100+ Black Cat Names for Your New Favorite Feline

Literary Cat Names

Aslan - the kingly lion (and not-so-subtle Jesus allegory) from C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

Bartleby - the clerk from Herman Melville's story Bartleby the Scrivener, with the extremely relatable motto of "I would prefer not to."

Behemoth - the demonic black cat from Mikhail Bulgokov's darkly funny satire The Master and Margarita.

Dante - the medieval Italian poet who traveled through hell, purgatory, and heaven in The Divine Comedy.

Gregor - after Gregor Samsa, the man who awakens to find himself transformed into a giant insect in Kafka's story The Metamorphosis.

Harker - after the hapless hero of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jonathan Harker. 

Heathcliff - the brooding, Byronic hero of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

Horatio - Hamlet's loyal best friend in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Iago - the evil advisor from Shakespeare's tragedy Othello.

Margarita - a character who becomes a powerful witch in Mikhail Bulgokov's satirical novel about Satan visiting Moscow, The Master and Margarita.

Mephistopheles - the devil in the story of Faust by Goethe, about a scholar who sells his soul.

Malvolio - a hapless steward who gets tricked by a fake love letter in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Pluto - the titular feline from Poe's disturbing tale "The Black Cat."

Quincy - a lesser-known Dracula character, this suitor of Lucy's is a gun-toting American cowboy.

Salome - in the Bible, a princess who demanded the head of John the Baptist, and a famous play by Oscar Wilde.

Titania - the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Van Helsing - Bram Stoker's vampire-hunting professor from Dracula.

Virgil - the Roman poet who guided Dante through hell in the medieval epic poem Inferno.

Male Black Cat Names

Bram - after Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.

Balthazar - a Babylonian name traditionally assigned to one of the Three Wise Men in the biblical tradition.

Beelzebub - "Lord of the Flies,"  in the Bible, a demon associated with swarms of flies.

Corbeau - the French word for "crow," this name is dark with a hint of sophistication.

Crow - an unpretentious black cat name with a lot of attitude.

Fiend - a short name for your 'lil monster (and it's just one letter away from "friend").

Griffin - a hybrid between a lion and an eagle.

Goblin - all cats are goblins on some level, but if yours is especially full of mischief, this might just be the perfect name.

Onyx - for the black gemstone of the same name.

Phoenix - a mythological bird that burns and is reborn from its own ashes.

Santiago - a Spanish name meaning "of St. James" and a name with a lot of personality.

Sebastian - after St. Sebastian, often depicted in Renaissance art pierced with arrows.

Thorn - a nature-inspired name for a cat with impressive claws.

Female Black Cat Names

Carmilla - author Sheridan le Fanu's vampiric countess from the novel of the same name.

Cleo - short for Cleopatra, a cute cat name with a queenly aura.

Dementia - a whimsically gothic name that also references the author of the (in)famous fanfic "My Immortal."

Jade - an elegant name for a black cat, especially if your kitty has green eyes.

Lucy - Mina's vivacious friend in Dracula.

Mina - the plucky heroine of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.

Madame X - an elegant lady dressed in black in a famous painting by John Singer Sargent. 

Paloma - Spanish for "dove," this is an especially cute cat name.

Raven - a classic gothic cat name, especially for fans of Edgar Allan Poe.

Rue - an herb associated with mourning. 

Starling - after Clarice Starling from The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the speckled black bird.

Mythological Cat Names

Artemis - the Greek goddess of maidens, the moon, and the hunt.

Astaroth - a powerful demon as noted in the medieval magical text the Lesser Key of Solomon.

Bantu - a vampiric spirit in Indian folklore.

Bastet - always a classic, Bastet is the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess of domesticity, fertility, protection (and, of course, cats).

Banshee - a female spirit in Irish folklore that heralds death by screaming or wailing.

Camazotz - a bat spirit associated with the underworld in Mayan mythology, this name means "death bat."

Cerberus - the three-headed hellhound who guards the underworld in Greek mythology, and a great cat name with a touch of irony.

Chiron - the ferryman who takes the souls of the dead across the river Styx in Greek mythology.

