Shakespeare Cat Names, Page 4

For the cat owner who curls up with a glass of wine and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare cat names are a quiet little joy. The Bard created hundreds of memorable characters, from fierce queens to lovestruck fools, and any of them can lend your kitten a name that feels both playful and timeless. If your cat already has a dramatic streak or a way of making every entrance feel like act one, a Shakespeare cat name will fit her perfectly.

Shakespeare cat names pull from four centuries of plays and sonnets. Ophelia suits a dreamy long-haired female with soulful eyes, while Juliet fits a romantic cuddler and Desdemona works for a dignified black-coated queen. For males, Hamlet carries quiet brooding charm, Puck suits a mischievous kitten who disappears and reappears at will, and Romeo fits a cat who loves everyone he meets. Titania, Portia, Cordelia, and Mercutio all bring their own theatrical weight to your home.

Because Shakespeare cat names often have three or four syllables, most owners pair them with a short everyday nickname, so Ophelia becomes Phee at dinner time. Try calling the full name when she climbs the curtains and the nickname when she purrs on your lap. For more literary inspiration, see our literary cat names, mythological cat names, and magical cat names collections. Give your cat a Shakespeare name as dramatic and beautiful as the plays themselves.

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Name	Meaning	Gender	Origin
Nell		Female
Nestor		Male
Nicholas		Male
Nick		Male
Oberon		Male
Octavia		Female
Octavius		Male
Oliver		Male	Old French form; earlier derivation disputed
Olivia		Female	Literary name; earlier derivation uncertain
Olivier		Male
Ophelia		Female
Orlando		Male
Orsino		Male
Oswald		Male
Othello		Male
Owen		Male
Paris		Female
Patience		Female
Peaseblossom		Unisex
Pedro		Male
Perdita		Female
Pericles		Male
Peter		Male
Philip		Male
Phoebe	Bright or pure	Female	Latinized form of a Greek name
Pistol		Unisex
Portia		Female
Puck		Male
Quince		Male
Ralph		Male
Regan		Female
Richard		Male
Robert		Male
Robin		Male
Roger		Male
Romeo		Male
Rosalind		Female
Rosencrantz		Unisex
Ross		Male
Rugby		Male
Sampson		Male
Sebastian		Male
Shylock		Unisex
Silence		Female
Silvia		Female
Simon		Male	Hebrew-derived and ancient Greek histories
Smith		Male
Snout		Unisex
Snug		Unisex
Speed		Unisex

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Shakespeare Cat Names: Tybalt, Puck & a Character for Every Cat

Shakespeare gave us the most cat-coded name in literature: Tybalt, the "Prince of Cats" from Romeo and Juliet, a name borrowed from the cat Tibert in the medieval fable Reynard the Fox. This guide draws cat names from across the canon, sorted the way the First Folio sorts itself. The great tragedies offer weighty picks like Hamlet, Ophelia, Macbeth, Othello and Cordelia. The comedies and the fairy wood of A Midsummer Night's Dream supply Puck, Titania, Oberon, Viola and Beatrice. The romances yield Ariel, Miranda and Perdita from The Tempest and its sister plays. The histories add swaggering names like Falstaff — the knight "as vigilant as a cat to steal cream" — along with Hal and Henry, and Stratford-upon-Avon gives William, Sonnet and Stratford itself. A coat-match section pairs Bianca (Italian for "white") with white cats and Othello with black ones, plus bonded pairs like Romeo and Juliet and Titania and Oberon for naming two cats at once.