It always seems to match their personalities at least

Sylvie (left, named her after having just finished Loki season one) and Molly (Cobb, For All Mankind)

My girl cat Persephone got a goddess name, but we normally do old lady names and had a mental block on them at the time. So Percy it is.

It doesn't apply in my case, but I like the idea of a goddess called Bubbles and a Taco Bell item called Squanch.

"Crunchwrap Supreme", but we just call him "Crunchy" for short.

Also dictators. I know boy cats named Meowsolini and Chairman Meow.

Saddam Hussein, and Saddam Hussein's best friend
- Saddam *Hissein
- Behind the Bastards?
When I adopted my cat his name was LuciPurr and I promptly renamed him to Lucifer
- So you renamed him from LuciPurr to LuciFur, got it
Paw Zedong
I have a cat named Francis, but sometimes I call him Francisco Franco 😂
You listen to behind the bastards don't you?
- I don’t, should I?

I have a girl cat named Preggo.

We rescued her during a tornado storm, in Arkansas, and we thought she was pregnant so I just called her Preggo.
\ By the time we got her to the vet we found out she's not pregnant, just fat and weird, however by that time she got used to being called Preggo so we just kept that up.

- At first I was confused about why someone would copy some random twitter user's post on here, but now I'm even more confused about why someone would fake a month old twitter post
  I mean I respect the art, it definitely had an effect on me
- Wtf? Is dead internet true?
- What the hell is going on here?
- That's crazy! Although I've told this story many times before haha, I'm surprised a bot picked it up but not at the same time.
  I am genuinely truthful in my story haha, she's an awesome cat!
- they are both jayden smith just spelled differently... why?

wtf is Taco Bell?! AND WHY IS MY PHONE AUTO CAPITALISING THE NAME!!

Because corporate logos and names are our new deities. Chill out and have a Star Bucks!
- I don’t really think we have time for a hand job, Joe.

My Boy: Rails, for Ruby on Rails.

My Girl: Sushi, cause she's black and white and looks like a roll.

I hope your cat never finds out he could have been called ruby but you choose to go with rails....
- We had a Ruby but she died 😢

My princess is named: Winter.

Because she's white.

We name all the cats regardless of sex after something to do with literature. But that's their government names and I normally don't use those online to protect their tiny kitty privacy.

All their nicknames are like

Jerkcat Babycat Dingus YOU FUCKER STOP CHEWING PLASTIC creature Sweetie Grey ghost Great hunter

Look, just anything that pops into my head as I sing sweet nothings to them

Current cat is creature often. Little weird creature.

Aww we've got a YOU FUCKER STOP CHEWING PLASTIC at home, too

Mona and Nachos... Can confirm.

But mona is also an insult in slang, so ... 🤷

My friend has a cat named Apollo and the man lives up to his name

Names of my kitties over more than two decades:

Girls: Nova, Athena

Boys: Casper (black), Cocoa (white with blue eyes), Marconi

All kitties have dignified names.

Marconi
I have a corgi named Macaroni.
- Hahaha. One of the medical assistants read his name as Macaroni. The vet was like, "He's named for the discoverer of radio, right?" I affirmed and he made her apologize, which I thought was unnecessary. I guess he wanted my kitty to have the dignity of being addressed by his correct name. I told her I didn't mind.

Black male cat: Lucifer

Which is kind of funny, you'd think a white cat would better fit "light bringer"
- It's post downfall
I too have a Luci. He's the best worst cat ever.

Chalupa Batman and Osiris.

lol.

All of my cats were named after Star Wars characters. No one, regardless of assigned gender, needs to be named “ Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Tacos.”

I once met a boy cat named Vendetta.

Funny, I’m close to the opposite. My boy cat is named after a god (Apollo, Greek god) and my girl cat is named after my favourite drink (Islay, scotch from Islay, Scotland).

Not Laphroaig?
- Brb getting a cat so I can name it Lagavulin
- My next cat will be named Quarter Cask

Luna - male

Eclipse - female

Madame (formally Freya) - female

Bat - female

Ding - male

Rainbow bridge: Gaia - female, Apollo - female

Bat and Ding had those names at the shelter and we didn't see a reason to change them. Luna ... We were told he was a she as a kitten, and after a week of proper nutrition we saw the boy bits and just kept the name. Apollo was purposely named that way because we already had one swap and then we'd have the sun and moon.

