Thistle

Girl name

Thistle ranks #2,105 out of 10,880 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 2 places, 3 licensed cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #3,710 for dogs.

Share of cats named Thistle, by year

Thistle'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%
2017	0.004%
2015	0.008%
2013	0.004%
2012	0.004%

Licensed cats in our data

across 2 places

Popularity rank

#2,105

of 10,880 names in our data

5-year rank move

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2014 → 2019

Gender lean

75% 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 Thistle shows up

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

Place	Share	Basis
Seattle WA, US	0.02%	current licenses
Toronto ON, CA	<0.01%	licensed in 2019

Cat names like Thistle

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