Chicken

Unisex

Chicken ranks #1,059 out of 10,880 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 2 places, 5 licensed cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #5,350 for dogs.

Share of cats named Chicken, by year

Chicken'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
2018	0.009%
2017	0.008%
2016	0.008%
2015	0.004%
2014	0.012%
2013	0.012%
2012	0.008%

Licensed cats in our data

across 2 places

Popularity rank

#1,059

of 10,880 names in our data

5-year rank move

—

2014 → 2019

Gender lean

65% female

of 17 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 Chicken shows up

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

Place	Share	Basis
Seattle WA, US	0.04%	current licenses

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