If bat and ding are patterned/spotted. Then the dingbat joke kind of fits. (Dingbat characters are characters used in printing, that instead of being letters are ornamental pictograms, which from a far look like ink spots most of the time. i swear i remember there being long, whispy characters made as edge fillers, but i can't find them anywhere.)

I just kept the names from the shelter, in case the cats were used to them already.

We currently have a female cat. We called her sky. Beforehand we had a male cat, all white with a black head. We called him yorshik. Which i'm quite sure it's a corruption of the russian for toilet brush... Poor thing.

Doing a quick search on “Yorshik” (Ёршик), of the very few sources I could find on the topic, while the word does seem to translate to “brush” there doesn’t seem to be any surface connection to toilet brush per se, though naturally it may be possible on a colloquial level.
This source that deals with meanings and etymologies of Russian words says:
Слово «ёршик» является диалектным выражением, используемым в русском языке для обозначения маленькой ёлочной игрушки в виде ёлочной ветки или шишки. Это слово имеет древнерусское происхождение и связано с древними славянскими обрядами, связанными с поклонением природе и деревьям.
Which DDG translate says means
The word "brush" is a dialectal expression used in the Russian language to refer to a small Christmas tree toy in the form of a Christmas tree branch or cone. This word is of Old Russian origin and is associated with ancient Slavic rites associated with the worship of nature and trees.
The only other resource I’ve found is this 11 year old YouTube video in Russian, that I can’t really understand. They seem to be joking about something, and “New Year” is mentioned, but I didn’t hear the word for toilet.
As far as I can understand, Yorshik seems to mean “brush” or “little brush”.
- the name was born as a joke from my multilingual aunt and got deformed to hell by us not really knowing what it meant other than her vague explanation. It was most likely a longer word that got truncated into something more pronounceable in my native language, so it's not too out of the question that it lost a lot of meaning in the process. Though "little brush" also fit well with how bristly his fur was. So he may have gotten off better than we originally intended :-P.

Well I guess if we're just throwing out cat names we've used

Boy: Rocky, Guardian, Scout, Peewee, Houdini, Big Boy

Girl: Socks, Magellan, Diva, Leia, Izzie, Ozzie, Fireball, Ditto, Belle, Oreo

I once lived with a male Norwegian mutt named Nipsey Russel.

He was an interesting character like his namesake. He was an amazing cat who loved alcohol, you literally had to keep an eye on your drink.

Girl cats: Himalaya, Sable, Shasta, Ka'ala, Pixel, Dingdong, Biscuits&Gravy, Wanda, Palomar (minsser)

Boy Cats: Mao, Theobroma (theo), Mr. 305, Buster, Britches, Cowcat, Tomlinson, Noodle, Handsome, Millie

One of my girl cats was literally named Girl Cat.

I named by boy Willow, because he had very long limbs and tail, reminded me of the tree. the petsmart employee thought it was weird tho and only wrote 'Will' down on the form

Will O, the Wisp-y tail

Counter argument: Potato and Spacy

My old friend had a male cat he named Leonidas.

Yes, he got him shortly after 300 came out, rofl.

roflcopter
- ...goes SCHWAH SCHWAH SCHWAH

Damnit it's true. My female cat's name is Aurora (Bora Alice) and my last male was simply named Siatie (c a t)

I've had cats named Baldr, Hermóðr, Grendel, and Wotan. I've currently got a Valkyrie, Brynhildr, Freyja, and Freya (we got Freya when she was a year old because her owner couldn't keep her, and we already had Frejya, so...). But our current boy cats are Svartur ('cuz he's black), Robert, and Charlie.

I named my girl Selune... I guess I'm basic D=

My buddy for 17 years, since passed - Bailey (because he was a tabby with a belly the same color of Bailey's Irish Cream.

My current littermates, brother and sister:

Girl: Willett Boy: Scout

Both named after bourbons - Willett and Smooth Ambler Old Scout.

My 2 boy cats:

Named after a character in LotR
Named after a kind of cheese

Our girl cat is Dweezil. Close enough.

My girl is Midnight Killer Sparkles.

Our house is princesses for the girls and weapons for the boys.

Please tell me you have a cat named Glock. Or Smith & Wesson.

Mine are two girl cats: Moose and Yeti. Moose is fluffy, majestic and too spart. Yeti is a dumb little angle baby