160 Names For Your Calico Cat

With coats typically consisting of black, orange, and white patches, calico cats are naturally colorful — and fun to name.

Drawing on everything from foods and flowers to gemstones and household items, we've collected 160+ names for the new calico cat or calico kitten in your life.

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Like calico cats themselves, the list is a mix of evocative influences, from the everyday to the exotic, the common and the obscure.

Because the vast majority of calico cats are female (it's a chromosome thing), our selections skew that way but also included are some names for male cats and others that can be applied to kittehs of both genders.

• Amaretto

• Amber

• Apricot

• Aurora

• Autumn

• Azalea

• Babs

• Bailey

• Banjo

• Basil

• Bells

• Binx

• Biscuit

• Brownie

• Buckers

• Bug

• Bunny

• Butters

• Buttons

• Callie

• Calypso

• Camo

• Candy

• Cannoli

• Cara or Caramel

• Carrots

• Cheddar or Chedds

• Chestnut

• Chewi

• Chili

• Chowder

• Cleo

• Clementine

• Chrissy Cross

• Chrysanthemum Van Winterslips

• Clover

• Coco

• Cookers

• Confetti

• Corals

• Cosmo

• Creamsicle

• Cricket

• Dapple

• Dipps or Dippers

• Emmers

• Espeon

• Fawn

• Fern

• Fingers

• Finn

• Flowers

• Freckles or Frex

• Fri

• Fudge

• Ginges

• Giz

• Gobbles

• Goldie

• Hattie

• Halloween

• Hermione

• Hobbes

• Honey

• Ivy

• Izzy

• Jett

• Jinx

• Juniper

• Juno

• Kaz

• Keke

• Kissy

• Leaf

• Luna

• Magnolia

• Marbs or Marbles

• Marge

• Marmalade

• Maryland (In 2001, calicos were designated as the official cat of the state of Maryland)

• Marzipan

• Medge

• Meringue

• Mimosa

• Mixit

• Momo

• Motts

• Muddles

• Muffin

• Munchkin

• Nebula

• Nutmeg

• Olive

• Opal

• Ophelia

• Oriole

• Pancake

• Patches

• Peanut

• Peanut Butter or Peanut Bubbs

• Peaches

• Pebbs or Pebbles

• Pecan

• Penny

• Phoebes

• Pickles

• Pineapple

• Piper

• Pix or Pixel

• Prego

• Pretzel

• Pudds

• Pudge

• Pumpkin

• Reese

• Riley

• Rivers

• Rusty

• Sage

• Scarlett

• Scout

• Sherbs

• Skittles

• Smore

• Smudge

• Snickers

• Splash

• Splats

• Sprite

• Spritz or Spritzy

• Sprout

• Star

• Stella

• Sug or Sugar

• Sundae

• Sunny

• Suzette

• Swirl

• Sylveon

• Taffs

• Taco

• Thorn

• Tickles

• Tira or Tiramasu

• Toffers

• Topes or Topaz

• Tort or Torts

• Truffers

• Tulip

• Turbo, Turba, or Turby

• Turkey

• Twix

• Valencia

• Wafer

• Waffles

• Whiskers

• Willow

• Zelda

• Zoom Zoom

• Zoya

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