Chonchon - in parts of South America, legend has it that witches' heads (chonchón) can detach themselves and fly around drinking the blood of sleeping people. A creepy-cute name for your furry vampire.

Enkidu - the enemy-turned-loyal friend from the 4000-year-old Mesopotamian poem the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Freya - the Norse goddess of spring and fertility.

Hades - the lord of the underworld in Greek mythology.

Kitsune - a shape-shifting fox spirit in Japanese mythology.

Lamia - Ancient Greek sources speak of a female demonic creature from present-day Libya called the Lamia.

Loki - the Norse god of chaos, and the perfect name for your little trickster.

Llorona - a vengeful ghost in Latin American folklore who haunts bodies of water and can be heard weeping.

Obayifo - from West African folklore, a witch-like or vampiric creature that is obsessed with food.

Old Scratch - a nickname for the devil from English folklore.

Orcus - an early Roman god of the underworld.

Pazuzu - an ancient Babylonian demon featured in the movie The Exorcist.

Pixie - diminutive nature spirits from English folklore.

Shax - in Christian demonology, a demon who is conjured to steal or locate valuable items.

Strigoi - a Romanian word meaning vampire or undead revenant. 

Gothic Cat Names

Alastair - after Alastair Crowley, the eccentric early 20th century occultist.

Aramis - a French name for someone from the region of Aramits, and one of the Three Musketeers from the book by Alexandre Dumas.

Brutus - he betrayed Caesar on the Ides of March in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. 

Chaton - from the French word for "kitten."

Demon - keep it simple with this name that lets the vet know exactly what they're in for.

Ether - if your cat likes to vanish into thin air, this "ethereal" name is a good choice.

Ghost - for your little guy that goes bump in the night.

Lucretia - from the song "Lucretia My Reflection" by the Sisters of Mercy. 

Moth - a nature name for a cat that loves to frolic in the night.

Nosferatu - give your void kitty a sense of gravitas with this vampiric name.

Orion - the Greek hero immortalized in a constellation.

Revenant - an evocative gothic name with a sense of poetry.

Sable - a name meaning black or dark fur.

Salem - an evocative name associated with the Salem witch trials, and the name of the wisecracking black cat from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Viper - a great name if your kitty has impressive fangs.

Vlad - a short name that conjures vampire vibes.

Cat Names from Pop Culture

Alice - from the ultimate dark fairytale, Alice in Wonderland.

Armand - a tragic vampire villain from Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and the show Interview with the Vampire.

Bela - from the actor who famously played Dracula in the 1930s Universal horror movies–and was later immortalized by the goth band Bauhaus–Bela Lugosi. 

Crowley - the lovable demon from Good Omens.

Cruella - from the ultimate dog-hater Cruella de Vil, villain of 101 Dalmations.

Damien - the name of the boy who becomes the antichrist in the movie The Omen.

Emily - after Emily Brontë, author of one of the most famous gothic novels of all time, Wuthering Heights. (Not to mention death-obsessed 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson).

Felix - from the cartoon Felix the Cat, it's also a Latin name that means "happy."

Hannibal - after Hannibal Lecter, the infamous cannibal psychiatrist from The Silence of the Lambs.

Gomez - the ultimate goth husband and father, Gomez Addams.

Jones - the ship's cat from the movie Alien, and [spoilers] one of the few who makes it out alive.

Laszlo - one of the wacky vampire roommates from What We Do in the Shadows.

Lisbeth - the goth heroine of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 

Luna - the cute black cat from Sailor Moon.

Morpheus - the king of dreams in the Sandman comics, who sometimes appears as a large black cat.

Maleficent - if your kitty is adorably evil, name her after the villain of Disney's Sleeping Beauty.

Marceline - a guitar-playing vampire from the TV show Adventuretime.

Medusa - the monster whose gaze turns all who look on her to stone.

Morticia - the personification of goth mom goals, and matriarch of The Addams Family.

Nadja - Laszlo's vampire bride on What We Do in the Shadows.

Wednesday - no list of goth girls' names would be complete without Wednesday Addams, eldest daughter of the creepy, kooky family. 

Hopefully this list gave you some inspiration for naming your new kitty. Now, it's time to prepare your lair for a new creature of darkness.