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Unisex name

Cheese

Cheese ranks #706 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 3 places, 8 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #1,758 for dogs.
Cheese's popularity trend

Cheese's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank.

0.005%0.01%0.015%201220132014201520182019
Cats in our data
8
across 3 places
Popularity rank
#706
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
+218
2014 → 2019
Gender split
70% male
30% female70% male

Gender split comes from 40 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Cheese mean?
/t͡ʃiz/

Cheese is also an everyday word (noun): “A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk”.

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

Where Cheese shows up

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

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

Cat names like Cheese

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