Awesome Geeky Cat Names for your New Cat

Cool Geeky Cat Names for Tech Nerds

Here’s something about cat owner’s personalities that fits with the tech industry. Silicon Alley may be famous for entrepreneurs who bring their dogs to work, but we know the truth. Every tech center is swarming with tech engineers programming late into the night with the help of their cat. All those memes about cats with laptops came from somewhere. Yup, techies love cats which makes geeky cat names an important topic of conversation.

For some reason, lists of awesome tech-oriented names seem to be a little bit harder to come by for felines than canines. But we can fix that. We’ve pulled together geeky cat names for both male and female cats that have a unique appeal for the techie/sci-fi crowd.

Geeky Cat Names for Male Cats

• Solo: As in Han. Great name for a solitary cat who likes to roam!
• Crookshanks: Hermione Granger’s cat in the Harry Potter series
• Hawking: As in Stephen, famous physicist.
• Isaac: As in Newton, who taught us everything about physics.
• Jean-Luc: As in Picard, captain of the Enterprise on Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Ray: As in Kurzweil, famous technologist, but works for a Ghostbusters reference too
• Woz: Short for Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple
• Jobs: As in Steve, of course
• Bug: so you can say that’s a feature when he’s acting crazy.
• Data: On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data was the ship’s android, sort of a precursor to an AI co-pilot for the human crew
• Dexter: For the main character on Dexter’s Laboratory
• Watson: As in James Watson, who discovered DNA
• Jonesy: the cat from Alien!
• Hal: The sentient computer in 2001: A Space Oddysey
• Node: Computing term for a part of a larger network
• Frink: The wacky professor on The Simpsons
• Cisco: As in systems
• Faraday: For Michael Faraday, famous for his discoveries regarding electrical current
• Chip: As in micro-
• All Ball: This is what Koko, the famous gorilla who learned sign language, named her foster cat!
• Richard Parker: The tiger from Life of Pi
• Frodo: From Lord of the Rings, another great name for a cat who likes to go off on adventures
• Pascal: For Blaise Pascal, early mathematician/physicist/inventor
• Sagan: For Carl Sagan, legendary astronomer and futurist
• Linus: After Linus Torvalds. A good fit for an independent, opinionated cat with strong feelings about routine.
• Galileo: After Galileo Galilei. A good fit for a cat who observes everything from the highest shelf in the room.
• Napster: Internet throwback plus professional-level napping.
• Pumpkin Pi: Orange, round, loafy, and mathematically adorable. Best for: orange cat
• Voidwalker: For the black cat who disappears into dark corners like a stealth-mode NPC. Best for: black cat
• Vaderbean: Darth Vader energy, tiny toe beans. Best for: black cat
• Meezertron: Siamese “Meezer” nickname plus Tron vibes. Best for: Siamese cat
• BarCode: A striped tabby name with scanner-gun energy. Best for: tabby cat
• Tabulator: Tab key, tabby cat, and keyboard-sitting behavior all in one. Best for: tabby cat
• Clawdius: For a dramatic scratching-post emperor.
• Gizmo: For a curious cat who must inspect every cable, charger, and new device.
• Whiskerbot: A tiny sensor array with opinions.
• Clawculus: Perfect for a cat who treats scratching like advanced theory.
• Catticus: Literary, dignified, and still likely to sit in a box.
• Shadowbyte: Perfect for a black cat who silently appears on your laptop at 2 a.m. Best for: black cat

Geeky Cat Names for Female Cats

• Angel: As in investor
• Selina: for Selina Kyle, real name of Catwoman in Batman comics
• Veesee: pronounced like VC, short for venture capital
• Trillian: Main female protagonist of The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
• Babs: Short for Babbage, as in Charles, who originated the concept of a programmable computer.
• Galadriel: The most powerful witch in the Lord of the Rings series
• Java: The most widely-known computer script system
• Ripley: Famously played by Sigourney Weaver, the heroine of the Alien movie franchise
• Grace: As in Grace Hopper, a pioneer of computer programming and Rear Admiral in the US Navy
• Sabrina: As in The Teenage Witch
• Miranda: As in Lawson, heroine in the Mass Effect video game series
• Katherine: For Katherine Johnson, NASA physicist whose calculations were so famously accurate that they had her double-check flight paths generated by their computers
• Leeloo: Mila Jovovich’s otherworldly heroine in sci-fi classic The Fifth Element
• Marissa: For Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo
• Madeleine: As in L’Engle, famous sci-fi/fantasy author
• Ellie: Ellie Sadler, heroine of Jurrasic Park
• Pixel: As in a piece of a computerized image. Perfect for an adorable little cat.
• Marie: As in Curie, discoverer of radiation
• Siri: Like Apple’s AI assistant, except a cat is much less likely to do what you say.
• Cortana: Originally the AI sidekick in the Halo video game franchise, Microsoft eventually named their equivalent of Siri after her.
• Samus: Sam for short. Heroine of the old-school Nintendo classic Metroid
• Akira: Classic Japanese sci-fi anime film
• KATniss: get it?!
• Xena: The one and only warrior princess
• McClintock: After Barbara McClintock. Great for a calico, tortie, or tabby whose coat makes genetics look artsy.
• Burnell: After Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Perfect for a chirpy cat who seems tuned into secret signals from another dimension.
• Sally: After Sally Ride. Great for a shoulder-riding cat or one who treats the cat tree like a launch platform.
• Maryam: After Maryam Mirzakhani. A lovely name for a graceful cat who solves puzzle feeders and furniture routes like math problems.
• Hypatia: After Hypatia. A beautiful name for a dignified, ancient-soul cat who looks like she has read every book you own.
• LunaByte: Moonlit black-cat elegance with a techy twist. Best for: black cat
• TriByte: Three-color coat, tiny tech pun. Best for: calico cat
• Mosaic: A nod to the old-school web browser and a calico’s patchwork coat. Best for: calico cat
• Tetris: For a calico who fits into boxes in ways that should violate physics. Best for: calico cat
• Quark: Small, fast, science-y, and good for a kitten with particle-physics energy.
• Widget: A gadgety little name for a cat who “fixes” things by sitting on them.
• Pointella: A pretty nod to Siamese color points. Best for: Siamese cat
• Clawdia: Stylish, simple, and built for a cat with excellent claws.
• Purrsephone: Mythology nerd name for a mysterious little underworld queen.
• Bookmark: For the cat who sits on whatever you’re trying to read.
• Naptune: Spacey, sleepy, and perfect for a cat who orbits the warmest chair.

Of course, if you want to be funny on a quantum level, there’s always Schrodinger.

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