Naming a Kitten: Stormageddon Dark Lord Of All?

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I got a kitty.

I campaigned for a kitty for years with no luck. Now, I need help with naming a kitten.

Randy told me that he was thinking about getting me a kitten for Christmas and I didn’t waste any time or give him a chance to think it through. We got a rescue kitten yesterday. He is three months old and has been fostered by the same woman since he was 3 weeks old. He was her favorite of her fostered kitties. She was sad to let him go and we had a long and lovely chat about the little guy.

HE IS SO CUTE.

I hope I will have a picture of him, but he’s black and squirmy so he either won’t sit down or he looks like a shadow in pictures.

Joey fell in love with him and even Randy, who promised he would have no emotional involvement in the kitty has been acting like a big goof with the kitten.

He doesn’t have a name yet, though. I need help with a name. Here is the list so far:

  • Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All
  • Darth Gato
  • Oz (short for Oswin)
  • Lucifurry
  • Mr. Kitty
  • Weirdo
  • Kitty Kitty
  • Felix Costello
  • Turd Ferguson (this is Randy’s contribution. It will not make the final cut even though he has been calling the kitty nothing but “Turd Ferguson”. 
  • Mr Creosote

My lovely niece named her cat Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All so I would totally be stealing her cat’s name. That’s not too weird, is it? That’s the name I’m leaning toward, but Randy and Joey don’t like it. I just can’t tell yet, who he looks like.

His eyes are green, but you don’t see much green at all, they’re mostly black. He is all black except for two tufts of white on his chest.

His foster mom bottle fed him and he does this thing where he likes to suck on pillows for comfort. He discovered my stuffed dog, Dude. He made biscuits on Dude and sucked on Dude’s leg until he fell asleep.

I have no idea if it was having a kitten purring and sleeping beside us, but Randy and I slept in later today than we have in a very long time.

Now, we have to make our Sunday trip to the grocery store. I have to buy some kitty treats and some more toys. Definitely, more toys.

So, help me out here. I need good kitty names.

 

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  3. I love black kitties! Love the name Stormageddon. My black cat was named “Trouble,” a name that definitely suited him. He lived 13 wonderful years and brought us such pleasure (and trouble, of course). Enjoy your little one — he’s definitely a cutie!

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  4. I have a black cat, she is now 16 years old. I named her Boo Boo Kitty, after the stuffed cat on Laverne and Shirley. Mostly I call her simply Boo. I think I remember you are in Ohio? The Cincinnati area? I have a friend who fosters kittens for OAR (Ohio Alleycat Rescue).

    What ever you name him, he will give you years of love. Happy Christmas.

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  6. Darth Gato and Oz REALLY appeal!

    My amazing mate, Bob, always named our new beasties because I tend to be wickedly pretentious (in naming).

    I had a black cat once (pre-Bob) who I just HAD to name Muhammad Ali. Of course. Left up to me, we’d have Reptilicus (not Rocco), Godzilla (instead of Ghost Cat) and Mothra (not Coco).

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  7. Congratulations on your new kitty! I volunteer with a cat rescue group and foster cats and kittens all the time (in fact I have 6 kittens up in my spare bedroom right now.) So it makes me very happy to hear that (A) you adopted from a rescue and (B) that it is a black kitty, because people often overlook the black ones, even though in my experience the black ones have awesome, darling personalities and grow up to be gorgeous house panthers! As far as names, I know you’re a Doctor Who fan, so maybe a cool name from that series? Enjoy! =^..^=

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  10. I like that you haven’t slapped a name on him yet. It’s as though you’re getting to know him first. Having said that, I vote for “JET”.

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  11. Pluto.
    That’s probably not the best name because everyone’s going to think of the Disney dog, but that’s the name of the solid black cat from Poe’s story “The Black Cat”.
    When that cat meets an unfortunate end it’s replaced with another that has a white spot on its chest.
    Yeah, that story’s pretty grim too, so let me go in a completely different direction: your kitten sounds kind of like he’s wearing a tuxedo so call him “Tennessee Tuxedo”.
    You have good friends in Tennessee after all and you can imagine him speaking in the voice of Don Adams.

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  12. Oh my God, I love name-my-pet posts. I posted a picture of Gus as a tiny kitten and overnight had over a hundred responses. The winner: Gustav Mahler. Enough about me.

