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Unisex name

Whiskey

Whiskey ranks #189 out of 11,202 cat names in our data (the #1 cat name is Luna). Across all 3 places, 25 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #294 for dogs.
Whiskey's popularity trend

Whiskey's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank. Peak year by share: 2015.

0.05%0.1%0.15%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
25
across 3 places
Popularity rank
#189
of 11,202 cat names
5-year rank move
+18
2014 → 2019
Gender split
62% male
38% female62% male

Gender split comes from 29 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Whiskey mean?
/ˈwɪski/2 syllables

Whiskey is the English word for the distilled spirit made from fermented grain mash, an anglicized shortening of the Irish and Scottish Gaelic uisce beatha, meaning "water of life."

Whiskey has a warm, rough-edged charm — a name that suits a pet with amber or golden coloring, or simply an owner who likes a name with a bit of grit to it.

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

Where Whiskey shows up

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

PlaceShare
TorontoON, CA0.11%
SeattleWA, US0.02%
DarwinNT, AU0.13%

Cat names like Whiskey

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