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Male cat names worth stealing

The male cat names that appear most in open shelter and licence data, plus the ones that are genuinely uncommon.

Male cat names worth stealing

There is a particular kind of name that suits a male cat: short, a little absurd, and impossible to say sternly. The registers agree — the list below is heavy on two-syllable names that end in a vowel.

The uncommon end

Rarity here is measured, not asserted: these names appear in the registers, so real cats carry them, but they hold a small share of every register they appear in.

Every count on this site is a tally of real registrations: pet licences and shelter intakes published as open data by New York, Seattle, Austin, Montgomery County, Cambridge, Zurich, Basel and three Australian councils. Popularity here is the average share a name holds across those registers, so a name common in a small city is not buried by one common in a large one. Nine of the eleven sources are North American, so read the ordering as naming in those places rather than worldwide.