    How about:

    Cinder
    Noir
    Ebony

    or go the other way because it would be funny to meet a black cat named:

    Snowball
    Snowpuff
    Snowflake

    Don’t forget to let us know what you came up with.

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  13. Aawwww…. Kitty!

    When ‘Bam’ went through my head (in BIG RED letters like they used to do in the OLD old cartoons for sound effects) it may have been from Randy.
    “Bam! Got her a kitten!”

    Either way: Winner Michelle!

    Happy for your new joy 😀
    Super happy a foster kitty gets a real home for Christmas!

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  14. I too, had a black cat. He was from the SPCA and was a “mature” cat – double whammy, black and mature! I named him Soda (there is a story to this) and loved him to bits. Alfie is a great kitty name and if your heart feels good about it, go for it. Or Mink, Minke (pronounced Minky but spelled in a way that suggests foreign-ness and could get bastardized to Monkey, which is a cute pet name for a playful kitten). Anyway. Congratulations on the adoption of (fill in the blank).

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  15. Love that you got a rescue kitty. All of mine over the years have been rescued or from friends. We only have one now but wish we had 5 lol! My sister had a black cat that was named Midnight. He was a great big old boy. I love Dr. Who also so Stormagedden is great! but Alfie is too.

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  17. Cats have three names: the one that goes in the file at the vet, the one (-s) you actually call them at home and the one only they know. You’ll find the right combo after a bit. Felines are fuckin awesome!!! Enjoy :-}

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  18. Stormageddon was our youngest’s name while he was still in-utero – of course we had to give him a more “normal” name when he came out. That’s my vote.

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  22. Consider Dudette! But really, wait and watch. She’ll do something that tells you her name. This comes from experience. Gem the rescue cat was temporarily Cassidy and then Sparky (sparks would fly off her as she walked across the carpet and when I would pet her in my original, basement apartment. We bonded over the sparks, she was an old soul cat who grounded me every day of my life. Choose carefully – with a twinkle in your eye. Names have power. 🙂

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  23. Dexter Danger, stolen from my cousin who named his 3rd boy that, and now a 4th boy on the way, “Paxton Pain.” Love cats, but we’re a house full of allergies ☹️ Have fun!!

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  24. Saturday afternoon I picked up three new fosters. They were rescued just in time to avoid the single digit temps that hit Saturday night. I named them Jackpot, Powerball, and Mega Millions because they won the lottery on timing. I have two other fosters that I named Belle and Whistle. Five years ago a litter was born and my boyfriend (now ex) named the two boys Thor and Optimus Prime (he was watching movies that night). The cat I had for nineteen years was named Phaze, from the Piers Anthony books. We have a former feral named Houdini because of what happened the day we trapped her and accidentally turned her loose in the bedroom. Bob was born with a deformed tail.

    So yeah, cat names come about for a variety of reasons (some better than others). Sometimes I ask “What is your name?” and listen. Sometimes I get an answer – sometimes not.

    We have a couple of black teenage cattens who live across the street. I dubbed them Shasta and Shadow. Seems like Shadow might be an option for your guy.

    BTW, black cats are notoriously hard to photograph! We have a black cat named Catra who turned 13 in September. We brought her home on Halloween night when she was a kitten (and it took me three weeks to name her). I get great pics of her when there is a lot of light – otherwise, yeah, she turns into a shadow or a black blob. LOL

    Congratulations on becoming a kitty mom and thank you so much for adopting!

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    • Thank you so much! Yeah, he is NOT easy to photograph. I didn’t realize that black kitties were hard to place. I don’t understand that at all because he is a sweetie pie.

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      • Yeah, they are almost always the last to find homes. It is really sad because most of them have wonderful personalities. Catra has two wonderful personalities and about five that are downright nasty, but we love her anyway. 🙂

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      • Yes, both black cats and black dogs are hard to place.

        I have my black cat, Milli, because no one in Texas would adopt her and my friend’s baby had severe allergies so poor Milli was put on a plane to live with me. I’ve had her over 10 years and never succeeded in getting a good picture. She is a love. And she drools. And rules the house.

        As to sucking on Dude’s leg, yes, bottle fed kitties do retain sucking behaviors for life. One of my previous kitties was that way.

