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Name Biscuit

Unisex name

Penguin

Penguin ranks #2,038 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 2 places, 3 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #6,493 for dogs.
Penguin's popularity trend

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

0.003%0.005%0.008%0.01%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
3
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#2,038
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
+645
2014 → 2019
Gender split
71% male
29% female71% male

Gender split comes from 24 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Penguin mean?
/ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn/

Penguin is also an everyday word (noun): “Any of several flightless sea birds, of the family Spheniscidae within the order Sphenisciformes…”.

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

Where Penguin shows up

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

PlaceShare
SeattleWA, US0.02%
TorontoON, CA<0.01%

Cat names like Penguin

PennyPenelopePenneQuin

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