Top Cat Names

Popular and top cat names From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Contents 

    In the English language-Adrian Franklin, senior lecturer of the School of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Tasmania and author of Animals and Modern Cultures, told the Sunday Tasmanian in 2001: "In the 1950s and '60s dogs and cats were given 'dog' and 'cat' names. [...] Cats had names like 'Blackie' and 'Spotty', names that illustrated their physical appearance. The 1980s marked a turning point, with the 10 most popular dog names all being compatible as human names, but in the '90s this progressed even further. People are now giving animals the same names as contemporary names given to babies." He believed that as people have fewer children or no children at all, pets become more important in their lives.[1]

    In Australia, the United Kingdom[2] and in the United States, news accounts have noted that the same popular baby names were also being given to pets. The new names for dogs more closely echoed human baby names, said Lindsey Basserabie,a company official, but the trend occurred for both pet species. "In fact, this year's list of top 10 dog and cat names could nearly be straight from the birth pages."[3] In the United States, according to an article in The Tampa Tribune, some of the most popular cat names also appeared on the Social Security Administration's list of most common baby names: "Isabella (Bella) is No. 4 for girls, and Sophia ranks ninth on both the Social Security and pet lists."[4]

    Australia- According to "Bow Wow Meow", an Australian company that provides pet tags to pet stores and veterinarians, the 10 most popular cat names its Australian customers chose, as of 2010, are:

    Rankin 2010[5]in 2008[3]1OscarOscar2MaxBella3TigerMolly4SamMax5MistyCoco6SimbaMilo7CocoAngel8ChloeTigger9LucyMissy10MissyLilyIn 2006, a survey of 270,000 Nestle Purina PetCare customers in Australia came up with these most popular cat names:[6]

    1. Tiger
    2. Puss
    3. Smokey
    4. Misty
    5. Tigger
    6. Kitty
    7. Oscar
    8. Missy
    9. Max
    10. Ginger
    United Kingdom-In 2006, Direct Line, a pet insurance company, created this list of the most popular cat names chosen by its customers: The company's lists of popular cat and dog names "overlaps heavily with the same year’s 100 most popular children’s names in England and Wales", according to Melissa Lafsky, writing in the "Freakonomics" blog at the New York Times website:[7]

    1. Molly
    2. Charlie
    3. Tigger
    4. Poppy
    5. Oscar
    6. Smudge
    7. Millie
    8. Daisy
    9. Max
    10. Jasper
    Another survey conducted in 2006 came up with different results. In that poll, conducted for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 2,000 people in the United Kingdom were asked about their pets' names. The most popular names were:[8]

    1. Molly
    2. Felix
    3. Smudge
    4. Sooty
    5. Tigger
    6. Charlie
    7. Alfie
    8. Oscar
    9. Millie
    10. Misty
    A 1998 poll in Britain conducted for Petplan, an animal insurer, found the most popular cat names to be Charlie, Milly, Oscar, Tiger, Poppy, Sophie, Rosie, Smudge and Lucy.[2]

    United States-According 2005-2006 statistics from the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association 34 percent of United States households own at least one cat, an estimated 90 million cats in total.[9]

    The United States' largest pet insurer, Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI), releases annual rankings of its customers' most popular cat names and dog names. The 2010 list (based on information from 2009 and released in January 2010) was gathered from 475,000 policies.[10] Curtis Steinhoff, senior director of corporate communications for VPI, attributed the popularity of "Bella" (No. 3 on the cat list but No. 1 for dogs) on the 2010 list as probably having "something to do with Bella being the name of the heroine in a certain vampire book/film series that's pretty popular these days."[11] In the 2012 list from VPI (collected from information from 2011) listed the top 5 female cat names as Bella, Lucy, Kitty, Chloe and Sophie. The top 5 male cat names were Max, Oliver, Charlie, Tiger and Smokey.[12]

    In 2009, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that according to government databases, the three most popular cat names in that city were, in order, Kitty, Tiger and Max.[13] In 2004, the same newspaper reported differently based on information from the Cook County Department of Animal Control. The Sun-Timesreported in 1987 that the same Cook County department had checked its database of 27,863 cats that had been vaccinated from 1984 through 1986 and found yet different results.


