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Unisex name

Charcoal

Charcoal ranks #936 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 3 places, 6 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #1,368 among boy dog names.
Charcoal's popularity trend

Charcoal's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2016.

0.01%0.02%0.03%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
6
across 3 places
Popularity rank
#936
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
+450
2014 → 2019
Gender split
58% male
42% female58% male

Gender split comes from 12 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Charcoal mean?
/ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.koʊl/

Charcoal is also an everyday word (noun): “impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is…”.

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

Where Charcoal shows up

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

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.02%
DarwinNT, AU0.13%
SeattleWA, US<0.01%

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