America’s most-popular cat names for 2025 have been revealed.
Cat names matter, not least to the cats themselves. In 2019, a study published in Scientific Reports found cats were even capable of recognizing their own name.
As part of the experiment, researchers played a voice saying four different words, followed by the cat’s name . Each was said in the same intonation with the cat’s response carefully monitored on video.
While the cats rarely did more than twitch an ear or move their heads, using a four-point scale, researchers saw proof that they could tell their name apart from the other words.
The results showed that cats rarely did more than twitch an ear or move their heads in response to the voices, with very few so much as moving their tail, let alone meowing. Nonetheless

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