky’s Brother’s Karamazov.
Fyodor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky author of Crime and Punishment, which may be befitting of an active young cat.
Gorky: Maxim Gorky Russian author nominated five times for the Noble prize in literature.
Ivan: Common first name among Russian artists and Tsars, including Ivan the Terrible.
Nabokov: Author of Lolita.
Natasha: Beautiful bride of War and Peace.
Pushkin: Famous Russian writer and the Russian Shakespeare. Name your kitty Pushkin because it sounds like Pusskins!
Seryy: Russian for “gray.”
Tolstoy: Author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Karenina also makes a sweet name for a female Russian blue.
Tsar: Russian king.
Vanya: Chekov play, Uncle Vanya.
Zhivago: Famous fictional Russian doctor played by Omar Shariff.
Striped Grey Cat Names
Grey tabby cats with stripes and swirls invoke images of the jungle and the grasslands of the Kalahari. Honor your little wild cat with a stripy African animal name or choose something for your sweet tooth, like Peppermint or Lollipop.
Agate
Banzai (Lion King hyena)
Bumble
Candy Cane
Honey Bee
King Julien (Madagascar)
Lemur
Lollipop
Meeko (Pocahontas’s racoon)
Okapi
Peppermint
Rascal (Disney racoon)
Rebecca (Calvin Coolidge’s pet racoon)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Kipling’s mongoose)
Rocket Racoon (Marvel Guardian)
Rocky Racoon
Shenzi (Lion King hyena)
Taffy
Tartan
Tony the Tiger
Zebra
Final Thoughts:
Choosing names for grey cats can be a journey into the land of the undead or to the bright lights of Broadway. Remember T. S. Elliott’s wise observation that cats have three names, and feel free to combine two or three gray cat names to create a meaningful honorific for your cool cat.
