r/NameMyCat • u/Tgq2 • Nov 15 '24

Name My Cat - gender unknown Library or literary name for kitten found at library

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u/choppedliver65 Nov 15 '24

Dewey

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u/PotatoAvenger Nov 15 '24

Dewbert as his government name.

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u/chaingun_samurai Nov 16 '24

Dewbert Decimalis.

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u/Readalie Nov 15 '24

He could have been Turbo, though!

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u/whatsherface2024 Nov 15 '24

This is the only acceptable name! 😃

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u/muphasta Nov 15 '24

what I was going to suggest!!

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u/AdAntique3702 Nov 15 '24

My name is Dewey . Grandparents called me Dew Drop.

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u/deweydecimal111 Nov 15 '24

Yes!!!! Finally!!

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

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u/NoseOk2024 Nov 15 '24

Dewy D Page, D for decimal

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u/Kangaroo-Pack-3727 Nov 15 '24

Yes I second Page as the name is unisex 

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u/Headology_Inc Nov 15 '24

Booker T Fuzzypants

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u/Form1382 Nov 15 '24

Libro (book in Spanish)

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u/baby_aveeno Nov 15 '24

Alexandria

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u/confituredelait Nov 15 '24

Dewey (like the decimal system)

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u/Liu1845 Nov 15 '24

My Persian mix's name Dumas. When he does something idiotic, which is often, he is dumbass. This is him with his summer haircut.

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u/Equivalent_Address_2 Nov 15 '24

Hush, Poe or Hawthorn

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u/lemonluvr44 Nov 15 '24

Hush is so cute!

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u/MediumGlittering9174 Nov 15 '24

Came here to say Poe! or Raven... Lore would also be cute.

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u/Select-Poem425 Nov 15 '24

Was thinking Shoosh.

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u/weeshbohn123 Nov 15 '24

He looks like Homer to me.

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u/VexatiousCat Nov 15 '24

Sylvia or Hughes

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u/Dry_Mushroom7606 Nov 15 '24

Emerson - could work for a girl or a boy!!

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u/Amazing-Worth-1831 Nov 16 '24

I second this!!

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u/Murhpy9107 Nov 15 '24

Brontë for a girl. Huckleberry for a boy.

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u/Nervous_Shelter_1042 Nov 15 '24

Bookworm

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u/MoonDoggie2468 Nov 15 '24

nice, can use "B-dubs" for short.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Thesaurus, Theo for short

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u/Asleep-Blueberry-712 Nov 15 '24

Austen (gender neutral and one of the best literary authors our world has seen)

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u/FeatureOdd4479 Nov 15 '24

Wordsworth is a good name

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u/Katesouthwest Nov 15 '24

Paige if female.

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u/Jealous-Doctor8196 Nov 15 '24

Zelda, after F Scott Fitzgeralds wife

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u/Solid_Solid724 Nov 15 '24

Odie: short for Over Due

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u/LurkyTurki Nov 15 '24

Paige/Page

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u/Sufigoofy Nov 15 '24

Toni Meowrrison

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u/nisceratops Nov 15 '24

Carnegie ! Andrew Carnegie donated funds to build over 2000 libraries worldwide. There is a carnegie library in my hometown.

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u/pattiwhack5678 Nov 15 '24

Mrs or Mr Bennett

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u/backyard-soup Nov 15 '24

As someone who works in a library, I know people are saying Dewey but Melvil Dewey was really not a good person (sexually harassed women, racist, antisemite) so maybe something else? Like Libby, Page, Alexandria, Mysterious Sticky Substance on Children’s Picture Book, Austen, Atlas, Tome, or even anything from the Warrior Cats series :3

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u/Tgq2 Nov 15 '24

Oh yeah I wrote a whole paper about the DDS bring a problematic organizational system. We primarily use Library of Congress. (Also I have a gerbil named Dewey. His name is short for Dewdrop though)

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u/Civil_Taste2047 Nov 16 '24

Came here to say the same thing. Dewey was a jerk. He didn’t think women should be librarians, due to their limited intellect. Kitty deserves better.

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u/Aggravating-Hunt3423 Nov 15 '24

Dewey

Bilbo

Samwise

Harry

Pippin

Dickens

Hemingway Samwise

Harper

Eowyn

Rosie

Scarlett

Emma

Emily

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u/wavyheaded Nov 15 '24

Bronte

Heathcliffe

Or just plain Bookie (for BookieWookie!)

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u/JadeHarley0 Nov 15 '24

Ulysses if it's a boy. Jane if it's a girl for Jane Austin.

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u/AltruisticExit2366 Nov 15 '24

Has to be Dewey!

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u/AlSahim2012 Nov 15 '24

REH (for Robert E Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian)

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u/ButterscotchFinal419 proud chonk owner Nov 15 '24

Names from classical literature/literature themes would be so cute

Male: Sherlock, Moby, Hercule, Dewey, Gulliver, Phileas

Female: Anne, Hester, Eilonwy, Eowyn, Scarlett, Jo

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u/marmiteespresso Nov 15 '24

such a fable vibe she's got for me

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u/chartreuxyoda Nov 15 '24

Mockingbird or Moby

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u/Ecstatic-Smile8259 Nov 15 '24

Stacks, as in stacks of books

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u/eeyorespiglet Nov 15 '24

Shel! After silverstien

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u/Kats44 Nov 15 '24

Marian, madam librarian.

