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I'm sorry to poo-poo MSNBC's list, but no one polled us and I guarantee you our cat names are among the strangest...
King Morpheus the Rotund (the feline formerly known as Morpheus the Amazing One-tailed Cat)
Cosmos the Emergency Back-up Cat
Phoenix v2.0 The Interloper
Okay Chrissi - these names have to be explained....
Our pets didn't make either list BUT we do have some nicknames for them that are quite appropriate...
Our cat is Dar (named for the movie "The Beastmaster.") When DD Cory was younger, she told people it was because when he was good, he was our 'DARling' - but when he was bad, he was 'That DARned Cat.'
And with our dog Duncan, we figured out if you say his name backwards (Nacnud), it fits his personality better.
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Working in a vet clinic, I pretty much guessed what names were top on the lists. Although I'm surprised that Max was #1 on both list since we see more Bailey's and more Tigger's.
Okay Chrissi - these names have to be explained....
Each of the cats have nicknames, too:
King Morpheus the Rotund = MoMo (like MuMu because he should wear one due to his girth)
Cosmo the Emergency Back-up Cat = Mo (because he's half the size of MoMo)
Phoenix v2.0, The Interloper = Pretty Girl, Princess, or Phe-Phe (just because she'll answer to nearly anything)
All three are black cats. MoMo and Mo each have a bit of white. Phoenix is coal black - even her foot pads.
MoMo and Mo are brothers from the same litter that we rescued from being separated and adopted out to different families. The lady who couldn't keep them due to her cat obsession and their litter box issues had named them "Bibs" and "Boots" due to their white markings. I think she was just running low on names because of all the cats she had in her basement. (And, yes, after speaking to our vet, we did direct the proper authorities to check in on her and her kids due to concerns about their health and the health of their many cats.)
I am the cat-lover in our house, but each of the cats has a preference for a different person. MoMo was the first to develop a preference, so he got named first and is first fiddle among the kitties. Hence the "king" part. His name, Morpheus, came from the character in the movie The Matrix. When we first got MoMo and Mo, MoMo hid in the house for days - only coming out for a cuddle in the middle of the night with me when Walt was asleep or in another room. So because Morpheus was an elusive character to Neo in The Matrix before they met, we name him Morpheus. Then, a few years ago, he started putting on weight. He is magnetically attracted to the food dish like there's a black hole under it. He weighs about 25 pounds by now, I'd guess. Hence the Rotund.
Cosmo is named after a character in the movie PCU. One of the hippies. It was a movie Walt and I loved at the time and we nearly named MoMo Mersh after the other hippie in the movie. (Mersh was played by Gary Busey's son, Jake Busey.) He's the Emergency Back-up Cat because I name the cats and he doesn't like me. So he's MoMo's understudy. He prefers Walt and Walt's nasty hippie blanket. (This fringe-y beach blanket that's a knock-off of a mexican or guatamalen blanket or something.)
Phoenix is a kitten we adopted while on vacation two summers ago at Knoebels. We found her living under our vacation home there and a couple of maintenance guys helped us catch her and board her through the end of the week so she could get cleaned up, get her shots, etc. before we introduced her to the boys at home. Anyway, Knoebels is world famous for being the first to resurrect a rollercoaster from its previous home and obscurity. So they named the coaster The Phoenix. Since our kitten was getting a second chance at happiness, we named her Phoenix, too. v2.0 because we couldn't call her Jr. since she's a girl living in modern times. She got tagged as "The Interloper" after she got over her respiratory issues a few weeks after we brought her home and introduced her to the boy kitties who still haven't warmed up to her. MoMo stopped snuggling me for weeks after we let Phoenix out of the spare room the first time.
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Some odd names but I have a pug named Sophie which made the popular list and I have a pug/Boston Terrier named Sirius Black. He's black and we're HP dorks.
The unusual ones had me lol'ing. None of my cats names made the list. Mine are Callie 11, Basia 10 (may she r.i.p I just had her euthanized Sunday night), and Alfy 9. I call Alfy Alfred E. Newman when I'm mad at him.
We have one out of two...I have a yellow lab named Lucy, which made the list. Our other yellow lab, is named Aggie (after DH Mom, who was named Agnes).
Fortissimo the cat. Everything he does is loud. Very loud. I got him my 4th year of college while I was majoring in music ed and performance. He had to have a musical name and Fortissimo means very loud do the name fit him. When Fortissimo was younger he had a bit of a tummy going, so I would call him Fortiss-a-the-Pooh-Bear.
Tigger the dog used the cat's litter box, ate the cat food, and bounced like a Tigger, so she is Tigger. Even at 15 she is a happy, bouncy Tigger puppy.
Caesar Augustus was a feral kitten we adopted though our friend's vet. DH said no Disney names, so he named the kitten Caesar Augustus. We call him GusGus, which DH didn't know was a Disney name until we were waiting to eat breakfast in Cinderella's Castle and I saw GusGus the mouse on the ledge. Everyone in our family knew who GusGus was except DH. Caesar also comes to Little Buddy.
The baby is Jack. Short for Jack ***. Or Jack the Pirate Puppy, or a few other names I cannot say on a family board. Let's just say that sometimes Jack is very lucky he is so cute.
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Hence the "king" part. His name, Morpheus, came from the character in the movie The Matrix. When we first got MoMo and Mo, MoMo hid in the house for days - only coming out for a cuddle in the middle of the night with me when Walt was asleep or in another room. So because Morpheus was an elusive character to Neo in The Matrix before they met, we name him Morpheus. Then, a few years ago, he started putting on weight. He is magnetically attracted to the food dish like there's a black hole under it. 
He weighs about 25 pounds by now, I'd guess. Hence the Rotund. 
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