I had a dog that would not answer to any name I gave her. I had her on my lap one day about a month after I got her and I asked her what her name was. We were eye to eye. She looked at me and projected “Kitty.”
When next I called her, I said, “Here, Kitty!” I’m sure her previous owners had catz and “Here, Kitty” was the signal for food. She weighed four pounds and I loved her silly self!
One of our dogs name is Kitty. When she was a puppy, we also had a litter of kittens. Every time I said “Here kitty, kitty”, she would show up, so the name stuck.
Our vets chuckles at her name every time he sees her.