r/NameMyCat 8d ago

Help me please I'm looking for a super old name for my cat Name My Cat - male

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u/Girlieabslashes 8d ago

Percival

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u/tairozo 8d ago edited 8d ago

Purrcival?

Edit: Thank you kindly for the award!

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u/Lexpressionista74 8d ago

Shut up and take my upvote. This name for the win

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u/IrmaHerms 8d ago

Purrcival F. Smudge. The F stands for fluff

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u/Quixotic-Bliss 8d ago

Sir Purrcival F. Smudge, first if his name...

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u/Suspicious-Flan-2950 8d ago

Yes mean floof surely? 😅😂

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u/mac_is_crack 8d ago

Purrfect!

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u/rackfocus 8d ago

Purrcy for short. 😂

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u/tairozo 8d ago

Happy cake day!

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u/rackfocus 8d ago

Thank you!

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u/Marino80 8d ago

omfg his nickname could be like sir purr 😭

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u/Cal-lick-o-Kitten 8d ago

I came here to say Persephone, but it’s a boy so yeah, Purrcival!!

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u/Hapshedus 8d ago

Purrcival Bartholemew

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u/freshcatwitch 8d ago

That’s funny his eyes screamed this name to me on sight lmao

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u/Ekaterian50 8d ago

Yeah but if you want the actual oldest name you should do Kushim

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u/Real-Buy-3976 8d ago

I'm partial too Archibald

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u/_redpanda65_ 8d ago

Out orange and white male is Lord Archibald Candy Cane Jones.

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u/Traditional_Candy569 8d ago

Augustus

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u/DonaldKey 8d ago

We just named our grumpy cat this

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u/ekittie 8d ago

Excellent name.

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u/Ghoullag 8d ago

Barthelomeow

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u/Wewagirl 8d ago

Vastly underrated suggestion!! 🤣

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u/Popular-Desk8444 8d ago

This was my cats name (he has passed) we used to alternate bartholomeow and bartlebeast.

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u/i-hate-bananas 8d ago

Barthelomeow chungus gingersnap III

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u/SneakWhisper 8d ago

The third!

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u/Grim-Gryzz-Skull 8d ago

Mortimer

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u/ghostfacedthrilla 8d ago

Mortimeow

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u/lachesis12 8d ago

Meowtimer

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u/MaybeTaylorSwift572 8d ago

Ok i really love this name for kitty!

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u/northwyndsgurl 8d ago

Methusala

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u/LateDelivery3935 8d ago

I came here to say this

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u/LoneBullseye 8d ago

Me bc I watched Altered Carbon..

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u/FoghornLeghornWeasel 8d ago
  1. Mewthusala
  2. Fleance

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u/BZBitiko 8d ago

Nebuchadnezzar

Or Nimród, a mighty hunter before God!

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u/homeycuz 8d ago

Thusie, for short

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u/SunjoKojack 8d ago

Meowthusala surely

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u/SmokinHotNot 8d ago

Gandalf

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u/onfire916 8d ago

Gandalf the Spayed

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u/chocolatemeowmeow 8d ago

I almost used that name!

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u/ToyaBlaze 8d ago

So genius, so purrfect!

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u/Suspicious-Flan-2950 8d ago

Gandalf the floof

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u/DarthRik3225 8d ago

I zoomed in really close looked into each one of those kitty eyes deep into his kitty soul then zoomed out real quick and honestly he’s a Bob all the way you could even name him Robert but call him Bob that is what his soul is saying.

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u/Brilliant-Chart5012 8d ago

I had a great grandfather named Romulus Thaddeus Payne!

And a relative on our tree named Benedict, but we all know what he did and his name became synonymous with traitor. Still a cool old name. (Trivia, he was convinced to switch sides by a bwitching woman. He's also consider one of the great generals. Still, he killed our kith and kin, direct relative or not.)