        If the name Alfie sticks, will you sing “What’s it all about, Alfie?” to him? Some cats earn a song. Caroline was “Sad eyes” and Dude’s was “Dude looks like a lady” (he had surgery to remove his penis after repeated problems with FUTS) or “Addicted to spuds”. And whistling “O, Canada” was magic to Caroline, Dude and Rascal. (I used to watch a lot of hockey.)

        So glad you adopted a rescue. May you have many years of joy and laughter.

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  26. Well, I’m a smartass, so I’d go with Rorschach. Then, when people ask you why you’d name your cat Rorschach, you can say, “That’s interesting. You see a cat? What else do you see there?”

    But if you’re really set on Stormageddon, you could just name him Alfie and call him Stormageddon in your heart 😉

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  27. If he has two tufts of fur on his chest, you could go with the obvious – Boobs or Spot. My little orange girl went through about 6 names in 3 days until we settled on Blaze. We actually were going for Persimmon for a while, but then I realized I couldn’t remember it and had to go through a mental list of which fruits/vegetables were red/orange! When the mood suits, she actually answers to Blaze (it’s only taken 10 years)!

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  28. When I saw your kitten is black, I was reminded of a story told by Norman Reedus, star of The Walking Dead, explaining why his black cat is named Eye In The Dark. It’s been reprinted all over the internet since he told the story during a People Magazine interview in 2013. There’s a copy on a blog here:
    http://moviepilot.com/posts/2934179

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  30. Stormageddon Dark Lord Of All is quite a mouthful, imagine standing on the front porch calling “Here Stormageddon Dark Lord Of All, here kitty kitty”!

    Could be Stormy for short though.

    Lucifurry is also cute!

    Of course mentioning long cat names makes me need to tell you about the naming of the cat that my sister had when we were kids. K. started out naming the cat Cindy, then every time she thought of a new cat name she liked, it would just get tacked on. By the time Cindy passed away at what must have been thirteen or fourteen years of age, her full and splendid title was Cindy Pinkpaws Fluffy Queen Scaredycat Aldinger Innagain Outagain Finnegan Sinnegan Silken-Satin Marmalade Warm Fuzzy.

    I think the family last name got put in at a point when my sister thought she was done with the naming. She was mistaken. 😀

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  31. Awww! A kitten’s purr is just everything. Congrats to all of you.
    As for a name…hmmm….I vote Duke something, not of Hazard though.

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  32. Black cats are indeed definitely hard to place as far as the United States goes. I just returned from a volunteer stint at my local shelter and there’s a “Home for the Holidays” foster event going on now. While it’s great to see any of them get a break, I did very much notice that it’s mostly the poor little black ones that were left. At any rate, I’m so happy that you adopted the little guy (especially from a shelter!)

    I’m usually of the opinion that the right name will come, but that doesn’t mean I can’t prepare a list to try to help things out. You could go for fictional black cat names, like Bagheera or Sylvester. Onyx is cute. And since you like the Dr. Who cat names, there’s always Brannigan. (In Gridlock, the Tenth Doctor meets Brannigan (human catkind), his wife, and their newborn children – a litter of kittens. 🙂

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  33. We have race memories of black cats being associated with witches, and there was a time when you really didn’t want people thinking that of you. All of ours were black rescue cats with names beginning with M which meant cat in some language. Mr Alfie Noir sounds suitable though. Or Mr Alfie Noir-Poston-Combes for the vet’s file!

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  34. We have a black cat. He was a cute kitten, now he’s a 19 lb. trim black panther. Big sweetie named Hunter because I wanted him to hunt the gophers and voles in my garden. Didn’t realize that they bring you live “gifts” to share in the kill. It was a snake placed on my feet while I was on a conference call. Those people still have ringing in their ears. He’s now an indoor cat.

    We weren’t cat people but our daughter begged. Now we have 2 rescues and sometimes like them more than our kids.

    BTW, on a sad and cruel note, keep Alfie inside around Halloween. Apparently very sick people prey on black cats that time of year.

    Congratulations on your darling addition.

