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Unisex name

Squirrel

Squirrel ranks #3,299 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 2 places, 2 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #1,571 among girl dog names.
Squirrel's popularity trend

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

0.003%0.005%0.008%0.01%2013201520172019
Cats in our data
2
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#3,299
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
+794
2014 → 2019
Gender split
50% female
50% female50% male

Gender split comes from 26 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Squirrel mean?
/ˈskwɝ(ə)l/

Squirrel is also an everyday word (noun): “Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae”.

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

Where Squirrel shows up

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

PlaceShare
SeattleWA, US<0.01%
TorontoON, CA<0.01%

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