"Noel" my grand father and uncles middle name. Nickname: "Noee"

Maxamillion

Maxwell

Max

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u/ShirlzWorld1959 8d ago

We have a cat at work that I named Max Amillion, cause to me he’s worth a million!!!

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u/Popular-Desk8444 8d ago

To the max

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u/moniqueramsey 8d ago

You’re related to Benedict Arnold?! Wow! 🤩

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u/Perle1234 8d ago

My son did a diorama in elementary school that was a shoe box decorated like a casket with a paper mache leg painted like a uniform wearing a combat boot. I laughed so hard when he brought it home. I still have it and he’s 27 years old lol.

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u/Greedy-Ad-3815 8d ago

I'm thinking Maximus!

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u/dreamerbabykiss 8d ago

Engelbert

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u/mspuscifer 8d ago

Humpadink humpadink humpadink!

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u/BecciRenee 8d ago

😹😹

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u/JustmeandJas 8d ago

Adam. Very very old.

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u/Cal-lick-o-Kitten 8d ago

I came here to say this lol

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u/RocketFeathers 8d ago

Or Cain or Abel.

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u/superPlasticized 8d ago

Then they may as well go with the real OG, God.

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u/Surfercats 8d ago

Mr. Darcy

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u/PeeWeeCallahan 8d ago

swoon

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u/Surfercats 8d ago

He’s so handsome 💖

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u/Hanna_light600 8d ago

Sidney

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u/irisyellow 8d ago

He looks like a Sidney.

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u/nicole070875 8d ago

My cats name is Sidney! She is 17

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u/irisyellow 8d ago

Abraham

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u/Broad-Challenge-7413 8d ago

Clifford

Alfred

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u/Mooseagery cat enthusiast 8d ago

Godfrey.

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u/mamaaussie 8d ago

Hilarious name for a cat

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u/inarealdaz 8d ago

Basil

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u/Midlife_Crisis_46 8d ago

Milton, Walter, Archie

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u/puddncake 8d ago

I actually know a Milton, he's in his forties. My grandpa was Archibald, grandpa Archie.

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u/Jettcat- 8d ago

Balthazar

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u/Ragey65 8d ago

Barnabus

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u/Fuzzy-Conversation21 8d ago

Elmer or Floyd

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u/Broad-Challenge-7413 8d ago

Thought this said Elmer Fudd 😂

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u/bethan2406 8d ago

Gilgamesh. Gilgy for short

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u/tonkaitsu_u 8d ago

Gertrude

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u/nickie305 8d ago

Ecbert

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u/Egg_Toss 8d ago

Lord Tummy Rumbles

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u/haftashit 8d ago

Gertrude.

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u/Ryan_D_Lion 8d ago

Charlamagne

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u/kerutland 8d ago

Archimedes

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u/LoveKittycats119 8d ago

Cat-herine? Then you could call her Kitty for short (assuming the cat is female)? Victorian male names include Simeon (Simeow?) and Oscar.

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u/moniqueramsey 8d ago

Mortimer

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u/slappedarse79 8d ago

Edith or Edward

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u/TwilightZel 8d ago

Francis

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u/Black_Pearl1150 8d ago

She’s a female. See the tricolor? I suggest Guinevere.

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u/Tendas 8d ago

When my friend was 5, his parents promised him they’d get a family pet for Christmas. Sure enough Christmas comes and they now have a family cat. Much to the horror of a 5 year old boy, his parents informed him it was a female cat and he lost it. Out of 5 year old tantrum spite he still named the cat Henry.

No point to the story, just thought it was funny to share.

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u/Cal-lick-o-Kitten 8d ago

One in 2,000 calico cats is actually Male. And I happen to have a FEMALE orange tabby. Genetics, amirite?

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u/alisonchains2023 8d ago

This is what I was going to suggest! Beautiful name.

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u/quiethippo1119 8d ago

Michelangelo

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u/DJSmiffy 8d ago

Aethelwulf. Athelstan. Audrey. Edred. Edgar. Edith.

