Cheese

Unisex

Cheese ranks #774 out of 10,880 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 2 places, 7 licensed cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #1,305 for dogs.

Share of cats named Cheese, by year

Cheese's slice of each year's named cats. Shares, not raw counts, so a changing licensed population can't fake a trend.

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Year	Share
2019	0.015%
2018	0.004%
2015	0.004%
2014	0.012%
2013	0.004%
2012	0.008%

Licensed cats in our data

across 2 places

Popularity rank

#774

of 10,880 names in our data

5-year rank move

+218

2014 → 2019

Gender lean

31% female

of 35 shelter cats

Gender lean is from named cats in US shelters — most license records don't publish a cat's gender, so shelters are the one place our data can measure it.

Where Cheese shows up

Licensed cats named Cheese per place, against that place's counted total. The basis column says what each number means.

Place	Share	Basis
Seattle WA, US	0.03%	current licenses
Toronto ON, CA	0.02%	licensed in 2019

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