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Unisex name

Potato

Potato ranks #1,238 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 2 places, 5 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #686 for dogs.
Potato's popularity trend

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

0.005%0.01%0.015%201220132014201620172018
Cats in our data
5
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#1,238
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
—
2014 → 2019
Gender split
56% male
44% female56% male

Gender split comes from 32 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Potato mean?
/pəˈteɪ.toʊ/

Potato is a literal word name for the starchy tuber, a staple food whose own name traveled into English from Spanish patata, which in turn came from batata, a word from the Taino language of the Caribbean.

Round, humble, and a little bit funny, Potato suits a pet who's soft, low to the ground, and impossible not to smile at.

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

Where Potato shows up

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

PlaceShare
SeattleWA, US0.04%

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