Furbabies
Cat Care Site
Names for Black Cats
- Asbolos
- From the Greek meaning 'soot-coloured'
- Ash (M,F)
- Black powder remaining after a fire
- Ashley (M,F)
- - Meaning 'ash grove' (Old English)
- Celebrity owners: Regis Philbin
- Alternative spellings: Ashlee, Ashleigh - Black Beauty
- Meaning beautiful black animal
- Blackberry
- Edible black coloured berry
- Blackie
- - Meaning black
- Celebrity owners: Calvin Coolidge (US President) - Black Jack
- Gambling game
- Blackmagic
- Boat of Team New Zealand - Americas cup
- Blackrider
- After The Lord Of The Rings
- Blackshadow
- Meaning black
- Blacky
- - Meaning black
- Celebrity owners: Matthew Arnold (Poet) - Blake (M,F)
- Meaning 'black' (Old English)
- Bronsyn
- Meaning son of the dark haired one
- Carbon
- Non-metallic element occurring as diamond, graphite or carbon
- Carboncopy
- Meaning exact copy
- Chimneysweep
- Person who cleans chimneys
- Choochoo
- - The noise a steam train makes
- Alternative spelling: Chuchu - Ciara (F)
- Meaning 'black' (Gaelic)
- Cinder
- Piece of partly burnt coal or wood
- Cinderella (F)
- - Meaning 'little ash girl' (French)
- From the fairy tale - Cinderelle (F)
- Meaning 'little ash girl' (French)
- Cinders
- From the French cendres meaning 'ashes'
- Cindy (F)
- - Meaning 'from Mount Kynthos' (Greek)
- Meaning cinders
- Celebrity owners: Bill Brochtrup (Actor) - Coal
- Hard black mineral used for burning as a fuel
- Cole (M,F)
- Meaning 'dark-complected' (Old English)
- Dana (M,F)
- - Meaning 'judge' (Hebrew)
- Meaning 'black pearl' (Arabic)
- A Germanic expression identifying the bearer as a native of Denmark (a Dane)
- Alternative spellings: Danna (F), Dayna (F) - Darcy (M,F)
- - Meaning 'dark man' (Gaelic)
- Meaning 'from Arcy' (French) - Dee (M,F)
- - Meaning 'noble' (Old English)
- Meaning 'dark' (Welsh)
- Nickname for any name beginning with the letter D - Dougal (M)
- Meaning 'dark stranger' (Gaelic)
- Douglas (M,F)
- Meaning 'dark river' (Scots Gaelic)
- Duanna
- Gaelic for 'little dark girl'
- Duff
- Meaning dark-haired
- Duffy
- From the Irish Gaelic meaning 'dark-complexioned'
- Ebonaire
- Meaning ebony
- Ebony (M,F)
- - Hard black wood from a tropical tree
- After the song Ebony and Ivory by Sir Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder - Eclipse
- Blocking of light from one body by another
- Ember
- Small piece of live coal or wood in a dying fire
- Felix (M)
- - Meaning 'happy' (Latin)
- Ink-black cartoon cat
- Celebrity owners: Kirsten Dunst - Fume
- Smoke or vapour
- Granite
- Hard igneous rock composed of quartz, feldspar and mica
- Hadrian
- Meaning 'dark one'
- Ink
- Coloured liquid used in writing
- Inky
- - Coloured, marked, covered or smeared with ink
- Celebrity owners: Kirsten Dunst - Jet
- - Glossy black colour
- Alternative spelling: Jett - Kala
- Hindi for 'black'
- Kiara (F)
- Alternate form of Ciara, Meaning 'black' (Gaelic)
- Kieran
- Celtic for 'black'
- Leila (F)
- - Meaning 'night beauty' (Arabic)
- Alternative spellings: Laila, Layla, Leilah, Lelah, Leyla, Lila, Lilah, Lyla - Melanie
- - From the Greek melas meaning 'black'
- Alternative spelling: Melinee - Midnight (M,F)
- - Meaning black
- Twelve O'clock at night
- Alternative spelling: Midnite - Moko
- Blue-black Maori tattoo
- Moreno (M)
- Meaning 'dark' (Latin)
- Moritz (M)
- Meaning 'dark' (Latin)
- Morris (M)
- Meaning 'dark complected' (Latin)
- Nero (M)
- - Italian for 'black'
- Meaning 'valiant man' (Latin)
- Celebrity owners: Agnes Repplier (American Essayist) - Nigel
- From the Latin niger meaning 'black'
- Night
- - Dark hours between sunset and sunrise
- Alternative spelling: Nite - Night Dreamer
- Person who dreams during the night
- Nocturne
- Meaning nocturnal
- Noir
- French for 'black'
- Noire
- French for 'black'
- Obsidian
- A dark hard glassy volcanic rock
- Oriole
- Bird with black and yellow plumage
- Panda
- Bear-like black and white animal native to China
- Panther
- - Black leopard
- Alternative spelling: Pantha - Pingu
- Penguin cartoon character
- Raven (M,F)
- - Glossy black
- Kind of bird - Sable
- Black colour
- Salem
- Black cat on TV show "Sabrina The Teenage Witch"
- Shade
- Place sheltered from the sun
- Shadow
- - Inseparable companion, trace
- Alternative spellings: Shado, Shadoe - Shady
- Meaning not completely honest, dark
- Shadz
- Meaning shades
- Smoke
- - Blacky gray visible vapour given off by a burning substance
- Blacky gray colour - Smokescreen
- - Smoky haze
- Thing intended to disguise or conceal activities - Smoketrail
- Trail of smoke left by a jet plane
- Smokey
- - Smoky black gray colour
- Celebrity owners: Calvin Coolidge (US President), Justin Berfield (Actor)
- Alternative spellings: Smokee, Smokie, Smoky - Smudge
- Dirty or blurred mark
- Smudgy
- - To become smudged
- Alternative spelling: Smudgie - Sooty
- Covered in black powder
- Sylvester (M)
- - Meaning 'wooded' (Latin)
- After the black and white Looney Tunes cat
- Alternative spelling: Silvester - Tux
- Short for tuxedo, dinner jacket
- Tuxedo
- - Dinner jacket
- A black and white cat - Wisp
- Small streak of smoke
- Zante
- The smoke tree
- Zebra (M,F)
- Black and white striped animal
- Zelda (F)
- Meaning 'dark battle' (Ancient German)
Site Info
Copyright © 1998-2007 Furbabies Cat Care Site.
Design by Furbabies and Andreas Viklund.