Margot

Margot is a French diminutive of Marguerite, itself the French form of Margaret, from Greek Margarites meaning 'pearl.' The spelling with a silent T is distinctly French and gives the name a sophisticated, continental quality that the more common Margo does not quite replicate.

Margot is a name with a Parisian sensibility attached. The silent T is doing a lot of work — it turns an ordinary name into something that implies refinement, a certain studied casualness, a cat who has opinions about furniture placement. It has been on a sustained rise as a human baby name, which gives it that quality of being simultaneously familiar and specific. For pets, Margot suits female cats and smaller dogs with an aloof-on-the-surface, deeply-affectionate-underneath personality — the kind who ignore you pointedly until they decide they want attention, at which point they are completely impossible.