Tabby Cat Names, Distinctive Names for Tabby Kittens Starting With B

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Name	Meaning	Gender	Origin
Babette	stranger,lovely	Female
Badger	Burrowing mammal with white stripe on forehead. Also verb to pester or harass.	Unisex
Baldric	Bold, Powerful, Brave Ruler	Unisex	English
Balin	Mighty Warrior	Male	Hindu
Ballou		Male
Balto	Baal protect the king	Male
Barnabus	after the vampire Barnabus Collins	Male
Barney	Comforter	Male	English
Bartholomew	furrow, hill	Male	Aramaic
Basket	Gertrude Stein's two dogs of the same names. They are described in works that...	Male
Baxter	baker	Male	English
Beau	Handsome.	Male
Bebop	Jazz music style	Unisex
Becky	The Ensnarer	Female	English
Belvedere	after a freeway exit in Marin County, CA	Male	Italian
Bengal	From Bengal; cat breed	Unisex
Bernie	Brave As A Bear	Unisex	German
Bess	Diminutive of Elizabeth.	Female	English
Bing	From the kettle shaped hollow	Male
Black Magic	Possessing qualities that produce baffling effects	Unisex
Blackie	Of the colour black.	Unisex
Blaze	Lisp: stutter. Blaise Pascal was a brilliant seventeenth century child prodig...	Male	Latin
Blur		Male
Bogie	Bowstring	Male
Bongo	Connected drums played by beating with hands.	Unisex
Bonnie	sweet and good	Female	Scottish
Bootsie	Collins Pussycat	Unisex
Bosco		Male
Brady	large-chested	Male	Irish
Brahms	After composer Johannes Brahms	Male
Briar	a thorny patch	Female	English
Brisha	From Briseis the woman Achilles loved in Homer's Iliad.	Female
Brodie	From Brodie	Male	Scottish
Brunhilda	Dark or noble	Female	Norse
Bryson	Variant of Bryce.	Male	English
Buffy	God's promise	Female	English
Bugsy	Insect; gangster nickname	Male
Busybody		Male
Buzby		Male
Buzz	To move quickly and busily, to bustle	Male	Modern

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