Ember — Cat Name Popularity, Rank & Trend

Ember's popularity trend

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

Cats in our data

across 2 places

Popularity rank

#81

of 693 girl cat names

5-year rank move

2014 → 2019

Gender split

82% female

82% female18% male

Gender split comes from 56 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Ember mean?

2 syllables

Ember is a word name taken from the glowing, smoldering piece of coal or wood left after a fire has burned down. The word comes from the Old English æmerge, part of a family of old Germanic words for embers and ashes.

Ember has a warm, glowing quality that suits a pet with a fiery coat color or a spark of intensity in their personality. It's a small word with a lot of warmth packed into it.

Where Ember shows up

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

Place	Share
SeattleWA, US	0.15%
TorontoON, CA	0.03%

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