    According to another About.com article, one German list of popular cat names in that country gave these rankings:[25]

    1. Felix
    2. Minka
    3. Moritz
    4. Charly
    5. Tiger (tee-gher)
    6. Max
    7. Susi
    8. Lisa
    9. Blacky
    10. Muschi
    In 2006, according to an article in The Guardian the three most popular cat names in Germany were Felix, Gismo and Charlie.[26]

    Quebec (Canada)According to a survey by the website Veterinet, the 10 most popular cat names in Quebec are:[27]

    1. Minou
    2. Grisou
    3. Ti-Mine
    4. Félix
    5. Caramel
    6. Mimi
    7. Pacha
    8. Charlotte
    9. Minette
    10. Chanel
    Veterinet found that nine out of the ten names are the same as 15 years ago, but in a different order. They also discovered that the 25 most popular cat names in Quebec sound French.

    Cultural references to the naming of cats-Cat names were the subject of T.S. Eliot’s fanciful, well-known poem The Naming of Cats, written in the 1930s and first published in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats in 1939.[28]

    References
    1. ^ Stubbs, Brett, "Joys of picking a pet project", Sunday Tasmanian, August 27, 2000, retrieved via Newsbank.com on May 19, 2010
    2. ^ a b Poole, Shona Crawford, "Down Henry! Time to call this trend to heel - Pet names", The Times, London, May 16, 1998, retrieved via NewsBank.com on May 19, 2010
    3. ^ a b Rogers, Jenny, "Humanising pets with a real name", The Gold Coast Bulletin, February 2, 2008, retrieved via Newsbank.com on May 19, 2010
    4. ^ a b Levine, Kristin, "Dog, Cat Names Taken To The Max", The Tampa Tribune, January 26, 2008, retrieved from the NewsBank.com website on May 19, 2010
    5. ^ Search results page for "Top 20 / Sex: Both / Cat Names from Australia" [1] at "Bow Wow Meow" website, retrieved May 15, 2010
    6. ^ Firkin, Katherine, "Max factor in pet name", Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, October 18, 2006, retrieved via Newsbank.com on May 19, 2010
    7. ^ Lafsky, Melissa, "The Most Popular Names for British Pets", June 12, 2007, Freakonomics blog, retrieved May 15, 2010
    8. ^ "Molly is top dog and cat but Ben goes out of fashion", article, Yorkshire Post, December 27, 2006, retrieved via Newsbank.com, May 19, 2010
    9. ^ http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/homerealestate/feature.jsp?story=rainingcatsanddogs
    10. ^ a b http://newsblaze.com/story/2010010406010600027.pnw/topstory.html also, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) - Saturday, January 9, 2010
    11. ^ News release, "Nation's Largest Pet Insurer Reveals Top 10 Dog and Cat Names of 2009", January 4, 2010, retrieved May 15, 2010
    12. ^ News release, [2] VetStreet.com February 12, 2012
    13. ^ Spielman, Fran, "Fix is in for city's pets - Burke says he has the votes to mandate dog, cat sterilization", Chicago Sun-Times, March 10, 2009, retrieved from the NewsBank.com website on May 19, 2010
    14. ^ Levine, Kristen, "Spot Remover - New Crop of Pet Names Marks Its Turf", "Baylife Magazine" section, The Tampa Tribune, Tampa, Florida, January 18, 2009, retrieved from the NewsBank.com website on May 19, 2010
    15. ^ "Human names are going to the dogs--and cats", article, Chicago Tribune, RedEye Edition, September 28, 2006, retrieved from the NewsBank.com website on May 19, 2010
    16. ^ http://www.youpet.com/cat-names/
    17. ^ a b http://www.babynames.com/Names/Pets/
    18. ^ http://www.bowwow.com.au/find-a-name-for-your-pet/top-20-names.aspx
    19. ^ http://polls.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/poll?pollname=cat.poll&template=cat_results.htm Washington Post
    20. ^ a b Fernandez, Don, "Four-legged friends' names more fetching than cutesy", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 27, 2005, retrieved from the NewsBank.com website on May 19, 2010
    21. ^ Gallup, Alec M., "Dogs still lead cats in poll of pet owners", Chicago Sun-Times, September 9, 1990, retrieved from the NewsBank.com website on May 19, 2010
    22. ^ Golab, Art, "Max jumps way past Fido as most popular dog name", Chicago Sun-Times, April 4, 2004, retrieved from the NewsBank.com website on May 19, 2010
    23. ^ Hermann, Andrew, "Brandy, Kitty claw way to the top of pet names", Chicago Sun-Times, February 24, 1987, retrieved from the NewsBank.com website on May 19, 2010
    24. ^ Web page titled "Dog and Cat Names in German", About.com website, retrieved May 15, 2010
    25. ^ a b Web page titled "German Dog and Cat Names/Part 2: Katzen und Katzenkrimis", About.com website, retrieved May 15, 2010
    26. ^ Harding, Luke, "G2: Shortcuts: The life and death of Spotty the cat", The Guardian, March 2, 2006, retrieved via Newsbank.com on May 19, 2010
    27. ^ http://www.veterinet.net/services/nouvelle.asp?categ=3.4&no=580
    28. ^ Simon, John (1982). "Notes on Cats, People and Related Matters". In Fireman, Judy. Cat Catalog, The Ultimate Cat Book. New York: Crown Publishers. pp. 272–275. ISBN 0-517-39074-4.

