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Unisex name

Panda

Panda ranks #131 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 3 places, 33 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #298 for dogs.
Panda's popularity trend

Panda's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2014.

0.05%0.1%0.15%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
33
across 3 places
Popularity rank
#131
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
−8
2014 → 2019
Gender split
65% male
35% female65% male

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

What does Panda mean?
/ˈpɑndə/2 syllables

Panda is the common name for the giant panda, the black-and-white bear native to central China. But the word "panda" itself is older than that association: it entered English in the 19th century for the red panda, borrowed via French from a Himalayan language whose exact source is still debated among etymologists, and was only later extended to the giant panda once naturalists recognized a link between the two animals.

Panda suits a pet with a black-and-white coat or a sweetly lumbering way of moving — it's a name that's instantly visual and hard not to smile at.

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

Where Panda shows up

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

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.10%
SeattleWA, US0.08%
DarwinNT, AU0.26%

Cat names like Panda

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