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Name Biscuit

Unisex name

Biscuit

Biscuit ranks #162 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 2 places, 27 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #154 for dogs.
Biscuit's popularity trend

Biscuit's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2019.

0.025%0.05%0.075%0.1%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
27
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#162
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
+141
2014 → 2019
Gender split
52% male
48% female52% male

Gender split comes from 85 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Biscuit mean?
/ˈbɪs.kɪt/

Biscuit is simply the word for a small baked good — in British English a crisp cookie, in American English a soft, flaky bread roll. The word traces back to the Old French "bescuit," from Latin bis coctus, literally "twice cooked," describing how the dough was originally baked a second time to dry it out for keeping.

It's a cozy, food-inspired name that suits a pet with a warm, comforting presence — the kind you want curled up nearby on a lazy morning. The soft ending gives it an easygoing, homey sound.

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

Where Biscuit shows up

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

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.08%
SeattleWA, US0.09%

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