In modern Chinese, the word pet refers to the small animals that are loved by the family. It also refers to the creatures that people feed for spiritual purposes rather than economic purposes. Since ancient times, it has been a very meaningful thing to name pets. Pet naming is actually a unique linguistic phenomenon. It also includes the research on the types of word formation structure contained in modern Chinese. It can be said that naming is the research on new word formation in modern Chinese. And according to the content of previous scholars literature were confirmed in this paper. This paper focuses on the analysis of word-formation characteristics, semantic characteristics and word-formation structure types in modern Chinese, and integrates word-formation naming information in modern Chinese, hoping to provide readers with a channel to understand the characteristics of Chinese pet naming from the perspective of modern Chinese The interpretation of Chinese pet naming culture in modern Chinese is conducive to a better understanding of modern Chinese and Chinese culture, and also helps readers to understand the development history of pet naming. This paper includes Chinese classical Tang poetry and Song poetry as the research corpus, which plays an important role in studying the development background of pet naming. The study of pet naming in this paper is helpful to understand the characteristics and psychology of modern cat naming. Hope to provide effective reference for scholars who continue to study pet naming.