100+ Halloween Cat Names to Give Kitties in Spooky Season

Is there any holiday more fit for felines than Halloween? The favored familiars of witches and the subject of many superstitions over the centuries, cats have a unique, almost mystical quality about them that just fits the weird and wonderful nature of Halloween.

Fall is an especially great time to take in a new cat, especially black cats, who are often either passed over for adoption more than other cats or subject to superstition, especially around Halloween. Even if your cat doesn't spot a sultry black coat, however, there are plenty of delightful Halloween cat names to dub your new friend with so that they carry the spirit of "Spooky Season" with them all year long!

Top Halloween Cat Names

You really don't have to dig too deep to conjure up some memorable Halloween-themed cat names. Your name could simply be a reference to the holiday itself or your favorite aspects of it, like these names:

• Halloween

• Samhain (pronounced Sao-wen, not Sam-hayne)

• Haunt

• Hex

• Trick-or-Treat

• Boo

• Jinx

• Magic

• Eerie

• Arcane

But why stop there? With Halloween, there’s really no shortage of inspiration you can draw from for some frightfully fun cat name ideas. It's a celebration with roots dating back thousands of years and countless stories and legends centered around it, from centuries-old superstitions to classic horror tales to modern Halloween-centric pop culture. Let your imagination run wild!

The downside is that all those options can get a bit overwhelming. Thankfully, we’ve broken down our other favorite picks for Halloween cat names into a few helpful categories to make finding the perfect “spooktacular” name for your feline friend a breeze!

Halloween Girl Cat Names

Halloween is the perfect season for celebrating female horror icons and the wild, witchy women of yore. These ghoulish girl cat names, inspired by some of our favorite spooky ladies, are “scary” good!

• Morticia (The Addams Family)

• Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

• Elvira (the Mistress of the Dark herself)

• Wednesday (The Addams Family/Wednesday)

• Carrie (Carrie)

• Akasha (Queen of the Damned)

• Coraline (Coraline)

• Vampira (Plan 9 From Outer Space)

• Sabrina (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

• Blair (The Blair Witch Project)

• Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

• Ripley (Alien)

• Bella (Twilight)

• Samara (The Ring)

• Regan (The Exorcist)

Halloween Boy Cat Names

Of course, the girls can’t have all the fun on Halloween! Ranging from the sweet ‘n’ spooky to as eerily elegant as Count Dracula himself, these horror-icon inspired boy cat names are absolutely “boo-rilliant!”

• Dracula (Dracula)

• Igor (Frankenstein)

• Dante (Virgil's The Divine Comedy)

• Helsing (Dracula)

• Gomez (The Addams Family)

• Jareth (Labyrinth)

• Poe (for Edgar Allen Poe)

• Lestat (Interview With a Vampire)

• Jason (Friday the 13th)

• Salem (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

• Casper (Casper the Friendly Ghost)

• Hannibal (Silence of the Lambs)

• Lucifer (another name for the Prince of Darkness)

• Freddie (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

• Thackery Binx (Hocus Pocus)

Halloween Black Cat Names

As we’ve addressed, black cats historically have gotten a bad rap for being seen as symbols of bad luck or portents of evil. Halloween is a special time to celebrate our sweet, misunderstood black cats and show them the love they deserve to have all year round. Naturally, these black cat names are very much in the spirit of the season!

• Onyx

• Umbra

• Shadow

• Velvet

• Midnight

• Cinder

• Ebony

• Kuro (Japanese for "black." Fun fact: black cats are considered good luck in Japan!)

• Galaxy

• Oreo

• Inky

• Jinx

• Raven

• Noir

• Phantom

Orange Halloween Cat Names

Orange: the color of fall leaves, candy corn, and freshly-carved Jack-o-lanterns. Other than black, what color could be more befitting the Halloween season? Get inspired with these freakishly festive orange cat names!

• Pumpkin

• Jack O’Lantern (or just "Jack” for short)

• Autumn

• October

• Candlewick

• Bonfire

• Cinnamon

• Ginger Snap

• Amber

• Phoenix

• Maple

• Blaze

• Chucky

• Copper

• Caramel

Monster Halloween Cat Names

Halloween is all about embracing that which scares us and showing a little love to even the most terrifying monsters of horror history. These monstrously cute cat names are all in good fun, of course, even though we admit that our cats really can be little monsters from time to time!

• Cthulhu

• Frankenstein (Frankie for short)

• Medusa

• Nosferatu

• Gremlin

• Goblin

• Mummy

• Godzilla

• Beetlejuice

• Baphomet

• Sasquatch

• Pennywise

• Gargoyle

• Banshee

• Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde (maybe your cat is both!)

Candy-Inspired Halloween Cat Names

What’s Halloween without a hefty candy haul to gorge on at the end of the night? We’ve pulled some inspiration from out of our trick-or-treating buckets to conjure up these cute, candy-inspired cat names!

• Kit-Kat (of course)

• Hershey

• Jolly Rancher

• Tootsie

• Smartie

• Reeses Pieces (or just Reese)

• Twix

• Snickers

• Skittles

• Twizzler

• Candy Corn

• Rolo

• Milky Way

• Trolli

• Starburst

Witchy Halloween Cat Names

Halloween really is the season of the witch, and cats have been a classic companion animal to witches throughout many centuries' worth of fables and folktales. Embrace your cat’s unique brand of magic with a wonderful witchy cat name to match - and don’t worry, we’ve included some wizards as well for the boys!

• Hecate

• Minerva

• Merlin

• Gandalf

• Circe

• Morgan le Fay

• Titania

• Dumbledore

• Glinda

• Elphaba

• Sybil

• Baba Yaga

• Rasputin

• Aleister Crowley

• Lilith

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