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Unisex name

Mao

Mao ranks #7,536 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: #1,817 among boy dog names.
Mao's popularity trend

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

0.005%0.01%0.015%0.02%2012201420162019
Cats in our data
1
across 1 place
Popularity rank
#7,536
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
−3,664
2014 → 2019
Gender split
70% female
70% female30% male

Gender split comes from 10 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Mao mean?
/maʊ̯/1 syllable

Mao is also an everyday word (noun): “The ma'oma'o, Gymnomyza samoensis, a large passerine bird native to Samoa”.

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

Where Mao shows up

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

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA<0.01%