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Unisex name

Checkers

Checkers ranks #811 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 3 places, 7 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #3,040 for dogs.
Checkers's popularity trend

Checkers's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2018.

0.01%0.02%0.03%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
7
across 3 places
Popularity rank
#811
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
+1,095
2014 → 2019
Gender split
61% male
39% female61% male

Gender split comes from 26 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Checkers mean?

Checkers is also an everyday word (noun): “A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is…”.

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

Where Checkers shows up

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

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.03%
DarwinNT, AU0.13%
SeattleWA, US<0.01%

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