Cats answer to a name on their own terms, which does not stop nearly every owner choosing carefully. The names here are the ones that show up most in records where the animal is a cat and was sexed female.
Soft sounds, measured rather than felt
The catalogue classifies a name's sound from its letters — soft, strong, playful, elegant, easy to call — which is a description of the spelling and not a claim about character. It is a useful filter anyway: soft names end in a vowel or a liquid consonant, and they are the ones that carry indoors without sounding like a reprimand.
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.