Selkie

From Scottish and Irish folklore, a selkie is a mythological creature capable of transforming between seal and human form — a name associated with the wild sea, shape-shifting, and a longing quality that is deeply moving.

Selkie is one of the most beautiful names in all of Celtic mythology, and it translates to pets with particular grace. In the old stories, selkies are seal-people who come from the sea — sometimes willingly, sometimes not — and they are always characterized by a profound beauty and a quality of yearning, of belonging to two worlds at once. For a pet who seems to carry something mysterious and slightly wild beneath a domestic exterior, Selkie is a name of unusual depth and loveliness.