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Unisex name

Turtle

Turtle ranks #1,608 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 2 places, 4 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #856 among boy dog names.
Turtle's popularity trend

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

0.005%0.01%0.015%20152016201720182019
Cats in our data
4
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#1,608
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
—
2014 → 2019
Gender split
56% female
56% female44% male

Gender split comes from 32 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Turtle mean?
/ˈtɝtl̩/

Turtle is also an everyday word (noun): “Any land, aquatic, or semi-aquatic reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective…”.

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

Where Turtle shows up

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

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

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