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  36. I was gonna link you to that T.S. Eliot poem, but L.E. beat me to it.
    The cat we’re living with right now is technically owned by our housemate John, and as such was here before we were. John said that she didn’t really have a name, and he just sort of called her “Kitty”. I didn’t want to intrude on his wishes for his cat, but I just sort of started calling her “Kitters” and it’s seemingly stuck. John doesn’t seem to mind.
    My very first cat was black, with a little white spot on his chest. He just sort of wandered up to the house one day, this tiny little ball of black fluff, and was like “I’m here! When’s dinner?” My sister named him Cleo after failing to find his boy-parts, but the name stuck even after they were on full display. He grew to weigh 19 pounds and had a glorious life (and death) .
    My friend Sara had a black cat she utterly worshiped named Charlie Murphy Mew, and her sort of boyfriend who helped name him now has a black cat named Samuel L. Jackson.
    Two of my favorite political bloggers, Driftglass and Blue Gal have a podcast called the Professional Left, and each week they feature an Internet Kitty (or Kitties) of the Week, chosen from pictures emailed to their website of Facebook page. I got Charlie Murphy featured there when he was still around, and a couple of weeks ago I got Raven’s cats Molly and Tikal (can you tell that Raven is a DJ?) featured there. Last week they ran a picture of their own cats (Olive and Barack Hussein the Kenyan Usurper, yes they are both black) so they may be low on pictures right now, and as such, if you should happen to get a good shot of Alfie and email it to them (or me) your cat could be famous for a week. Wait, your cat is already famous, he’s on your blog right now.
    My favorite cat name story was from my friend Terry, whose cousin named his all-white kitten “Shadow” but wanted to use the Spanish word, so he walked up to a Mexican construction worker, pointed to a shadow on the floor, and asked what the Spanish word for it was. The guy told him it was suelo, and that’s what he named his kitten. Two years later when his nephew who spoke Spanish was visiting, he asked him why it was that he called his cat “floor”…

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  37. AAAAAAAAAAAAAHH CUTENESS!!!
    Nutty Hubby and I really want to adopt a black kitty and call it Velcro. But Alfie is cute too. 😉
    Not that it really matters anyway, because let’s face it- no one ever calls their pet by their proper given name more than, like, 10% of the time. The other 90% is goofy nicknames (and the occasional expletive).

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  38. He sounds very cute – I would go with Blackie. We have Charlie the cat, and Alfie and Rosie the staffie dogs – and any of them can be called any of the three names !!! LOL
    Have fun with “whatever you decide to his name will be”. While I am so not an animal person, these three have crept into my heart and have provided me with some much company and entertainment especially when Al is away. Even my Dad who is even more not an animal person than I am, had great affection for the dogs (Charlie is an inside cat so he doesn’t see him that much).
    Enjoy the cold – K said it’s freezing by her this week. xox

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  40. I love black kitties! Oh I am so excited for you, you have so much love and black fur coming your way! I think Stormageddon is fantastic, but I’m a big Doctor Who fan. You could call him Stormy.
    My last black kitty was named Fishstix (the 6 year old named him) We called him Fish for short. He was such a dear. When we moved into our new house he got out and I ended up standing on my porch yelling “Here Fish Fish” The neighbors decided that we were just a little off. But I figured I could work with that.

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  41. Congrats!!! I’m so jealous. We’ve been without a minou for over 2 years and I’ve been pining for one this past month. I’m so tempted to adopt another but sadly cannot afford – have my dog to take care of. Twenty-seven years ago we got an adorable black tortie who we named Dakota Red. I called her Koko, and she had the sweetest disposition. Never gave me a moment’s trouble. She was very difficult to photograph! When we lived in Ontario, four feral black cats hung out in the alley behind our house and I named the only one with a white chest spot Jango. I think Alfie is a great name. What a wonderful Christmas gift! Major points for Randy! (Umm…you know about cats and xmas trees, right?)

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  42. Our black cat was Azriel. My kids told me it was from the Smurfs, as in Gargamel’s cat. Years later they told me that Azriel was from the Bible, and was one of Lucifer’s minions. The name really fit her…she was a terror, and died 8 days before her 20th birthday. I truly thought she would outlive us, and dance on our graves. I hated that cat, and I miss her so much. Have fun with your kitten.

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  45. I think you should totally steal Stormageddon. You could spell it Stormaggedon and leave off the Dark Lord of All part and tell her it’s a totally different name.

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