Boy cat names

Names that lean male among named shelter cats (at least 75% of cats with a recorded gender are male), ranked by how many licensed cats actually carry them across our data. Real registrations, not guesses.

A note on the data: Toronto and Seattle don't record a cat's gender, so the female/male lean here comes from named cats in US shelters (where nearly every cat's gender is recorded). The popularity counts come from the licensed cats — so a name qualifies as a boy name by its shelter lean, and ranks by how many licensed cats carry it.

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Top 100

	Name	Gender	Trend
1	Charlie	Boy
2	Max	Boy
3	Leo	Boy
4	Oliver	Boy
5	Tiger	Boy
6	Buddy	Boy
7	Milo	Boy
8	Jack	Boy
9	Simba	Boy
10	Tigger	Boy
11	Oscar	Boy
12	Jasper	Boy
13	Loki	Boy
14	Felix	Boy
15	George	Boy
16	Toby	Boy
17	Simon	Boy
18	Sam	Boy
19	Sammy	Boy
20	Bear	Boy
21	Rocky	Boy
22	Teddy	Boy
23	Winston	Boy
24	Ollie	Boy
25	Tommy	Boy
26	Chester	Boy
27	Henry	Boy
28	Theo	Boy
29	Archie	Boy
30	Joey	Boy
31	Buster	Boy
32	Gizmo	Boy
33	Harry	Boy
34	Finn	Boy
35	Monty	Boy
36	Ziggy	Boy
37	Bandit	Boy
38	Louie	Boy
39	Cosmo	Boy
40	Gus	Boy
41	Jake	Boy
42	Mickey	Boy
43	Romeo	Boy
44	Dexter	Boy
45	Sebastian	Boy
46	Murphy	Boy
47	Percy	Boy
48	Tom	Boy
49	Thomas	Boy
50	Hobbes	Boy
51	Prince	Boy
52	Tucker	Boy
53	Benny	Boy
54	Hugo	Boy
55	Merlin	Boy
56	Rusty	Boy
57	Sylvester	Boy
58	Whiskey	Boy
59	Baxter	Boy
60	Billy	Boy
61	Bruce	Boy
62	Calvin	Boy
63	Tux	Boy
64	Apollo	Boy
65	Beau	Boy
66	Bowie	Boy
67	Cooper	Boy
68	Jerry	Boy
69	Jimmy	Boy
70	Rascal	Boy
71	Thor	Boy
72	Bob	Boy
73	Casper	Boy
74	Domino	Boy
75	Fred	Boy
76	Garfield	Boy
77	Walter	Boy
78	Bobby	Boy
79	Otis	Boy
80	Samson	Boy
81	Stanley	Boy
82	Zeus	Boy
83	Arthur	Boy
84	Bubba	Boy
85	Diego	Boy
86	Freddie	Boy
87	Goose	Boy	—
88	Jackson	Boy
89	Moose	Boy
90	Rex	Boy
91	Taz	Boy
92	Alfie	Boy
93	Angus	Boy
94	Chico	Boy
95	Eddie	Boy
96	Hunter	Boy
97	Jax	Boy
98	Louis	Boy
99	Luke	Boy
100	Mac	Boy

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