User blog comment:Silverfang of ThunderClan/Names: What's Up With Them?/@comment-4730333-20120624194743

I think it comes from the fact that the clans might be based off of the old Native American tribes/clans. They had names like that, only seperated the words, such as "Running Bull". In Warriors, they've just combined them in like "Runningbull". things like 'star' and 'kit' are obvious for the end part of their names, but 'paw' was probably just thought up randomly.

At least, that's my theory. I could be completely wrong, though :P

And my fave name is Shiningsoul. (She's from one of my fanfics I wrote badly so I didn't post it anywhere. Maybe I'll re-write it and put it up here someday.)