270 Royal Cat Names: Regal Ideas for Kings, Queens, and Everyone Between

Royal cat names fall into three buckets: titles like Duchess or Viscount, real rulers like Cleopatra or Alfred, and the objects of court life, such as Ermine, Scepter, and Sapphire. This page has 270 of them, each with a one-line note on where it comes from.

Lions have stood for kingship for thousands of years, so a large or commanding cat wears these names easily. If yours is a real heavyweight, our big cat names page pairs well with this one.

Which Kind of Royal Name Fits Your Cat?

Pick the type first, then the name. A cat that struts suits a title, and a quiet one suits a gemstone.

Type	Examples	Sound	Good Fit For
Titles and ranks	Duchess, Viscount, Regent	Formal, a little comic	A cat with a haughty walk
Real rulers	Cleopatra, Alfred, Suleiman	Weighty, with a story	Owners who like a backstory
Regalia and jewels	Ermine, Sapphire, Signet	Short and polished	Matching a coat or eye color
Palaces and places	Versailles, Windsor, Balmoral	Grand and uncommon	Standing out at the vet
Myth and stage royalty	Titania, Prospero, Dido	Dramatic	A cat with big opinions

What Are the Best Titles and Ranks for Royal Cat Names?

Titles are the fastest route to a royal name, and most of them work for either sex. Say them out loud first, because some are longer than they look.

• Duke – the rank just below a prince
• Duchess – a duke’s wife, or a woman holding the title herself
• Earl – an old English noble rank
• Countess – the female counterpart of a count or earl
• Baron – the lowest rank of British peerage
• Baroness – the female version of Baron
• Viscount – a rank between earl and baron
• Marquess – a rank above an earl, below a duke
• Count – a continental European noble rank
• Margrave – a medieval German lord of a border region
• Laird – a Scottish landowner
• Regent – rules on behalf of a monarch too young to rule
• Sovereign – a monarch with supreme authority
• Consort – the spouse of a reigning monarch
• Heir – the next in line to the throne
• Herald – a royal messenger and officer of arms
• Squire – a knight’s attendant
• Knight – a warrior granted rank by a monarch
• Dauphin – the heir to the French throne
• Infanta – a daughter of the Spanish or Portuguese monarch
• Archduke – a title for Habsburg princes
• Tsarina – the wife of a tsar
• Sultana – a sultan’s wife or female relative
• Maharaja – a great king in Indian princely titles
• Highness – the form of address for a prince or princess

What Are Unique Royal Cat Names for a Male Cat?

These are kings and emperors who rarely turn up on cat lists. Most are one or two syllables, which makes them easy to call across a room.

If none of these feel odd enough, the uncommon cat names page goes further off the map.

• Harald – the name of several Norse kings
• Sweyn – a Danish king who briefly ruled England
• Cnut – a Danish king who also ruled England and Norway
• Alfred – the Wessex king known as Alfred the Great
• Offa – the Mercian king behind Offa’s Dyke
• Egbert – a ninth-century king of Wessex
• Aethelstan – often called the first king of England
• Harold – the last Anglo-Saxon king of England
• Ludwig – a Bavarian king tied to Neuschwanstein castle
• Otto – the name of several Holy Roman emperors
• Casimir – a name borne by Polish kings
• Matthias – the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus
• Gustav – a Swedish royal name
• Olaf – a Norwegian royal name
• Haakon – a Norwegian royal name
• Magnus – Latin for “great” and a Scandinavian royal name
• Valdemar – a Danish royal name
• Rurik – the legendary founder of Russia’s early ruling line
• Constantine – the Roman emperor who moved the capital east
• Justinian – a Byzantine emperor known for his law code
• Trajan – a Roman emperor under whom the empire reached its greatest size
• Aurelius – for Marcus Aurelius, emperor and Stoic writer
• Tiberius – the second Roman emperor
• Ashoka – a Mauryan emperor who later embraced Buddhism
• Akbar – a Mughal emperor
• Suleiman – the Ottoman sultan called “the Magnificent”
• Saladin – the sultan who founded the Ayyubid dynasty
• Kamehameha – the king who united the Hawaiian islands
• Pakal – a Maya ruler of Palenque
• Montezuma – the Aztec ruler when the Spanish arrived
• Sobieski – John III Sobieski, a Polish king
• Ferdinand – a name borne by kings of Spain
• Basil – a name borne by Byzantine emperors
• Vlad – a prince of Wallachia
• Alaric – the Visigoth king who sacked Rome in 410

What Are Good Royal Names for a Female Cat?

