Cat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An animal of the family Felidae:
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kæt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 42K
- USUnited States1 in 139K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 362 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An animal of the family Felidae:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cat counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | listed | — | 2 |
| HK Hong Kong | #398 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Cat | 26 |
| US United States | — | 2,385 | 1 in 139K | 2K | Cat | 362 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | listed | Cat | 174 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 47 | — | 4 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 1 | Cat | 121 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Cat | 32 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the vn-kaggle-given register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, gone, kpawe, man- gato pogoi, manyala, moni; wild cat, nda-nda- kuld; spotted cat, nyan- gbé, kendawi, 1316
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Khmer, bitter (as the taste of an unripe guava), harsh. four. (S. Pa, catu.) to any the four c l a s s e s of s o c i e t y : king, brahmans, merchants, and laborers. o k e ^ /ca'^'tottha?phiekmo0ndo0l/ n, quadrant. {Pa. catuttha ‘ fourth;’ bhaga with portion;’ mandala ‘ c i r c l e . ’) atiRirdtfiHi[n
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In dra-nor-pro, to leak, fall in drops
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Catalan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, cat (domestic feline; member of the Felidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cat Corab. 1967USAmerican chef
- Catherine De Léanb. 1980CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
- Cat Simmonsb. 1981GBBritish actress
- Cat Whitehillb. 1982USAmerican soccer player
- Cat Zinganob. 1982USAmerican mixed martial artist
- Cat Alterb. 1989USactress
- Cat Burnsb. 1999GBBritish singer-songwriter
- Cat Tomenyb. 2000USAmerican actress
- Cat Hurstonactress
- Cat LaCohieactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #6,660 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 338 | #6,660 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
| VN Vietnam | WGND 2.0 — Vietnam given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cat mean, and where does it come from?
- An animal of the family Felidae: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Cat?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Kathy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cat?
- A machine transcription gives /kæt/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Cat a male or female name?
- Cat is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Cat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Cat in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Cat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,385 people named Cat in 2020, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.
- How common is Cat compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Cat is the 398th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/catThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cat” — the 398th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.