    Further reading.   See these other websites for top cat names.

  • Cat Names www.cat-names.us/‎

    Cat names free searchable database and list of over 5000 unique cat names with meanings including categories like Siamese cat names, female cat names, ...‎Cat Names Database - ‎About Us - ‎Siamese Cat Names - ‎Girl Cat Names
  • 16927 Cat Names - Kessels www.kessels.com/catnames/‎

    Looking for a name for your kitty? You can find loads and lots of imaginative names here.
  • Cat Names Meow - Purrrfect Names For Cats! www.catnamesmeow.com/‎

    Cat names so fun and innovative, you and your cat will love them better than a ball of string.‎ Female Cat Names - ‎Male Cat Names - ‎Grey Cat Names - ‎Orange Cat Names
  • Top 100 Female Cat Names | Top Female Kitten Names | Cute ...www.petmd.com › Kitten Center‎

    Top female cat names. Find best female cat names for your kitten. Popular unique and cute female kitten names.
  • Great Cat Names for naming your cat or kitten www.greatcatnames.com/‎

    An easy to use, creative list of great cat names. Not just an endless list of every name in the book, but a list you can truly use. Includes many stories about cat ...
  • Popular cat names - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_cat_names‎

    The popularity of cat names differs by nation, even nations with the same language, and new names become popular over time. Ranking of the popularity of cat ...
  • Popular Cat Names: The Trendiest Monikers For Your Pet Kitten

    www.huffingtonpost.com/.../popular-cat-names-2012_n_27033...‎

    by Jessica Leader
    Feb 18, 2013 - From Vetstreet's Kristen Seymour: If you didn't see your cat's name on our most popular kitten names list, fear not; that carefully chosen kitty ...

  • Need a Perfect Dog Name or Cat Name for your new Pet?www.bowwow.com.au/‎

    Try out our dog and cat name search facility to find pet name meanings, compare your pet names with others in pet name popularity, try the top 20 pet names ...
  • Cat Name Generator - Funny Cat Names | Scoop Away®www.scoopaway.com/social/cat-name-generator/‎

    Find the perfect cat name with Scoop Away's® Cat Name Generator. Just answer a few simple questions.
  • 2000 CAT NAMES: Naming your kitten - Naming your puppy petrix.com/catnames/‎

    2,000 Cat Names. Falafel, our guard dog. Naming Your Kitten. The name you choose says as much about you as it does about your cat. It shows how you view ...

  • To purchase the domain name Top Cat Names  (TopCatNames.com), click here.