Queens and princesses from many centuries fill this list. If you’re naming two females from one litter, our sister cat names page is a useful cross-check.

• Boudicca – the Iceni queen who led a revolt against Rome
• Cleopatra – the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt
• Nefertiti – an Egyptian queen known from her famous bust
• Hatshepsut – a female pharaoh of the 18th dynasty
• Zenobia – a third-century queen of Palmyra who challenged Rome
• Isabella – a queen of Castile
• Eleanor – Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France, then England
• Matilda – a twelfth-century claimant to the English throne
• Elizabeth – shared by two long-reigning English queens
• Victoria – the queen who gave her name to an era
• Catherine – for Catherine the Great of Russia
• Theresa – for Maria Theresa, who ruled the Habsburg lands
• Christina – a seventeenth-century Swedish queen who abdicated
• Josephine – Napoleon’s first wife and empress of the French
• Sisi – the nickname of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
• Adelaide – consort of William IV
• Alexandra – consort of Edward VII
• Charlotte – consort of George III
• Wilhelmina – a Dutch queen
• Juliana – a Dutch queen
• Margrethe – a queen of Denmark
• Sirikit – a queen consort of Thailand
• Liliuokalani – Hawaii’s last reigning monarch
• Ranavalona – a queen who ruled Madagascar in the nineteenth century
• Nzinga – a seventeenth-century queen of Ndongo and Matamba
• Tamar – a medieval queen of Georgia
• Wu Zetian – the only woman to rule China as emperor in her own right
• Himiko – an early ruler recorded in Chinese chronicles of Japan
• Sheba – the biblical queen who visited Solomon
• Philippa – Philippa of Hainault, queen of England
• Margaret – borne by queens across Europe
• Anne – borne by queens of England, Scotland, and France
• Mary – borne by several queens regnant
• Caroline – a royal name in Britain and Monaco
• Emma – Emma of Normandy, queen of England under two kings

What Are Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Royal Cat Names?

Egypt is the culture most tied to cats, so these names have a natural fit. The Persian and Mesopotamian rulers fill out the rest of the list.

• Ramses – the name of several pharaohs, including Ramses II
• Khufu – the pharaoh behind the Great Pyramid
• Tutankhamun – the boy king whose tomb was found nearly intact
• Akhenaten – the pharaoh who promoted worship of the Aten
• Thutmose – borne by four pharaohs
• Seti – Seti I, father of Ramses II
• Cyrus – founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire
• Darius – a Persian king
• Xerxes – a Persian king known for invading Greece
• Nebuchadnezzar – a Babylonian king
• Hammurabi – the Babylonian king known for his law code
• Sargon – founder of the Akkadian empire
• Ptolemy – the Macedonian dynasty that ruled Egypt
• Amenhotep – borne by several pharaohs
• Nefertari – the favored wife of Ramses II
• Ankhesenamun – Tutankhamun’s wife
• Berenice – borne by several Ptolemaic queens
• Arsinoe – a Ptolemaic queen name, including Cleopatra’s sister
• Tiye – wife of Amenhotep III
• Sobekneferu – an early female pharaoh

What Royal Cat Names Come From Asia, Africa, and the Americas?

Most royal cat lists stay in Europe. These rulers come from further afield and read as fresh choices.

• Genghis – founder of the Mongol empire
• Kublai – founder of the Yuan dynasty in China
• Timur – a Central Asian conqueror who founded the Timurid empire
• Babur – founder of the Mughal dynasty
• Shah Jahan – the Mughal emperor who commissioned the Taj Mahal
• Mumtaz – Shah Jahan’s wife, honored by the Taj Mahal
• Noor Jahan – a Mughal empress and wife of Jahangir
• Razia – a thirteenth-century ruler of the Delhi Sultanate
• Chandragupta – founder of the Mauryan empire
• Kangxi – a long-reigning Qing emperor
• Sejong – the Korean king credited with the Korean alphabet
• Jimmu – the legendary first emperor of Japan
• Mansa Musa – a fourteenth-century ruler of Mali famed for his wealth
• Sundiata – founder of the Mali empire
• Menelik – an emperor of Ethiopia
• Shaka – founder of the Zulu kingdom
• Moshoeshoe – founder of the Basotho nation
• Yaa Asantewaa – an Asante queen mother who led resistance in 1900
• Pachacuti – an Inca emperor who expanded the empire
• Atahualpa – the last sovereign Inca emperor
• Kalakaua – the Hawaiian king called the Merrie Monarch
• Meiji – the Japanese emperor of a period of rapid modernization
• Ranjit – Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh empire
• Lakshmibai – the Rani of Jhansi, a leader of the 1857 rebellion
• Qin – the dynasty that first unified China

What Are Royal Cat Names Based on Regalia, Jewels, and Fabric?

