Hello, my name is...

Meet New Cat.
New Cat was spotted in a shelter a couple months ago and deemed to be the right animal for our house, so he was adopted by his foster mom in anticipation of our return to NS. When he went to live with his foster mom and family, we tried to name him, but couldn't really decide on anything that stuck or fit.
Thus far, he has tried on Bear, and Boris.
His shelter name was Pharaoh, so we tried some Egyptian monikers for a while, which included Siris (for Osiris) but I felt that was too close to Sirius, which is the dog star and completely inappropriate.
He was found in a kennel full of dogs, so as a nod to his penchant for 'keeping bad company' I wanted to call him Mr. Wickham. Peter felt we would shorten it to Wiki, and then everyone would ask why we named our cat after an internet encyclopedia.
It also led to his foster neighbours to call him Mr Rogers. Apparently they aren't Jane Austen fans.
Wickham's first name is George, so we tried that, but Peter worried that our friend George would wonder why we named the cat after him.
His foster mom thought Hector was good, but Peter had an uncle Hector, so he vetoed that.
We left it for a while and his foster mom just continued to call him New Cat. We started calling him New Cat too, and wondered if we should just call him Newkie, and say it is short for Newcastle Brown Ale. But once we met him, we realised he needed a better name.
I also realised he didn't look like a Wickham so I gave that up. In fact he didn't look English at all, but American. So we started trying to think of American literary characters, and realised that we must only read Brit Lit because the only American characters that came to mind were Huckleberry and Hawkeye. Neither seemed appropriate.
Then, being a true Canadian I decided it should be a Canadian character, but could only think of Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables. So I call him Gilbert all day Wednesday, but Peter didn't seem keen.
How do people ever manage to name their children I wonder?
We went back to the idea of mythology, and as New Cat's favourite position seems to be in front of the fire, we thought perhaps Prometheus, or Phaeton, but I didn't really like either of those. Apollo was too Battlestar Galactica.
Eventually we googled 'cat names' and found the website 2000 Cat Names. The world is a sick sad place. Peter thought we should try something botanical as a nod to my profession, so we tried Nepeta (for catnip) and Felino (which is Latin for cat.) Then we googled 'Latin Cat Names" and found a website that lists cat names by language. The world is truly a sick sad place.
We went back to literary characters by googling "American Literary Characters" and found Atticus, for Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird. It has the advantage of sounding Latin, and therefore classical, plus I've always thought Gregory Peck was rather dishy so I think we've settled on Atticus the Catticus. Peter has already started to make up rhymes about him.