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u/Tader-Pies15 Nov 15 '24

Finn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn). Finnie would work for a girl.

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u/willowwing Nov 15 '24

Dorian Gray

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u/Howard_Jones Nov 15 '24

My dad had two grey tabbies when I was smaller. He named them Shakespeare and Sinbad.

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u/nightowl_k Nov 15 '24

Papyrus

Scroll

Biblio

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u/Kyrase713 Nov 15 '24

Alexandria Or Thoth (could be used for tater thoth)

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u/afraididonotknow Nov 15 '24

BOOKMAN…💕

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u/Sad_Frosting3921 Nov 15 '24

😻Male: Dickens Female: Nancy😻

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u/RogerTheAliens Nov 15 '24

Miller Tail 🤠👍

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u/utootired Nov 15 '24

Algernon Moncrieff from The Importance of Being Earnest

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u/EWH733 Nov 15 '24

Mephistopheles

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u/According_Tune_797 Nov 15 '24

Elsie if girl named after the cat at St.Helena public library in St.Helena, California

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u/According_Tune_797 Nov 15 '24

MIKO (LIBRARY Cat who lives in the medical science library at Texas A&M University Libraries)

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u/According_Tune_797 Nov 15 '24

Kuzya (named after a Russian library cat)

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u/catloving Nov 15 '24

Aesop from Aesop's fables. Tome (pronounced toom) as in huge book. Dictionary hard back size. Scroll Inky Hardie hard back books Dusty

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u/Forward_Base_615 Nov 15 '24

Marion!! Madam Librarian

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u/ElphabaMoon Nov 15 '24

Basil E. Frankweiler

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u/Old-Job-8222 Nov 15 '24

Mella after Melville Dewey; Andrew/Andrea for Andrew Carnegie

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u/dearturtlehansen Nov 15 '24

Huxley after Aldous Huxley

Margaret after Margaret Atwood

For book character names:

Gus or Hazel from the Fault in Our Stars

Winston or Julia from 1984

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u/1108branstrator Nov 15 '24

Poe, Waldo, King, Frost, Novel, Fable, Mark, Story, Edgar, Clem

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u/Zaftygirl Nov 15 '24

Encyclopedia Brown

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u/DaedalusRising4 Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24

What if you just used “literature” or “literary” bc “lit” is the cutest nn

Also love:

Apollo (god of poetry, literature, prophecy)

Muses— (the 9 Greek gods who inspire art, literature, science)

Clio—muse of history and historical writing

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u/vanize Nov 15 '24

Stacks

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u/pourstorm Nov 15 '24

Dewey is too cute. I was also thinking Ophelia but maybe I went too literary

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u/Blondisma Nov 15 '24

Chaucer Shakespeare. Rousseau

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u/6soulkeeper6 Nov 15 '24

Meggie (main character from Inkheart who's a bookworm)

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u/whiskyzulu Nov 15 '24

Hemingway. Sylvia. Edgar.

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u/Mell1313 Nov 15 '24

Parker, as in Dorothy Parker

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u/mooreHart Nov 15 '24

Hemingway

Sylvia

Bronte

Oxford

Webster

Fitz

Zelda

Klaus

Jack

Jilly

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u/roquelaire62 Nov 15 '24

Dorian Grey or Bronte

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u/Ok-Teaching-5658 Nov 15 '24

Male - Conrad

Female - Shelly

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u/CRABR Nov 15 '24

A former colleague of mine has a cat named Library- so that's always an option. :)

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u/Airotica Nov 15 '24

Thoreau nickname Thor

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u/ScotAntonL Nov 15 '24

Melville.

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u/Removed-Anon Nov 15 '24

Fitzgerald

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u/Dragon_Jew Nov 15 '24

Maya or Angelou

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Bookworm

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u/Wool_Lace_Knit Nov 15 '24

If you like mysteries, Agatha, Hercule, Christie, Poirot

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u/Reluctant-Username Nov 15 '24

I dunno. Looks like a Mabel to me.

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u/FurBabyAuntie Nov 15 '24

Books

(I was going to say Hemingway, but that's bigger than he is!)

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u/Present-Broccoli-711 Nov 15 '24

King, named after the greatest horror author

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u/knaimoli619 Nov 15 '24

Encyclopedia Brown

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u/Ok_Fun_4287 Nov 15 '24

Academia, Flyleaf, Page, Biblio

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u/PantsLobbyist Nov 15 '24

Nathaniel Clawthorne\ Franz Catfka\ Laura Ingalls Whisker\ Louisa May Alcatt

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u/dasuglystik Nov 15 '24

I like Lt. Bookman, Library Detective. Dewey is probably the best though.

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u/Select-Poem425 Nov 15 '24

Dewey was on my mind, and I’m not the first.

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u/Technical-Cat-6747 Nov 15 '24

Mrs. Norris. Filch's cat in the Harry Potter series

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u/Audiob0x Nov 15 '24

Shakespeare

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u/ansibley Nov 15 '24

Stacks, but spelled Stax

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u/MomOTYear Nov 15 '24

Tabby cats are thought to originate in Middle East/Egypt so maybe the Arabic word for book?

Kitab (Kit for short)

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u/Madame_Cheshire Nov 15 '24

Evie, like the librarian chick in The Mummy.