Short and easy to say, these are the practical picks. They also let you match a coat or eye color without naming a real person.

• Scepter – the rod a monarch holds
• Orb – a globe topped with a cross in coronation regalia
• Diadem – a jeweled headband worn as a crown
• Coronet – a small crown worn by nobles
• Tiara – a jeweled crown worn on formal occasions
• Signet – a ring used to seal documents
• Ermine – white winter fur used to trim royal robes
• Sapphire – a blue gem, good for blue eyes
• Ruby – a deep red gem, good for a red tabby
• Emerald – a green gem, good for green eyes
• Garnet – a dark red gem
• Amethyst – a purple gem
• Topaz – a gem found in gold and amber tones
• Opal – a gem with shifting color
• Pearl – a soft white gem
• Jade – a green stone prized in Chinese courts
• Onyx – a black stone, good for a black cat
• Gilt – a thin layer of gold on a surface
• Filigree – delicate metal thread work
• Brocade – a rich woven fabric
• Velvet – a soft cloth long tied to court dress
• Damask – a patterned woven fabric
• Sable – a dark fur, and the black in heraldry
• Regalia – the ceremonial objects of a monarch
• Throne – the seat of a ruler
• Crest – a heraldic emblem
• Seal – the stamp that made a royal order official
• Banner – a flag flown by a house or ruler
• Baroque – an ornate style popular in royal courts
• Torc – a Celtic neck ring worn by elites

What Royal Palace Names Work for Cats?

Palace names are grand and unusual, and most sound good shortened. A cat called Versailles becomes Vera in about a week.

• Windsor – a royal castle and family name
• Versailles – the palace of Louis XIV
• Balmoral – the royal estate in Scotland
• Sandringham – a royal estate in Norfolk
• Kensington – a London royal palace
• Hampton – for Hampton Court, Henry VIII’s palace
• Fontainebleau – a French royal chateau
• Chambord – a Loire chateau built for Francis I
• Schönbrunn – the Habsburg summer palace in Vienna
• Alhambra – the palace complex in Granada
• Topkapi – the Ottoman sultans’ palace in Istanbul
• Escorial – Spain’s royal monastery-palace near Madrid
• Sanssouci – Frederick the Great’s palace at Potsdam
• Tuileries – a former royal palace in Paris
• Osborne – Queen Victoria’s house on the Isle of Wight

What Are Royal Cat Names From Myth and Literature?

Kings, queens, and princes from stories give you drama and a built-in personality. For spell-flavored options beyond these, try our magical cat names list.

• Arthur – the legendary king of Camelot
• Guinevere – Arthur’s queen in the legends
• Mordred – Arthur’s rival in the legends
• Oberon – king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Titania – queen of the fairies in the same play
• Hamlet – Shakespeare’s Danish prince
• Lear – Shakespeare’s aging king
• Macbeth – Shakespeare’s Scottish king
• Cordelia – King Lear’s youngest daughter
• Gertrude – Hamlet’s mother and queen of Denmark
• Hippolyta – queen of the Amazons in myth
• Priam – the last king of Troy
• Cassandra – a Trojan princess in myth
• Agamemnon – the Greek king who led the Trojan War
• Odysseus – the king of Ithaca in Homer’s Odyssey
• Dido – the legendary queen of Carthage
• Midas – the king of the golden touch
• Minos – the legendary king of Crete
• Ariadne – a Cretan princess in myth
• Antigone – a princess of Thebes in Greek tragedy
• Oedipus – the tragic king of Thebes
• Penelope – Odysseus’s wife
• Helen – queen of Sparta in the Trojan War myth
• Prospero – the deposed Duke of Milan in The Tempest
• Miranda – Prospero’s daughter

What Are Elegant Royal Cat Names?

These sound refined without pointing at one specific ruler. They work when you want the polish and none of the history.