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u/gladespeak 8d ago

winnifred

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u/MotherOfDoggos4 8d ago

Wolfram the Dignified

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u/SyntheticRavens 8d ago

Harlan or Harlow

Montgomery aka Monty

Cornelius

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u/DeliciousBee796 8d ago

Myrtle....

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u/91bravohotel8 8d ago

Alexander

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u/Oreadno1 cat enthusiast 8d ago

Obadiah
Eliphalet
Almanzo
Gawain
Galahad

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u/fjolo123 8d ago

I imagine someone in the stone age named Ooh or Ugg.

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u/phizappa 8d ago

H. R. Puffinstuff

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u/AwesomeAfanA07 8d ago

Grunkle Stan (He looks like that would be his name)

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u/meowmeow_plantfood 8d ago

Kushim is the oldest recorded name, at about 5000 years old

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u/StygianFeels 8d ago

Loxley, Thelonius, Gulliver, Quillon, Gawain, Tybalt, Llewellyn, Tolliver, Alpheus, and Bellamy.

I think he most looks like a Loxley, Gawain, Llewellyn or Tolliver.

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u/Mojomajik99 8d ago

Malachi

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u/Brueology 8d ago

Melchizedek Enoch Noah Gilgamesh Enkidu Methusela Ramses

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u/fadedbluntz420 8d ago

podrick (from game of thrones)

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u/Cal-lick-o-Kitten 8d ago

Guipetto (sp?) from picconocchio (sp?) lmao

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u/ohsowhat 8d ago

Ignatious

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u/Tendas 8d ago

Ser Pounce.

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u/SiBurford 8d ago

Cornelius

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u/Alicia1605 8d ago

Why an old name, with that handsome face he should have a cool name.🥰🥰🥰🥰

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u/nuttycapri 8d ago

Mephistopholes.

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u/millicent_bystander- 8d ago

Grindelwald.

Arthur.

Reg.

Brindle.

Caspian.

Monty.

Claybourne.

Rafiki.

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u/dee615 8d ago

Trilobite

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u/LivinginthePit 8d ago

Archimedes

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u/LishaMarie1979 8d ago

Zeus..or Persephone

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/Joyfulblessingsshine 8d ago

Theodore ,Abraham ,Thor, Axion

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u/DismalAd8187 8d ago

So Floofy and cute!!

ARCHIE!

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u/bobzi13 8d ago

Azelus

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u/Potential-Teacup76 8d ago

Ebenezer or Harold

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u/robituri 8d ago

Merlin

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u/longpas 8d ago

Gertrude

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u/ilovecats0033 8d ago

Beatrice

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u/Jjttf 8d ago

Eugene

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u/SimplyRedd333 8d ago

Emmett ✨

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u/Adventurous_Land7584 8d ago

Martin, Harold, Larry, Gregory

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u/dreamweaver1998 8d ago

Bertram or Burton. Lil' Burtie boy.

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u/DLQuilts 8d ago

Honus Wagner

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u/EWH733 8d ago

Zebulon

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u/TekWzrd337 8d ago

Marvin

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u/BadArtistGoodListenr 8d ago

He kind of hits me like a Cyrano.

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u/vorpalgazebo 8d ago

Nanette, Geraldine, Betsy, Prudence

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u/-Lexxy 8d ago

Maeve/ Mavis 🥺

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u/undercntrol 8d ago

Humbert

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u/Sea-Sundae3120 8d ago

Cleopatra

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u/CDubs_94 8d ago

Abercrombie!

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u/Legal-Rip1725 8d ago

Chief River Tears

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u/Mommyekf 8d ago

Silas

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u/wiscomm 8d ago

Æthelred the Great, Zebulon, Gerald

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u/Annual_Crow4215 8d ago

Carmine (Carmy)

Walter

Edwin

Archie

Giuseppe

Ernesto

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u/SherLovesCats 8d ago

Elsie, Claire, or Elise

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u/CupcakePractical3155 8d ago

Victoria or Vincent