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Unisex name

Firefly

Firefly ranks #5,627 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 1 place, 1 cat carries the name. It's also a dog name: #5,272 for dogs.
Firefly's popularity trend

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

0.002%0.004%0.006%2013201520172019
Cats in our data
1
across 1 place
Popularity rank
#5,627
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
+367
2014 → 2019
Gender split
64% female
64% female36% male

Gender split comes from 11 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Firefly mean?
/ˈfaɪ.ɚˌflaɪ/

Firefly is also an everyday word (noun): “Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight”.

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

Where Firefly shows up

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

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA<0.01%

Cat names like Firefly

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