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Unisex name

Vanilla

Vanilla ranks #3,424 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: #523 among girl dog names.
Vanilla's popularity trend

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

0.005%0.01%0.015%0.02%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
2
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#3,424
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
−5,680
2014 → 2019
Gender split
58% female
58% female42% male

Gender split comes from 12 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Vanilla mean?
/vəˈnɪl.ə/3 syllables

Vanilla is also an everyday word (noun): “Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike…”.

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

Where Vanilla shows up

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

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

Cat names like Vanilla

BellaStellaEllaIsabellaCinderellaDellaEstrellaWillaArabellaChallaNellaPriscilla

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