210 Powerful Female Cat Names for Fierce Felines

Published on 02/21/2023

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If you are planning on becoming a proud pet parent to a female kitten, you’ve probably started an extensive search for the perfect name for her. And if you are looking for name inspiration from powerful females from the past and present, you have so many names to choose from.

From politicians and philanthropists to artists, musicians, and movie stars (and even powerful fictional female characters), we’ve created a master list of powerful female cat names for you to consider.

Best Powerful Female Cat Names

Your female kitten deserves a strong name inspired by a strong woman who inspires you. Here are 40 of the best powerful female cat names to help you pick the perfect name for her.

Dolly (Dolly Parton)
Ruth (Ruth Bader Ginsberg)
Sandra (Sandra Day O’Connor)
Elena (Elena Kagan)
Sonia (Sonia Sotomayor)
Amy (Amy Coney Barrett)
Ketanji (Ketanji Brown Jackson)
Rosa (Rosa Parks)
Michelle (Michelle Obama)
Oprah (Oprah Winfrey)
Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II)
Amelia (Amelia Earheart)
Margaret (Margaret Thatcher)
Madeleine (Madeleine Albright)
Marie (Marie Curie)
Frida (Frida Kahlo)
Jane (Jane Austen)
Celia (Celia Cruz)
Cleopatra (Egyptian queen)
Martha (Martha Washington)
Maya (Maya Angelou)
Toni (Toni Morrison)
Serena (Serena Williams)
Julia (Julia Child)
Rosie (Rosie The Riveter)
Althea (Althea Gibson)
Betty (Betty Friedan)
Indira (Indira Gandhi)
Mary (Mary Shelley)
Annie (Annie Oakley)
Georgia (Georgia O’Keefe)
Teresa (Mother Teresa)
Agatha (Agatha Christie)
Sylvia (Sylvia Plath)
Ida (Ida B. Wells)
Kamala (Kamala Harris)
Sappho (Western literature founder)
Esther (Hebrew queen)
Maud (Maud Gonne)
Flannery (Flannery O’Connor)
Yoko (Yoko Ono)

Names Inspired By Historical Women

From world leaders to inventors to writers, history is full of inspiring women. If you love history or want your kitten to have a historical name in honor of a powerful woman, here are 50 powerful names inspired by historical women.

Louisa (Louisa May Alcott)
Abigail (Abigail Adams)
Grace (Grace Hopper)
Joan (Joan of Arc)
Betsy (Betsy Ross)
Ada (Ada Lovelace)
Florence (Florence Nightingale)
Boudicca ( Queen of the Iceni)
Catherine (Catherine The Great)
Rosalind (Rosalind Franklin)
Jackie (Jackie Kennedy)
Harriet (Harriet Tubman)
Ruby (Ruby Bridges)
Coretta (Coretta Scott King)
Lili (Queen Liliuokalani)
Eleanor (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Susan (Susan B. Anthony)
Lucretia (Lucretia Mott)
Benazir (Benazir Bhutto)
Coco (Coco Chanel)
Mildred (Mildred Ella ‘Babe’ Didrikson Zaharias)
Sojourner (Sojourner Truth)
Margaret (Margaret Sanger)
Eva (Eva Perón)
Dorothea (Dorothea Dix)
Harper (Harper Lee)
Virginia (Virginia Woolf)
Helen (Helen Keller)
Laura (Laura Ingells Wilder)
Victoria (Queen Victoria)
Emily (Emily Dickinson)
Artemisia (queen of the ancient Greek city-state of Halicarnassus)
Hatshepsut (ruler of Egypt)
Nefertiti (ruler of Egypt)
Olympias (ruler of Macedonia)
Estée (Estée Lauder)
Madam (Madam C.J. Walker)
Olive (Olive Ann Beech)
Nancy (Nancy Reagan)
Eliza (Eliza Hamilton)
Sally (Sally Ride)
Judy (Judy Blume)
Nellie (Nellie Bly)
Julia (Julia Ward Howe)
Winifred (Winifred Edgerton Merrill)
Ayn (Ayn Rand)
Gwendolyn (Gwendolyn Brooks)
Gertrude (Gertrude Stein)
Nora (Nora Ephron)
Emmeline (Emmeline Pankhurst)

Powerful Female Cat Names Inspired By Movies

From film stars to fictional characters, there are so many powerful women that have graced the silver screen. Here are names inspired by movies.

