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Name Biscuit

Unisex name

Tails

Tails ranks #2,160 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 2 places, 3 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #2,228 among boy dog names.
Tails's popularity trend

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

0.005%0.01%0.015%0.02%201220132015201720182019
Cats in our data
3
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#2,160
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
—
2014 → 2019
Gender split
60% male
40% female60% male

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

What does Tails mean?
/teɪlz/

Tails is also an everyday word (noun): “The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar”.

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

Where Tails shows up

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

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.01%
DarwinNT, AU0.13%