Popular cat names ago, but in a different order. They also discovered that the 25 most popular cat names in Quebec sound French. Mimi (咪咪) is the generic name for a cat in China. It is onomatopoeic, coming from the cat's meow, and is also used to call cats. A survey of 1694 cats conducted by Japanese pet website Iris Pet found that the most popular cat names in Japan are: Cat names were the subject of T. S. Eliot's fanciful, well-known poem "The Naming of Cats", written in the 1930s and first published in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats in 1939.
Carbonel: The King of the Cats Carbonel: The King of the Cats Carbonel: the King of the Cats is a children's book by Barbara Sleigh, first published by Max Parrish in 1955, and in the US by Bobbs-Merrill, 1955. It is based on an old folk tale from the British Isles "The King of the Cats" and has two sequels, "The Kingdom of Carbonel" (Puffin, 1961) and "Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat" (Kestrel Books, 1978), making up the "Carbonel" series. The first edition of "Carbonel" was illustrated by V. H. Drummond, and of "Kingdom" by D. M. Leonard. A girl