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Unisex name

Skye

Skye ranks #1,267 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: #69 among girl dog names.
Skye's popularity trend

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

0.02%0.04%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
5
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#1,267
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
−529
2014 → 2019
Gender split
71% female
71% female29% male

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

What does Skye mean?
/skaɪ/1 syllableOrigin: place-name transfer

Skye is a place name turned given name, taken from the Isle of Skye, the largest island in Scotland's Inner Hebrides, known for its dramatic mountains and coastline. As a name it doesn't carry a separate word meaning beyond that geographic origin, though many owners hear an echo of "sky" in the spelling.

It's a breezy, open-air kind of name, equally at home on a pet who loves the outdoors as on one who just has a wide-eyed, adventurous look. Short and easy to call across a yard or trail, it suits a companion with a bit of wanderlust.

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

Where Skye shows up

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

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.02%
SeattleWA, US<0.01%

Cat names like Skye

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