thanks to you all who have responded! some great ideas in there. keep 'em coming, please!

if it helps any, here are the names of the cats i have right now (all adult ones) - Snickers, Rusty, Stella, Gray Paw, and Linus [the ones i lost recently were Coco, Stripes, Al, and Charlie]


-> gonna make a few comments here about above mentioned names:

1. already have an adult male orange and white cat named Rusty!!
2. most of my cats usually get nicknames as they grow older (like 'big kitty', 'motor mouth', 'furr ball', 'momma', miss or mr. in front of their name, 'my friendly pest'...)
3. i have an uncle that we call "Butch", so that is out of the pic - sorry
4. and my cat named Charlie went missing two weeks ago, so i'm still hoping he will come back soon!!
5. i tend to use a single word for their names