• Aurelia – from the Latin for “golden”
• Celeste – means “heavenly”
• Seraphina – from “seraph,” a high-ranking angel
• Valentina – a graceful Italian name
• Evangeline – a long, lyrical name
• Isolde – a princess of Arthurian legend
• Genevieve – a French name with a formal sound
• Octavia – a Roman name, borne by Augustus’s sister
• Cecilia – a classic name with a musical feel
• Beatrix – a name borne by European royals
• Percival – a knight of the Round Table
• Sebastian – a long-standing European name
• Maximilian – a name borne by Habsburg emperors
• Cornelius – a Roman family name
• Lucian – related to the Latin word for light
• Cassius – a Roman family name
• Rupert – for Prince Rupert of the Rhine
• Theodore – from Greek, meaning “gift of God”
• Sinclair – a noble Scottish family name
• Montgomery – a Norman noble family name

If bookish elegant names are your taste, our nerdy cat names page has more.

What Are Exotic Royal Cat Names?

These are places once ruled by kings and queens. They sound unusual and shorten well.

• Jaipur – the Indian city called the Pink City
• Samarkand – a Silk Road city and Timur’s capital
• Marrakesh – a Moroccan imperial city
• Petra – the Nabataean rock-cut capital in Jordan
• Zanzibar – an East African sultanate
• Timbuktu – a Malian city tied to medieval rulers
• Kashmir – a Himalayan region once ruled by kings
• Isfahan – a Persian capital under the Safavid shahs
• Tangier – a Moroccan port with a long court history
• Lhasa – the capital of Tibet
• Nubia – the ancient kingdom south of Egypt
• Kush – the ancient kingdom of Kush
• Babylon – the capital of Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar
• Persepolis – a ceremonial capital of the Persian kings
• Nineveh – an Assyrian royal city
• Angkor – the Khmer royal center
• Kyoto – the imperial capital of Japan for centuries
• Cusco – the capital of the Inca empire
• Mandalay – the last royal capital of Burma
• Ayutthaya – a Thai kingdom’s capital

What Are Funny Royal Cat Names?

Mock-royal names suit cats with more attitude than dignity. Full versions are fun for the vet form, and a short nickname does the daily work.

• Sir Naps-a-Lot – for the cat that sleeps sixteen hours
• Lord Fuzzington – for a long-haired cat
• Baron Von Floof – a fluffy cat with a title
• Count Snackula – a dramatic feeder
• Countess Zoomies – for the midnight sprint
• Earl Grey – both the tea and a noble title
• Queen Bean – a small, sweet ruler
• Prince Pounce – for the ambusher
• Emperor Nap – a supreme sleeper
• Regent of the Couch – guards the sofa
• Grand Duke Meowington – a full formal title
• Lady Hairball – self-explanatory
• Lord Loaf – for a cat sitting tucked in
• Her Royal Fluffness – for a plush queen
• Henry the Ate – a pun on Henry VIII, for a greedy eater
• Lord Whiskerton – for a cat with grand whiskers
• Duchess of Knead – for the biscuit-maker
• Viscount Void – for a black cat
• Sultan of Snooze – for the napper
• Marquess of Mischief – for the troublemaker

How Do You Choose a Royal Cat Name That Fits Your Cat?

Watch your cat for a few days before you choose. Royal names carry weight, so match them to how the cat actually behaves.

A cat that struts across the room suits a title. A calm, watchful one suits a jewel or a queen. A troublemaker suits the funny list.

Say the name in the voice you’ll use at dinner time. If you’d shorten it in three days anyway, choose the short version now: Cleopatra becomes Cleo, and Alexandra becomes Lexi.

Two syllables is the sweet spot for calling a cat. Long names work as a formal name plus a nickname.

What Mistakes Should You Avoid With Royal Cat Names?

The biggest mistake is choosing a ruler before checking their reputation. Some famous names come with cruelty or conquest attached, and it’s worth reading a paragraph on the person first.

Another is picking a name so long you never use it. Skip anything you won’t say five times a day.

A third is naming two cats with similar sounds, such as Anne and Anna. A cat that can’t tell which of you is calling is a cat that ignores both.

Which Royal Name Should You Choose?

Pick two or three, then use each for a day. The name that feels natural on the third day is usually the right one.

If none of these fit, our main cat names page covers every other angle.

Frequently Asked Questions About Royal Cat Names