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Ben

Ben ranks #227 out of 682 boy cat names in our data (the #1 boy cat name is Charlie). Across all 3 places, 9 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #142 among boy dog names.
Ben's popularity trend

Ben's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2012.

0.05%0.1%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
9
across 3 places
Popularity rank
#227
of 682 boy cat names
5-year rank move
−243
2014 → 2019
Gender split
94% male
6% female94% male

Gender split comes from 36 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Ben mean?
/bɛn/1 syllable

Ben is most often a short form of Benjamin, a Hebrew name traditionally understood to mean "son of the right hand," borne in the Bible by the youngest son of Jacob. In Hebrew, "ben" on its own simply means "son."

Simple and steady, Ben feels timeless — a name that suits a loyal, dependable pet just as easily as it suits a person.

Etymology & pronunciation from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Where Ben shows up

Cats named Ben per place, against that place's total.

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.03%
SeattleWA, US0.02%
DarwinNT, AU0.13%

Cat names like Ben

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