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My cat does do a very distinctive meow when I walk into the room she's in, but I think it translates to, "HI!!" >

I had a cat who had learned to do a meow in the same way as we would say "hello!" whenever he came over. So if he'd come into the house and not find anyone downstairs, he would sit at the bottom of the stairs and shout mawooow at us. >

Apparently when I'm not home for a while one of my cats wanders from room to room meowing. My partner says she's looking for me >

This is literally the most wholesome showerthought I've read >

One of my cats (we have 3) has a district call for one of nother cat. When he is looking for him he calls him (sounds like 'wow wow?'). I haven't noticed if the other one realize if he is being called but the pattern is clear, he looks for him and calls 'wow wow?' frequently until he finds him.  This call is nothing alike what we call that cat (which is Frodo). The other cat does not respond or comes to the wow wow?.
I haven't found that he has a distinct call for the 3th cat,  me, wife or the kids yet. >

My cat does a ‘wow wow’ sound too! But not to call anyone just when he is commenting on a certain situation or complaining >

I haven't noticed a specific call for me or my husband but one of our boys has a 2 super distinctive calls that we call "human fix it" and "there's a problem with the bathroom".
Human fix it occurs when there is something drastically wrong with his environment. He uses it for occurance like: the time the hot water tank burst and shot a stream of water out the side, when it hails and he's scared, when there is a wind storm and he is scared, when someone stole all his floors (renovation), when we used an air conditioner for the first time (he's afraid of wind), when a racoon tried to get in the house, when he went outside after we had just finished building the catio and it was pouring rain and instead of coming back inside he sat in the middle of the catio threw back his head and screamed the human fix it call into the sky, and when he eats too much grass upsets his own tummy and is just about to throw up.
"There's a problem with the bathroom" is very similar but is pitched lower and shorter in length. >

Your comment was a joy to read. “Stole his floors” and “catio” had me giggling. >

Thanks :D >

My older cat does this little "Mrep!" to get my attention. Don't know if it's specific to me or if it's just a general "look at me".
My kitten prefers to "REEEEEEEEEE-" >

We call the Mrep "Pigeoning" because it sounds like a pigeon coo. Our cat does this while flaunting their belly stretching on the floor for attention. >

My girlfriend's cat has a meow that he uses when he sees my girlfriend's mum that sounds exactly like he's saying "mama!" >

My cat literally says mama to my mom lol >

My cat definitely has 2 specific calls one for me and one for my wife. >

They most likely do. Animals do have names for each other, I believe it's been studied and proven >

Elephants, for sure do >

Parrots, too.