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Slate

Slate ranks #669 out of 682 boy cat names in our data (the #1 boy cat name is Charlie). Across all 1 place, 1 cat carries the name. It's also a dog name: #1,963 among boy dog names.
Slate's popularity trend

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

0.003%0.005%0.008%0.01%2012201420162019
Cats in our data
1
across 1 place
Popularity rank
#669
of 682 boy cat names
5-year rank move
+791
2014 → 2019
Gender split
80% male
20% female80% male

Gender split comes from 10 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Slate mean?
/sleɪt/1 syllable

Slate is also an everyday word (noun): “A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers”.

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

Where Slate shows up

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

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA<0.01%

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