Grey Abyssinian Cat Names
A grey Abyssinian is properly a blue Abyssinian, the cool, muted cousin of the breed's famous burnt-orange coat. The Abyssinian wears a ticked tabby coat in which each hair carries several bands of color, so the cat shimmers rather than stripes. The original wild color, ruddy, bands warm orange with dark brown-black; the blue is that same ticking with the dilution gene switched on, so the dark bands soften to slate-grey and the warm bands to a gentle beige. The result is a cat that looks dusted in warm silvery grey, the ticking still catching the light at every move. Blue is one of the four classic Abyssinian colors, alongside ruddy, sorrel and fawn.
The names below link to both the Abyssinian breed and the grey-coat tradition — cool-toned, shimmering, agile picks for a ticked grey cat that never quite sits still.
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adina | Slender. | Female | |
| Aesop | Greek fable writer | Male | |
| Ali | Muslim - Noble, Exalted, God, little, the highest | Male | Arabic |
| Amanda | Lovable | Female | Latin |
| Anastasio | Resurrected | Male | |
| Angel | Angel | Male | Word |
| Ariana | Silver. | Female | Italian |
| Atlas | Endures, Suffers | Male | Greek |
| Basil | Majestic, royal, brave | Male | Greek |
| Betty | Devoted to God | Female | English |
| Blackjack | A leather covered hand weapon. A card game | Unisex | |
| Bletchley | Unisex | ||
| Boon | Good: A Blessing. American Frontier Hero Daniel Boone. | Male | |
| Boscovich | Male | ||
| Brains | Male | ||
| Byte | Unisex | ||
| Cassie | Abbreviation of Cassandra. Unheeded prophetess. In Homer's The Iliad Cassandr... | Female | English |
| Cuarto | Born fourth | Male | Spanish |
| Cyntia | Variant of Greek name Cynthia - one of the names of the mythological mood god... | Female | |
| Delaney | From the elder tree grove. | Female | Irish |
| Eilis | Irish form of Elizabeth consecrated to God | Female | Irish |
| Fisby | Male | ||
| Frankie | Diminutive of Frank Free: a free man. Frankie is occasionally used for girls. | Male | |
| Gracie | Grace | Female | English |
| Grubbly-Plank | Unisex | ||
| Gwen | Mythical son of Gwastad | Female | English |
| Ileanna | Variant of Elena. | Female | |
| Inky | Strong metallic element | Unisex | |
| Jerrold | Variant of Gerald Rules by the spear. | Male | |
| Kandy | Cutie | Male | |
| Kiana | Variant of Kian. Ancient. | Female | Modern |
| Klondike | Alaska gold rush region | Male | |
| Lachie | The boy from the Lochs. Warrior. | Male | |
| Mac | Son of | Male | Scottish |
| Mercury | Trade God | Male | Latin |
| Milo | Merciful. | Male | Latinized |
| Mork | From Mork and Mindy. | Male | |
| Pabla | Little | Female | |
| Parsnip | Root vegetable | Unisex | English |
| Pigeon | Domestic bird | Male | French |
| Quentin | Fifth. | Male | Latin |
| Rafael | God has healed. | Male | Spanish |
| Rai | Abbreviation of Raimundo. | Female | Japanese |
| Rain | Rain | Male | |
| Rhonda | Good spear. | Female | Welsh |
| Roxy | From Roxanne - Brilliant dawn | Female | English |
| Salem | Peace | Male | |
| Scarlett And Rhett | Red | Unisex | |
| Shadow | A rough, dark image cast by an object blocking the sun's rays | Female | English |
| Simba | from The Lion King | Male | Swahili |
| Slater | maker of slates | Male | English |
| Speck | Male | ||
| Stardust | Cosmic dust from stars | Female | English |
| Suelita | Little lily | Female | |
| Susan | Lily Diminutive of Susannah also used as an independent name. In the apocryph... | Female | |
| Tomcat | Male cat | Male | |
| Trude | Fighting woman | Female | |
| Uriel | God is my light | Male | |
| Valmont | Male | ||
| Voldemort | Harry Potter villain | Unisex | French |
| Walborgd | Protecting ruler | Female | |
| Zelda | gray warrior | Female | |
| Zeus | Father of the Gods | Male | Greek |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is a grey Abyssinian the same as a blue Abyssinian?
Yes. Blue is the breed term for the soft slate-grey Abyssinian. It is genetically the dilute of the ruddy (wild) color: the dilution gene mutes the dark ticking bands from brown-black to grey-blue and the warm bands to beige, giving an overall warm grey shimmer.
Why does an Abyssinian have no stripes?
The Abyssinian carries the ticked tabby pattern, where the tabby gene bands each individual hair with color but leaves almost no stripes on the body. Faint markings may show on the face, legs and tail, but the body reads as an even, glittering agouti coat rather than a striped one.
What are the other Abyssinian colors?
Four are classic: ruddy (the original burnt-sienna), sorrel (a coppery cinnamon-red), blue (this grey), and fawn (a pale warm dilute of sorrel). Blue and fawn are the two dilute colors; ruddy and sorrel are their denser counterparts.
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