Black cats are adorable, unique, and beautiful. Here’s your complete list of names for black cats. You’ll find the right match for your new kitty.
Your kitty may be solid black with piercing green eyes or mostly black with a few white marketings.
If you’re lucky enough to adopt a black fur cat, your new kitty deserves a name to match their beauty.
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Picking the perfect name your entire family loves can be a challenge. You can name your black cat anything.
It may be worth getting to know your kitty a little more to consider their personality.
The sky’s the limit. And there’s no need to consider their black coat color if it doesn’t interest you.
Here are more than 150 adorable, funny, spooky, and creative black cat names. Your new bundle of fur will be purring with satisfaction.
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Best black cat names
1. Batgirl
2. Batman
3. Blackjack
4. Domino
5. Ebony
6. Eight-ball
7. Espresso
8. Fortune
9. Ink
10. Jet
11. Knight
12. Midnight
13. Night
14. Onyx
15. Panther
16. Pepper
17. Raven
18. Shadow
19. Ziggy
20. Zorro
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Halloween-inspired names for black cats
1. Abracadabra
2. Autumn
3. Beast
4. Blade
5. Bones
6. Boo
7. Candy
8. Casper
9. Crow
10. Dracula
11. Eerie
12. Ghost
13. Gremlin
14. Jack-o’-lantern
15. Lucifer
16. Magic
17. Monster
18. Moon
19. Mummy
20. Nightmare
21. October
22. Pumpkin
23. Spooky
24. Zombie
Unisex names for black cats
1. Anise
2. Ashes
3. Bean
4. Boots
5. Buffy
6. Casey
7. Coal
8. Fluffy
9. Java
10. Jordan
11. Lucky
12. Noir
13. Parker
14. Puma
15. Sage
16. Sid
17. Sky
18. Taylor
19. Tux
20. Zen
Black cat names for males
1. Ace
2. Arthur
3. Asher
4. Blake
5. Caesar
6. Chase
7. Cooper
8. Damien
9. Dante
10. Dexter
11. Edgar
12. Elvis
13. Felix
14. Frank
15. Frankie
16. Fritz
17. Hector
18. Hunter
19. Jack
20. Jasper
21. Luca
22. Luke
23. Macho
24. Moses
25. Nigel
26. Norman
27. Percy
28. Presley
29. Stallion
30. Stanley
31. Sylvester
32. Titus
33. Vlad
34. Xavier
35. Zenith
36. Zeus
Black cat names for females
1. Abby
2. Adrianna
3. Annie
4. Ashley
5. Bella
6. Betsy
7. Bubbles
8. Celeste
9. Cher
10. Dahlia
11. Diamond
12. Dixie
13. Dolly
14. Elle
15. Elvira
16. Eve
17. Jemma
18. Layla
19. Lily
20. Lolly
21. Mary
22. Misty
23. Paige
24. Rosie
25. Sable
26. Sabrina
27. Sadie
28. Salina
29. Samantha
30. Stella
31. Trixie
32. Zoey
33. Zora
Names for black cats from movies and TV shows
1. Bagheera (The Jungle Book)
2. Baloo (The Jungle Book)
3. Belle (Beauty and the Beast)
4. Binx (Hocus Pocus)
5. Black Panther (Avengers)
6. Catwoman
7. Coraline
8. Darth Vader (Star Wars)
9. Figaro (Pinocchio)
10. Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings)
11. Katniss (The Hunger Games)
12. Loki (Avengers)
13. Meowthra (The LEGO Ninjago Movie)
14. Mickey or Minnie
15. Nala (The Lion King)
16. Pandora
17. Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
18. Scat Cat (The Aristocats)
Witchy and magic-inspired black cat names
1. Bellatrix
2. Blair
3. Charm
4. Circe
5. Crookshanks
6. Eastwick
7. Gypsy
8. Hex
9. Hocus Pocus
10. Jinx
11. Lilith
12. Merlin
13. Minerva
14. Rune
15. Seer
16. Voodoo
17. Wicca
18. Wizard
Black cat names in other languages
1. Aswad (Black in Arabic)
2. Cheren (Black in Bulgarian)
3. Dubh (Black in Irish)
4. ‘ele’ele (Black in Hawaiian)
5. Fekete (Black in Hungarian)
6. Heise de (Black in Chinese)
7. Itim (Black in Filipino)
8. Kaala (Black in Hindi)
9. Khmaw (Black in Khmer)
10. Kuro (Black in Japanese)
11. Mavros (Black in Greek)
12. Musta (Black in Finnish)
13. Nera or Nero (Black in Italian)
14. Nigreos (Black in Latin)
15. Preta or Preto (Black in Portuguese)
16. Schwarz (Black in German)
17. Sev (Black in Armenian)
18. Siyah (Black in Turkish)
19. Sort (Black in Danish)
20. Zwart (Black in Dutch)
Food-inspired names for black cats
1. Anise
2. Blackberry
3. Brownie
4. Cardamom
5. Caviar
6. Chai
7. Chocolate
8. Clove
9. Coffee
10. Fudge
11. Godiva
12. Guinness
13. Hazel
14. Kona
15. Licorice
16. Molasses
17. Olive
18. Oreo
19. Poppy
20. Pudding
21. Ruffles
22. Sesame
23. Syrup
24. Twix
Now that you’ve read many choices, which name fits your black cat the best?
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