What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

Louis Catorze doesn’t have a middle name. To be honest, his full title – Sa Majesté Louis Catorze, Le Roi Soleil – is already long enough. If we were to do as our parents did and call our kid by his full name to tell him off, by the time we got to the end, we would have forgotten why he was in trouble (and given him enough time to make a swift getaway).

Outwardly, Catorze is more Prince of Darkness than Sun King. However, the human Sun King’s middle name was Dieudonné, meaning “gift of God”, which is very appropriate as that’s exactly what Catorze thinks he is. If he were to choose his own middle name, I’m pretty sure he would choose that.

Most people assume that we named him Louis, but he was already called that when he came to us. The lady who found him had thought he was a girl and named him Louise (her own middle name), and the rescue subsequently changed it to Louis. We added the “Catorze” just to be funny, and this has since led to a number of derivatives such as Le Roi, Seigneur (technically a demotion from a royal title but he doesn’t appear to have noticed) and Sa Maj. For a while I even referred to him as LXIV when writing about him online, just because it was short. However, I am not good with numbers, and discovering that LXIV was Roman for sixty-four just made things confusing.

Cat Daddy also has multiple different names for Catorze. None of them are repeatable here (nor anywhere, come to think of it), but here is a hint of the very worst one (yes, THAT one).

He hears us. He’ll come when he’s good and ready.
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40 responses to “Dis mon nom”

  1. catladymac avatar
    catladymac

    According to Old Possum’s Book of Practiical Cats all cats have a secret name which they never tell humans.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Hahaha, really? Maybe all Catorze’s screaming is frustration that we keep getting his wrong!

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  2. Bipolar's gf avatar

    Louise is an excellent middle name.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I like it too!

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  3. cat9984 avatar

    He is a king, by whatever name.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      He certainly thinks so!

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  4. Doug Thomas avatar

    LOL! I had a ginger tabby I called Louie after the veterinary tech taking him from my arms to spay him told me he was a neutered male, not a female. Up to that point he was “Lucy” (after Lucille Ball, since she was a ginger, too). I had to come up with a male quickly for the veterinarian’s records, so I named him after another cool cat, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. I’m sure I’ve told you this story before, but I don’t recall you telling how the same mistake of naming happened to Louis Catorze! I’m glad im not th only one not able to sex cats. LOL!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      So you also thought your Louie was a girl! That’s so funny! 🤣🤣🤣

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      1. Doug Thomas avatar

        He was my second cat ever. I guess I just assumed lack of obvious male parts for any reason made a cat a female. LOL!

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    2. Penny Cooper avatar
      Penny Cooper

      This is so funny, my daughter rushed her male cat, which she knew was a male, to the vet because he had weird spots appear up his belly under his fur… She hadn’t considered that male cats like male humans have nipples!!

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      1. iamthesunking avatar
        iamthesunking

        I might have done the same! I’ve never seen them on a male cat!

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        1. Penny Cooper avatar
          Penny Cooper

          Well if Le Roi will allow you should have a look!! Good luck 😂

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      2. Doug Thomas avatar

        LOL! Great story, Penny!

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  5. Donnla Nic Gearailt avatar

    None of my cats have middle names. But they are known as (name)kitten (all one word) quite regularly although they are now all too old to be kittens.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Kitten is a perfectly good middle name!

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  6. Sally Goodman avatar
    Sally Goodman

    Well, Louise is my middle name so I am bound to day it’s an excellent name! But his full name just suits him SO WELL!!!!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Ahhh, I didn’t know your middle name was Louise!

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      1. Sally Goodman avatar
        Sally Goodman

        TBH I never really liked it!

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          I don’t know many people who like their middle name! Mine is Sharina and I hate it (sorry, Mum, if you’re reading this).

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  7. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    I only ever use count in incredibly extremely torturous circumstances, which are generally without any human witnesses. If I say it in front of anyone then beware because it means something or someone has pushed me way too far and the touch paper has been lit for long enough for the spark to reach the explosives!!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I think Cat Daddy uses it so often that he’s completely desensitised to it. That said, he only uses it to describe two sets of individuals: government ministers and Catorze!

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      1. Penny Cooper avatar
        Penny Cooper

        Oh I don’t think politicians can be counts, counts have some uses after all!! Actually there’s no words to describe government ministers and politicians, after all have you seen Penny Mordaunt’s description of Gary Lineker??

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  8. Dr. CaSo avatar

    lol 64… sorry 😉 I didn’t know the other Roi Soleil’s middle name was Dieudonné! Ma sister’s middle name is “aimée” (beloved), which I have always found mean for the rest of us kids in the family!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Haha! “The other Roi Soleil”! 🤣🤣🤣 What are the middle names of the other kids in the family? “Adoré(e)”? “Moins Aimé(e)”?

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      1. Dr. CaSo avatar

        Irène, Mahalia, and Jacob, a lot less specific!

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  9. mmechapeau avatar

    Timon has no middle name but some nicknames. Among them, there is the unfair TiTi Mongol which middle is Timon.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Does he have Mongolian connections? 🤣🤣🤣

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  10. Charles Huss avatar

    My wife used to be a property manager at a 400 unit apartment complex. Her maintenance supervisor, Luis, found a stray kitter tha

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    1. Charles Huss avatar

      I hit enter accidentally. He found a one day old kitten with no mother around. He gave it to us and we gave it to my sister-in-law who is good at raising young kittens. We named Lois but later learned it was a girl and became Louise.

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      1. iamthesunking avatar
        iamthesunking

        Aww! Was she a troublesome black cat? 🤣🤣🤣

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  11. Brain-iac avatar

    As an AI language model, I don’t have a middle name or any personal information such as name or identity. However, if I had to choose a middle name, I might choose something related to my purpose, such as “Knowledge” or “Intelligence.”

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Brilliant!

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  12. UDDHAV DESHMUKH avatar
    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      You like your middle name?

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  13. Samantha Waters avatar
    Samantha Waters

    Kay. Not that I know of

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