I've name-changed for this thread only so that if it is seen by someone who knows me (or knows the kittens) it doesn't out me for the very personal details I've put on other threads.
These two gorgeous baby girls are going to be our kittens as soon as they are old enough to leave their mummy. We are building a spreadsheet of possible names and any suggestions you might have would be welcome.
We are a family of geeks and nerds, many of our ideas so far come from SF and fantasy, or myths and legends. I'd like the names to be representative of strength and independence, but they shouldn't be too complicated to shout out of the back door when they need to come in at night, or too likely to be a name already shared with classmates of the kids at school. It would be nice if they were an obvious "pair" of names but it's OK if they aren't.
A few samples from the list so far to get you going: Orca and Raven Faith and Kendra Artemis and Asteria
I'm afraid it's no use asking me! One of our cats was called by my name on here and we've just taken in two all black kittens, both girls. After a week of scratching our heads, they seem to have ende up being called Thingy and Worst. I also once had a cat called Nameless (I wasn't feeling very inspired at the time)
"Nameless" does inspire a geeky option - one of my fave books is the Tombs of Atuan where the priestess of the Nameless Ones (primordial god-like shadow creatures) has no name, but is called "Arha" (the eaten one) - but I am not sure it's a concept I want to honour. (She does have a name in the end, as it is given back to her when she escapes)
I don't have any name suggestions just yet but I wanted to say that kitties learn their names better when they end in the ee sound like how the word kitty ends in the ee sound.
We got the list up to over 100 ideas before we realised we had to stop and start trimming down instead. We have narrowed it down to 10 final options and will visit the kittens again before we decide (but Nebula is emerging as a strong favourite so thank you @Iklboo)
Going to go back to my normal username now so I won't be back to this thread but thank you again for your ideas.
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