Silk

Girl name

Silk ranks #9,548 out of 10,880 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 1 place, 1 licensed cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: 4 licensed dogs.

Share of cats named Silk, by year

Silk's slice of each year's named cats. Shares, not raw counts, so a changing licensed population can't fake a trend.

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Year	Share
2019	0.005%
2018	0.004%
2015	0.004%
2014	0.004%
2013	0.004%
2012	0.004%

Licensed cats in our data

across 1 place

Popularity rank

#9,548

of 10,880 names in our data

5-year rank move

+790

2014 → 2019

Gender lean

92% female

of 12 shelter cats

Gender lean is from named cats in US shelters — most license records don't publish a cat's gender, so shelters are the one place our data can measure it.

Where Silk shows up

Licensed cats named Silk per place, against that place's counted total. The basis column says what each number means.

Place	Share	Basis
Toronto ON, CA	<0.01%	licensed in 2019

Cat names like Silk

SilverSilasSilviaMilk