Cat name generator
Every suggestion is a name real cats carry — drawn from licensed and shelter cat records, weighted by how popular each name actually is. Filter the pool, deal a hand, save the keepers.
How this generator is different
Most cat-name generators shuffle an editorial word list. This one draws from municipal records — Toronto and Seattle licenses plus named cats in US shelters — so every name it deals is one real cats answer to, and popular names surface as often as their real-world popularity earns. Rare picks still appear: the draw is weighted, not winner-take-all.
The gender filter uses the male/female lean measured from named shelter cats (a name counts as a girl or boy name only when at least three quarters of the cats with a recorded gender lean that way), and the style filters come from our curated cat lists — cute, funny, black, orange, Japanese and more.
Found a candidate? Its card links to a full profile — rank, Toronto trend, gender lean and city-by-city counts — and the heart saves it to your shortlist. Or skip the dice and browse all cat names.