Hedy (Hedy Lamarr)
Judy (Judy Garland)
Sofia (Sofia Coppola)
Anna (Anna May Wong)
Lena (Lena Horne)
Leia (Princess Leia, Star Wars)
Mulan (Mulan)
Katniss (Everdeen)
Hermione (Hermione Granger, Harry Potter)
Harley (Harley Quinn, Suicide Squad)
Wednesday (Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family)
Rey (Star Wars)
Audrey (Audrey Hepburn)
Brigitte (Brigitte Bardot)
Marilyn (Marilyn Monroe)
Kathryn (Kathryn Bigelow)
Marlene (Marlene Dietrich)
Lara (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider)
Shuri (Black Panther)
Storm (X-Men)
Jean (Jean Grey, X-Men)
Carol (Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel)
Rita (Rita Moreno)
Wanda (Wanda Maximoff, Captain America)
Lucille (Lucille Ball)
Shirley (Shirley Temple)
Julie (Julie Andrews)
Scarlett (Scarlett O’Hara, Gone With The Wind)
Alice (Alice in Wonderland)
Jessica (Jessica Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Selina (Selina Kyle, Catwoman)
Ginger (Ginger Rogers)
Hattie (Hattie McDaniel)
Greta (Greta Garbo)
Gloria (Gloria Swanson)
Theda (Theda Bara)
Ingrid (Ingrid Bergman)
Glinda (Glinda The Good Witch, Wizard of Oz)
Raquel (Raquel Welch)
Mae (Mae West)
Katharine (Katharine Hepburn)
Vivien (Vivien Leigh)
Lauren (Lauren Bacall)
Ava (Ava Gardner)
Olivia (Olivia de Havilland)
Claudette (Claudette Colbert)
Rita (Rita Hayworth)
Veronica (Veronica Lake)
Doris (Doris Day)
Myrna (Myrna Loy)

Cat Names Inspired By Music

Love music? There are so many amazing female musicians, singers, and composers to get cat-name inspo from.

Alanis (Alanis Morissette)
Janis (Janis Joplin)
Aretha (Aretha Franklin)
Maria (Maria Callas)
Diana (Diana Ross)
Madonna
Ella (Ella Fitzgerald)
Whitney (Whitney Houston)
Billie (Billie Holiday)
Patti (Patti Smith)
Joni (Joni Mitchell)
Stevie (Stevie Nicks)
Donna (Donna Summer)
Roberta (Roberta Flack)
Carole (Carole King)
Chaka (Chaka Khan)
Barbara (Barbara Streisand)
Clara (Clara Schumann)
Marianna (Marianna Martines)
Patsy (Patsy Cline)
Nina (Nina Simone)
Edith (Edith Piaf)
Shania (Shania Twain)
June (June Carter Cash)
Emmylou (Emmylou Harris)
Cher (Cher)
Tina (Tina Turner)
Janet (Janet Jackson)
Selena (Selena Quintanilla)
Lauryn (Lauryn Hill)
Josephine (Josephine Baker)
Celine (Celine Dion)
Rosetta (Sister Rosetta Tharpe)
Maybelle (Mother Maybelle Carter)
Minnie (Memphis Minnie)
Peggy (Peggy Lee)
Della (Della Reese)
Dinah (Dinah Shore)
Bessie (Bessie Smith)
Mahalia (Mahalia Jackson)
Jett (Joan Jett)
Rainey (Ma Rainey)
Anita (Anita Baker)
Loretta (Loretta Lynn)
Tammy (Tammy Wynette)
Kitty (Kitty Wells)
Lucinda (Lucinda Williams)
Tina (Tina Turner)
Fiona (Fiona Apple)
Carole (Carole King)

Powerful Female Cat Names Inspired By Nature

If you love nature or the great outdoors, there are many women and female-inspired names from nature you can choose. Here are 20 powerful cat names inspired by nature: