Hi everyone,
You may remember our post a few weeks back about the top cat names in the UK which you can find here. Well today we are looking at the top US names! These have been captured by Pets Best Insurance.
And Oliver is SOOOO proud of the outcome of this list! (Apparently he believes it is all thanks to him being popular! Let’s leave him that illusion 😉 )
Pets Best Insurance Services, LLC, a leading U.S. pet insurance agency, released its annual list of the top 10 most popular names for pets enrolled with the agency in 2014.
While it’s typical to see a slight shift in pet names from year to year, the cat names of 2014 have seen significant changes this year. Six of the 10 most popular cat names are new to this year’s list.
Top 10 Cat Names of 2014
1. Oliver
2. Luna
3. Tigger
4. Milo
5. Max
6. Sophie
7. Shadow
8. Kitty
9. Lily
10. JackOn the list of top cat names, Oliver jumped from sixth in 2013 to first place on this year’s list. Check this post for other great boy kitten names.
Pet names are often heavily influenced by pop culture, demonstrated in 2014 with the popularity of Luna. Social media sensation Luna the Fashion Kitty has her own fashion advice website and more than 1.3 million followers on Facebook. The name Kitty, made famous by pop singer Katy Perry’s beloved feline companion Kitty Purry debuted at number eight on the Pets Best list. The famed cat has been a theme of Perry’s international concert tours, and even has a perfume fragrance named after her.
Human names are also on the rise among pets.
“Pet owners often have a personal reason for choosing their pets’ names, which serves as an important part of developing a bond,” said Dr. Jack Stephens, founder and director of Pets Best. “Many Pets Best policyholders have unique names for their pets, but every year we see noticeable patterns of pets named after animals and celebrities experiencing nationwide attention.”
For more information about the agency and its plans, visit www.petsbest.com.
Thanks,
Marc
Congratulations, Oliver! How exciting for you to have so many cats named after you!! You’re an inspiration.
:D. It’s gone straight to his head… Nubia is saying his ego his totally intolerable now… Might need to lock him up with your sis!
Oh, no! Please tell Nubia I’m sorry to have inflamed the situation. I know how it feels to be in her paws.
Locking Oliver up with Ethel would certainly be a good way to exact revenge. Might be excessively harsh, though.
Or it could be the end of the world… Imagine if they end up bolstering each other’s ego?!?
That would be AWFUL. We definitely need to keep them apart. The future of the planet depends upon it.
Too late! I think I can hear Oli meowype on the laptop! He must have found her number on the caternet site of aspiring world rulers 🙁
Oh no!!!!! I should have never taught Ethel how to use the computer!!
Yep! Now the world as we know it has been doomed :0!
Hi Oliver! What’s the story behind your name?
One of my friends who’s name is Oliver always featured a goatee beard so it seemed fitting to name Oli after him 😉
Uh, Marc, when you say, “Oliver is SOOOO proud of the outcome of this list! (Apparently he believes it is all thanks to him being popular! Let’s leave him that illusion 😉 )” you aren’t trying to suggest that they aren’t named after him, are you?!?
Because I am sure that Ms. Carol knows who all those US cats were named after. She has a purrsonal connection to this sort of information. 😉
Haha! You know cats – Oli is totally full of himself now ;). His sister just keeps looking at him probably thinking “who wants a common name anyway!)
Ohhh! My name Coco is not there! 🙁
But congratulations Oliver.
We like the name CoCo 🙂
Reblogged this on F4l ~ FLECK and commented:
Oliver! Oliver never before has name meant more 😉 mew!
Thank you! 🙂
Brings to mind Oliver Twist, “never before has a boy asked for more.” LOL.
LOL 🙂
Further PURRoof that Yhere is only ONE SHRIMP!?
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We have a Janis, and a George 🙂 Named after Janis Joplin and George Harrison.
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Mine is called Mew
that reminds me of Pokemon :d!
I think I know what those are…
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Here she is: http://dodgysurfer.com/2014/10/26/the-cat-the-rat/
Awwww she is cute! Btw that cute tummy photo you should enter that for our tuesday tummy rub blog roll 🙂
Us crazy cat people eh?!
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For me, the felines are all beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you 🙂
Concats Oliver! So… Kitty but no Gato???
=o yes why no Gato!
You gotta love #8…Kitty…pretty much says it all!
Haha! True. Funnily enough Oliver was called kitty before we changed his name. Who calls a boy kitty! XD
All great names 🙂
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I’ve never fancied the trendy cat name. I found out eventually that “Apricat” – which I thought that I kind of pulled out of my butt in an emergency when the vet needed a name on top of a foundling’s file — was not original with me, but his full name was Apricat Houdini Mitzvah Valjean Beezler. T. S. Eliot was quite serious about a cat needing five different names and I observe his rubric as best I can. I have Agatha Spacklepaws Voleslayer, Torvald Einar Magnussen, Mr. Ferguson aka Fergie, and Nickel Catmium-Ferguson (they are married). I miss Esther Patricia Upcat Reveille Twinkle, though we called her Patty, mostly.
Wow! I love them but I would struggle remembering them lol
Prince Oliver Smudge the Second sends greetings to Oliver and all other Olivers who share this splendiferous name!
Smudge (for short) was rescued a little over 2 years ago by our granddaughters from a scary rainy forest. It took over two hours! Skin and bones, filthy, wary, weary and oh so sweet. 6 months old maybe. He reminded me of Oliver Twist who just wanted more porridge! White with pink ears, pink paws, pink nose and a little gray charcoal smudge on top of his head.
Thanks for this Very Important News. Great comments above, too!
Elouise
Awwwww so glad you guys rescued him 🙂
Me too! I can’t imagine life without him…
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Congrats, Oliver.. I am wondering when Kevin will be the top cat name 🙂
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Well Oliver, how does it feel to know that you have the most popular name? Mom said she wanted our names to be unusual so we would be sure to know who we were. HA!!!
Haha. It’s gone straight to Oli’s head 😉
Oliver, congratulations! You ARE a winner, list or no list. You’re simply a beautiful kitty. 🙂
Awwww thank you 🙂
I was going to name my cats, in 2012, Edward and Bella. Everyone thought I was big into Twilight. I was like heck no and changed Bella into Java. I am into coffee big time. My other cat is Daiquiri and I named her that because it sounds cool :)!!
Nice names too ^^ I especially like Daiquiri haha
Congratulations Oliver, glad to see Kitty there in the top 8 position!
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Thank you for sharing it ^^
Love the name. My 3 yr. old grandson is named Oliver and when I told him, he was very proud to have a cat named for him. Thought your story was cute and had interesting info. Susan 🙂
Awwww 🙂 thank you ^^
Other than Oliver, here, I don’t know a single cat with any of those names!
XD that’s odd considering its he top list haha
Wow, your Meowjesty! Can anything be more fitting? 😀
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Super Snoops and Kommando Kitty are glad to see that no one has stolen either name and made it popular behind their backs. 🙂
Haha! 😀