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Name Biscuit

Unisex name

Shrimp

Shrimp ranks #3,240 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 1 place, 2 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #5,468 for dogs.
Cats in our data
2
across 1 place
Popularity rank
#3,240
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
—
2014 → 2019
Gender split
59% male
41% female59% male

Gender split comes from 17 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Shrimp mean?
/ʃɹɪmp/

Shrimp is also an everyday word (noun): “Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder…”.

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

Where Shrimp shows up

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

PlaceShare
SeattleWA, US0.02%